Off Script

By Hey! Presents

A podcast for the tech community. The theme for Off Script is to challenge ideas and opinions within the tech community. We dig into important topics with special guests, talking frankly in an unscrip... more

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January 09, 2025Episode 45: 2024 developer round-up
It’s time to reflect and plan ahead! James and Josh look back at a tumultuous 2024 in tech and ask the big questions about where things are heading.
What were the highlights?
What lessons can we learn?
How do we prepare for 2025?
Listen now as we kick-off the year with a brand new instalment of Off Script!
In praise of indie conferences
The struggles of smaller events
AWS re:Invent conference
Multi Cloud
Distributed SQL - DSQL
Tough time for tech in 2024
All Day Hey!
Publishing platforms
Tech Influencers
Complete CSS - Any Bell
Learn with Jason
The state of the tech economy
Whisper Flow
CrowdStrike outage
AI, Automation, valid JSON, OLLAMA , Constrained Sampling
AI Agents, Cursor IDE
SASS is in danger?
Adobe Podcast
New Ruby on Rails
Laravel 11
Deno
BlueSky
References
https://piccalil.li/complete-css
https://www.youtube.com/@learnwithjason
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43min
December 11, 2024Episode 44: Future of software engineering leadership - Part 2
Part 2 has landed! For this outing of Off Script, Josh and James explore the ‘Future of engineering leadership’.
This is an episode born from Q&A discussions and ideas at the recent Off Script Live event in Leeds. Dive into the modern challenges and the future direction of leadership in software engineering.
AI Sustainability
Company energy offset
Energy demands of AI vs speed of innovation
AI on device
Apple Siri LLM on device?
Loneliness in leadership positions
Talk with peers in other companies
Lattice HR for feedback
Finding your role
Event culture
Consistency creates community
Organiser sets the tone
Challenges for future leaders
Addressing the gap between vocal and and non vocal team members
Communication types
Generating positive feedback culture
Find out more about Stac and Parallax:
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23min
December 03, 2024Episode 43: Future of software engineering leadership - Part 1
"It's not enough just being right. You've got to actually convince people of your way of thinking and take other people on the journey".
Off Script is back with Josh and James hosting the first episode in a massive two-parter!
They take lessons and hot topics from the recent Off Script Live event in Leeds. Dive into the modern challenges and the future direction of leadership in software engineering in this episode.
Part 2 out soon! Subscribe so you don’t miss it.
Recorded: 27th November 2024
Recap
re:invent festival
AI announcements
Event themes
Remote & Hybrid working
Slack working dynamics
Methods of communication
Importance of communication
Huddle to convey tone of information
Reduce crosstalk and chatter
Mandating behaviour vs Encouraging participation
Sarah Wells Talk - Nudge Theory - LINK
Make it easy for people to do the right thing
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)
Hiring policies
Soft Skills in hybrid working
Empowering vs washing hands of decisions
AI
Important to understand the black box
Using AI for leadership decisions
Reference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxcgywwC4u8
Find out more about Stac and Parallax:
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28min
August 28, 2024Episode 42: Imperfect innovation
The historically popular development process of “move fast and break things” has got the biggest companies in the world far. In the age of AI, can we still take these risks in the name of progress or are the potential repercussions too great? Josh and James are joined by guest Jack Sails to discuss.
Recorded: 17th July 2024
02 Open AI fearless implementation
03 Is developing in a vacuum worse?
04 Google move fast and break things becomes more dangerous
05 OpenAI haven't lost trust yet
06 How did OpenAI get its data - Mira Murati
09 Scraping the internet for data
10 A open internet vs private companies
10 ARC browser hover LLM description
11 Imperfect innovation, where does it come from?
11 Innovating to solve a problem vs innovation into unknown areas
12 Microsoft Copilot AI
13 ChatGPT taking over Google as the go-to for questions
16 Kodak & digital images
18 Humans bring value and craft
19 The iPhone was a ipod killer
20 Fearing innovation and protectionism
21 Nokia's lack of smartphone innovation
25 Theranos - Fake it till you make it in medicine
28 Now no one will touch the Metaverse
29 Zoe smart patch and gut tracking
35 Lime Scooters late night testing for alcohol
36 Innovation that's not required
37 Coke's new flavour
39 Segway
42 Cars
43 Napster's innovation
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49min
July 26, 2024Episode 41: WWDC 2024 round-up
Jack Sails (IMA) is back with James & Josh to discuss the recent WWDC24 Apple Developer conference. Was AI the word of the conference? Find out as they work through everything revealed this year and how it will affect their products going forward.
In this episode:
00 Intro
01 Apple Intelligence
02 AI & Apple’s Privacy first approach
04 SIRI & Natural language AI integration
06 Natural language vs pre scripted
09 Image Playground AI image creator
10 SIRI x Open AI
12 Genmoji
12 IOS 18
16 Transcribed calls
17 New apps
18 New password app
21 Sequoia macOS
23 Does the UK follow the EU restrictions
24 Supporting old hardware
29 Vision OS 2
References:
https://www.macrumors.com/roundup/wwdc/
