Zeal #Interestings Podcast

In this episode, Zeal Founder Adam Cuppy is interviewed by Eric Weiss. Adam talks about coming from Theater Performance to building a tech software development company. Adam and Zeal take a holistic approach to their work and how they separate Zeal and their passions, only to bring them back together to make Zeal an even better company.Featured Links:Find Adam on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/AdamCuppyZeal: https://www.codingzeal.com/Other Opportunities to Connect:Weekly streams at Zeal's Twitch StreamWeekly front-end tips at Amy's Selfteach.me Youtube ChannelReach out at Our Website

Host Adam Cuppy sits down with Nick Cloward from Anonyome Labs and they chat about all things data ownership and privacy. What data are you putting out there as a user and what data are you holding on to as a tech company?Featured LinksFind Nick on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/nclowardFind Anonyome Labs on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/AnonyomeLabsOnline at: https://anonyome.com/ and https://mysudo.com/Other Opportunities to Connect:Weekly streams at Zeal's Twitch StreamWeekly front-end tips at Amy's Selfteach.me Youtube ChannelReach out at Our Website

If you’re someone that suffers from Imposter Syndrome, tune into this episode. Host Adam Cuppy chats with Jen Luker about dealing with Imposter Syndrome and using it to incite change.Featured Links:Find Jen on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/knitcodemonkeyCheck out Jen online at: https://www.jenluker.com/#/Other Opportunities to Connect:Weekly streams at Zeal's Twitch StreamWeekly front-end tips at Amy's Selfteach.me Youtube ChannelReach out at Our Website

In this episode, host Adam Cuppy chats with Jake Witcher. They chat about building a career in app development and how important it is to keep learning and adding valuable skill sets to your arsenal.Featured Links:Reach out to Jake on Twitter: https://twitter.com/codefornerdsOther opportunities to connect:Weekly streams at Zeal's Twitch StreamWeekly front-end tips at Amy's Selfteach.me Youtube ChannelReach out at Our Website

What can’t you say about Jim Teece? In this episode, Trever Yarrish chats with one of his heroes about starting not just one successful software company (Project A,) but multiple companies in the tech space.Featured Links:https://jimteece.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jimteeceOther opportunities to connect:Weekly streams at Zeal's Twitch StreamWeekly front-end tips at Amy's Selfteach.me Youtube ChannelReach out at Our Website

In this episode, host Adam Cuppy chats with Tipe CEO Scott Moss. They discuss building the right team, surrounding yourself with the right people and what makes a great problem solver.Featured Links:Find Scott on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/scotupsFind Tipe at: https://tipe.io/Other opportunities to connect:Weekly streams at Zeal's Twitch StreamWeekly front-end tips at Amy's Selfteach.me Youtube ChannelReach out at Our Website

In this episode, Colin Dean and Sarah Withee from Code and Supply sit down with host Adam Cuppy to talk about hosting the Abstractions Conference, and what they hope guests get from the experience.Tune in and get inspired by the celebration of software and those who make it, through the connection of in-person meetups, that remind us of the joy of being in tech.Featured Links:Scholarship fund: https://codeandsupply.fund/On Twitter: https://twitter.com/codeandsupply and https://twitter.com/abstractionsconColin Dean & Sarah WithyCode and Supply - hosts of abstractionshttps://codeandsupply.co/https://abstractions.io/Other opportunities to connect:Weekly streams at Zeal's Twitch StreamWeekly front-end tips at Amy's Selfteach.me Youtube ChannelReach out at Our Website

In this episode, host Adam Cuppy talks with Nitya Narasimhan about the importance of self care and what it means to build an ecosystem around you to create support and prevent burnout.As a Microsoft Senior Program Manager, Nitya discusses the affect remote work can have on our health and why it's important to be strategic about incorporating self-care into our lives so that we can be more effective in helping others.Featured Links:Find Nitya on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/nityaFind her online at: https://nitya.dev/Other opportunities to connect:Weekly streams at Zeal's Twitch StreamWeekly front-end tips at Amy's Selfteach.me Youtube ChannelReach out at Our Website

