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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Grab your safety glasses and join us in the lab
01/05/2021 Duration: 01h07minIt's Lab Day at Lofty, and we are bringing you into our closing ceremony! Hear from new members of the team and see what we've been tinkering with to satiate our techno-curiosity.
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We Can't Stop Hiring and Now We're Outnumbered
16/04/2021 Duration: 01h31minThe Lofty team has been growing like crazy. Alan, Casey, and Tyrel reflect on our growth, how we're managing it, and how to prevent being overrun by the New Lofty hordes.
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Uncle Blake teaches us how to trust Microsoft
02/04/2021 Duration: 01h08minBlake Johnston, the Captain to our Tenille, joins us to talk Microsoft's move on Discord, why you don't need your caps lock key, and how to make a better Box than Box.
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Sometimes you smear, sometimes you spread w/ CK Hicks
05/03/2021 Duration: 01h04minCasey and Tyrel are joined by CK Hicks of Crema to discuss why Zoom calls can be so exhausting, how to stay plugged in to emerging tech as an agency, and if having a white table cloth disqualifies you from being a decent BBQ restaurant (it does).
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Reading in the future sucks, but new team members don't!
19/02/2021 Duration: 01h36minAs the team braces for the great snowvid storm of 2021, we introduce the newest member of the Lofty family, Daniel, who has sadly been chained to a PC for work for the last several years. You can hear the relief of working on a Unix system in very word he utters.
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Understanding Django-CMS w/ Mario Colombo
05/02/2021 Duration: 01h06minMario Columbo is the President of the Django CMS foundation, and he chats with Casey, Austin, and Tyrel about Django CMS and its role in the Python ecosystem.
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New Year's (Dev) Resolutions: 2021 Edition w/ Blake Johnston
22/01/2021 Duration: 01h20minHappy new year, we're talking resoultions!
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Web developers react to going full remote
19/12/2020 Duration: 01h16minThe Lofty team has decided to embrace for the long haul, vaccines be damned.
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Wagtail v. Django CMS, A Python CMS Showdown
29/11/2020 Duration: 01h13minThe crew chats about the top two CMS frameworks for Python.
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Aussie Syntax and More w/ Tony Lamont
14/11/2020 Duration: 01h21minPatron Tony Lamont is back with us to talk programming, food, and the big differences he's noticed between the US and Australia
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Zombie Processes and Ghost Docker Containers
01/11/2020 Duration: 01h09minWe run `docker ps` to see what's lurking in the shadows.
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Uber for Cats and other app pitch greatest hits
16/10/2020 Duration: 01h15minCasey can't let a Reddit thread go and we talk about some of the worst app ideas that have come through our front door.
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JAM Stack and other classic architectures that people think are new w/ Blake Johnston
02/10/2020 Duration: 01h09minBlake is with us, and we're talking JAM Stack.
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Both members of the Julia community fire a shot over Python's bow
18/09/2020 Duration: 01h27minJulia fans coming in hot!
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Transitioning Projects, and Willow Really Hates Disney Movies
07/08/2020 Duration: 01h14minWe're talking movies and the process of transitioning a project over to a client this week.
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Revisiting Kanban w/ Blake Johnston
25/07/2020 Duration: 01h34minBlake is back! We're back! Blake got us all fired up about Kanban last year so we couldn't wait to tell him we made the switch. Subscribe to find out if he goes all Javascript on us.
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Game with Us: Talking Code and Playing Dominion
26/06/2020 Duration: 01h25minCasey, Alan, Tyrel, Austin, and Willow play a round of Dominion.games while we talk shop.
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Deploy With Us, a Content Expirement
20/06/2020 Duration: 01h06minWe're trying something different this week. When the client needs a Friday deploy, we deliver. Ride along in the war room for a real Friday Afternoon Deploy.
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Forensic Debugging and Technical Debt
12/06/2020 Duration: 01h14minWe're back! Alan, Casey, Tyrel, and Willow talk about technical debt and a recent adventure trying to figure out the evolutionary rationale behind a piece of code.
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Design Patterns, State Machines, and We Built an App!
22/05/2020 Duration: 01h10minAlan, Tyrel, Casey and Willow talk design patterns and announce Lofty's first in-house product, Delegate.