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By Mark McCracken & Michael McCarthy

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December 13, 2024Episode 5: Data Center Repatriation, with Ian Reeves
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
Big Topics
Data Center Repatriation.
Why DHH moved 37signals from public cloud to on-prem, here's his blogs on How it started vs. How it's going.
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
Indonesia squeezes apple even harder for $1Bn
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
Landlords Are Using AI to Raise Rents—and Cities Are Starting to Push Back
OpenAI releases Sora
Is AI hitting a wall?
Are AI Leaders overly optimistic?
Recommendations
Music
Everyday is Christmas, Sia
A keen follower told us that the Mark Lanegan tribute gig is on YouTube
It's Not How Far You Fall, It's the Way You Land, Soulsavers
Try out Teddy Swims for some soul/pop
Synthwave Goose's Blade Runner 2049 single and Hacker music album fit for Mr. Robot
Books
Nuclear War, A Scenario by Annie Jacobson
Bill Bryson's A Really Short History of Nearly Everything
TV
True Detective on Sky/NowTV
Special Guest: Ian Reeves.
...more
1h 18min
December 06, 2024Episode 4: Technical Diagrams, and Breaking Prod Leaderboard
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
We get a comment on the LinkedIn which is AI generated
X loses momentum to reddit in the UK
Journalists from europe are off X too
Thoughtworks tech radar is published
Platform Engineering Report is published. 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
A 14-year-old kid makes a digital braille reader under $20
David Mayer gets the Barbra Streisand effect, as ChatGPT has a few crashes
Stuff we didn't mention:
Half a cup of water for every chatGPT interaction? Is this real?
Recommendations
Tech
Homey Pro home hub
Keepa - chrome/brave extension for price comparison on Amazon
iZotope & Hindenburg for audio/podcast stuff
NetNewsWire RSS Reader
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 tribute gig.
Mark recommends some HipHop, Joey Ba.Da.$$
Truck Festival tickets released
TV
HiJack thriller on AppleTV
Dune: Prophecy on Sky/NowTV
...more
1h 37min
November 29, 2024Episode 3: Home Automations, with Fredrik Alm
We've got Fredrik Alm, Infrastructure Architect from Sweden on, to talk about Smart Home setups.
Michael goes on mute, leading to widespread panic
DIY Dishwasher APIs
Everyone hates JFrog, but not as much as Mark
We've got Jarvis at home!
Don't touch the mirror
Smart Homes is our big topic
Do we trust Eero? Do we trust China?
Home experiments.
Having guests in your smart home.
Never Mind the AI-BuzzCocks
In the news:
Confess your sins to AI Jesus
Mac Mini Clusters for LLMs
Fancy Bear 'Nearest Neighbour' attack
Big Cisco Brother is watching you
NHS gets blasted for the 3rd time this year, they're using pen and paper
LinkedInfluencers are mostly AI
Indonesia doesn't care about the latest iPhone, just give them the money
Recommendations
Smart Home Equipment
Fred recommends this Homey system, which he can't recommend enough. "It just works, but with everything"
Aqara Doorbell
Music
Even more Father John Misty: Mahashmashana
Ghosting Season
Blogs
Michael has started a blog
Mark's existing blog
Books
Observability Engineering, by Charity Majors, Liz Fong-Jones, George Miranda
The Standard for Program Management
Movies
The Platform & The Platform 2
The Day of the Jackal, 1973
Special Guest: Fredrik Alm.
...more
1h 29min
November 22, 2024Episode 2: Discovering AI on your career break, with Mitan Patel
We're back for episode two!
We've got an old friend, Mitan Patel as our guest this week.
Mitan tells us about his career break.
We chat about AI tools.
Mark reviews the last recommendations, badly.
Michael has put some effort into the news.
Mitan was gonna write his recommendations down but his ADHD got the better of him this time.
Big topics
The Career Break. Why? Why now? What are you doing?
Journalling and AI tooling
Bolt.new and Cursor.com
Have I got tech news for you?
O2 unveils Daisy, the AI granny wasting scammers’ time
Cheating the GitHub activity graph
Musk $1M giveaway wasn’t random
"We're basically building Webkinz + Sims + Tamagotchi."
Robotic dog runs marathon (faster than I ever have)
Google Gemini tells grad student to 'please die' while helping with his homework
Russia be cutting undersea cables
Northern Ireland cancels IT contract with Fujitsu for Schools worth £485M
Microsoft PC that is just a wrapper for Windows 365
Github giving away $1.25m, $10k at a time for open source peeps to stay secure
Christmas Scams cost over £11m
Recommendations:
Tools
Bolt.new
Cursor.com
Obsidian
Notion
Music
Michael:
Father John Misty's album Pure Comedy
Worriedaboutsatan, tasty electro working music
Mark:
Girlie and Frankie by Alexandra Saviour
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Cinema 3000
Mitan
The Low End Theory by a Tribe Called Quest
Podcasts
Jim Browning hates scammers, who contributed to O2's Daisy AI, is a guest on Darknet Diaries, fasinating listen on a really good podcast
Apple Music 100 Best Albums radio
TV
Monk
Brian Cox' Wonders of the Solar System
Books
Cujo by Stephen King
Beer
Hepcat IPA
Tippy Yoghurt's Fruity Sour
Jubel peach beer
Roadie IPA
Special Guest: Mitan Patel.
...more
1h 26min
November 14, 2024Episode 1: Imposter Syndrome, with Jess O'Neill
We're live!
How early is too early for the Christmas Tree?
How many plugs is the right number of plugs for your workspace?
Who even are these people?
Imposter syndrome is our big topic
Who are these psychpaths that don't get imposter syndrome?
Newsy stuff
Excel turns 40, with a few bloopers of usage in that time
Google has racked up $2.5 decillion of fines in Russia
UK Gov website launches an AI chatbot
AWS CDK flaw exposed accounts to full takeover
Apple Intelligence Ads are out in the US:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m0MoYKwVTM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deNzYrTvqCs
Recommendations
Music:
The Cure - Songs of a Lost World, recommended by Michael
Therapy?, recommended by Michael again and again
Sleep Token, recommended by Jess
TV
The Day of the Jackal, recommended by Mark
The Penguin
Books
Code Dependent - Living in the shadow of AI, recommended by Jess
How Big things Get Done, recommended by Mark
Deep Work by Cal Newport, recommended by Michael
Games
Baulder's Gate 3
Technology
Dagger.io
Special Guest: Jess O'Neill.
Links:
Excel turns 40, with a few bloopers of usage in that time — As the software used by millions around the world nears its 40th birthday, here are some of the low points
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MI5, the UK’s domestic spy agency, tapped 134 incorrect telephone numbers in 2010 following a spreadsheet error that altered the last three digits in the numbers to “000”.
A report admitted the errors were caused by “a formatting fault on an electronic spreadsheet”, adding euphemistically that “a degree of unintended collateral intrusion occurred”.
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1h 23min

FAQs about ctrl-alt-expletive:

How many episodes does ctrl-alt-expletive have?

The podcast currently has 15 episodes available.