Episodes

  • Episode 12: Engineering Management with Director of Engineering Sam Jones

    Episode 12: Engineering Management with Director of Engineering Sam Jones
    Feb 24 2025
    We've got Director of Engineering Sam Jones talking all things Engineering Management. How to get into it, how she stays organised, great books to learn from, and how she approaches the challenges of the job. Michael prepares for putting together an event on developer experience Sam helps merge 2 companies together RIP duolingo bird Who is Sam Jones (https://www.linkedin.com/in/sammiej/)? loosely... Frontend Dev -> Team Lead @ gamesys ---> Eng. Manager @ Monzo -----> Director of Eng. @ Benifex Quickfire Questions One to ones, all in one day or evenly spread throughout the week? Best new joiner swag you’ve ever had? Scrum or Kanban? Longest probation period you’ve ever heard of? Ever failed someone’s probation? Ever failed probation yourself? Interviewing off camera – yay or nay? Best team building activity? Slack or Teams? Breaking Prod The near miss that could've topped our leaderboard, working on trading systems Big Topic How do you get into it? What does training look like, for an engineering manager? Skip levels – do you do these? How often? Best way you’ve improved your abilities as an engineering manager? The danger zone! What it is and how to work through it? Is AI coming for your job? How do you see signs of burnout in people you’re managing? What are your KPIs as an engineering manager? Stack ranking employees – necessary evil? How do you make the jump from managing engineers, to managing managers? ## News 1. Alphabet drops a longstanding ban on AI being used for developing weapons (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy081nqx2zjo) (BBC) 1. ELON MUSK act (https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/05/the-elon-musk-act-aims-to-ban-special-government-employees-from-having-federal-contracts/) (TechCrunch). The proposed bill is called the ELON MUSK Act, which stands for “Eliminate Looting of Our Nation by Mitigating Unethical State Kleptocracy” 1. Asahi Linux Hector Martin project leads resigns – maintainer burnout (https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/13/ashai_linux_head_quits) (The Register) 1. Apple Lamp - Expressive and Functional Movement Design for Non-Anthropomorphic Robot research paper (https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/elegnt-expressive-functional-movement) (Apple) 1. Hauwei release tri-folding phone (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yv_S7KrOlfk) (Youtube - Marques Brownlee) Recommendations Engineering Management Books Resilient Management, Lara Hogan (https://resilient-management.com) Management 3.0 (https://management30.com/books/management30/) The Manager's Path, Camille Fournier (https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/the-managers-path/9781491973882/) (O'Reilly) An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management, Will Larson (https://press.stripe.com/an-elegant-puzzle) (Stripe Press) Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50363684-become-an-effective-software-engineering-manager) (Good Reads) Managing Humans: Biting and Humourous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager, Michael Lopp (https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4302-4315-1?gtmf=s) Scaling People, Claire Hughes Johnson (https://press.stripe.com/scaling-people) (Stripe Press) Non Engineering Management Books The Staff Engineer's Path (https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/the-staff-engineers/9781098118723/) (O'Reilly) Platform Engineering, Camille Fournier (https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/platform-engineering/9781098153632/) (O'Reilly) Music I Love You, Honeybear - Father John Misty (https://music.apple.com/gb/album/i-love-you-honeybear/931563362) (Apple Music). Royal Albert Hall Event (https://www.royalalberthall.com/tickets/events/2025/father-john-misty) Movies Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt32063050/) (IMDb) Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2049403/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_1_tt_5_nm_2_in_0_q_beetlejuice) (IMDb) Miscellaneous Canada vs. USA ice hockey match, 3 fights in first 9 seconds of play (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUa6c7DNmQY) (YouTube) Next Time Rax talks about Scaled Agile frameworks Listen to the end to hear this episodes bloopers! If you've enjoyed the show, please recommend us to someone else who would like it, leave us a rating/review, or give us some feedback. Give us your feedback about the podcast (https://www.ctrl-alt-expletive.com/feedback) Special Guest: Sam Jones.
