Off Script: Recent Episodes
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A podcast for the tech community. The theme for Off Script is to challenge ideas and opinions within the tech community. We dig into important topics with special guests, talking frankly in an unscripted setting. Off Script is hosted by Josh Nesbitt and James Hall. Subscribe for future episodes.
James and Josh explore the world of SSGs (static site generators)! The differences between SSGs and full stack frameworks, the associated technologies out there and what to consider with your project when deciding what is best for it. [Recorded 13th July, 2023] 01 Intro 02 The Personal Website 02 Static Site Generators 02 ASTRO 03 Content driven site vs Logic and funcional site 04 Jekyll 04 Webapps 07 Full stack frameworks 08 MPA vs SPA 10 Islands 15 It’s a cms without the cms 16 Flexible data structures enforced via TypeScript 20 Deployment - compilation step, already do this on most frameworks anyway 22 Still require a rich runtime environment of JS deps etc 25 Bring your own db and cache 26 Environmental impact 27 New SSGs References * https://docs.astro.build/en/concepts/why-astro/ (https://docs.astro.build/en/concepts/why-astro/) * https://docs.astro.build/en/concepts/mpa-vs-spa/ (https://docs.astro.build/en/concepts/mpa-vs-spa/) * https://docs.astro.build/en/concepts/islands/ (https://docs.astro.build/en/concepts/islands/) Find out more about Stac and Parallax: * Stac (https://stac.works) * Parallax (https://parall.ax)
What is the blockchain? How has it changed over time? Is it still killing the planet? James and Josh discuss various types of blockchain systems and how they might have some real world applications for social good. [Recorded 13th July, 2023] 1 Blockchain 02 How did it start 03 Bitcoin 03 Ethereum 03 Proof of work vs Proof of stake 05 Hardforking 06 Web3 bros 06 Masterdon & De-centralisation 07 Microservices 10 Real word aplications 11 Music Industry 12 Coinbase 14 Wallet management 17 User identity 18 Social good smart contracts 19 Blockchain kickstarter 20 Bored Ape 21 Digital art Find out more about Stac and Parallax: * Stac (https://stac.works) * Parallax (https://parall.ax)
James & Josh discuss the recent WWDC 2023 conference and break down some of the announcements. Dive in to the episode to hear all their thoughts on the latest developments coming out of Apple HQ and the impact it may have on us. [Recorded 9th June, 2023] 05 - Apple Vision Pro 09 - Product reveals 11 - MacOS Sonoma 12 - Paprika 13 - Safari Profiles 15 - ARC Browser 18 - Widgets 19 - Presenter Overlays 20 - Installable Webapps 21 - WatchOS 10 & promoting health 23 - Apple & AI Spacial Computing 24 - Squid Soup 24 - Spacial audio 25 - Apple Vision Pro 30 - New dev tools and experiences for headset 35 - Nest Cameras & Starling Hub 37 - JPEG XL 40 - The future of Apple development & products Find out more about Stac and Parallax: * Stac (https://stac.works) * Parallax (https://parall.ax)
In this episode, Josh and James explore Josh’s recent trip to ffconf 2022 in Brighton. They discuss the talks, all the highlights and takeaways raised during the conference. 2 - ffconf hacked gameboy game in gift pack 5 - Talk: Florence Okoye - Designing as we want, to create the experiences that we need 6 - Design justice framework 9 - Talk: Heydon Pickering - Capitalism, The Web, And You 11 - The Gig Economy, Slavery, Uber & Exploitation 13 - Talk: Lex Lofthouse - Design for Developers 14 - Bootstrap 16 - Talk: Sophie Koonin - This Talk is Under Construction: a love letter to the personal website 17 - Back to blogs 18 - “The Modern web is not for creators, it’s for consumers” 19 - “Building a website is a radical act in this day and age” 20 - Talk: Lily Madar - Programming with Yarn 23 - Talk: Natalia Waniczek - Working towards a greener world from behind the keyboard 24 - Green engineering principles 25 - Music streaming greenhouse gas emissions 26 - Optimising for region hosting 27 - Talk: Sareh Heidari - Digital exclusion in healthcare & how to change it 28 - The digital device bank 29 - Plain english consortium 30 - Silktide breaks down reading age 31 - Internet Access as a human right 32 - Talk: Ruth John - Day Disco 33 - Using audio web apis to create fun things 33 - Digital TR 909 to program in browser 34 - Web Midi Resources: * https://2022.ffconf.org/ (https://2022.ffconf.org/) * https://help.silktide.com/ (https://help.silktide.com/) * https://roland50.studio/ (https://roland50.studio/) Find out more about Stac and Parallax: * Stac (https://stac.works) * Parallax (https://parall.ax)
