Jess Lee for The DEV Team

Posted on May 14, 2020 with Ben Halpern • Updated on May 18, 2020

Introducing our first original podcast: DevDiscuss

#discuss #meta #announcement #showdev

Today, @ben & I officially get to call ourselves podcast hosts. We are very excited to introduce you all to DevDiscuss, the show where me, Ben, and our lovely guests get to discuss the burning topics that pop up around DEV and beyond. The format of our show begins with an interview with one or two guests, and ends with commentary straight from the community. I’ve been hinting at this new podcast since I posted my first dial-in request back in March:

What is something important that you think is being overlooked in the tech community? Call us with your answer!

Jess Lee ・ Mar 20 '20 ・ 1 min read

#discuss

If you’ve responded to any of these threads, either by commenting or dialing our Google Voice number, you might hear your comment (and voice) on the show!

We kicked off our inaugural episode with a topic that software engineers often don’t consider: changing your name. We were inspired by Penelope Phippen’s (@penelope_zone) article, “Changing your name is a hard unsolved problem in Computer Science,” so we brought her into our fully distributed studio for an interview.

You can tune into the episode directly here on DEV (and continue browsing the site!), or any other platform that supports podcasts:

Pro Tip - If you follow the podcast on DEV, new episodes will show up directly in your feed :)

S1:E1 - Why Tech's Deadnaming Problem Matters

DevDiscuss

A huge thanks to @levisharpe for producing & mixing the show, and @peter and @saronyitbarek for their editorial oversight.

Finally, thank you to our Season 1 sponsors who help make this show possible. If you're in the market for any of their services, please check out DigitalOcean, Heroku, CommerceJS, and Fastly.

We hope you enjoy DevDiscuss!

Happy Coding!

Discussion (71)

Lasse Schultebraucks • May 14 '20

Really liked the first episode! Changing your name in the real world has really a big effect on various systems. @penelope_zone was a great first guest in the show. I am looking forward to the next episodes!

Ben Halpern • May 14 '20

It's really exciting to be a part of this, the first episode with @penelope_zone was our first recording of the season and it was great to start on a note that reflects the ethos of the show: To tackle real software topics with nuance and go deeper than surface-level, while always delivering some technical meat to ensure folks are coming out of this with new perspectives that are going to help them as developers.

The feedback between the community and the show topics has already shown itself to be really cool.

The show has not yet gone live on Apple Podcasts, as mentioned, but if you use spotify or elsewhere subscribe and leave a great review...

Also if you intend listen on DEV, check out our mobile apps at dev.to/downloads as we will just continue to improve this part of the overall experience.

Happy coding, happy listening ❤️

Andrew Brown 🇨🇦 • May 14 '20

🎙️🎙️🎙️Congratulations on the new podcast! 🎙️🎙️🎙️

Peter Kim Frank • May 14 '20

It's really exciting to have watched this show evolve from concept to production to release. There's more work related to planning, recording, mixing, hosting, releasing, etc. than I could have ever imagined. Major congrats are in order for @ben and @jess , Senior Podcast Producer @levisharpe , and to @saronyitbarek for her editorial input.

This is our first "DEV Original" podcast, but we're amazingly lucky to have learned so much about the process from Levi and Saron, who are pros at this given their experience with the CodeNewbie Podcast and BaseCS Podcast.

We hope you enjoy the show!

Levi Sharpe • May 14 '20

Thank you everyone for the kind words! It was a blast to work on this show with everyone involved, and I can't wait for you all to hear what we have in store for you!

Ryan Smith • May 14 '20

Awesome, excited to listen to it!

Swastik Baranwal • May 14 '20

Amazing! Looking forward for more!

Andy Zhao (he/him) • May 14 '20

Woo!!! Stoked to listen to this :D

Leon Martin • May 14 '20

It is wonderful !! We will share it in the Facebook Developer circles of Latam 🧑🏽‍💻 !! 🙌

Gulshan kumar Jakhon • Jun 14

First of all congratulations for your 1st podcasts it really sound cool 😎.
As this is your first "DEV Original" podcast, and we learn so much, and. This is really awesome. 👌

Thanks 💐
@ben @jess

Vaibhav Khulbe • May 14 '20

I love podcasts! Subscribed to Dev Discuss.

Can you tell us when it will be available on PocketCasts?

David Carr • May 15 '20

It's on PocketCasts play.pocketcasts.com/discover/podc...

Vaibhav Khulbe • May 15 '20

Thanks!!

Jess Lee • May 14 '20

That's a @levisharpe questions 😀

Ikaika • May 15 '20

I would like this as well, it can be submitted via pocketcasts.com/submit/

Vaibhav Khulbe • May 15 '20

I'll be waiting for it to come there but till then, I'll listen to it here :)

Ben Halpern • May 14 '20

We'll have it anywhere it can go

Peyton McGinnis • May 15 '20

Also, whenever the podcast is playing you don't have access to the post toolbar, at least on mobile. Maybe consider giving the podcast toolbar a visibility toggle?

Ridhwana Khan • May 14 '20

Super great first episode! 🔥

Stephen Belovarich • May 14 '20

The college DJ in me is beaming with excitement. This is so well produced.

Levi Sharpe • May 14 '20

Thank you! I really appreciate your comment 🤗

Daniel Persson • May 14 '20

No RSS feed?

Ben Halpern • May 14 '20

Oh I don't think we thought to include that because most people don't interact with the feed directly... feeds.devpods.dev/devdiscuss_podca...

Jess Lee • May 14 '20

Added to the post as well!

Thomas Bnt • May 14 '20 • Edited on May 14

Very great with DevPlayer :3 🙌

Edit:
He could be usefull to show on episode this informations:
devpods.herokuapp.com/podcasts/dev...

Rose • May 15 '20

Wow how exciting! Congrats on the big launch 😊😊😊

venkata vikas • Oct 22 '20

Awesome work, guys!
It is refreshing to hear from a fresh set of voices. I hadn't thought about these things, like the effects of the changing your name, and the 'unpopular opinions', until you did episodes on them. It really helps you get a new perspective on things.
This endeavor will definitely be a great platform to discuss the latest issues/milestones of the tech industry. Looking forward to hearing your takes on the hottest topics (or maybe on the underrated ones too :-) ).

Cash Carlson • Oct 21 '20

I listened to the latest episodes of DevDiscuss S2 E8 and honestly, it's a great listen. I'll be looking forward to listening to more and more topics in the software engineering world/related topics in the future.

Sourav Kumar • Feb 9 '21

I'm a big podcast listener and listen a whole lot to syntax.fm, and this will be a great addition to my podcast rotation. Hyped!

Itachi Uchiha • May 14 '20

Thanks. I’m currently listening :) This is good for me after work. Your English can easily understand. 🙏🏻🙏🏻😍

Emil Titus • Oct 14 '20

Peyton McGinnis • May 15 '20

Yeahhhhh!!!! 🙌🙌

I'm a big podcast listener and listen a whole lot to syntax.fm, and this will be a great addition to my podcast rotation. Hyped!

Jess Lee • May 14 '20

It would be an honor!

Madza • May 14 '20

Congrats on the new Podcast!
Wish you a lot of creative topics and interesting guests for the future episodes!

Levi Sharpe • May 14 '20

Thank you! Definitely subscribe and keep an eye out for new episodes, which come out on Wednesdays. We have a lot of really great stuff lined up!

Roberto Hernandez • May 14 '20

Amazing!

Harsh Mangal • Jul 31 '20

It's really exciting to have watched this show evolve from concept to production to release. There's more work related to planning, recording, mixing, hosting, releasing, etc.