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Refactored
By Chris Tonkinson, Frank KoehlTechnology
Refactored episodes
- 084: Agile Latency
Refactored #084: “Agile Latency”
On this episode of Refactored…
- Feedback: Justin asks, “Since everything is cloud now, should my IT team be shipping Chromebooks instead of beefy laptops?”
- The guys talk about streaming. How dumb is this trend?! Ok, ok, there are lots of exceptions - but that’s not what we’re talking about and you know it.
- The guys fight about Google Docs / O365. Chris has arthritis.
- Feedback: Justin asks, “Is the agile manifesto fundamentally in conflict with the fact that businesses commit to deadlines and budgets?”
- Frank says, “manage less, you dolt” in a recent post entitled Adjust Your Meddling Point.
- The guys agree - you should approach agility from the posture of rigidity.
- … and much more!
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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 10 min - 083: Scrummy Silos
Refactored #083: “Scrummy Silos”
On this episode of Refactored…
- Allen Holub turns out to be really heckin’ smart. Like, maybe he’s done this before.
- The guys debate methodology. Or, Frank tries to, and Chris keeps derailing the conversation. Over and OVER again. But is Scrum worth the certification it’s printed on? You decide.
- Frank brings up a great point about constantly reassessing the state of things, and challenging whether your assumptions still hold through.
- The Increment bundle shipped (19 issues). Chris likes it - but for one fatal flaw.
- Ruby on Rails. Still kickin’ in 2022! The guys fawn over something that was played out five years ago.
- … and much more!
Don’t be shy! Reach out at [email protected].
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1 hr 5 min - 082: Roommate Porn
Refactored #082: “Roommate Porn”
On this episode of Refactored…
- Frank follows up on Chris shutting down conversation in meetings. What a jerk.
- Chris revisits his gear upgrade recommendations for nerds:
- Ergonomics first:
- Adjustable mesh chair
- Monitor height
- Mechanical keyboard
- Mouse that fits your hand
- Presentation second:
- Clean up your background (just make it look tidy - that’s all that matters)
- Discrete microphone (a starter-level condensor mic is just fine)
- Upgraded webcam (if you are so inclined)
- Lighting (e.g. LED panels)
- QOL upgrades:
- Monitor real estate - get yourself too much. Yes, you heard correctly, upgrade to “too much” screen real estate
- Speakers and/or headphones
- ACTUAL green screens? The guys debate
- Frank puts on full display his unreasonably vitriolic hatred of ring lights.
- Should you work in the healthcare, finance, or defense industry? Or just go straight to pornography? The guys have some thoughts.
- Everyone hates laptop keyboards. Like, come on. We’re not alone here, right?
- … and much more!
Don’t be shy! Reach out with a note or voice memo at [email protected].
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1 hr 4 min - 081: Managing Expectations
Refactored #081: “Managing Expectations”
Update: Frank borked the first version of this episode’s audio. If you re-download, everything should be good now!
On this episode of Refactored…
- The guys are back in the groove and all caught up with publishing the episode backlog! I know, I know - but let them have this one, they’re awfully proud of themselves.
- In news that is about as shocking as sunrise, Google will shutter Stadia. Frank has some choice words. The day after recording, TechCrunch published an in depth article with some added nuance of cringe and hilarity.
- The guys manage to stop bashing Google long enough to talk about managing expectations thanks to a real life Office Space moment.
- The guys talk about thinking through uncomfortable conversations. Another Silicon Valley reference for the win - “Ruinous Empathy!”
- Feedback: Justin asks, “Does having a sophisticated A/V setup for your video calls make you seem less promotable to the C-suite?”
- … and much more!
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1 hr - 080: Banish the Stuckness
Refactored #080: “Banish the Stuckness”
On this episode of Refactored…
- Frank recommends The Legend of Vox Machina.
- Chris has been really busy slacking lately.
- Homepages suck (most of the time). You really gotta RTFM, but YouTube can help.
- Frank is really enjoying Turbo and Stimulus but still trying to detox from jQuery.
- Are you stuck? If you’re not getting stuck, you may need to think more abstractly. If you stay stuck, you aren’t phoning a friend quickly enough.
- What IS work/life balance? Chris struggles. We have it as an episode tag and can’t even define it well.
