Developer on Fire
Developer on Fire
Episode 143 | Nik Molnar - Positive Impact
Guest:
Nik Molnar talks with Dave Rael about enjoying life outside software, big impacts from projects, and a nonstandard path to becoming a developer
Nik Molnar is a New Yorker, Microsoft MVP, ASP Insider and co-founder of Glimpse, an open source diagnostics and debugging tool. Originally from Florida, he specializes in web development, web API’s and community management. In his spare time, he can be found cooking up a storm in the kitchen, hanging with his wife, speaking at conferences, and working on other open source projects.
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Nik Molnar
- - Nik, Glimpse, and integration into Microsoft
- - Nik's move to Austin and leaving New York
- - The nature of Glimpse
- - Changes to Glimpse with the Microsoft acquisition
- - Nik's definition of value
- - The things that "light Nik up
- - How Nik got started with software
- - Thoughts on design
- - Nik's story of failure - being called back in to fix a problem after leaving a project
- - Nik's success story - open source turning into a career, notoriety, project work, and something making things better for people
- - How Nik stays current with what he needs to know
- - Nik's book recommendation
- - The things that have Nik most excited
- - Nik's sources of pain and suffering
- - The things about which Nik is most excited
- - Nik's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with Nik
Resources:
Nik's book recommendation:
Nik's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
- Rest
- Understand why you're delivering what you are and stop when it stops fulfilling that
- Really focus on something
