BackendBear: Recent Episodes
Marko Markovic
Welcome to the BackendBear podcast where we discuss anything related to programming, algorithms and latest practices in the coding world.
What do you get when you combine music, AI and 2 creative minds? You get my favorite musical anarchists Dadabots. CJ and Zack are with us today.
Personally, I've been a big fan for a while now and was very ecstatic when they said yes to be on the show.
We talked about AI, Machine learning, music, sample RNN and where to get started and how you can help the cause.
The drive that these fellows have is very inspiring. If they were lacking knowledge for a certain goal they were right on it and conquered it. Today, they are writing Science papers and doing a lot of performances and participating in different projects.
I will say that these guys are the modern day scientists and the artists of the future and have my full support.
PS They are metalheads as well and to me it is only icing on the cake.
More about Dadabots can be found dadabots.com
Links
- Magenta online music tools
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- https://magenta.tensorflow.org/
- MidiMe
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- https://magenta.tensorflow.org/midi-me
- Music Autobot - generates pop music
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- https://musicautobot.com/
- GP2T collab
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- https://github.com/Cortexelus/gpt-2-colab
- How to fine tune GP2T
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- https://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-fine-tune-gpt-2-so-you-can-generate-long-form-creative-writing-7a5ae1314a61
- Cocou
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- https://coconet.glitch.me/
- OpenAI Jukebox
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- https://github.com/openai/jukebox
Ever wanted to be a fly on the wall when 2 senior fullstack developers are having a heart-to-heart conversation? Then this is the episode for you. Today we have Harry Bellamy who is a senior .net engineer and a fellow musician all the way from Leeds, UK
Links:
- "The Design of Everyday Things" by Don Norman https://www.amazon.com/Design-Everyday-Things-Revised-Expanded/dp/0465050654
- C# Fluent API https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/ef/ef6/modeling/code-first/fluent/types-and-properties
- Vinyl Casino - https://soundcloud.com/vinylcasino
This week I had Vincent Tang on the show. We tried to compare lessons that we learned from as fullstack developers, we talked about how to organize your spare time and space for your hobbies and work.
Links:
- Vincent's personal website - vincentntang.com
- Vincent's Twitter - @vincentntang
Books:
- "Getting Things Done" by David Allen - amazon.com
- "Atomic Habits" by James Clear - amazon.com
Today we have the pleasure of getting to know Gary Krause
He is a ninja software developer, a veteran, devoted husband and a father, and has a big passion for Pathfinder role playing games.
Tools:
- Visual studio Live Share - It doesn’t matter what type of app you are building, what language you program in, or what OS you’re on; with Live Share you can instantly share your project with your peers from the comfort of your own tools. No need to clone a repo or set up the environment, to get sharing.
Contributions:
- Operation Code - the largest community of military veterans, service members, and spouses committed to becoming software developers with the help of mentors, scholarships, and our tech partners operationcode.org
- Mythic Table - it is a Non-profit, Open Source online platform for tabletop role-playing games. www.mythictable.com
Links:
- Github - garyray-k.github.io
- Twitter - @GaryRKrause1
- LinkedIn - www.linkedin.com/in/garyraykrause/
Today we will dive into a bit of history of algorithmic music composition, some of the projects that are out there and the project that I worked on as part of my master thesis.
I had a blast making this episode and it is a topic I am passionate about.
References:
- John A. Maurer IV - “A brief history of algorithmic music composition” https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~blackrse/algorithm.html
- Donald Jay Grout - "History of Western Music" - https://www.amazon.com/History-Western-Music-Donald-1996-03-30/dp/B01JXT3578
- Alpern, Adam (1995) -"Techniques for algorithmic composition of music"http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.23.9364&rep=rep1&type=pdf
- John Cage - "Cage, Music, art, chess" https://youtu.be/Hva8WMcRyOE
- Axis Of Awesome - "4 Chord Song"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pidokakU4I
- Dadabots - Generating death metal music using neural networks http://dadabots.com/
- Melody Brains - http://melodybrains.com/
In this episode I am tackling the topic of dealing with brand new applications.
How to design them, implement them, pick the right technologies, where to start?
