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By: Mark McCracken & Michael McCarthy
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  • Join us for a laid back catch up on what's going on in the world of software, enterprise business, news for software and tech, and miscellaneous bureaucracy.
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  • 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

    Episode 5: Data Center Repatriation
    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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    1 hr and 17 mins
  • Episode 4: Mark's big cash giveaway

    Episode 4: Mark's big cash giveaway
    Dec 6 2024
    We're still here for number 4. We add some jingles and an intro. Michael gets third party confirmation that he's old All the guests have mugged us off, so it's just Michael and I Mark predicts the rise of AI Santa Mark publishes the show too early and forgets about the shownotes and jingles first time round Michael scours the news with a "2 years or older" filter on. Social Media sites Big Topics Technical diagrams * What makes a good diagram? * What are we doing diagrams of? * Do people use 'em? Incidents * MIchael and I recap our biggest hiccups at work * what happened * what impact? All our subscriptions * everything we've subscribed to currently, is it any good? * one thing we should ditch? * Domain Hoarding In the news A.K.A. Not news. * Medium once upon a time said they don't like AI (https://blog.medium.com/how-were-approaching-ai-generated-writing-on-medium-16ee8cb3bc89) * We get a comment on the LinkedIn which is AI generated * X loses momentum to reddit in the UK (https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/29/ofcom_online_nation?utm_source=pocket_shared) * Journalists from europe are off X too (https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/media/european-federation-of-journalists-to-stop-posting-content-on-x-386598/) * Thoughtworks tech radar is published (https://www.thoughtworks.com/en-gb/radar) * Platform Engineering Report is published (https://thenewstack.io/the-2024-state-of-platform-engineering-fledgling-at-best/?utm_source=pocket_shared). Michael promises to give some highlights next week * Some lucky gambling prompter wins $50,000 from Freysa AI, a blockchain connected LLM who shouldn't give out the money (https://x.com/jarrodWattsDev/status/1862299845710757980) * A 14-year-old kid makes a digital braille reader under $20 (https://www.forbes.com/sites/kevinanderton/2024/11/30/14-year-old-boy-invents-digital-braille-reader-and-wins-3500/) * David Mayer gets the Barbra Streisand effect, as ChatGPT has a few crashes (https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/chatgpt-david-mayer-name-glitch-ai-b2657197.html) Stuff we didn't mention: Half a cup of water for every chatGPT interaction? Is this real? (https://www.smh.com.au/technology/every-time-you-use-chatgpt-half-a-cup-of-water-goes-to-waste-20241128-p5kubq.html) Recommendations Tech Homey Pro home hub (https://homey.app/en-gb/homey-pro/) Keepa (https://keepa.com/#!addon) - chrome/brave extension for price comparison on Amazon iZotope (https://www.izotope.com/en/shop/rx-elements) & Hindenburg (https://hindenburg.com) for audio/podcast stuff NetNewsWire RSS Reader (https://netnewswire.com) UsesThis.com (https://usesthis.com/) - interviews for what tools people use to get their jobs done Music Michael's got 2 gigs, one of which is a Mark Lanegan (https://music.apple.com/gb/playlist/mark-lanegan-essentials/pl.1e058facef694d69ac7e4f758feacce2) tribute gig. Mark recommends some HipHop, Joey Ba.Da.$$ (https://music.apple.com/gb/album/1999/1396290965) Truck Festival tickets released (https://truckfestival.com) TV HiJack thriller on AppleTV (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt19854762/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_in_0_q_Hijack) Dune: Prophecy on Sky/NowTV (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10466872/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_7_nm_1_in_0_q_Dune%253A%2520Prophecy)
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    1 hr and 37 mins

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