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Selena’s been in tech for twenty years. She got her first taste of open source software back in 1995, and since then, she’s been an open source contributor bringing more people into tech. She talks about her new role as manager of a dev team, how open source has changed over the years, and what she’s learned from working with beginners. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) PyLadies Mozilla What Beginners Teach Us Postgres BSD Licenses Lynn Root Jessica McKellar Codeland Conf Codeland 2019 Selena DeckelmannSelena Deckelmann is a major contributor to PostgreSQL and TaskCluster Platform Manager at Mozilla. She founded PyLadiesPDX, a Portland, Ore. chapter of PyLadies and was a director of the Python Software Foundation. She founded Open Source Bridge, Postgres Open and speaks internationally about open source, databases and community.

Chanelle Henry wanted to be awesome. She saw people selling companies and building inspiring products and wondered if it was too late for her to be that awesome. That question inspired a Medium blog post that ended up getting a lot of attention, and getting her invites to speak on that very topic. She tells us how that post helped her reach her awesome, and the changes she made in her life to get there. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) ELA Conf Tim Ferriss Kevin Rose Brené Brown The Tipping Point Julia Child Jerry Seinfeld and Wale Interview Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs Fiverr Is It Too Late To Be Awesome? (blog post) Blink The Art of War Imaginary Audience People Per Hour Winnie Lim (woman taking a year off) If You Think You've Wasted Your Life Codeland Conf Codeland 2019 Chanelle HenryChanelle is a UX Architect by trade, but I also am a writer, a problem solver, designer, woodworker, jerky maker, and I love coming alive. I'm an alchemist and I seek to change the world one moment of clarity at a time.

Annyce Davis became an Android developer by building an Android app. She took some time to hack away at a prototype, showed it to her boss, and was put in charge of building The Washington Posts’s first Android app. She talks about how she went from Java to Android, what she thinks of iOS, and how important community has been to helping her level up and become a senior software engineer at The Washington Post. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) Annyce Davis Interview The Washington Post O'Reilly Codeland Conf Codeland 2019 Annyce DavisShe has spent the past 4 years developing applications for the Android ecosystem across multiple form factors. She is also a national conference speaker, sharing her knowledge of Android development with others. In addition, Annyce is active in the Washington, DC tech scene and assists with running a local meetup focused on Android development and design.

Mariana Costa started Laboratoria to help young women in Lima, Peru get coding skills and improve their lives. A year and a half in, she’s launched this five-month program serving low-income women in four cities, and she’s just getting started. She talks to us about the challenges of working with this demographic, how it feels to see them transform into developers, and how family support is a key part of their program’s success. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) Teach For America Andrea Del Rio Episode Laboratoria Codeland Conf Codeland 2019 Mariana CostaMariana is a social entrepreneur from Peru. She has co-founded Laboratoria, a tech social enterprise in Latin America that trains young women from low-income backgrounds as web developers and helps them kick-start a career in tech.

Dan Shiffman doesn’t like titles. As an open source contributor, author, and professor, it might be because he has so many to pick from. In this conversation, we touch on all three, focusing on his work with Processing, a software sketchbook and language for learning how to code within the context of the visual arts, why he loves working with beginners, and how code can be an expressive and powerful artistic medium. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) Barbarian Group Processing P5.js ITP at NYU Dan O'Sullivan TechHire Initiative Google Summer of Code Codeland Conf Codeland 2019 Dan ShiffmanDaniel Shiffman is an Associate Arts Professor at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. He is also a co-founder of the Processing Foundation works on developing tutorials, examples, and libraries for both Processing and the new p5.js framework.

Rebecca Miller Webster created Write Speak Code for herself. She wanted a space that would encourage her to write more, speak more, and contribute to open source more. And in the process of creating that space for others, she grew herself, both as a person and a developer. In this interview, she talks about her experience putting on this conference and how it’s helped many others take bigger steps in their coding journeys. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) Write Speak Code RailsConf OpEd Project Vanessa Hurst on CodeNewbie Knight Lab Codeland Conf Codeland 2019 Rebecca Miller WebsterRebecca is the founder of Write Speak Code, and the VP of Engineering at Polymathic.

He’s only been coding for four years. But thirteen months ago, Quincy Larson launched one of the most beloved learn-to-code resources in the CodeNewbie community, Free Code Camp. We deep dive into his own learning journey, what he’s learned from helping hundreds of thousands of campers learn to code, and why Free Code Camp will forever be free. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) MOOC Project Euler Node NPM Odin Project Codeland Conf Codeland 2019 Quincy LarsonQuincy Larson is a JavaScript developer and the teacher who founded Free Code Camp.

Linda Liukas identifies more with being a children’s author than a developer. That might be because she’s spent a good amount of time helping others learn to code than actually coding herself. She used to work for Codecademy, started Rails Girls, and most recently launched a Kickstarter campaign for a book introducing programming to children. The campaign blew past it’s $10K goal, and reached over $380K. Linda talks to us about drawing and writing the book, Hello Ruby, and what she’s learned about the coding journey as she helps kids start their own. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) Rails Girls Codecademy Hello Ruby Hello Ruby Kickstarter Codeland Conf Codeland 2019 Linda LiukasLinda is the author and illustrator of Hello Ruby, a children’s picture book about the whimsical world of computers, as well as the founder of Rails Girls, a global movement to teach young women programming in over 260 cities. She loves Muji, Zelda Fitzgerald, software and sparkly things.

When she goes to events, she no longer writes her own name on her name tag. Instead, she writes “Brianna’s Mother”. Ronique, the proud single-mother of a coder talks to us about how she supports and advocates for her daughter, and what it’s been like to see her only child take advantage of the many tech opportunities she’s come by. Brianna tells us how she switched from being pre-med to computer science, and got over the intimidation of sitting next to kids who’d discovered coding long before she knew what programming was all about. She tells us her inspiring stories of working at the White House under US CTO Megan Smith, and coding alongside Googlers, all as a college undergrad. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) Spelman College Black Girls Code Kimberly Bryant Kaya Thomas The Pedagogy of the Oppressed Megan Smith Codeland Conf Codeland 2019 Brianna FugateBrianna is a computer science major at Spelman College.

Software Engineer Alicia Liu has thought a lot about Impostor Syndrome. In fact, she’s written three blog posts, one each year for the past three years, that have illustrated her own relationship with the term and its relevance in the tech community. We dissect those three blog posts and discuss the role of Impostor Syndrome in different parts of a programmer’s journey. Show Links Partner with Dev & CodeNewbie! (sponsor) Unlocking the Clubhouse A List Apart Vanessa Hurst Overcoming Impostor Syndrome Quirks Mode jQuery Coach.me Promocode CODEWEEK for first week free Impostor Syndrome Is Not Just a Confidence Problem You don’t have Impostor Syndrome Codeland Conf Codeland 2019 Alicia LiuAlicia Liu is a full-stack software engineer who has been working in early-stage startups since co-founding her first company in 2007. She writes and speaks on topics ranging from best practices in front-end development to diversity and culture in the tech industry.