Coraline Ada Ehmke
Co-Host of Greater Than Code
Coraline Ada Ehmke is a speaker, writer, teacher, open source advocate and technologist with 20 years of experience in developing apps for the web. As the founder of OS4W.org and creator of the Contributor Covenant, she works diligently to promote diversity and inclusivity in open source and the tech industry.
Coraline is also writing a book on empathy in software development. Her current interests include refactoring, code analytics and artificial intelligence.
Coraline Ada Ehmke has hosted 89 Episodes.
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273: Motorcycling Adventures with Kerri Miller
March 2nd, 2022 | 59 mins 9 secs
A girl, a bike, and an open road.
Kerri Miller joins the show to regale us with stories about her epic motorcycling adventures.
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252: Designing For Safety with Eva PenzeyMoog
September 29th, 2021 | 1 hr 45 secs
TRIGGER WARNING: Domestic Violence, Abuse, Interpersonal Safety
Eva PenzeyMoog talks about her superpower being her ADHD and ability to hyperfocus before diving into a discussion about her book, “Designing for Safety.” We talk about how technology can be weaponized for harm and that it’s not a matter of might. It’s when. She talks about what engineers, designers, and even product managers need to know when building applications, and that it is our responsibility to prioritize the safety of marginalized people over the comfort of unmarginalized people.
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240: No Striving, No Hustling with Amelia Winger-Bearskin
June 30th, 2021 | 1 hr 51 secs
Amelia Bearskin-Winger talks about her Wampum.Codes project, storytelling and performance, explains the terms: “Indigenous Antecedent Technology,” and “Ethical Dependencies,” and talks about “community accountability” as opposed to “policing.”
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231: Deserted Island Safety and Expectations with Austin Parker
April 21st, 2021 | 47 mins 38 secs
Austin Parker gives the full exclusive of what ended up being a smash-hit success in 2020 at the height of the pandemic called Deserted Island DevOps but tells us that it wasn’t without hesitation and fear of failure in both the technical and psychological senses. His main goal was to underpromise and overdeliver, and he talks about safety and setting expectations both for speakers and participants.
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196: Documentation as Performance with Aisha Blake
August 19th, 2020 | 55 mins 24 secs
In this episode, Aisha Blake talks about documentation: documentation as narratives, forms of documentation worth investing in, and telling stories through documentation. She also talks about making documentation accessible and approachable, and how to best give constructive, consensual feedback.
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187: Seeing The World with Bryan Liles
June 17th, 2020 | 47 mins 56 secs
Bryan Liles talks about his ability to see the world as it is, conferencing and working from home during Quarantine, fighting and overcoming meritocracy, and how people work, and finding power in other things.
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180: Open Source Freedom and Technical Purity with Tobie Langel
April 29th, 2020 | 50 mins 32 secs
Co-Conspirator of Ethical Open Source, Tobie Langel talks about open source freedom and technical purity: developer attachment, privacy, security, and flavors of safety, the problems with prioritizing implementers over end-users, and internationalization issues.
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173: The Ethical Open Source Movement
March 11th, 2020 | 46 mins 19 secs
The panelists take over in a riveting discussion of the Ethical Open Source Movement. Coraline talks about her work in the movement, and the panelists also discuss the Open Source License, OSI, litigation thoughts, peaceful revolutions and reform, advantages of adopting the license, evolutions of open source, and the concept of community.
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Fast & Furious with Penelope Phippen
January 15th, 2020 | 10 mins 18 secs
Please enjoy this mini-episode of Greater Than Code featuring guest Penelope Phippen as we begin to pivot to our new podcast theme, the Fast & Furious. *
( * Just kidding, we are still a tech podcast.)
But we do hope you enjoy this set of outtakes where we grill Penelope on her Fast & Furious knowledge and speculate about the future of the franchise.
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165: Rubyfmt with Penelope Phippen
January 15th, 2020 | 53 mins 54 secs
Penelope Phippen talks about the development of Rubyfmt, writing Ruby programming, why she is doing things the way she is, what problem she is trying to solve with this program, the hierarchy of nitpicking, opportunities for collaboration, challenges faced, what others will do with Rubyfmt, finding time and motivation to work on the program, why she hasn’t received any pushback, and the fate of regional Ruby conferences.
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163: Cause A Scene with Kim Crayton
January 1st, 2020 | 1 hr 4 mins
Kim Crayton talks about continuously validating her space as a black woman, how the system was built to harm and oppress black women, white feminism being bullsh*t, being a strategist, #causeascene, price asymmetry, her six-step process, strategies for developing other technical skills, and defining racism.
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
December 10th, 2019 | 12 mins 10 secs
On this day in Paris in 1948, the United Nations issued the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a milestone document that sets out the fundamental rights and privileges of all people and all nations. In honor of the anniversary of this document, the panelists of Greater Than Code have come together to share their reading of the document with all of you.
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155: Ethical Open Source with Don Goodman-Wilson
November 6th, 2019 | 55 mins 8 secs
Don Goodman-Wilson talks about ethics and Open Source, consequentialism vs contractualism, the paradox of tolerance, enforceability of open source licenses, compensation as an ethical consideration, quantifying the value the Open Source Software gives, and empowering people who participate in Open Source.
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153: Your Favorite Philosopher Is You with Mannah Kallon
October 23rd, 2019 | 40 mins 46 secs
Mannah Kallon talks about assessing identity and evaluating sense of self in a new culture, using offensive terms, moments of self-doubt when someone doesn’t believe you, empathy, retaliation, and recognizing privilege.
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146: Self.conference with Amber Conville
September 4th, 2019 | 37 mins 1 sec
Amber Conville gives the 411 on all things Self.-related like the evolution and background, the transparency of conference metrics, partnering with organizations, navigating the conference organization world, and past conference highlights.