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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203: Algorithmic Auditing and Accountability with Matthew Zhou
October 7th, 2020 | 1 hr 2 mins
Matthew Zhou talks about the intersection of technology and social science, algorithmic auditing and accountability, data surveillance, speaking out against racial inequality in the workplace, getting involved in politics on a personal level, and healthcare informatics and thinking about health disparities.
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201: Real Rebels Pay Their Taxes with Nils Norman Haukås
September 23rd, 2020 | 1 hr 4 mins
Nils Norman Haukås reflects on our ethical responsibilities as developers. He argues that the technologies we choose to use carry ethical implications, and urges everyone to reflect on this in light of ethics, economical value, and taxes.
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198: Learning From Failure with Ravs Kaur
September 2nd, 2020 | 1 hr 5 mins
Ravs Kaur talks about success and failure, failing fast and getting early feedback along the way, empathy as a life skill, and how her company, Uplevel, empowers engineers to do their best work by measuring ambient data to measure well-being and engagement.
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197: Tips For New Developers with Dan Moore
August 26th, 2020 | 1 hr 6 mins
Dan Moore talks about his blog-turned-book: Letters to a New Developer. He gives tips for junior developers to succeed in new jobs such as the importance of asking questions, don't be afraid to try new things but also make sure you enjoy your work, and why making mistakes are a good thing.
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194: I Don’t Need You To Like Me, I Need You To Hate Racism with Dr. Courtney D. Cogburn
August 5th, 2020 | 1 hr 13 mins
Dr. Courtney D. Cogburn talks about racism: Antiracism is a lifelong learning process, understanding white supremacy, the fact that having empathy is insufficient, and how systemic racism is embedded in the technology field and how we as technologists should be shifting orientation.
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192: Bringing Our Whole Selves with Siobhán Cronin
July 22nd, 2020 | 50 mins 44 secs
Siobhán Cronin talks about managing change during COVID-19, the pros and cons of bringing your whole self to work, and that people have to do work on themselves to be successful.
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190: Social Media, Privacy, and Security with Joe LeBlanc
July 8th, 2020 | 41 mins 48 secs
In this episode, Joe LeBlanc talks about having hospitality on and offline, the fact that it's time for us to stop acting like we are getting access to social media for free, owning your identity & data, protecting children’s identity & data, and the movement to reclaim our data.
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187: Seeing The World with Bryan Liles
June 17th, 2020 | 47 mins 56 secs
Bryan Liles talks about his ability to see the world as it is, conferencing and working from home during Quarantine, fighting and overcoming meritocracy, and how people work, and finding power in other things.
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184: The Python Software Foundation and the Future of Conferencing with Naomi Ceder & Ewa Jodlawska
May 27th, 2020 | 1 hr 1 min
In this episode, Naomi Ceder & Ewa Jodlawska talk about the Python Software Foundation and speculate what the future of conferences might look like due to the pandemic.
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183: How We Learn with Vaidehi Joshi
May 20th, 2020 | 1 hr 12 mins
In this episode, Vaidehi Joshi talks about how we learn: approaching it, brain percolation, improving over time, and doing your best.
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182: Labor Organizing with Ellen Wondra
May 13th, 2020 | 50 mins 1 sec
In this episode, Ellen Wondra talks about labor organization. She explains what shareholder and stakeholder economies are, and talks a lot about how things are done in Germany. The panelists speculate about why tech workers aren’t organizing more, and how we could potentially help ourselves and our coworkers if we did.
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180: Open Source Freedom and Technical Purity with Tobie Langel
April 29th, 2020 | 50 mins 32 secs
Co-Conspirator of Ethical Open Source, Tobie Langel talks about open source freedom and technical purity: developer attachment, privacy, security, and flavors of safety, the problems with prioritizing implementers over end-users, and internationalization issues.
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178: Data Science and Sponsorship with Emily Robinson
April 15th, 2020 | 59 mins 49 secs
Data Scientist, Emily Robinson, talks about her journey into the data science field, the idea of passion, dealing with failure, the ideas of sponsorship vs mentorship, and the fact that companies should be training their senior people to be mentors.
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175: Developing for the Long Term with Eric A. Meyer
March 25th, 2020 | 1 hr 6 mins
Eric A. Meyer talks about developing for the long term, diving into the topics of the legacy capability of the web, ethical dimensions, stress cases, and the designated dissenter.
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173: The Ethical Open Source Movement
March 11th, 2020 | 46 mins 19 secs
The panelists take over in a riveting discussion of the Ethical Open Source Movement. Coraline talks about her work in the movement, and the panelists also discuss the Open Source License, OSI, litigation thoughts, peaceful revolutions and reform, advantages of adopting the license, evolutions of open source, and the concept of community.
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172: Limitations of Human Knowledge with Miko Matsumura
March 4th, 2020 | 1 hr 5 mins
Miko Matsumura talks about the limitations of human knowledge, including coming to your senses, understanding the limits of what you know, decision making as an embodied process, problems with the interview framework, and the idea of small mind/big mind.