Tech: Off-topic
Interested in Technology, Development, and all the random stuff around it? So are we! This podcast is the sidebar discussions that you'd normally hear at a tech event but broadcast over the internet for all to enjoy. I'm Mike Elsmore and I'll regularly be hosting guests talking about the culture and community in technology circles, the tech itself, and have a giggle along the way. To see it live head to https://twitch.tv/ukmadlz at 3 pm UK time every other Friday.
Episodes
A first for Tech: Off-topic, our resident internet denizen Mike Elsmore gets to interview Jake Ward (https://x.com/Jacobmward), the CEO of Data Protocol (https://dataprotocol.com/).
Mike learned how Jake came up with the idea for Data Protocol, how he started it, and what it does. They also chatted about Developer Experience and learning and Developer Relations in general.
Hello 2024, it's Tech: Off-topic here! Mike (https://twitter.com/ukmadlz https://mastodon.social/@ukmadlz) has brought in Ollie Read (https://twitter.com/ollieread https://phpc.social/@ollieread) to talk tech and what's happened recently. However, that barely happens and the tangents are strong. We end up talking about:
- Multitenancy in software (you can ask Ollie about that all you want)
- RGB & Camer...
Mike (https://twitter.com/ukmadlz https://mastodon.social/@ukmadlz) and co-host Jim (https://twitter.com/secondej https://phpc.social/@SecondeJ) gather for the first time in a while and are joined by Stuart Langridge (https://twitter.com/sil https://mastodon.social/@sil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Langridge). The usual variety of social tech chat goes truly off the rails to the point where it's more teachable momen...
Mike (https://twitter.com/ukmadlz) couldn't bring Jim with him to Japan so we replaced him with Diana (https://twitter.com/dianasoyster) and she was the best co-host/guest you could ask for! The one is a truly off-topic session, so much so that we didn't actually follow many of our starter points. But we did cover:
- Bidets
- Vending machines
- VR influence to save the virtual world https://www.bbc.com...
Mike (https://twitter.com/ukmadlz) and Jim (https://twitter.com/secondej) are at it again, did you miss the tangential chat? The odd directions the conversation goes in this episode are truly off-topic, but our starter topics are:
- Trongate, the legendary new PHP Framework
- New Relic is hiring! That was an expensive mistake
- ChatGPT Articles and Avatar 2 gaslighting - https://twitter.com/MovingToTheSun/status/1625156575202...
Mike (https://twitter.com/ukmadlz) and Jim (https://twitter.com/secondej) missed a few weeks due to life but they're back talking about some of the weird and terrible things that have happened in software land:
- Twitter turning off the API with a week to spare https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/2/23582615/twitter-removing-free-api-developer-apps-price-announcement
- Netlify buys Gatsby https://thenewstack.io/netlify-acqu...
Mike (https://twitter.com/ukmadlz) and Jim (https://twitter.com/secondej) start the year with shenanigans, and the usual madness covering:
- Mastodon rejecting funding https://technology.inquirer.net/120533/mastodon-rejects-funding
- Tech salaries https://mastodon.online/@chaosmonster/109545607020550255
- CES provides https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/loreal-brow-magic-eyebrow-printer-ces-2023-news/
- Sales...
Mike (https://twitter.com/ukmadlz) couldn't get Jim to come to play, so instead dragged along Chris Miller (https://twitter.com/ccmiller2018) and Steve Goode (https://twitter.com/sociablesteve1) to keep me company during this holiday episode:
- Myspace Tom to replace Elon Musk https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/myspace-tom-twitter-elon-musk-ceo-position/
- SBF got out of jail for $250m https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/busines...
Mike (https://twitter.com/ukmadlz) and Jim (https://twitter.com/secondej) drag along Julia Biro (https://twitter.com/juliadoesthat) and Eli Holderness (https://twitter.com/EliHolderness) for a genuinely unruly and off-topic conversation. Any yes, one of the topics did generate the title of this episode:
- Was anything interesting from DevRelCon?
- That new OpenAI chatGPT bot
- Lensa and its considerations
- New Pokemon called Spid...
Mike (https://twitter.com/ukmadlz) and Jim (https://twitter.com/secondej) have our usual chat and pseudo spicy takes, this episode with guest Alistair Hey (https://twitter.com/alistair_hey), and cover:
A quick note to start, sorry about the audio... teething problems with the new kit
Mike (https://twitter.com/ukmadlz) and Jim (https://twitter.com/secondej) have our usual chat and weird humour, this episode with guest Luke Browne (https://twitter.com/lukebrwne), and cover:
- The regular cycle of layoffs
- Finding some amusing takes about Musk’s Twitter bin fire
- THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT ATTEMPT TO LAUNCH ON DISCORD, RES...
Mike and Jim have our usual chat and weird humour, this time we give our take on:
- PHP gets a new web server, built-in Go! https://github.com/dunglas/frankenphp
- Hey, pop the cloud, move to physical infrastructure
- Pulumi get busted papering themselves all over Hashiconf
- Canonical’s interview process - I’m sure we never discussed this and it came up recently
- No Man’s Sky drops another enormous update. How are Hello...
Mike and Jim have our usual chat and weird humour, this time we give our take on:
- Oven.sh “grind” culture https://twitter.com/oven_sh/status/1562248121656102914 (thread after deleted tweets https://twitter.com/oven_sh/status/1562248122633314304)
- Build a city with your GH contributions because why the hell not https://honzaap.github.io/GithubCity/
- https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/156210456221...
Mike and Jim have our usual chat and dark humour moments, but this time we also chat about interesting new tech.
Mike Elsmore & Jim Seconde can't help but talk about the commonwealth game, but we also have takes on bun.sh, latest layoffs, and evil corp.
This is episode was an awesome chat with Matt Hamilton who is the Principle Developer Advocate from RippleX. Our chat covered his route into his current role, including the home experiments that got him to Ripple, as well as Mike learning a lot about Ripple and the XRP Ledger.
If you want to be part of the live recording and give opinions and ask a question, please just head to https://twitch.tv/ukmadlz and join the conversation.
I had the amazing chance to have a nice chat with Hannah Jones & Andy Jones from The Fusion Group, you may have heard of a little thing they run called Fusion Meetup. During this chat, which we kept relatively short, we covered recruitment, the community in and around Birmingham (our shared city), and some of the transition for people working in tech over the last year or so.
In this episode Tech: Off-topic, Mike Elsmore has Simon Metson, VP of Engineering at EDB get ever so nostalgic and then the conversation gets interesting. An amazing conversation unfolds talking about music, web monetisation (if interested check out https://coil.com/), and building stuff.
If you want to be part of the live recording and give opinions and ask a question, please just head to https://twitch.tv/ukmadlz and join the con...
In this episode of Tech: Off-topic, Mike Elsmore has Marcus Noble, Principle Systems Engineer at Elsevier on for a conversation about tinkering. Over the course of the conversation we talk, home setups, IoT, Smart Home tech, and all roads seem to lead to a Kubernetes conversation.
If you want to be part of the live recording and give opinions and ask a question, please just head to https://twitch.tv/ukmadlz and join the conversatio...
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