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#101 Effects and Local-First with Johannes Schickling Jul 07, 2024

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Johannes Schickling (@schickling | schickling.dev⁠) gets us up-to-speed on Effect, the ZIO-inspired Effect System for TypeScript, and the Local-First movement. Resources:

Local-First Podcast: www.localfirst.fm
Ink & Switch's Local-First Essay: www.inkandswitch.com/local-first
Effect (TypeScript Library): effect.website
Riffle research project: riffle.systems
LiveStore: github.com/livestorejs
Overtone: overtone.pro

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#100 Thinking about Thinking with Diana Montalion Jun 18, 2024

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Diana Montalion teaches us about Systems Thinking and why it matters for those of us building software. Diana is founder of ⁠Mentrix⁠, which teaches "systems architecture skills for an increasingly complex world."

Pre-Order Diana's book: Learning Systems Thinking: Essential Nonlinear Skills and Practices for Software Professionals

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#99 The Agile Illusion with Trond Hjorteland Jun 10, 2024

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We chat with Trond Hjorteland about Agile and why it hasn't led to successful outcomes in many traditional organizations.

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#98 Continuous Deployment with Valentina Servile Apr 21, 2024

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We chat with Valentina Servile about her upcoming book on Continuous Deployment and reducing the risks to keeping HEAD not just always deployable, but automatically deployed to production.

Book for preorder on Amazon: Continuous Deployment: Enable Faster Feedback, Safer Releases, and More Reliable Software

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#97 The Pkl Configuration Language with Philip Hölzenspies Apr 05, 2024

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We chat with Philip Hölzenspies, one of the maintainers of the new Pkl configuration language (pkl-lang.org).

Resources:

James' Pkl for GitHub Actions: github.com/jamesward/pklgha

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#96 Compassionate Coding with April Wensel Mar 22, 2024

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We chat with April Wensel, founder of Compassionate Coding, about helping programmers bring more compassion to themselves and others.

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#95 21st Century Databases with Gwen Shapira Mar 10, 2024

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We chat with Gwen Shapira, co-founder of Nile, about her journey to creating a virtualized, serverless Postgres database service. We also dive into the challenges with traditional data architectures and approaches like ORMs.

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#94 Build Ops & Developer Productivity With Trisha Gee Feb 16, 2024

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We chat with Trisha Gee about Test Driven Development (TDD), flaky tests, ops & observability for builds, and developer productivity.

Mentioned TDD Article:

The beautiful theory of TDD and the reality check of practice

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#93 Nerd Sniping via the 1B Row Challenge with Gunnar Morling Jan 19, 2024

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When Gunnar Morling announced the 1 Billion Row Challenge a few weeks ago, he had no idea it'd go crazy viral.

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