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
101 episodes
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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How to Avoid LLM Pitfalls - Guillaume Laforge & Mete Atamel from Google
On this episode of Coffee of Developers we speak to Mete Atamel and Guillaume Laforge, Developer Advocates at Google about how developers can avoid common pitfalls when using LLMs and some of the exciting things you can do with Google Gemini, a...
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Is AI replacing developers?, Stopping bots, AI on device & more - Sebastian Gingter
On this edition we're joined by Sebastian Gingter from Thinktecture to discuss whether AI will ever actually replace Developers or if we're worried about nothing, how to stop bots indexing your sites, how to use AI on device and much more.
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Making LLMs Make Sense with GraphRAG and Neo4j - Martin O'Hanlon
On this edition of Coffee with Developers we welcomed from Martin O’Hanlon - Technical Curriculum Developer at Neo4j - to tell us all about how GraphRAG can be used to build and train generative AI applications that use LLMs that give accurate ...
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Building a Privacy-First Social Platform at Mastodon - Andy Piper
On this episode we sat down with Andy Piper, Head of Communications at Mastodon, to discuss what it's like to build a privacy-first social platform, how they resist including ads on the timeline, and all about the Fediverse.
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Microsoft is 50, Web Readiness Reports and 20 Years of Git - Christian "Schepp" Schaefer
On this episode we look at how Microsoft is celebrating its 50th birthday, the web readiness report to see which browsers are doing best, and what we did before Git as it celebrates two decades of domination in the world of version control.
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What Does AI Mean for Web Development? - Laurie Voss, Rey Bango, Hannah Foxwell, Rizel Scarlett and Thomas Steiner
If you missed our recent WebDev and AI LIVE Day, then you’re in luck because we’re giving you free access to this fantastic panel of speakers.Laurie Voss, Rey Bango, Hannah Foxwell, Rizel Scarlett and Thomas Steiner joined us to d...
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Can AI Save Accessibility?, Horrid HTML, The Frontend Treadmill and more - Dirk Ginader
On this edition of The Weekly Developer Show we welcomed Dirk Ginader, Accessibility Engineering Lead at Google, to ask whether AI can save accessibility, what every developer can do to make their code more accessible and much more.
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Fighting Fraud with an AI Grandma - Ben Hopkins and Morten Legarth from faith @ VCCP
On this episode we met with Ben Hopkins and Morten Legarth - Creative Directors at faith @ VCCP - a marketing agency that made headlines recently after creating an AI Grandma voice-bot to bait scammers on behalf of O2 UK.
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Gaps in CSS, EU Accessibility Act and more with Emma Dawson
On this edition of the Weekly Developer Show we welcomed web developer and accessibility specialist Emma Dawson, to talk about how to make applications more accessible, the gaps in CSS, what the EU Accessibility means and much more.
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Graphs and RAGs Everywhere... But What Are They? - Andreas Kollegger - Neo4j
Neo4j has grown from a small open-source project to a major player in the graph database industry, now employing around 800 people.Head of GenAI Innovation, Andreas Kolleger, shares his 15-year journey, discussing the blend of remote wor...
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How ChatGPT fails, Preserving the web and Backend-Frontend Separation - Luise Freese
On this episode of WeAreDevelopers LIVE we're joined by Software Architect and Microsoft MVP Luise Freese to talk about the weird and wonderful stories happening on the web over the past week. From how ChatGPT fails, to how you can have your vo...
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Data Science, ML & AI in the Oil and Gas Industry at NDT Global - Katja Träumner
Dr. Katja Träumner, Head of Data Science and AI at NDT Global, discusses her career path from physics to data science in the pipeline inspection industry.She highlights the role of AI in analysing pipeline data and addresses the need for...
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