How to defend your attention and find a flow state
The inspiration for today's episode was a terrific article from The Guardian about the many ways in which the modern world, specifically the software we use every day, was designed to steal our attent...
25 Jan 202223min
Who's going to pay to fix open source security?
Will no one think of the maintainers? As The New Stack points out, watching millions of projects fail because of a bug in an open source library has become common enough that we shrug and reply, "Tol...
21 Jan 202221min
A chat with the folks who lead training and certification at AWS
You can find Maureen here. You can find Scott here.There is a wealth of free courses available through the AWS training website, including Operations, Advanced Networking, Machine Learning, and Data S...
18 Jan 202232min
Safety in numbers: crowdsourcing data on nefarious IP addresses
You can find Philippe on Twitter here and learn more about CrowdSec here.They recently put together a list of the IP addresses trying to exploit the new Log4j vulnerability.For a prescient view of tod...
14 Jan 202225min
Making Agile work for data science
Data scientists and engineers don’t always play well together. Data scientists will plan out a solution, carefully build models, test them in notebooks, then throw that solution over the wall to engin...
12 Jan 202220min
Helping communities build their own LTE networks
Esther and Matt are graduate students in computer science at the University of Washington, where they study community networks.Esther explains how open-source, community-owned and -operated LTE networ...
11 Jan 202234min
Are developers helping to drive the Great Resignation?
Developers are leading the Great Resignation, according to some reports. Others feel developers aren't resigning, so much as seizing the moment to find better opportunities. You can find out hosts onl...
7 Jan 202230min
Professional ethics and phantom braking
Hear why Ben thinks the Workplace Stack Exchange and the Academia Stack Exchange have the richest questions in the Stack Exchange network (or maybe just the most sitcom-worthy).ICYMI: Jack Dorsey step...
4 Jan 202220min
