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- Episode 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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25 min - Episode 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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37 min - Episode 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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48 min - Episode 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
- Schedule
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1 hr 9 min - Episode 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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38 min - Episode 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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31 min - Episode 17: All Day Hey! 2022 round-up
Off Script is back with a special episode as hosts Josh and James reflect on another successful All Day Hey! conference in Leeds and via live stream. Running through the talks and the dynamics of the day, listen in for a breakdown of how it all went and their thoughts on the talks of the day.
Hey! Presents are uploading all of the content from the day over the next few weeks so make sure to head over to their website to check out the talks from this year’s fantastic speakers.
- 01 - Intro & thanks
- 04 - Benefit of IRL conversations
- 06 - Emily Cressey’s Design Systems talk and Sketch
- 10 - Different designs for different levels of complexity
- 11 - Power user vs Casual
- 12 - Design system manager
- 13 - Github
- 13 - 'Evaluate what design elements you use and delete what does not get used'
- 14 - Stephanie Stimac’s talk on ‘Progressive Webapps’
- 20 - Live code streaming
- 22 - 3D CSS Stopwatch
- 27 - Luke Murphy’s illustration system in Figma
- 28 - 'Illustrations guiding emotional state'
- 35 - Functional Programming
- 38 - Responsive Design
- 39 - 'Let the browser do the heavy lifting'
- 40 - Utopia fluid type generator
Resources:
- Schedule & watch talks
- Speaker information
- Design Systems - The Monster We Created
- Building Beautiful Web Apps: User experience and visual design best practices for PWAs
- Take your skills to the moon with creative coding
- Branding for Techies
- Building an Illustration System
- Unconscious Mentoring
- Functional Programming in JavaScript
- Be the browser’s mentor, not its micromanager
- Build Excellent Websites
- Utopia Fluid Type Scale Calculator
- All talks from Hey! Presents
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44 min - Episode 16: SXSW recap
On this episode of Off Script, James runs us through his recent trip to South By South West (SXSW) and analyses what it all means with Josh. What were the main talking points? What were the new trends worth noting? Our hosts give us their thoughts on Zuckerberg's appearance & the exciting but possibly dystopic future the new tech could lead us to.
- The programming of the event
- Emerging tech trends
- Our role as leaders
- Robin Hood app & Gamification
- Overvaluation of some tech companies
- Is this a bubble?
- Candle Media buying Youtube channels
- Silo'd Metaverse experiences
- Video games have been doing this for years
- AI
- Deepfakes
- WAB AR/VR
- Zuckerberg
- Synthetic Biology
- Tech Warfare
- Flexible working & culture changes relating to equality
- Digital IDs
- HoloRide test
- All Day Hey
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46 min - Episode 15: Over-engineering
What can we learn from the success and simplicity of Wordle? How can we be more aware of when we’re likely to over-engineer a solution?
Hosts James & Josh discuss when to add complexity, when it’s not needed and scenarios where you’re more likely to encounter over-engineering difficulties.
- Simplicity of Wordle
- Hosting & Data Responsibility
- Basecamp
- Webflow
- Microservices
- Governance
- Splitting Applications
- GraphQL
- Shopify
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42 min - Episode 14: What is the metaverse?
What is the metaverse and what has it got to do with Facebook? How do NFTs fit into it? Is it all 3D and gaming or is there more to it with business applications? Hosts James & Josh speak with our guest, Jack Sails and discuss where to begin with it and how to make sense of it all.
- What is the metaverse?
- What could it be?
- Where's the transparency?
- Turning off in these digital space
- NFTs
- When iPhone apps were new
- Centralisation
- VR / XR / AR
- LIDAR
- Hardware to support
- Business application
- Connected Wellbeing
- How to get involved in the metaverse
- Building an open framework
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About Off Script
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Hosted by CTOs Josh Nesbitt and James Hall, Off Script brings you unfiltered conversations about the highs, lows, and lessons of working in tech today. From leading engineering teams and scaling…
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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