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    1 hr and 18 mins
  • Episode 11: Tech for Good: Games for Kids in Hospital with creative director Nikki Stearman

    Episode 11: Tech for Good: Games for Kids in Hospital with creative director Nikki Stearman
    Feb 21 2025
    We've got BAFTA winning Creative Director Nikki Stearman, talking about tech for good. She shares her experience designing and crafting experiences for children who are about to go to hospital, to help them understand what the environment and procedure will be like. Michael's office refurb continues, as he trades signed music memorabilia for music speakers The great rebrand is in the works Lenny steals a lunch Nikki shows off her BAFTA Quickfire Questions Mac or PC? Greatest gaming console ever? Greatest game ever? Most addictive game on your phone? Yorkshire or East Anglia? Morris Ring, Morris Foundation, or Open Morris? Spend a day doing Freelance work, or a day doing your permanent job? Do you version control your code? Is big tech fundamentally evil? Death of Flash – sad or not sad? Breaking prod? Well that won't earn you a BAFTA! Nikki does her homework. Big Topic: Tech for good, making games for kids Tech for good – conscious choice or something you walked in to? Do you worry about screen time? Would you / have you ever taken a role you feel morally ambiguous about? How close do you get to the end user of your product? What’s a kid’s first interaction like with the games your company makes? Does it show demonstrable results in treatment? Do you make any games in your spare time? Research from Dylan Yamada-Rice on Exploring Children's attitides towards notions fo the digital good through hybrid arts (https://digitalgood.net/dg-research/exploring-childrens-attitudes-towards-notions-of-the-digital-good-through-hybrid-arts-practice/) News Are noise cancelling headphones causing health problems? (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgkjvr7x5x6o) Children’s views on AI will form the manifesto for world leaders (https://www.turing.ac.uk/news/childrens-views-ai-will-form-manifesto-world-leaders?utm_source=LinkedIn&utm_medium=Text_link&utm_campaign=Turing-News_childrens-views-ai-will-form-manifesto-world-leaders) AI to help us understand animal’s emotions (https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/16/researchers-are-training-ai-to-interpret-animal-emotions/?utm_source=pocket_shared) Sri Lankan grid taken out by monkeys (https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/10/sri_lanka_monkey_blackout?utm_source=pocket_shared) Recommendations Music This is Classic Club (https://music.apple.com/gb/playlist/this-is-classic-club/pl.de3d438ba0724b3a8f309f333d9095b2) playlist, dance anthems (apple music) I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness - Fear is on our Side (https://music.apple.com/gb/album/fear-is-on-our-side/447611770) album, Alternative (apple music) Saafi Brothers - Mystic Cigarettes (https://music.apple.com/gb/album/mystic-cigarettes/279131194) album, electronic (apple music) Podcasts Cloud Dialogues (https://www.cloud-dialogues.com) podcast from our guest on episode 7, Georgia Smith Books The Power of Bad and How to Overcome it (https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/192339/the-power-of-bad-by-tierney-roy-f-baumeister-and-john/9780141975801) TV Am I being unreasonable? (https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001c3f7/am-i-being-unreasonable-series-1-episode-1?seriesId=m001c3f9-structural-1-m001c3f8) (BBC iPlayer) If you've enjoyed the show, please recommend us to someone else who would like it, leave us a rating/review, or give us some feedback. Give us your feedback about the podcast (https://www.ctrl-alt-expletive.com/feedback) Special Guest: Nikki Stearman.
