Podcasts about Major League Hacking

Jonathan Gottfried is the co-founder of Major League Hacking, as well as the podcast host of the State of Developer Education podcast.In this episode, we discuss the importance of developer education in today's highly volatile digital world. We talk about the evolution of developer education, the impact of (generative) AI, as well as the role of hackathons and the lessons Jon has learned from founding and running MLH.Links & mentions:sponsor.mlh.iojon@majorleaguehacking.com

Done right, a Hackathon can be a fantastic place to be a programmer - you get time and space to build and learn, in a room full of like-minded people, with swag and prizes to sweeten the deal. It's a great way to pick up new ideas and run with them. But done wrong it can be a waste of time. What's the difference between a good hackathon and a bad one? What do the good ones do right, and what can we learn from that?This week we're talking about the Joy of Hacks with Major League Hacking Co-Founder Jon Gottfried. He's got over 10 years of experience building a Hackathon network that provides the right environment for “structured mucking about with computers”, so we're going to pick his brains.If you're ever attending a Hackathon, organising one, or looking for a way to build or contribute to your local programming community, Jon can help guide you to events that work.--Major League Hacking: https://mlh.io/Major League Hacking's 2024 Event Calendar: https://mlh.io/seasons/2024/eventsGames Week: https://events.mlh.io/events/10848 Jon on Mastodon: https://hachyderm.io/@jonmarkgoJon on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonmarkgoJon on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jonmarkgoKris on Mastodon: http://mastodon.social/@krisajenkinsKris on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/krisjenkins/Kris on Twitter: https://twitter.com/krisajenkinsBonus link - The Great American Baking Show 2023: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlWLSAKEedk--#software #podcast #programming #hackathon

In this interview, Fiona Whittington, a representative from Major League Hacking (MLH), discusses the organization's mission to empower the next generation of developers. With a community of over 150,000 developers each year, MLH is influencing the future of technology by helping their members gain hands-on experience with open source development. Fiona shares that while interest in open source is at an all-time high, many students face the barrier of getting started. The conversation concludes with Fiona's advice for community leaders to show value and encourage contributions from people at any skill level.  00:00 Introduction and Guest Presentation 00:28 Understanding Major League Hacking (MLH) 02:00 Barriers to Open Source Contribution 03:41 Addressing Imposter Syndrome in Tech 05:08 The Importance of Non-Code Contributions 07:57 The Evolution of Open Source 11:49 The Future of Open Source 12:16 Advice for Newcomers to Open Source 13:42 Personal Journey into Open Source 17:37 The Gap Between Classroom and Industry 18:08 Hacktoberfest 19:18 Conclusion Guest: Fiona Whittington is the Director of Strategic Initiatives at Major League Hacking (MLH), where she supports 150,000 aspiring technologists each year. In college, she founded the award-winning nonprofit TechTogether (acquired 2022) credited in part for increasing the representation of women in collegiate hackathons globally by 18%. Her work for TechTogether has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, and Boston Globe. Fiona previously worked in marketing at Red Hat and Armored Things (now Lambent).

Education is one of developers' most precious assets. Education makes the difference in adapting to changing tech trends and industry perspectives. What's more, quality educational environments can also help developers network and find jobs. With this end in mind, Major League Hacking provides unique and intensive learning experiences that allow participants to rapidly progress from novices to confident developers capable of turning abstract concepts into real products. MLH co-founder Jonathan Gottfried talks about the importance of education and community and how MLH is helping developers build successful careers.Listen to the full episode or read the transcript on the Semaphore blog.Like this episode? Be sure to leave a ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review on the podcast player of your choice and share it with your friends.

In this episode of the podcast, Grizz sits down with Cortney Stauffer (Head of UX Practice) & Chuck Danielsson (Head of Practice, Web/UI), both from Adaptive. They talk about UX, UI, FDC3, and why things should just work. Cortney Stauffer: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cortstauffer/ Chuck Danielsson: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chuck-danielsson-2141b058/ NYC November 1 - Open Source in Finance Forum: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-finance-forum-new-york/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 2022 State of Open Source in Financial Services Download: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.finos.org/state-of-open-source-in-financial-services-2022⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ All Links on Current Newsletter Here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.finos.org/newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - more show notes to come A huge thank you to all our sponsors for Open Source in Finance Forum New York ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-finance-forum-new-york/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠that will take place this November 1st at the New York Marriott Marquis This event wouldn't be possible without our sponsors. A special thank you to our Leader sponsors: Databricks, where you can unify all your data, analytics, and AI on one platform. And Red Hat - Open to change—yesterday, today, and tomorrow. And our Contributor and Community sponsors: Adaptive/Aeron, Connectifi, Discover, Enterprise DB, FinOps Foundation, Fujitsu, instaclustr, Major League Hacking, mend.io, Open Mainframe Project, OpenJS Foundation, OpenLogic by Perforce, Orkes, Percona, Sonatype, StormForge, and Tidelift. If you would like to sponsor or learn more about this event, please send an email to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠sponsorships@linuxfoundation.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Grizz's Info | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/aarongriswold/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠grizz@finos.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ►► ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Visit FINOS www.finos.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ►► ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Get In Touch: info@finos.org⁠

In this episode of the podcast, Grizz sits down with Jon Gottfried, Co-Founder of Major League Hacking. They talk about hackathons in finance, and developer/engineering talent, from both the individual and hiring manager perspectives. Jon Gottfried: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonmarkgo/ MajorLeagueHacking: https://sponsor.mlh.io/ NYC November 1 - Open Source in Finance Forum: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-finance-forum-new-york/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 2022 State of Open Source in Financial Services Download: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.finos.org/state-of-open-source-in-financial-services-2022⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ All Links on Current Newsletter Here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.finos.org/newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - more show notes to come A huge thank you to all our sponsors for Open Source in Finance Forum New York ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-finance-forum-new-york/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠that will take place this November 1st at the New York Marriott Marquis This event wouldn't be possible without our sponsors. A special thank you to our Leader sponsors: Databricks, where you can unify all your data, analytics, and AI on one platform. And Red Hat - Open to change—yesterday, today, and tomorrow. And our Contributor and Community sponsors: Adaptive/Aeron, Connectifi, Discover, Enterprise DB, FinOps Foundation, Fujitsu, instaclustr, Major League Hacking, mend.io, Open Mainframe Project, OpenJS Foundation, OpenLogic by Perforce, Orkes, Percona, Sonatype, StormForge, and Tidelift. If you would like to sponsor or learn more about this event, please send an email to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠sponsorships@linuxfoundation.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Grizz's Info | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/aarongriswold/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠grizz@finos.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ►► ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Visit FINOS www.finos.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ►► ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Get In Touch: info@finos.org

In this episode of the podcast, our FINOS COO, Jane Gavronsky sits down with Adrian Dale of ISLA and David Shone of ISDA to discuss the associations contribution and backing of the FINOS CDM, Common Domain Model to the FINOS open source community. CDM: https://cdm.finos.org/ On GitHub: https://github.com/finos/common-domain-model Adrian Dale, Head of Regulation & Markets, ISLA - https://www.linkedin.com/in/adrian-dale-27942314/ David Shone, Director of Product - Data & Digital, ISDA - https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-shone/ Jane Gavronsky, COO, FINOS - https://www.linkedin.com/in/janegavronsky/ NYC November 1 - Open Source in Finance Forum: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-finance-forum-new-york/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 2022 State of Open Source in Financial Services Download: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.finos.org/state-of-open-source-in-financial-services-2022⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ All Links on Current Newsletter Here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.finos.org/newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - more show notes to come A huge thank you to all our sponsors for Open Source in Finance Forum New York ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://events.linuxfoundation.org/open-source-finance-forum-new-york/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠that will take place this November 1st at the New York Marriott Marquis This event wouldn't be possible without our sponsors. A special thank you to our Leader sponsors: Databricks, where you can unify all your data, analytics, and AI on one platform. And Red Hat - Open to change—yesterday, today, and tomorrow. And our Contributor and Community sponsors: Adaptive/Aeron, Connectifi, Discover, Enterprise DB, FinOps Foundation, Fujitsu, instaclustr, Major League Hacking, mend.io, Open Mainframe Project, OpenJS Foundation, OpenLogic by Perforce, Orkes, Percona, Sonatype, StormForge, and Tidelift. If you would like to sponsor or learn more about this event, please send an email to ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠sponsorships@linuxfoundation.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Grizz's Info | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/aarongriswold/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠grizz@finos.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ►► ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Visit FINOS www.finos.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ►► ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Get In Touch: info@finos.org

In this episode, Jamie Barton, Senior Developer Relations at Grafbase, joins us to discuss his experiences in the tech industry, developer education, the importance of developer relations, and the impact of GraphQL in the tech ecosystem.

"An ideal environment for learning provides a transformational experience, builds strong bonds and unlocks potential with very few resources..."Jon and I discuss everything from history in high school to hacker communities. We discuss the shift of perspective you can get from going to check your assumptions of what skills are and how they are done. We also discuss the future of developer skills, and how building powerful communities to ensure impact can help. A 'democratisation' of access to developer skills and intentionally developing the system for them to be successful through education, awareness, communities and learning contents is key to growing these communities of transformational learning and skills development. Jon shares his own story of how he came to be involved in Major League Hacking and his mission to empower hackers, create a different and more visible system to access developer skills and build a sustainable business to serve this community. Main insights you will get from this episode are : - The role of developer evangelist has changed: it used to be an educational role to help developers via student workshops, conference talks, blogs, videos, etc. but it has evolved/ matured and become more structured.- There are more expectations associated with it (e.g. to justify the existence of the role within an organisation), and it is more specialised (e.g. content creation, Developer Relations/ Marketing), but evangelising is still a core responsibility and the most important on a daily basis.- There is no need for a tech background to become a developer - MLH programs exist to teach code/real-world skills to everyone, regardless of experience and involve lots of peer support and mentorship in a product-agnostic field; eclectic skill sets and profiles are valued.- MLH uses qualitative and quantitative elements to measure success in their fast-moving, community-based environment: How many people do we serve in a year? Do people get value from what we do? It is a holistic idea of success to build a financially sustainable but mission-oriented business.- Rather than a specific methodology, organised chaos rules! There is no prescriptive approach to how things are done, e.g. creating design processes, writing code - everyone can be successful on their own terms.- Self-organised teams working across ecosystems make communities powerful. The most successful communities form longer-lasting relationships and can give rise to larger communities; or communities come together to work together.- Developer evangelists must be invested in the success of other people and help them achieve their goals – community leaders are enablers for their peers (e.g. servant leaders) and can change people's lives.- 2030 vision for the industry is to connect people more effectively with career opportunities; change the recruitment/hiring mindset by giving students a way to showcase their skills and differentiate themselves, demonstrate what they are excited about.- Companies on the bleeding edge think radically differently about talent and give people the time, space and absence of risk to experiment (e.g. hackathons); companies must look in different places for new hires, invest in the next generation and be future-focused in their thinking.- Computer science education is overly reliant on individual work and does not reflect the often abstract and open-ended collaborative work that prevails in the industry - tech and software are a means...

