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2026 61
- Technical Debt: How Engineering Leaders Measure It and Decide What to Pay Down
- Outsourcing Custom Software Development: Scope and Control
- Independent Contractor vs. Employee: Developer Rules in 2026
- Time and Materials vs. Fixed Price: Which Risk Each Contract Moves
- Software Development Outsourcing: A Delivery Guide
- Software Project Estimation: How to Present a Range Finance Can Plan Against
- MVP Development Cost: The Scope Decisions That Set the Price
- Offshore vs. Outsource: Which Software Model Fits?
- App Development Cost: What Drives the Price of a Build in 2026
- Onshore vs. Offshore Software Development: When Each Works
- Nearshore vs. Offshore Software Development: When Each Fits
- Technical Recruiting in 2026: How to Hire Senior Engineers
- How to Hire a Software Developer: A 2026 Hiring Guide
- Software Development Outsourcing Companies: 7 Types Compared by Who Owns Delivery
- Nearshore Software Development Companies: 2026 Buyer Guide
- In-House vs. Outsourcing Software Development: How to Compare the Real Cost
- How to Hire Remote Developers: A Delivery-First Guide
- How to Find App Developers: Six Places to Look in 2026
- Web Developer Job Description Template: Scope, Level, and Terms
- Web Developer Job Description Template: Scope, Level, and Terms
- CTO Job Description by Company Stage: Full-Time vs. Fractional
- CTO Job Description by Company Stage: Full-Time vs. Fractional
- Node.js Developer Interview Questions for Hiring Managers
- Node.js Developer Interview Questions for Hiring Managers
- Staff Engineer vs. Principal Engineer: Scope and Hiring
- Staff Engineer vs. Principal Engineer: Scope and Hiring
- MVP Development: A Founder’s Guide to Scope, Team and Delivery
- Software Engineer vs. Software Developer: A Hiring Guide
- Data Science vs. Data Engineering: Which One Should You Hire First?
- How Long Does It Take to Build an App? What Drives the Timeline
- Technical Interview Questions That Show How Developers Work
- Senior Engineer vs. Staff Engineer: When to Hire Each
- Staff Augmentation vs. Managed Services: The Difference and When Each Makes Sense
- Backend vs. Frontend Developer: Which Should You Hire?
- System Design Interview Questions to Ask Senior Engineers
- What Makes a Senior Developer? How to Tell Real Seniority From a Title
- React Interview Questions for Hiring Managers (With What Good Answers Look Like)
- Kubernetes Interview Questions for Hiring Managers (With What Good Answers Look Like)
- Data Engineer Job Description Template (Copy and Paste) + What to Pay
- Angular Interview Questions for Hiring Managers (With What Good Answers Look Like)
- Who Trains the Next Senior Engineer?
- The Cost of Output Is the Judgment It Consumes
- Seniority Is About Ambiguity and Decomposition
- The Strange Marketing Genius of “AI Doom”
- What an AI Governance Framework Actually Looks Like
- AI Governance Is Becoming Part of Software Engineering
- Six Old Books About How People Work
- Global Talent, Without Global Scale
- The Venture Vernacular
- The Third Generation of Services Sourcing Companies
- What Upwork Got Right—and What Upwork Got Wrong
- What Taylor Swift Can Teach Us About Enterprise Software Engineering
- Is AI Changing the Minimum Viable Firm?
- AI Is Changing the Minimum Viable Hire
- What Would Kauṭilya Think of the Modern Corporation?
- What Would Change Your Mind?
- Location Matters Part 3: The True Cost of Distributed Teams & Building the Mixed Model
- Location Matters Part 2: Matching Engineering Location to Task Ambiguity
- Location Matters Part 1: Redefining Onshore, Nearshore, and Offshore
- The Best IT Staffing Companies Know When You Don’t Need More Engineers
- Beyond Staff Augmentation: Start With the Business Problem
2025 71
- Scale AI Alternatives for Enterprise AI Teams
- Feedback Loops Beyond Boundaries – When Customers Are in the Loop
- Moving fast without breaking things — Golden Signals & DORA Metrics
- RLHF Explained: How Human Feedback Actually Trains AI Models
- Moving fast without breaking things — Structured Logging
- Moving Fast Without Breaking Things –Preview Environments
- Moving fast without breaking things — Dev Containers
- When Collaboration Slows Execution (And When It Doesn’t)
- What 180+ Engineers Revealed About Actually Using Claude Code
- Understanding Conway’s Law in Modern Engineering Organizations
- AI Made Senior Developers More Valuable. That’s Why You Need to Hire More Juniors.
- Your Best Engineers Are Breaking Your Rules. Good.
- React Developer Hiring Guide for Technical Managers
- The Engineering Team’s Guide to Fun: Type 1, Type 2, and Type 3 Explained
- How to Hire Web Developers in 2025: Complete Guide for Technical Managers
- More Engineers ≠ Faster Delivery: The Cognitive Load Reality
- Stop Hiring “The Best Engineers”
- My Starmix is Ruined and It’s a Sign of Something Much Worse
- AI That Actually Works: Process Improvements for Real Executives
- The engineering leader’s guide to contractor payments
- From Reactive to Proactive: Building AI Systems That Anticipate Business Needs
- Gun.io Partners with Ramp: Two Growth Problems, One Partnership
- AI Agent Orchestration: Building Multi-Tool Workflows That Actually Ship
- The Rhythms of Remote Work
- GPT-5 Can Generate More Code. You Still Need Humans Who Know What Code to Generate.
