Damo's September 2017 Podcast Highlights

I subscribe to many podcasts, you can see the list as it was in 2015 here: Developer podcasts v2. I'm keeping a podcast blog here of the episodes that I find interesting or useful in some way.

Programming and Testing

[HansleMinutes] Maybe just use Vanilla Javascript with Chris Ferdinandi https://hanselminutes.com/598/maybe-just-use-vanilla-javascript-with-chris-ferdinandi

• There's a new JavaScript created every few seconds. If you pick up any noun there's probably a JavsScript library named after that noun. 
• What if you just used Vanilla JavaScript? Chris helps Scott answer that question, and more in this episode.

[JavaScript Jabber] Web Apps on Linux with Jeremy Likness and Michael Crump https://dev.to/jsjabber/jsj-bonus-web-apps-on-linux-with-jeremy-likness-and-michael-crump

• Web application as a service offering from Microsoft. I don't need to worry about the platform.
• Web Apps has traditionally been on Windows. Web Apps on Linux is in preview.
• Web Apps on Linux supports Node, PHP, Ruby, and .NET Core.

Agile

[Developer Tea] Growth Mindset https://developertea.simplecast.fm/58bc17f1

• In this episode, we're talking about having a Growth Mindset.

[Elite Man Magazine] How To Use The 80/20 Rule To Work Less And Achieve Much More In Your Life http://elitemanmagazine.com/80-20-rule-perry-marshall/

• In today’s episode Perry talks about how apply the 80/20 rule into your life to work less and achieve much more. 
• In this fantastic interview we cover everything from The Butterfly Effect, to the 80/20 rule in real-life action, to finding out what your super powers are, and how to make yourself infinitely more productive. 
• If you’re wondering what you can do right now to work less, get more done, and put the 80/20 rule into action, check this episode out now!

[2000 Books] 3 Key mindsets that will make you more productive https://2000books.libsyn.com/99productivityideas-getting-things-done-david-allen-3-key-mindsets-that-will-make-you-more-productive

• 3 Key mindsets that will make you more productive

Architecture and Devops

[NDC 2017] Confusion In The Land Of The Serverless: - Sam Newman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrS0HVQZiQI

• Serverless computing is the hot new thing. Like any hyped technology, it promises a lot. However questions remain around concept and implementation, especially when you start to compare how we've built systems in the past, and what serverless offers us now. Is Serverless the future, or just the emperor's new clothes?
• This talk will very briefly introduce serverless computing, but will then dive into some of the questions that aren't always asked in conjunction with this technology. Topics will include:
• How does your attitude to security change?
• Is it easier, or harder, to create reliable, resilient systems?
• Do patterns like Circuit breakers and connection pools make sense any more?
• Is vendor lock-in a problem?
• Is serverless computing only for microservice architectures?
• Which problems fit serverless computing?

[The New Stack] How Serverless Is Shaping the Future of Software Development https://thenewstack.io/serverless-shaping-future-software-development/

• Serverless architectures are often positioned as the next big thing in cloud computing, but what exactly is serverless, who is utilizing these tools and services, and how is this ecosystem maturing? 
• In this episode of The New Stack Makers podcast, we spoke to Mike Roberts, co-founder of Symphonia.io, about all things serverless

[Software Architecture Radio] The New Normal with Mike Nygard http://www.softwarearchitecturerad.io/episodes/2017/9/6/episode-4-the-new-normal-with-mike-nygard

• Complex Systems
• Continuous Partial Failure and Looking at Microservices
• “Agile”: Why?
• Antifragility
• Evolutionary Design
• Evolutionary Architecture
• Redundancy and DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself)
• YAGNI (You Aren’t Gonna Need It)
• What services should I actually have?
• Contracts Between Services
• Advice for Someone Getting Started as an Architect:

[Software Architecture Radio] Mark Richards on the Evolution of Software Architecture http://www.softwarearchitecturerad.io/episodes/2017/1/20/episode-3-mark-richards-on-the-evolution-of-software-architecture

• After Mark provides us with some interesting aspects of his background (he started his career as an astronomer!), we start by discussing the horizontal and vertical aspects of the evolution of software architecture
• Some of these drivers are technical - especially often hardware taking some time to catch up with the needs of newer ideas and software - but other times these changes are driven by changes in the business.

[DevOps Days] Lessons Learned From Detroit To Deming https://devopsdays.libsyn.com/podcast/devops-lessons-learned-from-detroit-to-deming-devopsdays-dc-2017

• This session aims to enlighten DevOps teams, security and development professionals by sharing results from the 2017 State of the Software Supply Chain Report -- a blend of public and proprietary data with expert research and analysis. 
• The presentation will also reveal findings from the 2017 DevSecOps Community survey where over 2,000 professionals shared their experiences blending DevOps and security practices together. 
• Throughout the discussion, lessons are discussed that Deming employed decades ago to help us accelerate adoption of the right DevSecOps culture, practices, and measures today.

[O'Reilly Programming Podcast] Sam Newman on moving from monolith systems to microservices https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/sam-newman-on-moving-from-monolith-systems-to-microservices

• For organizations considering migrating from monolith systems to microservices, Neman suggests moving gradually, by starting with one or two services at the beginning, getting them deployed, and assessing the outcome.
• Newman identifies independent deployability as one of the key principles for doing microservices well. “If you create a system architecture with independent deployability, so many benefits flow from that,” he says.
• He recommends a “consumers first” focus for microservices, with designs based on how software will be implemented by customers.
• How microservices can enable cost-effective scaling
• In discussing modularity, Newman says “If you want to look at a system that gets modules right, look at Erlang, which was built from the ground up to be a language and a runtime for building distributed systems.”

[Static Void Podcast] Real-World DevOps with Andy Schwam https://www.staticvoidpodcast.com/real-world-devops-with-andy-schwam

• Discussions about the concepts of "DevOps" in the real world. 
• What's myth and what works? 
• What's hard and what's easy? 
• Andy takes us behind the scenes and tells us what it takes to transform an existing error-prone manual deployment to a highly-reliable, repeatable, and automated process.

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[99% Invisible] The Age of the Algorithm http://99percentinvisible.prx.org/2017/09/05/274-the-age-of-the-algorithm/

• Computer algorithms now shape our world in profound and mostly invisible ways:
• They predict if we’ll be valuable customers and whether we’re likely to repay a loan. 
• They filter what we see on social media, sort through resumes, and evaluate job performance. 
• They inform prison sentences and monitor our health. Most of these algorithms have been created with good intentions. 
• The goal is to replace subjective judgments with objective measurements. But it doesn’t always work out like that.

[Software Engineering Daily] Brave Browser with Jonathan Sampson https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2017/09/20/brave-browser-with-jonathan-sampson/

• Online advertising enables free content and services of the Internet. One of the free services that is powered by advertising is the browser. 60% of web browsing is done through Chrome, which is owned by Google, which is powered by advertising.
• The application that most of us use to explore the web is made by a company that relies on ads, so it is unsurprising that the default of that browser is to allow close tracking of user behavior. When you hit a website, a variety of trackers are logging your data for the purpose of serving you better ads.
• Brave is a web browser built with a modern view of advertising, privacy, and economics. Brave users can pay for content with their money OR by paying attention to ads. This system is formalized through the Basic Attention Token (BAT), a cryptocurrency that can be used to purchase user attention.

[TED] Tim ferris - Why you should define your fears instead of your goals https://www.ted.com/talks/tim_ferriss_why_you_should_define_your_fears_instead_of_your_goals

• The hard choices -- what we most fear doing, asking, saying -- are very often exactly what we need to do. 
• How can we overcome self-paralysis and take action? Tim Ferriss encourages us to fully envision and write down our fears in detail, in a simple but powerful exercise he calls "fear-setting." 
• Learn more about how this practice can help you thrive in high-stress environments and separate what you can control from what you cannot.

BBC - More or Less] The 10,000 Hours Rule http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01sqly1

• If you practised anything for long enough, would you become a pro? Author Malcolm Gladwell popularised the idea that if you devote yourself to anything from chess to playing an instrument for 10,000 hours, you will become an expert.
• But where did the idea come from, and is it true? More or Less tells the story of how a paper published in 1993 went on to spark a debate – is practice enough, or do you need innate talent as well?
• David Epstein, author of The Sports Gene and Malcolm Gladwell explain their views.

[TED] How the US government spies on people who protest — including you https://www.ted.com/talks/jennifer_granick_how_the_us_government_spies_on_people_who_protest_including_you

• What's stopping the American government from recording your phone calls, reading your emails and monitoring your location? Very little, says surveillance and cybersecurity counsel Jennifer Granick. 
• The government collects all kinds of information about you easily, cheaply and without a warrant -- and if you've ever participated in a protest or attended a gun show, you're likely a person of interest.

