From Individual Contributor to CTO

Mike Chen, CTO at Motivo, joins Nick Taylor to discuss their path from individual contributor (IC), to engineering manager, to CTO.

Additional topics covered

• They explore challenges in setting up local development environments that mirror production, particularly for large-scale microservice systems.
• Mike shares insights from working with Google's monorepo and emphasizes the importance of comprehensive code documentation.
• They discuss how AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude are impacting software development, including the potential for specialized AI agents.
• The conversation covers the transition from individual contributor to engineering manager, highlighting the different skills needed for each role.
• They discuss the importance of mentorship while emphasizing that individuals must actively work to improve their skills.

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Waku, the Minimal React Framework

Daishi Kato, a React library author and the creator of Waku, a minimal React framework, joins Nick Taylor to discuss the Waku project. Daishi and Nick will live code something with Waku.

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Full-stack JavaScript with The Boring Javascript Stack

Kelvin Omereshone , Lead maintainer, Sails.js, joins Nick Taylor to discuss full-stack JavaScript with the Boring JavaScript Stack.

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Autoshow: Automated Content Repurposing Tool

Anthony Campolo joins Nick Taylor to discuss the latest improvements to Autoshow, a tool for repurposing content. Autoshow automates the processing of audio and video content from various sources, including YouTube videos, playlists, podcast RSS feeds, and local media files. It performs transcription, summarization, and chapter generation using different language models (LLMs) and transcription services.

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Code Reviews for a11y Pull Requests

Fatuma Abdullahi joins Nick Taylor to review some accessibility fixes up for the @OpenSauced app repository.

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Building a GitHub Copilot Extension: A Step-by-Step Guide

Nick builds out a GitHub Copilot extension from A-Z based off his recent blog post, Creating a GitHub Copilot Extension: A Step-by-Step Guide.

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A Deep Dive into Astro's Content Layer

Matt Kane, a core maintainer for Astro, joins Nick Taylor, to dig into Astro's new content layer!

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Open Source: From Design to Dev

Drew Powers, co-creator of the Astro framework joins Nick Taylor to discuss open source, design and development.

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Let's build a Copilot extension!

Gregor Martynus and Francis Batac from GitHub join Nick Taylor to build out a proof of concept Copilot Extension for OpenSauced.

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GenAIScript

Peli de Halleux, a software engineer at Microsoft that works on the GenAIScript project, will give us an introduction to the project.

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API Monitoring and Observability

Anthony Alaribe, co-founder at APItoolkit, joins Nick Taylor to discuss API monitoring and observability.

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Spicy Cybersecurity Showdown

Nick Taylor and Diana Pham, a Developer Advocate at Vonage, face off in this Spicy Cybersecurity Showdown!

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Open Graph Images with Cloudinary

Colby Fayock, Director of Developer Experience Engineering at Cloudinary, joins Nick Taylor to discuss and build Open Graph (OG) images with Cloudinary.

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Freaky Fast Full Stack with Expo Router + API Routes

Keith Kurak, from Expo, joins Nick Taylor to build out a full stack app with Expo Router and API routes.

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React Server Components with Go

Yaroslav Lapin joins Nick Taylor to discuss React Server Components usage in Go.

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