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The Leanpub Podcast, 2020

Edited Conversations From The Leanpub Podcast

The Leanpub Podcast, 2020

Read thirty-two PodcastBook conversations from the Leanpub Podcast in 2020, with programmers, engineers, publishers, and writers, talking about their backgrounds and careers, their books, and about their approach to writing and publishing.

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In 2020, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talked with Leanpub authors and other guests in dozens of long-form podcast interviews. This book collects those conversations, edited for reading with our PodcastBook service.

You'll hear from authors like Kyle Simpson on engineering culture and JavaScript, Jane Friedman on the publishing industry and the impact of COVID-19, Chris Mattmann on machine learning, NASA and the deep web, Marianne Bellotti on legacy systems and technical archaeology, and special guest Mark Coker talking about Smashwords.

Other guests talk about Docker, Kubernetes, Scala, Haskell, C++, functional PHP, Angular, distributed systems and Salesforce, and about a wide range of general interest topics including coworking, Russian history, the Olympics, filmmaking, cybersecurity and democracy, the Sheikh Zayed Book Award, and more.

Please note that the original transcript of the interview has been transformed into a more book-like style by our PodcastBook service, and nothing in this book should be read or used as an actual quotation from the speaker.

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Leanpub Podcasts

This is the author account for the Leanpub Podcast books, which are produced using our premium PodcastBook service.

Each book in the series collects a year or more of our long-form podcast interviews with Leanpub authors.

These books aren't transcripts, and are in a sense a new genre: they're book-style versions of person-to-person interviews.

We hope you enjoy the books and, if you have your own podcast that you'd like to sell as a book, please check out PodcastBook!

Contents

Table of Contents

Aaron Sumner — Test-Driven Development and Self-Publishing with Leanpub

Nicholas Russo — An Engineer’s Musings on Business and Life

Marshall Poe — Russian History and the New Books Network

Ken Buckler — Cybersecurity, Digital Threats to Democracy, and Self-Publishing

Mark Coker — Smashwords, Self-Publishing, and Author Independence

Chris Mattmann — Machine Learning, NASA, and the Deep Web

Alex Hillman — Coworking, Community, and Building an Audience

Michael Rice — Tech Leads, Consulting, and Day 1, Hour 1

Jeff Nickoloff — Docker, Containers, and Writing to Communicate

Kyle Simpson — Engineering Culture, JavaScript, and Self-Publishing

Guy LeCharles Gonzalez — Libraries, Publishing Data, and the Book World Bubble

Gabriel Volpe — Functional Programming in Scala and Self-Publishing

Derek Doepker — Self-Publishing, Habits, and Adapting to Change

Noah Gift — Consulting, Remote Work, and Writing Technical Books

Alfredo Deza — From the Olympics to Software Engineering and Writing

Maram Taibah — Filmmaking, Fantasy Worlds, and Self-Publishing

Larry Garfield — Thinking Functionally in PHP

Juergen Boos — The Sheikh Zayed Book Award

Jane Friedman — The Publishing Industry and the Impact of COVID-19

Micah Bowers — Bluefire, Adobe Digital Editions, and the Ebook Industry

Matt Vaughn — Angular Architecture, Patterns, and Code Reuse

Nigel Poulton — Containers, Kubernetes, and Self-Publishing

Chris Penner — Optics By Example: Functional Lenses in Haskell

Joel Grus — Ten Essays on Fizz Buzz

Marianne Bellotti — Legacy Systems, Hiring Engineers, and Technical Archaeology

Roberto Vitillo — Designing Large-Scale Distributed Systems

Jason Turner — C++ Best Practices and the Content Creator’s Craft

Dion Beetson — Leading Software Teams with Context, Not Control

Erik Hougaard — Business Central and Self-Publishing a Living Field Guide

Emily Bache — The Coding Dojo and the Samman Method

Ines Garcia — Becoming More Agile Whilst Delivering Salesforce

Mike Shatzkin — The Book Business in 2020

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