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
128 episodes
Dapr, Pixels and Generative Art, Open Source and Communities - Marc Duiker
On this edition of the Weekly Developer Show we're joined by Marc Duiker, a Sr Developer Advocate at Diagrid to discuss Dapr, pixels and generative Art, open source and communities and a whole lot more.
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The Future Past of Technology - A Game Developers POV - Johanna Pirker
This was on 11/07/2025 on MainstageThe future has already been shaped by the past, and that past is built on game development. Game dev isn’t just about creating fun or entertainment—it’s a methodology, a mindset, and a powerful design p...
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Fun and Games and All That Comes With It, Back to BASIC & more - Johanna Pirker
On this week's episode of WeAreDevelopers LIVE we welcome Johanna Pirker, Professor working with Video Games, to discuss the importance of games and how many developers get the bug for programming by playing games.
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Agents For the Sake of Happiness - Thomas Dohmke (GitHub CEO)
This week we’re kicking off the release of hundreds of World Congress 2025 talks by focusing on one in particular, Thomas Dohmke’s Agents for the Sake of Happiness, delivered before Thomas announced he would be moving on from his role as CEO of...
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Demo Time, Live Coding, End-to-End Testing and more - Elio Struyf
On this edition of our weekly live stream, we're joined by Elio Struyf, a soft developer and consultant who maintains Demo Time, an open source tool to help developers make better code demonstrations on stage.
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Shift Left on Accessibility - Geri Reid
This week we’re looking back at another session from our Accessibility and AI day, with Geri Reid - Lead Accessibility Specialist at Just Eat Takeaway.com - explaining how to turn inclusive design development from extra effort to an everyday pr...
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Reducing LLM Calls with Vector Search Patterns - Raphael De Lio (Redis)
In this tech talk, Redis Software Engineer and Developer Advocate Raphael De Lio shows us how to reduce the number of LLM calls using vector search patterns.
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Vector Similarity Search Patterns for Efficiency and more - Raphael De Lio
This week we're joined by Raphael De Lio, Developer Advocate at Redis, who explains all the ways you can save time and money on LLM calls using vector search patterns.
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AI is the Future of Accessibility - Kevin Groves
This week, we’re looking back at another session from our AI and Accessibility Day, this time from Kevin Groves.Kevin looks past the hype and asks whether AI will make software more accessible in the future.Let us know what you th...
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What Development and Tattoos Have in Common - Jan Moser
This week, Jan Moser joins us with his talk “What Development and Tattoos Have in Common”, originally submitted for the World Congress 2025, plus our favorite web finds of the week.
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Rethinking Intelligence: AI, Accessibility, and the Future of Inclusive Work - Artur Ortega
This week we’re looking back at a session from our Accessibility & AI day delivered by Artur Ortega, Senior Staff Engineer at Deliveroo. As a blind developer with a wealth of experience, and user of assistive technology himself, Artur has s...
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Vibe Coding Deep Dive, Conference Video Editing and more
On this edition of the Weekly Developer Show we do a deep dive into the dangers of vibe coding, discuss the ups and downs of agentic coding and show you behind the scenes of how we edit hundreds of conference videos.
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Build Real Things: Real-World Problems That Blockchain Actually Solves - Marco Podien
Marco Podien, Senior Developer Advocate at Algorand Foundation, joined us to discuss the real-world uses for blockchain, why the hype is over and that's a good thing, and some of the exciting uses of blockchain going on around the world that de...
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COBOL to Cloud, Legacy Code and AI Copilots - Julia Kordick
On this edition of WeAreDevelopers, we're joined by Julia Kordick, Global Black Belt at Microsoft, to discuss how her team has been migrating COBOL to the cloud, legacy codebases and working with AI copilots.
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Rendering Design Software in the Browser at Penpot - Elena Torró
On this episode of Coffee with Developers we welcome Elena Torró, Software Engineer at Penpot, to discuss the challenges faced by their team of engineers building complex design and development prototype software for the browser and a whole lot...
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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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