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Balancing Developer Identity

Adam Gordon Bell September 2023 Balancing Identity Hello, CoRecursive newsletter subscriber, It’s September now, and I have a new episode out here: https://corecursive.com/configuring-identity-adam-jacob/​ It's a look behind the scenes to the creation of Chef - the game-changing infrastructure...
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26 days ago • 3 min read

Learning When to Learn

Adam Gordon Bell August 2023 Learning When to Learn Hello, CoRecursive newsletter subscriber, It’s August now, and I have a new episode out here: The Science of Learning to Code​ It's about learning, and this is a topic very dear to my own heart. The episode shares some history of learning...
about 2 months ago • 5 min read

Passion and Focus

Adam Gordon Bell July 3rd Passion and Focus Hello, CoRecursive newsletter subscriber, It's July now, and I have a new episode out here: https://corecursive.com/a-dark-room-with-amir-rajan/​ Amir is amazing. I identify with his early struggles – his struggles working with people who didn't care –...
3 months ago • 4 min read

Waiting for Marv

Adam Gordon Bell June 1st Waiting for Marv Quiting Stack Overflow It's June now, and I have a new episode out here: https://corecursive.com/stack-overflow/​ The episode is the story of the longest-tenured employee at Stack Overflow, Ben Dumke-von der Ehe. He became an early employee of Stack...
4 months ago • 2 min read

Learning to Learn

Adam Gordon Bell May 2nth Learning to Learn From Project Management to Data Compression Innovator It's May now, and I have a new episode out here: https://corecursive.com/data-compression-yann--collet/​ Yann Collet became interested in programming and discovered his passion for data compression...
5 months ago • 3 min read

Be Like Ken

Adam Gordon Bell April 3rd Be Like Ken Hello, CoRecursive newsletter subscriber! April is here! March has been a challenging month for me. My dad is in the hospital, and I'm heading out on a road trip to visit him shortly. Some months are tougher than others. Doug Crockford But Episode 087 of...
6 months ago • 4 min read

Shades of Grey Personal Truths

Adam Gordon Bell March 2nd Shades of Grey Personal Truths Hello, CoRecursive newsletter subscriber, It's March now, and I have a new episode out here: Sun's Mobile Blunders​ Shai Almog worked at Sun on Mobile JVMs just as phones started to turn from phones into something else. Sun had deep...
7 months ago • 2 min read

Make-Believe Projects

Hello, CoRecursive newsletter subscriber! It’s February now, and I have a new episode out here: https://corecursive.com/shipping-graphing-calculator/​ It’s the story of sneaking onto the Apple Campus to finish working on a project that got canceled. Each episode is only as good as the story, and...
8 months ago • 1 min read

When Working Hard Isn't Enough

Happy 2023 Newsletter, readers! The first episode of the year is a very special one to me. It’s an interview with long-time podcast guest and sort of neighbor Don McKay. Often times when I have Don on the podcast it’s a zany light episode where we explore a tech topic in a light-hearted way....
9 months ago • 3 min read

From DOOM to DOOMED

Hello CoRecursive newsletter subscriber! It's December now, and I have a new episode: https://corecursive.com/doomed-to-fail-with-burger-becky/ My Guest, Becky Heineman, shares the story of porting DOOM to the 3DO console. I grew up in this era and remember playing Wolfenstein on my home...
10 months ago • 1 min read
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