40 spoonfuls of Marmite - James Brooks and Greg Skerman

James and Greg sit down with Mitchell to discuss podcasting, being a first time speaker at Laracon, and have the Marmite conversation.

James Brooks is a software engineer and Laravel core team member.
Greg Skerman is the head of engineering at iseekplant.
Mitchell Davis runs Atlas Software and RecruitKit.

  • (00:00) - Introduction
  • (01:19) - Podcasting
  • (10:30) - A day in the life
  • (18:28) - Side projects
  • (32:15) - Laravel Vapor and serverless
  • (40:35) - Laracon and speaking
  • (44:03) - Finding confidence as a first time speaker
  • (52:13) - Organising conferences and meetups
  • (54:30) - How good is Michael Dyrynda
  • (58:02) - The Marmite conversation
  • (01:01:24) - Outro
  • (01:02:26) - The funny guy


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James' links:
James eating Marmite supercut
twitter.com/jbrooksuk
linkedin.com/in/jbrooksuk
james.brooks.page
polestar-finder.brooks.page
checkmango.com
cachethq.io
artisan.page

Greg's links:
twitter.com/GregSkerman
linkedin.com/in/greg-skerman

Mitchell's links:
twitter.com/mitchdav
linkedin.com/in/mitchdav
atlas.dev
recruitkit.com.au
hallwaytrack.fm

Creators and Guests

Mitchell Davis
Host
Mitchell Davis
Founder of Atlas Software and RecruitKit
Greg Skerman
Guest
Greg Skerman
Full stack Engineering Leader. Workflow enthusiast. I have opinions about things.
James Brooks
Guest
James Brooks
👨‍🚀 @laravelphp Core Team ✦ 👨🏻‍💻 Building @cachethq and @checkmangocom ✦ 🤝 Organising @PHPStoke ✦ 🎙️ Podcasting @happydevfm
40 spoonfuls of Marmite - James Brooks and Greg Skerman
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