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33min
March 27, 2024Episode 40: Shifting security left
Inspired by reading ‘Investments Unlimited’ and other books built around the principles of storytelling, James and Josh dive into DevSecOps and the bigger picture of shifting security left in this new episode of Off Script!
In this episode:
00:00 Fictional Bugs - Investments Unlimited
01:00 DevSecOps
02:00 Moving security testing to the beginning
03:00 Reducing the friction of releases
04:00 Go through pain points early
05:00 Strict linting, function length, no unused variables
06:00 Early automated tests to prevent Git leaks
08:00 Making it easy for the developer
10:00 Bearer
11:00 Concise reporting
12:00 Dependabot
13:00 Secret Management
14:00 Making it easy to do the right thing
16:00 Having pride in your security
17:00 What if your language doesn’t have much security support?
19:00 Dynamic & Static languages
20:00 Language agnostic tools
21:00 Key takeaways
References:
https://itrevolution.com/product/investments-unlimited/
https://www.bearer.com/
https://github.com/dependabot
Find out more about Stac and Parallax:
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https://parall.ax
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25min
February 28, 2024Episode 39: The beauty of side projects
What do fish donuts, a passion for cooking and elaborate recipes have to do with productivity? Are you getting enough of a creative outlet around your busy schedule? Josh and James discuss the importance of side projects and how the variety they add to your week benefits your work-life balance and output!
In this episode:
00:00 Welcome
01:00 What are our side projects?
02:00 Coding
03:00 Cooking
04:00 Josh’s chef stage experience
11:00 Service state - Flow state when coding
12:00 Find your creative outlet
13:00 Find the time
16:00 Adding variety to life
17:00 Book - One Thing
18:00 Having side projects when being a leader
19:00 Consistency
References:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/One-Thing-Surprisingly-Extraordinary-bestselling/dp/1848549253
Find out more about Stac and Parallax:
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23min
February 09, 2024Episode 38: AI risks
What are AI risks? What do we need to consider when looking at our projects? Josh and James are are back for another episode of Off Script to dig deeper into this important topic!
00 - ISO 42001 Regulation
03 - What are the risks
04 - Hallucinations
05 - How do we critically assess the output
06 - Human in the loop
08 - Authorised API integrations
13 - Prompt Injection
14 - Sleeper agent LLM
18 - Denial OF Service models
22 - Exact phrasing on outputs
25 - Rabbit.tech
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29min
December 22, 2023Episode 37: 2023 developer round-up
It’s time for our annual review of the year! In this episode, James and Josh discuss the many twists and turns that the last 12 months brought in this 2023 developer round-up.
Thank you for listening this year. We’ll be back with more episodes in the New Year!
01 A look back at the year
03 The year AI went mainstream
05 Tech layoffs
07 Open AI x Microsoft partnership
08 M2 Apple Mac chips
09 Google Bard
12 Stephen Wolfram wrote "What is ChatGPT doing.. And why does it work?"
13 Web IOS & Ipad
15 ChatGPT Plus & Whisper API's
15 Parallax hosted "stories on the road"
19 React.dev
21 Apple vs Epic Games
22 Meta fined 1.3B
23 EU Cookie policy
24 Final Cut & Logic Pro on IOS
27 Advent of code
28 Chrome added web GPU support
29 Native to web based apps
30 All Day Hey 2023
31 Fluency Bot
32 SEC sue Coinbase & Binance
33 NASA lost connection to Voyager 2
34 Microsoft Type Chat
36 Meta Launched Threads
38 Temporary disabilities
40 Josh joins Glean as CTO
41 Apple launched Name Drop
42 Air traffic control meltdown
43 Hyperdx
44 Webflow Conf
46 WCAG 2.2
47 M3 Macs
49 re:invent
50 Deno KV
51 StyleX
53 iA writer
54 CloudFlare year in review
55 Spotify Wrapped
References:
[https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-doing-and-why-does-it-work/]([https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-doing-and-why-does-it-work/)
https://openai.com/blog/introducing-chatgpt-and-whisper-apis
https://www.storyblok.com/ev/stories-on-the-road-uk-23
https://heypresents.com/conferences/2023/schedule
https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2023/temporarily-abled/
Find out more about Stac and Parallax:
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https://parall.ax
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59min
December 11, 2023Episode 36: Tech leadership misconceptions
Are all leaders extroverts? Does agile development mean there is no plan or documentation? Do leaders have to be the best developer? Following on from a recent in-person talk, James and Josh discuss more common tech misconceptions in the area of leadership.
01 Misconception in leadership
01 Leadership is the only way for progression
02 Tech path vs management path
03 Dual track progression
04 Good code is all that matters
05 How teams interact
06 We'll cross the bridge when its comes to it
09 Have to be the best engineer to be a leader
10 It’s not about you
11 Tech skills trump company culture
12 Diversity
14 More developers = more velocity
17 Documentation is less important for agile teams
19 Agile development means no plan
22 All leaders are extroverts
25 Leadership is lonely
27 You don't need a mentor or peers
Find out more about Stac and Parallax:
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31min

FAQs about Off Script:

How many episodes does Off Script have?

The podcast currently has 46 episodes available.