Damo's August 2017 Podcast Highlights

I subscribe to many podcasts, you can see the list as it was in 2015 here: Developer podcasts v2. I'm keeping a podcast blog here of the episodes that I find interesting or useful in some way.

Programming and Testing

[Crosscutting Concerns] Jeremy Clark Convincing Your Boss on Unit Testing http://crosscuttingconcerns.com/Podcast-056-Jeremy-Clark-Convincing-Your-Boss-on-Unit-Testing

• Regression tests - Change Code Without Fear
• Code coverage (NCover is a tool that reports on code coverage for .NET code)
• TDD and BDD and ATDD
• WPF and XML, MVVM

[Crosscutting Concerns] J Wolfgang Goerlich on Encryption Frameworks http://crosscuttingconcerns.com/Podcast-054-J-Wolfgang-Goerlich-on-Encryption-Frameworks

Agile

[Scrum Master Toolbox] Vasco Duarte discusses #NoEstimates http://scrum-master-toolbox.org/2017/08/podcast/2017-first-6-months-top-episodes-5-vasco-duarte-discusses-noestimates/

• What is #NoEstimates about for the author of the first #NoEstimates book? 
• What can we learn from Vasco’s journey that led him to find #NoEstimates?

[Mastering Business Analysis] Lightning Cast: Requirements Quality http://masteringbusinessanalysis.com/lightning-cast-requirements-quality/

• There’s a lot of talk about producing high-quality requirements but what does it really mean? Quality is a standard against which something is measured. It’s a degree of excellence or the ability to satisfy a need or expectation.
• When it comes requirements, people often talk about the characteristics of good requirements. The most common characteristics mentioned are: complete, concise, correct, clear, testable, traceable, and prioritized.

Architecture and Devops

[Software Engineering Daily] Serverless Continuous Delivery with Robin Weston https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2017/08/07/serverless-continuous-delivery-with-robin-weston/

• Serverless computing reduces the cost of using the cloud. Serverless also makes it easy to scale applications. 
• The downside: building serverless apps requires some mindset shift. 
• Serverless functions are deployed to transient units of computation that are spun up on demand. This is in contrast to the typical model of application delivery–the deployment of an application to a server or a container that stays running until you shut it down.

[Pipeline conf 2017] Serverless Architectures and Continuous Delivery https://vimeo.com/channels/pipelineconf/209686484

• Serverless architectures have been touted as the next evolution of cloud-hosted software. Indeed, the promise of resiliency and scalability without the need for infrastructure management sounds too good to be true!
• But how well do serverless architectures play with the patterns and practises of continuous delivery? Do they help or hinder us in our goal of delivering frequent and low risk software changes to production? What are the trade-offs to weigh up when considering using a serverless architecture on your next project?

[O'Reilly podcast] Mike Roberts on serverless architectures https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/mike-roberts-on-serverless-architectures

• Why Roberts calls serverless “the next evolution of cloud systems,” as individual process deployment and the resource allocation of servers are increasingly outsourced to vendors
• How serverless architectures use backend-as-a-service (BaaS) products and functions-as-a-service (FaaS) platforms
• The similarities and differences between a serverless architecture and microservices, and how microservices ideas can be applied to serverless
• Roberts explains that serverless is “not an all-or-nothing approach,” and that often “the best architecture for a company is going to be a hybrid architecture between serverless and non-serverless technologies.”
• Recent advances in serverless tooling, including progress in distributed system monitoring tools, such as Amazon’s X-Ray

[O'Reilly podcast] Neal Ford on evolutionary architecture https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/neal-ford-on-evolutionary-architecture

• Software architecture’s increasing popularity over the last few years; Ford says that “companies such as Netflix and Amazon showed that if you do software architecture really well, you build a competitive advantage over everybody else.”
• The non-functional requirements and soft skills needed to successfully implement software architecture.
• How evolutionary architecture enables you to adapt to the future rather than predict it; Ford notes the pitfalls of “trying to do predictive planning against an incredibly dynamic ecosystem.”
• Why guided change and incremental change are the two characteristics of an evolutionary architecture.
• The difference between evolutionary and adaptive systems.

[Infoq] Security Considerations and the State of Microservices with Sam Newman https://www.infoq.com/podcasts/sam-newman-security-microservices-state

• Wesley Reisz talks with Sam Newman about microservices. 
• They explore the current state of the art with regards to the architectural style and corresponding tooling and deployment platforms. 
• They then discuss how microservices increase the surface area of where sensitive information can be read or manipulated, but also have the potential to create systems that are more secure.

[Devops Radio] From Docker to DevOps with John Willis https://devopsradio.libsyn.com/episode-21-from-docker-to-devops-with-john-willis

• In this episode of DevOps Radio, John Willis, former Director of Ecosystems at Docker, shares everything from his experience in the early days of DevOps to his predictions of what the future holds

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[TED] The era of blind faith in big data must end https://www.ted.com/talks/cathy_o_neil_the_era_of_blind_faith_in_big_data_must_end

• Algorithms decide who gets a loan, who gets a job interview, who gets insurance and much more -- but they don't automatically make things fair. 
• Mathematician and data scientist Cathy O'Neil coined a term for algorithms that are secret, important and harmful: "weapons of math destruction." 
• Learn more about the hidden agendas behind the formulas.

Damo's July 2017 Podcast Highlights

I subscribe to many podcasts, you can see the list as it was in 2015 here: Developer podcasts v2. I'm keeping a podcast blog here of the episodes that I find interesting or useful in some way.

Programming and Testing

[Functional Geekery] Robert C. Martin https://www.functionalgeekery.com/episode-1-robert-c-martin/

• In this episode I talk with Robert C. Martin, better known as Uncle Bob. about: 
• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
• Introducing children to programming
• TDD and the REPL
• Compatibility of Functional Programming and Object Oriented Programming

[Cross Cutting Concerns] Jesse Riley sucks at unit testing http://crosscuttingconcerns.com/Podcast-031-Jesse-Riley-sucks-at-unit-testing

• Jesse Riley and I discuss unit testing and how to do it better

[Channel 9] A Broad View of Machine Learning https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/trailer/codechat-068-a-broad-view-of-machine-learning-codechat/vp-BBE9hLv

• Rick Barraza (@rickbarraza) works in the AI space at Microsoft, and is particularly good at communicating the concepts of the seemingly (and actually) complex world of machine learning.
• In this interview, Rick clarifies the terms machine learning (ML), deep neural networks (DNN), and artificial intelligence (AI), and attempts to cast a vision for this technology in the near and distant future. And an exciting future it is!

Agile

[Mastering Business Analysis] Lightning Cast: The Agile BA Mindset http://masteringbusinessanalysis.com/agile-business-analyst-mindset/

• How can a Business Analyst be successful in an Agile environment? We can use a lot of the same tools, techniques, and approaches that we would use in a traditional environment. By adopting a different mindset, we apply those tools in a different way.
• Using lean and Agile approaches, we’re able to iterate by delivering smaller chunks and get feedback along the way so that we can adapt to changing customer needs.

[Deliver It] #NoEstimates https://ryanripley.com/afh-073-noestimates-deliver-cast/

• What is #NoEstimates
• How #NoEstimates impacts the work of Product Owners
• Why data (not guesses) help teams make better decisions and deliver value sooner

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[Becoming Superhuman] David Heinemeier Hansson: An Interview With A Real-world Superlearner https://becomingasuperhuman.com/david-heinemeier-hansson-interview-real-life-superlearner/

• Strip out of your brain that there are speed limits to learning… You can compress most learning trajectories into a much, much shorter amount of time…
• In this episode, I wanted to deconstruct David’s thinking process and figure out how he learns so much so effectively. I wanted to understand how he has managed to be so successful in two entirely different worlds, and see what tips he had to offer to anyone looking to live a life as diverse as his.

[TED] How a handful of tech companies control billions of minds every day https://www.ted.com/talks/tristan_harris_the_manipulative_tricks_tech_companies_use_to_capture_your_attention

• A handful of people working at a handful of tech companies steer the thoughts of billions of people every day, says design thinker Tristan Harris. 
• From Facebook notifications to Snapstreaks to YouTube autoplays, they're all competing for one thing: your attention. 
• Harris shares how these companies prey on our psychology for their own profit and calls for a design renaissance in which our tech instead encourages us to live out the timeline we want.

[Blinkist] GTD - David Allen Says Your Brain Is Not A Hard Drive https://www.blinkist.com/magazine/posts/simplify-productivity-david-allen

• we talk to productivity guru David Allen about how to keep things simple while still taking advantage of every opportunity.
• if you ever get the feeling that there simply aren’t enough hours in a day for all you want to get done, or that you’re prioritizing the wrong things, Allen’s method is an essential tool for achieving the goals that are most important to you. 
• By the end of the episode, you’ll understand exactly what next actions you should take to work more effectively.

