Artsy Engineering Radio

Sultan, Jon, and Matt get together and talk about what they've been up to lately. The surprising CSS of form inputs? Revamping key application surfaces? Combining systems that probably should've been one system to begin with? All that, and more, in this episode!

Artsy Alumni Anna joins Matt Dole to discuss what she's been up to since leaving Artsy (spoiler: a lot of cool stuff)! What has she learned from her work at Foundation, and how has she grown in the last year? Tune in to find out!

How is Steve doing after a year in his new job? Let's find out about one of our favorite Artsy alumni friends! 

Kaja and Erik are having a well rounded conversation about wedding planing and mentoring and programming language ecosystems. Does this potpourri of topics raise a lot of questions? Find the answers in this episode. And make sure to sign up for the Ruby mentorship as either a mentor or mentee: https://firstrubyfriend.org/

On this episode of Artsy Engineering Radio,  Adam Butler joins us in our new series "Artsy Berliners" where we highlight the exciting stories of the Artsy team in Berlin. Adam shares his unique journey from being a security guard to becoming a musician, then transitioning to tech while still being a musician on the side. We'll hear about his experiences touring as a musician, and his move from the UK to the US, and finally settling in Germany. Tune in for an interesting conversation!

Pavlos, George and Kaja talk about what kind of music they listen to during work and how it helps them to get into the "tunnel". If you listen to this episode and get curious about examples of their described music, we have the links to the songs and playlists here!Kaja' playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5G2JL58Ub6RrwlBY0Zpmjt?si=98adafce1dda4397Kaja's favorite work song (Aliens): https://open.spotify.com/track/1Sk3itOeGmFFYHOosfrt6c?si=b45655df2fdf47e1George' playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5ryLnMcPum6WeCr0FSV4oQ?si=256e7b50f61144ebGeorge's favorite band for work music (hubris): https://open.spotify.com/track/6NuQIYiZEoWXnErCScAbAG?si=31c8215337c24504 Amenra: https://open.spotify.com/track/0mfo3pSczHkPwlWbawU2uX?si=a84c1f9e8e0549f5Pavlos' playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5EyGjQnVOv0ZLoaMzTX95g?si=78d59f20ac7441b1

Today we have a very special (and a little sad) episode: our beloved Pavlos is leaving Artsy, and he joined Matt to tell us who he is and what he's learned during his time here.We'll miss you, Pavlos! Come back any time!

Jon Allured, Pavlos Vinieratos and George Kartalis talk about Betterer, a tool by Craig Spence (aka phenomnomnominal), all about trying to get your codebase in a better state. We used it for a couple of week. What did we think? What did we love, and what did we had issues with? Let us guide you through our experience with betterer.PS: Jon loves green dots.Links:- https://github.com/phenomnomnominal/betterer- https://github.com/artsy/eigen/pull/8045

This week, Matt Dole & Brian take time to reflect on a recent security-focused learning group run by engineers at Artsy. Have you ever wanted to beef up your security chops and hang out with your team at the same time? Listen to learn how you, too, can become a security expert...or at least less of a security noob 😉

In this episode Erik and Kaja are talking about their experience working 4 days a week instead of 5. 

Kaja joins Matt Dole to talk about her experience at this year's EuRuKo (European Ruby Conference). What was her favorite talk? What did she learn that will change how she works? Tune in for the answers to those questions and more!https://2022.euruko.org/

Today on the podcast, Matt Dole is joined by former Artsyer Justin Bennett to talk about what he's up to these days. Turns out he's up to quite a lot! Tune in to hear about his podcast (devtools.fm), his time at Recurse Center, his current work at Oxide, and much more.Justin's Twitter: https://twitter.com/zephraph

We are getting to know a bit more about our engineering manager Pamela, how she got here and what she enjoys about her job but also her fun creative hobby and her experiences with leading teams when the leaders left. 

Motivation is one of the driving forces for accomplishments and achievements, but it's not always easy to stay motivated. In this episode, Mounir, Matt Dole, and Sultan are talking about how to motivate yourself and stay focused. They also discuss burnout, how to avoid it, and what to do when feeling unmotivated and burnt out.

Recommending artworks to collectors is tricky but having four different ways to do it… Listen as Sarah Haq and Jon Allured talk about how they are improving the artwork recommendations at Artsy by establishing a single source of truth and more!

At Artsy, we have a concept of a "practice": engineers across different teams who meet on a regular basis to discuss cross-system plans, problems, and systems. This week on the podcast, Matt & Kaja discuss how our practices work, what we like about them, and what could make them better.

Joining Matt Dole for a "Who Are You and How Did You Get Here" episode is George, a React Native specialist at Artsy. Tune in to learn how he went from waiting tables to waiting on CI!

Pavlos Vinieratos talks with Angela Patrinou (a fellow Greek), about Angela's mobile app. It's called Buddies, and it's about finding friends around the city you just moved into!We discuss how the idea came about, how the development went, the launch, and a bunch more.Join us for the first episode of Whatchu working on (on the side), on Artsy Engineering Radio. More to come!

On this week's episode, Matt, George, and Angela get together to discuss their experience teaching coding skills in a volunteer environment. Why did they get into teaching? What have they learned from teaching others? 

Jackie Potts and Kaja Santro are both from a Ruby-backend background and working as software engineers at Artsy. In this episode they are talking about how it is to work in this area while also being dog moms and what their favorite Ruby gems are and what is so scary about frontend. They also just laugh and chuckle a lot on this episode, so prepare for some of those good vibrations coming your way!