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Refactored
By Chris Tonkinson, Frank KoehlTechnology
Refactored episodes
- 014: Hanlon's Razor
Refactored #014: “Hanlon’s Razor”
On this episode of Refactored…
- The guys totally nailed a prediction about Nvidia, but with a crazy twist.
- Frank is bullish on the “javascriptless” Hotwire framework, but Chris has questions.
- Chris invokes Hanlon’s Razor: “never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”
- Frank laments a common gap in strong opinions, loosely held.
- The pick of the week is in fact, Hotwire.
- … and much more!
Don’t be shy! Reach out at [email protected].
Visit https://refactored.work/ for the full archive, show notes, and more. Hosted by Chris Tonkinson and Frank Koehl.
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1 hr 4 min - 013: Silence Is Golden
Refactored #013: “Silence Is Golden”
On this episode of Refactored…
- The little voice inside Chris’ head has him worried he’s being fired.
- The guys discuss the value in being silent as a leader.
- What are you hiring for? Culture? Attitude? Like-mindedness? The guys debate.
- Someone makes the insane accusation that HR exists for a reason.
- Hundreds of thousands of organizations get pwned by a constellation of Exchange vulnerabilities.
- The pick of the week is the Apple Watch… at least for cycling.
- … and much more!
Don’t be shy! Reach out at [email protected].
Visit https://refactored.work/ for the full archive, show notes, and more. Hosted by Chris Tonkinson and Frank Koehl.
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53 min - 012: Firmware Shall Be Broken
Refactored #012: “Firmware Shall Be Broken”
On this episode of Refactored…
- Frank and Chris discuss the ongoing silicon shortage that is bottlenecking multiple industries.
- Nvidia announces a line of cryptocurrency mining-specific GPUs which Chris thinks is probably fine but which Frank argues is antagonistic to their customer base. Either way, the guys agree the firmware limitations won’t last.
- Chris doesn’t get the appeal of rack-mount equipment for homelab installations, but quickly sees the light as Frank explains.
- The guys successfully avoid a longform discussion on the relative pros and cons of home media management systems Plex, Emby, and Jellyfin.
- Chris botches an overview of what dRAID is and how it works.
- Frank explains a little about the HR service (“HRaaS”?) company TriNet.
- The guys go in-depth on SLAs; what they’re good for (and not) as a customer, and how to use them to budget downtime as an engineering/reliability team.
- … and much more!
Don’t be shy! Reach out at [email protected].
Visit https://refactored.work/ for the full archive, show notes, and more. Hosted by Chris Tonkinson and Frank Koehl.
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58 min - 011: Technical Debt
Refactored #011: “Technical Debt”
On this episode of Refactored…
- Frank argues that not everything has to be automated with Terraform while Chris plays devil’s advocate.
- The Pareto Principle is discussed, which is the observation that about 80% of your results come from about 20% of your effort.
- The guys talk briefly about GCP and AWS, and then discuss at some length why Azure is even a thing.
- Chris explains how he thinks & talks about technical debt arguing the “debt” analogy is fairly extensible, but Frank wants something more concrete.
- … and much more!
Don’t be shy! Reach out at [email protected].
Visit https://refactored.work/ for the full archive, show notes, and more. Hosted by Chris Tonkinson and Frank Koehl.
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50 min - 010: Navigating Change
Refactored #010: “Navigating Change”
On this episode of Refactored…
- Chris builds some trust with his team, and feels good about it.
- Frank likes to focus on the facts and the situation, and eschew individual emotion.
- Simon Sinek has entered the chat as the guys discuss his book Start with Why.
- Chris is in love with his UPS-analogy for why things don’t always seem to make sense at the small scale.
- Frank has some good insight on the trade-off between perspective and resolution.
- The guys fight about the difference (or not) between Waterfall and Agile.
- … and much more!
Don’t be shy! Reach out at [email protected].
Visit https://refactored.work/ for the full archive, show notes, and more. Hosted by Chris Tonkinson and Frank Koehl.
