Three Devs and a Maybe

By Michael Budd, Fraser Hart, Lewis Cains, Edd Mann

Join us each week as we discuss all things software development. Frequently joined by a far more intelligent guest on the show's topic, we by no means know everything, but love what we do. Topics rang... more

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August 25, 2017134: The Agile Approach to Bitcoin
After a month ‘off the airwaves’, Mick and Edd are back to delve into several topics that have been keeping them interested.
We start off by going down the Cryptocurrency rabbit-hole, highlighting the internal technologies that make up Bitcoin and its practical use-cases.
Edd’s ramblings touch upon Satoshi, Cypherpunks, Merkle trees, Consensus algorithms, Hard forks, Segregated witness, Mining, Peta-hashes and much more…
Once Edd (finally) lets Mick talk, we move on to chat about a book Mick is reading on Scrum, and question some different Agile practises.
Finally, we ask the burning question ‘What is the Internet, Anyway?’.
Show Links
Merkle tree

Cypherpunk

Proof of work - Bitcoin Wiki

Consensus Algorithms, Blockchain Technology and Bitcoin - Andreas M. Antonopoulos

Life Inside a Secret Chinese Bitcoin Mine

SegWit Goes Live - Why Bitcoin’s Big Upgrade Is a Blockchain Game-Changer

Bitcoin Cash Just Mined its First Block, Making Blockchain Split Official

Block 494,784 - Segwit2x Developers Set Date for Bitcoin Hard Fork

The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin (2014)

Bitcoin - The End of Money as We Know It (2015)

Banking on Bitcoin (2016)

Deep Web (2015)

Dark web

Joe Rogan Experience 844 - Andreas Antonopoulos

M-Pesa

Mastering Bitcoin

The Internet of Money

Blockchain Massively Simplified - Richie Etwaru

Kraken - Buy, Sell and Margin Trade Bitcoin

Dash Crypto Currency

Monero - secure, private, untraceable

Mining - Bitcoin Wiki

Mining pool

Cryptocurrency Mining vs. Bitcoin Mining Profitability

Mining Calculator

10,000 bitcoins could buy 2 pizzas in 2010 but now worth $20 million

Bitcoin Pizza on Twitter

ES6 classes are just syntactic sugar for the prototypal pattern in Javascript

Scrum - The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time

What is the Internet, Anyway?

Five Awesome Tools to perform Behavioural Analysis of Malware

PHP - DateTime::createFromFormat Unix Timezone Gotcha
...more
43min
July 16, 2017133: RFC Showdown, Round 2 with Joe Watkins
In this weeks episode we catch up with Joe Watkins discussing all things PHP.
We start off the discussion with how his role as release-manager is going for PHP 7.1, highlighting how Security bugs are defined and handled within internals.
Following this we chat about several RFC’s that are under-discussion (Retry Keyword, UUID) and accepted (Libsodium, Object Typehint) for the next release.
Finally, we mention a recent small extension Joe has been working on to provide user verified types within the language.
Show Links
PHP 7.1.7 Changelog

PHP Bugs

PHP 7.2.0-alpha3

PHP RFC - Retry Keyword

Why is goto discouraged?

PHP RFC - Namespaces in Core

PHP RFC - Class Naming

PHP RFC - Abolish Narrow Margins

PHP RFC - UUID

Packagist - ramsey/uuid

PHP RFC - Libsodium

Using Libsodium in PHP Projects

PHP 7.2 - The First Programming Language to Add Modern Cryptography to its Standard Library

Libsodium Quick Reference

PHP RFC - Argon2 Password Hash

PHP RFC - Object Typehint

Covariance and contravariance

Liskov substitution principle

PHP RFC - Parameter Type Widening

PHP RFC - Unary null coalescing operator

krakjoe/utypes - User verified types

PHP RFC - Iterable
...more
44min
July 02, 2017132: Caching using Varnish with Mattias Geniar
In this weeks episode we discuss the Varnish ‘HTTP accelerator’ with Mattias Geniar.
We start off the show with the problem Varnish is trying to solve, how it decides to cache content and the power within its’ request/response life-cycle.
We then move on to highlight testing strategies, tools to gain insight into your Varnish instance and cache invalidation options (Purging vs. Banning).
Finally, we touch upon Edge Side Includes, Mattias’s own podcast and his new DNS Spy product.
Show Links
Mattias on Twitter

Delving into HTTP/2 with Mattias Geniar

Varnish HTTP Cache

Varnish Explained

Varnish Configuration Language

Varnish Modules

varnishlog

varnishhist

Varnish Agent

mattiasgeniar/varnish-5.0-configuration-templates

Purging and banning — Varnish

Stop. Caching. Static. Files. In. Varnish.

