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Today on The Rabbit Hole we are sharing an episode from Scaling Tech with Debbie Madden, who is the Founder and Chairwoman here at Stride. The podcast is well worth checking out and listeners can expect to hear some great conversations between Debbie and top tech leaders and experts on a wide variety of contemporary issues facing the industry.

Have you tried GitHub Actions? In this episode, we talk about experimenting with GitHub Actions and why YAML will be the programming language of the future.

Created by occupational therapists, a “sensory diet” is a treatment strategy designed to help children feel calm, ready to learn, and in control of their bodies.

In episode 298 of The Rabbit Hole, our panelists will discuss preventing systems from going sour.

In episode 297 of The Rabbit Hole, our panelists will discuss how false feature rich software has a host of interesting features that can make the customer little or no money.

In episode 04 of The Rabbit Hole, our panelists will discuss Pair Programming, its benefits, and potential pitfalls compared to other programming methods.

Tune into Episode 12 of The Rabbit Hole to hear our panel discuss this week's topic: Code Tests.

On today’s episode we’re talking story points, story sizes and story planning. What happens when you’re working as team, and find out that a two is actually secretly a five?

In the first episode of The Rabbit Hole podcast, you'll hear the mission of the podcast, and then learn about how the podcast will accomplish its mission.

Our second podcast explores Test Driven Development. Listen today to learn more about TDD, including how it can offer value, and when it's relevant.

For agile teams, executing your planning meeting correctly is essential for success. This week's podcast discusses best practices for doing this right.

On our fifth episode of The Rabbit Hole, our panel of developers will discuss the value of the agile retrospective & tips to get the most out of these meetings.

In this episode of The Rabbit Hole, we consider the bittersweet experience of rolling off a project. Listen to learn how to leave a lasting legacy.

Tune into episode 08 of The Rabbit Hole to hear our panel of developers discuss best practices for starting a new project.

In our latest podcast, our panel discusses mentors vs. managers. Tune in to hear differences between the two roles, and the different shapes a mentor can take.

On this week's episode of the rabbit hole, our panel talks about the importance of vacations, and how they help developers stay alert on the job.

On this week's episode of the rabbit hole, Sarah Cassidy joins our panel to coach us through the process of creating a tech meetup.

Tune into Episode 13 of The Rabbit Hole to hear our panel discuss this week's topic: Knowledge Decay.

Tune into Episode 13 of The Rabbit Hole to hear our panel discuss this week's topic: Learning New Languages.

Tune into Episode 15 of The Rabbit Hole to hear our panel discuss this week's topic: Conferences.

Tune into Episode 16 of The Rabbit Hole to hear our panel discuss this week's topic: Remote Teams.

Tune into Episode 18 of The Rabbit Hole to hear our panel discuss this week's topic: Editors.

Tune into Episode 17 of The Rabbit Hole to hear our panel discuss this week's topic: Deadlines.

Tune into Episode 19 of The Rabbit Hole to hear our panel discuss this week's topic: Tech Debt.

On today’s episode we welcome Rachel Ober. Rachel is a Ruby on Rails developer based in New York City.

Today on the show we will be talking about Scrum, Kanban and Prioritization, and what exactly that all means. We are joined by our featured guest, Charles Quirin, a Software Engineer at Stride Consulting with over 7 years of experience improving tech operations.

Today, we’ll be talking about side projects and why developers like to pick them up.

Today we will be talking all about incremental design: How working on this design using the act of process will help your team build better products, gain effective feedback and how that can help you boost sales at the end of the day.

On today’s episode, we’ll be talking about workspace, workstations, and working agreements. It cannot be underestimated how affected we are by our surroundings.

On today’s show, we will be talking about knowledge sharing. As developers, we gain knowledge and we try to disperse that knowledge to other people on our teams.

Today we’ll be talking all about functional programming together with special guest, Adam Trilling.

Today’s episode is brought to you all the way from the Plattekill Mountains, at a ski lodge in upstate New York.

In episode 30 of our podcast, we talk about the differences between Git flow versus Trunk Based Development.

On today’s episode, we’ll be talking about feedback, both giving and receiving feedback. Why is feedback so important?

Today, we’ll be talking about psychological safety. We’ll go into what is psychological safety and how important is it in the work space.

Today on the show we’ll be talking about unit testing. Unit testing is the most important thing that we do for our clients and we will be talking about unit testing best practices.

Today on the show we welcome Ian McNally. Ian is a Software engineer specializing in the web. He currently works at Schoology as a UI architect, where he is helping shape and deliver their design system.

Today on the show we will be talking about tech role models. Inside this episode we are going to be discussing people who we want to be when we grow up, who we strive to be, and who we want to work with.

Today on the show we will be taking about Leet terminal hack skills.

