Synopsis
Episodes and show notes available at friday.hirelofty.com. An unapologetic show about the culture and chaos of software engineering from the makers and breakers of digital products at Lofty Labs. We build software with Python and Django, Ruby and Rails, Golang, whatever frontend framework we're forced to use because it's popular this month, and anything else to get the job done right. Then on Friday afternoons we have a beer and talk about our regrets on this show.
Episodes
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When Life Hands You Rollovers
22/04/2022 Duration: 01h04minFake job applicants? Vehicle accidents? Swedish death cleaning in software? The FAD crew muse about mortality, tech and more.
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Lofty (Might) Want You
08/04/2022 Duration: 01h18minBig Chris, Tyrel, and Casey finally fit in the new sound booth - just in time to talk about pop culture, dogs, and the wild hiring season.
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Never Enough Chrises
27/03/2022 Duration: 01h03minSometimes, Casey and the FAD crew actually talk about coding, Javascript, Python, HMTX, and more. Who would have thought?
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Payday Loans for Loot Crates
11/03/2022 Duration: 01h01sThe team gets together to regale listeners about origin stories, SaaS fillers, and the adventures of having tech-savvy kids. Plus we're hiring! https://lofty-labs-llc.breezy.hr
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Well, It’s The Fetch
25/02/2022 Duration: 47minIt’s Lab Day at Lofty! The crew get together to talk about demos, speculate on dropping tables, and enable custom Slack notifications. Hummus, anyone?
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High-Tech Hillbilly Hijinx
11/02/2022 Duration: 01h03minThe FAD Crew gather around to share stories of their watch choices, subscription-only seat warmers, and the FCC's 'official observers'. Also, Kubernetes.
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I Have A New Dream: It is HTMX
28/01/2022 Duration: 01h18minBlake rejoins Casey and Tyrel to regale them with tales of his new workplace. They discuss why the podcast is a great culture filter for Lofty, what databases shouldn’t be your primary persistent data store, and why it’s so hard to stay off Facebook. Get on the enterprise service bus - it’s time for Friday Afternoon Deploy. “I want some guarantees: whether it's guaranteed to be right, guaranteed to be run once, guaranteed to only be delivered once, or guaranteed to be redelivered until receipt. Like there's a lot of things there that you want to be able to configure that Redis Pub/Sub is not exactly … It's not just like, who wants to be the one to tell Doug McMillon that we lost an entire Walmart day worth of retail data? You know what I mean? Or like, we accidentally counted February twice. It says a whole thing.”
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Paired Programming, One Desktop
14/01/2022 Duration: 01h08s“So we actually did lots of, like, unformalized pairing. And I think, in a remote situation you do kind of have to formalize some of that, because what you don't realize is how much domain knowledge gets lost or siloed really quickly that without being in a room together, just even hearing conversations and stuff like that. … Stuff organically percolates and expands when you're all in the same room.’”
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The Transatlantic Christmas Show
24/12/2021 Duration: 01h36minMerry Christmas and Happy Holidays from the FAD Crew! We welcome back Meredydd, founder of Anvil, and talk the virtues of tv's as monitors, transatlantic cabling, and Lisp.
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Aesthetically Skeuomorphic
10/12/2021 Duration: 01h12minTyrel and Casey are joined once more by Chris Allen (Big Chris) as they talk about being NFT-curious, why being software-aware in sales works, and where the idea of mallsoft meets HTMLX. Also, mayonnaise versus Miracle Whip.
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Racing to Change
13/11/2021 Duration: 01h51minBlake joins Alan and Casey to talk about Blake's new job, our new office, and frustrating people.
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Chrises all the way down
29/10/2021 Duration: 01h13minThe studio is overrun with Chrises as Chris Hobbs and Chris Allen join Tyrel to discuss marketing in the modern world, asynchronous messaging for inter-service communication, and the corruptive power of Chris Allen's uncle.
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meredydd@anvil.works teaches us about curry (and anvil)
15/10/2021 Duration: 01h11minAlan and Tyrel are joined by Meredydd Luff, founder of Anvil (anvil.works), to discuss cycling, curry, and the great lengths some people will go to avoid javascript.
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Nothing Worse than Sand in a Mechanical Keyboard
01/10/2021 Duration: 01h29minAlan and Tyrel hold down the fort, while Casey has officially become a digital nomad. We talk life on the road while trying to maintain quality internet connection, who's the best budget vps provider, and question why syncing media across devices is still so terrible.
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For Ux Sake
17/09/2021 Duration: 01h14minThe triumphant return of Shawn is coupled with the Trent's first full episode to bring you episode 1 of For Ux Sake!
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Ice fishing with Broccoli Rob (and Shawn)
03/09/2021 Duration: 01h11minWe are excited to have Shawn Bielefeldt join the podcast to discuss the benefits of incorporating a real ux designer and the dangers of Figma.
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Livestreaming Go Services for Dilithium
21/08/2021 Duration: 01h02minWe talk go and when to use it (you can probably guess what we think at this point), we unpack some Star Trek lore, and best of all, you can go watch it on our Youtube channel!
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EPISODE 100, LIVE IN STUDIO WITH BLAKE, ZOMG!!1one
25/06/2021 Duration: 01h04minIt's our 100th episode of Friday Afternoon Deploy! Thank you all for coming on the ride these past couple of years. AND, we're back in the live studio with the original crew: Casey, Alan, Tyrel and Blake!
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Rust and Elixir and Pearl, Oh My!
30/05/2021 Duration: 01h08minAlan, Tyrel, and Christopher Hobbs (now a card-carrying team member!) discuss sparkling vs still water, linting and ci, our old cd binders, and the finer points of some non-Python languages.
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Earlier adopters and the kernel panics that they love
14/05/2021 Duration: 01h17minTyrel and Daniel are joined by Chris Allen, the Director of Marketing for Lofty. They discuss the joys of using first gen hardware, how to tell stories about software development, and how close are we actually getting to Skynet.