The ban lurker

Syscast Podcast

DNS Spy

Laravel Spark
...more
1h 5min
June 15, 2017131: Servers, Upgrades and a little Cryptocurrency
In this weeks episode we start off by discussing Edd’s recent Server build, touching upon the hardware specifications, OS/ZFS-pool choices and monitoring configuration.
We then move on to highlight the value in splitting up computational intensive tasks into queued jobs, defensive programming in JavaScript and handling querying ever increasing data-sets.
Finally, we talk about keeping on-top of Software/Dependency upgrades, moving over to platforms such as AWS and Ethereum.
Show Links
Intel Core i5-7600K Processor

Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO

Clonezilla

Mirroring the FreeNAS USB Boot Device

MemTest86

Prime95 - PrimeNet

How to install a Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO on Intel 1150

Thermal grease

ZFS Disk Scrub - Why and When?

Why Scrubbing ZFS Without ECC RAM Probably Won’t Corrupt Everything

hashdeep

Monit

Pushover

Laravel Queues

How to make sure undefined is not defined in JavaScript

Extract, transform, load

Sending or viewing emails using telnet

EBS Snapshot Scheduler

A quick Symfony 4 Demo - Fabien Potencier

Symfony roadmap, notifications and release checker

Ethereum Project

ryepdx/pyethrecover

This Guy Lost $67,000 in Bitcoin When he Upgraded His Computer

Bitcoin Introduction with Michael Miller

Bitcoin with Andreas Antonopoulos

Ethereum with Aaron Davis

Blockchain

3v4l Online PHP editor

asciinema - Record and share your terminal sessions, the right way

Using Homebrew to Manage Project Development Scripts

GOTO 2017 - One Journey, Many Paths - A Pragmatic Guide for Migrating to Microservices
...more
48min
June 06, 2017130: Cyber Security with Colin Hardy
On this weeks show we are joined by Colin Hardy to discuss all things Cyber Security.
We start off by explaining what got him interested in this branch of computing, highlight what Cyber Security is, and define some of the common terminology.
From here, we move on to discuss how he analyses Malware samples (using Automated, Behavioural and Static means) and the diagnostic tooling present.
Finally, we mention some high-profile attacks (Stuxnet, WannaCry), motives behind creating such Malware and how he stays current in this field.
Show Links
Colin Hardy

WannaCry 2.0 Ransomware - YouTube

Kill chain

WannaCry ransomware attack

Understanding Malware Terminology for Beginners

Stuxnet

How Stuxnet attacked a nuclear plant

Advanced Banload Analysis

The Shadow Brokers

Malware analysis

Process Monitor

Process Hacker

Wireshark

OllyDbg

Emotet JavaScript dropper analysis and deobfuscation

Cuckoo Sandbox - Automated Malware Analysis

Virtual machine escape fetches $105,000 at Pwn2Own hacking contest

Mobile malware evolution 2016

Lazarus Group

Bangladesh Bank robbery

OWASP

Malicious JavaScript downloader analysis

SANS Institute - World Class Cyber Security Training

Lenny Zeltser

Practical Malware Analysis - No Starch Press

Cybersecurity for IT Professionals

Cybersecurity - Coursera
...more
55min
May 19, 2017129: The Applied Mathematics of Programming with Liam McLennan
In this weeks episode we are lucky to have Liam McLennan on the show.
We start off discussion with his Math background, how he got into programming and how it can be seen as Applied Mathematics.
From here we move on to highlight his experiences whilst consulting, what it entailed, and the importance of ‘tact’.
This leads us on to look into what drew him to Functional programming, F# and creating Pluralsight courses.
Finally, we delve into the different areas of the Nokia Ringtone Composer Emulator from his F# Fundamentals course.
Show Links
Liam McLennan on Twitter

Liam McLennan - Pluralsight

Without the loop

Why I Like Mathematics - Without the loop

New year, new job - Without the loop

F# Fundamentals - Pluralsight

Applying Functional Programming to .net Consulting Projects - Without the loop

Redux in React and Angular 2 - Without the loop

JavaScript Fundamentals - Pluralsight

Parser combinators

Parsing Nokia Composer Ringtones With FParsec - Without the loop

Signal generators

Implementing an F# Signal Generator - Without the loop

Nokia Ringtone Composer Emulator - Without the loop

Nokia Ringtone Composer Emulator

Doppler radar

Fast Fourier transform

Blackstar, the API-first, headless CMS built for developers - Without the loop

Blackstar CMS - API first, headless Content Management System (CMS) with on-premise installation
...more
48min
May 17, 2017128: Catching up with Mr. Hart
In this weeks episode we are joined by fellow co-host Fraser Hart.
We start off by discussing what he has been upto since his last podcast appearance - ranging from completing an Ironman, to promotions at work.
From here we highlight how he balances development with his new project managerial role, how his company has started to adopt React/Redux and moving over to Webpack 2.
Finally, we delve into the different server stacks we are using, and how the KISS design-principle plays a key-role.
Show Links
Ironman Triathlon

Varnish HTTP Cache

Swagger

Doctrine Annotations

Clean Coder Blog - The Programmers Oath

The Programmer’s Oath with Uncle Bob Martin

Robert C. Martin - The Scribe’s Oath

The Future of Programming with Uncle Bob Martin

Webpack - Migrating from v1 to v2

Webpack - Tree Shaking

Angular - Why not version 3?

Redux DevTools Extension

Immutable.js

KISS principle

Jest - Delightful JavaScript Testing

Mocha - the fun, simple, flexible JavaScript test framework

Enzyme
...more
48min
April 20, 2017127: More Server Talk with Brian Moses
In this weeks episode we are again lucky to be joined by Brian Moses, to continue our discussion on building your own home server.
We start off by highlighting what ECC memory is and its’ value in a home server setup.
Following this, we chat about looking into the second-hand market for hardware components - as an option to find a good deal.
This leads us on to discuss overclocking hardware, threads vs. cores within a CPU and what Hyper-threading actually is.
Finally, we mention some different NAS Operating System solutions and Brain’s foray into the world of Quadcopters.
Show Links
What is ECC Memory?

Why I Chose Non-ECC RAM for my FreeNAS

How to overclock your CPU - TechRadar

Introduction to Overclocking your CPU, or Memory (RAM)

How to overclock your graphics card - PC Gamer

CPU Basics - Multiple CPUs, Cores, and Hyper-Threading Explained

Hyper-threading

What is unRAID?

What is ZFS?

FreeNAS Storage Operating System

NAS4Free - The Free Network Attached Storage Project

OpenMediaVault - The open network attached storage solution

XPEnology.me - New NAS Experience

Btrfs

I Built a Quadcopter!

My First Quadcopter Upgrade - Taranis X9D Plus
...more
55min
April 06, 2017126: 19th January 2038: The End of Time
In this weeks episode we start off the podcast with discussion around Timezones, Daylight saving time and how the Year 2038 will be an interesting one.
We then move on to highlight the results of our recent PHPStorm Twitter poll, End-to-end encryption and Hot Picks is back! (at least for one show).
Finally, we highlight the differences between Software/Hardware video-decoding and some interesting PHP function aliases.
Show Links
Time Zones History

The Problem with Time and Timezones - Computerphile

Daylight saving time

British Summer Time

End of Time (Unix) - Numberphile

Year 2038 problem

Notable events in Unix time

Actually Understanding Timezones in PostgreSQL

Difference between Timestamps with/without Timezone in PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL Timezone Documentation

“Should @michaelbud6 give PHPStorm a second chance?”

“@michaelbud6 Feels that Grease 2 > Grease, crazy talk?!”

What’s New in PhpStorm

Should I be worried about the WhatsApp encryption vulnerability?

Signal Protocol

WhatsApp must be accessible to authorities, says Amber Rudd

Two concepts of Freedom

WikiLeaks says the CIA can use your TV to spy on you

Webpack 2 and Beyond

Certbot

Certbot - Command-line options

SSL/TLS certificate types

FixedDataTable

Griddle

What is the most efficient way to deep clone an object in JavaScript?

Immutable.js

Striving to Make Things Simple and Fast - Phil Bagwell

Xeon vs i7/i5 – What’s the difference?

Intel Core i7 vs Xeon “Which is Better?”

What is a Core i3, Core i5, or Core i7 as Fast As Possible

Why Haven’t CPU Clock Speeds Increased in the Last Few Years?

What is the difference between hardware decoding and software decoding?

H.265/HEVC vs H.264/AVCD

H.265 (HEVC) vs H.264 (AVC) Compression Explained!

PHP Date/Time Functions

PHP date_create Function Alias

kanaka/mal - Make a Lisp
...more
37min
March 31, 2017125: Building a Server with Brian Moses
In this weeks episode we are joined by Brian Moses to discuss all things server development.
We start off the show by highlighting how he got into computers and what drew him to blogging about DIY NAS builds.
From here we touch upon the key areas of consideration when deciding on hardware (Motherboard, CPU, RAM, Storage) for a server.
Finally, we discuss the concept of RAID, the FreeNAS operating system and how he performs burn-in testing on recently built systems.
Note: apologies for some of the audio quality during the show.
Show Links
Brian’s Blog

DIY NAS 2017 Edition

Building a Homelab Server

Passive cooling

Liquid cooling

Intelligent Platform Management Interface

ECC memory

Advantages of ECC Memory

Why I Chose Non-ECC RAM for my FreeNAS

Transcoding Media - Plex

What kind of CPU do I need for my Server? - Plex

PassMark Software - PC Benchmark and Test Software

RAID

Standard RAID levels

Examining RAID levels - RAID 0 through RAID 6

Drobo - BeyondRAID

ZFS

FreeNAS Storage Operating System

Building a Cost-Conscious, Faster-Than-Gigabit Network

MemTest86

Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search

Nitrogenated Cold-Brew Coffee
...more
44min

FAQs about Three Devs and a Maybe:

How many episodes does Three Devs and a Maybe have?

The podcast currently has 164 episodes available.