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    1 hr and 8 mins
  • Episode 10: Career Changes and Coding Bootcamps, with Chris Hunter

    Episode 10: Career Changes and Coding Bootcamps, with Chris Hunter
    Feb 8 2025
    Michael keeps up with his "listen to 100 albums in a year" resolution. Mark has a weights rack of shame. Chris fails dry Jan by a matter of days. There's a 1% chance we'll all be mush anyway. GIVE US FEEDBACK! Do this form, it will take 4 mins (https://forms.office.com/e/gQJFBRJJAY) Chris Hunter Working in government on a project with other consultancies also contributing. Are they in competition? Lovely personal github readme (https://github.com/chriswhunter89) Quickfire Questions Hurling, GAA, or other? Most used terminal command at the moment? Dev or Ops, pick one for the rest of you life. Dream Industry to work in? Least enjoyable technologies you've worked with? Michael's weirdest habbit? How scared are you AI will take your job? What's your "getting down to write code" music? Breaking Prod Clean sheet, but has seen a team unable to deploy to prod for over a month! Big Topics Changing Careers You’ve had a big career change. * What made you decide you wanted to change careers? * Were you frustrated with the day-to-day job, or environment? Lack of variation? Lack of opportunities? * Presumably you were on at least alright money, was it worrying taking a pay cut? * Did you have to build a financial buffer to finance the change? * Do you wish you had done it sooner? Or timed it right? * How did you go about skilling up? Coding Bootcamp, at Le Wagon (https://www.lewagon.com/london) All in person, or online? What sort of topics did you cover? Anything you loved or hated? You had a few months gap after the coding bootcamp, before your job. Was that nerve wracking? To think you’d spent a few months of time/money, and not yet got a job? Were you already warmed up to the idea that finding work might just take a while? Did you get guidance on how to go about getting a job? Has the content you learned then all been useful? Any cruft? How is the pay now, relative to your previous role? Was it a great investment? Any advice for anyone considering a career change into tech? News AI sensors used in homes of vulnerable people (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp827ekneg4o) Ontario responds to Trump tariff by pitching Starlink deal into the trash (https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/03/ontario_canada_responds_to_trump_tariff/) EU's AltStore Gets First Native iOS Pornography App (https://www.macrumors.com/2025/02/03/eu-altstore-porn-app/) Irish AI minister has never used ChatGPT (https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/04/irish_ai_minister) Australia bans DeepSeek on government devices (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8d95v0nr1yo) Abandoned S3 buckets and the potential to do harm on a SolarWinds+ scale (https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/04/abandoned_aws_s3/?td=rt-3a) Elon Musk lies about gaming ability (https://fortune.com/2025/01/20/elon-musk-video-games-scandal-path-of-exile-asmongold-quin/) Recommendations Music The Long Forever, Elephant Tree & Lowrider (https://music.apple.com/gb/album/the-long-forever/1775636079) Studio Ghibli, Anime Music (https://music.apple.com/gb/playlist/joe-hisaishi-studio-ghibli-works-essentials/pl.9d00cd92b13746c096dd552d24a46a3b) Podcast Search Engine: The New Zuckerberg (https://www.searchengine.show/listen/search-engine-1/the-new-zuckerberg) Movies Dune 2 (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15239678/) The Brutalist (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8999762/) GIVE US FEEDBACK! Do this form, it will take 4 mins (https://forms.office.com/e/gQJFBRJJAY) Special Guest: Chris Hunter.
