Sam Livingston-Gray
Co-Host of Greater Than Code
Sam Livingston-Gray has been a dad since 2008, a Rubyist since 2006, a Portlander since 2001, a programmer since at least 1998, a juggler since 1988, and a human since 1974. He’s keenly interested in writing software that makes other humans’ lives easier, in making technical topics easier to understand, and in helping increase the number and variety of humans^ in technical spaces.
^ And, of course, other sentient species or constructs just as soon as we find any. ^ ^
^ ^ Sam reads a lot of science fiction.
Sam Livingston-Gray has hosted 74 Episodes.
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Episode 033: Mental Illness with Greg Baugues
May 17th, 2017 | 49 mins 47 secs
Greg Baugues talks about how mental illness affected his life and early career as a software developer. Collectively, we discuss stigma, shame, fear, our personal experiences, and individual coping mechanisms.
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Episode 032: Curation vs Algorithms: Who Is Writing Our History? with Amy Unger
May 10th, 2017 | 55 mins 10 secs
Amy Unger joins us to talk about accessing and preserving history, categorizing information, and digital vs human curation.
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Episode 031: Retrospectives and Agile Fluency with Diana Larsen
May 3rd, 2017 | 50 mins 24 secs
Diana Larsen joins us to talk about an earlier episode (#28) that we did where we touched on retrospectives and Agile Fluency.
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Episode 030: Essential Developer Skills with Tom Stuart
April 28th, 2017 | 1 hr 20 mins
Tom Stuart stopped by to talk about software development over the years, “junior” and “senior” developer nomenclature, good mentorship, and OOP.
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Episode 028: Brains, Feedback Systems, Demons, and Goats with Janelle Klein
April 14th, 2017 | 1 hr 5 mins
In this episode, Janelle Klein, author of Idea Flow, talks about designing releases and best practices, measuring effort, and Agile Fluency.
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Episode 027: Hackathons and Flirting with Failure with Rachel Katz
April 7th, 2017 | 56 mins 7 secs
Rachel Katz, of AngelHack, talks about hackathons and the value of celebrating glorious failure and responding stress and pressure.
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Episode 026: Codeland, Capitalism, and Creating Inclusive Spaces with Saron Yitbarek
April 4th, 2017 | 1 hr 2 mins
Saron Yitbarek talks about Codeland Conference, making conferences, accessible, affordable, and unintimidating for people, leading by example and maintaining a positive personal, and ethics as technology scales.
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Episode 024: Seeing Programming Where Other People Don’t with Felienne Hermans
March 22nd, 2017 | 58 mins 10 secs
We discuss teaching programming as a language, what constitutes “real” programming, and digital literacy with Felienne Hermans.
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Episode 023: Politics and Software with Lorena Mesa
March 15th, 2017 | 52 mins 7 secs
In this episode, Lorena Mesa joins us to talk about politics and software, using Python for data collection, and communication and organization within communities.
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Episode 022: You Are An Asset
March 7th, 2017 | 56 mins
In this episode, we focus heavily on technical interviews and ideal work environments.
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Episode 021: Social Justice Warrioring and Codes of Conduct with Phil Sturgeon
February 23rd, 2017 | 1 hr 5 mins
Phil Sturgeon joins us to talk about codes of conduct, contempt culture, and what it means to be a Social Justice Warrior.
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Episode 019: It’s Made of People!
February 9th, 2017 | 51 mins 57 secs
Cheryl Schaefer and Darin Wilson join that panelists to talk about what it means to be a Senior Engineer when you don't want to go into management, generativity, and what the job of an architect is.
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Episode 018: Growing Your Team and Mentorship with Cheryl Schaefer
February 6th, 2017 | 44 mins 31 secs
An awesome conversation with Cheryl Schaefer, of LaunchCode, about growing your team and mentorship.
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Episode 017: Ruby Together with André Arko and Carina C. Zona
January 31st, 2017 | 1 hr 10 mins
André Arko and Carina C. Zona join us for a discussion about Ruby Together.
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Episode 016: Blogging is Shipping with Julia Evans
January 23rd, 2017 | 47 mins 49 secs
In this episode, we talk to Julia Evans about writing blog posts, asking good questions, and DevOps.
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Episode 015: Zuri Hunter as Queen of Hackathons
January 11th, 2017 | 59 mins 51 secs
In this episode, Zuri Hunter talks about Hackathons, navigating the channels of your career, and hiring practices.