Episode 190 | Maggie Pint - Enjoying Extroversion

Guest: Maggie Pint @maggiepint Maggie Pint talks with Dave Rael about diverse personalities, understanding the perspectives of others, taking action, and the uncelebrated amazing people around us Maggie works in the Open Source Programs office at Microsoft, where she helps people navigate Microsoft’s Open source ecosystem both by writing code to better automate open source processes, and by advocating Open Source Software within and outside the organization. In the past she has been a SQL Server DBA, a full stack .NET developer, and a project manager. In her non-Microsoft open source life, she is a maintainer of Moment.js, and a regular conference speaker advocating for open source involvement and better handling of date and time in programming. When she is not coding, Maggie enjoys spending time with her four-year-old son, drinking too much coffee, and showing and breeding Australian Shepherds. Chapters: 0:57 - Dave introduces the show and Maggie Pint3:54 - Maggie's interest in dates and times5:14 - Maggie and moment.js - including a story of engaging, how she got involved with the project, and questioning the value of a feature10:22 - Maggie's attitude toward commitment11:36 - Becoming an open source maintainer13:40 - Getting a job at Microsoft16:14 - The open source office at Microsoft office20:27 - Motivations for involvement in open source22:28 - Advice for getting involved in open source software25:34 - Challenges of being a woman in open source software28:27 - Maggie's story of failure - approaching a team with hostile judgement - a shortage of understanding33:23 - Maggie's success story - taking action to do what she wanted, great and supportive management and team, and delivering on something new39:41 - How Maggie stays current with what she needs to know41:07 - Maggie's book recommendation42:13 - The things that have Maggie most excited43:22 - Maggie's causes of pain and suffering45:02 - The things about which Maggie likes to geek about46:54 - Maggie's top 3 tips for delivering more value49:55 - Keeping up with Maggie Resources: Maggie's Blog moment.js Matt Johnson on Developer On Fire Jeremy Clark on Developer On Fire Scott Nimrod on Developer On Fire Hamlet ( Folger Library Shakespeare) - William Shakespeare Sandi Metz on Developer On Fire Paul Czywczynski Doc Norton on Developer On Fire Scott Hanselman on Developer On Fire Uncle Bob Martin on Developer On Fire Node.js Is Bad Ass Rock Star Tech Maggie's book recommendation: Troubleshooting SQL Server - A Guide for the Accidental DBA - Jonathan Kehayias Maggie's top 3 tips for delivering more value: Have time for entry-level developers Read open source code Try to meet people where they are