Beyond Coding

Connect with Lindsay Faller: https://cloudfields.cc⁠ ⁠https://www.instagram.com/cloudfields.cc https://www.lindsayfaller.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/lindsay-faller-2277243 Full episode on YouTube ▶️ https://youtu.be/1vPDA54Yg9k New episodes every Wednesday with our host ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠🎙Patrick Akil⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠!   Big shoutout to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Xebia⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for sponsoring this episode! OUTLINE00:00:00 - Intro00:00:23 - Podcasting experiences00:02:10 - Comparing yourself to others00:03:45 - Moving goal posts00:05:18 - Acting within your values00:06:57 - Lindsay's core values00:09:12 - How to find your core values00:13:08 - Self development00:15:27 - Sharing career perspective00:17:44 - Life purpose00:19:58 - Being a generalist00:22:36 - Being drawn to how businesses run00:25:02 - From doer to thinker00:27:29 - Burned out from working with creatives00:28:52 - Systems and processes are not sexy00:31:22 - Challenges for small businesses00:33:30 - Figuring out how to be more effective00:35:49 - Postponing what you don't like00:38:37 - There will always be things you don't like doing00:38:58 - Outsource when you can00:40:18 - Lindsay is not a micromanager00:42:51 - Letting go00:44:16 - Giving and taking ownership00:46:47 - The first phase of your business00:49:48 - Entrepreneurs are responsible for everything00:52:19 - Bare minimum processes00:53:36 - Businesses evolve00:56:03 - Recognising things are outside of your skillset

Connect with Rens Dimmendaal: https://rensdimmendaal.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/rensdimmendaal https://twitter.com/R_Dimm Full episode on YouTube ▶️ https://youtu.be/2VOGakc2qvk New episodes every Wednesday with our host ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠🎙Patrick Akil⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠!   Big shoutout to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Xebia⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for sponsoring this episode! OUTLINE 00:00:25 - Hosting and being a guest00:01:42 - Day to day of Rens00:03:29 - Generative AI: Where do we stand?00:06:18 - Honeycomb.io using an Gen AI to increase conversion00:09:23 - Plagiarism and chat bots00:12:23 - Integrating different solutions00:14:37 - Testing AI solutions00:16:21 - Slack GPT00:17:36 - Sensitive information00:19:56 - GitHub Copilot, Sweep AI and new ways of coding00:22:08 - Way of working and quality control00:24:17 - AI will change the way we learn00:25:45 - Distinguish yourself when applying for jobs00:26:44 - Three types of knowledge and AI00:28:45 - Learn by doing00:30:01 - Doing more as a single person00:31:42 - Patrick generated podcast summaries00:32:55 - Easy to make something with LLMs00:35:12 - Long term LLM challenges00:39:11 - Metrics to focus on for LLMs00:40:44 - Rens's greenfield LLM implementation step by step00:43:03 - How to leverage open source LLMs00:44:12 - Monopolising organisations gathering data for AI00:46:27 - Big companies play unfair in the AI playing field00:47:49 - Generative AI steals art from other artists00:50:40 - The future of AI looks bright

Connect with Eva Zahrawi Ruiz: https://www.linkedin.com/in/evazahrawi http://the2ndhalf.nl https://twitter.com/evaza Check out her podcast! https://podcasts.apple.com/en/podcast/the-2nd-half-your-guide-to-a-more-fulfilling-career-and-life/id1493425732 Full episode on YouTube ▶️ https://youtu.be/oldZF_jgy9I New episodes every Wednesday with our host ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠🎙Patrick Akil⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠!   Big shoutout to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Xebia⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for sponsoring this episode! OUTLINE: 00:00:00 - Intro 00:00:35 - Planning for Japan 2025 00:02:20 - Patrick missed out on a trip to Japan and Russia 00:03:00 - Why Eva loves Japan 00:04:21 - Japan is affordable 00:06:57 - Eva is big on travelling 00:10:12 - Patrick is travelling more and more 00:11:34 - Combining work and travelling 00:14:38 - Flexibility as freelancer 00:16:25 - International opportunities 00:18:56 - Discipline of working from abroad 00:22:36 - Stepping out of your regular routine 00:25:14 - Losing the title 00:27:18 - Profession crisis 00:30:20 - There is always a way back 00:33:39 - No one expected Eva to leave 00:37:37 - Enjoying the work you do 00:40:14 - Growing as fast as possible 00:42:37 - What is your mission? 00:45:29 - Eva's core values 00:50:10 - Working towards certain goals 00:54:28 - Difficult conversations 00:58:34 - For as long as it takes 01:00:09 - Being good with politics 01:03:29 - Eva hates escalations 01:07:51 - Not just executing on orders 01:13:32 - Figuring out the why 01:16:57 - Managing to avoid clashes 01:19:56 - Companies are big social experiments 01:21:28 - People are inherently good 01:25:40 - Making it your managers problem 01:29:51 - Only come with good news 01:33:21 - Complain in one on ones 01:35:39 - Final thoughts

