Coffee with Developers
Welcome to Coffee with Developers, an exclusive series hosted by WeAreDevelopers, Europe's leading developer community. Dive into 1-on-1 chats with world-class tech minds, as they share their anecdotes, career highs and lows, and everything in between. Grab a cup of coffee and tune in for insightful conversations that will inspire, educate, and entertain. Subscribe now to never miss a new episode.
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Episodes
113 episodes
I'm a Developer Working in Marketing... Here's Why - Tim Cadenbach
Tim Cadenbach, Head of Community at DeepL, delivers his lightning talk from the World Congress 2025 all about what it's like to be a developer working in the marketing department, and why developers are so wary of marketing.
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Developers vs. Marketing, NLP Uses - Tim Cadenbach
On this edition of WeAreDevelopers LIVE we're joined by Tim Cadenbach, Head of Community at DeepL. Tim's talk was unfortunately rained off at the World Congress (and can be found on our feed or on our website), and discusses why developers are ...
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What Digital Sovereignty Means for Developers - Julien Blanchez
On this episode we welcome Julien Blanchez, Digital Sovereignity Solution Lead at Google to talk about the impact of digital sovereignty on developers and all of the ways that Google Cloud is empowering its users with greater controls over thei...
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AI vs Recruiters and Applicants, Turmoil in the Games Industry, What to Put on a CV - Alla Pavlova
On this edition of WeAreDevelopers LIVE, we're joined by Anna Pavlova, Recruiter at Riot Games to talk about what it's like to recruit engineers, turmoil in the industry and what to put on your CV.
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Solving Real-world Problems with Blockchain at the Algorand Foundation - Brian Whippo
On this episode of Coffee with Developers we spoke to Head of Developer Relations at the Algorand Foundation, Brian Whippo to talk blockchain after the hype, the problems can be solved by decentralised technology, the future of the sector and m...
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Our World Congress 2025 & CODE100 Highlights with Jack Barber and Marco Podien
On our first weekly live stream since the World Congress 2025 we're joined by CODE100 Challenger Jack Barber and Algorand's Senior Developer Relations Advocate, Marco Podien to talk about our highlights from the congress, and how we would tackl...
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Is Software Ever Truly Accessible? - LIVE at the World Congress with GrahamTheDev
Recorded live in Berlin at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2025, Chris and Dan were joined for this episode by GrahamTheDev, Accessibility Consultant and W3C Invited Expert to discuss whether software can ever really be called accessible, an...
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Inside Mercedes-Benz: How CIO Katrin Lehmann is Empowering 5,000 Developers and Driving Digital Change
This episode is a unique edition — filmed inside the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart, surrounded by 150 years of automotive history and innovation. From the first-ever automobil to the future of AI-driven engineering, w...
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Google Gemma and Open Source AI Models - Clement Farabet
We’re back for another episode of Coffee with Developers, and this time we sat down with Clement Farabet, VP of Research at Google DeepMind to take a deep dive into the topics of open source AI models including Google Gemma, and much more.<...
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Did AI or JS Kill the Web - Peter Cooper
On this edition of WeAreDevelopers LIVE we're joined by the curator of JavaScript Weekly (and many others), Peter Cooper, to talk about what killed the web, how AI has changed engineering and lots more.
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Rendering in the Browser, The State of CSS and Accessibility and more - Elena Torró
On this episode of our weekly LIVE stream, we're joined by Elena Torró, Software Engineer at Penpot. We talk about the challenges of rendering on a browser, the state of CSS, look back at the old web and lots more.
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What’s New with Google Gemini? - Logan Kilpatrick
On this edition of Coffee with Developers, we're joined by Logan Kilpatrick, Group Product Manager at Google DeepMind, to discuss the latest updates to Google Gemini, which tasks it really exceeds at, and how developers can get started with the...
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Blockchain After the Hype, Vibing All the Things? and more - Brian Whippo, Algorand
On this week's live stream we welcomed Brian Whippo, Head of Developer Relations at Algorand - the proof-of-stake blockchain and cryptocurrency - to talk about how there's more to blockchain than hype, what vibe coding means for developers, whe...
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Building Open Source Tools for Developers and Designers - Pablo Ruiz-Múzquiz
On this episode of Coffee with Developers we met with Pablo Ruiz-Múzquiz, CEO of Penpot, web-based open-source design tool that bridges the gap between designers and developers to discuss the pain-points between design teams and devs, and how o...
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What the Hack is Web App Sec? - Jackie (CodeCrafts 2025)
On this edition, recorded live at CodeCrafts 2025 in Vienna, we spoke to Jackie, open source engineer and coding lecturer at the University of Applied Arts Vienna about what developers can do to make their web applications more secure, what vib...
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Your Code as Crime Scene - Adam Tornhill (CodeCrafts 2025)
On this edition, recorded live at CodeCrafts 2025 in Vienna, we spoke to Adam Tornhill, Founder of Code Scene, to talk about how criminal forensics and psychological techniques can be applied to your codebase, and what happens when you view you...
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The Environmental Impact of Software Development - Bjorna Kalaja (CodeCrafts 2025)
On this edition, recorded live at CodeCrafts 2025 in Vienna, we spoke to Bjorna Kalaja, Software Engineer at foryouandyourcustomers to talk about sustainability create software in the age of AI, and much more.
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Performance and AI, Social Media Decline, Developer Events and more
On this edition, Chris and Dan talk about the latest news from the world of tech, including what AI means for performance on the web, whether social media is in decline, developer events and lots more.
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Developer Productivity Using AI Tools and Services - Ryan J. Salva
On this episode we sit down with Ryan J. Salva, Senior Director of Product for Gemini Code Assist at Google about Developer productivity using AI tools and services. We learn how to get the most out of Gemini and lots more fascinating insights....
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Moving into DevRel, The Death of Search APIs, Building with Empathy - Dayana Mick
On this edition of WeAreDevelopers LIVE we're joined by Dayana Mick, a wonderful Web Developer and Consultant looking to lean into Developer Relations. We discuss the death of search APIs and the dominance of chat bots, and how having empathy f...
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EU Startups, How Important is Tech Regulation & Why AI Reverse Image Search is Scary - Matthias Neumayer and Dima Rubanov
On this episode we sat down with the co-founders of OscarStories and IntelliPaper.ai to talk about the latest news from the world of tech, what it's like running a startup in the EU, why tech regulation is important and why AI reverse image sea...
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Should We Respect LLMs? What's the Fuss Around Rust? - Francesco Ciulla
On this week's live stream we were joined by Francesco Ciulla - Developer Advocate at daily.dev and speaker at this years' WeAreDevelopers World Congress - to talk about why vibe coding isn't all bad, why developers seem to love Rust, and tips ...
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Google Gemini: Open Source and Deep Thinking Models with Sam Witteveen
In this episode of Coffee with Developers, we sit down with Sam Witteveen, Google Developer Experts, to dive into the ever-evolving world of AI, ML, and GenAI.From demystifying the difference between Gemma and Gemini to exploring how sm...
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Security on the Web, Chrome Selloff, 2025 is the Year of DDoS - Ramona Schwering
This week we're joined by Frontend Developer & Developer Advocate @Auth0, Ramona Schwering, to talk all things security. Ramona shows us how she stays safe online, tells us what worries her about rumours Google might have to se...
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The Power of Prompting with AI Native Development - Simon Maple, Tessl
This week we look back at a great session by Tessl’s Simon Maple from our Web Dev and AI Day in March 2025.Tessl is for developers and software teams who want to embrace prompting and write code with AI, but one that guided by their spec...
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