What makes a senior developer?

Show Notes

Benedicte pitches her latest side project to a database startup. Benedikt gets an interesting question from his mentee.

• Read Benedikt and Jesse’s back and forth about shipping updates
• Prune Your Follows
• Campfire Labs – a content company
• Traction – a book by Gabriel Weinberg and Justin Mares
• First Ruby Friend
• Senior Engineer Mindset – a book by Swizec Teller

Benedikt and the Userlist team are putting the finishing touches on their message composer, which will be deployed to projection very soon. He also met with his First Ruby Friend mentee this week and got an interesting question: how do you become a senior developer?

Benedicte just pitched her latest side project, Prune Your Follows, to a database startup and will be having a meeting with them later this week. This new opportunity has gotten her excited about the prospect of turning future side projects as viable lines of business.

Creators & Guests

Host

Benedicte Raae 👑

Queen Raae - Let's get the most out of @GatsbyJS | Creator of POW! — the privacy-first menstrual cycle journal (https://t.co/t2m6aOaCgM) | Co-host of the @SlowSteadyPod

Host

Benedikt Deicke

Software Engineer & Co-founder of @userlist. Co-host at @SlowSteadyPod. Running @femtoconf. Creator of @stagecms. Loves music, food, and cooking.

Editor

Krista Melgarejo

Marketing & Podcasts at @userlist | Writer and digital marketer by trade | Still trying to get that science degree 🎓

What is Slow & Steady?

Join us as we share what it's like to build and launch a bootstrapped startup while working for yourself full-time. Benedikt is working on Userlist, and Benedicte is establishing herself as a Gatsby expert and developer advocate for hire.