- The Dwarkesh Method: Deep Preparation Beats Platform Volume Every Time
- Choosing a project management framework in 2025
- You Can’t Outpay Meta for AI Talent (Here’s Where You Might Be Able to Compete)
- Why Your Network Always Wins (And Why It’s Not Enough)
- Why Venture Leaders Can’t Scale Past Their Networks (And How to Fix It)
- Why Global Talent Is Inevitable (And How to Win at It Now)
- Mastering LLM Prompts: The RIPE Framework
- Hire Remote Golang Developers: Complete Guide to Building Distributed Go Teams
- Creating Business Workflows with LLMs and MCP
- I Bet You Don’t Know How to Measure AI Engineering Impact
- How to Hire JavaScript Developers: The Complete 2025 Guide
- Building a Standalone MCP Server: Bridging Legacy and Modern Systems with AI
- Ultimate Guide to Software Development Outsourcing in 2025
- Master Git Bisect to Find the Exact Commit That Broke Your Code
- Wrapping an Existing API with MCP: How to Expose Your Current APIs to LLMs
- Managed Engineering Services vs Staff Augmentation in 2025
- Model Context Protocol: The Missing Layer Between AI and Your Apps
- Rubber Duck Debugging: Why You Should Keep a Duck on Your Desk
- Exploring the Ballmer Peak
- Storing Multi-Line Strings in JSON with JSONLint
- Job Responsibilities of a CTO in 2025
- Brainstorming Sessions That Don’t Suck: 5 Proven Tips
- How to do a Git Log Search
- Curation Is Key: Why Dedicated Contract Developers Boost Retention & Performance
- March Engineering Update
- Scaling AI Infrastructure for LLMs: Best Practices for Mid-Sized Companies
- How to Successfully Integrate GPT & RAG Into Your Product Roadmap
- February Engineering Update
- The Evolution of AI: Looking to the Future of AI Assistance
- January Engineering Update
- Inside the Federal Tech Overhaul
- The True Cost of Employee Turnover: A Guide to Building Resilient Teams in 2025
- Context Is King: What Historic Tech Failures Teach Us About Building Better Organizations
- What GitHub Activity Really Says About Developer Productivity
- Building Trust With Remote Developers
- Setting Your Rate: A Flexible Approach to Getting Paid What You’re Worth
- Developer Work Verification Tools in 2025
- Trust Based Developer Productivity Measurement
- Remote Developer Productivity Monitoring: A Modern Approach to Engineering Team Management
- How Top Tech Companies Measure Software Developer Productivity
- Counter-Strike: The C++ Engine That Revolutionized Multiplayer Gaming and Game Development
- Engineering Productivity Metrics That Actually Matter
- Tight Genes: Intro to Genetic Algorithms with Dave Aronson
- Reimagining Remote Developer Productivity
- December Engineering Update: Building Better Connections
- The Hidden “Magic” Behind Your Netflix Recommendations
2024 90
- The Quiet Exhaustion of Tech Hiring
- Tech Hiring Outlook for 2025: End-of-Year Strategies to Navigate the Changing Landscape
- E-Wallet Systems in the Fintech Industry With Go: A Benefit Analysis
- Beyond Contract vs. W2: Why Gun Has Always Done Both
- Engineering Best Practices for Documentation: According to the Gun.io Community
- Evolving the Gun.io Brand
- 7 Reasons Documentation is Important for Engineers
- Key Techniques for AI-Based Anomaly Detection
- Beyond Business Books: How Fiction Improves Systems Thinking
- Essential Engineering Podcasts: From Technical Deep Dives to Industry Insights
- How to Pivot Your Career into a New Tech Stack (Even if Job Listings Require Years of Experience)
- The Lost Art of ITA Software Puzzles: When Problem-Solving Was Pure Joy
- NLP vs. LLMs: A Practical Guide for Engineering Teams
- How to Hire Software Developers: The Complete Guide to Technical Recruitment in 2024
- A Complete Guide to GitHub Forks: From Setup to Pull Requests
- AI Software Development Tools: A Strategic Guide for Engineering Teams
- Transforming Engineering Recruitment: Leveraging AI for Efficient Global Tech Talent Acquisition
- Top Strategies for Hiring Remote Developers
- October Engineering Update: Paving the Way for What’s Next
- Best Practices for Vetting Engineers and How Gun.io Makes It Seamless
- The Cost of Pulling Engineers off Projects: Why Outsource Vetting to Gun.io?
- How Gun.io Streamlines Engineering Vetting for Teams Focused on Product Delivery
- Stop Looking for Founder Mentality: Why You Need a Fractional CTO
- How Different AI Models Are Transforming Cybersecurity
- Preventing Burnout in Software Engineering
- Utilizing AI in Cybersecurity: Enhancing Threat Detection and Response
- AI in Software Development: Augmenting Expertise, Not Replacing It
- Why Software Engineers Should Work with Gun.io
- Your Ultimate Guide to Nailing the Interview Process
- How to Utilize “Community” as an Engineer
- Gun.io: Making Developer Networking Effortless and Enjoyable
- August 2024 Engineering Update
- Engineering Leader’s Guide to Advocating for Strategic AI Adoption
- Building with AI: Beyond the Hype
- You Are What We See: A Guide to Relevant Resume Information in Your Job Hunt
- BI Before AI: Going Slow to Go Fast
- The Universal Benefits of Remote-Ready Operations
- Do you need an AI/ML Engineer or a backend developer?
- How Reddit is Redefining Google Search and Your Roadmap
- How NOT to use Generative AI
- Community coworking: 15 expert tips for building an IRL community
- How to Get Involved with the Gun.io Community
- Simplifying Rate Setting for Freelancers
- Building a Resilient Career in the Age of AI, a conversation with Kevin Van Gundy, CEO at Hypermode
- Common Kubernetes interview questions and answers
- Employee loneliness: 5 ways can you make remote WFH less lonely for your employees
- Common TypeScript interview questions
- Fractional chief AI officers: what are they and why may your business need one?
- Kubernetes developer job description
- Best sites to hire Kubernetes developers
- Contract-to-hire freelance developers (aka why you should try before you buy)
- Introducing GunAI: Your talent search workhorse
- Can Devin ai actually replace web developers?