[2000 Books] 120[Execution] Power of Habit - Change your negative habits in 3 weeks http://2000books.libsyn.com/120execution-power-of-habit-1-precise-exercise-to-change-your-negative-habits-in-3-weeks-flat

• One PRECISE Exercise to change your -ve habits in 3 weeks flat!

[Radiolab] Breaking News http://www.radiolab.org/story/breaking-news/

• Simon Adler takes us down a technological rabbit hole of strangely contorted faces and words made out of thin air. And a wonderland full of computer scientists, journalists, and digital detectives forces us to rethink even the things we see with our very own eyes.
• Oh, and by the way, we decided to put the dark secrets we learned into action, and unleash this on the internet.

[TEDx] The art of memory: Daniel Kilov https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQKt58kuEnk

• Having struggled with organizational skills as a symptom of his poor memory all through high school, Daniel sought out methods to improve his memory. 
• It was then that he discovered the "Art of Memory", a loosely associated group of mnemonic principles and techniques used to organize memory impressions, improve recall, and assist in the combination and 'invention' of ideas. 
• These techniques are sometimes referred to as mnemotechnics, and are employed by memory athletes to perform remarkable feats of learning.

[TED] JOSHUA FOER - Feats of memory anyone can do https://www.ted.com/talks/joshua_foer_feats_of_memory_anyone_can_do

• There are people who can quickly memorize lists of thousands of numbers, the order of all the cards in a deck (or ten!), and much more. 
• Science writer Joshua Foer describes the technique -- called the memory palace -- and shows off its most remarkable feature: anyone can learn how to use it, including him

[Elite Man Magazine] How To Win Every Negotiation with Chris Voss http://elitemanmagazine.com/chris-voss-win-every-negotiation/

• Chris Voss, former FBI Lead International Kidnapping Negotiator, joins our show in this special episode of the Elite Man Podcast! 
• Chris talks about his experience successfully negotiating some of the most intense and pressure-cooker situations imaginable and the lessons he learned from this. 
• He shares with us his best tips and strategies for negotiating in any type of environment including buying a car, asking your boss for a raise, or making a business deal. If you’re wondering how to win every negotiation that comes your way, check this episode out now!

[Elite Man Magazine] Persuasion, Influence, And Mind Control with Chase Hughes http://elitemanmagazine.com/persuasion-influence-mind-control-chase-hughes/

• Chase Hughes, world-renowned behavioral scientist and the #1 body language expert in the country, joins our show in this special episode of the Elite Man Podcast! 
• Chase talks about persuasion, influence, and even using real-life mind control to get others to do whatever you want! 
• He shares with us his innovative techniques and tactics for manipulating others to get them to do what you want.

Damo's June 2017 Podcast Highlights

I subscribe to many podcasts, you can see the list as it was in 2015 here: Developer podcasts v2. I'm keeping a podcast blog here of the episodes that I find interesting or useful in some way.

Architecture and Devops

[The Changelog] The Serverless Revolution for javascript programmers https://changelog.com/podcast/253

• Pam Selle at OSCON about the serverless revolution happening for JavaScript developers https://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/oscon-tx/public/schedule/detail/56876
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYkdj1fXOHI
• Gain a general understanding of serverless and possible architectures
• Serverless computing—using platforms like AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, or Azure Functions—takes your microservices architecture and brings it into a new age of operations. Why maintain a server when you can run your code on-demand? Combine this power with Node.js and JavaScript-powered applications, and you have an amazing combination in your hands.
• Pam Selle offers an overview of serverless computing, including why it’s so revolutionary and where to get started, and explains how you can use it to power your apps at a fraction of the usual cost of compute using a JavaScript-dominant architecture.

[Run As Radio] DevOps in 2017 https://www.runasradio.com/Shows/Show/537

• How is DevOps evolving? While at the DevOps Enterprise Summit in London, Richard sat down with Nicole Forsgren to talk about her latest data finding and analysis on DevOps. 
• The conversation starts with a discussion about making good reports, including who the data is collected from. Ideally you'd want a fully random data set, but as Nicole explains, that's not possible - you have to go with as large a set as possible. In the case of the 2017 report, that's 3200 survey responses
• https://puppet.com/resources/whitepaper/2017-state-of-devops-report

[arrested devops] When The Levee Breaks With Jeff Smith And Mark Imbriaco https://www.arresteddevops.com/disaster-communication/

• Who owns your availability?

Programming and Testing

[Developing Up] The Art of the Code Review http://www.developingup.com/19

• Great developers continually seek to improve the code they work on and write. In this episode we discuss how you can use code reviews to help yourself and your team become better developers.
• Types of code reviews
• Formal “Code Review”
• Part of the QA process
• Automated reviews
• Pair programming
• PR reviews
• Benefits of code reviews
• Project benefits
• Team benefits
• Reviewee benefits
• Reviewer benefits
• Guidelines
• No bad attitudes
• Set goals
• Less is more
• Annotate
• Document

[Programming Throwdown] Code Reviews http://www.programmingthrowdown.com/2017/05/episode-66.html

• Why?
• Get another pair of eyes
• Teach others about what you do
• What Not to do
• Become a road block to work
• Let reviews linger
• Let it become about only style
• Have only some people do reviews
• How?
• Email
• In-person
• Web tools
• Phabricator
• Gerrit
• Gitlab/github
• Rules
• All changes must be approved by someone
• Readability
• +1 vs +2 or similar
• To push anyways, there's an emergency mode
• Keep line count down

[Hansel Minutes] Inside WebAssembly with Mozilla Fellow David Bryant https://www.hanselminutes.com/581/inside-webassembly-with-mozilla

• the last few decades of the web and how it's all about to change with the advent of WebAssembly.
• Is JavaScript the new "metal?"

[CodeChat] The Latest, Greatest Features of C# 7.0 https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/codechat/067

• C# version 7.0 is totally a thing and with it come a number of cool features like tuples and deconstruction. According to Mark, none of the enhancements are earth shattering or code breaking, but they will eventually change the way you author your project.

[JavaScript Jabber] NPM 5.0 with Rebecca Turner https://devchat.tv/js-jabber/jsj-266-npm-5-0-rebecca-turner

• Rebecca Turner, tech lead for NPM, a popular Javascript package manager with the worlds largest software registry.
• Learn about the newly released NPM 5 including a few of the updated features.

[Complete Developer Podcast] Laws of Programming http://completedeveloperpodcast.com/episode-96/

• In any field, there is a lot of hard-won knowledge that the more experienced attempt to impart to those with less experience. Depending on the field, these things may be expressed as old sayings, or laws. They typically aren’t really hard and fast rules, but rather are general tendencies that have been observed over time. Programming, like any other field, has those and many of them are well worth learning.
• Amongst others:
• Pareto Principle - For many phenomena, 80% of consequences come from 20% of the causes.
• Brook’s Law - Adding manpower to a software project will make it later.
• Conway’s Law - Any piece of software reflects the organizational structure that produced it.
• Moore’s Law - The power of computers doubles every 24 months OR The number of transistors on an integrated circuit board will double in about 18 months.
• Knuth’s Optimization Principle - Premature optimization is the root of all evil.
• Hofstadter’s Law - It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s law
• Law of Demeter - This is also known as the law of least coupling.
• Hanlon’s Razor - Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by stupidity.
• Dunning-Kruger Effect - Unskilled persons tend to mistakenly assess their own abilities as being much more competent than they actually are.
• Postel’s Law - Be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others.

[Cucumber Podcast] Fast Tests https://cucumber.io/blog/2017/06/29/fast-tests

• Everyone knows fast tests are valuable, so why do so many companies abide slow ones?
• What is 'fast'?
• how to make them so?

[Cucumber Podcast] BDD in Banking https://cucumber.io/blog/2017/05/25/bdd-in-banking

• Simon was approached by the global investment bank BNP Paribas to review several product teams and to find out why the teams could not complete stories at the end of each sprint and why there was so many defects coming into the sprint.
• In just 9 months the defect rate decreased from 34% to 4% and they avoided a very costly rewrite. Listen to this podcast to hear how they did it and the lessons learned along the way.
• https://www.adventureswithagile.com/2015/08/27/a-case-study-for-bdd-in-improving-throughput-and-collaboration/

Agile

[scrum master toolbox] Vasco Duarte on what #NoEstimates means for Agile http://scrum-master-toolbox.org/2017/06/podcast/vasco-duarte-on-what-noestimates-means-for-agile/

• What is #NoEstimates about for the author of the first #NoEstimates book?
• What can we learn from Vasco’s journey that led him to find #NoEstimates

[Agile in 3 minutes] Do https://agilein3minut.es/36/

• Special guest Lanette Creamer asks: When the word “Agile” implies action, why is there still so much talk?

