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On today's episode of The Rabbit Hole, we explore the concepts of strongly-typed and loosely-typed programming languages. Despite widespread usage, these terms lack a clear, agreed-upon definition in the industry. We aim to clear up confusion and reveal surprising truths about these concepts.

If you think you don’t need a launch plan, you may need to think again. In today’s episode, Alex Bernardin, Lead Product Manager at Stride, joins us to explain the circumstances under which having a launch plan is very important and how you can ensure that it goes to plan.

Today hosts Michael Nunez and David Anderson discuss how you can reset yourself and build positive habits. We explore how you can reboot your brain, we touch on the benefits of being helpful, exercising, maintaining your social connections, eating more healthily, learning something new, and keeping a consistent sleep routine.

Today we are approaching it from a slightly different direction, looking at the idea of 'anti-goals', and how these might help you in your work and personal life. Simply put, anti-goals are a way to work backward from an undesirable outcome and use these as motivation and an incentive to avoid the actions or circumstances that might facilitate it.

Today we unpack the bus factor while touching on the top ways that you can boost your team’s capabilities while increasing project resilience. Join us to learn more about dealing with the bus factor and making projects that aren’t tied to the performance of one or two individuals.

In today's episode, we will be talking about toasting to failures. We don’t have any drinks or apple juice in the recording session with us, but we will pretend that we have glasses and we will put them in the air as we toast to our failures.

In today's show, we talk to Stride full-stack developer Boris Paskhaver who knows a thing or two about creating content. Boris shares a few pointers for those who would like to become content creators but always find an excuse not to.

On today’s show, Jacob will be talking with us about the dangers of ifs! Now we all know how it goes with ifs and how out-of-hand things can get over time, but on the other hand, how do you avoid ifs in the projects you’re working on?

The reality of the workplace means that entering a new team or having someone enter your team is likely and some of the centering and entering techniques shared in the episode allow for these transitions to be managed smoothly.

Ever wondered whether time away from the screen can lead to any positive outcomes? On today’s episode, we talk about the benefits of vacation, and how they far out way the negatives, while allowing for more productive, alert developers within your team.

In today’s world of rapidly-changing technologies and job descriptions, it can be difficult to know which path to pursue. As a result, it often feels simpler to fall into a pattern where we are funneled down the path of least resistance, rather than taking ownership of what we truly want.

Whether you call it a Stand-Up, a Daily Scrum, a Huddle, or a Roll Call this daily check-in is a powerful tool you and your team can use to maximize productivity. During today’s episode, you will learn how to do a Stand-Up, what a Stand-Up consists of, and some pitfalls that you may be deterred by along the way.

Often, developers will be asked to work on a story, but nobody knows quite how to deal with it. That is why, today, we are discussing spiking feature work. We are joined by Rob O’Brien, one of the partners here at Stride, and a self-confessed “strongly opinionated product manager.”

Companies receive a large number of applications during the recruitment process which places extra pressure on candidates to stand out amongst the masses. How do you present your resume professionally while ensuring you catch the attention of recruiters?

In this episode of The Rabbit Hole, we're talking about The Rules of Simplicity and why you should be following them when building software.

Today, we're going to talk about two websites to keep in your back pocket for JavaScript. If you are currently doing JavaScript development in your projects, there are two websites or repositories that can make your life a lot easier.

The remote work landscape calls for conscious congruity amongst teammates, now more than ever. The best way to ensure everyone’s on the same page is to construct a working agreement that everyone is on board with.

According to Wikipedia, the Five S’s are a workplace organization method that uses a list of five Japanese words, Seiri, Seiton, Seiso, Seiketsu, and Shitsuke, to describe how to organize a workspace for efficiency and effectiveness.

Niko-Niko is a visual calendar tool that can be used to track the emotions of your team members, similar to that of a happiness index or a mood board. It contains a column for your team members’ names and provides them the opportunity to record their emotions at the end of every workday with emoticons and other graphics, allowing you to track patterns and improve the morale of your staff.

Tune into episode 270 of the Rabbit Hole, where we replay our discussion about extreme programming with Kevin Thomas.

Welcome back to the podcast everyone and thanks for sticking with us through our little hiatus! Today Michael is riding solo and talking about Tailwind CSS.

If you’ve ever run into issues with CORS (cross-origin resource sharing), just know that you are not alone! In today’s episode we ask, ‘What the CORS?!’ and delve into the mechanics of CORS, the purpose it serves, and how to keep from freaking out when you receive a baffling error message in your browser.

On episode 267 we replay a conversation about defining continuous delivery and what can truly fall into this category.

Listen to episode 266 where we replay our conversation on continuous delivery. We start with a definition of CI where we discuss how it helps reduce bugs.

In episode 265 we replay part 2 of our conversation where we discuss both product and development with Rob O'Brien, Partner at Stride Consulting.

In episode 264 we replay part 1 of our conversation with Rob O'Brien about product and developers.