- Discover Talent: Streamlining your search for world-class developers
- React developer job description
- Common Node js interview questions and answers
- Season 4, Ep. 46 – Founder to Founder: with Matt Genovese, Founder & CEO, Planorama
- Best sites to hire Node.js developers
- Node js engineer job description
- The hiring tactics of successful millionaire founders: 5 hiring tips and tricks
- Season 4, Ep. 45 – Founder to Founder: with Brian Pontarelli, Founder & CEO of FusionAuth & CleanSpeak
- P.S. A Journey Beyond Recruitment: Life as a Talent Success Manager
- How to develop good mental health as a software developer
- Django framework interview questions
- Best sites to hire Django developers
- Django developer job description
- Hiring a CTO: What skills should you look for?
- Season 4, Ep. 44 – Founder to Founder: Sabber Ahamed, Tech Lead of xoolooloo
- Software architect interview questions and answers
- Best sites to hire software architects
- Could AI meet your web development needs?
- Chief software architect job description
- Managing up for software engineers
- Season 4, Ep. 43 – Founder to Founder: with Harpreet Singh, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Lauchable
- Next js interview questions
- Best sites to hire Next.js developers
- Next js developer job description
- Season 4, Ep. 42 – Founder to Founder: with Brian Douglas, Founder & CEO of OpenSauced
- Unlocking your potential: Developing leadership skills in tech
- Laravel framework interview questions
- Best sites to hire Laravel developers
- Laravel developer job description
- Season 4, Ep. 41 – Founder to Founder: with Ian Villa, COO & Chief Product Officer, Whisper Aero
- 29 software tools to scale your business quickly
- 5 ways you can re-engage talent in the new hybrid environment
- AWS architect interview questions
- Season 4, Ep. 40 – Founder to Founder: with Kate O’Neil, Co-founder & CEO, Teaming
- Best sites to hire AWS developers
- AWS developer job description
- Season 4, Ep. 39 – Founder to Founder: with Jeremy Snyder, Founder & CEO, FireTail
2023 144
- 101 Things We Learned in 2023
- Season 4, Ep. 38 – Founder to Founder: with Stefan Avram, Co-founder and Head of Growth, WunderGraph
- Lex Fridman’s daily routine can help you smash your programming goals
- Season 4, Ep. 37 – Founder to Founder: with Marc Taverner, Co-founder and CEO of XEROF
- Season 4, Ep. 36 – Founder to Founder: with David Khourshid, Co-Founder & CEO of Stately
- Tech career advice from a “dinosaur” who sold his $10M company
- Season 4, Ep. 35 – Founder to Founder: with Brandon Bayer, Co-Founder & CEO of Flightcontrol
- Season 4, Ep. 34 – Founder to Founder: with Asher Weiss, Co-founder and CEO of Tixologi
- Best sites to hire machine learning developers
- Derek Sivers’s Tech Independence could save you if Google died tomorrow
- Season 4, Ep. 33 – Founder to Founder: with Shane Sniteman, Chief Product Officer & Founder at Strumn
- Machine learning software engineer job description
- Season 4, Ep. 32 – Founder to Founder: with Evan Kirkham, CEO & Co-founder of Outlier
- Senior Android developer job description
- Android engineer job description
- Season 4, Ep. 31 – Founder to Founder: with Jerome Hardaway, Executive Director & Founder, Vets Who Code
- WordPress expert job description
- Optimal iPhone & Android settings for web developer productivity
- Season 4, Ep. 30 – Founder to Founder: with Kent Keirsey, CEO & Founder, Invoke AI
- Season 4, Ep. 29 – Founder to Founder: with Yaron Ben Nun, CEO & Founder, Nostromo
- Perl developer job description
- How to Hire Golang Developer: Complete Guide + Job Description Template
- Best sites to hire Swift developers
- Swift developer job description sample
- Junior SQL developer job description
- SQL developer job description sample
- Best sites to hire SQL developers
- Interview questions for Ruby on Rails developers
- Best sites to hire Ruby developers
- Season 4, Ep. 28 – TWiTH: Miss Manners addresses computer correspondence, with Gun.io
- Custom component libraries vs. off-the-shelf solutions: which one is better?
- Ruby on Rails engineer job description
- Season 4, Ep. 27 – Founder to Founder, with DeVaris Brown, CEO and Founder, Meroxa
- Season 4, Ep. 26 – TWiTH: Internet Explorer wants to be your default, with Gun.io
- 8 best sites to hire Rust developers
- Season 4, Ep. 25 – Founder to Founder: With Vinay Patankar, CEO and Founder of Process Street
- Rust developer job description: Template, guide & more
- Season 4, Ep. 24 – TWiTH: The first e-mail from space, with Gun.io
- Season 4, Ep. 23 – Founder to Founder: With Max Howell, CEO & Founder, tea.xyz
- Season 4, Ep. 22 – TWiTH: The first transatlantic telegraph cable completed, with Gun.io
- FinTech developer job description
- Season 4, Ep. 21 – Founder to Founder: with Massi Genta, CEO & Founder, Metabob
- Season 4, Episode 20 – TWiTH: The first Ford Model A is sold, with Gun.io
- Best sites to hire FinTech developers
- Successfully managing projects with freelance contractors
- Season 4, Ep. 19 – Founder to Founder: With Cullen Schwarz, CEO & Founder, DoneGood
- Season 4, Ep. 18 – TWiTH: Apple introduces the iBook, with Gun.io
- Best SaaS recruiters and agencies
- Season 4, Ep. 17 – Founder to Founder: With Adit Jain, CEO and Founder, Leena AI
- Season 4, Ep. 16 – TWiTH: Code Red worm tunnels through the Internet, with Gun.io
- When personalities and programming styles clash
- Hire web development company
- Season 4, Ep. 15 – Founder to Founder: With Trevor Francis, CEO and Founder, 46 Labs
- App dev agency: Guide, questions, and answers
- Season 4, Ep. 14 – TWiTH: Happy birthday, internet! With Gun.io
- Dev agencies: different types and what do they do?