- Feedback: Anonymous asks, “How do you find the right balance between marketing/sales and engineering/product?”
- … and much more!
Don’t be shy! Reach out at [email protected].
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1 hr 2 min - 079: That Time Where the Guys Talk About Time All the Time
Refactored #079: “That Time Where the Guys Talk About Time All the Time”
On this episode of Refactored…
- Frank built a library to handle fiscal calendars. It was cooler and less painful than it sounds.
- Chris has officially gone off the deep end. He thinks - and just hear him out - that everyone should use:
- ISO 8601 everywhere always for dates
- 24-hour time. No more am/pm
- UTC, and abolish timezones
- The only thing Frank agrees to, is that all servers MUST use UTC or you are paving the path to madness.
- Frank loves Redactor X. The guys talk editors. Quill and TinyMCE are discussed.
- Frank pushes back on NFTs. Chris agrees the current offerings suck, but doubles down on the long term bull thesis.
- The pick of the week is Wicked Cushions, aftermarket headphone accessories.
- … and much more!
Don’t be shy! Reach out at [email protected].
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1 hr 6 min - 078: To Centralize or to Decentralize?
Refactored #078: “To Centralize or to Decentralize?”
On this episode of Refactored…
- Frank is The Riddler. Not the new Paul Dano Riddler, the Jim Carey Riddler at the end where his head looks weird.
- Frank goes to Blackhat and DEF CON and shares all about it. Spoiler: it was a mixed bag. Chris asks about policy because he’s a dumb corporate drone now.
- Chris and Frank wrestle apart the nuance between a “single team” vs “distributed pods” for shared company expertise (like security, architecture, etc).
- Frank is convinced it must be pushed out ot the edges. YOLO, or something.
- Chris has concerns about effectively managing the diffuse structure but has been considering the model.
- The guys agree that rules and enforcement go hand-in-hand. One is entirely inappropriate without the other. So you can run and tell that. Home boy.
- … and much more!
Don’t be shy! Reach out at [email protected].
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56 min - 077: Boost!
Refactored #077: “Boost!”
On this episode of Refactored…
- Refactored is now Podcasting 2.0-enabled! Go grab a new podcast app and become the future! Chris has had a good experience with Castamatic in particular.
- Frank is super jazzed about JS import maps. Seems like it could offer a way to [ctrl]+a, [del] at least some of your JS build pipeline insanity. Pretty cool stuff.
- Silicon Valley. Go watch it.
- Chris worries we haven’t seen peak recession.
- People are people, too. Management tip of the day: be honest.
- Feedback: Dave asks, “What are the obvious signs of teams that think they are ‘agile’ but clearly still do not understand it?”
- The pick of the week is StartAllBack, a very opinionated [ctrl]+z on some of the Win 11 UI changes.
- … 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 - 076: Be Nice to Your Scrum Master
Refactored #076: “Be Nice to Your Scrum Master”
On this episode of Refactored…
- Chris talks about PodcastIndex.org. He’s like, mad bullish. Like, vegan-evangelist level.
- Did you know that YouTube is the Internets second busiest search engine? Frank did.
- The guys fight about Scrum for a while. Is it Good™? Definitely, maybe. Or not.
- You can’t please everyone. The guys unanimously, vehemently agree.
- … and much more!
Don’t be shy! Reach out at [email protected].
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52 min - 075: Self-Hosted Post-Quantum Ham
Refactored #075: “Self-Hosted Post-Quantum Ham”
On this episode of Refactored…
- Frank shares some satire. In response Chris offers a ham-fisted explanation of Poe’s Law and then goes on an old man rant about bad writing in the form of LinkedIn bait (as if it really matters).
- The guys agree on their… caution… toward the social cesspits with respect to kids, because the negative effects are multitude.
- Chris brings up NISTs new quantum-resistant algorithms for encryption and signatures, and then indicates some grim consequences about what practical quantum computing will actually mean for individuals and governments.
- Phrasing! Qubit - the quantum computing equivalent of a bit.
- Frank found Cloaked.app, a neat service to pool randomized data among sites and users.
- The guys talk about Frigate.video - in related news, court docs prove Amazon is sharing Ring data.
- … 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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