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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March 24, 2023Episode 27: Engineering culture
Off Script is back! This episode, James and Josh discuss engineering culture and some of the best practices and processes they’ve implemented for reliable development cycles. What’s the release process? How do you monitor the application and ensure robust code quality? How do Infrastructure and security considerations affect the development? All covered in this episode!
02 Release process - Continuous integration
03 Feature flagging
05 Versioning
07 Application Monitoring & alerting
09 Flare error message mishap
10 Centralised Dashboards
11 Shipping a better product
11 Tips for a new hire
12 Linting
13 Versioning
15 Testing
17 Reduce the feedback loop
20 Architecture review
22 Programming patterns
25 Infrastructure
26 Tooling setup and access (Consul, Vault, etc)
28 Infrastructure as code
30 Data residency and regional deployments
32 Security
33 Secret storage and environment specific configuration
34 Regulatory compliance (e.g. ISO 27001, GCloud expectations
35 Dependency review
36 External security review
37 On-boarding/off-boarding Documentation
38 OpenAPI documents
40 Slack
44 Communication is key
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December 28, 2022Episode 26: 2022 developer round-up
The state of the world, green engineering, James' wedding, Elon's meltdowns. To round off the year, James and Josh look back at the many ups and downs from the world of tech and beyond.
00 - State of the world
01 - Good to be back in the office
03 - Figma & its Adobe acquisition
04 - Mozilla started to accept Crypto then halted
05 - Web3
06 - Google Fonts Privacy & GDPR breach
07 - Reducing the web's carbon footprint. Optimising & green engineering
08 - Building a Greener Web talk by Michelle Barker
09 - Netify sponsoring open source eleventy
10 - MDN Mozilla Dev Network refresh
11 - '5 Web things that you don't need Javascript for'
12 - CSS Tricks acquired by Digital Ocean
13 - US announced plans to make daylight saving time permanent
15 - Devs for Ukraine
17 - Twitter embeds
18 - Duck Duck Go for Mac & other Chromium forks
20 - US court reaffirmed that web scraping is legal
21 - All Day Hey! 2022
22 - Blogging making a comeback - Own your own thoughts
23 - Is Mastodon any good?
25 - Mailing lists are back
25 - CSS Day is back
26 - Internet Explorer was retired
27 - Stranger Things had a hacking scene that featured Flexbox
28 - WWWDC - Human interface guidelines
29 - Apple Passkeys
30 - W3C became a public interest not-for-profit enterprise
31 - UK Online Safety Bill - a disappointment that targets individuals not big tech
33 - Cookie Pop-up failure of policy
34 - Heroku down all the time
36 - James got married
37 - Chrome version 105
38 - No Code Tools Article
40 - Don't throw away code - article
40 - GitHubs - What's your first github contribution
42 - Source code webkit is now managed on GitHub
43 - Heather Burns - Data Privacy Book
44 - Chris Coyier - Talk 'The web is good now'
45 - Cloudflare SVG support for images
46 - Leeds Digital Festival - DALLE event
48 - btconf - Berlin Trip
48 - PassKey Support by Google
49 - CSS Working Group - The View Transition API + Scrolled Linked Transitions
51 - Way Back Machine Turned 21
53 - Hey! Presents Social in Leeds
54 - ffconf pod episode
54 - Advent of Code
55 - Josh on 'Another Idea Podcast' - Creative Podcast
55 - Web Sustainability Resources
56 - Practical Accessibility Course
57 - re:Invent episode
57 - 'Engineering management for the rest of us' - book by Sarah Drasner
58 - Google switching to a continuous scroll
59 - 25 years since Microsoft FrontPage 98
61 - Parallax won many awards this year
62 - Chatloop
Resources:
Figma
hidde.blog
https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2022/01/using-google-fonts-breaches-gdpr/
https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2022/02/reducing-web-carbon-footprint-optimizing-social-media-embeds/
Building a Greener Web by Michelle Barker
https://lexoral.com/blog/you-dont-need-js/
https://www.devsforukraine.io/
https://heypresents.com/conferences/2023
https://webkit.org/blog/12840/web-platform-and-web-extensions-features-highlighted-at-wwdc22/
https://webdevlaw.uk/2022/07/11/your-compliance-obligations-under-the-uks-online-safety-bill/
https://adactio.com/journal/19370
https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2022/09/understanding-privacy-pre-release/
https://2022.cascadiajs.com/speakers/chris-coyier
https://blog.cloudflare.com/svg-support-in-cloudflare-images/
https://leedsdigitalfestival.org/events/dall-e-2-how-ai-will-shape-the-future-of-creativity/
Spotify
https://css-irl.info/web-sustainability-resources/
https://practical-accessibility.today/
https://www.engmanagement.dev/
https://bima.co.uk/nexus-parallax/
https://www.cssdesignawards.com/sites/nexus-by-hexagon/42228/
https://www.awwwards.com/sites/nexus
https://thefwa.com/cases/nexus-by-hexagon
https://www.chatloop.com/
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December 22, 2022Episode 25: AWS re:Invent 2022 round-up
James is back from his Vegas trip for AWS re:Invent! In this episode, they discuss James’ impression of the city, the hot topics of the talks and James’ exploration of the variety of American fast food joints.
