Katherine Wu
Co-Host of Parent Driven Development
KWu is a Ruby developer at Heroku and new mom to a delightfully chubby baby boy.
She previously worked at New Relic on the newrelic_rpm gem and at Google in various technical support and product operations roles. A proud New Jersey native, she nevertheless fits in well in Portlandia, with hobbies like knitting, sewing, and making pickles from local produce.
Katherine Wu has hosted 40 Episodes.
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019: Being Adults
December 19th, 2018 | 43 mins 58 secs
self-care, travel, work
In this episode that was recorded live and in-person at RubyConf in L.A., Jonan Scheffler joined the regular panelists to talk about what it's like to leave the kids at home while you're traveling for work or conferences: spending spousal points, communicating from afar, sneaking in a bit of self-care while you're away, and reentry back home into the parenting world.
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015: On-Call Schedules
November 14th, 2018 | 44 mins 5 secs
In this episode, our on-call panelists, KWu and Josh, chat with our on-call guest, Alyson van Hardenberg, about managing being on-call as a parent: conversations to have with your team, onboarding processes and escalation policies, and tips and tricks for living your best life on-call.
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013: Babies at Work
October 31st, 2018 | 56 mins 40 secs
breastfeeding, childcare, work
Leah Silber joins the show to talk about why her company, Tilde.io, implemented a bring your baby to work option for new parents. She talks about dealing with fussiness, nursing, how much employees and co-workers aren't bothered by babies, and that having the babies at work actually make for a much happier baby!
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009: Planning Childcare at Conferences
July 11th, 2018 | 55 mins 32 secs
childcare, conferences, rails, ruby, tech
We talk about how to get started if you want to have childcare at your conference and what it's like to be a conference organizer
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008: Remote Work with Kids
June 20th, 2018 | 54 mins 8 secs
children, distributed team, remote work, work
The panel discusses working remotely after having children (and sometimes with kids around)
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006: Screen Time
April 18th, 2018 | 48 mins 19 secs
We talk about screen time policies and how we manage these with our children.
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005: Net Neutrality
March 21st, 2018 | 41 mins 51 secs
We talk about net neutrality with our guest Jonathan Wallace. As usual we follow up with some genius and fail moments from the panel and our guest.
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001: Greetings & Salutations
January 25th, 2018 | 59 mins 40 secs
geeks, kids, parenting, technology
Meet all the hosts of the Parent Driven Development, let them introduce themselves, their kids and have a little chat!