[Agile in 3 minutes] Pace https://agilein3minut.es/14/

• Amitai asks: How much do you demand of yourself and others?
• SustainablePace
• FortyHourWeek
• OverTime

[Agile in 3 minutes] Influence https://agilein3minut.es/15/

• Amitai asks: How often do people do as you suggest?
• Power (social and political)
• Social influence
• Power Versus Authority

[developing up] Task Estimation Techniques http://www.developingup.com/18

• Estimating is hard. In fact, estimating is sometimes considered one of the hardest aspects of development. 
• While for reasons beyond your control you can never guarantee the accuracy of our estimates, you can control how well you deliver and defend the estimates you provide.

[cross cutting concerns] Arthur Doler on Retrospectives http://crosscuttingconcerns.com/Podcast-042-Arthur-Doler-on-Retrospectives

• Retrospectives and how to make them better.

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[Eat Sleep Code] How Your Brain Works Against You http://developer.telerik.com/content-types/podcast/how-your-brain-works-against-you/

• How do our brains interpret cause and effect
• The ways in which your brain wants to think of things as narratives
• All the tricks it does to save itself from having to think
• Arthur shares his perspective on cognitive bias and how it effects the software development process.

[Noah Kagan Presents] Arnold Schwarzenegger's Total Recall - Book Report http://okdork.com/arnold-schwarzenegger-total-recall-book-report/

• Have a crystal clear vision and intention.
• Remove all distractions.
• Write down your goals.
• Surround yourself with the best.
• Reps Reps Reps Discipline.
• Don't limit yourself.
• You have to sell.
• Attitude.
• Make opportunities happen.
• Stay hungry.
• Listen to feedback.
• Be naïve and follow your curiosity.

[Decrypted] This Man’s Murder Might Get Solved by Amazon’s Alexa https://www.bloomberg.com/news/audio/2017-06-12/this-man-s-murder-might-get-solved-by-amazon-s-alexa

• As we surround ourselves with more and more of these internet-connected devices, Nico and Aki will discuss how our data should be used and why consumers should care. 
• Its as scary as you think it might be.

Damo's May 2017 Podcast Highlights

I subscribe to many podcasts, you can see the list as it was in 2015 here: Developer podcasts v2. I'm keeping a podcast blog here of the episodes that I find interesting or useful in some way.

Architecture and Devops

[GOTO 2017] The Many Meanings of Event-Driven Architecture https://martinfowler.com/videos.html#many-meanings-event

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STKCRSUsyP0
• Event notification: components communicating via events
• Event-based State Transfer: allowing components to access data without calling the source.
• Event Sourcing: using an event log as the primary record for a system
• CQRS: having a separate component for updating a store from any readers of the store

[The Cloudcast] The ServerlessCast - Event-Driven Design Thinking http://www.thecloudcast.net/2017/05/the-serverlesscast-6-events-vs-functions.html

• How to run a company entirely on serverless, the on-going benefits of not maintaining servers, new application patterns with events, and the potentials of serverless in the future.
• 3-tier applications and architectures vs. event-driven architectures?
• What is a "bulky function"? How to evolve from procedural thinking to event or asynchronous thinking?
• How to optimize the many functions that make up an application

[InfoQ] Daniel Bryant on Microservices and Domain Driven Design https://www.infoq.com/podcasts/daniel-bryant

• Moving from monoliths to micro-services, covering bounded contexts, when to break up micro-services, event storming, practices like observability and tracing, and more.
• Migrating a monolith to micro-services is best done by breaking off a valuable but not critical part first.
• Designing a greenfield application as micro-services requires a strong understanding of the domain.
• When a request enters the system, it needs to be tagged with a correlation id that flows down to all fan-out service requests.
• Observability and metrics are essential parts to include when moving micro-services to production.
• A service mesh allows you to scale services and permit binary transports without losing observability.

[DockerCon 2016] Making friendly micro services https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRg7pIS3TjM

• Small is the new big, and for good reason. The benefits of microservices and service-oriented architecture have been extolled for a number of years, yet many forge ahead without thinking of the impact the users of the services. 
• Consuming micro services can be enjoyable as long as the developer experience has been crafted as finely as the service itself. But just like with any other product, there isn’t a single kind of consumer. 
• Together we will walk through some typical kinds of consumers, what their needs are, and how we can create a great developer experience using brains and tools like Docker.
• Helpful docs are always up to date
• Revision history - what changed and why
• Trouble shooting built in, monitoring
• Easy to deploy and scale
• Easy to consume, how to consume and when
• Must co-exist in a larger eco system, don’t be the biggest tree in the forest. 

Programming and Testing

[funfunfunction - youtube] Functional programming in JavaScript https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0zVEGEvSaeEd9hlmCXrk5yUyqUag-n84

• Some really good fun overviews of functional programming concepts in javascript

[InfoQ] Lisa Crispin and Justin Searls on Testing and Innovation in Front End Technology https://www.infoq.com/podcasts/crispin-searls

• Pair testers to write production code with the programmers.
• Developers have to be focused on right now, testers have freedom to look at more of the big picture
• People know testing is good and there a lot of tools for it, but some tools are ill-conceived.
• We need a better language for talking about good QA and full stack testing.

[Simple programmer] The Future of Software Development (With Erik Dietrich) http://simpleprogrammer.libsyn.com/449-the-future-of-software-development-with-erik-dietrich-simple-programmer-podcast

• What could the future of software development look like and how should you prepare for it

Agile

[Youtube] Agile Product Ownership in a Nutshell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=502ILHjX9EE

• 15 minutes to understand the role of a PO with regards to an agile team
• http://blog.crisp.se/2012/10/25/henrikkniberg/agile-product-ownership-in-a-nutshell
• https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1018963/Articles/PO-in-a-nutshell.png

[Deliver it] Back to Basics http://deliveritcast.com/ep50-back-to-basics

• Episode 50 is an overview of the last 50 episodes revisiting many of them and giving a taste of what past episodes you might like to catch up on
• A common theme for Product Owners is how do I get better? The best answer is to get better at the basics.  Inspired by another show that looks at its core purpose every so often, this episode looks at what the basics are since our initial podcast, what might have changed, and also serves as a reflection point for what we’ve covered in our first 50 shows. If you’re a PO who’s new to the show, this is a great place to start.

[Deliver it] DevOps for Product Owners http://deliveritcast.com/ep49-devops-for-product-owners

• In order for Product Owners to help teams deliver value to our customers, the product has to actually be delivered.  The teams must perform some level of effort to get the code deployed and out the door. For that to be easy for everyone, DevOps is a set of skills and practices that allow that process to be automated, error-free, and turn delivery into a routine event.  
• In this episode, Lee Eason joins to discuss what a PO needs to know about DevOps, why you should insist on it, and what you can do to help the teams achieve it.  

[Agile uprising] Agile Architecture with Martin Fowler and Rebecca Wirfs-Brock http://agileuprising.libsyn.com/agile-architecture-with-martin-fowler-and-rebecca-wirfs-brock

• https://www.martinfowler.com/ieeeSoftware/whoNeedsArchitect.pdf
• Martin and Rebecca provide a very clear definition of what architecture is to start the conversation which then leads into an honest conversation about how architecture is defined in the product’s unique context. They also provide great insight into the dynamics of what can be and cannot be considered architecture, and how the definition is fluid based on the engineering context.
• We discuss the impact of unit tests on architecture, and to what degree tests and emergence define architecture, vs. up front design.
• We also discuss the importance of domain models, and who should be involved in the definition of the domain model – specifically the requirement that the business folks be in the conversation.
• As the interview draws to a close, we discuss the importance of documentation in agile architecture. The discussion covers the “the code is the documentation” stance to more comprehensive documentation stances.

/Stuff

[Tim Ferriss] Accelerated Learning and Mentors – My Personal Story http://tim.blog/2017/05/17/meta-learning/

• An episode on education and accelerated learning amongst other things
• Want to learn something fast? Listen to this reverse interview.

[The school of greatness] Nelson Dellis is training your brain to do the impossible https://lewishowes.com/podcast/e-nelson-dellis/

• Not only does Nelson compete in memory championships around the world, he also has created great courses, videos, and soon a book to teach others his techniques.
• it’s important to train our brains as much as we train our bodies.

[TED] The future we are building — and boring https://www.ted.com/talks/elon_musk_the_future_we_re_building_and_boring

• Elon Musk discusses his new project digging tunnels under LA, the latest from Tesla and SpaceX and his motivation for building a future on Mars in conversation with TED's Head Curator, Chris Anderson.

[Decrypted] Fake News in the French Elections http://pca.st/iErg

• What is fake news and why does it matter?