We're tackling skills, as well as creating an environment that's inclusive, welcoming and encourages play and innovation. How? Via the communities built in Major League Hacking's chapters. Over a third of US students come into contact with MLH, so Jon and his team are doing something right. What do new people and new ideas allow an organisation to do? Transform. We learn from one of the very best with Nokia's Head of the Global Enterprise Business. Chris Johnson. If you want more from Tech Talks sign up to Tech Talks Extra: www.nashsquared.com/the-hub/tech-ta…tra-signup-form

Jon Gottfried, Co-founder of Major League Hacking, joins me to chat about community building, open source as a career accelerator, and how Major League Hacking began.In this episode, Jon and I discuss the role of open source in Major League Hacking and the lessons maintainers can learn from new developers and vice versa. Jon also shares his thoughts on community, sharing responsibilities, and tips for ensuring the future of open source. Listen to hear his perspective and learn how Major League Hacking came to be. Highlights: Jon introduces himself and Major League Hacking (0:42) How Open Source fits into the work MLH does with developers entering the industry (1:44) How to be a successful open source contributor (3:20) Lessons maintainers can learn from the new developer experience (6:07) Jon shares his thoughts on community building (13:06) Jon shares his views on meeting in person vs. virtually (15:40) Sharing responsibilities in a business vs. an open source project (18:03) How contributing to an open source project can accelerate a career trajectory (21:48) How Major League Hacking began (24:01) Links:Jon LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonmarkgo/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/jonmarkgo Company: https://mlh.io/

As part of an effort to work with students at college and universities, Stack Overflow is partnering with Major League Hacking (MLH) to recruit our first cohort of Student Ambassadors. These folks will represent us on campus and lead the way in tackling challenges, earning rewards, and planning out the future of the program. Our pizza fund events are open to students in the US and Canada, and Global Hack Weeks are open to all. You can learn more about how to apply here.ICYMI: Major League Hacking cofounder Jon Gottfried and Hackathon Community Manager Mary Siebert previously came on the podcast to describe what a Major League Hackathon looks like (the succulents were a surprise).Today's Lifeboat badge goes to user Manquer for their answer to the question How can I upgrade Yii 1.x to Yii 2.0?.

Juan Almanza NO es un estudiante del Colegio San Carlos, apasionado por la tecnología en todas sus formas, pero especialmente el web development y la infraestructura, considerado por eminencias en el tema como un prodigio, Segundo lugar en las Olimpiadas colombianas de computación y Major League Hacking top 50 hacker. Página web: https://scidroid.co Temas: C++, C, C#, HTML5, Java Script, Python, Lenguajes de Programación, Programación, Hackathons, Olimpiadas de Computación, Elon Musk, Twitter, Gaia✨, Caché, y muchos más... Disculpen cualquier imprecisión. Formen su propia opinión acerca de lo dicho.

Guest Jon Gottfried | Mike Swift Panelists Richard Littauer | Justin Dorfman | Ben Nickolls Show Notes Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. We have two amazing guests joining us, Jon Gottfried and Mike Swift, who are the Co-Founders of Major League Hacking (MLH). Today, we'll learn about the MLH Fellowship program, the philosophy behind MLH, which every year, more than 100,000 developers from around the world attend these events to learn new technical skills by getting hands-on experience. Jon and Mike share the changes they faced when COVID hit, the future of events, and what they're most excited about happening in the next year. Go ahead and download this episode now to find out much more! [00:01:35] Jon and Mike share their background stories how they founded MLH. [00:08:45] We hear the elevator pitch of what MLH is and the philosophy behind it. [00:13:43] Jon and Mike talk about what the selection process is in terms of projects that people are contributing to on the fellowship program. [00:18:13] Richard brings up a post from Mike McQuaid and wonders how Jon and Mike are helping the new beginners learn about the necessities of open source, and how they're helping the maintainers to not burn out. [00:25:50] Jon and Mike share how they were feeling when the pandemic first started and if they had to make any transitions to get to 2022. [00:31:05] Mike shares his take on future events being possibly hybrid or not. [00:33:59] Ben wonders if there's anything that's missing from the fellowship or from some of the digital events. [00:38:06] We learn what Jon and Mike are most excited about happening in the next six months or year. [00:42:09] Find out where you can follow Jon, Mike, and MLH online. Quotes [00:07:07] “It really drew me back in and really made me passionate about the community side of tech.” [00:09:36] “A lot of developers start to hone their skills though open source; however, open source is scary.” [00:11:44] “All told, something like 40,000 people in our community lost a job or internship during the summer of 2020 due to COVID.” [00:15:16] “When you're an early career developer, one of the most important things you can learn is how to approach an open source codebase you haven't seen before, and how to begin contributing.” [00:18:02] “For people who don't go to top tier schools or don't live in a country that's highly desirable from a hiring perspective, that really does set them apart by being able to point to something they built.” [00:20:35] “Start with community.” [00:21:43] “Major League Hacking helps foster a culture of coming back and contributing.” [00:26:37] “We're not a hackathon company. Our job is to empower new developers and launch their careers.” [00:40:31] “We run a digital event every single week, full year-round, and it's democratizing access to these types of opportunities.” Spotlight [00:42:39] Ben's spotlight is thanks.dev [00:43:28]** Justin's **spotlight is fig.io. [00:43:50] Richard's spotlight is Uri Goldshtein. [00:44:22] Mike's spotlight is a project by Vercel called Next.js. [00:45:36] Jon's spotlight is a shout-out to Frédéric Collonval, a maintainer that has been helping new contributors on jupyterlab-git. Links SustainOSS (https://sustainoss.org/) SustainOSS Twitter (https://twitter.com/SustainOSS?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor) SustainOSS Discourse (https://discourse.sustainoss.org/) Jon Gottfried Twitter (https://twitter.com/jonmarkgo) Jon Gottfried LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonmarkgo/) Mike Swift Twitter (https://twitter.com/swiftalphaone) Mike Swift LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/theycallmeswift/) MLH Fellowship (https://fellowship.mlh.io/partners) Major League Hacking (https://mlh.io/) Stop Mentoring First-Time Contributors by Mike McQuaid (https://mikemcquaid.com/2019/02/16/stop-mentoring-first-time-contributors/) thanks.dev (https://thanks.dev/home) Fig (https://fig.io/) Uri Goldshtein Twitter (https://twitter.com/urigoldshtein) Next.js-GitHub (https://github.com/vercel/next.js/tree/canary/examples) Frédéric Collonval (https://github.com/fcollonval) jupyterlab-git (https://github.com/jupyterlab/jupyterlab-git) Credits Produced by Richard Littauer (https://www.burntfen.com/) Edited by Paul M. Bahr at Peachtree Sound (https://www.peachtreesound.com/) Show notes by DeAnn Bahr Peachtree Sound (https://www.peachtreesound.com/) Special Guests: Jon Gottfried and Mike Swift.