- Season 4, Ep. 13 – Founder to Founder: With Devon Wright, CEO and Founder, Lumo
- VueJS interview questions and answers
- Season 4, Ep. 12 – TWiTH: The first iPhone goes on sale, with Gun.io
- Where can I find Vue.js developers for hire
- How to woo a developer: a guide for non-technical hiring managers
- Season 4, Ep. 11 – Founder to Founder: Andrew Greenstein, CEO & Co-founder, SF AppWorks
- VueJS developer job description: Template, guide & more
- Season 4, Ep. 10 – TWiTH: Alan Turing is born, with Gun.io
- Season 4, Ep. 9 – Founder to Founder: With Eran Mizrahi, CEO & Co-founder, Ingredient Brothers
- C# junior developer interview questions and answers
- Season 4, Ep. 8 – TWiTH: TI introduces the Speak & Spell, with Gun.io
- Hiring a CTO: Look for a wizard, not a rockstar
- C# developer job description: Guide, templates & more
- Season 4, Ep. 7 – Founder to Founder, with Rosalie van der Mass, CEO and Co-founder, Ellipsis Drive
- Best sites to hire C# developers
- Season 4, Ep. 6 – TWiTH: Jurassic Park releases in theaters, with Gun.io
- Season 4, Ep. 5 – Founder to Founder, with Daphna Nissenbaum, CEO and Co-founder of TIPA
- What can you do with Angular?
- Season 4, Ep. 4 – TWiTH: Space Shuttle Discovery docks with the ISS, with Gun.io
- The introvert’s guide to succeeding as an engineering manager
- Best sites to hire Angular developers
- Season 4, Ep. 3 – Founder to Founder, with Akshita Iyer, CEO and Co-founder, Ome
- Angular developer job description template
- Season 4, Ep. 2 – TWiTH: Pac-Man is introduced to the public
- Season 4, Ep. 1 – Founder to Founder, with Dylan Etkin, Founder & CEO, Sleuth
- C# vs PHP for web development
- Best place to hire PHP developers
- PHP developer job description template
- Season 3, Ep. 30 – TWiTH: NCAR gets a new building, with Chris Johnson, Marketing Coordinator at Gun.io
- The technical skills myth: Why cultural fit is just as important
- Season 3, Ep. 29 – Season 3 Learnings, with Faith Benson and our Season 3 guests
- What can you develop with Java?
- Season 3, Ep. 28 – TWiTH: The first spam message, with Abbey Charles, Content Lead at Gun.io
- Best sites to hire Java developers
- Season 3, Ep. 27 – Improving software delivery with AI and Open Source, with Scott Sanchez, CMO, Harness
- Backend Java developer job description template
- Season 3, Ep. 26 – TWiTH: The government sues Microsoft, with Haley Harris, Product Manager at Gun.io
- Season 3, Ep. 25 – Coaching companies to greater growth, with Julien Smith, Founder and CEO of Practice
- TypeScript developer job description: Guide, templates & more
- Season 3, Ep. 24 – TWiTH: Researchers run FORTRAN for the first time, with Girish Kumar, Technical Talent Advocate at Gun.io
- Expert advice on mitigating hiring risk
- Season 3, Ep. 23 – Scaling a white label product, with Jody Soldo, Director of Business Operations at Highnote
- Best sites to hire freelance Python developers
- Season 3, Ep. 22 – TWiTH: Metallica sues Napster, with Victoria Stahr, Developer Experience Coordinator at Gun.io
- Python lead job description: Guide, templates & more
- Season 3, Ep. 21 – The life-changing power of a good UI, with Dennis Lenard, CEO, Creative Navy
- Python developer job description: Roles and responsibilities
- Season 3, Ep. 20 – TWiTH: The IBM 360 Computer System, with Deividi Silva, VP of Technology at Gun.io
- How do you prevent scope creep?
- Season 3, Ep. 19 – AI that can tell if you’re sober, with Ken Fichtler, CEO of Gaize
- Season 3, Ep. 18 – TWiTH: Pixar’s Tin Toy wins an Academy Award, with Richie Clark, Senior Front-end Developer at Gun.io
- React Native developer job description
- Season 3, Ep. 17 – Using AI to find unbiased news, with Pat Condo, CEO of Seekr
- Best sites to hire React developers
- Season 3, Ep. 16 – TWiTH: Jack Dorsey sends the first tweet, with Abbey Charles, Content Lead at Gun.io
- Gun.io’s framework for reducing hiring risk
- Season 3, Ep. 15 – Software as healthcare, with Sunny Atwal, Head of Engineering, Luminopia
- 8 best sites to hire JavaScript developers
- Season 3, Ep. 14 – TWiTH: Apple sues Microsoft, with Grey Garner
- AI and ML tools to help you hire
- Senior JavaScript developer job description template, guide & more
- Season 3, Ep. 13 – ChatGPT for hiring, with Grey Garner, VP of Product at Gun.io
- Cost of delay savings with Gun.io
- JavaScript developer job description template, guide & more
- Season 3, Ep. 12 – TWiTH: Al Gore Invents the Internet with Ashley Yearby
- Season 3, Ep. 11 – Equity in data ownership and crypto, with Julia Guz, Cirus Foundation Head of Operations
- Season 3, Ep. 10 – The Homebrew Computer Club, with Chris Johnson
- Technical decision-making beyond the tech stack
- Season 3, Ep. 9 – Transparency and accountability in digital advertising, with Claire Atkin, Co-Founder of CheckMyAds
- Season 3, Ep. 8 – TWiTH: The first digital search warrant, with Jessi Soler
- Season 3, Ep. 7 – Conducting user research, with Fatima Karwandyar, Product Management Leader
- Season 3, Ep. 6 – TWiTH, CBBS with Regis Camimura, User Experience Engineer
- Making the most of open source software