[Code and cast] publishing content on Pluralsight and some javascript http://codeand.us/podcast/episode-16-pluralsight-and-javascript/

• On Pluralsight and presenting
• Javascript and Architecture questions and answers

Other interesting blog posts

“I have nothing to hide. Why should I care about my privacy?” https://medium.com/@FabioAEsteves/i-have-nothing-to-hide-why-should-i-care-about-my-privacy-f488281b8f1d

Privacy Protects Bothersome People https://martinfowler.com/articles/bothersome-privacy.html

Facebook users unwittingly revealing intimate secrets http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/mar/11/facebook-users-reveal-intimate-secrets
Facebook users are unwittingly revealing intimate secrets – including their sexual orientation, drug use and political beliefs – using only public "like" updates, according to a study of online privacy

Get your loved ones off Facebook http://www.salimvirani.com//facebook/

Why I Can’t/Won’t Point to Facebook Blog Posts http://scripting.com/2017/05/31.html#a110526
A reply to not posting on facebook https://daringfireball.net/2017/06/fuck_facebook

Damo's April 2017 Podcast Highlights

I subscribe to many podcasts, you can see the list as it was in 2015 here: Developer podcasts v2. I'm keeping a podcast blog here of the episodes that I find interesting or useful in some way.

Devops

[Continuous Discussions] Value Stream Mapping and DevOps https://electric-cloud.com/blog/2017/02/continuous-discussions-c9d9-podcast-episode-63-value-stream-mapping-devops/

• Value Stream Mapping helps organizations streamline their DevOps adoption
• Accelerate releases, optimize pipelines and toolchains, and even transform culture
• In the IT value stream, success is all about the left-to-right flow of value to the customer — from development to IT Operations

Agile

[Agile for humans] Agile Musings with GeePaw Hill http://ryanripley.com/afh-061-agile-musings-with-geepaw-hill-podcast/

• A nice flowing wide ranging discussion about all things agile
• Optimisation of programs vs optimising programming
• Internal quality vs external quality
• Generating insights about software
• The dangers of dogma in agile software development
• How to debunk the quality vs quantity myth
• Why maximizing your insights per hour is important
• What is hurting the agile industry today

[Agile for humans] Lessons from #NoEstimates Critics http://ryanripley.com/007-agile-for-humans/

• What is the critic’s view against #NoEstimates?
• Discuss the many areas of agreement that we have with some of the #NoEstimates critics
• The remaining time was spent on systems thinking, pre-conditions necessary to question estimation processes and value, and the role of excellent engineering practices in reducing the role of estimates in a software delivery system

[Agile for humans] Product Mastery with Geoff Watts http://ryanripley.com/afh-059-product-mastery-with-geoff-watts-podcast/

• How difficult the role of Product Owner is to do well
• The tools, mindset, and techniques necessary to be a successful Product Owner
• Why the Product Owner needs the support of the whole team in order to get their job done

Architecture

[Software Engineering Radio] Success Skills for Architects with Neil Ford http://www.se-radio.net/2017/04/se-radio-episode-287-success-skills-for-architects-with-neil-ford/

• What skills are required to be a successful software architect
• how to create and maintain them
• how to transition from other roles, such as software engineering
• Those looking to make the transition should focus especially on learning “soft skills” before making the move, and exploring the idea of taking an architectural role temporarily to see if it suites you. He also discusses problem solving skills, why understanding history is so important, and how to recognize and avoid increasing complexity

[The InfoQ Podcast] Chris Richardson on Domain-Driven Microservices Design https://www.infoq.com/podcasts/chris-richardson

• Discussion on how to use DDD and CQRS concepts as a guide for implementing a robust microservices architecture
• "Microservice architecture" is a better term than "microservices". The latter suggests that a single microservice is somehow interesting
• The concepts discussed in Domain-Driven Design are an excellent guide for how to implement a microservices architecture
• Bounded Contexts correspond well to individual microservices
• Event sourcing and CQRS provide patterns for how to implement loosely coupled servicesWhen converting a monolith to microservices, avoid a big bang rewrite, in favor of an iterative approach

[Docker cast] Microservices + Events + Docker = A Perfect Trio - Docker Captain Chris Richardson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pD0rEtEEwck

• https://blog.eventuate.io/2016/08/01/microservices-events-docker-perfect-trio/
• Microservices are an essential enabler of agility but developing and deploying them is a challenge
• In order for microservices to be loosely coupled, each service must have its own datastore, this makes it difficult to maintain data consistency across services
• Deploying microservices is also a complex problem since an application typically consists of 10s or 100s of services, written in a variety of languages and frameworks
• In this presentation, you will learn how to solve these problems by using an event-driven architecture to maintain data consistency and by using Docker to simplify deployment.

Programming and testing

[JavaScript Jabber] Clean Code JavaScript with Ryan McDermott https://devchat.tv/js-jabber/clean-code-javascript-with-ryan-mcdermott

• Ryan converted the principles in Clean code to apply to javascript
• Software engineering principles, from Robert C. Martin's book Clean Code, adapted for JavaScript. This is not a style guide. It's a guide to producing readable, reusable, and refactorable software in JavaScript.
• https://github.com/ryanmcdermott/clean-code-javascript

[Cucumber Podcast] Property-Based Testing https://cucumber.io/blog/2017/04/27/property-based-testing

• The programmer provides a specification of the program, in the form of properties which functions, methods or objects should satisfy, the framework then tests that the properties hold in a large number of randomly generated cases
• The core idea is that instead of enumerating expected input and output for unit tests, you write properties about your function that should hold true for all inputs. This lets you write concise, powerful tests.

Others

[The Changelog] How We Got Here with Cory Doctorow https://changelog.com/podcast/221

• How science fiction shapes the future, laws and tech
• EFF - Electronic Frontier Foundation - https://www.eff.org/
• The abuse of DRM (Digital rights management) and how it makes the internet less secure
• Open source licences and the dark side of open source
• http://conferences.oreilly.com/oscon/open-source-eu/public/schedule/detail/54548

[Complete Developer Podcast] Salary Negotiations with Josh Doody http://completedeveloperpodcast.com/episode-85/

• In the episode they talk about some of the common questions developers have about negotiating as well as covering some mistakes that we all make when negotiating for a higher salary.

[This Agile Life] Cat Killed the WiFi http://www.thisagilelife.com/126

• Are interviews and the interview progress broken?

[TED Talks] To raise brave girls, encourage adventure https://www.ted.com/talks/caroline_paul_to_raise_brave_girls_encourage_adventure

• Gutsy girls skateboard, climb trees, clamber around, fall down, scrape their knees, get right back up — and grow up to be brave women.
• Learn how to spark a little productive risk-taking and raise confident girls with stories and advice from firefighter, paraglider and all-around adventurer Caroline Paul.

Damo's March 2017 Podcast Highlights

I subscribe to many podcasts, you can see the list as it was in 2015 here: Developer podcasts v2. I'm keeping a podcast blog here of the episodes that I find interesting or useful in some way.

Devops

[AWS Podcast] Security in Serverless Architectures https://aws.amazon.com/podcasts/aws-podcast/#178

• In this special episode, Bryan Liston, Developer Advocate for AWS Serverless, speaks with Mark Nunnikhoven, Vice President, Cloud Research, TrendMicro and Adam Johnson, Cofounder at IOpipes. The discuss considerations for security in serverless architectures, with plenty of “war stories”!

[Pivotal Podcasts] Beyond "Survival Is Not Mandatory" https://content.pivotal.io/podcasts/beyond-survival-is-not-mandatory-the-cloud-native-cookbook-ep-54

• Tactical advice for organizations who are finding it difficult to do all the right things that DevOps and cloud-native think are prescriptive.

[The Cloudcast] Monoliths and Microservices http://www.thecloudcast.net/2016/12/the-cloudcast-281-monoliths-and.html

• Chat about evolving technology and organizational culture
• How to think about monolithic applications in today’s business context
• The challenges of microservices
• Lessons learned from good CI practices
• Emerging patterns to evolve existing applications.

[DevOps Chat] The 7 Habits of Successful DevOps https://devops.com/11626/

• Lessons learned building visual studio online
• Team autonomy and enterprise alignment
• Rigorous management of technical debt.
• Focus on the flow of customer value
• Hypothesis driven development or a backlog that gets groomed with learning
• Gather evidence in production
• A production first mindset
• Manage infrastructure as a flexible resource

Agile

[oredev] 7 minutes, 26 seconds, and the Fundamental Theorem of Agile Software Development https://vimeo.com/79106557

• Fred Brooks' essay "No Silver Bullet" taught us that no single technique can bring us an order-of-magnitude improvement within a single decade. In spite of this, from his ideas of essential and accidental complication, we can conclude something stunning about the nature of agile software development.
• A quick interesting talk about Agile, TDD, Refactoring and why your estimates suck
• Accidental complexity vs essential complexity
• And how if you want to be consistent in your estimates you need to refactor out all accidental complexity
• Effort = f(g(e ), h(a)) == g(e) + h(a)
• Effort is a function of the essential complexity plus accidental complexity. Or in other words effort required is roughly equal to essesial plus accidental complexity
• http://blog.thecodewhisperer.com/permalink/the-eternal-struggle-between-business-and-programmers/

[Agile for Humans] A Panel Discussion on #NoEstimates http://ryanripley.com/005-agile-for-humans/

• #NoEstimates means many different things to many different people. The group defined #NoEstimates as a conversation around when estimates are appropriate and to which level of precision teams should target.
• We noted that the hashtag can lead to more “heat than light”, but also acknowledged that a rich conversation has formed around the questions that #NoEstimates poses.
• To some this did not go far enough and we continued to highlight other benefits of estimating such as:
• Conversations that occur when estimating
• Shared understand of programming activities
• Enabling decision making at the executive level
• Validating project/program/product assumptions
• Indication of possible issues when reality and the estimate do not match

[Agile for Humans] Mob Programming with Woody Zuill http://ryanripley.com/afh-027-mob-programming-with-woody-zuill-podcast/

• Mob programming involves the whole team working on the same thing, at the same time, in the same space, and at the same computer. You can think of it as pair programming turned up to eleven.
• What are the benefits that mob programming can bring to a team, how it can simplify the hiring and on-boarding process, and what to do when the mob needs some alone time.

