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- Episode 33: AI ethics
AI ethics - a hot, divisive topic and rightly so. James and Josh are back with a brand new episode of Off Script to dig in and explore a space that is impacting our lives more and more.
- 01 Intro
- 02 Applied AI event
- 03 Bethan Vincent's talk
- 03 Jack Sails’ talk
- 06 Outcomes are not determined by intentions
- 07 EU Cookie law
- 09 Tech can’t be decided by those who know the least about the tech
- 10 Regulation
- 11 AI marking of papers
- 12 Only as good as the dataset it is trained on
- 13 Why as a company would we use this?
- 14 Disclaimers
- 15 AI Consultancy
- 18 Risk
- 19 Oxford Uni CapAI implementation
- 20 What happens when things don’t go right?
- 22 Accountability
- 25 The Trolley problem
- 27 Deontology
- 28 The moral machine self driving car
- 29 7 Things to consider when implementing AI in your business
- 30 Fluency bot for Slack and confluence
References
- https://www.linkedin.com/events/7099321618157461505/comments/
- https://www.moralmachine.net/
- https://www.fluencybot.ai/
Find out more about Stac and Parallax:
- https://stac.works
- https://parall.ax
34 min - Episode 32: Static site generators
James and Josh explore the world of SSGs (static site generators)! The differences between SSGs and full stack frameworks, the associated technologies out there and what to consider with your project when deciding what is best for it.
[Recorded 13th July, 2023]
- 01 Intro
- 02 The Personal Website
- 02 Static Site Generators
- 02 ASTRO
- 03 Content driven site vs Logic and functional site
- 04 Jekyll
- 04 Webapps
- 07 Full stack frameworks
- 08 MPA vs SPA
- 10 Islands
- 15 It’s a cms without the cms
- 16 Flexible data structures enforced via TypeScript
- 20 Deployment - compilation step, already do this on most frameworks anyway
- 22 Still require a rich runtime environment of JS deps etc
- 25 Bring your own db and cache
- 26 Environmental impact
- 27 New SSGs
References
- https://docs.astro.build/en/concepts/why-astro/
- https://docs.astro.build/en/concepts/mpa-vs-spa/
- https://docs.astro.build/en/concepts/islands/
Find out more about Stac and Parallax:
- Stac
- Parallax
30 min - Episode 31: Blockchain
What is the blockchain? How has it changed over time? Is it still killing the planet? James and Josh discuss various types of blockchain systems and how they might have some real world applications for social good.
[Recorded 13th July, 2023]
- 1 Blockchain
- 02 How did it start
- 03 Bitcoin
- 03 Ethereum
- 03 Proof of work vs Proof of stake
- 05 Hardforking
- 06 Web3 bros
- 06 Masterdon & De-centralisation
- 07 Microservices
- 10 Real word aplications
- 11 Music Industry
- 12 Coinbase
- 14 Wallet management
- 17 User identity
- 18 Social good smart contracts
- 19 Blockchain kickstarter
- 20 Bored Ape
- 21 Digital art
Find out more about Stac and Parallax:
- Stac
- Parallax
25 min - Episode 30: WWDC 2023 round-up
James & Josh discuss the recent WWDC 2023 conference and break down some of the announcements. Dive in to the episode to hear all their thoughts on the latest developments coming out of Apple HQ and the impact it may have on us.
[Recorded 9th June, 2023]
- 05 - Apple Vision Pro
- 09 - Product reveals
- 11 - MacOS Sonoma
- 12 - Paprika
- 13 - Safari Profiles
- 15 - ARC Browser
- 18 - Widgets
- 19 - Presenter Overlays
- 20 - Installable Webapps
- 21 - WatchOS 10 & promoting health
- 23 - Apple & AI Spacial Computing
- 24 - Squid Soup
- 24 - Spacial audio
- 25 - Apple Vision Pro
- 30 - New dev tools and experiences for headset
- 35 - Nest Cameras & Starling Hub
- 37 - JPEG XL
- 40 - The future of Apple development & products
Find out more about Stac and Parallax:
- Stac
- Parallax
42 min - Episode 29: The future of large language models
Returning podcast guest Jack Sails joins James and Josh to discuss developments in large language models! Over this episode they discuss how LLMs are being used, Open AI and its current offerings, tips on how to use them and any concerns they may have around this new technology.
[Recorded 19th April, 2023]
- 02 - Metaverse & Crypto
- 03 - Online virtual spaces
- 04 - Chat GPT evolution
- 05 - GPT-4
- 06 - Apple audiobooks
- 06 - SIRI + LLM
- 07 - A GPT does not understand you
- 09 - What are LLMs and how do they work?
- 10 - 1 word = 1 token
- 11 - What is temperature in the context of LLMs?
- 13 - OpenAI Playground
- 14 - Clippy on crack
- 16 - Should we be concerned about the flaws? It can’t even add 2+2
- 18 - Siri Skills
- 19 - How can we lean into this technology to improve our productivity
- 20 - Decision paralysis
- 20 - Good prompt writing is key
- 22 - Megaprompting
- 23 - How can you learn how to reprompt to get the output you’re looking for
- 24 - Privacy concerns
- 26 - Bias
- 27 - D.A.N
- 31 - NPCs in games
- 34 - How do we remain ethical in a world of generated content?
- 35 - UK Chancellor using it to craft a speech
- 41 - How can we use this today, in our everyday lives?
- 44 - Example prompts
- 45 - Becoming an editor
Find out more about Stac and Parallax:
- Stac
- Parallax
52 min - Episode 28: Tech misconceptions
There are a lot of misconceptions in the tech world. In this episode James and Josh shine some light and dispel some common myths!
- 01 - Private browsing is private
- 04 - Agile development means no planning
- 06 - Adding more developers speeds up projects
- 09 - Code should be optimised right form the begining
- 12 - Usability testing is done once the product is ready
- 14 - Adding more features makes products better
- 16 - AI will replace developers
Find out more about Stac and Parallax:
- Stac
- Parallax
20 min - Episode 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
Find out more about Stac and Parallax:
- Stac
- Parallax
47 min - Episode 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/
Find out more about Stac and Parallax:
- Stac
- Parallax
1 hr 4 min - Episode 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
Find out more about Stac and Parallax:
- Stac
- Parallax
22 min - Episode 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
Find out more about Stac and Parallax:
- Stac
- Parallax
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companies, to tackling burnout, bad bets, and breakthrough ideas, this is the show where raw honesty meets experience. Alongside one-on-one conversations between Josh and James, you’ll hear from leaders, builders, designers, and entrepreneurs who aren’t afraid to share what’s really going on behind the scenes — the conversations usually left for DMs, side chats, and after-hours drinks. Whether you’re building your first product or leading a fast-growing team, Off Script gives you a raw and refreshing perspective on the challenges and creativity that shape modern tech. New episodes every few weeks. Subscribe and join the conversation.
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