- Season 3, Ep. 5 – Why design systems are important, with Michael Carrick, XDS
- Season 3, Ep. 4 – TWiTH: Deep Blue defeats Gary Kasparov, with Tyler Newkirk, VP Operations
- Season 3, Ep. 3 – Building a developer community, with Darko Bozhinovski
- What to prepare before hiring through Gun.io
- Ways Gun.io supports engagements post-hire
- Season 3, Ep. 2 – TWiTH: TRS-80, with Client Experience Coordinator, Cameron Holmes
- Season 3, Ep. 1 – Using tech to empower personal growth, with Jordan Ambra, Photobooth Supply Co. CTO
- Meeting WCAG accessibility standards in software design
- Contract to hire vs direct hire
- Season 2, Ep. 35 – What we learned making a podcast, with Content Lead, Abbey Charles
- Season 2, Ep. 34 – Meet the team: Product Manager, Haley Harris
- Season 2, Ep. 33 – How we advocate for developers, with Talent Growth Advocate, Victoria Stahr
- Season 2, Ep. 32 – Meet the team: Sales Development Rep, Greyson Wooten
- Bad WFH habits to kick in the new year
- Season 2, Ep. 31 – How companies find success with Gun.io
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- Season 2, Ep. 30 – Meet the team: Client Success Manager, Jeff Vedenoff
- Season 2, Ep. 29 – 2022: It’s been a big year for us
- Season 2, Ep. 28 – Meet the team: Gun.io’s Technical Talent Advocate, Girish Kumar
- 101 things we learned this year
- Season 2, Ep. 27 – The parent trap: How Gun.io families get along during the week
- Season 2, Ep. 26 – Meet the team: Gun.io’s Sales Development Rap-resentative, Donovan Suggs
- Tackling programmer’s block
- Season 2, Ep. 25 – Our outlook on remote and distributed work
- Season 2, Ep. 24 – Meet the team: Gun.io’s Senior Front-End Developer, Richie Clark
- Remote management resources: Cultural
- Season 2, Ep. 23 – How can brands talk about themselves authentically?
- Season 2, Ep. 22 – Meet the team: Gun.io’s Talent Growth Advocate, Victoria Stahr
- Remote management resources: Organizational
- Season 2, Ep. 21 – Promoting from within: why we love hiring people who are new to tech
- Season 2, Ep. 20 – Meet the team: Gun.io’s Marketing Coordinator, Chris Johnson
- Season 2, Ep. 19 – How we market to developers even though developer marketing doesn’t exist
- Season 2, Ep. 18 – Meet the team: Gun.io’s UI/UX Engineer, Regis Camimura
- Season 2, Ep. 17 – What’s in a name: The evolution of the Gun.io brand
- Season 2, Ep. 16 – Meet the team: Gun.io’s Account Executive, Ashley Yearby
- Do more with less meetings
- Season 2, Ep. 15 – What we’ve learned from 5xing our sales team with VP of Revenue, Ben Kettle + Head of Strategic Accounts, Jessi Soler
- Season 2, Ep. 14 – Meet the team: Gun.io’s Client Experience Coordinator, Cameron Holmes
- October 2022 Engineering update
- Season 2, Ep. 13 – Complexity and prioritization: How we decide what to build with VP of Product, Grey Garner
- How to price yourself as a contract developer
- Season 2, Ep. 12 – Meet the team: Head of Strategic Accounts, Jessi Soler
- How much does it cost to hire a contract developer?
- Season 2, Ep. 11 – It depends: Choosing a tech stack with Deividi Silva and Wade Williams
- Season 2, Ep. 10 – Meet the team: VP of Product, Grey Garner
- Season 2, Ep. 9 – Getting top talent takes top talent, with Director of Developer Relations, Deividi Silva
- Season 2, Ep. 8 – Meet the team: Director of Developer Relations, Deividi Silva
- Easy onboarding for short-term contracts
- Season 2, Ep. 7 – Growing out of our bootstraps with Gun.io’s Director of Growth Marketing, Faith Benson
- Season 2, Ep. 6 – No software is better than no software. Gun.io’s Director of Engineering (and Janitor), Wade Williams
- September 2022 Engineering update
- Season 2, Ep. 5 – From line items to large-scale ideas, inside our wild ride to profitability
- Season 2, Ep. 4 – What do you get when you marry copywriting and coding? Gun.io’s Content Lead, Abbey Charles
- Season 2, Ep. 3 – How we think about sales hiring
- Season 2, Ep. 2 – Our first foray into fundraising
- The rise of low-code and no-code builders
- Season 2, Ep. 1 – From the beginning
- Mentoring in a remote setting
- Communication and availability on freelance jobs
- Working across timezones
- August 2022 Engineering update
- Raspberry Pi Projects 2024: Eight Fun Uses & Ideas
- Three years on the Inc 5000 list
- Freelance web developer tips
- Taxes for freelancers
- Star Wars tech that came true
- Gun.io takes on $5.2M investment from Ballast Point Ventures to create the world’s best hiring experience for software developers
- July 2022 Engineering update
- Growth cheat code: Use fractional hiring to stay on plan when cutting costs
- Freelance client management – 6 tips to avoid burnout
- What to cover in your cover letter
- Retention as a hiring metric
- The great portfolio debate
- How I hired a guy from Home Depot to run operations
- “Can you explain this gap in your resume?”
- Mentoring on purpose
- Hiring developers internationally
- Crafting a great resume
- The tax man cometh, even internationally
- How to make more money as a freelancer
- Productivity tips of successful CTOs
- National parks you can work from
- What is a fractional CTO?
