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Programming Throwdown

186: Becoming a Manager

Programming Throwdown

Patrick Wheeler and Jason Gauci

Objective C, Tech News, Programming Languages, News, Education, How To, C, Python, Programming Throwdown, Java

4.5610 Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2026

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Summary

Patrick and Jason discuss what it means to become a manager and how the role differs from individual engineering work. They cover hiring, coaching, performance management, team goals, and when moving into management is or is not the right choice.

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0:00.0

Programming Throwdown Episode 186 Becoming a Manager.

0:20.4

Take it away, Jason.

0:22.1

Hey, everybody. This is last programming throwdown of the year. Pretty wild.

0:31.9

I got a plastic welding kit a while back, and I actually, okay, so check this out. So I had about

0:41.1

three days alone. So we talked about this a little bit before the show. So my wife and her mom

0:48.4

and the kids all went to Dallas. And so I was in Austin myself. I did a ton of cleaning up around the house

0:55.1

and getting things in order and all of that.

0:57.5

And one of the things I did is I 3D printed

1:00.3

a thing to hold the keys.

1:03.6

So it's just imagine it's just like a little A frame

1:07.1

and on the top of the A frame,

1:08.7

there's hooks that come down

1:10.1

and you can put the keys

1:11.0

on that. It's pretty simple. But it came in in several parts and you're supposed to like friction

1:17.9

fit it together but my 3D printer is like not that great. And so, you know, it didn't, it didn't fit that

1:23.8

tightly. And so I was like, oh, you know, I don't want to throw this out because it's pretty big.

1:28.8

Let me just see if I can sort of heat it up, because I've heard of people doing this,

1:34.0

eating the plastic, and then it just melts, and then you melt it, you weld it, right?

1:39.4

You melt the two pieces of plastic together, and then when you stick them together,

1:42.9

there's sort of like chemically joined or whatever.

1:45.5

I'm probably not saying this right.

1:48.1

So I pulled out this plastic welding kit and it's basically like a gun,

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