[Hanselminutes] Lean Customer Development with Cindy Alvarez https://hanselminutes.com/572/lean-customer-development-with-cindy-alvarez

• Cindy Alvarez is the author of Lean Customer Development. How do you develop products that people will actually use and buy? She shows Scott how to validate product and company ideas through customer development research—before we waste months and millions on a product or service that no one needs or wants

Programming and Testing

[StrangeLoop] Rich Hickey Simple Made Easy https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy

• Rich Hickey emphasizes simplicity’s virtues over easiness’, showing that while many choose easiness they may end up with complexity, and the better way is to choose easiness along the simplicity path.
• We should aim for simplicity because simplicity is a prerequisite for reliability.
• Simple is often erroneously mistaken for easy. "Easy" means "to be at hand", "to be approachable". "Simple" is the opposite of "complex" which means "being intertwined", "being tied together". Simple != easy.

[Toolsday] Git http://www.toolsday.io/episodes/git.html

• Git is something we use every day
• Discussions about some tools, tips, and tricks to make using git better.

[Software Engineering Radio] Developer Testing http://www.se-radio.net/2017/03/se-radio-episode-283-alexander-tarlinder-on-developer-testing/

• Developer testing is more than unit testing. In most cases, developers need to supplement their unit tests with higher-level tests, such as integration tests and end-to-end tests.
• Topics include Developer Testing, Agile Testing, Programming by Contract, Specification Based Testing,

[Software Engineering Daily] Cloudbleed and SHA-1 Collision https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2017/03/04/cloudbleed-and-sha-1-collision-with-max-burkhardt/

• Discussion about the Cloudbleed bug, which leaked tons of plaintext requests from across the Internet into plain view.
• And the first collision attack against SHA-1 demonstrated by researchers at Google, foretelling the demise of SHA-1 as a safe hashing function.
• What does this mean for the average engineer? What are the implications for regular internet users? Haseeb Qureshi interviews Max Burkhardt, a security researcher at Airbnb, to get to the bottom of what exactly happened, what it means, and how it affects the security of web applications.

[JS Party] Security on the web, Node async/await, and AR.js https://changelog.com/jsparty/1

• Security on the web
• SHA-1 is broken
• Node.js v7.6 gets async/await

[JavaScript Jabber] The 20th Anniversary of Visual Studio https://devchat.tv/js-jabber/visual-studio-2017-rtm-with-bowden-kelly

• Bowden Kelly is currently working on the Typescript language and Javascript dev tools across Visual Studio VS code and other editing environments in preparation for Visual Studio 2017 release coming soon.
• When to use VS for Javascript?
• New features for Javascript in the new Visual Studio
• Features Bowden likes
• What is the relationship with the angular team
• What can you expect in future
• The reality of types in javascript

[Angular Air] The Importance of Learning JavaScript http://audio.angularair.com/e/41-ngair-the-importance-of-learning-javascript-with-kyle-simpson/

[.NET Rocks!] Beyond Legacy Code with David Bernstein https://www.dotnetrocks.com/?show=1426

• How do you manage legacy code?
• The conversation starts out talking about what legacy code is - and David brings up the idea that code is legacy if you don't have confidence in it. Now how do you get confidence? This is where the rewrite behavior comes from: You're naturally more confident in your own code. But is it a good idea? David talks about nine practices that are most effective at getting your application under control and out of legacy!
• Say What, Why, and for Whom Before How excerpt
• Build in Small Batches
• Integrate Continuously
• Collaborate
• Create CLEAN Code
• Write the Test First
• Specify Behaviors with Tests
• Implement the Design Last
• Refactor Legacy Code excerpt

[Cucumber Podcast] Approval Testing https://cucumber.io/blog/2017/01/26/approval-testing

• Approval testing is a test technique which compares the current output of your code with an "approved" version. The approved version is created by initially examining the test output and approving the result.
• You can revisit the approved version and easily update it when the requirements change.

[Software Engineering Daily] WebAssembly with Brendan Eich https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2017/03/31/webassembly-with-brendan-eich/

• Brendan Eich created the first version of JavaScript in 10 days
• Today Brendan Eich is still pushing the web forward across the technology stack with his involvement in the WebAssembly specification and the Brave browser.
• For all of its progress, JavaScript struggles to run resource-intensive programs like complex video games. With JavaScript falling short on its charge to be the “assembly language for the web” the four major browser vendors started collaborating on the WebAssembly project to allow programming languages a faster, lower level compile target when deploying to the web.

Others

[Simple Programmer Podcast] 7 Habits That Ruin Your Technical Team http://simpleprogrammer.libsyn.com/416-7-habits-that-ruin-your-technical-team-with-marcus-blankenship-simple-programmer-podcast

• Technical leads and managers work hard to hire the best people, choose the best tools, implement the best process, and deliver great software. Unfortunately, our actions too often sabotage our best efforts, producing frustrated teams, poor software quality and driving away our best developers.
• What are the habits that ruin a technical team and how you can avoid them, based on his new book, with the same name.

[On Books] 10 Life-Changing Spring Cleaning Tips from the life changing magic of tidying up http://onbooks.libsyn.com/10-life-changing-spring-cleaning-tips-from-the-life-changing-magic-of-tidying-up http://castig.org/the-life-changing-magic-of-tidying-up-10-spring-cleaning-tips/

• 10. Discard all at once
• 9. Collect everything in one spot
• 8. Discard first, before you put things back
• 7. Visualize a clutter-free space
• 6. Choose what you want to keep, not what you want to get rid of
• 5. The order of discarding matters
• 4. Avoid attachment anxiety
• 3. Learn how to fold clothes (aka. I was doing it wrong)
• 2. Ask yourself, “Does this spark joy?”
• 1. Make space for your mission in life

[Focus 53] Stop Making Excuses, Fix Your Excuses & Grow Your Business - Cameron Herold http://focus53.libsyn.com/f53-082-stop-making-excuses-fix-your-excuses-grow-your-business-cameron-herold

• Cameron Herold, the mastermind behind the exponential growth of hundreds of companies. Cameron built a dynamic consultancy and his current clients include a Big Four wireless carrier and a monarchy.
• His clients say what they like the most about him is that he isn't a "theory" guy. He speaks from experience. He's actually done the things he talks about doing.

[Freakonomics Radio] Why Is My Life So Hard? http://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-is-my-life-so-hard/

• Most of us feel we face more headwinds and obstacles than everyone else — which breeds resentment. We also undervalue the tailwinds that help us — which leaves us ungrateful and unhappy. How can we avoid this trap?
• This is just human nature, if you could objectively look at your life you would see you don't have it so bad.
• May the road rise up to meet you. May the wind always be at your back.

[Focus 53] Put Me In The Rafters | Strive To Be A Champion http://focus53.libsyn.com/f53-083-put-me-in-the-rafters-strive-to-be-a-champion

• There's a lot of great people in business and in the sports world that are not in the rafters but still live epic lives.
• Are you working hard to get into the rafters? Or are you just going with the flow and drifting? Are you fulfilling your destiny and using your God-given skills to better yourself and the world, to better your family, to better your life, and to better your circumstances? Are you getting up everyday letting your feet up the ground, getting fired up to be the best you can be?

Damo's Febuary 2017 Podcast Highlights

I subscribe to many podcasts, you can see the list as it was in 2015 here: Developer podcasts v2. I'm keeping a podcast blog here of the episodes that I find interesting or useful in some way.

Devops

[.NET Rocks!] Ops and Operability with Dan North https://www.dotnetrocks.com/?show=1412

• Dig into the challenges of operating modern applications and how a constant demand for new features can be destabilizing to software. 
• The conversation explores getting to the root of concerns in systems so that everyone understands what is hard and what is easy. 
• When people are misunderstood, fear and resistance almost always follow.