00 - What Vegas is like
01 - Elastic vs Serverless
02 - Event overview
06 - Redshift Serverless
07 - Zero ETL
08 - Aurora into Redshift
09 - DataZone
10 - QuickSight Q
11 - Keynote: Swami Sivasubramanian
Fully managed databases
AWS Glue Data Quality
The new geospatial capabilities in Amazon SageMaker allow data scientists to predict natural disasters, manage relief efforts, and navigate roads using satellite imagery and pre-trained neural networks.
DataZone, governance for data lakes, data viruses, and machine learning
15 - Keynote: Dr. Werner Vogels
Parallelism and concurrency
Event-driven architectures
AWS Application Composer
Resources:
https://reinvent.awsevents.com/
Keynotes
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December 15, 2022Episode 24: The evolution of GPT and ChatGPT
Following on from the previous conversation about GPT-3, James & Josh discuss the explosion of ChatGPT's popularity. In this episode they explore how it's different from previous iterations, the way its features are impressing the tech community and also where its limitations may lie.
00 - What does it do differently to GPT-3
01 - Maybe prompt writing won't be a job of the future!
03 - A helpful debugging companion
04 - A new way to interface with Stackoverflow
06 - It doesn't know how to be evil... yet
06 - Finding flaws in Smart Contracts
08 - Live Captioning
09 - What are the roadblocks in AI development?
10 - We can learn a lot from it
12 - AI writing its own prompts or feeding into DALL-E
13 - Where to put checks and balances?
14 - Try asking it a Google question
15 - Book Recommendation: Life 3.0
17 - Teething issues with the new technology
18 - Safeguarding & the online Safety Bill considerations
Resources:
https://chat.openai.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_3.0
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December 05, 2022Episode 23: GPT-3 and the future of AI
What is GPT-3 and how does the future look? How will AI affect work? What ethical dilemmas must we consider? James & Josh talk about all things GPT-3 and the recent surge in the use of AI from business applications to experimental art.
01 - What is GPT-3
01 - DALLE 2
02 - The future of the company
03 - Use Cases
04 - How prompts work
05 - AI Idea generator
06 - Used in GITHub co-pilot
07 - Summarise.tech
09 - Translation AI
11 - AI targeted advertising
12 - Conversational applications
15 - How do you train an AI model on ethics
16 - Misuse of AI
18 - Costs
20 - How to get involved
21 - The future of the platform and GPT-4
Resources:
https://openai.com/api/
https://github.com/features/copilot
https://towardsdatascience.com/gpt-4-is-coming-soon-heres-what-we-know-about-it-64db058cfd45
https://www.summarize.tech/
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November 21, 2022Episode 22: ffconf 2022 round-up
In this episode, Josh and James explore Josh’s recent trip to ffconf 2022 in Brighton. They discuss the talks, all the highlights and takeaways raised during the conference.
2 - ffconf hacked gameboy game in gift pack
5 - Talk: Florence Okoye - Designing as we want, to create the experiences that we need
6 - Design justice framework
9 - Talk: Heydon Pickering - Capitalism, The Web, And You
11 - The Gig Economy, Slavery, Uber & Exploitation
13 - Talk: Lex Lofthouse - Design for Developers
14 - Bootstrap
16 - Talk: Sophie Koonin - This Talk is Under Construction: a love letter to the personal website
17 - Back to blogs
18 - “The Modern web is not for creators, it’s for consumers”
19 - “Building a website is a radical act in this day and age”
20 - Talk: Lily Madar - Programming with Yarn
23 - Talk: Natalia Waniczek - Working towards a greener world from behind the keyboard
24 - Green engineering principles
25 - Music streaming greenhouse gas emissions
26 - Optimising for region hosting
27 - Talk: Sareh Heidari - Digital exclusion in healthcare & how to change it
28 - The digital device bank
29 - Plain english consortium
30 - Silktide breaks down reading age
31 - Internet Access as a human right
32 - Talk: Ruth John - Day Disco
33 - Using audio web apis to create fun things
33 - Digital TR 909 to program in browser
34 - Web Midi
Resources:
https://2022.ffconf.org/
https://help.silktide.com/
https://roland50.studio/
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October 10, 2022Episode 21: Modern API design
What is and isn’t an API? How has the technology changed over time? What are new considerations that have arisen? Hosts James & Josh discuss a variety of APIs and the benefits and faults that help refine the APIs of today.