Today we are going to be talking about semantic versioning. When you should do it, when you shouldn’t do it, and what the heck it is?

Today on the podcast we will be talking about salaries. Ever wonder how much money you're making in comparison to other developers?

Today we’ll be talking about test coverage and working with legacy code base, going from bad to good and knowing when to do it.

Today we will be talking about toasting to failures. We will get into what a toast to failure is and share some stories that pertain to failing and we will, of course, toast to them.

Today on the show we will be talking about the Batman and support rotations. The Batman or Batwoman is a real role and not just a superhero.

On todays show we welcome Max Jacobson. We’ll be discussing the differences between Ruby and other current languages and get Max’s perspective on which language is better for certain applications.

Our guest today on the show is Ben Jackson. Ben works in people operations and runs a company called for the win which helps companies to better their culture and create an optimized working environment for its employees.

In our industry, change is inevitable and today on the podcast we are going to be talking about how to make organizational change stick.

Today on the show we will be talking about, the show! We are going over our editor picks of the Rabbit Hole for 2017, reminiscing over the best episodes since we started recording the podcast back in September of 2016.

Today we have a very special New Year edition of the podcast! We chat about the idea of new year tech resolutions and the things we hope to achieve in the coming 12 months.

On today’s episode we break down the idea of ‘The Last Responsible Moment’. We talk about the benefits of leaving certain decisions to the latest possible time before finalizing them.

On today’s episode we talk to Tom Benham about machine learning. Tom has worked in finance and risk services and has studied data science machine learning.

Today’s show deals with the sometimes confusing, sometimes misleading term ‘DevOps’. We chat to Brain Guthrie who has worked at a host of different big companies including Soundcloud and ThoughtWorks and has many years of experience in and around the fields that the term DevOps is supposed to bridge.

On today’s show we discuss context switching. We all know how much time can be spent on changing between projects and how distracting arising issues can be.

Today we’ll be talking about how to have effective one on one meetings and why you should bother having them. There’s nothing worse than a manager cornering you at the coffee station and saying, “We need to talk”.

On today’s show we talk about refactoring. As most of us know, refactoring can be a very important part of tidying code and making it more useable in the future.

Today on the podcast we welcome the awesome and the infamous, Saron Yitbarek. If you haven’t heard of her before, Saron is a developer, speaker, the Founder of Code Newbie and is heading up the 2018 Code Land Conference kicking off in May this year in NYC.

The focus of today’s episode is GraphQL. The team break down the language and how it might just be the way to go for the foreseeable future. Dave shares much of his experience and opinions on using GraphQL and we look at how it can fit into the rest of your operations.

On todays show’s we talk about a few great tools that you can use with Python. We are joined by Darlin Alberto from Mighty.com to help us unpack some of these tools and break down what’s good and what’s not.

In today’s episode, we’re speaking about the terror of public speaking. Public speaking is scary for a lot of people, ourselves included.

Today on the show we are joined by none other than our host, Michael Nuñez’s brother, Steven Nuñez! Steven will be helping us in our discussion about a very special topic and one that is very common amongst developers, imposter’s syndrome! Sound familiar?

Today, we’ll be talking about whether comments are considered harmful or helpful. We’re pretty sure that there are many different comments you may have run into in your careers.

On today’s show we have the honor of welcoming Jacob O’Donnell as our special guest. Jacob is a consultant at Stride and we are very happy to have such a good friend and experienced programmer join the show this time around.

Today, we’ll be talking about Agile. Agile all the things. Everything from top to bottom. Left to right. Your whole life.

On today’s episode of the The Rabbit Hole we welcome back Tom Behnam to continue our exploration of machine learning.

On today’s episode of The Rabbit Hole Podcast we are talking guilds. What are guilds? Are you a part of one? Why should you join or form one? We’ll asking and helping you answer all these questions and more!

On today’s episode we are talking about the important topic of diversity and inclusion and to help us with our discussion we are pleased to host Derek Parham, CTO of JOOR.

On today’s episode we welcome two guests, Madelyn Freed and Sam Handler to help us discuss the topics of tech debt and trust.

On today’s episode we welcome back Kevin Thomas to help us as we unpack the principles of Agile!

On today’s episode we are talking about monoliths! That’s right, they’re back. Not quite from the dead but definitely from a deep sleep and the unfavored sock drawer.

On today’s episode of the Rabbit Hole we are talking about learning culture and just how vital it is to a functioning and successful organization.

Today on The Rabbit Hole we are talking about extreme programming and to help us with this we welcome our very own Kevin Thomas.

On today’s show we welcome back our special and esteemed guest Steven Nuñez, as we ask, ‘Why not use Elixir?”

