Tech: Off-topic

By Mike Elsmore

Interested in Technology, Development, and all the random stuff around it? So are we! This podcast is the sidebar discussions that you'd normally hear at a tech event but broadcast over the internet f... more

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The podcast currently has 26 episodes available.

Tech: Off-topic episodes:

November 24, 2022Every topic ends with Elon Musk and special guest Luke Browne
A quick note to start, sorry about the audio... teething problems with the new kit

Mike (https://twitter.com/ukmadlz) and Jim (https://twitter.com/secondej) have our usual chat and weird humour, this episode with guest Luke Browne (https://twitter.com/lukebrwne), and cover:
The regular cycle of layoffs

Finding some amusing takes about Musk’s Twitter bin fire

THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT ATTEMPT TO LAUNCH ON DISCORD, RESULTS ARE HILARIOUS https://kotaku.com/uk-britain-treasury-discord-government-bullied-tories-1849787589

Evernote has been bought!!! EVERNOTE! Remember that? https://www.engadget.com/evernote-bending-spoons-acquisition-201505825.html

Maybe Sam Bankman-Fried, if we can be arsed with crypto shit https://www.forbes.com/advisor/investing/cryptocurrency/ftx-declares-bankruptcy/

HelloFresh accused of using coconut milk obtained from monkey labour https://futurism.com/the-byte/meal-kit-hellofresh-monkey-labor

VR kit that kills you if you die in VR https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy7kbq/palmer-luckey-made-a-vr-headset-that-kills-the-user-if-they-die-in-the-game
And the usual off-topic tangents.
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1h 30min
October 27, 2022We predicted the future and discussing how some companies are just plain stupid
Mike and Jim have our usual chat and weird humour, this time we give our take on:
PHP gets a new web server, built-in Go! https://github.com/dunglas/frankenphp

Hey, pop the cloud, move to physical infrastructure

Pulumi get busted papering themselves all over Hashiconf

Canonical’s interview process - I’m sure we never discussed this and it came up recently

No Man’s Sky drops another enormous update. How are Hello Games making money

First Github Copilot litigation has arrived, as predicted on Tech: Off Topic.

The price of a Bratwurst and a beer at the Birmingham Christmas Market
And the usual off-topic tangents.
We did attempt to stay clear of politics…
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1h 21min
August 29, 2022Something got burnt in the Oven.sh and reaffirming the Internet is a weird place to be
Mike and Jim have our usual chat and weird humour, this time we give our take on:
Oven.sh “grind” culture https://twitter.com/oven_sh/status/1562248121656102914 (thread after deleted tweets https://twitter.com/oven_sh/status/1562248122633314304)

Build a city with your GH contributions because why the hell not https://honzaap.github.io/GithubCity/

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1562104562219196416 wtf John Carmack is at Meta

FN Meka dropped by Capitol Records https://edition.cnn.com/2022/08/24/entertainment/fn-meka-dropped-capitol-records-cec/index.html

Because Excel https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/892919315395903578/1012513522313343057/unknown.png

Max headroom Chicago takeover https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Headroom_signal_hijacking

Best tech swag
And the usual off-topic tangents.
PS Sorry Mike's mum for the introduction
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1h 25min
August 15, 2022 Tech tangents, memes, and a sprinkling of shiny new PHP
Mike and Jim have our usual chat and dark humour moments, but this time we also chat about interesting new tech.
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1h 16min
July 29, 2022 Buns and sports ball! Things are interesting here in Brum
Mike Elsmore & Jim Seconde can't help but talk about the commonwealth game, but we also have takes on bun.sh, latest layoffs, and evil corp.
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1h 9min
June 23, 2022 No crypto but plenty of tech bad takes
Mike Elsmore & Jim Seconde chat about all the things that have been happening in the tech space recently.
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1h 29min
January 14, 2022 Chatting about tech built on blockchain and a giggle along the way with Matt from RippleX
This is episode was an awesome chat with Matt Hamilton who is the Principle Developer Advocate from RippleX. Our chat covered his route into his current role, including the home experiments that got him to Ripple, as well as Mike learning a lot about Ripple and the XRP Ledger.
If you want to be part of the live recording and give opinions and ask a question, please just head to https://twitch.tv/ukmadlz and join the conversation.
If you have anything you'd like to follow up, or you'd like to be a guest at a later date, feel free to reach out to me on Twiter at https://twitter.com/ukmadlz
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1h 33min
August 13, 2021 What happened to the community and life around us with Hannah & Andy from Fusion
I had the amazing chance to have a nice chat with Hannah Jones & Andy Jones from The Fusion Group, you may have heard of a little thing they run called Fusion Meetup. During this chat, which we kept relatively short, we covered recruitment, the community in and around Birmingham (our shared city), and some of the transition for people working in tech over the last year or so.
If you want to be part of the live recording and give opinions and ask a question, please just head to https://twitch.tv/ukmadlz and join the conversation every other Friday at 3pm UK time.
If you have anything you'd like to follow up, or you'd like to be a guest at a later date, feel free to reach out to me on Twiter at https://twitter.com/ukmadlz
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1h 27min
July 30, 2021 Where databases, web monetisation, music, and a lions mane meet with Simon Metson
In this episode Tech: Off-topic, Mike Elsmore has Simon Metson, VP of Engineering at EDB get ever so nostalgic and then the conversation gets interesting. An amazing conversation unfolds talking about music, web monetisation (if interested check out https://coil.com/), and building stuff.
If you want to be part of the live recording and give opinions and ask a question, please just head to https://twitch.tv/ukmadlz and join the conversation every other Friday at 3pm UK time.
If you have anything you'd like to follow up, or you'd like to be a guest at a later date, feel free to reach out to me on Twiter at https://twitter.com/ukmadlz
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1h 16min
February 25, 2021 Tinkering with things on the internet with Marcus Noble
In this episode of Tech: Off-topic, Mike Elsmore has Marcus Noble, Principle Systems Engineer at Elsevier on for a conversation about tinkering. Over the course of the conversation we talk, home setups, IoT, Smart Home tech, and all roads seem to lead to a Kubernetes conversation.
If you want to be part of the live recording and give opinions and ask a question, please just head to https://twitch.tv/ukmadlz and join the conversation every other Friday at 3pm UK time.
If you have anything you'd like to follow up, or you'd like to be a guest at a later date, feel free to reach out to me on Twiter at https://twitter.com/ukmadlz
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1h 12min

FAQs about Tech: Off-topic:

How many episodes does Tech: Off-topic have?

The podcast currently has 26 episodes available.