00 - What is an API?
03 - S.O.A.P
05 - Restful API
06 - RSS & JSON
07 - Public API’s
10 - Documentation driven development
13 - React API & GitHub
16 - Graph QL
19 - Twilio
20 - Stripe Payment
23 - Paypal
24 - Web hooks
27 - Pusher
30 - Modern API Considerations
31 - Cloud Front/ API Gateway
34 - Documentation - What is design without documentation
37 - Facebook & Open Graph
40 - PAW MAC API
44 - 3D Secure
Resources:
https://pusher.com/
https://graphql.org/
https://paw.cloud/
https://github.com/
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48min
September 26, 2022Episode 20: Beyond Tellerrand Berlin 2022 round up
This episode of Off Script, Josh and James explore Josh’s recent trip to Berlin to the single-track conference, Beyond Tellerrand. They discuss and break down all the hot topics for us.
01 Intro
03 Venue
03 The Pac Man Rule - Always leave a gap in your circle!
04 Live subtitles at the event
06 All together now by Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino
15 Inviting People In by Michelle Chin - Different ways we were forced to collaborate during the pandemic.
20 If You’re Not Scared, You’re Not Living by Vic Lee
24 Make it sound by Tiziana Alocci involving the use of non speech audio to convey information.
28 Dragon slayer by Espen Brunborg - How to be a better web designer
32 The reinvention of normal by Dominic Wilcox - About creativity and being creative.
40 Stand in talk - Pragmatic Sketching
45 Visualising connections by Nadieh Bremer including bringing open source constellation maps to life.
50 The Content Design of Civil Discourse: Turning Conflict into Collaboration by David Thomas - What does a productive conversation about a topic look like
54 Less thinking. More tinkering by Gavin Strange - Create a space for creativity to happen
57 Making by breaking by Dina Amin - A book is not a book. It’s paper, string, words, letters
101 Making the impossible possible by Janis McDavid - Who are we when we are alone, who are we when no one is watching
Resources:
All together now by Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino
Inviting People In by Michelle Chin
If You’re Not Scared, You’re Not Living by Vic Lee
Make it sound by Tiziana Alocci
Dragon slayer by Espen Brunborg
The reinvention of normal by Dominic Wilcox
Visualising connections by Nadieh Bremer
The Content Design of Civil Discourse: Turning Conflict into Collaboration by David Thomas
Less thinking. More tinkering by Gavin Strange
Making by breaking by Dina Amin
Making the impossible possible by Janis McDavid
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1h 9min
July 29, 2022Episode 19: Why you should use React Native
What are the benefits of using React Native to build mobile applications over platform specific frameworks? Where did it come from and why might it be a good choice for your next project? Hosts James & Josh discuss their use of React Native and how it’s helped streamline app development.
01 How it enables quick UI Iterations & rapid app development
02 Significant use cases
03 Where did you first hear about it?
04 How native UI is used
05 Improved debugging features
07 Patching your app
08 Lotte animation library
09 JSON definitions of animation
10 Xcode simulator
19 Ethos of Open Source
20 Haptic libraries
21 React query & axios
23 Flipper & error messages
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June 29, 2022Episode 18: Internet of Things
How has the Internet of Things changed how we build internet connected devices, and does this approach sometimes overly complicated things? Hosts James and Josh discuss the world of IoT, its real world applications and some of the pitfalls projects fall into.
00 - History of IoT
01 - Anything can be connected via a ESP32 controller
02 - ‘Making things more complex than they need to’
03 - Petnet IoT Cat Feeder
04 - A Single point of failure ‘Starve your cat as a service’
05 - Street lights in Aberdeen & how they store the schedule on the light
06 - IoT Dependencies
07 - Ring / Canary / Nest
08 - Nest works standalone off Wifi
09 - Smart Bins for N Yorkshire Council
12 - ‘Smart’ Plugs - hot wire toaster
13 - Asthma Studies
14 - Security & updating IoT devices
19 - Boring SSL - Less config the better
19 - Apple pass key + Signal
22 - Avoiding DDOSSing yourself
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