Podcasts I have been listening to

funkysi1701@gmail.com (funkysi1701) — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Another week has gone by so here is a rundown of my podcasts listenings…

Hachyderm’s Kris Nova on running a Mastodon Server

A great chat about how Hachderm grew as people moved from Twitter to Mastodon. You can find me on Hachyderm https://hachyderm.io/@funkysi1701 Hachyderm saw amazing growth in a short space of time, so great to hear how that impacted the service, which Kris Nova provides for free in her own time.

The Shipment

The Temporal Trek Season 3 episode 58

DanDan discuss the season 3 episode The Shipment, which sees Enterprise season 3 back on track, with a proper Star Trek story. But I can’t believe Dan forgot to include the DanDan jingle its why I tune in each week.

TrekRanks Potpouri

TrekRanks episode 150

This was a great show celebrating 150 shows, and was a lucky dip into all the 149 topics that have been chosen before. Jim was caught out by the guests this week as they went above and beyond finding answers for all possible shows that could be picked. As always some great picks reminding me why I love the show.

Troy Hunt’s Weekly Update

Weekly Update 327

I like listening to what Troy has been up to in the last week. (I am a bit behind as this show came out at Christmas time) Troy talks about Twitter and Elon Musk, and the LastPass data breach. I am a big fan of 1Password for my password manager but my employer uses LastPass

Troy Vinson: Learning From the Rackspace Security Breach

Azure DevOps Podcast Episode 225

An interesting look at security and the recent rackspace incident. I used to be a big fan of Rackspace but in recent years I have been more interested in cloud offerings like Azure.

Dr. Gregory Kapfhammer wants to stop flaky tests

Hanselminutes episode 874

I am currently looking at fixing some flaky tests on a codebase I am not familiar with so this is a great podcast to listen to. The episode goes through common reactions to flaky tests, why tests get flaky and what to do about them.

What podcasts have I been listening to

funkysi1701@gmail.com (funkysi1701) — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

I love listening to podcasts so I thought I would share what I have been listening to over the last few days.

Source Open vs Open Source and IdentityServer with Dominick Baier and Brock Allen

.Net Rocks episode 1824

The creators of the open source project Identity Server which went commercial discuss the reasons for doing so. This was a very interesting discussion on the challenges of running open source projects and ways that they can be more maintainable. I have seen Twitter arguments on both sides about various products that have done this. It is a very nuanced problem, which I don’t know much about so interesting hearing what was involved.

Growing as an Engineering Manager with Taylor Poindexter

Hanselminutes episode 871

A discussion about being an engineering manager, mentoring and growing and learning. I am not a manager and I don’t have people that report to me, however, I am a senior developer so anything that can help me improve on the leadership side of things is great. On a side note, I love how diverse the guests are on Hanselminutes, I often listen to people on this show I would never have heard of or known about if I just stuck to topics I know about.

Top 5 Scenes at a Table

TrekRanks episode 149

Star Trek for me has always been about positivity and Trek Ranks delivers this in spades. The concept, in case you don’t know, is to choose 5 episodes about the chosen topic, but it is really an excuse to talk about them! So what 5 scenes at a table would I choose?

Undiscovered Country - Dinner with the Klingons. Klingons, Shakespeare, terrible table manners what is not to love about this scene
Q Who - Scene in the observation lounge with Q and Guinan as they discuss how to respond to the newly discovered Borg
Civil Defence - Scene in Ops between Garak and Dukat while the crew hide from an automated phaser firing at them, the best bit is when Duakt tried to leave and ends up trapped with the rest of the crew
Mirror, Mirror - Scene where Bones realises that some things are the same in the mirror universe, the spot where he spilt acid
Unification Part 2 - Spock, Picard and Data have been captured by Sela, and Sela comments that she doesn’t get to write many speeches, and then Data comments that maybe she would be happy doing another job

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