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52 min - 009: Security Is Everywhere and Nowhere
Refactored #009: “Security is Everywhere and Nowhere”
On this episode of Refactored…
- Is “security” a dedicated person/team/pursuit? Frank draws a hard line about what ought while Chris remains cranky about what is.
- The guys discuss the OWASP Top 10 and Chris gets brownie points for knowing what OWASP actually stands for.
- The guys agree you should 100% go talk to your security team.
- Gated builds are probably a good idea.
- Frank is open-minded about IDE integrations while Chris couldn’t care less.
- … and much more!
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58 min - 008: What Are You Optimizing For?
Refactored #008: “What Are You Optimizing For?”
On this episode of Refactored…
- Technology does not (necessarily) progress monotonically, and Chris provides several examples complains a lot.
- Between the two of them, the guys manage to stumble through a brief history of HipChat, Stride, Slack, and Atlassian.
- Frank takes a bold stand: Microsoft is incapable of original thought.
- Chris explains the history of Atom and Electron, and surmises why MS Teams isn’t a great UX.
- The guys wage mighty battle over the modern-day merits and demerits of GUI vs TUI (or is it CLI?)
- … and much more!
Don’t be shy! Reach out at [email protected].
Visit https://refactored.work/ for the full archive, show notes, and more. Hosted by Chris Tonkinson and Frank Koehl.
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1 hr 1 min - 007: Digital Transformation
Refactored #007: “Digital Transformation”
On this episode of Refactored…
- The guys agree that you don’t need to digitize All The Things.
- Frank asserts that backups should be simple while Chris asserts they should be automated. These may not be mutually exclusive.
- Digital Transformation… do you put the emphasis on the “digital” or on the “transformation?”
- No one knows what Cloud Journey means, but it’s one of the few buzzwords this week Chris likes.
- … and much more!
Don’t be shy! Reach out at [email protected].
Visit https://refactored.work/ for the full archive, show notes, and more. Hosted by Chris Tonkinson and Frank Koehl.
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46 min - 006: Security Acronym Soup
Refactored #006: “Security Acronym Soup”
On this episode of Refactored…
- Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull have entered the chat as the guys discuss The Peter Principle.
- Frank touts himself as the Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson of his organization.
- Chris can’t figure out how to get real feedback from his direct reports. Frank opines on skip-level meetings.
- Chris admires the subset of truly solutions-oriented people.
- Frank argues commit signing is worth the hassle.
- Chris still uses RSS and Frank compares Twitter to ham radio.
- The pick of the week is the SANS Internet Storm Center Daily.
- … and much more!
Don’t be shy! Reach out at [email protected].
Visit https://refactored.work/ for the full archive, show notes, and more. Hosted by Chris Tonkinson and Frank Koehl.
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1 hr 8 min - 005: DIE, Cattle, DIE!
Refactored #005: “DIE, Cattle, DIE!”
On this episode of Refactored…
- While the physiology of “screen time” is universally bad, there ARE very meaningful variations, cognitively.
- Frank and Chris tease apart why they think the technology sector seems disproportionately led by non-technologists.
- SolarWinds (and many of their customers) were victimized by a supply-chain attack. That’s… not great.
- Frank introduces the D.I.E. model - Distributed, Immutable, Ephemeral - after explaining that servers are like cattle, not pets.
- Chris purports to be working on a new project with a bunch of stupid buzzwords like NewSQL and YugabyteDB.
- Salesforce to buy Slack. Frank is sad. Chris doesn’t care.
- Jim Collins has entered the chat because his book Good to Great is required reading.
- The pick of the week is the Coder Radio podcast.
- … and much more!
Don’t be shy! Reach out at [email protected].
Visit https://refactored.work/ for the full archive, show notes, and more. Hosted by Chris Tonkinson and Frank Koehl.
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A casual, ongoing conversation between two technology leaders with Chris Tonkinson and Frank Koehl.