Guest Logan Kilpatrick Panelists Eric Berry | Justin Dorfman Show Notes Hello and welcome to Sustain! The podcast where we talk about sustaining open source for the long haul. We are very excited to have as our guest, Logan Kilpatrick, who is the Community Manager for the Julia Programming Language, a graduate student studying Software Engineering and Technology Law, and makes an exclusive announcement of another position he recently has taken on. Today, we are talking to Logan about the Julia Programming Language. We learn more about the role Major League Hacking played in the MLH Fellowship with Julia, why Logan is most interested in doing open source non-technical, his experience working at NASA, and the challenges he has with research papers. He also tells us about why the Julia community should not be using Slack, but maybe using Discord and Zulip in the future. Logan shares some parting advice about reaching out to people if there's opportunities that are interesting to you. Find out more and download this episode now! [00:00:22] Logan gives us a brief introduction of who he is, what he does, and what this new position is he has recently taken on. [00:01:52] NumFocus is the topic and how this all came to be for Logan, and why Julia as a programming language is so unique and special. [00:05:48] Justin brings up ML Hacks and Logan explains more about this. [00:08:04] Logan fills us in on what his Julia day-to-day tasks that he works on and his non-technical tasks so he can influence the next non-technical open source contributor. [00:11:51] Find out if the Julia Programming Language is using any tools to monitor their community engagement. Justin talks about something he uses called Orbit, which is a framework for building high gravity communities. [00:16:00] Find out the experience Logan had working with NASA! [00:18:49] Logan has so much going on in his life and Justin wonders how he finds time to do anything. [00:20:10] We learn why Logan has a bunch of challenges with research papers. [00:22:47] Eric wonders if people are not sharing the code for reasons that they don't want to give up intellectual property or that it's not completely well-formed and they just want to own it, but still want to share it. Logan gives his perspective on this. [00:25:17] Logan explains the different places you can find the Julia community and why they should not be using Slack. Eric wonders what is out there that we can use that people would adopt, and Logan talks about Discord, Zulip, and Forum Community. [00:29:09] Logan covers one more thing, going back to the convo they had about open source contributions and non-technical contributions. He also brings up Jono Bacon's book, People Powered. Quotes [00:04:46] “The estimate right now is something like a million developers or something like that, which is at a million users.” [00:05:53] “So, Major League Hacking is an incredible organization and they were sort of generous enough in the first iteration of the MLH Fellowship, which is just an opportunity for students to contribute to open source and get paid to do it by Major League Hacking and a bunch of peripheral organizations who support Major League Hacking.” [00:08:33] “I think my sort of general goal that has just come out recently for me is to make people understand that a non-technical contribution in open source is a viable way of contributing.” [00:08:58] “And the reason for that is I feel like there's more opportunities to do those non-technical contributions and there's more sort of missing pieces in the non-technical space.” [00:10:21] “Again, I think there's so much non-technical work that if someone doesn't step up and do it, it doesn't get done.” [00:20:21] “One of which is a lot of times folks don't release their code, which is sort of one of the missions of NumFocus and in a sense, “Open code equals better science.” [00:26:16] “To me, it's 100% evident and perfectly clear that we should not be using Slack.” [00:26:23] “Slack is a tool that is built for corporations to communicate with one another... It is not a tool for open source projects to be using.” [00:28:46] “In my personal opinion, Discord and Zulip will probably be the two that are fighting each other in the future with respect to places that communities go and meet.” [00:29:22] “I think something that is perhaps might be obvious to some people, might not be obvious to some people, but really, non-technical contributions in my opinion are the pathway to making a code contribution.” [00:30:58] “I think my parting suggestion for people that I always try to instill whenever I have the opportunity to talk to people that I don't know through the internet is take the opportunities to reach out to folks that you don't know if there's opportunities that are interesting to you.” Spotlight [00:31:55] Logan's spotlight is the tool Julia's visualization package Makie. [00:32:29] Eric's spotlight is a suite of tools called Setapp. [00:33:03] Justin's spotlight is Kid Pix. 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Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1GQjhDBiQ4raGcn4M7eXXuoJ_9VOGSgpd3RcIQ2dyXJ4/edit?usp=sharing Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2X-RsCVRas Timestamps [00:00:00] Prepared presentation on Coding Careers [00:21:46] If you've worked with junior developers, what's the biggest mistake you see them making and how would you go about solving it if you were in their shoes? [00:24:03] What should be the aim when job hunting big companies or startups? [00:26:06] Can you expand more on the differences between being a junior software engineer in finance Two Sigma versus tech? [00:26:43] If you don't have contacts, do you have any advice in terms of contacting real people or companies to show yourself in the best light possible? [00:28:31] How easy or hard is it to change your field? [00:29:52] What do you think about product management and how would the graduate set of career path aim towards that? [00:33:13] What's the best or correct way of approaching a recruiter slash employee to get a referral? [00:34:28] When hiring someone and looking at OSS contributions, how would you rate it from very different projects are more well-known?  [00:36:29] What's the benefit of a random employee spending the time on you for referral or talk about their job? I feel like it's one sided for the student. [00:37:44] How do you ask developers for conversations about their job or guidance? [00:38:45] how do I approach about the referral at the end of the conversation though?  [00:39:52] do you prepare for data structure and algorithms for job interviews? Is there a fun way for that?  Transcriptswyx: I can just get going with my prepared slides. It's going to take me like half an hour ish and then we can do half an hour of questions. Does that sound good? And then, yeah, just like, feel free to pause me if there's any technical difficulties or anything.[00:00:13]This is something that I never thought I would. Write about or specializing. It essentially was an R com of my blogging and like people really responding to some of this stuff that I've written for them.[00:00:25]And it's essentially like the meta code stuff around code. Yeah. You've learned as you go along, that nobody teaches you. Like w when you tend to think about coding careers, like your career as a software developer as just about code, when really like it's maybe 25% about code. And there's a lot of other stuff around that.[00:00:44] So this is what I ended up doing in between jobs. Like I wrote essentially like a list of essays that became a book. And that's the whole idea. And I was invited to it. To do a talk with you guys about it. So I'm going to share what I have right now. And I'd love to go into further detail because there's just too much to go into it with you in 30 minutes.[00:01:00]So I'm, Swyx I also go by Shawn. I used to use to have a career in finance change careers in 2017, did a boot camp instead of like a proper season.  When did you to Sigma? Netlify and now I just recently joined AWS. And we already talked about the other stuff. One of the, I guess, one of my other roles, if you're into front end development at all is that I may react R slash react or Jess subreddit moderator.[00:01:24] And I think we're about to hit 200,000 subscribers tomorrow. So that's pretty exciting as well. So. What, this is what this attempt is. I just want to situate them this among the other advice that the other books that you've heard about as seen a lot of books are very sort of pointed point in time solutions, essentially like their target, like learn to code or.[00:01:43] Crack the coding interview or like, solve the algorithm design or like, do you do a great resume or, write about clean. And so these are like just very point in time solutions, but they don't really help you with the transition steps. And so what I essentially tried to do with this book was essentially layout things which Principles, which are basically like always on default decisions, strategies, which are like, which helped to help you decide.[00:02:09] And based on one-off big uncertain irreversible decisions and in tactics, which are things that you use frequently throughout your career. So that's the way that we're gonna break it. And and yeah, so, so basically like there's four parts to what we so how do I, how I break it down.[00:02:23] And the first is the career guide. And one of my obsessions is the OSI layer. I think if you're doing a lot of tech interviewing, I think that's one of the first models that used to be. Come across from essentially like the network layer, I'll be out to applications.[00:02:36] And I don't remember what the other five layers, but I was always thinking like, what if there's an OSI layer for humans as well? So instead of just protocols and and data, we can also talk about how humans form a chain of value from machines all the way to end users. So we have here the entire universe of coding careers going from, I guess, people who work the closest with hardware.[00:02:57]Operating system devs or embedded or IOT devs all the way up to people who don't actually code technically traditionally, if you think about that, they're they might be considered no-code low-code they might micro settings, which have some sort of conditional logic, whatever.[00:03:12] Yeah. These are, that's the mental framework. Most of us developers are actually, we're going to live around here between applications for the front end and services for the backend. If you are, if you aspire to be more of a, like an infrastructure cloud person, you might work in the lower layer on the product and the sort of platform level.[00:03:27]And that's how I split things. You may have a different split. It's good to have a mental model because the way that you interview or a plan your career for each of these levels is very different from each other. So I think that's an also interesting mental model to have when you approach these things.[00:03:41]Next this is more about the job jobs searching thing. Quite frankly, if since all of you are in the MLH fellowship I don't think this applies to you at all because you're going to sail through your job hunting task. But I think I recommend this book was from  where he talks about like the mathematics of job hunting and it's essentially the same.[00:04:00] As the birthday problem where you don't actually need 365 people in the room to have a good chance of two people having the same birthday you actually need. Cause because the probabilities compound same reason, same reasoning for applications. And because you only need a one job offer out of all the applications that you send out.[00:04:18] So that's kind of job hunting advice. Well, I know it's very simple numbers matter. Right. The other thing I think to think about when it comes to, when it comes to job hunting, especially for new grads and people who are just like, getting their first experiences without a network is that you can choose a wide range of strategies between narrow and I guess, wide.[00:04:35] Some people go as far as, as high as 200 to 300. And for me that I prefer to do nine prefer to do a more narrow search. And it's really up to you the kind of, search strategy that you choose. But just be aware of that. Obviously, if you spread yourself out very thin, then you're not going to do a very high quality application on each one.[00:04:52]Whereas the narrow application, you may not actually explore the full space of possibility that might be a best fit for you. So there's downsides to both in upsets. I think the most important thing to do during the job search is basically to have continued discipline and motivation.[00:05:06] So do so one way to do it really well is to do sort of social pressure, like to have a small group of friends and do stand ups with them and say what you did, what do you plan to do? And then just like consistently meet up until you, y'all get jobs. The other thing I think that people neglect to talk about.[00:05:21] That's the long longitudinal process, but what about during the day? That's what I call times. That's how you organize your time doing doing your job search. I won't go too far into details just because I also don't expect you to face much of a trouble with this. In terms of like portfolio pieces and like proving yourself.[00:05:38]This is  from Google. He's a very experienced hiring manager and I think what he says here is very true. So you can see who's going to quote verbatim. You can impress most hiring managers with only three contributions. Just like one class with a single JS followed, but just like show your best work, something complete where you show like all the other stuff, like tests, like architecture, docs, whatever.[00:06:00] And it's something with a story where you can actually stand out with the, of your personality or like something interesting that, that sets you apart from from just a raw technical. Yeah. And I have more stuff in this with regards to the hiring funnel. Let me know if you're interested in all this.[00:06:14] I'm just going to skip past this because that's not the focus of this presentation. But oh, I'm going to highlight this on mine as well. Twitter is. Surprisingly central it may not be for for your cohort right now. But as far as I'm concerned in all the developers circles, I see Twitter is very central.[00:06:29] And if you can pitch yourself into 180 characters you get to you, you get to be spread by a lot of these other developers who are looking to elevate you as well. So that's very helpful for the jobs. Okay. So, more interviewing resources. You don't need this, you don't need this. We also, we, I also studied a bunch of junior to senior dev stuff and that's that's a whole chapter, which I can get into.[00:06:49]Again, like I don't, I'm not gonna spend too much time here, but we can go into doing Q and a, if that's something that's of interest to you. I think the goal for you in particular is that you're getting a lot of explicit knowledge, in your courses. And that's stuff that people have written down like books Talks like stuff that people know that they know, and they've taken the time to share with you, but there's especially now on doing your fellowship and in your projects and later on in your jobs, like you're going to be picking up a lot of the tests and knowledge, the stuff that you only learn on the job because you have to live through it to, to expert to experience it.[00:07:19] And that's actually the majority of like, software engineers value added, right. The stuff that's not in the book. And so. Anytime that you're, you have the ability to to expand the possibility boundary of that space between explicit and tacit knowledge. That's a really good thing to actually start writing down, whether it's for people who, are com or coming into cohort after you or just like your past self that's always very helpful.[00:07:41] And that's what I'm trying to do with this whole project is which is just to relay things that I've learned as a. I guess now senior software engineer. So that's that, that brings us to the principles strategies, and tactics section. Sorry, I'm rushing too much, to be honest, I should probably pace it a little bit.[00:07:56]Okay. So, why principles? I strongly recommend checking out this book by Ray Dalio. He runs his entire hedge fund based on principles and this idea that you should, it's okay to make mistakes, but it's not okay to meet them repeatedly. Every time you like learn something fundamental about how the world works, how you work, how you prefer to work with the world.[00:08:14]You should write it down and you should stack rank them so that whenever they come into conflicts, you have some way to resolve conflicts or you, you have some idea that these are two principles that are at odds and you need to find some other unifying principle to, to deal with all that.[00:08:28] So for me the one the one principal that I'm most known for is to learn in public is it's this idea that most developers are trained from the beginning to, to learn in private that everything that you retain you're tested on it. You keep it to yourself. And you're the way that you get ahead in life is that you do it, you do that better than the people around you.[00:08:49] And it's a very zero sum view of things. And I think that if you open your mind up to a more growth mindset, where you can share what you learn and you learn you yourself, learn faster as a result of that, because people get the chance to correct. You got to. The chance to be wrong in public.[00:09:03]And and you build your network at the same time. So that's a very short summary of what has become like a movement as far as developers are concerned. And you can check the essay out at six, that IO slash lap. But that's the core idea that I think, especially for us students you're going to start to transition.[00:09:20] And when you transitioned from the. The sort of zero sum world of college too. To the more positive some world of I guess real world collaboration. You'll see that they're there. W the kind of games that we play it's in real life, or it's very different from from the sort of academic competitions that they might be used to.[00:09:38][00:09:38] It certainly was a a huge learning for me. And the other thing, I guess, that I, that would. Share with you is, I used to be in finance. And we so I worked in investment banking and hedge funds and the intellectual property that we had that I worked on that was on the, like the best work of my life.[00:09:54]I. I like, I laid it all out at the hedge fund. And when I walked away from finance that stayed with them like that was property of the fund and never with me. And I'll never see it again. When I interviewed with other. I couldn't take that with me to interview with.[00:10:09] So like, it was just, it just made it really hard to transfer experience and that makes it really hard for you to scale. Whereas I think in tech it's, we're fundamentally more open, like, we are allowed, we're encouraged to share our learnings in blogs and conferences and even our failures as well.[00:10:25] We also share our outages and our retrospectives on of our failures.  If we don't take advantage of the fundamentally more open nature of tech, then we're missing out on. What's so great about this industry. So, I do tend to encourage people a lot to to be more public about what.[00:10:40]It's really good for compounding your skills and knowledge and network. So include a bunch more principles and again, we don't have, we don't have a lot of time to go into all of them. The other thing I think I do tend to encourage people on is to open source your knowledge. So basically it's this idea that open source code has, open source coding.[00:10:57]Didn't use to be the norm. It's this revolution now that, most things that we use is now by default open source. And I think that's something that's happened very successfully with code, but we haven't done that a lot with knowledge like the sort of architectural and principles.[00:11:12] And. Are there less computer savvy skills, but there's this sort of more meta skills around our knowledge. One of the ways in which I exemplify this is my, my work with react and TypeScript. So I essentially run the community react and typeScript docs. And that was mainly because.[00:11:29]Reacts. Wasn't doing good job of documenting its interaction with TypeScript. TypeScript was not doing a good job of documenting reacts. So I came in and did the intersection. And I think what that experience taught me was that was that, that, that became a community and a repo of knowledge.[00:11:45] And that was more That compounded way better than a set of individual blog posts, because that has like a individual like decay in terms of the value. So it just like, you'd rather choose to have this one asset that you just compound in value over time, rather than this this blog where you just have little bit little bits and impulses of value as you put up blog posts.[00:12:06] And I think. That comparison between open source knowledge that you have some sort of like, obviously the most successful examples, Wikipedia that one spot where everyone just funnels in and contributes knowledge and builds up the best example, best single example. One thing is actually more valuable than a series of one-off events.[00:12:25] So I think, I've taken too many words to explain that, but I think that's the rough gist of it. So  that's Principles. [00:12:30] Principles are things that you should always default to in absence of anything else. But a lot of the times you also have to think about the strategy of like, you're learning your career and your technology.[00:12:41]And those are the ways in which I want to encourage people to think more strategically instead of following whatever preset plans that you see other people that you do. Like you need to take more ownership of your career, right? And so, in terms of learning strategy I talked a little bit about this concept of learning gears, how you should behave differently based on the type of things that you're trying to learn.[00:13:01]When you, the way that you learn when you don't know, what you don't know is very different. That's your Explorer gear is very different from the way that you learn when you know things that others don't know. That's your teaching gear, your connector gear. Even that's even more different from the way that you behave when you find something that is super important, that you're obsessed by.[00:13:18]And no one else was working on it. So you're diving deep into something that nobody else does and that's valuable. So that's like your it's also, I always think about it as your builder gear. These are all just like different ways of different modes of learning, but it gives you permission to behave differently.[00:13:34] So, it's like a short hand as far as people who do this are concerned to, to convey like The kind of outputs and commitment level that they should be that they should be adopting. So for example, Explorer, like nobody really expects that much from explorers. Explorers are just putting out in those to themselves.[00:13:49] Whereas miners are putting out infrastructure R and D communities and they build the build up things to last years and on the auto years in careers, which is pretty. I guess like a fundamental insight for people who are, who have dabbled in all of these things and they viewed them all.[00:14:03] It's the same thing. They're not they're they really differ based on the kind of gear that you're into. The other thing I think in terms of like, people's specializing a lot of people. Debating this idea of specialist versus generalist and everyone basically converges on this idea of a T-shaped model employee.[00:14:19]This is from the valve handbook. So if you see this a lot, that's where it actually comes from the makers of half-life. And I tend to not be very inspired by this, basically, because it's not useful. Like everyone is some form of T-shaped employee. So. We're all, especially as in some ways in journalists and others.[00:14:34] And I think the more insightful thing is where to be on technologies. So I don't have a slate here for that. But essentially we can get into that if you're interested in my thoughts on that career strategy did you know that a lot of companies actually publish their career ladders in public?[00:14:49] So what if you just went through and studied every career ladder out there and that's exactly what I did. So here's the. The spreadsheet. I might also just share it with you cause I'm not publishing into this just yet. So, you're actually the first to see this. Cause I figured why not? I'll just share it with you.[00:15:07]What have we just went through and. Every career ladder of every company. And we tried to see what was the similarities among the different levels. And you can see, you can start to plan out a roadmap for yourself in terms of your personal development. So that's essentially what we did over here in this research project.[00:15:22] And that's what I wrote up in, in the chapter on career ladders, but it's, you can see how, like, it's hard to put in any concrete terms whatsoever some uniforms. General theory or career of coding careers. Except when people actually specifically lay out their ladders.[00:15:40]And you can do something like this where you can just normalize them across all the different companies. So it's an interesting, it's an interesting exercise and it definitely gives you a map of what your career could look like. Over a super long-term like we're talking. 10 20 years. And so this is, these are not the kind of conversations that you normally have, but I think it's worth having.[00:15:59] Right. So, that's what you think about when you think sort to think strategically then the last bit of strategy, I also want to want people to think about the business of software, like the business of tech, how money is made from your tech. Yeah. And that directly affects the way the companies you choose to work at the projects you choose to work at within a company, the technologies that you choose to bet on the technologies you use day to day, these are all effected by tech strategy decisions.[00:16:24]So we talk a little bit about the difference between horizontal versus vertical industry. It's like all industries start vertical and then the horizontal lines as they specialize. And then we talk about business models as well, like agencies, advertising subscriptions. Basically a lot of things start vertical and then they split out.[00:16:39] So here's the famous chart of how Craigslist is being split out into all these different small startups and all of them are worth like billions, each. We also talk about mega trends like gaming. So, one of, one of the things that, I mean, you guys are probably more aware too, because you're in that demographic.[00:16:55] Whereas I guess people in my generation and older you not be that aware of is. The sheer explosion in terms of the gaming industry is unmatched compared to all the other media industries. And there are strong reasons for that, and I can go into, and I can even go into why. But it's, if you view all these industries as the same, like working for Spotify is the same thing as working for a 10 cent or what's the other gaming company that I'm blanking on right now.[00:17:20]Whatever  th these industries are performing differently and I think it's it behooves you to bet strategic strategically based on the industry. If you care about these things in terms of your own career the other thing I think to be aware of. This sort of tech adoption curves.[00:17:35] So we talk a little bit about crossing the chasm, like th those classics. But also the fact that technology adoption is accelerating. Like it took us this long to adopt a telephone. But now we are, we're adopting technology at a much faster rate in terms of your population percentages.[00:17:49] So these are all very interesting ideas that people really talk about when it comes to. And I'm not going to talk about this Wardley mapping. Okay. And then last part is tactics. I think people are always interested in like small things that they can do to improve. So I collect for example this list of of nice design tips developers always interested in design tips.[00:18:08] I'm not the best at design myself, but I think if I can. Spend like five minutes to like, bump up the look of my thing that increases the people who who, who will try my stuff out. And their enjoyment of my products then that will be that's actually a very high ROI activity to do.[00:18:23]There's also this idea of like, there's also sort of workplace tactics that you can employ. So for example, when you're When, like you're, we're often told that knowledge is power, but sometimes we can actually turn ignorance into power as well. And that's a lot of what I call lab shading, like, just call calling attention to your biggest weakness so that no one else can and then making that into a strength because of your position your positional advantage.[00:18:45] For example, if you're very junior or you're very senior, you're allowed to not know things. And I think that fundamental assumption helped me a lot in my first job.  And then writing's like brings a huge skill for just compounding your learning in your knowledge and your reach.[00:18:57]Part of the reason I'm speaking to you today at all is because I wrote I've wrote, I've written a bunch of stuff. And I think the way that people view writing is they don't take it very seriously. Right. It is, if you intend to be a knowledge worker at all, you need to store your knowledge and you need to scale your knowledge.[00:19:13] And a lot of that takes place through writing because it's the most scalable medium compared to everything else. So that's that's what we, that's what we have in terms of like writing strategy. I can go into more detail about this as well, but I don't want to bombard you with too much.[00:19:25]And then I think the last piece that I always touch on that strikes a quarter of a lot of developers is that they need to market themselves. And it's very much, I think people are aware of the idea that if you build it, they may not come like a lot of developers have this idea that.[00:19:38] Okay. When I, whenever I do any project to do any startup I'm just going to do a bunch of code first. And then at the end, I'm going to poke out a full code of my hole and just say, all right, it's done. And then you get crickets. Cause no, cause nobody knows what you work on and you haven't spent any time on the marketing.[00:19:54] It's the same thing with regards to your own coding skills. If you just become the best coder that you can possibly be, but you'd never spend any time on marketing yourself. No one is no, one's going to know how awesome you are. So you shouldn't use, you do owe it to yourself a little bit to to market yourself in public and network.[00:20:09]So that's and that's that I also, I, I end the book with the Coda for sustainable careers. So I think a lot of there's a lot of, I guess, developers struggle with burnout in our industry. And we need to have a way to pick up all these loose ends and into tied in together into something that, that unifies the full stack of what we are from, our our personal selves to all, to the, to other people's image of us.[00:20:31]I think, imagine, and the way I pitched this is that we need to have an operation, the system that runs all these principles, strategies, and tactics. So these are all like applications of what we are, but even if we had the answer to everything the reason that we don't actually benefit as much as others from them is because we don't have a system to implement them, to make them to meet that as effective as possible.[00:20:51]So I actually ended up with a low call to action to take care of, the small things like the like, well, small, but huge health. Yeah. You're your own personal scheduler. You're your internal model innovation and drive. These are all important things that I think are. Essential.[00:21:05] And I've given a separate talk on that. It's called the operating system of you. And I think, we should all think about how we deal with unlimited applications, but limited resources. And that's essentially what operators is operating systems do. And we could start, we could take our learnings from how, we, I think we've developed with science, how how operating systems do that.[00:21:23] And we could take that learning and apply it on how we govern our own lives. And I think that's a very interesting analogy that we can explore as well. I've been talking nonstop for half an hour. But that's the idea, that's the book, right? If you want to go check it out, there's four free chapters on there.[00:21:37]That give you more of a sense. But I'm not here to sell the book. I'm here to have a real chat with you on whatever topic you want. My time is yours and yeah I'm happy to take it.[00:21:46] Q&A [00:21:46] If you've worked with junior developers, what's the biggest mistake you see them making and how would you go about solving it if you were in their shoes?[00:21:54] Yeah. So biggest mistake I think is pretending, is feeling like you have to pretend, more than you do. It just kinda, it was just the idea of lamp shading, which is the sense of you're a junior developer, you want to show that you have value and you are competent.[00:22:13] So when people ask you to do stuff, or w if people ask you that, whether you understand stuff you say that you do that actually like people will take care of your word and they'll trust that, you know what you're talking about. And if you, if it turns out that you don't, or you, it turns out that you're missing knowledge in some way, There's two things that happen.[00:22:30] Like one is you you miss out on a teaching opportunity. Like people teaching you things that you already know, like that's actually not the worst thing in the world. But it's probably true that they'll teach you something that you don't know, or they presented to you in a new light.[00:22:45] I think that's a very valuable sort of. Experience to have. And then the other thing is that you lose trust. If you start to present yourself as more competent than you, then you are I think it's better to be, to lampshade your vulnerability and say like, I have some awareness of this, but it's only theoretical.[00:23:01] I haven't really worked with it in production. And like, can you walk me through this, the stuff that I should know. And just being humble enough to admit that, like that, you're. You don't know, everything is a very good learning strategy in general, but especially for junior engineers, because do you knowing that like you're not at risk.[00:23:18]And I think people feel very vulnerable, especially when they start out, but that is when you're the most invulnerable because it's their job to take that responsibility on. So, make the most of it. Cause you don't get much of a shot afterwards, I don't get much of a shot for that these days.[00:23:33]Prevents you a tree. It's an amazing analogy. Okay. Yeah. Totally right. Like everything that we apply and translate machine learning all the way down to operating systems. These are general rules that we've systematized and we have the algorithms, we have the source code.[00:23:47] That's amazing compared to. The fuzziness of the human world. And I think if we can take those general rules and apply to our world, I think those are just generally very interesting insights. Because those are clean systems and then we apply them down to the messy systems that we are.[00:24:03] What should be the aim when job hunting big companies or startups? It's up to you? So I I, I have, I actually have three categories when I talk about the job hunting section big companies, startups and agencies. Obviously, I think I do. I do agree that agencies tend to be the most challenging, but these are all, these are good starting points.[00:24:19] I've seen people be extremely successful. All of them personally I have a preference for, because so, for me it was it was down to Google or to Sigma. When I had my first job in two sandwiches, made a better offer.  Big companies give, generally tend to have a better junior training program.[00:24:35]And they have a brand name which makes your subsequent hires. Your subsequent job moves easier. Whereas startups and agencies don't have that cachet with them, although they may give you more generalist learning opportunities because you're more responsibility because of the downside of yes they may pay well they may have better resources, but then you might be a cog in the wheel and not do very much.[00:24:56] Which is a risk. Okay. So if you had the knowledge you have today, back when you started, what would you have focused on getting better at first? Oh wow. I gotta think on that one. Holy crap. Getting better, I think. Hm. I think getting better at shipping projects. I'm not very good. And like I'll straight up admit that I'm not very good at shipping projects from end to end.[00:25:19] Like I can do, I can take down a JIRA ticket and, knock out an issue. And that's like a one day to one week affair, but to work on something for like three months and be responsible for the entire stack for them. Hello world, all the way to the market marketing and taking payments and customer support.[00:25:35]That's something that I've only done once in my life, like right now. And I learned so much during that process and I think, I wish I did a lot more of that, like shipping side projects a lot more. That's something that. I've done a little bit of in, in terms of, I think one way to level up is to clone open source apps.[00:25:49]And mainly that's because you get a chance to compare your implementation with other people's implementation. And then also you might get the maintainers of those applications to review your work, which they have for me. And that's free learning. And I think I didn't really get that until I traded a couple of times, it's a lot of work. But I would definitely, if I had more time, I'll do that. [00:26:06] Can you expand more on the differences between being a junior software engineer and finance to Sigma versus tech? Okay. So just to be clear I was in finance in in different companies when I was in two Sigma. I was a software engineer, but when I was in finance, I was a trader.[00:26:21] I was an investment banker well trader and analyst junior software engineer in finance, reverse tech. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know how to talk about this one. So it's too general for me to give you a good answer. Like Fang itself is a massive fricking category, right? You've got Facebook on one end and you've got AWS on the other end and they have very different audiences. So Fang itself is too huge to generalize.[00:26:43] And it's just not a great question. So, I don't spend too much time thinking about that. Since he came from finance, how do you find breaking into tech? If you don't have contacts, do you have any advice in terms of contacting real people or companies to show yourself in the best light possible?[00:26:54] I'm not sure. Cold calling recruitment email addresses are the best thing to do, actually that can help cold calling. Let me show you this cold email that I found from the edit the other day, cold email, cold emailing.[00:27:06]This guy directly cold email. Oh God. This guy directly called emailed Evan Spiegel, the CEO of Snapchat. And he just made it right to the point. So I'm going to call this told email textbook cold email. So that's check that out for Colby bill. I mean, I don't have a lot of advice on that front because I got lucky.[00:27:28] I, did a boot camp in New York and at the end of the bootcamp, they have a hiring day. And the first person I sat down with on hiring day, that was the first, that was the two, my my hiring manager to Sigma. And it turned out that I got the job with her after two months of back and forth.[00:27:44] But We all have different stories breaking into tech. Mine was just straight out careers or career transition through a bootcamp. So we all have different stories. And I think networking is always a great way, but like as long as you can pitch yourself in some unique way, that's that makes you stand out.[00:27:59] I think that gets you in front of the door faster than other people. We are in a very weird time right now, where there have been a lot of laid up layoffs. And so there's a lot of senior software engineer talent from places like Airbnb and Uber that will crowd out some of the more senior level positions.[00:28:13]But I don't think you should be that wording for where you are at. And the other thing that you should always be aware of is that, the general demand for software in the past three to four months has done. In, in, in every category from e-commerce to social networking, to, to sort of office software, I don't know what you call it, but so there's a huge demand for software engineers. You're in a great time to be in software stick it out. [00:28:31] How easy or hard is it to change your field? Seeing clients who is both Korea and software development in three or four years down the line, you said Jeff one field together. I don't know anything about AI. So I'm not going to comment about that.[00:28:45] I think just as a general software engineer, you have a very flexible skillset and that's a blessing compared to other industries. Like I have friends who are lawyers and doctors and they're not as transferable as we are. So yeah. It's good. It's easy. I'd say that. Our salon, do you prefer crash courses over official documentation to quickly catch up?[00:29:03]Yeah. So this is something I have a strong opinion on. So think about the levels of learning a very simple sort of. Tiers of learning is like three tiers, like beginner, intermediate and advanced. Okay. Beginners need the quickest way to get from, to get to hello world. Right? Like to get from zero to something productive.[00:29:21]Advanced people only need the diffs. Right. I know what I know. I know the state of the art, just let me know. What's changed. The intermediate people are the people who actually know. To fill in all the gaps and they don't like, they may feel too confident. They may feel they may, they may just not know everything that they should know.[00:29:37] So. You take a crash course if you're a beginner, but the, you take the official documentation or the source code if you're intermediate and I always encourage people if you want to go, if you want to really level up do like do the hard work of like read technical books from cover to cover and look out for the stuff that isn't covered that much.[00:29:52] And people are like, not even really willing to talk about that much because it's an unresolved issue. That's where you you actually find the most opportunity for growth and Deep investigation. Yeah. What do you think about product management and how would the graduate set of career path aim towards that?[00:30:06] Yeah, so I actually have a chapter on, beyond a coding career. So something that maybe is not so obvious is that a lot of people actually graduated from coding to non-coding. And whether that's engineering management or product management or being a founder of being instructor or whatever.[00:30:20]These are all these all, interesting career paths. Product management. So, I think something on the order of 60% of PMs are former software engineer. So you're actually, you actually well-served, if you are a software engineer Quite well of it and well-run companies.[00:30:35] And I think quite poorly of product management at shitty companies mainly because I was at a startup that had PMs where the PMs would basically glorified project managers. So, part of pro product management is also project management where you're corralling software engineers to fit towards some kind of business goals.[00:30:52]And a lot of the times, if you're not really con if you're, if your software teams are not really jelling or working well with you then you're just scheduling weekly updates, asking if if they're delivering there or not or if you're not being empowered by your upper management.[00:31:06] Then you're just executing on someone else's vision and you're not really being CEO of the product, which is the selling point of product management. And the other thing I think it's is the problem with product management is that you're given, it's what they call it.[00:31:17] You're given all of the risks, all of the responsibility, but none of the authority, which means that nobody reports to you, but you have to, but you're responsible for the P and L right. And you have to wrangle by charm or begging other departments to work with you to deliver some shared goals.[00:31:32] So there's a lot of like, I guess, political navigation that they may need to do. That's like the cynical view or you might, you might view that as like the buck stops with you in terms of like where where this sort of product or business unit goes. And you need to be able to be able to work with, senior engineers and other senior engineers marketing.[00:31:50]Design whatever to to deliver something that users will love. So probably mentioned is like a very multi-disciplinary thing. But you're going to be well-served if you start off on the software side of things how would it graduate set of career path into ours that like study strategy, study tech strategy?[00:32:05]The stuff that I covered very briefly in terms of business models of tech what's the horizontal versus vertical stuff like that. I can give you a lot more resources. Just email me. I'm just a type in my email over here. Cause I care a lot about strategy as well. So, just email me more questions about product management and I'll set you on the right path in terms of links and resources delivering projects early versus enforcing quality.[00:32:24] Which one do you prefer? Does AWS have a priority among them? So I'm only two months into AWS, so I don't really have a good sense. The real trade-offs. I know what they say, but I always, I'm always mindful of the difference between what people say they do and what they actually do. What they actually do.[00:32:40] Well, what they say they do. Is that there is a high level of quality enforcement. So, and this goes down all the way down to docs, to tests to thinking about the different edge cases. And because AWS has a million products, a lot of that is the comment torics of like, I want to ship this new feature, but how is that going to work with these other a hundred different features as well?[00:33:00]So to me, that's high quality that you have to think of all these use cases. The other thing about high quality is that once you ship something, you have to maintain it. It always never deprecates anything. So that's the other thing that you got to think about forward compatibility as well?[00:33:13]I prefer delivering early and often, but then iterating continuously. So I don't think that's like a strict, trade-off like either early or it's good. You can deliver early and then iterate until it's good. So, it's really up to you.What's the best or correct way of approaching a recruiter slash employee to get a referral?[00:33:32]Hm. So this used to be easier in the days before COVID where you could actually ask someone to to, have a coffee or take a walk with you. I in New York, it's really nice to ask people out for walks because then you're not sitting all the time. You're actually out and about and enjoying the outdoors, especially now.[00:33:51]During COVID it's a little bit harder. Sometimes you might just need to schedule a zoom chat and in the mattress we have half an hour, like, tell me about what you do. I'll let you know your day in the life and like how the company works and all that. I actually tend to encourage people to not to get, not to be too zeroed in on this referral because they're going to offer it to you.[00:34:10]Most like it, it doesn't cost us anything. And. And so they're the referrals, the easy part, the difficult part is really understanding what they do so that you have good answers when you go through the interview process and when you have to decide on which job to take and yeah, referrals don't cost anything, like everyone, everyone can refer pretty easily.[00:34:28] So that's not the, that's not the issue. The issue is really understanding on a fundamental level, what they do and figuring out whether that's something that you want to work on.  When hiring someone and looking at OSS contributions, how would you rate it from very different projects are more well-known? Friday's considered more highly, or does it depend on how technically sophisticated the project is, or it makes a different factors.[00:34:48] Wow. Big questions. So at a very simple level, if it's a project that the company already uses, or I already. Then I'm going to read that more just because I'm more familiar with it. And it's almost like a gratefulness thing. Like thank you for working on something that I use. And I've seen this, I have a quote from Josh Goldberg at teachable who says that any, like anyone who's contributed to in a non-trivial way to a project that they use at work gets an interview from him.[00:35:14]And yeah, it's just something that people don't explain enough. Well, first of all, it's not easy to contribute to something like a Webpack or TypeScript. But if you do it, it's not that hard. It's not easy. It's not hard. It's just not trivial. Okay. And but if you do it then that stands very well with with people when hiring OSS contributions.[00:35:30]But at the same time, it's something that you have to surface during your cover letter or your resume, because I am not going to go through your GitHub and dig through every contribution of yours. Like you have to tell me. So just be aware of that. Like nobody has time to dig through your GitHub.[00:35:42] No, one's paying attention to that much. Just like the other guy said  from Google Just have three. I just have a perfect thing, a good thing, like a complete thing. And then one of a story. And I think that's a good sort of spanning minimum spending. It's tree, is that a tree or whatever it means minimum spending set of of achievements.[00:36:00]And if it's open source that they use, then that's even better. Big, like, so, I went, my first sort of big open-source contribution was react and and that it's impressive, but at the same time, it takes a long while. And actually, the reactant here is now let's say like, don't do that.[00:36:16]Go contribute to the smaller open source project. They actually need help rather than piling in on the big one that everyone wants to help in on. And yeah. So it's up to you what strategy you want to pursue, but definitely open sources is a good and hiring approach method.[00:36:29]Provence shoe, w would you deliver a feature with hacky implementation or delay in order to do quality? You? I just said that like, Make it work, then make it right. Then make it fast. Right. In that order cutout. We'll cut again. What's the benefit of a random employee spending the time on you for referral or talk about their job? I feel like it's one sided for the student.[00:36:47]  Like I'm yeah. I'm a random employee and I'm spending more time with you. I'm paying it forward. I hope that, you will do this for people, in, in future. Because I care about. New people coming into our industry. I care about people having healthy approaches to the career.[00:37:04]There's a lot of hustle in in our career that causes burnout. There's a lot of bad advice out there. So I'm trying to do my bit, so I dunno, it's just more like, sometimes you want to have a nice conversation with people who are eager about. Sometimes you meet, you may feel a little bit like too in the weeds with people who have so much context every day, and sometimes he might just have like a nice one-off conversation with someone.[00:37:28]Who's super interested in everything you say and that's very flattering. So, yeah, it's not too hard to make that justification. Yeah, I think that's it for questions. Is there any additional questions we still have about five or six? Perfect. There we go. Some are coming in. I know.[00:37:44]It's super interesting. I mean, feel free to like, I don't know. I'm mute and ask this yourself. Cause I'm reading both sides. How do you ask developers for conversations about their job or guidance? Just straight, email. Email's good. Like if you know them, if you like know them by like a friend of a friend, then yeah.[00:38:02] Do that. But if not just call email or Twitter, like you like be prepared to get ignored. I'm not saying you won't get ignored, but like it, that is the best way. Yeah. And also like, be able to pitch yourself like refer to that cold email person, but then also there's  that, that person so like be able to pitch yourself in a very short form, right?[00:38:22] Like what you want and like who you are, what you want and how they can help you. Right. And like the more specific you're asked the better it is for people to help you. So let me try to pass this along to you, Vinny and share a tip.  Stand alone. I mean, one second. I'm going to, I'm going to pass you this so you can pitch yourself so pitch yourself as you go.[00:38:45] Okay. Cartek how do I approach about the referral at the end of the conversation though? Like, Hey, we talked and stuff and I'll give job  It most just mentioned the word referral some somewhere in your conversation and they'll pick up on that. If they don't want to refer you, then they won't offer.[00:39:01]And you can take that hint and just, that conversation probably didn't go that well. Otherwise like, yeah, like, like again, it's. Sometimes. So it's so yeah. So first of all, just like, make sure you mentioned referral at somewhere in the conversation and they'll pick up on that, that you're also trying to get a referral.[00:39:18] Well, like again, like. The sole purpose of the conversation, right? You genuinely want to learn and you genuinely want to have feel for future conversations, like one other really good thing to get out. Like, even if you do not get a referral one other really good question that you can ask at the end of a conversation like that is who else should I talk to and have them refer you to their other friends or.[00:39:39]People who are a better fit to talk to you to talk to your interests and mining the social graph rather than just getting that system referral because that's that's, that's one referral, but like having more people actually speak up for you that's also very valuable.[00:39:52] do you prepare for data structure and algorithms for job interviews? Is there a fun way for that? I don't know if there's a fun way you can game-ify it, with with points and stuff. I was. Friend slash beta tester of algo expert.io before they were famous. And that has like a nice completion system, which is nice.[00:40:10]So long story short, I did, I spent two to three hours a day on that. And I'll be honest. Like I only used it at my Google interviews, every other interview, every other job that I interviewed at didn't really use. Traditional algos and data structures. They, the sort of technical interviews, but it wasn't like, right.[00:40:29]Men heap or something, like it wasn't that sort of classical textbook algorithm stuff. It was just more applied on to specific problems. So fun way for that. Not really just know that you are actually going to have some points in your career where you actually use this knowledge.[00:40:44] It's not just for interviews and that day will come and you will be thankful for that. You studied this stuff. And to me, that makes it fun. Nice pizza. What do you think about referrals? What does that mean? Nice pizza. Yeah, sure. Okay. Yeah. Mentioning referrals. Got it. Yeah. Cool. Yeah that's I think that's that for my answers look like I, I'm not, I don't know if I have the best answers, but feel free to have that conversation with me.[00:41:06] Like, email me, I'm happy to answer. I may not answer right away. And I tend to try to answer it in public. My answer with, you can be shared with other people who have the same question. But I strongly believe that, I think we need to have more conversations like this from people who've, are a few years into our process to people just starting out.[00:41:23]So that's why I'm here. Thanks, Leah. Bye. Thanks for having me. Nice day.

