Software Should be Free: Recent Episodes
Tim Abell
Tim Abell & David Sheardown look for ways to help you solve your problems with computer things. Send us a voice message: https://www.speakpipe.com/ssbf
- https://timwise.co.uk/
- https://twitter.com/tim_abell
- https://twitter.com/davidsheardown
- https://trello.com/b/wN52OefB/software-should-be-free-podcast
- beware fast talkers, as Ray Dalio says in Principles https://www.principles.com/ (as a tweet: https://twitter.com/RayDalio/status/1599056902637248514 )
- beware pattern obsessives (any pattern, architecture, SOLID, CQRS, Event Sourcing, Outside-in testing, you name it, someone wears it as a badge)
- evolve your architecture - YAGNI, but do think ahead
- currently available for c# contracts
- building rustworkshop.co
- Morning journaling
- Sunsama daily planning app
- Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule by Paul Graham
- Right to represent idea
- Airtable for making forms and surveys
- Send me a voice message (may be included in the next show)
Let me know you listened!
- Read "Working Identity" for career change https://www.amazon.co.uk/Working-Identity-Unconventional-Strategies-Reinventing-ebook/dp/B004OEIQ7C
- Maybe not an agency business...
- The contract market is recovering
- Yak Shaving - https://seths.blog/2005/03/dont_shave_that/
- Trying to build a SaaS in one evening with NoCode (fail)
- What's [not very] new in ES6
- Why should software be free? - Cloud vs local compute.
- Syncthing - https://syncthing.net/
Excuse the coughing, I've edited out a few but I am genuinely fighting a bloomin' cold.
- https://savvycal.com/articles/inbox-zero/
- https://charmconsulting.co.uk/
- https://businesscoachdirectory.com/
- https://timwise.co.uk/2020/09/15/effective-gtd-with-trello/
- companies house snafu
- De-fusion of the mind with ACT (A liberated mind)
- Rich-dad cashflow game
David explains what systems integration really means when it comes down to getting things connected, and what things we are trying to connect in the first place.
Where has software been? Where is it going? Integration is the new hotness & problem to be solved.
A little story about two little steam engines racing to the next station. You'll have to listen to find out what this has to do with software.
- GTD
- Book list for the children, and life
- Refactoring and legacy code
- Failing to start xchain in 2015
- doglost.co.uk
- @tim_abell - message me if you're listening!
Tim was David Gisbey's assigned mentor at DfE. They discuss with the benefit of hindsight what makes for a good mentorship relationship.
- David Gisbey (on LinkedIn)
David & Tim improve each other's mental health with some unstructured chit-chat. Being unfixable nerds of course we still cover technology and some useful tools.
• https://www.realvision.com/grant-william-keynote-speech
• http://danielamerman.com/va/ccc/G4SecBear.html
• https://financialmentor.com/
• https://blog.trello.com/gtd-getting-things-done-maximizing-productivity-trello
• https://trello.com/b/wN52OefB/software-should-be-free-podcast
David and Tim just a have a catchup to keep sane in isolation. They discuss lessons learned from 2 years at the new DfE Digital including how to migrate platforms well, and how to do personal backlogs in the basecamp-shapeup style instead of a single backlog of doom.
As posted at https://podcast.ditchinghourly.com/episodes/coaching-call-with-tim-abell - reposted with permission.
https://jonathanstark.com/
Tim talks (rambles?) about the challenges of getting contributions to schema explorer now that it's open source, and about some things from his trello board of business ideas. https://timwise.co.uk/subscribe/ + https://jonathanstark.com/resources + https://www.betterhelp.com/ + https://sunnylenarduzzi.com/best-online-business-plan-2020/ + https://musicformakers.com/
Tim explains what he's learned about Shape Up! and David asks questions
- https://basecamp.com/shapeup
Update on schema explorer https://schemaexplorer.io/
and introducing https://just5mins.transistor.fm/1
Duncan, David & Tim go a bit deeper into the outsourcing experiment, share a bit more about themselves, and learn about David's new role.
Introducing David Sheardown (@davidsheardown on twitter) and Tim Abell (@tim_abell) as they talk about their journey so far and try and figure out who they can help with a podcast and other services on a product ladder.
Things we mentioned:
- http://schemaexplorer.io/
- Zero to One on Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Zero-One-Notes-Startups-Future/dp/0804139296