Bear in mind (yeah I said it) that all of these are coming from my personal professional experiences and it is a system that worked for me so far.
Additional reading material:
- Business requirements information
- Repository Design Pattern information
Any suggestions, comments, questions and concerns? Feel free to contact me at
- Email - marko@backendbear.com
- Twitter - @backendbear
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- Website - backendbear.com
- There is nowhere to run, there is nowhere to hide.
- You have been tasked to work on a legacy project.
- Don't despair because you've been tasked with an old junker. Be proud that someone trusts your skills enough that you can go in, replace those parts and make that old timer a head turner.
- In this episode I will try to share some of my experiences and tips and tricks with dealing with legacy code. Helped me out, hoping that I will help you out as well
Any suggestions, comments, questions and concerns? Feel free to contact me at
- Email - marko@backendbear.com
- Twitter - @backendbear
- Youtube - youtube.com/channel/UCb7Y9bvj4I-Rm4a-Ewmj1aA
- Facebook - facebook.com/backendbearpodcast
- Website - backendbear.com
Today we have a lot of 3rd party libraries and toolkits that would help us launch an entire website in a matter of minutes. That makes our software development life easier but it feels like it created a gap between front end and backend development. With the pace of new technologies it makes it harder to keep up with everything. Joe and me are trying to address that problem.
You can find Joe at:
- Coding blocks - https://www.codingblocks.net/
- Personal website - https://joezack.com/
Developer Road map - https://github.com/kamranahmedse/developer-roadmap
Books:
- Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit https://www.amazon.com/Lean-Software-Development-Agile-Toolkit/dp/0321150783
- Pragmatic Programmer https://www.amazon.com/Pragmatic-Programmer-Journeyman-Master/dp/020161622X
- Badass: Making users awesome https://www.amazon.com/Badass-Making-Awesome-Kathy-Sierra/dp/1491919019
Lyrics:
Oh it's the Joe Zack,and he‘s guest on the show, the show, the show, the showit's the Joe Zack,he's a guest on the show, show, show,
Bad code, bad code, he'll make the system lean,When it comes to clean code, he's a mean machine,also he's a talk show hostpodcast from coast to coastCoding blocks!
it's the Joe Zack,he's a guest on the show
Any suggestions, comments, questions and concerns? Feel free to contact me at
- Email - marko@backendbear.com
- Twitter - @backendbear
- Youtube - youtube.com/channel/UCb7Y9bvj4I-Rm4a-Ewmj1aA
- Facebook - facebook.com/backendbearpodcast
- This week I am starting a new series called Design Patterns.
- It is one of those things that you probably used a lot of times but were never aware of it.
- There isn't a job interview that goes without asking questions about design patterns and it's always the one you forgot to read about.
- This episode is more of an introduction to design patterns where we tried to answer the following questions:
- What are they?
- How are they classified?
- How are they describing the problems?
- Some basic concepts sprinkled with some of my own experience with the Anchorman Android app.
Useful links:
- Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
- dofactory.com/net/design-patterns
- Anchorman android app
Any suggestions, comments, questions and concerns? Feel free to contact me at
- Email - marko@backendbear.com
- Twitter - @backendbear
- Youtube - youtube.com/channel/UCb7Y9bvj4I-Rm4a-Ewmj1aA
- Facebook - facebook.com/backendbearpodcast
This week we are talking about microservices where we tried to answer some of the questions like:
- What are they?
- How to implement them?
- How to deal with them?
- What are the pitfalls when implementing them?
More about Zac can be found at
- codingcoach.io
- manning.com/livevideo/react-in-motion
- React in motion book
- 40% promo code use: ytbraddy
- medium.com/@zackerthehacker
- twitch.tv/tinfoilsaint
Lyrics from the intro:
Today is gonna be the day,Zac Brady is on my show,By now you should somehow,Hear one of his talks,I don’t believe that anybody,Feels the way he does,on microservices
Brady, is the main lead,He’s a Fullstack dev at Koodoo,If people want to save more,On their mortgage then without a doubtUse Koodoo as the digital platformIt'll make him feel so good, about you now
Any suggestions, comments, questions and concerns? Feel free to contact me at
- Email - marko@backendbear.com
- Twitter - @backendbear
- Youtube - youtube.com/channel/UCb7Y9bvj4I-Rm4a-Ewmj1aA
- Facebook - facebook.com/backendbearpodcast
Al Rodriguez is a multiclassing wizard spending most of his time using .NET wherever possible but levels up in other tools to get the job done. Most recently he has been leveling up his embedded development skills in C++ and fine tuning his dexterity stat on the Xbox. You can find him hosting the Developer Side Quests podcast.