Guest Jordan Harband Panelists Eric Berry | Justin Dorfman | Alyssa Wright | Richard Littauer Show Notes Hello and welcome to Sustain! We are all very excited to have as our guest today, Jordan Harband, referred to as “Mr. Perfect” by the panelists! He is a longtime open source enthusiast, maintainer, coder, works at Coinbase, a TC39 Delegate, and heavily involved with Node for years. Today, Jordan gives us his perspective of being a maintainer of repositories and code. We find out how he is so successful at being a maintainer of so many open source projects, how he deals with ethics, how to ethically license your stuff, and how he handles hundreds of repos which he helps maintain. Jordan tells us what he’s doing to help other people out and shares some tips to a path if you’re interested in becoming more experienced. Download this episode now to find out much more and to get some fresh inspiration! [00:01:39] Jordan tells us how he got started with Node. [00:03:42] Justin wonders how Jordan maintains all of his notifications that he has and how does he deal with it. Also, he tells us if sponsorship plays a part of him having that passion and not getting overwhelmed which is why he’s so successful. [00:09:23] Jordan explains how he is nowhere close enough in terms of revenue stream from sponsorships to be able to consider quitting a job and working full-time on open source. [00:11:34] Richard brings up a book called, Drive by Daniel Pink, and wonders how Jordan chooses which open source projects to invest in and how does he feel like they’re actually giving him value because you’re making something that’s meaningful to you. [00:14:06] Justin asks Jordan if IE6 will ever die. [00:16:32] Jordan explains how to deal with ethics and open source, and how to ethically license your stuff. Richard wonders what he thinks the ethical obligations are of the maintainer who has a package. [00:20:29] Richard wonders since Jordan has hundreds of repos which he helps maintain, and how he deals with deciding to take on more work. [00:21:35] We find out what Jordan’s involvement is with the Airbnb JavaScript Style Guide. [00:24:08] Jordan shares advice to somebody who is just starting out in open source looking to build in a sustainable way for themselves and for the code they’re making. [00:27:05] Eric asks Jordan if he ever considered setting up a counselling program for open source maintainers since he seems to have it all figured out. Also, Jordan shares when he had a challenging moment in his life. [00:32:33] Richard wonders if Jordan is doing anything to systematically change open source to make sure that other people also have the opportunities to work on open source if they want to, he shares what he is doing, and mentions one of the programs he’s involved with called Major League Hacking. [00:36:37] Find out where you can follow Jordan along with his “perfectness.” Quotes [00:04:05] “I try to treat those notifications in an asynchronous manner so that I’m not, like I don’t have any push notifications set up for those things, so it’s not bothering me when I’m doing something else, whether that’s doing coding or other work, or whether that’s spending time with family or friends.” [00:06:14] “None of the parts of my career have been specifically for my open source projects.” [00:07:01] “The rise of sponsorship models, Tidelift, Open Collective, GitHub sponsors, etc.., what that does to me is it’s a demonstration of interest and appreciation in a way that is more concrete than someone clicking a GitHub emoji, giving me kinda invisible internet points. It’s something concrete.” [00:08:02] “The ability of someone to contribute even a dollar, five dollars a month is a concrete gesture that for the majority of people is actually really significant.” [00:08:12] “There’s that whole concept of how, when a very wealthy person will donate a large amount of money to a charitable cause and then a number of people point out that in terms of the percentage of their net worth, it’s actually like you giving three dollars, and it’s still meaningful because it’s three hundred million dollars, but it’s much more significant I think when an individual gives sixty dollars a year, which is like my lowest tier on GitHub sponsors is five dollars, so if somebody is paying sixty dollars a year for most people that’s something, that’s significant.” [00:09:53] “It’s not life changing, as I said, in the sense of paying my bills or not, but it would be life changing in a sense that I would be able to consider, well, I love my job, but do I love my job more than I would love working full-time on open source.” [00:13:46] “So there is a trade-off there, but the upside is that ninety-eight of those packages need three minutes of maintenance every five years.” [00:14:30] “But I think there are a lot of engineers that are frustrated supporting old environments, old Node versions, or old browsers, and it sort of violates a sense of aesthetics to have to deal with that messiness.” [00:14:59] “And whenever people talk about dropping browser support they talk about percentages, but .01% of internet users is like the population of this country or something like that, I don’t know, I haven’t done the math. I’m probably off by a factor of ten or a hundred or something, but it’s still a significant number of human beings.” [00:24:27] “One is remember that code is not the only important thing. Even just updating docs and READMEs and tutorials and things on projects is immensely valuable, and you don’t have to have any expertise in programming, necessarily, to be able to do that. So, there’s lots of ways you can get familiar with a project without touching any code at all.” [00:26:50] “And so, in the same way I think that for oneself, knowing your own behavior patterns and what is a good fit for you and what works well for your life and your mental health and so on, is probably the most effective tool to making sure that happens.” Spotlight [00:37:23] Eric’s spotlight is a GitHub project called the README project. [00:37:59] Justin’ spotlight is a funny woman on Twitter called Alexis Gay, who does hilarious Bay area tweets. [00:38:37] Alyssa’s spotlights are acknowledging one year of COVID lockdown, LISTSERV, and watching Coming 2 America. [00:39:20] Richard’s spotlight is a book by Daniel Pink called Drive. [00:39:38] Jordan’s spotlight is Tidelift. Links Jordan Harband Twitter (https://twitter.com/ljharb?lang=en) Jordan Harband Linkedin (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ljharb/) Jordan Harband GitHub (https://github.com/ljharb) Coinbase (https://www.coinbase.com/) Tidelift- How Jordan Harband maintains hundreds of npm packages (https://blog.tidelift.com/how-jordan-harband-maintains-hundreds-of-npm-packages) globalThis-ECMAScript Proposal-GitHib (https://github.com/tc39/proposal-global) MLH-Major League Hacking (https://mlh.io/) Airbnb JavaScript Style Guide (https://github.com/airbnb/javascript) The ReadME Project-Maintaining kindness and commits by Jordan Harband (https://github.com/readme/jordan-harband) Alexis Gay-Twitter (video) (https://twitter.com/yayalexisgay/status/1369346460911734784) LISTSERV (http://www.lsoft.com/products/listserv.asp) Coming 2 America (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6802400/) [Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink](https://www.amazon.com/Drive-Surprising-Truth-About-Motivates/dp/1594484805/ref=sr14?dchild=1&keywords=daniel+pink&qid=1615855737&sr=8-4) Tidelift (https://tidelift.com/) Sustain (https://sustainoss.org/) Credits Produced by Richard Littauer (https://www.burntfen.com/) Edited by Paul M. Bahr at Peachtree Sound (https://www.peachtreesound.com/) Show notes by DeAnn Bahr at Peachtree Sound (https://www.peachtreesound.com/) Special Guest: Jordan Harband.

