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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The podcast currently has 48 episodes available.

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April 01, 2025Episode 47: Behind the scenes of running a tech conference
How do you structure and run the perfect tech conference? What things are involved behind the scenes that attendees don’t see? What advice would you give to someone looking to start their own event?
We’re glad you asked! This episode is an All Day Hey! Special where hosts, Josh and James spill the beans on what goes on behind the All Day Hey! conference curtain, how we can collectively safeguard the future of events and what makes running a tech conference like this so special.
Join us in Leeds on Thursday, 1st May for this year’s All Day Hey!
Tickets and schedule at https://heypresents.com/conferences/2025
00:00 How to run a conference
01:00 Why start a conference? - The aim behind All Day Hey!
02:00 What do you want to provide for the audience?
03:00 Avoiding trends and providing backed knowledge
04:00 How to plan the day of talks to keep people engaged?
05:00 Dealing with technical blunders
07:00 Process of picking speakers and who to contact
08:00 Avoiding talks being sponsored ads
11:00 Getting diversity of topic and idea
12:00 All Day Hey! is community focussed - how to create this?
13:00 How to open up the networking and make it welcoming
14:00 How to close a conference to provoke questions
15:00 Tips for other organisers
16:00 Investing in production quality
17:00 Setting up a conference in 2025
19:00 Keeping the indie conference alive
Find out more about Stac and Parallax:
https://stac.works
https://parall.ax
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22min
March 24, 2025Episode 46: How to plan and run a discovery workshop
What is a discovery workshop and how can they be used to work through problems in your business? In this episode, James and Josh discuss how they've run them in the past and offer some tips and tricks to getting the most out of these sessions.
Listen now for a brand new instalment of Off Script!
00:00 Introduction
01:00 What is a discovery workshop
02:00 Using Miro
02:30 Slideument - slide deck with a documents worth of content
03:00 Use the right medium to foster discussion
04:00 Break workshop sessions into two
05:00 Use other physical spaces to inspire
06:00 Framing the problem but not steering
07:00 Amazon's idea - Write the Press Release
08:00 What are the challenges, resources, and politics?
09:00 What would the bad press be?
10:00 How to be honest and open?
11:00 Creating a safe environment
14:00 Find out what they want from the session
16:00 90 min cycles of energy
17:00 Risk register
18:00 Walk and talk to reenergise
20:00 Keeping discussions on track
21:00 Capturing and processing the data
22:00 Using AI to digitise and distribute
23:00 The next steps
23:30 One Two Three All
26:00 Handy thing to do to unblock
Find out more about Stac and Parallax:
https://stac.works
https://parall.ax
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29min
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
Find out more about Stac and Parallax:
https://stac.works
https://parall.ax
...more
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:
https://stac.works
https://parall.ax
...more
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:
https://stac.works
https://parall.ax
...more
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
Find out more about Stac and Parallax:
https://stac.works
https://parall.ax
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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/
Find out more about Stac and Parallax:
https://stac.works
https://parall.ax
...more
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:
https://stac.works
https://parall.ax
...more
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:
https://stac.works
https://parall.ax
...more
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
Find out more about Stac and Parallax:
https://stac.works
https://parall.ax
...more
29min

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