Symba co-founders Ahva and Nikita join Adam to talk about the state of internships and what they are doing to keep the internship dream alive, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic.Featured Links:symba.iosaveinternships.orgOther opportunities to connect:Weekly streams at Zeal's Twitch StreamWeekly front-end tips at Amy's Selfteach.me Youtube ChannelReach out at Our Website

This episode contains adult content that may not be appropriate for younger listeners. Discretion is advised.In this episode, host Adam Cuppy chats with the President of Women of Sex Tech, Alison Falk. Tune in for an insightful discussion about sex education in the tech space, and the greater impact it has on society.Coming from a rural upbringing and an education in coding, Alison shares her story of growing into a voice for inclusion, acceptance, and diversity in the tech industry.Featured Links:Twitter: @alisonfalkpghInstagram: @falkyouhttps://womenofsextech.com/https://badassarmy.org/https://www.decrimnow.org/Other opportunities to connect:Weekly streams at Zeal's Twitch StreamWeekly front-end tips at Amy's Selfteach.me Youtube ChannelReach out at Our Website

In the latest episode of the Creating Zeal Podcast, Adam Cuppy chats with Sparkbox co-founder Rob Harr about his workshop "Awesome Discovery Projects," and why at the end of the day, projects are really people experiences.Listen in as Rob goes through the process of discovery, from setting expectations and problem-solving, to goal setting and project timelines, and discover how tech really takes a back seat to people.Featured Links:Find Rob on Twitter at: @robertHarrCheck out Sparkbox at: https://seesparkbox.com/Other opportunities to connect:Weekly streams at Zeal's Twitch StreamWeekly front-end tips at Amy's Selfteach.me Youtube ChannelReach out at Our Website

What makes a good engineering manager? Join us for the latest Creating Zeal podcast episode where Host Adam Cuppy discusses becoming comfortable with discomfort and the noble pursuit of being a leader with Tramale Turner, Engineering Manager at Stripe in Seattle.With a background in marketing at Volkswagen and Nissan that transitioned into software engineering at Nintendo, Tramale moved into a management role that eventually led him to realize that being the really smart person doesn’t necessarily mean being a good leader.Featured Links:Twitter: @shidoshiLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tramale-turner-31b24a/Other opportunities to connect:Weekly streams at Zeal's Twitch StreamWeekly front-end tips at Amy's Selfteach.me Youtube ChannelReach out at Our Website

In this episode, host Adam Cuppy explores overcoming social anxiety with web developer and programmer Liz Crane.Liz opens up about her social anxiety and how a personal tragedy pushed her to develop courageous habits that eventually led her to start a meetup group in L.A., Learn Teach Code, which encourages people to create value for others regardless of their level of expertise.Featured Links & Mentions:Learn Teach CodeLiz Crane on TwitterYouTubeFuzzelsKelsey HightowerOther opportunities to connect:Weekly streams at Zeal's Twitch StreamWeekly front-end tips at Amy's Selfteach.me Youtube ChannelReach out at Our Website

In our latest episode, Adam has a conversation with Karen Sandler, an engineer-turned-attorney who now serves as the Executive Director with the Software Freedom Conservancy. Listen in as Karen tells the story of how a heart condition led to her mission for software freedom. Passionate about ethics in tech, Karen works to avoid using closed proprietary software where possible. Learn how this impacts the devices we use, such as heart defibrillators, and their security.Featured Links:Software Freedom Conservancy website: https://sfconservancy.org/Karen's Podcast "Free as in Freedom": http://faif.us/Karen on Twitter: https://twitter.com/o0karen0oOther opportunities to connect:Weekly streams at Zeal's Twitch StreamWeekly front-end tips at Amy's Selfteach.me Youtube ChannelReach out at Our Website

In this episode, host Adam Cuppy has a great conversation with code blogger Ali Spittel. Ali discusses how developers often find themselves in a teaching role— whether that be mentoring a colleague, writing blog posts, speaking at meetups, or even teaching more formally at a college or bootcamp. If you are wondering how you can teach code more effectively, tune in to this conversation!Featured Links:Those Who Can Do Should Also Teach (same talk, different conference): https://youtu.be/O5NGIQ2QdpkAli's Website: https://www.alispit.tel/We Learn Code (Ali's Blog): https://welearncode.com/Other opportunities to connect:Weekly streams at Zeal's Twitch StreamWeekly front-end tips at Amy's Selfteach.me Youtube ChannelReach out at Our Website