Rob recently participated in an event that taught students about blockchain with our partners at Major League Hacking. This presentation is a great way to get introduced to blockchain technology and the Horizen ecosystem. Video version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lEHUIZh2LU Every Monday at 3:30PM UTC/11:30AM EST Horizen gives a LIVE update on Discord including a Q&A session with the community.  Weekly Insider detailed chat channel in Discord: https://horizen.io/invite/discord March 29, 2021, Weekly team updates from the following divisions: * Engineering * Node network * Product/UX * Customer service/Helpdesk * Legal * Business development * Marketing * CEO closing thoughts * 5 mins Q&A stZEN launched on Ethereum mainnet and SushiSwap  ZEN 2.0.23 released Rosetta 0.0.5-1 released with ZEN 2.0.23 updates New research paper released: Latus Incentive Scheme: Enabling Decentralization in Blockchains based on Recursive SNARKs ZEN 2.0.22 deprecation on block #920000 (April 22nd) Horizen is an exciting cryptocurrency with a solid technological foundation, unique capabilities, an active and capable team, ongoing funding for improvements, and a large, positive, encouraging community. ZEN is available and trading now on Bittrex, Binance, Changelly, and more, has wallets available that implement advanced private transaction and messaging capability and has a strong roadmap. The goal of Horizen is to create a usable private cryptocurrency operating on a resilient system for people and businesses worldwide, enabling the daily use of private transactions, messaging, and publishing everywhere, all the time. Store: https://store.horizen.io Merchant Directory: https://horizen.io/merchants Horizen Nodes: https://horizen.io/zennodes Horizen Academy: https://academy.horizen.io/ Reference: Horizen Website – https://www.horizen.io Horizen Blog – https://blog.horizen.io Horizen Discord - https://horizen.io/invite/discord Horizen Github – https://github.com/HorizenOfficial Horizen Forum – https://forum.horizen.io/ Horizen Twitter – https://twitter.com/horizenglobal Horizen Telegram – https://horizen.io/invite/telegram Horizen on Bitcointalk – https://goo.gl/5vicqP Horizen YouTube Channel – https://www.youtube.com/c/Horizen/ Horizen Facebook Page – https://www.facebook.com/horizenglobal/ Horizen on Instagram - https://instagram.com/horizenglobal Horizen Blog on Medium – https://medium.com/@horizen Buy or Sell Horizen Horizen on CoinMarketCap – https://bit.ly/ZENCoinMarketCap Horizen on CoinGecko – https://bit.ly/ZENCoinGecko StakedZEN on CoinGecko - http://bit.ly/stZENCoinGecko                                      

