Podcast Episodes

#262 - 12 Months to Hired: A No-Fluff Roadmap to Becoming a Software Developer

If I lost everything today—no job, no network, no portfolio—and had to start over in 2025 as a software developer, I wouldn’t be looking for a 3-mont…

5 months, 2 weeks ago

#261 - I Used to Suck at Coding Interviews. Then I Started Doing These 4 Things

Five years ago, during an interview for a senior dev role, I had a panic attack. It was one of my worst interview experiences. It also taught me a lo…

5 months, 2 weeks ago

#260 - From Lead Engineer at MongoDB to Fashion Tech: On Hiring, Remote Teams, and Start-Up Life

Harish, former lead engineer at MongoDB and current co-founder of Flaire, takes us on a journey through his unusual career path—one that didn’t invol…

5 months, 3 weeks ago

Office Hours: Answering Your Coding Questions EP 3

Are junior devs cooked?

How can I scaffold a solid MERN stack app?

What's the best way to stick with a tutorial?

We got some great questions this episod…

5 months, 3 weeks ago

#259 - The Minimum Effective Dose of JavaScript You Need to Learn

Learning JS is tough.

And you're probably making some of the same mistakes I did in the past.

In this episode you'll get a path and a small project to …

5 months, 3 weeks ago

#258 - Should You Use AI While Learning to Code? A Senior Developer’s Take

A junior developer who got hired at a startup used AI non-stop to keep up.

It worked for weeks until he crashed and burned.

He'd built a house of cards…

5 months, 4 weeks ago

#257 - Career Landmines: Three Developer Traps to Avoid

3 traps to avoid in your career, that I nearly fell for:

1. The Framework Developer Trap

2. The Developer in a Hoodie Trap (might be the most surprisin…

6 months ago

#256 - The Rise of the Product Minded Engineer

Matt Watson, who scaled VIN Solutions to a $150 million exit, shares his journey from coding to building products that make a real impact in the busi…

6 months ago

#255 - Your First Open Source Project: A Weekend with Kyle Simpson’s Code

This episode introduces a weekend project that will give you authentic experience working with existing code—a crucial skill that most tutorials and …

6 months, 1 week ago

#254 - What Do Data Scientists Actually Do? A Candid Conversation with Ryan Varley

Have you ever wondered what data scientists and engineers actually do all day? Forget what you've seen in movies – it's not all neural networks and f…

6 months, 1 week ago