In this episode, Adam has the pleasure of interviewing Anna Rankin, a Senior Software Engineer at General Assembly. Anna talks about her path into the industry, from graphic design to attending General Assembly as a code school student, where she became an instructor and eventually "snuck" onto the dev team.Featured Links:Anna Rankin at General Assembly: https://generalassemb.ly/instructors/anna-rankin/5799Other opportunities to connect:Weekly streams at Zeal's Twitch StreamWeekly front-end tips at Amy's Selfteach.me Youtube ChannelReach out at Our Website

In this episode, host Adam Cuppy has a great conversation with Jon Yablonski. Jon is a designer, speaker, writer, and digital creator based in Detroit, currently working on the next generation of in-vehicle interactive experiences as a senior product designer at General Motors. Learn how Jon crafted his personal brand in order to get a job and escalate his career... and why Humane Design Patterns are important in creating products.Featured Links:Jon Yablonski’s personal website: https://jonyablonski.comJon’s talk from Abstractions on Humane Design Patterns: https://youtu.be/paers6VQVE4Humane By Design: https://humanebydesign.com/Other opportunities to connect:Weekly streams at Zeal's Twitch StreamWeekly front-end tips at Amy's Selfteach.me Youtube ChannelReach out at Our Website

In this episode, Adam and Trever interview Chris Coyier. Chris is the founder of CSS-Tricks.com, and co-founder of Codepen.io, and the podcast Shoptalk. In our conversation find out why Chris doesn't like doing side-projects and hear his take on where he thinks web development is heading.Featured Links:Chris' recap of his talk Ooooops I guess we’re full-stack developers nowCSS-Tricks.comCodepen.ioChris' podcast - ShoptalkOther opportunities to connect:Weekly streams at Zeal's Twitch StreamWeekly front-end tips at Amy's Selfteach.me Youtube ChannelReach out at Our Website

Kevin and Chris join forces to promote Zeal's new code deletion service and Kevin's promotion to Chief Deletion Officer (CDO). Read more about this new service: https://codingzeal.com/code-deletion-serviceOr watch on YouTube.com: https://youtu.be/d7-rQSSLJ-UHappy beginning of April!

Trever and Marcus dive into the purpose and use of having playbooks for teams. They discuss how playbooks benefit not only large teams but also can be impactful for individual contractors.Featured Links:Zeal Project Foundations Playbook: https://codingzeal.lpages.co/zeal-project-foundations-playbook/

Marcus has established himself as a go-to coach for tech team leads for organizations of all sizes. We at Zeal have learned a lot from Marcus over the years and lean on him for counsel often. We are excited to introduce you to him if you are just now discovering Marcus.Featured Links:Marcus Blankenship: https://www.marcusblankenship.comTwitter: https://twitter.com/justzerosFramework: https://marcusblankenship.com/one-on-one-framework

Michelle May, founder of Seva Foods and Benjii's Canine Cuisine joins us to share the journey from web design/development entrepreneur to packaged food founder. We cover steps and recommendations for founders trying to break into new fields and the challenges of starting a food company.Featured Links:Seva Foods: http://sevafoods.com/Benjii's Canine Cuisine: https://benjiis.com/Vegan Lady Boss: http://veganladyboss.com/

Adam Wathan is the host of Full Stack Radio, creator of Nitpick-CI, co-founder of Refactoring UI, and creator of Tailwind CSS. We discuss his path to publishing his books, why he prefers utility-first CSS frameworks, and the many other side-projects Adam has created and works on. Featured Links: Tailwind CSS Refactoring UI Full Stack Radio Nitpick-CI Personal website Test-driven Laravel

Dawn Ressel of Next Leap Design gives us some powerful techniques from the UX research and design world. We touch on user testing, design systems and how Dawn weaves the causes that she cares deeply about into her consulting practice. Featured Links: Next Leap Design Good Food Conference

April Wensel of Compassionate Coding breaks down how burnout and toxic cultures cause software companies to lose effectiveness. She also gives us great tips on team-building and becoming more attractive to diverse candidates. Featured Links: April on Twitter Compassionate Coding Newsletter