Rob recently participated in an event that taught students about blockchain with our partners at Major League Hacking. This presentation is a great way to get introduced to blockchain technology and the Horizen ecosystem. Video version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oU8EnEmrgA Every Monday at 3:30PM UTC/11:30AM EST Horizen gives a LIVE update on Discord including a Q&A session with the community.  Weekly Insider detailed chat channel in Discord: https://horizen.io/invite/discord March 29, 2021, Weekly team updates from the following divisions: * Engineering * Node network * Product/UX * Customer service/Helpdesk * Legal * Business development * Marketing * CEO closing thoughts * 5 mins Q&A stZEN launched on Ethereum mainnet and SushiSwap  ZEN 2.0.23 released Rosetta 0.0.5-1 released with ZEN 2.0.23 updates New research paper released: Latus Incentive Scheme: Enabling Decentralization in Blockchains based on Recursive SNARKs ZEN 2.0.22 deprecation on block #920000 (April 22nd) Horizen is an exciting cryptocurrency with a solid technological foundation, unique capabilities, an active and capable team, ongoing funding for improvements, and a large, positive, encouraging community. ZEN is available and trading now on Bittrex, Binance, Changelly, and more, has wallets available that implement advanced private transaction and messaging capability and has a strong roadmap. The goal of Horizen is to create a usable private cryptocurrency operating on a resilient system for people and businesses worldwide, enabling the daily use of private transactions, messaging, and publishing everywhere, all the time. Store: https://store.horizen.io Merchant Directory: https://horizen.io/merchants Horizen Nodes: https://horizen.io/zennodes Horizen Academy: https://academy.horizen.io/ Reference: Horizen Website – https://www.horizen.io Horizen Blog – https://blog.horizen.io Horizen Discord - https://horizen.io/invite/discord Horizen Github – https://github.com/HorizenOfficial Horizen Forum – https://forum.horizen.io/ Horizen Twitter – https://twitter.com/horizenglobal Horizen Telegram – https://horizen.io/invite/telegram Horizen on Bitcointalk – https://goo.gl/5vicqP Horizen YouTube Channel – https://www.youtube.com/c/Horizen/ Horizen Facebook Page – https://www.facebook.com/horizenglobal/ Horizen on Instagram - https://instagram.com/horizenglobal Horizen Blog on Medium – https://medium.com/@horizen Buy or Sell Horizen Horizen on CoinMarketCap – https://bit.ly/ZENCoinMarketCap Horizen on CoinGecko – https://bit.ly/ZENCoinGecko StakedZEN on CoinGecko - http://bit.ly/stZENCoinGecko                                      

Jacklyn Biggin is a Senior Developer at the Royal Bank of Canada. Jacklyn studied Digital Media at the University of Leeds in the UK, and in March of 2020 at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic she founded and was the lead organizer of Hack Quarantine, a 3-week online hackathon with thousands of participants. Today, in addition to working at RBC she is everyone’s favorite hackathon coach and creates awesome content for Major League Hacking. Shownotes: Follow Jacklyn on Twitter (https://twitter.com/JackBiggin), connect with her on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jackbiggin/) and subscribe to her YouTube channel (http://dontforgettolikeandsubscribe.com/) Get your limited edition GrizzTech Talks sticker at https://forms.gle/fPzYAZkUmqud8HzB6.

