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The Overcommitted Podcast. 4 Software engineers chatting about their commits, their commitments, and some stuff in between.
@brittanyellich.comReposted by @overcommitted.devHey, this looks familiar! 😁 Happy to say our podcast is now on ATProto, as it should be ❤️
@overcommitted.devNetworking is a muscle. Roxy went to her first conference in Jan 2024 and barely spoke. At her second she met the people who brought her into her current job. Her rule: you don't have to be fake about it. Being a little silly is a breath of fresh air. This week's ep 🎙️
@overcommitted.devNobody told Roxy she could work in computers. She found out from Instagram reels. Middle school math teacher, then school librarian, then self taught dev, now a developer community manager. Ep 80 is out today 🎙️
@overcommitted.devNew episode! Roxy Rodriguez-Becker on going from middle school math teacher to developer community manager: studying at 4AM, treating networking as a muscle you build, and shipping a tube feed tracker that real families rely on. 🎙️
@overcommitted.devThis week's episode: you can be green and still be failing. Network blips and ephemeral errors are normal failure, and that is what error budgets are for. Catastrophic failure is the anomalous kind. Knowing the difference is a skill. 🎙️
@overcommitted.dev"if I blame anyone in a postmortem, I blame myself." Hindsight bias is the biggest obstacle to a good incident review, and sometimes there was no mistake to learn from. Accountability is not the same as blame. 🎙️
@overcommitted.devNew episode! Erika finally read "How Complex Systems Fail" and she and Bethany dig into normal vs catastrophic failure, whether root cause analysis actually works, hindsight bias in postmortems, and keeping the humans on call from burning out. 🎙️
@overcommitted.devWhat's the "just how software works" thing that secretly drives you nuts? Tell us and we'll find out why.
Got work drama you can't post in Slack? Send it anonymously and we'll tell you what we'd really do.
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@brittanyellich.comReposted by @overcommitted.devOkay, I wrote up a whole pitch on The Discourse this last week for @eggyhead-dev.bsky.social and @trustyduck.bsky.social , and I want to share it here in case we don't end up doing it. Mostly as a way for me to wrap my head around it all. So here's my TL;DR on AI safety the last couple weeks:
@overcommitted.devPlot. Problem. Solution. Elliott Minns on why technical depth in developer content isn't just about knowing the thing - it's about knowing how to tell the story around it. This week's ep is worth the listen 🎙️
@overcommitted.devThis week on Overcommitted we met with Sreya Sarathy to chat about getting started in tech when AI exists and imposter syndrome (turns out, we all have it).
Check it out at overcommitted.dev/starting-a-s...