Ben Orenstein, founder of Tuple, shares the journey from engineer to entrepreneurship and the origin story of Tuple. We get into why Tuple will be the best tool for remote pair programming and what Ben's personal goals for Tuple are. Additional Links Ben Orenstein on Twitter Tuple Code Quality Challenge Trailmix Upcase

Krijn van der Raadt of everydev walks us through everydev's hiring and deployment of code school grads on real consulting projects. We dig into his story of how he got involved with everydev and the details of everydev's vision. everydev

Chris and Jason interview Daniel Beauchamp, the head of Augmented and Virtual Reality at Shopify, to discuss the exciting frontier of VR and AR and its intersection with commerce and the shopping experience. “Our vision is more and more AR is going to start taking over parts of the commerce journey, where at first it starts with just the product viewing, then maybe product discovery, the product payment… The whole journey could then eventually be all in AR.” —Daniel Beauchamp Article Build the Future of Immersive Shopping

Brian Zambrano, Cloud Architecture Lead at Very and author of "Serverless Design Patterns and Best Practices" joins us to explore the benefits and challenges of serverless architecture Links Brian's book "Serverless Design Patterns and Best Practices" Serverless Framework

Will Larson, Infrastructure Engineering Manager at Stripe explains how large system migration are an opportunity to reduce tech debt and paints a picture of infrastructure engineering at companies with massive scale. "The most important thing when you start a migration is to think about you're actually asking dozens or hundreds or maybe thousands of people to take a bet on you...that is why it's so important to make sure that the migrations really solve the problem and two that you're going to be able to complete them once you start" - Will Larson Links Article Mentioned

Join Chris and Randy in a wide-ranging interview with GeePaw Hill on dev culture and helping geeks be effective in larger organizations. Links GeePaw's Tweet "Always Small, Always Better, Always Wrong"

Chris and guest Jason Harrison, Director of Consulting here at Zeal discuss our interest in AR and how we plan to move forward with AR as a consultancy.

Chris and special guest Bobby Brown, Software Engineering Team Lead at Mavenlink dig into some of the planning steps, strategies and systems that lead to a successful product feature launch. Featured Links Visualize Github Branches in Google Sheets

Brian Vaughn, React JS Core team member, joins us to explain React's async rendering system and new component lifecycle methods launched in React 16.3 Brian also give us some insight into working on the React Core team, more exciting features coming to React and the team's approach to helping library maintainers and developers moving to newer versions of React Links React 16.3 new lifecycle methods React 16.3 release announcement Dan Abramov’s talk on Suspense and other new possibilities New React build infrastructure Intro to React RFC process Async Lifecycle hooks RFC Brian on Twitter

Chris interviews Jack Humbert, founder of OLKB, a supplier of kits for custom keyboard enthusiasts. We get into how Jack started producing and selling kits, new products he's working on, and the challenges and rewards of operating a small hardware startup OLKB QMK Firmware Open Source Project Jack's Youtube Channel

On today's episode we discuss the Facebook Dataleak and protection of privacy responsibilities as application developers. "It's very diffifcult to make sure that you are protecting your privacy online and that the 3rd party applications are trustworthy and actually following terms of services” - Frank West, Senior Software Developer at Zeal Featured Articles Vox's Coverage of the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica Leak ACM Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct Leave a review and get stickers! 1. Go to our page on ITunes and leave a review 2. Take a screenshot of your review and email it to podcast@codingzeal.com 3. If you're one of the first 100 people, we'll get your mailing address and send you your stickers! This podcast is brought to you by Zeal

We're wrapping up Season 2 and are preparing to bring more guests and topics for Season 3! We'd like your feedback on what you'd like to see in Season 3. Please drop us a message at hello@codingzeal.com or @codingzeal on Twitter. Leave a review and get stickers! 1. Go to our page on ITunes and leave a review 2. Take a screenshot of your review and email it to podcast@codingzeal.com 3. If you're one of the first 100 people, we'll get your mailing address and send you your stickers! This podcast is brought to you by Zeal