Our guest today is Chris Gu - a creator in the Augmented Reality space. With more +5 Billion impressions on his Instagram filters, he is most known for his "which dog breed r u?" and "guess the gibberish" filters. Chris is also a mentor for Major League Hacking, a scholar/fellow for various companies and accelerators across the globe, and a Product Manager at a Tech company. We discuss his journey of becoming a Computer Scientist, how to attend multiple company sponsored events across the globe for free, best ways to break into the Tech Industry, and future trends in Augmented Reality. Hope you enjoy, and please leave a rating on the episode! Recorded on 1/27/21 Link to his work: https://stell-ar.com/#work Special shoutout to Joakim Karud for the background music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_h6wLJZWC4

Jarek Wojciechowsk is a Software Consultant & Developer at Atomic Object. Jarek studied computer science at Oakland University, and during his college years he founded the GrizzHacks hackathon with his classmates. Jarek also worked as a coach for Major League Hacking where he helped out at collegiate hackathons across North America. And shortly after graduating, he found himself at Atomic Object, where he works in small team of developers and designers to build custom software for a wide variety of clients. In this episode, Jarek talks with us about his time at Oakland University, life working as a software consultant, and generative art. Shownotes: Connect with Jarek on Twitter (https://twitter.com/wojonatior) and Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/wojonatior) Learn about Generative Art here (https://generativeartistry.com/) and read Jarek’s blog post on it here (https://spin.atomicobject.com/2019/07/20/generative-art-software-dev/)

Hackathons have been spreading around the world; many at university campuses. Major League Hacking, MLH, has been encouraging and helping hackathons. Hacking can be thought of as tinkering. Taking things apart and putting them back together as an interesting experience. There's always been some of this as part of software culture. The people at Major League Hacking have taken this to a whole new level, bringing together Tech creators who enjoy playing around with and crating new technology, on campuses, and now in virtual spaces, all over the world. Jonathon Gottfried, one of the cofounders of Major League Hacking, joins the show to talk about: hacker meetups and events hackathons what it's like to go to a hackathon how to help out with hackathons as an experienced engineer, even virtually as a mentor hackathons continuing virtually during the pandemic internships and fellowships on open source projects to help students gain experience, even during the pandemic MLH approach to internships, giving interns a support group, including peers, mentors, and project maintainers and MLH itself Special Guest: Jon Gottfried.

Minulý rok sa partia študentov – vo veku cca 20 rokov a študujúca v zahraničí - rozhodla v rodných Košiciach zorganizovať prvý medzinárodný hackathon. Počas prvého ročníka sa im podarilo do Košíc pritiahnuť 166 účastníkov z viac ako 20 krajín sveta. Hack Košice pritom získal ako prvý slovenský hackathon prestížnu medzinárodnú akreditáciu Major League Hacking, ktorá zastrešuje cez 200 hackathonov v 16 krajinách sveta. Zaradili sa tým do najvyššej kvalitatívnej triedy študentských hackathonov na svete. Tím sa rozrástol na 25 organizátorov a ich misiou je vytvoriť kvalitnú hackerskú komunitu v Strednej Európe. Celá ich motivácia spočíva v tom, priniesť domov obrovskú medzinárodnú skúsenosť, vytvoriť niečo iné a nové. Tento rok chystajú hackathon na 5-6 september V rozhovore sa so Sajfom stretli: Andrea Komová, Juraj Mičko, Pavol Drotár, Ádám Urbán *** #NXT je miniprojekt, ktorý sme realizovali počas júla v Rannej šou so Sajfom. Predstavujeme vám mladých ľudí, ktorým sa v skorom veku podarili naozaj obdivuhodné, skvelé veci. 

Minulý rok sa partia študentov – vo veku cca 20 rokov a študujúca v zahraničí - rozhodla v rodných Košiciach zorganizovať prvý medzinárodný hackathon. Počas prvého ročníka sa im podarilo do Košíc pritiahnuť 166 účastníkov z viac ako 20 krajín sveta. Hack Košice pritom získal ako prvý slovenský hackathon prestížnu medzinárodnú akreditáciu Major League Hacking, ktorá zastrešuje cez 200 hackathonov v 16 krajinách sveta. Zaradili sa tým do najvyššej kvalitatívnej triedy študentských hackathonov na svete. Tím sa rozrástol na 25 organizátorov a ich misiou je vytvoriť kvalitnú hackerskú komunitu v Strednej Európe. Celá ich motivácia spočíva v tom, priniesť domov obrovskú medzinárodnú skúsenosť, vytvoriť niečo iné a nové. Tento rok chystajú hackathon na 5-6 september V rozhovore sa so Sajfom stretli: Andrea Komová, Juraj Mičko, Pavol Drotár, Ádám Urbán *** #NXT je miniprojekt, ktorý sme realizovali počas júla v Rannej šou so Sajfom. Predstavujeme vám mladých ľudí, ktorým sa v skorom veku podarili naozaj obdivuhodné, skvelé veci. 

Jonathan Gottfried is a co-founder of Major League Hacking, and he formerly worked at StartupBus and Twilio. Jonathan is listed on the Forbes 30 under 30 for his work with Major League Hacking, which is a company that supports student-run hackathons across the world. MLH is growing the hackathon community around the world and helping students learn valuable coding skills. In this episode, Jon talks about his career path and how hackathons helped him learn, build, and get to the next stage of his career. Along the way, he gives advice to students and recent grads today. Show Notes: Jon's Twitter: https://twitter.com/jonmarkgo Jon's Email: jon@mlh.io The MLH Fellowship Opportunity: https://fellowship.mlh.io/ Upcoming MLH Events: http://mlh.io/events Music by Clockwork Passerine

Mike is the co-founder and CEO of Major League Hacking. Each year, they power over 200 weekend-long invention competitions that inspire innovation, cultivate communities and teach computer science skills to more than 65,000 students around the world.

Wie ist es, an einem Hackathon von zuhause aus teilzunehmen? In unserer ersten live gestreamten Podcastfolge sprachen wir über diese Erfahrung mit Malte Reimann und Maurice Hofmann, die beim ersten Teil des #WirVsVirus-Hackathon der Bundesregierung mitwirkten. Über 28.000 Teilnehmende fanden sich im März zusammen, um Ideen und Konzepte zur Bewältigung der Corona-Krise zu erarbeiten. In Folge 58 richteten wir eure und unsere Fragen an unsere Gäste. Maurice, UX-Designer in einer Digitalagentur, und Malte, Informatik-Student am KIT, entwickelten gemeinsam mit ihrem Team eine App namens GoBonsai. Diese setzt sich zum Ziel, Sport und gemeinnützige Spenden zu vereinen und soll trotz sozialer Distanz ein Gemeinschaftsgefühl schaffen. Wie die Diversität des Teams in der Konzeptionierung und Umsetzung von besonderem Nutzen sein konnte, erzählen uns Maurice und Malte in dieser Folge. Am Ende des Hackathon-Wochenendes standen ein detailliert ausgearbeitetes Konzept sowie ein Prototyp der App, vor allem aber wertvolle Erfahrungen und ein Projekt, das weiterlebt. Timecodes: (00:51) Was ist #WirVsVirus? (03:05) Malte und Maurice über sich und ihre Hackathon-Erfahrungen (04:18) Wie startete #WirVsVirus und wie konnte man teilnehmen? (10:59) Wie fand das Team zusammen? (16:03) Die Idee hinter GoBonsai(21:17) Rollenverteilung und Arbeitsweise (25:26) Welche Tools und Technologien wurden eingesetzt? (30:33) Remote-Zusammenarbeit und Kommunikationswege (37:02) Experimente während des Hackathons (39:05) Wie geht es weiter?(44:26) Wie endete der Hackathon und was haben Malte und Maurice mitgenommen?(51:28) Picks of the DayAktuell sucht das Team noch mehr Unterstützung, insbesondere Coder, Designer und Sponsoren. Auf Devpost und GitHub könnt ihr euch tiefer einlesen und via Twitter oder Blog zu Maurice Kontakt aufnehmen. Maurice hat seine Erfahrungen auch in folgendem Artikel des Unstable Magazines geschildert: Maurice Hofmann (2020): Code Contra Corona. Im Hackathon die Masterarbeit verwirklicht. Erstmalig haben wir diese Folge über einen Livestream aufgenommen und ihr wart im Chat live dabei! Wenn ihr auch beim nächsten Mal Fragen stellen und kommentieren wollt, folgt uns auf Social Media und Meetup, um auf dem Laufenden zu bleiben. Picks of the Day Fabi: Git Tree Compare – Mit dieser Extension für Visual Studio ganz einfach sehen, welche Unterschiede es zwischen dem aktuellen Arbeitsverzeichnis und Branches, Tags oder Commits gibt. Maurice: Nehmt eure Ideen, die ihr so rumliegen habt, und macht was Ehrenamtliches daraus. Mal schauen, was passiert! Malte: Local Hack Day: Share am 11. April 2020 von der Major League Hacking. Streamt uns! Wann das nächste Live-Event stattfindet, erfahrt ihr über die folgenden Quellen und unsere Webseite. Schreibt uns! podcast@programmier.bar Folgt uns! Twitter Instagram Facebook Musik: Hanimo

To kick things off, we talk about Yap, a fun new project from Paul's company, Postlight. Employees get to partake in a Labs program where they can pursue side projects that interest them. Yap is "an ephemeral, real-time chat room with up to six participants. Your messages appear and disappear as quickly as you type them.” It was built with Elixir...ooooh.For our interview this week we sat down with Jon Gottfried and Mary Siebert from Major League Hacking. Jon is the company's co-founder and Mary is the Hackathon Community Manager. We discuss how this organization has become a global phenomenon over the past few years, reaching hundreds of thousands of developers.  Things that happen these days at Major League Hackathons:  Painting succulents Cup stacking competitions Therapy dogs, lots of them If you're interested in sponsoring a Major League Hackathon, check out the info here.This is our last episode of the year. We'll be back in 2020 with some more amazing guests and brilliant banter. Thanks for tuning in, see ya in the new year. 

To kick things off, we talk about Yap, a fun new project from Paul’s company, Postlight. Employees get to partake in a Labs program where they can pursue side projects that interest them. Yap is "an ephemeral, real-time chat room with up to six participants. Your messages appear and disappear as quickly as you type them.” It was built with Elixir...ooooh.For our interview this week we sat down with Jon Gottfried and Mary Siebert from Major League Hacking. Jon is the company’s co-founder and Mary is the Hackathon Community Manager. We discuss how this organization has become a global phenomenon over the past few years, reaching hundreds of thousands of developers.  Things that happen these days at Major League Hackathons:  Painting succulents Cup stacking competitions Therapy dogs, lots of them If you're interested in sponsoring a Major League Hackathon, check out the info here.This is our last episode of the year. We’ll be back in 2020 with some more amazing guests and brilliant banter. Thanks for tuning in, see ya in the new year. 