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    1 hr and 27 mins
  • Episode 9: Contracting Insights from 3 decades of Experience with Marie Wigmore

    Episode 9: Contracting Insights from 3 decades of Experience with Marie Wigmore
    Jan 31 2025
    Michael has caved and got a new microphone, China are back in the news, and we've got a better joke than last time. Michael is on the super stouts Marie is doing dry "couple-of-days" What's a plosion? Michael has over-researched micophones Is Feng-Shui a load of nonsense? Or Real? Marie rubbishes Mark's new years resolution Who is Marie Wigmore (https://www.ctrl-alt-expletive.com/guests/marie-wigmore)? Independent contractor for over 3 decades, currently engaged at BT Jira-avoidance wizard Graduate of the Youth Training Scheme, proud achiever of 5 O-Levels Driving Licence holder There will be a quiz at the end! Quickfire questions Inside or Outside IR35? Microsoft Project Planner or Jira? AI - scared or not scared? If you were in charge, what's your RTO policy? Do you prefer to consult for public sector, or consult for private sector? Sports Car or SUV? Most Expensive Dress you've ever worn? One fashion tip for Mark? Cat person or dog person? Breaking Production Leaderboard (https://www.ctrl-alt-expletive.com/breaking-prod-leaderboard) Clean Sheet, or Big Bang? Marie has a podcast exclusive for us, on the post office scandal. Bloody toffee-crisp eaters! Big Topics Contracting How has it changed? Are the good times behind us? How have the big 4 influenced government policy? Have you ever had any contracts go bad, mid-way through? In the past, you’ve got a contract coming to an end, it’s not getting renewed, you’ve got bills to pay. What’s the game plan for landing you next gig? Starting a consultancy What’s the gameplan for launching a new company? What are you gonna sell? How will you get clients? News for the week Experts urge caution over use of Chinese AI Deepseek (The Guardian) (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/28/experts-urge-caution-over-use-of-chinese-ai-deepseek) James Howells suing Newport council again, after partner binned bitcoin wallet, and they won't let him dig up landfill (BBC) (https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgr0dyy152jo) Microsoft to acquire tiktok? (The Guardian) (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/28/donald-trump-microsoft-tiktok-purchase-claims) Google maps renaming, after Trump renaming (The Register) (https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/28/google_maps_trump_order/) Amazon prime air to launch in Darlington (Tech Crunch) (https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/28/amazons-prime-air-drone-service-is-headed-to-this-uk-town/) AWS & Microsoft CMA investigation (Computer Weekly) (https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366618449/AWS-and-Microsoft-could-face-targeted-intervention-from-CMA-over-UK-cloud-competition-concerns) Old news, but relevant: * Chinese major hardware hack uncovered (The Guardian) (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/13/tech-giants-us-chinese-spy-chips-bloomberg-supermicro-amazon-apple) Recommendations Music Justice – Cross (https://music.apple.com/us/album/justice/259751732), electro/dance Underworld - Second toughest in the infants (https://music.apple.com/us/album/second-toughest-in-the-infants-remastered/1443227490), electro Sonny Federa (https://music.apple.com/gb/artist/sonny-fodera/324128050), DJ, House TV Mr McMahon (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt33301469/), wrestling documentary Traitors: Uncloaked finale (https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m00276n6/the-traitors-uncloaked-traitors-series-3-episode-12), with Claudia Winkleman Jerry Springer: Fights, Camera, Action (https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/81685634), documentary Girl You Know It's True (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21927594/), music movie about Milli Vanilli, who had one of the biggest scandals in music history The White Lotus (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13406094/), drama, comedy Gangs of London (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7661390/), Crime Drama Books Feng Shui Modern, by Cliff Tan (https://guardianbookshop.com/feng-shui-modern-9781526639998/) (Guardian Bookshop) Podcasts Designated Driver, the podcast for fans of Adam Driver (Podbean (https://designateddriveradam.podbean.com)) Jokes What do you call a Hippo on One Leg? Change your nickname on iOS (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bb5eHXavk34) (YT video) Next Time: Chris Hunter joins us talking about coding bootcamps Follow us, like & subscribe Leave us a rating on Apple Podcasts/Spotify etc.. Find the trailers wherever you are: Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/ctrl_alt_expletive) YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/@Ctrl-Alt-Expletive) LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/ctrl-alt-expletive/) Reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/ctrl_alt_expletive/) BlueSky (https://bsky.app/profile/ctrl-alt-expletive.com) Our Website (https://www.ctrl-alt-expletive.com), where you'll find our breaking prod leaederboard and nationalities of guests and more. Special Guest: Marie Wigmore.