On today's episode we discuss Winamp-js, a faithful open source recreation of Winamp 2 made by Jordan Eldredge. "I've found that to be very true, not everybody has the bandwidth to do side projects but those that do have the opportunity to do it. It tends to help a lot in the job searching process " - Chris White, Senior Software Engineer at Zeal Featured Project https://jordaneldredge.com/projects/winamp2-js/ https://twitter.com/winampskins Featured Guests https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordaneldredge/ Leave a review and get stickers! 1. Go to our page on ITunes and leave a review 2. Take a screenshot of your review and email it to podcast@codingzeal.com 3. If you're one of the first 100 people, we'll get your mailing address and send you your stickers! This podcast is brought to you by Zeal

On today's episode we discuss "How to Choose a Talk Topic", an article written by Gary Bernhardt. We also go into the process Zeal team members Adam Cuppy and Randy Coulman use to come up with and choose their talk topics. "What within this is the simplest concept that should be known, and how can I build an experience around relaying that concept to an audience" - Adam Cuppy, COO and Co-Founder at Zeal Featured Article https://www.deconstructconf.com/blog/how-to-choose-a-talk-topic Leave a review and get stickers! 1. Go to our page on ITunes and leave a review 2. Take a screenshot of your review and email it to podcast@codingzeal.com 3. If you're one of the first 100 people, we'll get your mailing address and send you your stickers! This podcast is brought to you by Zeal

On today's episode we discuss internships and dive into Cris Pope and Austin Gilinsky's Internship experience with Zeal "mainly all the skills we learned in our bootcamp are being implimented in this project" - Cris Pope, Learn Academy Graduate and Intern at Zeal Featured Links https://www.learnacademy.org/ https://www.codingzeal.com/ Featured Guests https://www.linkedin.com/in/crispope/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/austin-gilinsky-0b07305b/ Leave a review and get stickers! 1. Go to our page on ITunes and leave a review 2. Take a screenshot of your review and email it to podcast@codingzeal.com 3. If you're one of the first 100 people, we'll get your mailing address and send you your stickers! This podcast is brought to you by Zeal

On today's episode we discuss meetups and Fullstack PDX a meetup hosted by Chris Hough :: Senior Engineer, Mentor, Meetup Founder, Product Builder, Tattoo Enthusiast, and Entrepreneur. "The way i look at it is i run it like a startup” - Chris Hough, Senior Engineer at WeaveUp Featured Meetups https://www.meetup.com/fullstackpdx/ https://www.meetup.com/Mentorship-Saturdays/ https://www.meetup.com/NewTechPDX/ Featured Guests https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrishough/ Leave a review and get stickers! 1. Go to our page on ITunes and leave a review 2. Take a screenshot of your review and email it to podcast@codingzeal.com 3. If you're one of the first 100 people, we'll get your mailing address and send you your stickers! This podcast is brought to you by Zeal

On today's episode we discuss front-end performance and React "Whenever you’re trying to fix the solution, it’s not just coming to the conclusion of “this is the best way to do it”. It’s important to get your team on board and educate and make and sure the reasons why are covered” - Ellie Day, Software Engineer at Mavenlink Leave a review and get stickers! 1. Go to our page on ITunes and leave a review 2. Take a screenshot of your review and email it to podcast@codingzeal.com 3. If you're one of the first 100 people, we'll get your mailing address and send you your stickers! This podcast is brought to you by Zeal

On today's episode we discuss "The UX of Voice" An article from Jason Amunwa on Digital Telepathy. "How comfortable are we with having AI talk to use like our best friend” - Alfonso Moreno , Designer at Zeal Article Featured: https://www.dtelepathy.com/blog/design/the-ux-of-voice-the-invisible-interface Leave a review and get stickers! 1. Go to our page on ITunes and leave a review 2. Take a screenshot of your review and email it to podcast@codingzeal.com 3. If you're one of the first 100 people, we'll get your mailing address and send you your stickers! This podcast is brought to you by Zeal

Season's Greetings! On today's episode we express gratitude and share our plans for the podcast entering 2018! Thank you for listening and happy holidays! Leave a review and get stickers! 1. Go to our page on ITunes and leave a review 2. Take a screenshot of your review and email it to podcast@codingzeal.com 3. If you're one of the first 100 people, we'll get your mailing address and send you your stickers! This podcast is brought to you by Zeal