Connect with Alyona Volkova: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alvol Full episode on YouTube ▶️ https://youtu.be/jW3xmo27144 New episodes every Wednesday with our host ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠🎙Patrick Akil⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠!   Big shoutout to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Xebia⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for sponsoring this episode! OUTLINE:00:00:00 - Intro00:00:25 - Echo-free chambers00:01:00 - Calming yourself down00:03:15 - Overthinking things with public speaking00:05:29 - Recognising yourself in footage00:06:34 - Receiving compliments00:09:29 - Actively self-reflecting00:12:10 - Different ways to retain information00:15:05 - It all started with photoshop00:17:49 - Alyona's first real job as a developer00:20:40 - Moving from developing to design00:22:38 - Love for software engineering and design00:25:33 - Developers and designers understanding each other00:28:00 - Patrick's experience working with designers00:29:16 - Creative developers00:32:54 - Alyona's journey with mentorship00:36:23 - Fulfilment in mentoring00:37:43 - Long-term mentoring relationships00:38:59 - Mentees having similar challenges00:40:20 - Understanding the thought process00:42:20 - The right mindset00:43:41 - How to be a great mentor?00:46:08 - Pair designing and co-creating00:47:47 - Copying designs to learn00:50:18 - Tutorials and knowledge retention00:51:48 - Continuous learning and improving in mentoring00:53:30 - Past, present, future00:55:15 - Crossing paths00:57:18 - Mentoring has changed Alyona01:01:29 - Rounding off

Full episode on YouTube ▶️ https://youtu.be/KtJILlRIPOc New episodes every Wednesday with our host ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠🎙Patrick Akil⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠!   Big shoutout to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Xebia⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for sponsoring this episode! OUTLINE:00:00:00 - Intro00:00:29 - How do you manage your own expectations00:02:41 - If you could change one thing from the past, what would that be?00:05:37 - What is the best piece of advice you've ever gotten?00:07:33 - Why did you transition from ops to development?00:11:54 - Applying to a new role00:15:45 - What languages are you learning?00:16:19 - Rehydrating...00:16:32 - What does it mean when someone says: you'll learn this on the job?00:18:19 - How much time do you get to learn on the job?00:19:25 - What to learn and how to progress with CSS00:21:32 - How many projects should my portfolio include?00:24:38 - Should a startup have in-house or outsourced developers?00:27:43 - What traits differentiate good vs. great developers?00:31:04 - How do you conduct an interview for a junior frontend role?00:34:01 - Do you have any tips for senior developers?00:37:16 - What interview questions do you ask?00:40:47 - Thank you for your questions!! :)

Connect with Georges de Boeck: https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgesdeboeck Blinkist article (called it Blender, oops): https://uxplanet.org/how-solving-our-biggest-customer-complaint-at-blinkist-led-to-a-23-increase-in-conversion-b60ad514134b Full episode on YouTube ▶️ https://youtu.be/M1EkMTauIBU New episodes every Wednesday with our host ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠🎙Patrick Akil⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠!   Big shoutout to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Xebia⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for sponsoring this episode! OUTLINE:00:00:00 - Intro00:00:22 - Preshow baby talk00:01:43 - How Georges got interested behaviour00:03:23 - Wrong expectations00:06:40 - Behavioural experiments to increase conversion00:09:26 - Georges's guerilla experiment00:11:41 - Interviewing customers00:13:06 - Usability testing is difficult but valuable00:14:58 - Letting go of your own opinion00:16:00 - Your ideas might not be feasible00:17:12 - Do we have too many processes?00:18:26 - Boundaries make solutions more challenging00:20:39 - Optimizing what you already have00:21:50 - Becoming a specialist00:23:39 - It's impossible to cancel my Hello Fresh subscription00:26:08 - Conscious reputational damage00:27:43 - Georges will never be a customer of this telecom provider again00:30:08 - Mindset buying lottery tickets00:31:18 - Blinkist increased conversion by focussing on customer problems00:33:42 - Company USPs that are contradicting what other companies are doing00:35:45 - Getting customers hooked just works00:36:50 - Pokémon Sleep is genius00:38:07 - Pokemon Go and gaming the system00:39:03 - How to do microtransactions right00:41:26 - Smart game design, but unethical00:44:09 - Georges's weakness in buying books00:45:54 - Companies selling your data00:48:45 - City design to drive behaviour00:51:50 - Experiments that create habits00:54:21 - Helping people and not making money00:56:15 - Choosing not to choose00:58:24 - Patrick got all his wisdom teeth pulled00:59:31 - Maybe I should've thought this through more...01:00:15 - Dutch habit of not going to the doctor and dentist01:01:47 - Final thoughts