In this episode of The Rabbit Hole we tackle the world of front end build systems. The field has come along very quickly and things have developed at an almost breakneck space with new systems and frameworks popping up all around us.

On the episode today we welcome our colleagues and friends Meredith Edwards and Madelyn Freed to help us discuss feedback and how to do it properly.

On today’s episode of The Rabbit Hole we welcome our friend Kyle Rush, VP of Engineering at Casper to help us discuss becoming a manager.

Welcome back to another episode of The Rabbit Hole. Today on the show we are joined by Roberto Pedroso, and we’ll be talking about authorization and how to keep people out of our websites.

Today on the show, we welcome special guest, Kelly Wu. Kelly is a software consultant and as a consultant has worked with many different tech leads and teams throughout her career.

On this episode of The Rabbit Hole we delve into the subject of mentorship! To help us along the path we welcome Avielle Wolfe and Kimberly Suazo who are both developers at Stride.

On today’s episode of the The Rabbit Hole we are talking GraphQL and getting some hot takes from our guest Stephen Meriwether!

Welcome back to another episode of The Rabbit Hole! On today’s show we welcome our friend Dane O’Connor, who is here to tell us why we need to stop using the term ‘tech debt’.

Today’s episode is a field recording all the way from Florence, Italy where our very own Dave Anderson interviewed Mikey Ariel about her presentation at PyCon Italia.

Today on The Rabbit Hole we give you Part 2 of Dave’s adventures to PyCon Italia. While over there giving his speech, Dave interviewed Iacopo Spalletti, the Founder and CTO of Nephila, an open source and Django web company based in Florence, London, and Zürich.

Welcome back to another episode of The Rabbit Hole. Today on the show we have another interview from Dave’s time at PyCon Italia, the last of a three part series.

Welcome back to another episode of The Rabbit Hole. Today we welcome Blake Deboer, also from Stride, to help us unpack the topic of Scrum! Scrum is an Agile framework, a topic we have covered at length previously on the podcast and we get down to what exactly Scrum is and what it consists of.

Welcome back to another episode of The Rabbit Hole. Today on the show we are continuing our conversation on the books we’ve read within the last couple of months. This episode of books is a little different, because none of the books that we’ve currently read were programming books!

In this episode of The Rabbit Hole we are unpacking the The Seven Wastes of Software Development! Dave and Michael break down the seven points as they appear in the book Implementing Lean Software Development by Mary and Tom Poppendieck and chat about their experience and thoughts on each.

This episode of The Rabbit Hole is wholly concerned with remote work and to help us unpack this issue we welcome back our friend Jonathan Belcher from Automaticc.

Welcome back to the podcast everyone! Today we will be talking about the idea of volunteering as a software engineer and the jumping off point for this discussion is our producer extraordinaire’s recent travels to Mozambique.

Today, we have a special episode with some special guests. We welcome our Rabbit Hole Veteran, Emmanuel Genard and our previous guest and friend, Meredith Edwards. Today we are shedding some light on a secret new podcast that aims to take over the entire podcasting empire.

Welcome to another episode of The Rabbit Hole. Today on the show we’ll be diving into the topic of building your brand as a developer, where we are going to help you build up your own brand.

On today’s show we discuss whether we can call developers engineers! For a long time, the term software engineer has been thrown around but there has also been some debate about its accuracy and whether it is appropriate to use these titles so interchangeably.

On the show today, we’ll be talking about testing pitfalls and avoiding common testing blunders. We wanted to get a word that felt like the things we deal with in testing. “Blunders” is that word! Blunders are those common mistakes we find ourselves making when we are testing.

On today’s show we are going to be talking about the software we didn’t write and using third party services. We are developers and we do not like writing software — so why is that? The only thing better than deleting code is just not writing it in the first place.

Welcome back to another episode of The Rabbit Hole Podcast. Today we are talking about the evils of preassigning tickets!

Welcome back to another episode of The Rabbit Hole, everybody! Today on the show we are talking about one of our favorite recent subjects, GraphQL.

Welcome back to the Rabbit Hole. Today we are here to tell you all to stop eating al desko! What even is “eating al desko”? Well, simply put, it’s eating at your desk. Now although it sounds delicious and appealing, it’s actually a thing you should never do.

On today’s episode we are joined by Sumana Harihareswara, a programmer, technology executive, and open source expert.

Welcome back to another episode of the Rabbit Hole, the definitive developer’s podcast. Today on the show we are talking about the top editor picks of 2018, meaning the top picks we chose here on the Rabbit Hole.

In this episode of The Rabbit Hole we welcome our friend Jacob O’Donnell to help us talk about the shackles of frameworks.

On today’s show we talk about team health checks. You have to check on the team, see how they’re doing and multiple squads throughout your organization.