On today's episode we discuss "How to Stop UX Research being a Blocker" An article from Ben Ralph on Medium. "A good UX proccess is communication through and through across the board.” - Amy Dutton , Designer/Developer at Zeal Article Featured: https://medium.muz.li/how-to-stop-ux-research-being-a-blocker-225d91105de8 Related Content: http://www.gv.com/sprint/ Leave a review and get stickers! 1. Go to our page on ITunes and leave a review 2. Take a screenshot of your review and email it to podcast@codingzeal.com 3. If you're one of the first 100 people, we'll get your mailing address and send you your stickers! This podcast is brought to you by Zeal

On today's episode we discuss "Another Lens" A research tool for creatives from the design team at Airbnb and News Deeply. "The challenge is incorperating their feedback which doesn't always always line up with my biases which is a good thing” - Amy Dutton , Designer/Developer at Zeal Article Featured: https://airbnb.design/anotherlens/ Leave a review and get stickers! 1. Go to our page on ITunes and leave a review 2. Take a screenshot of your review and email it to podcast@codingzeal.com 3. If you're one of the first 100 people, we'll get your mailing address and send you your stickers! This podcast is brought to you by Zeal

On today's episode we discuss ScreenHero being shut down and what that means for remote pairing and screen sharing. We also discuss what tools we at Zeal have been testing and what we look for in screen sharing tools. "I think ScreenHero allowed us to not look at anything else, it's fun to look out and see what other options we could use” - Chris White, Senior Software Developer at Zeal Tools Mentioned Use-Together VisualStudio: Live-Share AWS Cloud9

On today's episode we discuss "Apple Is Ramping Up Work on AR Headset to Succeed iPhone" An article by Mark Gurman from Bloomberg Technology. "It's not just about designing an experience, It's actually augmenting an exisiting experience and that is a radically different state of mind” - Adam Cuppy, Co-Founder at Zeal Article Featured: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-08/apple-is-said-to-ramp-up-work-on-augmented-reality-headset Leave a review and get stickers! 1. Go to our page on ITunes and leave a review 2. Take a screenshot of your review and email it to podcast@codingzeal.com 3. If you're one of the first 100 people, we'll get your mailing address and send you your stickers! This podcast is brought to you by Zeal

Today's episode we’re talking about remote pairing tools. Where we were, where we are, and where we are going. "As remote developers we choose and curate our own tools. When the commonly accepted solution is going away. It's inspired a lot of creativity and discussion around how we do this ” - Chris White , Senior Developer at Zeal Articles Featured: https://slackhq.com/screen-sharing-in-slack-made-interactive-cf8816efaa01 https://floobits.com/help/plugins/atom Leave a review and get stickers! 1. Go to our page on ITunes and leave a review 2. Take a screenshot of your review and email it to podcast@codingzeal.com 3. If you're one of the first 100 people, we'll get your mailing address and send you your stickers! This podcast is brought to you by Zeal

On today's episode we discuss "Redesigning Laravel.io" An article by Adam Wathan and Steve Schoger from the Refactoring Ui blog on Medium. "Good design creates succinct code. Styling things well, consistently across the board. You should be able to apply less styles beause they apply to more than one item” - Amy Dutton , Designer/Developer at Zeal Article Featured: https://medium.com/refactoring-ui/redesigning-laravel-io-c47ac495dff0 Related Content: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNYkxOF6rcICWx0C9LVWWVqvHlYJyqw7g http://patternlab.io/ https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/axe/lhdoppojpmngadmnindnejefpokejbdd?hl=en-US Leave a review and get stickers! 1. Go to our page on ITunes and leave a review 2. Take a screenshot of your review and email it to podcast@codingzeal.com 3. If you're one of the first 100 people, we'll get your mailing address and send you your stickers! This podcast is brought to you by Zeal

On today's episode we discuss the topic of Imposter Syndrome. Impostor syndrome is a concept describing individuals who are marked by an inability to internalize their accomplishments and a persistent fear of being exposed as a "fraud". "I've been doing software development for 20+ years, even now I'll compare myself to other people” -Kevin Craine, Senior Software Engineer at Zeal Articles Featured: