The Alan Barr Show

By Alan Barr

I'm passionate about software, software testing, and writing. The intersection of metacognition, organization, and technology.... more

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The podcast currently has 39 episodes available.

The Alan Barr Show episodes:

January 28, 2024 Flow
00:00 Intro
01:15 What is Flow
04:40 The Autotelic Personality
07:00 Developer Productivity for Humans
13:30 Summary

Engineering Enablement - Measuring Flow and Focus
Developer Productivity for Humans, Part 6: Measuring Flow, Focus, and Friction for Developers

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15min
January 07, 2024 AI / LLM Testing
(00:00) Introduction
(01:12) How are we using AI.
(03:40) AI Products and Testing.
(06:26) AI Testing.
(10:09) Summary

Article: Testing LLM-Based Applications: Strategy and Challenges
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11min
December 29, 2023 Announcement: Rebooting my podcast
Topics I'll cover in 2024.
⁃ AI / LLM / Machine Learning
⁃ Book Summaries
⁃ Domain Driven Design
⁃ Flow
⁃ Metacognition / System Thinking
⁃ Software Engineering, Testing
Links:
- Website - https://www.alanmbarr.com/
- X - https://twitter.com/alanmbarr
- YouTube - https://youtube.com/@alanmbarr
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1min
May 16, 2022 Alan's Updates May 15th 2022
The Start of The Journey
Recovery, The Journey so far
Figuring Out the Next Level of my Learning
https://www.aarp.org/caregiving/health/info-2019/dementia-warning-signs.html
If you like the podcast, please subscribe and share it with others.
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18min
May 09, 2022Creating a Podcast
Act 1 - Your Elevator Pitch
Act 2 - Prepare and Edit, liberally and ruthlessly
Act 3 - Three Act Narratives, but mix it up

Resources
Start a Podcast - Kristen Meinzer

Make Noise - Eric Nuzum

NPR's Podcast Start Up Guide - Glen Weldon
Edison Research, April 2019 "The Podcast Consumer"
Edison Research Podcast Consumer - 2018
Otter Voice Meeting Notes - Otter.ai
Voice Coach Yawning
Be a great communicator Podcast
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24min
May 02, 2022 Vision, Buddha and the Badass Book Summary
Today’s Topic is a Book Summary by Vishen Lakhiani from the book The Buddha and the Badass.
Act 1 - Make a big vision and great people will find you
Act 2 - Massive Transformation Purpose and Make a Stand
Act 3 - Craft Your Identity
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25min
April 25, 2022Ephemerality
Chainguard -The Principle of Ephemerality via Carlos Santana
Get on with ephemerality; it's 2022. We had no choice but to build it ourselves before then. Nowadays, chaos engineering is an option. We use serverless and stateless technologies all the time. Virtual machines aren't even on our radar. Maintaining stateful systems is difficult. Make sure you have backups and failovers.

To ensure that we have evidence of malicious software, you can test your code regularly. The COVID test provides a means of ensuring that historical evidence is reviewed over time.

Combining and shortening an app's lifespan makes it more likely for an attacker to fail.
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15min
April 11, 2022Alan's Updates April 10th 2022
Every week, I'll be posting one episode. I stopped in the past because I didn't have enough content to create a podcast with what I wanted to talk about. The podcast will help me improve my writing and voice. Hopefully, the content will be good as well.
Improving my writing and sounding.

Feel like I'm at 95% of what I used to be.

Alan's education schedule from morning to night.

I'm happy that normal people can't even tell I had any issues.

Speechify is a tool that helps me read a hard text and speech it quickly.

Summarizing writing.

Preply is a helpful tool for tutors of English

Recording sounds to type words for Asphia apps.

Went back to part-time work for learning again.

Saturday Zoom Python Meetup

Discord Accountability Group

Comprehensible Input
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15min
April 04, 2022 Mindfulness and Awareness
Today's topic is Mindfulness and Awareness.
Mayo Clinic says, "Mindfulness is a type of meditation in which you focus on being intensely aware of what you're sensing and feeling in the moment, without interpretation or judgment."
Act 1 - Awareness
Act 2 - Desire and Suffering
Act 3 -Be Responsible for our actions and Let It Go
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16min
March 21, 202250 Days After My Stroke
What Didn't Work?
Phonics

Elysian Disco

John Maxwell Books

Teen Books
Tools
Grammarly and Word Tune

Accentia - Naver dictionary

Bold Voice

AnkiUse

English for Everyone Vocabulary

Typing.com
Tutors and Preparing
YouTube Videos from Tarle Speech and Rachel's English.

Google search pronunciation on any search

ESL Tutor Class ( Preply )

ESL Chat ( Tandem / Hello Talk)

Tactus Therapy IOS APP
Creating Content to help me learn again
Alan's first podcast try

Kdenlive is an open-source Video Editing App

YouTube of BoldVoice

Speech Therapy and Occupational Therapy help

Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It

Work Emails

Manga

Mind Maps
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23min

FAQs about The Alan Barr Show:

How many episodes does The Alan Barr Show have?

The podcast currently has 39 episodes available.