The Noob Show

On Education with RIT Dean - Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences: Matt Heunerfauth

Wed, 28 Feb 2024 20:09:08 +0000

Show notes to come.

The Most Important Algorithm with Steve O'Hara and Matt Gardner

Thu, 11 May 2023 18:07:05 +0000

In this episode we chat with Steve O’Hara, VP of Engineering at 8x8. Steve is a great story teller with a long history of working on everything from toilet algorithms on ships to flight control systems. He currently focuses on building enterprise Contact Center software for 8x8’s global customers.

Quantum Computing with Abby Mitchell from IBM

Wed, 08 Mar 2023 16:37:32 +0000

In this episode I have the pleasure of chatting with Abby Mitchell who works as a Quantum Developer Advocate at IBM.

We discuss what is quantum computing, how to get into it, why it’s important, what it can be used for, and shockingly what Abby likes on her pizza—you’ve wont believe it, but you might try it!

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Episode 5: Intentional Ignorance with Greg Koberger

Fri, 30 Dec 2022 21:28:59 +0000

Creators & Guests

Gregory Koberger - Guest
Matt Gardner - Host

Things mentioned in this episode:

Readme
YCombinator
Superhuman
Startup Escape (the escape room mentioned)

Episode 4: Model, Coach, and Care with Martin Woodward at GitHub Universe 2022

Sat, 12 Nov 2022 06:19:48 +0000

In this episode I’m joined by Martin Woodward, VP of Developer Relations at GitHub. We recorded this episode at GitHub Universe 2022 in San Francisco. We talk about the conference, DevRel, some of the new GitHub features, how people use GitHub, and more. Hope you enjoy!

Bookmarks:

What is GitHub and what do you do? (1:34)
When did DevRel start at GitHub? (7:38)
Codespaces (11:42)
James Bond (15:59)
IntelliJ and Codespaces (21:33)
Developer Productivity (25:37)

Mentions:

Everything new from GitHub Universe 2022
GitHub Actions Importer
What’s new with Codespaces from GitHub Universe 2022
Martin Woodward on Twitter
Picture of the e-ink GitHub Universe Badge (in this post)

Episode 3: APIs and IPAs pt. 2

Sat, 22 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000

How can you build an API that has a good developer experience?
On solving problems for who’s trying to use your api
Documentation acting as an API’s UI/UX
What Greg and I remember about being rejected from Y Combinator
How we learned how to program
Favorite APIs
Slack’s API
A short story about the hockey API that I glued together to flash lights when my team scored on TV.
ReadMe
YCombinator
Wat
Slack’s API

_ Special thanks to Lance’s son, Alex, for creating the new intro entirely on his own from scratch._

Episode 2: APIs and IPAs

Sat, 08 May 2021 00:43:59 +0000

Show Notes:

ReadMe
YCombinator
Lyft’s API
RESTful APIs - or check out REST ELI5
Shawn Fanning
Guy Kawasaki
National Youth Leadership Forum on Technology — it looks like they’ve changed the name of the programs slightly.

Special thanks to Lance’s son, Alex for creating the new intro entirely on his own from scratch.

Episode 1: Kubernetes is a Playground

Tue, 20 Apr 2021 23:50:19 +0000

**Kubernetes is a Playground ** Discussed:

Kubernetes - The main topic and the container orchestration system originally built and open sourced at Google.
Lens - a visual kubernetes tool
Visual Studio Code - A Code Editor
helm - The package manager for Kubernetes
kind - Kubernetes in Docker
Micro k8s - Simple lightweight production grade kubernetes by Canonical, the maintainers of Ubuntu.
k3s - Lightweight Kubernetes
Reinvent - Amazon Web Services conference
EKS - Amazon’s managed kubernetes service
GKE - Google’s managed kubernetes service
Preemptible Nodes - Short lived nodes on Google that are a fraction of the normal cost.
DKS - Digital Ocean’s managed kubernetes service
Kustomize - Kubernetes native config management

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