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Welcome to Everyday Heroes, a podcast about the unsung heroes of the tech world. From the phone in your pocket to the world's most critical digital infrastructure, open-source software has a hand in it. These free technologies that shape our digital world wouldn't be anything without the Heroes that maintain them, promote them, and evolve them - these are their stories. Everyday Heroes is brought to you by HeroDevs.
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The Last Line of Defense: Unaliving End-of-Life w/ David Welch
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And the award for the longest podcast intro goes to checks notes Hayden. (Holy cow... compensating for something?) Ever wondered what happens when you let your childhood menace grow up and give him INTENTIONAL access to things that break? Meet Dave Welch, the guy whose mom literally had to lock away the household tools because he kept disassembling…
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Coffee, Code & TensorFlow.js: Aileen Villanueva's Journey from Industrial Engineer to AI Advocate
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Move over, Python nerds - turns out you CAN teach an old JavaScript dog new AI tricks. Meet Aileen Villanueva, the industrial engineer turned frontend wizard who discovered you don't need to learn an entirely new language just to make robots smarter (looking at you, everyone who panic-enrolled in Python boot camps in 2023). In this episode: How bei…
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Stream(ing) of Consciousness: JD Flynn's Journey from Paramedic Burnout to Twitch Coding Therapy
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What do you do when you've seen TOO MANY people on their worst day? You find a career where the worst day involves merge conflicts. JD Flynn's journey from paramedic burnout to Drupal powerhouse is the career pivot we didn't know we needed. In this episode: The EXACT moment he realized "maybe I shouldn't be a paramedic anymore" (spoiler: it involve…
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The Power User: How Cecelia Martinez McCrea Went from "Wait, Y'all MADE This?" to "Yeah, I Help NASA Test Their Code"
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Meet the woman who started coding because she was *double takes on notes* the only person at her finance job who actually USED their internal app. (Listen, sometimes being the office overachiever leads to unexpected career pivots.) In this episode: That time her company's dev team was like "Hey, why are you the ONLY ONE using our app?" and she was …
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The Offline Coder: How Alejandro Cuba Ruiz Went from BASIC to Boss Level
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When most of us were rage-quitting over slow internet, Alejandro Cuba Ruiz was coding in Cuba with ...checks transcript... NO internet access, a Visual Basic compiler, and the sheer audacity to make it work anyway. (Meanwhile, I lose my mind if my VS Code takes more than 3 seconds to load.) In this episode: The absolutely wild journey of learning t…
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From Hospice to HOSTNAME: AmyJune Hineline's Guide to Hacking the Open Source Career Path (No Code Required)
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Look, we've all heard people say "just learn to code" like it's some magical career-fixing spell. But AmyJune Hineline took one look at that advice, said "nah," and STILL became an open source legend. How? By realizing that maybe - just MAYBE - the real superpower isn't writing code, but building the communities that make code matter. In this episo…
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The Butterfly Effect: How Apple's Worst Keyboard Created a Linux Legend
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Meet Hayden Barnes, the lawyer-turned-tech-wizard who LITERALLY changed careers because Apple's butterfly keyboard was too annoying. (We're not even joking.) In this episode: How despising a keyboard led to pioneering Windows Subsystem for Linux projects Why paying for open source software should totally be a thing again (like it's 1999) The creati…
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The 500 Club: Jordan Harband on Maintaining ALL THE THINGS (and Training Cats with Air Dusters)
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In this premiere episode of Everyday , we're coming in HOT with JavaScript royalty Jordan Harband - the absolute madlad who maintains 500+ open source projects while somehow finding time to serve on TC39 and train his cat to respect keyboard boundaries. Key Highlights (because we know you're skimming): That time Jordan accidentally landed …
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