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    1 hr and 27 mins
  • Episode 8: Data Lakehouse, Data Mesh, Changing Jobs after more than a decade, and Mark's fancy shaft

    Episode 8: Data Lakehouse, Data Mesh, Changing Jobs after more than a decade, and Mark's fancy shaft
    Jan 24 2025
    What does James do? Is Sky a big company? What's your favourite file format to read from? Favourite format of book to digest? East London vs. West London What even is Burns Night? Deep fried battered scottish things James is dropping tables like it's hot... in the first week Big Topic Data. Big Data. HUGE Data. What's it like to leave after more than 10 years at one company? Why the change? Why not sooner? News Instagram hides search results for Democrats (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g32yxpdz0o) UK digital driving licences (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgkjjkjy4p8o) BT scraps EV charging scheme, having only installed... one. (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c75zwyeq3v9o) Gotta be over 18 to watch porn in the UK from July (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwye3qw7gv7o) AI drugs are on the way (https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/22/google_deepmind_ai_drugs/) "Eventually you could imagine personalized medicine where it's optimized, maybe overnight, by an AI system for your personal metabolism" Is Melania Trump's autobiography written using ChatGPT? (https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/s/DeV5QrX7UL) Hulk Smash Muck and Zuck (https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/14/free_our_feeds_decentralized_social_media/) AI Brad Pitt dupes French woman out of €830,000 (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgnz8rw1xgo) Excel World Championships with 7.5 hour live stream (https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-excel-world-championship-is-real-and-it-just-crowned-the-king-of-spreadsheets/) Working from home is “not proper work”, according to Lord Rose, of M&S and Asda (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0qww8xdvnwo) Recommendations Movies Civil War (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt17279496/) Music The Middlenight Men - Issue 2 (https://music.apple.com/gb/album/issue-2/1745318732), rock Justice - Cross (https://music.apple.com/gb/album/justice/259751732), electronic dance TV Mr. McMahon (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt33301469/) wrestling, on Netflix The Day of the Jackal (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt24053860/?ref_=fn_all_ttl_1) on Sky/NowTV Severance season 2 (https://tv.apple.com/gb/show/severance/umc.cmc.1srk2goyh2q2zdxcx605w8vtx), Apple TV Traitors is finishing this weekend (https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p0db9b2t/the-traitors), BBC iPlayer Podcasts The rest is Entertainment (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-rest-is-entertainment/id1718287198) Here comes the guilotine, by Frankie Boyle (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/here-comes-the-guillotine/id1729090748) Special Guest: James Balloch.
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    1 hr and 36 mins
  • Episode 7: Executive Strategy, Consulting, and Age Care

    Episode 7: Executive Strategy, Consulting, and Age Care
    Jan 15 2025
    After an extended break, our first episode of the year is here! CES 2025 has come and been (https://www.ces.tech/) * Michael thinks about persuading his cats to come to work * I want to charge my phone in 5 econds Are we dry January-ing? No. Resolutions: * Mark will play more darts * Michael will listen to political podcasts and 2 new albums a week * Georgia will go to places where people will help us meet goals What's it like being a Consultant Strategist? Companies are going full on RTO - why? Are governments pressuring big business back into the office? Georgia wastes 50k on unnecessary cloud spend, currently ranked about 2nd on our "Breaking Prod" leaderboard. Is the future of relationships just dating a robot? Big Topic Georgia has been involved in the disability and age care space. Some of the problems we've encountered, and how we can tackle them. How does Georgia fit it all in? In the News Tiktok ban looking likely (https://www.macrumors.com/2025/01/10/tiktok-ban-looking-likely-after-u-s-supreme-court-hears-case/) LG’s creepy air purifiers (https://mashable.com/article/ces-2025-lg-aero-cat-tower-creepy-cat) Apple Intelligence notification summaries not quite good enough (https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/dec/14/bbc-says-it-has-complained-to-apple-over-ai-generated-fake-news-attributed-to-broadcaster) Facebook ditching fact checkers (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/07/ditching-facebook-factcheckers-major-step-back-public-discourse) Facebook has AI profiles (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/03/meta-ai-powered-instagram-facebook-profiles) JP morgan 5 days RTO (https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2025/01/14/jpmorgan-disables-internal-comments-after-employee-backlash-over-rto-policy/#:~:text=The%20bank's%20leadership%2C%20in%20an,week%2C%20with%20only%20limited%20exceptions.) Ghostty terminal emulator release, from Mitchell Hashimoto (https://ghostty.org/) Recommendations Books Mark read (listened to) Nuclear War: A Scenario (https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Nuclear-War-Audiobook/B0CN3NXK3D) Mark has a potential contender for equally grim (because it’s true), Alexei Navalny’s Patriot (https://www.amazon.co.uk/PATRIOT-Pre-order-inspiring-fearless-opposition/dp/1847927033) TV: Black Doves (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27995113/) Spy Drama with Keira Knightly and Ben Whishaw Game of Throws (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt34870889/) and Dart Kings on Sky for documentaries about darts now and then. Severance (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11280740/) Season 2 is out on Friday. Silo season 2 (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14688458/) Traitors season 3 (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt23743442/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_3_tt_8_nm_0_in_0_q_traitors) Mr. MacMahon (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt33301469/) on Netflix Music Cahill Costello (https://music.apple.com/gb/album/cahill-costello-ii/1770795493) Michael recommends getting a Stanley Cup Next time... We're hoping to have Sam Jones on, talking about burnout, journalling, and plenty more fun stuff. Special Guest: Georgia L. Smith.