- Things to think about before hiring a developer
- How to fight inflation as a freelancer
- Crafting your personal elevator pitch
- Team Gun.io’s favorite haunts
- Two things to think about before hiring your next developer
- Staying passionate about coding
- Prepping for a client interview
- A roundtable with our technical talent advocates
- Hiring past the first developer
- Building a personal assistant PWA: Part 3
- Signs of a bad client
- Coding tests
- The latest from Gun.io: a better alternative to job posts
- Soft skills: video introduction 101
- How we help HR departments with tech hiring
- Building a personal assistant PWA: Part 2
- A manager’s #1 job
- Developer farming for fun and profit
- Networking for introverts
- Inside Gun.io – Victoria Stahr
- Management lessons I learned as a dungeon master
- Building a personal assistant PWA: Part 1
- Understanding DynamoDB
- How to write a job ad that gets results
- Software Automation Testing
- Inside Gun.io – Faith Benson
- Are coding tests necessary for hiring developers?
- Organization for Transformative Works: Open-Source in action
- Moving from management back to engineering
- Interviewing developers: what to listen for
- How we shorten our hiring cycle by weeks
- Gunslinger interview: Wolf Donat
- Interviewing developers: what questions to ask
- REST vs GraphQL
- Architecting APIs with James Higginbotham
- Interviewing developers: reviewing the profile
- Gunslinger interview: William Rodriguez
- 3 secrets to hiring a software developer
- Using AWS Athena to query AWS service logs
- Nailing the interview
- Retaining your talented developers
- Lessons learned managing remote
- Building a talent stack for software developers
- Gunslinger interview: Jon North
- Dealing with the talent shortage
- 1:1s That Make a Difference
- How to Choose a Candidate
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- Crafting meaningful OKRs
- Lessons from a remote worker
- Interview with Samantha John, Co-Founder & CEO of Hopscotch
- Why is hiring people so hard on LinkedIn?
- The importance of writing for software developers
- How to change careers as a software developer
- Engineering update: August 2021
- How to become a software architect: Expert interview with Keith Casey
- Public speaking for software developers
- Interview with Kate O’Neil, Co-founder & Head of Marketing at Teaming
- How to get paid on time
- Engineering update: July 2021
- To ace interviews, become a better speaker (here’s how)
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- The Gun.io Telegram bot
- Interview with Nick Gavronsky, Co-founder & CEO of Welcome
- Debunking common misconceptions about freelancing
- Interview with Bo Boroski, Founder of RefQuest
- Interview with Gabe Batstone, Co-founder & CEO of Contextere
- Introducing Second Acts by Gun.io
- Interview with Rachel Van Nortwick, Founder & CEO of Vinylly
- Interview with Sam Lessin, Co-founder & Co-CEO of Fin
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- Interview with Eoghan McCabe, Chairman and Co-founder of Intercom
- What’s your software development WorkStyle?
- Interview with Russ Roberts, Host of the EconTalk podcast
- Interview with Gant LaBorde, Chief Innovation Officer at Infinite Red
- Interview with Michael Dibernardo, Vice President of Engineering at Wave
- Interview with Scott Meschke of Blinker
- Interview with Vinay Mahadik, CEO and Co-founder of Securly
- Interview with Madison May, Co-founder of Indico
- Interview with Lisa Reeves of Zenefits
- Interview with David Yakobovitch of Galvanize
- Interview with John Callaway, Clayton Hunt, & Jon Ash of the 6 Figure Developer podcast
- Interview with Derek Lin, CEO at Exabeam
- Interview with Joseph Feiman & Setu Kulkarni of White Hat Security
- Interview with Scott Parker, Director of Product Marketing at Sinequa
- Interview with Adam Garrett-Harris, Host of Web of Tomorrow and BookBytes
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- Interview with Brody Dorland, Co-founder at DivvyHQ
- Interview with Vinay Patankar, CEO of Process Street
- Interview with Ryan Cousins, CEO at krtkl inc
- Effective communication while freelancing
- Interview with Mitch Stewart, Co-founder at GURU
- Interview with Shauni Deshmukh, CTO at Tettra
- Interview with Matt Zimmermann and Christian Wirth of Beast Code
- Managing client expectations
- Interview with Alex Hertel, Co-founder and CEO Of Xperiel
- Interview with Matt Stone, Director Global Technical Support at SignalFx
- Interview with Ian McGaw, Vice President of Technology and Innovation at ENGworks
- Interview with Marco Palladino, Co-founder and CTO of Kong
- Interview with John Dubois, co-founder of Oculus360
- Interview with Jason Burns, CEO and founder of Kortivity
- Interview with Mike Duensing, Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of Engineering at Skuid
- Interview with Christopher Furlin, Content Development at Tempered Networks
- The 5 heuristics of senior software engineers
- Interview with Dave Shewfelt, Director of Integration Services at Vidado
- How to hire a programmer
- Interview with John Collier, Chief Technology Officer at VieMed
- Interview with Andrew Glover, Director, Delivery Engineering at Netflix
- Interview with Brandon Smith, Director of Engineering at eVestment
- Interview with Randy Layman, Vice President of Software Engineering at AVOXI
- Interview with Jason Nochlin, CTO & Co-Founder at GaggleAMP
- Interview with Craig Bryant, the founder and CEO of KinHR.com and WeAreMammoth.com
- Interview with Chris Siefken, Head of Technology at Xenial
- Interview with Tom Young, Executive Vice President of Worldwide Sales at Syncurity
- Interview with Kristie D’Ambrosio-Correll, VP Engineering at MIRROR
- Interview with Andrew Phillips – Product Manager at Google Cloud
- Interview with Kevin Wang, VP of Product at Braze
- Interview with Isaac Mosquera, CTO at Armory
- Interview with Donnie Goins, Chief Engineering Officer & Business Development at Software Development Europe
- Top 5 tech job boards for growing technology companies
- How to conserve when building capital efficient engineering teams