[RunAs Radio] The MongoDB Exploit with Niall Merrigan http://runasradio.com/Shows/Show/519

• Are your noSQL stores safe? While at NDC London, Richard chatted with Niall Merrigan about the latest wave of exploits targeting MongoDB, ElasticSearch and others. 
• As Niall explains, the challenge is that the default security models for many of these products leaves them vulnerable to outside attack. As these attacks have progressed, they have presented themselves as ransomware - data is removed and a bitcoin account offered up to restore the data. However, to date, even when the ransoms are paid, no data is restored. 
• Apparently there is no honour among thieves.

Programming and testing

[Coding Blocks] Clean Code – How to Write Amazing Unit Tests http://www.codingblocks.net/podcast/how-to-write-amazing-unit-tests/

• When and why should you write unit tests, and just how important are they?

[DevOps Interviews - Channel 9] Interview with Gopinath https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/DevOps-Interviews/Interview-with-Gopinath-Chigakkagari

• In this interview, Senior DevOps Program Manager Donovan Brown interviews Principal PM Manager Gopinath Chigakkagari about Testing.

[Herding Code] Richard Campbell on Humanitarian Toolbox http://herdingcode.com/herding-code-220-richard-campbell-on-humanitarian-toolbox/

• Humanitarian Toolbox is a collection of open source projects, and they’re initially focused on the allReady project. 
• allReady started to help the Red Cross organize and coordinate smoke detector installation efforts to prevent home fire disasters. 
• Software can help through things like mapping, mobile apps, and Twilio based notifications. 
• Just the simple addition of reminder notifications before going out to install smoke detectors has raised their install rate from about 30% to about 80%.

[LDNUG - London .net user group] February meetup (12 factor apps) https://www.meetup.com/London-NET-User-Group/events/237160739

• The buzz is all around Cloud Native: continuous deployment and easy scaling of your server side code. You have heard about Docker and Microservices, but what are 12-factor apps?
• The Twelve-Factor App methodology (https://12factor.net/), was created by engineers with experience of delivering apps on Heroku, and is a "recipe for success" when authoring code for cloud native scenarios. 
• In this presentation we will look at what a Twelve-Factor App is, and demonstrate how to meet the requirements when creating .NET applications. We will show examples using ASP.NET Core, Brighter and Darker of authoring code to meet these requirements, and show its deployment to containers.
• Presentation is now online - https://skillsmatter.com/skillscasts/9275-londondot-net-february-meetup

[The Changelog] 99 Practical Bottles of OOP with Sandi Metz https://changelog.com/podcast/225

• Sandi Metz joined the show to talk about her beginnings on a mainframe, her 30+ years of programming experience, the ins and outs of OOP, her book Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby (aka POODR), as well as her latest book 99 Bottles of OOP which she co-authored with Katrina Owen

Architecture

[.NET Rocks!] Conway`s Law with Mark Seemann http://www.dotnetrocks.com/?show=1418

• What is Conway's Law and how does it apply to your organization? 
• How organization structure affects the structure of software. 
• That is the essence of Conway's Law, going all the way back to the 1960s, where he talked about how committees designing software end up making software that reflects the structure of the committees themselves. This leads to a broad conversation about how virtually every company today is actually a software company, and that software represents a vital asset to most businesses, but they may not recognize it yet. 
• Getting your organization into shape to build great software can be the difference between success and bankruptcy!

Agile, Teams and Business analysis

[Agile For Humans] #NoEstimates with Vasco Duarte http://ryanripley.com/noestimates-with-vasco-duarte/

• One of the staring points of #NoEstimates is: “We as an industry are not able to estimate well.”
• With that starting point, alternatives are necessary. #NoEstimates seeks to explore those alternatives.

[Agile in 3 Minutes] Mob programming https://agilein3minut.es/32/

[Agile Weekly] Episode #107 – Is Agile Faster? http://integrumtech.com/2013/04/episode-107-is-agile-faster/

• Is agile faster?
• Why is agile faster?

[Agile for humans] 5 Base Patterns to Guide Agile Teams http://ryanripley.com/5-base-patterns-to-guide-agile-teams/

• Measure economic progress
• Experiment
• Limit work in progress
• Embrace collective responsibility
• Solve systemic problems
• Top down vs. bottom up agile transformations
• Some discussions about no estimates and the limitations of such a technique

Other interests and stuff

[Developer Tea] The Einstellung Effect https://spec.fm/podcasts/developer-tea/59037

• Einstellung is the development of a mechanized state of mind. Often called a problem solving set, Einstellung refers to a person's predisposition to solve a given problem in a specific manner even though better or more appropriate methods of solving the problem exist. The Einstellung effect is the negative effect of previous experience when solving new problems.
• Thus older and more experienced developers are more prone to the Einstellung effect than younger less experienced ones.

[The Ruby Rogues] The Future of Work in Web Development https://devchat.tv/ruby-rogues/rr-296-the-future-of-work-in-web-development-with-erik-dietrich

• Erik is currently working on a book which he titled “Developer Hegemony”. It centres around the idea of software developers and the future of software development.
• In its broadest sense, software developers would leave big enterprise organizations and shift to more freelance work. They would unite and create firms that focus on application development. These firms would then be in contract with large enterprises.

[On Books] Kevin Kelly on The Inevitable, 60s Counterculture, and How to Read Better http://castig.org/kevin-kelly-on-the-inevitable-60s-counterculture-and-how-to-read-better/

• The Counterculture movement of the 60s
• Travelling as an act of rebellion
• Kevin’s latest book The Inevitable in which he writes that, “Much of what will happen in the next thirty years is inevitable, driven by technological trends that are already in motion.” He’ll share some of those predictions with us.
• Lessons on how to read better

[On Books] Book Summary: The Inevitable by Kevin Kelly http://castig.org/the-inevitable-by-kevin-kelly/

• The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future, by Kevin Kelly.
• The Inevitable is driven by the idea that the technological trends of the next 30 years can be predicted. Over 336 pages the book breaks down the Top 12 technological forces at work such as: “Becoming, Cognifying, Flowing, Screening, Accessing, Sharing, Filtering, Remixing, Interacting, Tracking, Questioning, and Beginning.”

[LSE] Politics: between the extremes http://www.lse.ac.uk/website-archive/newsAndMedia/videoAndAudio/channels/publicLecturesAndEvents/player.aspx?id=3576

• A cautionary tale. An exposé. A defence of the centre-ground. An appeal to reason. A call to arms. An honest account from the top and bottom of British politics. 
• Come along to this public conversation with former Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg who will be speaking about his new book, Politics: Between the Extremes.

[LSE] Politics after Brexit and Trump http://www.lse.ac.uk/website-archive/newsAndMedia/videoAndAudio/channels/publicLecturesAndEvents/player.aspx?id=3718

• A year of unpredictable political upheavals in the industrialised world promises an interesting period ahead. What are the lessons from Brexit and the Trump election for our democracy?
• Richard H. Pildes is the Sudler Family Professor of Constitutional Law at the New York University Law School. He is one of the nation's leading scholars of constitutional law and a specialist in legal issues affecting democracy.
• Mervyn King was Governor of the Bank of England from 2003 to 2013, and is currently School Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Lord King was made a life peer in 2013, and appointed by the Queen a Knight of the Garter in 2014.

Damo's January 2017 Podcast Highlights

I subscribe to many podcasts, you can see the list as it was in 2015 here: Developer podcasts v2. I'm keeping a podcast blog here of the episodes that I find interesting or useful in some way.

Devops

[RunAs Radio] The DevOps Handbook with Gene Kim http://runasradio.com/Shows/Show/510

• The DevOps Handbook is finally released! Richard chats with the one-and-only Gene Kim about the five years of effort that have gone into making the DevOps handbook. Gene talks about how the Handbook was supposed to come out before the Phoenix project, but as the scope of the book grew, they realized it needed more time. The benefit of time has been a ton of case studies and great detailed evidence of how automating workflows, instrumenting systems deeply and a culture of experimentation leads to better applications, happier employees and customers, and a better business all around. You need to read this book!

[Radio TFS] A New Year with Donovan Brown http://www.radiotfs.com/Show/129/ANewYearwithDonovanBrown

• Donovan is a Principal Program Manager for DevOps in the Developer Division at Microsoft, focusing on developer tools including Visual Studio Team Services and Team Foundation Server.
• In this episode Greg, Martin, Josh and Angela are joined by Donovan Brown to talk TFS, VSTS and, of all things, DevOps!