Connect with Carlos Kelkboom: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlos-k-4016b8225 Full episode on YouTube ▶️ https://youtu.be/6QfyY9ffz6M New episodes every Wednesday with our host ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠🎙Patrick Akil⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠!   Big shoutout to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Xebia⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for sponsoring this episode! OUTLINE:00:00:00 - Intro00:00:23 - YouTube recommendation system00:02:15 - Innovation on YouTube00:03:37 - Starting up something new00:05:12 - Disrupting your own organisation00:07:08 - Big companies should invest in disruption continuously00:08:52 - The start of a project00:11:29 - How important is it to build this?00:13:24 - Building the system three times00:14:54 - complexity and first time right00:17:08 - All you need is disciplined engineers00:19:43 - Architects can do more harm than good00:21:50 - Smaller teams00:23:28 - Not every team needs Scrum00:24:33 - Let engineers commit and then leave them alone00:25:48 - Processes that are not helping us00:28:19 - Using the right tool for the job00:32:17 - Ownership is moving to developer teams00:32:56 - The spirit of software development00:35:08 - How would you build something from scratch?00:37:59 - Trust and predictability00:39:38 - Control and fear00:42:00 - The dna of a tech company00:44:19 - Why tech companies have a playground in their office00:44:49 - Getting and keeping developers in a flow state00:46:30 - Stop projects that are not working00:49:49 - Stopping is hard00:50:21 - Why games release when they do00:50:35 - Prove it works in 10 days00:51:52 - The fulfilment of delivering value to users00:53:18 - How great developers work00:55:14 - How you become a senior developer00:57:35 - Downtime and execution00:58:42 - The determination to continue01:01:01 - Empathy and nudging01:03:42 - Carlos might start a contrarian podcast01:06:02 - Rounding off

Connect with Lian Li: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lian-li https://twitter.com/lianmakesthings https://lianmakesthings.dev Full episode on YouTube ▶️ https://youtu.be/tuIxuiG2MIY New episodes every Wednesday with our host ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠🎙Patrick Akil⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠!   Big shoutout to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Xebia⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for sponsoring this episode! OUTLINE:00:00:00 - Intro00:00:25 - Reminiscing about older videos00:02:46 - Standing on stage00:04:22 - The impact of developer advocacy00:06:04 - Measuring your impact00:10:09 - Transitioning to developer advocacy00:12:19 - What to focus on as dev rel00:14:32 - Discussions and disagreements00:16:21 - Creating a shared understanding00:18:29 - Lian's career choices and progression00:21:21 - Consultancy mindset00:22:58 - Under-promise over-deliver00:24:02 - Starting over with dev rel?00:26:09 - Lian's burnout00:30:39 - Recovering from a burnout00:32:58 - Timeouts and routine00:34:58 - Sleep in your running shoes00:35:44 - Living in pajamas00:36:03 - Remote working00:36:44 - Tourists in Amsterdam00:38:02 - Building a community00:40:59 - Teams and communities00:42:00 - Giving your thing away00:43:13 - Micromanaging and letting go00:45:36 - Tribal leadership00:48:04 - Behaviour while being stressed00:49:40 - Self awareness and triggers00:50:07 - All tech problems are human problems

Connect with Raphael de Lio:  ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/raphaeldelio⁠  ⁠https://raphaeldelio.medium.com⁠ ⁠ https://www.youtube.com/c/raphaeldelio⁠ Full episode on YouTube ▶️ https://youtu.be/aF7Pcvn0CdI New episodes every Wednesday with our host ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠🎙Patrick Akil⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠!   Big shoutout to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Xebia⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ for sponsoring this episode! OUTLINE:00:00:00 - Intro00:00:23 - YouTube channels and making videos00:03:10 - Giving advice and downsides00:06:43 - How Raphael got into content creation00:09:11 - Sibling Influence00:09:41 - Pivoting to tech content00:13:20 - Making videos vs. writing00:14:40 - Interaction on Medium and YouTube00:17:46 - Medium is changing their monetisation model00:20:10 - Tech newsletters00:23:16 - How Raphael got into Redis00:25:51 - Show Your Work00:27:58 - Learning through content creation00:30:24 - Focussing on different technologies00:33:06 - Saying goodbye to Redis00:34:11 - Raphael is always working on something00:35:46 - Drive and productivity00:37:42 - Retirement and fulfilment00:40:03 - The 4-Hour Workweek00:43:09 - Burnout and creating routines00:44:39 - Unlimited holidays the right way00:46:25 - Creating a mobile app to learn physics00:49:02 - An app that translates any word to any language00:50:30 - Accountability and expectations00:52:04 - Opportunities and awkward situations00:54:22 - Rounding off

Alessandro Vozza, a professional in open source and developer relations, shares his journey from chemistry to tech in Amsterdam. He dives into the importance of sustainable open source and the role of community in shaping the future of software. The conversation explores optimism in the age of AI and its potential to enhance lives. Alessandro discusses the significance of public speaking, storytelling, and authenticity within tech meetups, emphasizing how these connections enrich both personal and professional growth.