- Interview with Jason Kiesel, CPO, Rock Solid; Former CEO, CitySourced
- Interview with Bruce Brien, Chief Strategy Officer at Hive9
- Interview with Karan Zaveri, Chief Technology Officer at 24/7 Software
- Interview with Eric Rodwell, VP of Conga
- Agile Solutions For the Federal Government with Glenn Thimmes, CTO of Centeva
- The Intersectionality Between Technology and Human Behavior with Eric Hunter, CTO of Spherical Models
- Interview with Mike Kritzman, CEO at SkillNet
- Interview with James Graham, Founder of Community Phone
- Interview with Jason Hintersteiner, CTO at Imperial Network Solutions
- Interview with Andrew Plato, CEO, President, and Founder of Anitian
- Adtech innovations at the retailing edge with Michael Weissman of Synchy
- From Startup Weekend to YC to startup success with Matthew McDonald
- Pet Tech – Wearables for Healthy Best Friends with Fabrizio Filippini
- We’re all targets: Preparing for inevitable security breaches with Dan Tienes of Corporate Cost Control
- Applying disruptive technologies in a familiar fashion in conservative business sectors with Tim Anderson of Kasasa
- Deep dive into Clouddriver cloud management service
- Video calling technology on the cutting edge with Lifesize with Bobby Beckmann of Lifesize
- Technical trends and trade-offs with a career CTO with Rich Brown
- Scaling remote engineering teams like Auth0 with Damian Schenkelman of Auth0
- The amazing business of being ‘uncool’ with Nav Bhachech of Microsoft and Amazon
- Adapting to Change in The Workplace with Steve Cumbia
- Essential onboarding tips for high-performance teams
- Better Sales Conversions with Next-gen Software Demos with Greg Dickinson of Omedym
- Retail SaaS Platforms at the Cutting Edge with Jason Zubrick of defi SOLUTIONS
- Mobile App Security and Threat Defense with Domingo Guerra of Appthority
- Software dominates high-traffic commerce with Leon Fayer
- F.A.T.E. – From Addict to Entrepreneur; “Chasing the High” (Author Interview) with Michael Dash
- ‘Showing respect for abstraction’ – an AI pioneer on machine learning and data science with Sandra Carrico of Glynt.ai
- Making the leap from Philosophy to Software Engineering with Caleb Ontiveros
- Psychological safety in tech and software engineering with a human touch with April Wensel of Compassionate Coding
- Drone software and cognitively diverse remote teams with Eric Hauser of Drone Deploy
- Machine Intelligence and the Future of AI with Oren Boiman of Magisto
- Innovating a mature product: making email smarter, easier and safer with Alexis Panagides of mxHero
- Driving traffic that converts for B2B sales through video with Graeme McLaughlin of Explainify
- Health tech, subscription boxes, and streaming video with Ryan Yockey of DNA Imprints
- Measuring the Impossible with Data Science with John Feland
- The inside story of Gun.io from its founder and CEO with Teja Yenamandra
- How to handle JSON like a boss with jq JSON
- The myth of junior developer risk and how to create a balanced engineering team with Lee Warrick of Tech Jr
- The global future of sensor technology on the smart edge with Becky Oh of Apple and PNI
- Organizing a tech conference; advice from the pros with Sarah Withee and Colin Dean
- Top 6 alternatives to an IDE for better code searching
- EdTech and the ‘empathy-based’ technology vision with Kirk Gray of McGraw-Hill Education
- We are at the precipice of something totally, totally different with David Ramsey of ONIS Solutions
- Investing in a smart home that won’t soon be obsolete with Ben Williams of SAV Digital Environments
- Engineer or engineering leader? What’s the difference and where do you fit? with Corey Nichols of SonoSim
- Better smart homes with connected cloud services with Kent Dickson of Yonomi
- Hybrid data science and engineering teams and remote management with Wickus Martin of Dstillery
- How the gig economy is changing the tech industry for the better
- Scalable video capture and playback plus building an international team with Oliver Friedmann of Ziggeo
- From whimsical consumer product to critical B2B enterprise technology with Amir Rubin of Paracosm
- Soft skills, communication, and programming as a thinking activity with Trisha Gee of JetBrains
- Celebrating Independence the Freelancer Way with Ledge
- Hardware is hard; you make it happen or you don’t with Keith Nothacker of BACtrack
- What really caused that bug? with Doug Suvalle of Glassbox Digital
- How do you move 50TB per day to 15,000 global engineers? with Eric Klinker of BitTorrent
- Understanding the full business impact of your technology with Cheada Lao of Allied Administrators
- Megascale high-performance decision engines with George Corugedo of RedPoint
- The software and hardware behind parking tickets with Jim Suttles of Republic Parking Systems
- Engineering management tips for worldwide Ops, Dev, and Leadership with Alex Newman of Institution Machines
- 8 ways to build remote team culture
- DevRel and community building for authentic relationships with Mary Thengvall
- Adopting enterprise risk management to conserve capital with Dipanjan Choudhury of ValueMomentum
- How to manage hybrid remote/colocated teams with Greg Starling of Monscierge
- Scaling a team to support every stack with John Isdell of Red Ventures
- Strategic acquisitions to enhance your company’s value with David Galante of Mobivity
- An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management (Author Interview) with Will Larson of Digg, Uber, and Stripe
- Hiring a dev team when you’re non-technical with Arian Mirzarafie Ahi
- AI for everyone, AI ethics, and problem solving with Yoav Rubin of Microsoft
- Fractals! And let the scientist have the DevOps with Oksana Shmaliy
- Agile transformation and delivering “first value” with Jeff Despain of CHG Healthcare
- Look-alike audiences for B2B success with Olin Hyde of Leadcrunch
- AI-powered superheroes, aka “the humans in the loop” with David (Gonzo) Gonzalez of Ziff.ai
- Product management from zero to 120 million users with James Colgan of Microsoft
- The three pillars of engineering team productivity with Dan Lines and Ori Keren of Linear B