Al's Developer sidequest: developersidequestspodcast.com
Twitter: @programmeral
OrlandoIoT: orlandoiot.com
Developer Side Quests: developersidequestspodcast.com
Lyrics:
Hey Al Rodriguez x3 Welcome to the show,
Did you hear, For IOT he has passion, Take his hand, He’ll show us a place, Where connection never ends,
Through the cloud, Arduino’s way, On a ray of bytes Flying through the air, It is open source, So join the serenade, One board, One board to rule them all
Any suggestions, comments, questions and concerns? Feel free to contact me at
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- Facebook - facebook.com/backendbearpodcast
- Imagine the code without comments. Neither could I. They are the necessary evil and in this episode I am trying to tackle the topic of commenting
- I'll be trying to answer the question of how to write them, what to do and what not to do when writing the comments
- Let's take a walk down that familiar path that can lead is straight into a ditch if we take a wrong turn.
- Any comments? (... thank you, I will show myself out... )
Any suggestions, questions and concerns? Feel free to contact me at
- Email - marko@backendbear.com
- Twitter - @backendbear
- Youtube - youtube.com/channel/UCb7Y9bvj4I-Rm4a-Ewmj1aA
- Facebook - facebook.com/backendbearpodcast
This week I have Lee Warrick from TechJR. Thinking of pursuing a career as a programmer? Lee Warrick and Edwin Otero explore what it's like to break into the Tech field as junior developers as well as how to stay up-to-date on new technology.
We talked about how to get started in the industry, education, general team chemistry and technology stack.
It is never too late to become a programmer.
You can find Lee and TechJR at the following links:
- leewarrick.com
- https://techjr.dev
- @leewarrickjr
- @TechJrPodcast
- meetup.com/project-code-experience
Any suggestions, questions and concerns? Feel free to contact me at
- Email - marko@backendbear.com
- Twitter - @backendbear
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- Facebook - facebook.com/backendbearpodcast
- In this episode we are learning about Functions, methods and procedure
- We dabble into how to name them, write them, call them and access them.
- Additionally we talk about Exceptions and exception handling.
Any suggestions, questions and concerns? Feel free to contact me at
- Email - marko@backendbear.com
- Twitter - @backendbear
- Youtube - youtube.com/channel/UCb7Y9bvj4I-Rm4a-Ewmj1aA
- Facebook - facebook.com/backendbearpodcast
- This episode among the first interview that I have done. The guest today is Jared Porcenaluk.
- We learned a bit about Jared and his path to software development
- we discussed coding, management and dealing with bad code
- And finally, we talked about IoT, how to get started and his famous Bronco project
More information about Jared and the projects can be found at:
- Jared's Personal website jaredporcenaluk.com
- Orlando IoT communicty - meetup.com/iot-orlando/
- Jared's twitter - twitter.com/jporcenaluk
- Bronco project - jaredporcenaluk.com/category/smart-bronco/
Any suggestions, questions and concerns? Feel free to contact me at
- Email - marko@backendbear.com
- Twitter - @backendbear
- Youtube - youtube.com/channel/UCb7Y9bvj4I-Rm4a-Ewmj1aA
- Facebook - facebook.com/backendbearpodcast
- In this episode we are exploring the world of naming. This is a very important topic in the world of programming, especially if you are working in a big team,
- Besides personal, naming should also be a team effort.
- You will find out information like where to start, what to do in different situations and how to communicate with others.
- In this episode we are taking a peak into the BackendBear podcast. What it is, what is the idea behind the podcast, what are my expectations and where do we go on from this point on.
- I would also share some of my views and professional knowledge that I gathered so far.
- And lastly, you would get to know me as I will share some of my professional experience as a full-stack senior software engineer.