Friday Afternoon Deploy: A Developer Podcast

We're in Kansas City to celebrate Lofty Labs turning 5!

Pull Requests are our guest interview format, and for our first ever we've got Elissa Shevinsky (formerly of Geekcorps, Everyday Health, and Brave) and Brett Thomas (formerly of PGP, Vindicia) who are co-founders of Faster Than Light chatting with us about static analysis and devops.

Alex is a Rails developer who has come to build Django apps at Lofty. Alan is a Django developer who just inherited a Rails project for maintenance. Casey plays Dr. Phil and asks them to say nice things about the other's framework.

Check us out on Patreon! https://patreon.com/fridayafternoondeploy Alan, Casey, and Tyrel talk about web app builder tools like Anvil (which we were recently introduced to) and try to evaluate their usefulness and audience.

Seth Kaffka, Account Executive here at Lofty Labs joins us for the show where Alan and Casey quiz him on his programming knowledge.

Alex talks through his frustrations trying to add Django Channels to an existing Django project, we talk about the new hotness with Pipenv, and touch on the value of good code review etiquette.

We cover a lot of topics, including recent work on a Vue.js project, some drama in the Python community, whatever the hell Milkshaking is, and more.

Cath Thomas, developer of the Shadowlands Dapp platform for Etherium, joins us this week to talk, Python, cryptocurrencies, Etherium, and about his app Shadowlands.

Alex Williams is back with us this time as a Lofty Labs teammate and not a guest! Alex, Tyrel, Alan, and Casey talk about some of the movement towards AsyncIO in Django's roadmap most recently brought to attention by Tom Christie's keynote at DjangoCon Europe 2019.

Blake, Tyrel, Alan, and Hayden we're getting deep into ORMs and APIs when our recorder ran out of disk space, so we cobbled together an episode over the weekend in the war room.

Blake, Tyrel, and Casey attempted to talk about developer conferences, Elm, and some news in the Django universe but it turns out we're too hungry and we spend most of the time talking about food. Yum.

Alan, Tyrel, and Casey review the highlights from Django's 2.2 release to give an overview of new features in the framework. Somehow that transitions into made for TV Steven King movies from the 90s. We don't know why... it's Friday.

Recorded live at the 2019 NWA TechFest conference, Alan, Casey, Hayden and Tyrel talk conferences and guests Daniel Worthy and Chrissy Wainwright pop in between conference sessions to talk shop.

Alan, Blake, and Casey take a listener question on what to learn when getting started in web development using Python.

Alan and Casey talk Site Reliability Engineering while still recovering from firefighting an application outage.

Alan, Blake, Casey, and Tyrel go through a ton of topics currently on their minds including using templates to start web dev projects, tabletop gaming, the business model of npm, technical debt, and more.

Casey and Alan chat about the stuff they've been hacking on this week which includes eCommerce software, application monitoring tools and dashboard frameworks.

Sloan is back to chat with Alan and Blake about developer productivity, tools, and a whole lot more Kubernetes.

Tosh Lyons is a Senior Developer at Uniregistry and we chat with him about software engineering in the domain business.

Sloan Ahrens is a Sr. Software Engineer on our team at Lofty Labs currently building out a large-scale Kubernetes deployment.