- Ethical engineering on the path to excellent systems with Liz Fong-Jones of Google and Honeycomb.io
- Best practices from distributed team management across 30 countries with Chris Overton of Elastic
- How customer empathy drives better engineering performance with Ravi Sahu of Strayos
- Building a Recruiting Pipeline for Engineers Who Want to Win with Steve Prosser of Guaranteed Rate
- AI could be your new legal assistant with Lars Mahler of LegalSifter
- China, Huawei and the future of global technology with Chris Short of DevOpsish
- Winning in a new industry with best practices from another sector with Dave Ugan
- Killing off unplanned work for Frictionless Development with Shawn Kuenzler of Zen Planner
- Put your DevOps through P90X with Bob Chen of Beachbody
- Integrity and quality in engineering, and leadership as an art with Merlin Quintin of Redbox
- Making yourself an indispensable engineering hire with Steve Beyatte
- Using a F.A.I.L. Mindset in Scaling Organizations with David Shapendonk of IMAX and Maestro Games
- We’ve been acquired; we’re laying off your entire team with Philipp Svehla of Workday
- Separating The Noise to Simplify Multi Cloud Strategy with Leon Thomas of Jelecos
- Technical Evangelism as The Voice of Building Better Software with Priyanka Sharma
- Managing Teams with The Iron Triangle of Engineering Leadership with Colin Henry
- The Engineering Magic Behind Low Code Platforms with Alex Howard of Brandcast
- Technology for good and people-first FTW with Kevon Saber of GoCheckKids
- Avoid The Fog of Development Through Continuous Learning with Ravi Lachhman of Cisco
- Tips on Technology Leadership from One Phone Call with Sherri Hammons of The Nature Conservancy
- Improving UX with Automated Business Solutions with Tyler Foster of Sentient Technologies
- Digital transformation and the right tool for the job with Dan Morgan of Unitas Global
- Coordinating engineering teams to build a seamless user experience with Ryan Burgess of Netflix
- Open Source, the grey areas, and keeping sharp with community with Ahmad Nassri of TechMasters
- Microsoft Azure Insights From a Developer Advocate with Burke Holland of Microsoft
- How to scale DevOps, standards, and automation in a high-growth agency with Tyler Shambora of Pack Digital
- Digital transformation, bleeding edge, and legacy tribal knowledge with Nick Lumsden of Online Tech
- Open Source Neural Networks in 500 Lines or Less with Marina Samuel
- Keeping The Open Source Community First Priority with Jason Lengstorf of Gatsby
- How To Provide Effective Feedback to Engineers with Lara Hogan of Etsy, Kickstarter, and Wherewithall
- E-commerce Innovations, and Decision Engines with Andrew Guldman of Fluid
- Pigs, chemistry, startups, and CTO stories with Helton Souza of Labdoor
- Creative influence with Kevin The Tech Ninja
- UX Ideas from Technology in Marketing with David Feinman of Viral Ideas Marketing
- Scaling an engineering team in a transformational industry with Steff Kelsey of Appcues
- How to Lead a Meeting Engineers Love: Lessons from improv with Ushashi Chakraborty of Microsoft, Groupon, and Mode Analytics
- Understanding The Full Customer Discovery Process with Alex Nordholm of DealWIP
- Putting People First, and Engineering Tools Second with Kelsey Hightower of Google
- Borrowing Innovation from Aerospace Technology with Sina Golshany
- Pragmatic Microservice Design: keep calm, and ship code with Daniel Knight
- Improving The Product to Market Process to Deliver Faster with Tom Dodds
- Solving Customer Problems as a Sales Engineer with Chris Goodman of SentinelOne
- Launching a tech startup inside of a legacy enterprise with Alex Behrens of RoomIt
- Startup life, stability, payroll, and change with Mong Truong of Primitive Logic
- Modern CI/CD Tools with Legacy Mainframes with Tim Ceradsky of Compuware
- Behavior-Driven Development to Empower Stakeholders with David Morgan
- Stuck in a Career Rut? Improve Your Public Speaking Skills with Poornima Vijayashanker
- The intersection of AI and medicine
- Building an Engineering Recruitment Process that Candidates Love with Alan Spadoni
- The Intersection of AI and Medicine with Robert Fratila
- Post-Crypto Distributed Ledger Technology for Business Leaders with Mike Talbot
- The Importance of Soft Skills for Engineers with Rusty Wilson
- Freelance developers: building relationships with clients that last
- Native vs Hybrid Apps: When to use & What’s Next in Mobile App Dev With Simon Reggiani
- Machine Learning in Healthcare: Interoperability via Machine-to-Machine Data Architecture with Jim Nasr
- DevOps Automation, Orchestration, and Choreography
- Service Discovery in a Microservices Architecture with Travis Scheponik
- Democratizing Blockchain Technologies with Joel Neidig of SIMBA Chain
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- Remote Tech Teams: How to Make it Work with Laurel Farrer of Distribute Consulting
- On-Prem vs. Cloud Deployments with Roland Cooper
- Disrupting Technology in Healthcare with Chris Venturini
- Teach Your Engineers To Play Risk with Rahul Garg of Pypestream
- First Principles Thinking for Bitcoin Exchanges with Zach Dexter of LedgerX
- 5 essential tools for remote technical teams
- 3 ways to effectively lead a remote engineering team
- API-As-A-Business with Christine Spang of Nylas
- The Technology of Politics with Josh Hendler of Purpose
- How to build a world-class remote engineering team
- Better Data, Better Products, Better Business with Kelly Stevens of OneSpace
- Dealing With Legacy Code with Debbie Madden and Jason Ables
- What’s Next In Blockchain with John Fitch from Animal Ventures
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- Using Zappa and Flask to build serverless microservices
- How to hire DevOps
- How to handle time zones as a digital nomad
- 6 tips to hire a Node JS developer
- How much to charge as a freelance computer programmer
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- Code testing: what I learned from watching Notch code
- How to find and hire Android developers
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