
Jacob Stoebel
Co-Host of Greater Than Code
Jacob is a software developer living in Berea, KY. He spends his days writing web applications in Ruby on Rails, JavaScript/Typescript and React, working with data, and leveling up as a software engineer.
Jacob Stoebel has hosted 52 Episodes.
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276: Caring Deeply About Humans – Diversify The Medical Community with Jenna Charlton
March 30th, 2022 | 55 mins 50 secs
Jenna Charlton is a super human. They are deeply rooted in what is human in tech and believes the user is everything. They chat with the panel about software testing and give an awesome metaphor of Developer Dogs and Testing Cats, and then dive into a super helpful conversation about ADHD and how to best work with a diagnosis.
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270: Trust Building and Authenticity with Justin Searls
February 9th, 2022 | 1 hr 3 mins
Justin Searls released a talk on why trust has become so rare in the software industry. He joins Greater Than Code panelists to talk more about trust-building among leadership and teams and how power politics and privilege play a part in this endeavor.
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256: Unbreaking the Web with Chris Ferdinandi
October 27th, 2021 | 1 hr 44 secs
Chris Ferdinandi comes back on the show to talk about how important, but hard it is to maintain privacy on the web. Right now sites are overusing analytics and tracking scripts, and as developers, we have an ethical obligation to be an advocates for our users. In short, frontend development is hard.
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255: Building Global Love Bubbles with Anne Griffin
October 20th, 2021 | 1 hr 19 mins
Anne Griffin joins the show to talk about making people feel they matter on teams by changing company culture, sharing concerns with upper management, and often, having difficult conversations. How do we help people who want to learn to be better people learn to be better people? How do we feel about having designated “work therapists”? How should teams share job responsibilities clearly and fairly?
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248: Developing Team Culture with Andrew Dunkman
September 1st, 2021 | 1 hr 12 mins
Andrew Dunkman talks about setting boundaries both as an employee and a leader. He talks about ways to perform health checks on teams, keeping members happy to avoid things like burnout, and how psychological safety is of the utmost importance in a workplace.
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246: Digital Democracy and Indigenous Storytelling with Rudo Kemper
August 18th, 2021 | 57 mins 3 secs
Rudo Kemper of Digital Democracy talks about leading the indiginous-requested and indiginous-led open source project, Terrastories, which helps people capture and record oral history so that it is preserved and not lost over time.
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240: No Striving, No Hustling with Amelia Winger-Bearskin
June 30th, 2021 | 1 hr 51 secs
Amelia Bearskin-Winger talks about her Wampum.Codes project, storytelling and performance, explains the terms: “Indigenous Antecedent Technology,” and “Ethical Dependencies,” and talks about “community accountability” as opposed to “policing.”
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234: Civil Society and Community Relationships with Michael Garfield
May 12th, 2021 | 1 hr 1 min
Artist and philosopher, Michael Garfield, talks about being able to creatively digest and reconstruct categories, recognizing economic value of talents & abilities, and civil society and community relationships.
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231: Deserted Island Safety and Expectations with Austin Parker
April 21st, 2021 | 47 mins 38 secs
Austin Parker gives the full exclusive of what ended up being a smash-hit success in 2020 at the height of the pandemic called Deserted Island DevOps but tells us that it wasn’t without hesitation and fear of failure in both the technical and psychological senses. His main goal was to underpromise and overdeliver, and he talks about safety and setting expectations both for speakers and participants.
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229: Union Organization with Melissa McEwen
April 7th, 2021 | 53 mins 30 secs
Melissa McEwen talks about how she helped unionize Glitch, common misconceptions when it comes to the idea of unions, Melissa’s previous experience with working with unions, positive skills union organizers should have, evaluating human performance, and tips for those who are interested in how to go about organizing such an endeavor.
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226: Incarceration and Technology with Kurt Kemple
March 17th, 2021 | 1 hr 21 mins
Make no assumptions! Kurt Kemple talks about the intersection of incarceration and technology: we need to destigmatize formerly incarcerated folx, hire the formerly incarcerated, and provide stability to those coming out of incarceration.
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223: Emotions, Achievement, Joy, and Goals with David MacIver
February 24th, 2021 | 45 mins 4 secs
David MacIver talks about being confused, daily writing, learning to be better at emotions, and achievement and joy as aspirational goals.
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219: How Are You Doing? with Mando Escamilla
January 27th, 2021 | 1 hr 7 mins
Mando Escamilla and the rest of the panelists talk about dealing with life over the past few years, finding anchors to deal with feeling lost and unmoored, being okay with being less productive, and practicing gratitude for the communities you do have.
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208: Who Tells Your Story? with Janeen Uzzell
November 11th, 2020 | 57 mins 26 secs
COO of The Wikimedia Foundation, Janeen Uzzell, talks about empowering communities to tell their stories, how to create Wikipedia pages, staying connected as an organization, and encouraging and influencing editor participation.
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206: Conscious Teaching and Learning with Brian Hogan
October 28th, 2020 | 59 mins 7 secs
Brian Hogan talks about teaching: guiding learners towards outcomes and success, connecting with students on deeper levels, tapping into individual motivation, and the fact that learning happens through feedback and practice.
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204: Creating Community Spaces in The Age of COVID with Nicole Archambault
October 14th, 2020 | 1 hr 12 mins
Nicole Archambault talks about both the social and technical communities she has built and why it’s important to overcome isolation and still form connections in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. She also talks about radiating love and how-to human, as well as how she has gotten involved in educational tech entrepreneurship.