Episode Details
Back to Episodes
The One Where We Geek Out on Being a Tech Journalist with Jennifer Riggins
Description
About our guest:
Jennifer Riggins is a culture side of tech storyteller, journalist, writer, and event and podcast host, helping to share the stories where culture and technology collide and to translate the impact of the tech we are building. She has been a working writer since 2003, and is currently based in London.
Find our guest on:
Find us on:
- All of our social channels are on bento.me/geekingout
- All of Adriana's social channels are on bento.me/adrianamvillela
Show Links:
- The New Stack
- LeadDev
- At QCon: Why Generative AI Is Harmful to Earth and Society
- E-lance
- Kelsey Hightower at Civo Navigate
- Abby Bangser
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)
- David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH)
- 37signals (formerly Basecamp)
- GitHub Copilot
- Backstage (CNCF Project donated by Spotify)
- Divya Mohan (Kubernetes Maintainer)
- Octoverse: The state of open source and rise of AI in 2023
- The AI Revolution Is Just Getting Started: Leslie Miley Bids Us to Act Now against Its Bias and CO2
- Consequence Scanning – an agile event for responsible teams
Additional Links:
- Developer Empowerment Via Platform Engineering, Self-Service Tooling
- tag-environmental-sustainability Slack Channel (CNCF Slack)
Transcript:
ADRIANA: Hey, y'all, welcome to Geeking Out, the podcast about all geeky aspects of software delivery. DevOps, Observability, reliability, and everything in between. I'm your host Adriana Villela. Coming to you from Toronto, Canada, and geeking out with me today is Jennifer Riggins. Welcome, Jennifer.
JENNIFER: Hi, thank you so much for having me on.
ADRIANA: I'm super excited to have you join me. And where are you calling from today?
JENNIFER: London.
ADRIANA: Awesome. What I'll do is we'll start with some lightning round questions and then I'll get you to talk a little bit about yourself and then we'll go from there. Sound good?
JENNIFER: Great, yeah, sure.
ADRIANA: All right, let's do this. Okay, first question. Are you a lefty or a righty?
JENNIFER: Righty.
ADRIANA: All righ