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Refactored
By Chris Tonkinson, Frank KoehlTechnology
Refactored episodes
- 094: Don't Touch My Kindle
Refactored #094: “Don’t Touch My Kindle”
On this episode of Refactored…
- Chris really doesn’t like when people touch displays. Jeff Atwood agrees.
- Chris — a mere decade and a half late to the trend — is a fan of the Amazon Kindle.
- Libraries… are actually pretty cool. Go check one out.
- Frank gives a LastPass update. Turns out… probably time to leave, as expected.
- Ask The Internet: “Need opinions from people with experience in the industry” from r/AskProgramming.
- … 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 - 093: Passwords and Kidphones
Refactored #093: “Passwords and Kidphones”
On this episode of Refactored…
- LastPass - Danger Will Robinson! Even WIRED agrees.
- Frank is most aggravated that they didn’t full roll creds after their first incident.
- Chris is most aggravated at the amount of unenctrypted data stored in the vault.
- Neither of the guys are using it anymore, to be clear.
- Chris wants to know if anyone is still using zxcvbn anymore, or something simliar.
- Frank bought his kid a phone — the Bark Phone.
- The guys agree, “socials” are no bueno.
- Frank calls it a “less-toxic use for AI”
- The pick of the week is Bitwarden.
- … 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 16 min - 092: What Problem Are You Trying to Solve?
Refactored #092: “What Problem Are You Trying To Solve?”
On this episode of Refactored…
- No end of year programming here, no sir. Maybe publication troubles… but not content production lazinss :)
- The guys close the conversation on Line Goes Up.
- What’s the point of an NFT? [Tom Haverford voice] “To have one, which he does.”
- Most crypto Grifto™ is nothing more than a ponzi.
- Regarding FTX & SBF - crypto didn’t fail, tradfi did. Fight us.
- Frank goes up out there and gets ‘imself a new jerb. Congrats, Frank!
- Reporting engines suck… but do you know what sucks more? Custom reporting engines.
- Frank makes it clear: define your use case and acceptance criteria completely independently of your tech & infra.
- … 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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59 min - 091: AI at a Holiday Party
Refactored #091: “AI at a Holiday Party”
On this episode of Refactored…
- Chris doesn’t know how cereal works, apparently.
- Chris also doesn’t know how TV works, apparently.
- Chris doesn’t even know how his own job works (apparently) so he’s been outsourcing everything to OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
- Frank introduces the story of a French guy who politely declined hookers and blow at company parties. Gets fired. Sues. Wins. The guys discuss at some length.
- Are extracurriculars valuable?
- Do you have to go?
- should you go?
- It all depends.
- The pick of the week is ChatGPT. Because of course it is, this thing is wild!
- … and much more!
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1 hr 8 min - 090: Fractional Reserve Crypto
Refactored #090: “Fractional Reserve Crypto”
On this episode of Refactored…
- Chris really has a bee in his bonnett about FTX, so-called “exchanges,” and crypto custody.
- Frank doesn’t think the term “desktop software” is going anywhere, but the guys avoid a longer discussion about convergence devices like the PinePhone and Librem.
- Chris narrates while Frank takes control of his crypto fortune. NOT YOUR KEYS, NOT YOUR CRYPTO
- Line Goes Up is a tremendous assault on the financial motivations behind and current state of the NFT ecosystem. But is its grim perspective on possible future universes fair?
- Feedback: Repeat offender Scott — unoffical IT support for Refactored — points out yet another broken TLS certificate.
- … and much more!
Don’t be shy! Reach out at [email protected].
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1 hr 5 min - 089: I Quit
Refactored #089: “I Quit”
On this episode of Refactored…
- Your homework: watch Office Space. Your other homework: never be anyone from Office Space.
- Frank asks, when resigning, should you talk to your boss first, or send the email? Discussion ensues.
- Point is — unless your boss is r/AmITheAsshole — you probably want to talk to them before making a decision.
- Do you need narrative control? Do you need to CYA? Probably not. But the guys have some tips if so.
- The pick of the week is (any one of): Positive Personality Profiles, Personality Plus, The Four Temperaments.
- … 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 - 088: We've Always Done It That Way
Refactored #088: “We’ve Always Done It That Way”
On this episode of Refactored…
- Jurassic Park holds up, man. Even when Xfinity flakes out for an entire week.
- You know what really grinds our gears? People who defend their actions solely on the basis of tradition.
- “The last guy” isn’t nearly the myopic troll he’s made out to be. Don’t be the new guy that throws the last guy under the bus.
- The macroeconomic environment is bad, no denying it. Some of the tech pullback is directly tied to Fed rates, but Frank extracts a key lesson about sustainable growth.
- Frank offers a $1,000 cash reward for anyone who can identify where the QWERTY keys are on Chris’ Moonlander (photo below). Was it a sincere offer? not-sure-if.jpg
- The guys want some real world feedback on anyone who has lubed their mechanical keeb.
- The pick of the week is Good to Great, by Jim Collins.
- … and much more!
Don’t be shy! Reach out at [email protected].
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1 hr 5 min - 087: Cloud Ragnarök
Refactored #087: “Macroeconomics Ragnarök”
On this episode of Refactored…
- Frank is super hype for the new God of War, if you couldn’t tell.
- Layoffs.fyi is — unfortunately — a super interesting site right now.
- The big bois are all announcing hiring freezes and/or layoffs right now. Most recently Facebook and Apple. Rumors about Amazon next. Chris has a somber prediction.
- The guys talk resumes. Few quick tips:
- Quantify All The Things.
- Talk about you, not your team.
- Speak to accomplishments, not responsibilities.
- Highlight your role, not your company.
- Frank wrote about this topic in more depth.
- The guys debate the value proposition of the cloud. dhh is moving HEY off the cloud (link to article and podcast).
- Is the fediverse ready for prime time as Twitter’s future is uncertain? The guys discuss Mastodon, Diaspora, PeerTube, etc.
- … and much more!
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1 hr 1 min - 086: George Foreman Cosplay
Refactored #086: “George Foreman Cosplay”
On this episode of Refactored…
- Lachlan Patterson has some funny analysis on designing the George Foreman grill.
- Frank argues well that your product (service?) design needs to be very focused. Be cutthroat.
- Feedback: “Does DevOps mean anything now that a bunch of companies are ‘doing DevOps’ but not really doing anything differently than before?”
- The pick of the week is the George Foreman Grill. Yes… that one.
- … 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 - 085: Hustle Culture
Refactored #085: “Hustle Culture”
On this episode of Refactored…
- Rails’ has_one / belongs_to associations trip Chris up. What a dumb-dumb.
- Chris makes the point that most of software development is yak shaving.
- There is much dissection of why undergrad programs fail to produce people with basic skills.
- The guys fight about hustle culture. Necessarily toxic? You decide.
- There is much reconciliation when the guys agree about the behaviors of curiosity and peripheral vision.
- Hiring sucks. Seriously. One of the hardest parts of the jerb.
- The guys agree that trust & delegation are key to any team, at any point, of any size, in perpetuity and throughout the entire universe.
- Go Phils! : wait, do we really invoke the sportsballs here?
- … 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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