Expanding Beyond

By: Monica Giambitto & Urban Hafner
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  • Monica and Urban discuss their work life as developers and development managers.
    © 2025 Monica Giambitto, Urban Hafner
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  • Episode 60: Everyone is sick

    Episode 60: Everyone is sick
    Dec 18 2024
    Urban gets his AWS certificate and we discuss certifications in general and what they are good for. Especially in a B2B world. We also talk about project management and how no one seems to be in charge in a lot of places, as well as LLM generated code as yet another level of abstraction. Roles and Responsibilities retro (https://retromat.org/en/?id=146) Trillions by Robin Wigglesworth (https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/b554727d-69c4-4427-b66b-285f39f8b959) Dreamweaver (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Dreamweaver) AI Won't Fix the Fundamental Flaw of Programming (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82JpGhctWpU) Ask questions via our anonymous feedback form (https://forms.gle/MW8qZFD7RLYriqKj8) You can reach us via email at hosts@expandingbeyond.it (mailto:hosts@expandingbeyond.it). Where to find Monica on the internet: Website: monicag.me (https://monicag.me/) Bluesky: @nirnaeth.bsky.social (https://bsky.app/profile/nirnaeth.bsky.social) Mastodon: @nirnaeth@mastodon.online (https://mastodon.social/@nirnaeth@mastodon.online) Github: @nirnaeth (https://github.com/nirnaeth) Blog: dev.to/nirnaeth (https://dev.to/nirnaeth) Where to find Urban on the internet: Mastodon: @ujh@masto.ai (https://masto.ai/@ujh) Bluesky: @urbanhafner.bsky.social (https://bsky.app/profile/urbanhafner.bsky.social) Github: @ujh (https://github.com/ujh/) Blog: urbanhafner.com (https://urbanhafner.com/) The intro and outro music is Our Big Adventure (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Scott_Holmes/Happy_Music/Our_Big_Adventure) by Scott Holmes (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Scott_Holmes). It's licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
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    50 mins
  • Episode 59: Asking why

    Episode 59: Asking why
    Nov 7 2024
    In this episode we discuss meeting in person, thinking about architecture, and most importantly finding out the WHY for things. Fundamentals of Software Architecture (https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Mark-Richards/dp/1492043451) How to think like an architect (https://youtu.be/W7Krz__jJUg) Architectural Katas (https://fundamentalsofsoftwarearchitecture.com/katas/) Ask questions via our anonymous feedback form (https://forms.gle/MW8qZFD7RLYriqKj8) You can reach us via email at hosts@expandingbeyond.it (mailto:hosts@expandingbeyond.it). Where to find Monica on the internet: Website: monicag.me (https://monicag.me/) Mastodon: @nirnaeth@mastodon.online (https://mastodon.social/@nirnaeth@mastodon.online) Github: @nirnaeth (https://github.com/nirnaeth) Blog: dev.to/nirnaeth (https://dev.to/nirnaeth) Where to find Urban on the internet: Mastodon: @ujh@masto.ai (https://masto.ai/@ujh) Github: @ujh (https://github.com/ujh/) Blog: urbanhafner.com (https://urbanhafner.com/) The intro and outro music is Our Big Adventure (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Scott_Holmes/Happy_Music/Our_Big_Adventure) by Scott Holmes (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Scott_Holmes). It's licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
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    46 mins
  • Episode 58: We use a spreadsheet for running retros

    Episode 58: We use a spreadsheet for running retros
    Oct 9 2024
    In this episode we discuss LLMs, writing blog posts, running retros (in spreadsheets!), Shape Up and other processes. We end by asking YOU (the listener) to get back to us with what process you are using and if it works for you or not. Using a LLM to fight spam (https://urbanhafner.com/2024/09/20/using-a-llm-to-fight-spam/) Obie Fernandez: Pioneering AI in Ruby on Rails Development (https://maintainable.fm/episodes/obie-fernandez-pioneering-ai-in-ruby-on-rails-development) Retromat (https://retromat.org/en/) Avoiding Waste retro (https://retromat.org/en/?id=135) Shape Up™ (https://basecamp.com/shapeup) Ask questions via our anonymous feedback form (https://forms.gle/MW8qZFD7RLYriqKj8) You can reach us via email at hosts@expandingbeyond.it (mailto:hosts@expandingbeyond.it). Where to find Monica on the internet: Website: monicag.me (https://monicag.me/) Mastodon: @nirnaeth@mastodon.online (https://mastodon.social/@nirnaeth@mastodon.online) Github: @nirnaeth (https://github.com/nirnaeth) Blog: dev.to/nirnaeth (https://dev.to/nirnaeth) Where to find Urban on the internet: Mastodon: @ujh@masto.ai (https://masto.ai/@ujh) Github: @ujh (https://github.com/ujh/) Blog: urbanhafner.com (https://urbanhafner.com/) The intro and outro music is Our Big Adventure (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Scott_Holmes/Happy_Music/Our_Big_Adventure) by Scott Holmes (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Scott_Holmes). It's licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
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    51 mins

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