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    1 hr and 28 mins
  • Episode 6: JP talks recruitment, and starting a company

    Episode 6: JP talks recruitment, and starting a company
    Dec 20 2024
    We've got Jean-Paul Ashby, a.k.a. JP, a recruiter, director, entrepreneur, talking about all things recruitment, CVs, interviews, and more Lenny Visits Wayde Michael finishes the last Espresso Martini Mouse JP sipps a duvel, not a duv-elle We've got some quickfire questions for JP on all things recuitment. * Does github activity matter? * How many interviews is too many interviews? * What's your go-to interview question? Big Topics Recruitment Michael and Mark get a CV review from the professional. Comparison of job platforms, LinkedIn meets Otta Most memorable interviews Starting a new Venture Starting your own business! JP talks about his new venture, Torch, how he developed the idea, what does the MVP do? How JP found a technical founder, and started talking to clients about it. Michael and I talk about team moves and what the process looks like. In the News Broadcom Triples software revenue (https://www.ciodive.com/news/broadcoom-nears-vmware-integration-completion-ai-chips/735547/), somehow. What a mystery. Starlink competitor IRIS launching in Europe (https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/16/24322358/iris2-starlink-rival-europe-date-cost) – 290 satellites Tom Hanks is forever young (https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20240701-new-tom-hanks-film-here-and-the-unsettling-new-de-aging-technology-keeping-stars-forever-young) Online Safety Act comes into effect in 3 months (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwy83jdpgw5o) A look at why OpenAI’s K8s server got overloaded and they got locked out (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/11th-dec-2024-openai-outage-nutshell-puru-tuladhar-rus9f/) Aqua finds 336,000 Prometheus servers and exporters are wide open, uses them to get system info and cause dos attacks (https://www.aquasec.com/blog/300000-prometheus-servers-and-exporters-exposed-to-dos-attacks/) Even Krisy-Kreme aren’t safe (https://www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/krispy-kreme-doughnut-delivery-cooked-cyberattack)! Why are people attacking a donut company?! Recommendations TV JP also recommends The Day of the Jackal (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt24053860/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_2_tt_2_nm_4_in_0_q_the%2520day%2520of%2520the%2520jackal) Books Michael has finished Nuclear War: A Scenario (https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/461721/nuclear-war-by-jacobsen-annie/9781911709596) Out and About Hidden City (https://www.inthehiddencity.com/?utm_source=google_ads&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=1640314045&utm_content=68160131452&utm_term=hidden%20city&gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAAD2JXCBnA-qwqLieYIr3P2yrQk4xw&gclid=CjwKCAiAyJS7BhBiEiwAyS9uNdibeQ1_tWP7GG-r96jeoE5JeVmUmyjKlLkDM0IHMIcuFElUxHHSWRoCm3kQAvD_BwE) - a real-world texting adventure to help James Bond Special Guest: Jean-Paul Ashby.