Listen to learn all about why you should be involved in hackathons no matter how little or much experience you have in CS! Check out Major League Hacking https://mlh.io/ to find a hackathon you can attend (they will sometimes reimburse your travel cost)! You can read Kyle's Medium Blog at https://medium.com/@kyleobrien1668 and find him on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/kyle1668/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sarah-hudson9/support

Jonathan Gottfried is co-founder of Major League Hacking, or MLH, the official student hackathon league. Major League Hacking’s vision is to inspire students worldwide from both traditional and non-traditional backgrounds. They’ve influenced new generations of engineers; from software, hardware, and mechanical disciplines in the events they have thrown worldwide. Learn more about Jonathan and his inspiring work at MLH. Trade In Your Outdated PCB Design Tool & Unlock 45% OFF Altium Designer today! Watch the video, click here. Show Highlights: Jonathan started off as a hobbyist programmer when he was a little kid, building websites and games, and playing around with different technologies.  As a student, he would build apps for people as a source of income, and after graduation, landed the amazing role of Developer Evangelist at Twilio Inc. While attending CS classes he was exposed to the massive community of passionate tech students who wanted to build things for fun and saw the considerable disconnect between what they were learning in classes and the actual day-to-day work in the industry. Major League Hacking is the global community for student developers. They are best known for their hackathons—weekend-long invention competitions in which developers, designers, engineers, and product people come together with their own ideas and build working prototypes in a very short time. Major League Hacking also offers technical workshops through its Major League Hacking localhost program, where students can learn a specific, bite-sized skill in an hour or two. The coaches at Major League Hacking are student leaders and role models building a diverse community on a local level. A new acronym, ‘STEAM’ (rather than ‘STEM’) incorporates the arts. Jon feels strongly that technology is an art and incorporates building products that resonate with people. Because the divide between hardware and software is blurring, Major League Hacking makes hardware available at the hacking events—exposure is the first step to becoming passionate about hardware.  What is the impact of exposure on non-traditional students? It can be a life-changing experience to be involved in a technical community of supportive, inclusive, passionate and creative people. It can provoke a passion which sitting in a normal class isn’t always able to achieve.   The impact on traditional STEM students includes gaining skills for the customer discovery process, for example; it’s a self-driven process. The hackathon process is: come up with an idea; get a team excited and on board, and then build the product together—encouraging more soft skills, such as team building, creative thinking, problem-solving, etc. In the traditional university model, there isn’t enough focus on the practical aspects of STEM because funding is mainly reserved for research. The barriers imposed by lack of hardware access are diminished by the prevalence of cloud hosting. Technology is being unleashed in this day and age, and in the coming years it’s going to be even more drastic—creators have a responsibility to ‘use their powers for good.’  Major League Hacking provides resources to students for free, thanks to corporate sponsorship—get involved!    Links and Resources: Find out more about how your company can get involved with MLHIf you're a student, learn more about our upcoming hackathons hereJoin us in October for Local Hack DayHost a technical workshop in your club or meetup Come work for MLHAltium Student StoriesFollow MLH on social media:Jon Gottfried - @jonmarkgoMajor League Hacking - @MLHacks Learn, connect, and get inspired at AltiumLive 2019: Annual PCB Design Summit.

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Welcome back Gang. I am excited to introduce you to Dr. Joshua Eckroth, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Heyley Gatewood, A Jr. majoring in Math and Computer Science at Stetson University in nearby Deland. Heyley, in addition to attending classes has an extremely active role in leading the Campus Hacker Club as well as presiding over this years 4th annual Greater Central Florida Tech Faire + Hatter Hacks which takes place April 5-7 2019 on the Deland Campus. The event targets high school and college students but is open to all. You need no experience to attend, in fact the event kicks off Friday with a full day of learning featuring workshops in web and app development among others. Be sure to listen to the full episode and more from Dr Eckroth and Heyley. I love their passion and commitment. Thanks to you both as well as Sandra Carr for helping to coordinate our recording. The campus is beautiful and just a quick half hour from Orlando.  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Stetson University Greater Central Florida Tech Faire + HatterHacks Sparks InnovationMore than 300 high school and college students expected to attend computer science event DELAND, Florida, March 21, 2019 – Computer coding is used to create apps and phones, robots and other gadgets with technology, which is one of the most important skills in the world today. The Greater Central Florida Tech Faire + HatterHacks at Stetson University, hosted by Stetson HackerSpace, the university’s official computer science club, is planting a technology-building seed by providing high school and college students with an opportunity to collaborate in computer science challenges and workshops, tech talks, a code competition, gaming tournament and other activities during its fourth annual spring hackathon. No coding experience is required for the free, three-day event, April 5-7, on the Stetson University DeLand campus. Participants will need to register and bring their own laptops. Complimentary food, drinks and parking will be provided. The fun starts with a 12-hour Day of Learning on Friday, April 5, 7 p.m., at Elizabeth Hall, 421 N. Woodland Blvd., DeLand, 32723. The Day of Learning will be preparing hackers or builders for the hackathon by providing them with educational information during workshops and crash courses. Next is a 24-hour HatterHacks hackathon, beginning at 9 a.m. on Saturday, April 6, at the Edmunds Center, 143 E. Pennsylvania Ave., DeLand, 32720. The hackathon concludes at 2 p.m. on Sunday, April 7. The Greater Central Florida Tech Faire + HatterHacks is sponsored by Electronic Arts, Electrosonic, the City of Orlando, Particle, Inc., Major League Hacking and Monster Beverage. The goal is to educate students about STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) and computer science during activities and workshops while providing them with the skills to create technology. “Stetson faculty and workshop leaders will be teaching students about coding, app design and ethical hacking during the hackathon’s numerous workshops and crash courses,” said Joshua Eckroth, Ph.D., assistant professor of computer science at Stetson University. “The core hackathon event allows students to practice what they have learned in a social and collaborative environment. Hackathons naturally encourage small communities to form in which students learn from each other and work together to build sophisticated projects in a single weekend.” The Greater Central Florida Tech Faire + HatterHacks is advantageous for students. “I strongly believe that computer science is a skill that can only benefit you from this point forward because computer science is a global phenomenon,” said math and computer science junior Heyley Gatewood. “It’s everywhere. We carry technology in our backpacks and pockets and on our wrists. Computer science isn’t as scary as it seems from the outside. You can’t be afraid to take the first step, and you can’t be afraid of failure. Embrace your ignorance and mistakes because they only make room for more understanding.” “The need for talented programmers and hackers has grown dramatically over the last couple of decades and continues to accelerate,” expressed Eckroth. “The nation needs more people who are really good at building complex software. The Day of Learning and HatterHacks hackathon helps students learn new techniques and practice those techniques in a close community and unique all-day and all-night setting, and strengthens the bonds between the student participants and each other as well as in their artful craft.” About Stetson UniversityFounded in 1883, Stetson University is the oldest private university in Central Florida. Stetson focuses on intense learning experiences in a supportive community that allows students to develop their voice in a connected, inclusive environment. Stetson University ranks No. 5 on U.S. News & World Report’s 2019 list of Best Regional Universities (South), and has been recognized as one of The Princeton Review’s 384 Best Colleges, 2019 edition. Stay connected with Stetson on social media. Contact: Sandra CarrMedia Relations,P: 407-256-5090 Thanks to Carlos for taking the time to pull it all together. This Is Orlando podcast is now available everywhere. Search for This Is Orlando on Google Play, iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, Player FM and more. If you don’t find on your source let us know and we can fix that. If yu have a story about community here in Central Florida and you would like to be feature on a future episode be sure to reach out.

Hackcon VI just happened at Pocono Springs Camp! I got to chat with some of the attendees: Tony, Andrea (and MLH Coach), Corbin, and Deepraj! Listen to their Hackcon adventure and I'll see you at Hackcon VII! (This episode was not sponsored and has no relation to Major League Hacking)

Hacking the Way to a Better Future: Interview with Jonathan Gottfried, Major League Hacking by EdTech Times

  DO YOU ENJOY THE PODCAST? SUPPORT THE SHOW! Support for this episode came from: Domain.com My Awesome Supporters! Become one today! Feedback, Shoutouts, and Links Sully Baseball Podcast Dan Gallagher Dan Borgoff Stacey Lindes Code Interactive Chris Harris Denis Sheeran, author of Instant Relevance: Using Today's Experience to Teach Tomorrow's Lessons Sylwia Denko Kathy Chow-Isaacs #EdTech Thought Take Risks Get out there! Meet and engage people Get into the places you want to be. Surround yourself with what you want to do and be. Be a communicator. Allow yourself to be pushed and encouraged by others. Be selfless and be a giver. Make investments in yourself. You're worth it! Have the guts and tenacity. #EdTech Recommendation Neocities -  Neocities is a social network of 126,900 websites that are bringing back the lost individual creativity of the web. We offer free web hosting and tools that allow you to create your own website. W3 Schools - W3Schools is a web developers site, with tutorials and references on web development languages such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, SQL, W3.CSS, and Bootstrap, covering most aspects of web programming.The site derives its name from the World Wide Web (W3), but is not affiliated with the W3C.W3Schools was originally created in 1998 by Refsnes Data, a Norwegian software development and consulting company. Featured Content IGNITE STEM: With significant backing from Princeton University, Wolfram Alpha, Google Education, and more, IgniteSTEM brings together thought leaders to make the “classroom of the future” a reality. Through international series of conferences, IgniteSTEM empowers educators and provides cutting edge ideas to disrupt STEM learning environments with education technology and project-based learning. Speakers I learned from: Jonathan Rochelle - Product Management Director at Google Apps for Education. He managed the startup and launch of Google Classroom, Expeditions, and related Google Apps for Education. He previously worked as Product Management Director and Co-Founder of Google Docs & Drive. The company he co-founded and led as CEO was acquired by Google in 2005 to become the basis for Google Sheets. Matthew Brimer - An entrepreneur, community builder, and instigator of creative mischief. He is Co-Founder of General Assembly, and has recently launched GA’s philanthropic arm, Opportunity Fund. Brimer is also Co-Founder of Daybreaker, a global community and lifestyle brand producing conscious morning experiences around the world. Brimer also serves as an advisor to a handful of startups, including Common, Fluent City, ZZ Driggs, and Lightmatter. Brimer has been named to Vanity Fair’s “The Next Establishment”, Forbes “30 Under 30", Inc. Magazine’s “30 Under 30”, and Business Insider’s “Silicon Alley 100". Mike Swift - Founder of Hacker League, the premier platform for managing hackathons, and the Commissioner of Major League Hacking, the Official Collegiate Hackathon League. He is one of the foremost authorities on organizing effective hackathons. Sarah Shannon - Sarah is a Systemic Partnership Coach at BIE, a non-profit with a mission to promote project-based learning (PBL) in schools. As a school administrator, Sarah's experiences included visioning, strategic planning and implementing whole school improvement and change efforts. In her most recent principalship, she led the implementation of PBL at the middle school level as the first step in a district-wide shift. House of #EdTech VIP JENNIFER DUDA - A new listener of the House of #EdTech who currently teaches special education in a self-contained 5-8 Autistic classroom at the Mercer Elementary School. She's inspired to do more with technology and provide an enriched experience for her students. Connect with Jennifer Duda: Follow @DynamicDuda338 [shortcode-variables slug="connect"]

If you read the October 2016 issue of Popular Mechanics, you may have noticed a section of the Breakthrough Awards devoted to competitors from Major League Hacking, the competition circuit for college and high school-aged hackathons. And you may also have noticed that Danny Yim and Jake Kaplan of the Bergen County Academies in New Jersey took home a prize at their hackathon for making one soldering iron to rule them all. And then, if you're still with me, you probably found yourself wondering: What's a hackathon actually like? What's it like solving problems when you haven't slept and have nothing in your body but soft drinks and processed carbs? Well, on today's show, Danny and Jake drop by the studio to fill you in. Special musical thanks this week goes to Hackerblinks for their song "Eighth." 

Welcome to The Creators Call podcast, where we explore technology and how it being used for education. Our guest is Jonathan Gottfried of Major League Hacking. We talk about the definition of hacking, hackathons, how participants learn by being part of hackathons, and how companies view and recruit from hackathons. Music for The Creators Call is by Tobu. Tobu can be found on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/tobuofficial/ and on Spotify at https://open.spotify.com/artist/1feoGrmmD8QmNqtK2Gdwy8 For more information or to listen to other episodes, please visit TheCreatorsCall.com