newline Nate Murray, Amelia Wattenberger

In this special episode of the newline podcast, Nate is interviewed by Matt Harrison, founder of Metasnake, and author of his own course Effective Book Authoring.

Over the hour, Matt interviews me (Nate) asking about programming book authoring - how to plan it, how to write it, how market it when you're done.

I share my best advice for organizing the process, building your audience, and how to enjoy it along the way.

If you're interested in writing a programming book or course, then this episode is for you. Writing a programming course isn't easy. But I've done it enough times now, that hopefully the tips inside will be helpful to you.

In this episode we cover:

- What was your process like to make a course?
- How does promotion work when creating a programming course?
- What tools did you use to write your book?
- What promotions did you do for your book?
- What advice would you give to yourself before writing your book?
- How much money have you made? $1,000? $1K-10K? $10-30K?, $30K+? (Answer is much, much higher)
- The promise you make when creating a programming course
- What advice do you have for someone who wants to make money with a course?
- What is The Bump and what does it mean for marketing your course?
- Practical tips - and a process - for writing a programming course

Let's dive in.

Today we're talking with Redux js maintainer Mark Erikson.

Mark has been maintaining the Redux library for about five years, and has written an amazing amount of documentation and guide material.

Redux is used in the majority of React apps, but folks have recently been questioning: is Redux still a tool I should use in 2020? It depends.

We tease apart all of the different use-cases for redux: data-fetching, caching state, avoiding prop drilling and compare it the other tools in the ecosystem: apollo, mobx, recoil, hooks, and others.

In this wide-ranging conversation we cover the history of Redux, tooling you can use to make your Redux code cleaner, and future plans. Also, Nate struggles to pronounce Redux.

We hope you enjoy listening as much as we enjoyed talking with Mark.

Today we're talking with creative coder Cassie Evans.

In this episode we talk about something often neglected in web design today: how to bring whimsy and joy to your users

In our chat we talk about how the old web had entry points to programming and where we might find find that today.

And open with a story about how she, as a child, sold animated cursors for donuts, which felt like magic - and how even today snippets of code feel like magic spells.

We loved our conversation with Cassie, and think you will too, let's dig in!

Today we're talking with Shawn Wang, a senior developer advocate at Amazon Web Services.

Shawn is a prolific writer- you should totally check out his blog, if you haven't already. and most recently has written a book about the non-coding parts of your coding career.

Shawn used to work at a hedge fund until transitioning to tech, and this gives him a unique perspective on how to be effective in your job - and why you should take ownership of your whole career.

In this wide-ranging conversation we talk about the differences between a Jr and Sr engineers, how to find strength in your weaknesses, and how to capture your daily ideas and use them to supercharge your career.

I think developers at any level will get a tons of value from this conversation.

Welcome to the newline podcast. Our show is a conversation with experienced software engineers where we discuss new technology, career advice, and help you be amazing at work.

I’m Nate Murray and I’m Amelia Wattenberger and today we're talking about serverless with Stephanie Prime, a dev ops engineer who formerly worked at Amazon Web Services, or AWS.

AWS offers so many different services - SAM IAM S3 EC2 CloudFormation - If you're confused by this alphabet soup, Steph gives brings clarity to the overwhelming number of choices - and helps explain AWS Lambda, the serverless platform and how it can work for you

In this episode, we talk about...

when serverless is a good fit
what a basic Lambda program looks like
the future of devops in a serverless world

if you're curious about this new infrastructure, then keep listening

Today we're talking with Sumukh Sridhara who is a product engineer on AngelList's Venture Capital Team and the hilarious personality behind @vcstarterkit.

While many engineers work at startups or are interested in starting their own company, Venture Capital can seem like a total mystery.

In this episode, we'll learn about:

- How venture capital firms function
- How VCs make money - and how that affects you
- Ridiculous start-up ideas
- The reality of raising money
- whether or not you even should raise money.