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Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots

A podcast about the design, development, and business of great software. Each week thoughtbot's Chad Pytel is joined by the people who build and nurture the products we love.

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86: Humility and Patience (Peter Reinhardt)

86: Humility and Patience (Peter Reinhardt)

In this week's episode, we're joined by Peter Reinhardt, Co-founder and CEO of Segment.io. Ben and Peter discuss the pro... Read more

17 Feb 2014

21mins

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73: Spooky Robots Haunting other Spooky Robots (Drew Neil)

73: Spooky Robots Haunting other Spooky Robots (Drew Neil)

Ben Orenstein speaks with Drew Neil, creator of vimcasts.org about teaching writing and workshopping vim. Vimcasts Prac... Read more

4 Nov 2013

33mins

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79: The Gentle Wise One (Uncle Bob Martin)

79: The Gentle Wise One (Uncle Bob Martin)

This week on Giant Robots, Ben Orenstein talks with Uncle Bob Martin about functional programming, ethics, and writing. ... Read more

16 Dec 2013

37mins

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32: There is an excited you in there

32: There is an excited you in there

Ben Orenstein is joined this week by Daniel Jalkut, the developer of MarsEdit and other fine software. Ben and Daniel di... Read more

21 Jan 2013

42mins

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248: Crossing the Chasm (Geoffrey A. Moore)

248: Crossing the Chasm (Geoffrey A. Moore)

Chad is joined by author Geoffrey A. Moore to discuss the concepts in Crossing the Chasm and how they relate to scaling ... Read more

28 Aug 2017

39mins

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244: A Fork in the Road (Seth Godin)

244: A Fork in the Road (Seth Godin)

Chad is joined by author, blogger, entrepreneur, and marketer Seth Godin to discuss the organizational introspection req... Read more

4 Jul 2017

32mins

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24: Not so DRY that it chafes

24: Not so DRY that it chafes

Ben Orenstein is joined by Sarah Mei, RailsBridge co-founder, a developer at Pivotal Labs, and Diaspora core team member... Read more

26 Nov 2012

31mins

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201: The Difficulty is in Focusing

201: The Difficulty is in Focusing

Ben encounters a downed FormKeep and enables a monitoring service, completes the un-grandfathering process for accounts ... Read more

11 Jul 2016

48mins

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19: I have tons of guns and knives

19: I have tons of guns and knives

Ben Orenstein is joined by Aaron Patterson, Ruby Core team member, Rails Core team member, and a Señior Software Enginee... Read more

1 Nov 2012

38mins

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224: Sharpen Your Saw

224: Sharpen Your Saw

Derrick takes a solo retreat to reflect on new goals for Drip, and draws up preliminary plans for scaling team size / st... Read more

23 Jan 2017

33mins

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233: Insert Mode is the Worst Mode

233: Insert Mode is the Worst Mode

Derrick welcomes new Javascript and Rails developers to Drip. Ben prepares a content deal and interviews a Content Manag... Read more

27 Mar 2017

27mins

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3: The FactoryGirl Representation of a Factory

3: The FactoryGirl Representation of a Factory

Ben Orenstein is joined by Josh Clayton, the maintainer of FactoryGirl, and a developer at thoughtbot. Ben and Josh disc... Read more

13 Jul 2012

40mins

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59: Nowhere to Hide

59: Nowhere to Hide

In this episode, Ben Orenstein speaks with thoughtbot CTO Joe Ferris about the technical interview process at thoughtbot... Read more

29 Jul 2013

25mins

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227: We Don't Do Fractional Pennies

227: We Don't Do Fractional Pennies

Derrick celebrates a great shipping week, completing both 'live segments' and a Drip certification course. Ben recounts ... Read more

13 Feb 2017

30mins

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192: The High End of Reasonable

192: The High End of Reasonable

Ben and Chris muse on the nature of weather-related happiness. Also, Ben works on instrumenting Formkeep's activation fu... Read more

2 May 2016

50mins

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4: I've got a little thoughtbot angel or devil on my shoulder

4: I've got a little thoughtbot angel or devil on my shoulder

Ben Orenstein is joined by David Thyresson, the founder of Stattleship and a past client of thoughtbot. Ben and David di... Read more

20 Jul 2012

37mins

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202: A Full 360

202: A Full 360

Ben rants about bad jokes on twitter, doesn't ship any improved activation features on FormKeep this week, irons out som... Read more

18 Jul 2016

41mins

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306: 306: Solving a Specific Problem (Ellen Chisa)

306: 306: Solving a Specific Problem (Ellen Chisa)

Ellen Chisa, CEO and cofounder of Dark, discusses building a complete programming platform from scratch, the benefits of... Read more

4 Feb 2019

26mins

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334: Preserve and Extend (Devon Zuegel)

334: Preserve and Extend (Devon Zuegel)

Devon Zuegel, Product Manager at GitHub, discusses her transition from researcher to product manager, and shepherding th... Read more

2 Sep 2019

41mins

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58: A Thousand Neckbeards

58: A Thousand Neckbeards

This week Ben Orenstein, Pat Brisbin, and Mike Burns talk about Haskell, Linux, functional and dynamic programming, Conw... Read more

22 Jul 2013

31mins

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