Programming and Testing

[No Fluff Just Stuff] REST is Dead, Long Live the Web! http://blog.nofluffjuststuff.com/2015/12/28/podcast-rest-is-dead-long-live-the-web/

• REST is dead, long live the Web

[Full Stack Radio] Toran Billups - Test Driving the Front-end http://www.fullstackradio.com/49

[No Fluff Just Stuff] Professional Git with Brent Laster http://blog.nofluffjuststuff.com/2016/12/28/professional-git-brent-laster/

• He talks and trains in-depth on not only in Git and source control, but continuous delivery concepts, and a variety of different topics. He’s just published his book, “Professional Git,” by Brent Laster. It’s available on Amazon. We sat down to dive deep and talk all things Git

[Software Engineering Daily] Bots Podcast with Jon Bruner https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2016/12/15/bots-podcast-with-jon-bruner/

• Over the next few years, bots will pervade our lives more and more. These smart, conversational text interfaces provide a new way of engaging with the computer systems that we have been mostly interacting with through web and mobile app interfaces for the last decade.
• Bots are a necessary complement to the voice interfaces of the future, because we don’t always want to talk to the computer, and natural language processing is not yet good enough to always translate our vocal request accurately. Bots are not toys, they aren’t trivial, and they aren’t going away any time soon.

[Complete Developer Podcast] Learning A Second Language http://completedeveloperpodcast.com/episode-67/

• Before starting to learn a new programming language you should take a few considerations. How different is the new language from your current one? Compare the envivornment, paradigm, syntax, and level of automatic operations between the languages.
• Tim Ferris wrote up twelve rules for learning a a new language. His rules were for a spoken language but they can also be applied to programming languages.
• Learn the right words, the right way.
• Learn cognates, things that are the same across languages.
• Interact daily in the language through spaced repetition in a controlled environment.
• Daily spoken practice.
• Look for free resources.
• Realize that experience makes it easier to infer rules.
• Learn to effectively use mnemonics.
• Embrace mistakes.
• Create Smart goals (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, Time-Bound).
• Jump from conversational to mastery.
• Learn to sound more native through the use of idioms.
• Keep going until you actually get things down.

[Software Engineering Radio] Peter Hilton on Naming http://www.se-radio.net/2016/12/se-radio-episode-278-peter-hilton-on-naming/

• why naming is much harder than we think, why naming matters in programming and program comprehension, how to create good names, and recognize bad names, and how to improve your naming skills.

[Cucumber Podcast] Cucumber Anti-Patterns https://cucumber.io/blog/2016/05/09/cucumber-antipatterns

• Matt, Steve, and Aslak from the core Cucumber team discuss writing good gherkin and avoiding common pitfalls.
• We’ll unpick why it’s important to write your gherkin before you write the code, consider if you should ever delete scenarios, and give tips on incorporating your team’s different perspectives into maintainable, predictable cukes!

[Software Engineering Radio] Gerald Weinberg on Bugs Errors and Software Quality http://www.se-radio.net/2017/01/se-radio-episode-280-gerald-weinberg-on-bugs-errors-and-software-quality/

• Gerald Weinberg about software errors, the fallacy of perfection, how languages and process can reduce errors, and the attitude great programmers have about their work. Gerald’s new book, Errors: Bugs, Boo-boos, and Blunders, focuses on why programmers make errors, how teams can improve their software, and how management should think of and discuss errors. We learn why all programs are perfect (for something), quality can be judged only by the end user of the software, and computers act as “error amplifiers” for our own human imperfections.

Architecture

[Software Engineering Daily] Reactive Microservices with Jonas Boner https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2016/12/19/reactive-microservices-with-jonas-boner/

• For many years, software companies have been breaking up their applications into individual services for the purpose of isolation and maintainability. In the early 2000s, we called this pattern “service-oriented architecture”. Today we call it “microservices”.
• The reactive manifesto is a collection of principles for how to build applications. When the reactive manifesto is applied to the idea of microservices, we get reactive microservices, which Jonas and I discuss in today’s episode.

[Software Engineering Daily] Self-Contained Systems with Eberhard Wolff https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2017/01/03/self-contained-systems-with-eberhard-wolff/

• Self-contained systems is an architectural approach that separates the functionality of a system into many independent systems. Each self-contained system is an autonomous web application, and is owned by one team. Communication with other self-contained systems or 3rd party systems is asynchronous where possible.
• As Eberhard Wolff explains in this episode, self-contained systems is not the same thing as microservices, but they are not mutually exclusive. Organizations often adopt a mix of architectural ideas, and it is worth understanding these different models so you can decide which of them to apply to your own projects.

[Software Engineering Daily] Evolutionary Architecture with Neal Ford https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2017/01/05/evolutionary-architecture-with-neal-ford/

• Evolutionary architecture supports incremental, guided change as a first principle along multiple dimensions. A company with an evolutionary architecture is structured to evolve in response to changes inside the company (such as a decision to change the product) or outside the company (such as the emergence of Docker). Neal Ford is an architect at ThoughtWorks and one the creators of the evolutionary architecture concept.

[AWS Podcast] Serverless Special https://aws.amazon.com/podcasts/aws-podcast/#171

• Bryan Liston, Developer Advocate for AWS Serverless, speaks with Matt Weagle, Ant Stanley & Ben Kehoe. They discuss server less architectures, testing and other fun topics!

Agile, Teams and Business analysis

[Mastering Business Analysis] Split Your Stories! https://www.acast.com/masteringbusinessanalysis/mba101-split-your-stories

• The problems big user stories can cause
• How big your user stories should be
• Why splitting stories helps create a shared understanding
• How just four splitting techniques apply to almost all stories

[Agile for Humans] Agile is a cancer http://ryanripley.com/003-agile-for-humans/

• Zach is an independent consultant who recently posted a provocative article called: “The Subversion of Agile: Agile is a Cancer”. We discussed his post, talked about what the cancer is in the community that needs to be removed about posts from others in the community about the “death of Agile”.

[Developing Up] The Four Attributes of a Great Development Team http://www.developingup.com/7

• The four attributes of a great development team:
• Communication
• Responsibility
• Positive attitudes
• Collaboration

[Developing Up] The Importance of one-on-ones http://www.developingup.com/8

• Great developers need great support, feedback and communication. In today's episode we talk about the importance of regular one-on-one meetings for both developers and managers. We discuss how managers can establish and maintain successful one-on-one meetings. We then discuss how as a developer you can take ownership of and benefit from these meetings.

[Mastering Business Analysis] Using Behavior Driven Development for Better User Stories http://masteringbusinessanalysis.com/episode-023-using-behavior-driven-development-for-better-user-stories-interview-with-jeffrey-davidson/

• Better understand how to get better at user stories and how behavior driven development (BDD) helps create a shared understanding. We also discuss how to create the nirvana state of living requirements.

[.NET Rocks!] Punishment Driven Development with Louise Elliott https://www.dotnetrocks.com/?show=1406

• The beatings will continue until morale improves!
• Louise talks about getting rid of blame and punishment, whether self-inflicted or team-inflicted, so that the individual unique contributions and capabilities of every member of the team are valued. The conversation also dives into creating constructive incentives - not pitting team members or separate teams against each other, actually making sure everyone is focused on making sure the business is successful.

Other interests and stuff

[Revisionist History] Blame Game http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/08-blame-game

• How can we all make human error
• The simplest solution often is
• Cars with runaway acceleration. And what to do if it does. It can happen to you, honestly
• In the summer and fall of 2009, hundreds of Toyota owners came forward with an alarming allegation: Their cars were suddenly and uncontrollably accelerating. Toyota was forced to recall 10 million vehicles, pay a fine of more than $1 billion, and settle countless lawsuits. The consensus was that there was something badly wrong with the world’s most popular cars. Except that there wasn’t.
• “Blame Game” looks under the hood at one of the strangest public hysterias in recent memory. What really happened in all those Camrys and Lexuses? And how did so many drivers come to misunderstand so profoundly what was happening to them behind the wheel? The answer touches on our increasingly fraught relationship to technology and the dishonesty and naiveté of many in the media.

[TED Talks] How to gain control of your free time https://www.ted.com/talks/laura_vanderkam_how_to_gain_control_of_your_free_time

• There are 168 hours in each week. How do we find time for what matters most? Time management expert Laura Vanderkam studies how busy people spend their lives, and she's discovered that many of us drastically overestimate our commitments each week, while underestimating the time we have to ourselves. She offers a few practical strategies to help find more time for what matters to us, so we can "build the lives we want in the time we've got."

[TED Talks] Bring on the female superheroes! https://www.ted.com/talks/christopher_bell_bring_on_the_female_superheroes

• Why is it so hard to find female superhero merchandise? In this passionate, sparkling talk, media studies scholar (and father of a Star Wars-obsessed daughter) Christopher Bell addresses the alarming lack of female superheroes in the toys and products marketed to kids — and what it means for how we teach them about the world.

[Developer On Fire] Neal Ford - Architecting Appreciation http://developeronfire.com/podcast/episode-197-neal-ford-architecting-appreciation

[No Fluff Just Stuff] Lifelong Learning with Venkat Subramaniam http://blog.nofluffjuststuff.com/2016/11/16/lifelong-learning-venkat-subramaniam/