Chatbots Could Help Mitigate Eating Disorders, Retro Slavic Adventure Games, & more on DevNews 🗞
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Published: 2022-01-27 21:44:24

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Video games can tell you a lot about a region’s past. 🧐 

We talk about that story and many others on this week's episode of the DevNews podcast!

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_As a refresher, DevNews is the news show for developers by developers. Each season, our hosts cover the latest in the world of tech, and speak with diverse guests from a variety of backgrounds to dig deep into meaty topics such as security, the pros and cons of outsourcing your authentication, and the latest bugs and hacks._

**Hosts:** 
- @saronyitbarek is the founder of Disco, founder of [CodeNewbie](https://community.codenewbie.org) host of the [CodeNewbie Podcast](https://dev.to/codenewbie), and co-host of the [base.cs podcast](https://dev.to/basecspodcast).
- @joshpuetz is the Principal Software Engineer at [Forem](https://forem.com) — the open source community software that powers DEV, CodeNewbie and a growing number of other online communities.



**Guest:** 
- **[Ellen Fitzsimmons-Craft](http://twitter.com/@fitzsimmonscraft)** is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine and a licensed clinical psychologist specializing in eating disorders and digital mental health. Her research aims to develop and test innovative digital solutions to reach the large number of people in need of care for mental health problems, including eating disorders, but who are not receiving services. 
- **[Maroš Brojo](http://twitter.com/@m_brojo)** is currently working for the Slovak Game Developers Association, CEE Animation, and the Slovak Design Museum. He is a creative industry manager with a demonstrated history of working in the filed of fine arts.

**This week, we talk about Twitter NFT profile pictures and some stories about US government versus big tech.** 

**Then we speak with Ellen Fitzsimmons-Craft, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, about a research paper she co-authored about how the use of chatbots could help prevent and mitigate eating disorders.** 

**Finally, we speak with Maroš Brojo, general manager at Slovak Game Developers Association, about a wealth of unearthed slavic text adventure games from the 80’s that he and his team have translated and featured at the Slovak Design Museum.**


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#### _Acknowledgements_ 
- _@levisharpe for producing & mixing the show_ 
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We hope you enjoy our show this week! 📰