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    1 hr and 40 mins
  • Episode 5: Data Center Repatriation with Ian Reeves

    Episode 5: Data Center Repatriation with Ian Reeves
    Dec 13 2024
    It's become less surprising as the weeks fly by that we're still doing it. Ian gives us his tooling preferences and why. Cynic to advocate for public cloud The phones are ringing off the hooks, thanks to Ian Reeves! What do we think of DHH? Should you run your own stuff, or pay for SaaS? Kim Jung Un's inner SuperHero (https://www.reddit.com/r/midjourney/comments/1hbwaco/is_war_starting/) Big Topics Data Center Repatriation. Why DHH moved 37signals from public cloud to on-prem, here's his blogs on How it started (https://world.hey.com/dhh/why-we-re-leaving-the-cloud-654b47e0) vs. How it's going (https://world.hey.com/dhh/we-have-left-the-cloud-251760fb). Is this reverting back to on-premise becoming commonplace? Has the sales pitch for public cloud shifted? In the news Broadcom is making some major changes to stop VMware exodus (https://www.techradar.com/pro/broadcom-is-making-some-major-changes-to-stop-vmware-exodus) Indonesia squeezes apple even harder for $1Bn (https://www.benarnews.org/english/news/indonesian/after-iphone-ban-apple-offers-1-billion-govt-says-12032024163122.html#:~:text=The%20Indonesian%20investment%20minister%20said,first%20phase%20of%20%241%20billion) New openAI model is pen tested for reasoning, and subversion. Can it act in its own interests to deceive the user? This is absolutely fascinating (https://www.apolloresearch.ai/research/scheming-reasoning-evaluations) Landlords Are Using AI to Raise Rents—and Cities Are Starting to Push Back (https://gizmodo.com/landlords-are-using-ai-to-raise-rents-and-cities-are-starting-to-push-back-2000535519) OpenAI releases Sora (https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/9/24317090/openai-sora-text-to-video-ai-generator-confirmed-release) Is AI hitting a wall? (https://www.inc.com/joe-procopio/ai-hits-a-wall-what-this-means-for-the-tech-industry/91033881) Are AI Leaders overly optimistic? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqwSZEQkknU) Recommendations Music Everyday is Christmas, Sia (https://music.apple.com/gb/album/everyday-is-christmas-deluxe/1440098012) A keen follower told us that the Mark Lanegan tribute gig is on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0PzvSvme14) It's Not How Far You Fall, It's the Way You Land, Soulsavers (https://music.apple.com/gb/album/its-not-how-far-you-fall-its-the-way-you-land/943433314) Try out Teddy Swims (https://music.apple.com/gb/artist/teddy-swims/1462541757) for some soul/pop Synthwave Goose's Blade Runner 2049 single (https://music.apple.com/gb/album/blade-runner-2049-single/1388978818) and Hacker music album fit for Mr. Robot (https://music.apple.com/gb/album/cracked/1441878746) Books Nuclear War, A Scenario by Annie Jacobson (https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/461721/nuclear-war-by-jacobsen-annie/9781911709596) Bill Bryson's A Really Short History of Nearly Everything (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Really-Short-History-Nearly-Everything/dp/0241451930/ref=sr_1_1?crid=QHF1WSJSG62D&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.zXxQQcRJkb7x5kthVhMXqRwPOgMI8UaAjtXM3XrIW-z-6Ozsk1Sdp70Y3C_XohPmGYQsQN_i1Wls--TUpAyk8vuA86rmweNWMb5GStXfPYTpivIdVMiMlmOPY2zbjYHpnQk84dw83Gi2CMAC6s5lNts3XrKOspC8-akl6A5RDscylXIsOdzqesIspI-eMZq_kB_IsCfTTtsk0-vXvkNeGQ4vqzM50pgcx1isL01xmj4.yHIzlqMgqkrlUwqorcCq1X1GCtK-pE24JucmONEEdu0&dib_tag=se&keywords=bill+bryson&nsdOptOutParam=true&qid=1733970286&sprefix=bill+bryson%2Caps%2C79&sr=8-1) TV True Detective on Sky/NowTV (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2356777/) Special Guest: Ian Reeves.
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