Podcast Episode 101: Hack the planet In today's episode we talk about technology in sports, hacking, security, and other things in the same ball park. Check it out.
Podcast Episode 99: DX and Skill Issues This one took a long time to get out, but it is finally out. #100 was recorded and will come out next week 🤞 . We chat about how developer experience affects delivery speed, happiness and morale. We also chat about how a lot of problems with team dynamics are self-inflicted.
Macbook Microphone has no dynamic range Or maybe chooses not to, I'm not sure... But from looking at the waveform it feels like it should be clipping all the time and it's compressed to all hell... For instance, this waveform is from my budget AudioTechnica AT2035 going to (not so budget at
Podcast Episode 91: Open Source is Cooked In today's episode I vent some of my frustrations with the open source scene. It seems like any project of note is completely overtaken by activists and agitators, and it is no longer about technical merit, but all the usual buzzwords of the 2020-ies. Sad. Also, commies
Podcast Episode 89: OSS vs Commercial Licensing In today's episode we chat about strategies for finding technical support for integrated libraries and more complex solutions. Do you go with a commercial vendor and be at the mercy of their capacity to solve your issues, or do you pick an open source project and put your
Podcast Episode 88 In today's episode we chat about food prices, grocery logistics, inflation and margins. We also touch upon agriculture, farming, regulation and it's impacts on the above. In the second part we talk about conceptual doomscrolling impacts our lives, the road from legacy media to social media
Podcast Episode 87: Age and Identity Verification, Censorship, and Authoritarianism In today's episode we touch on topics of Age and Identity verification online, whether or not it's the job of the Government to protect people from "harmful" opinions, whether they are even capable of doing it and how these kinds of solutions might look
Podcast Episode 86: Socialization, Browser Wars, Paid social media In today's episode we talked started chatting about making friends online through video games. I had a chance to talk about the UK situation with their Age verification guidelines (which we will be greatly expanding on in an upcoming episode, so stay tuned). Mo brought his gripes with
Podcast Episode 85: AI and Authoritarianism Pardon the delay in releasing the episode, things have been a bit hectic with home renovations, but we should be back for the regular schedule... 🤞 In today's episode a large chunk was dedicated to a discussion about how AI can aid censorship regimes, whether the AI should be
Podcast Episode 84: Romantic notions in dev... In this episode we discuss several (repeating) themes. I posit that there are no more romantic notions about software development. It's mostly known, and mostly trivial and/or tedious. Actual discovery is reserved for a small few, and most devs are just there in the pixel mines, chipping