What is and isn’t an API? How has the technology changed over time? What are new considerations that have arisen? Hosts James & Josh discuss a variety of APIs and the benefits and faults that help refine the APIs of today. 00 - What is an API? 03 - S.O.A.P 05 - Restful API 06 - RSS & JSON 07 - Public API’s 10 - Documentation driven development 13 - React API & GitHub 16 - Graph QL 19 - Twilio 20 - Stripe Payment 23 - Paypal 24 - Web hooks 27 - Pusher 30 - Modern API Considerations 31 - Cloud Front/ API Gateway 34 - Documentation - What is design without documentation 37 - Facebook & Open Graph 40 - PAW MAC API 44 - 3D Secure Resources: * https://pusher.com/ * https://graphql.org/ * https://paw.cloud/ * https://github.com/ Find out more about Stac and Parallax: * Stac (https://stac.works) * Parallax (https://parall.ax)
This episode of Off Script, Josh and James explore Josh’s recent trip to Berlin to the single-track conference, Beyond Tellerrand. They discuss and break down all the hot topics for us. 01 Intro 03 Venue 03 The Pac Man Rule - Always leave a gap in your circle! 04 Live subtitles at the event 06 All together now by Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino 15 Inviting People In by Michelle Chin - Different ways we were forced to collaborate during the pandemic. 20 If You’re Not Scared, You’re Not Living by Vic Lee 24 Make it sound by Tiziana Alocci involving the use of non speech audio to convey information. 28 Dragon slayer by Espen Brunborg - How to be a better web designer 32 The reinvention of normal by Dominic Wilcox - About creativity and being creative. 40 Stand in talk - Pragmatic Sketching 45 Visualising connections by Nadieh Bremer including bringing open source constellation maps to life. 50 The Content Design of Civil Discourse: Turning Conflict into Collaboration by David Thomas - What does a productive conversation about a topic look like 54 Less thinking. More tinkering by Gavin Strange - Create a space for creativity to happen 57 Making by breaking by Dina Amin - A book is not a book. It’s paper, string, words, letters 101 Making the impossible possible by Janis McDavid - Who are we when we are alone, who are we when no one is watching Resources: * All together now by Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino (https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/berlin-2022/speakers/alexandra-deschamps-sonsino) * Inviting People In by Michelle Chin (https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/berlin-2022/speakers/michelle-chin) * If You’re Not Scared, You’re Not Living by Vic Lee (https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/berlin-2022/speakers/vic-lee) * Make it sound by Tiziana Alocci (https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/berlin-2022/speakers/tiziana-alocci) * Dragon slayer by Espen Brunborg (https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/berlin-2022/speakers/espen-brunborg) * The reinvention of normal by Dominic Wilcox (https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/berlin-2022/speakers/dominic-wilcox) * Visualising connections by Nadieh Bremer (https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/berlin-2022/speakers/nadieh-bremer) * The Content Design of Civil Discourse: Turning Conflict into Collaboration by David Thomas (https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/berlin-2022/speakers/david-thomas) * Less thinking. More tinkering by Gavin Strange (https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/berlin-2022/speakers/gavin-strange) * Making by breaking by Dina Amin (https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/berlin-2022/speakers/dina-amin) * Making the impossible possible by Janis McDavid (https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/berlin-2022/speakers/janis-mcdavid) * Schedule (https://beyondtellerrand.com/events/berlin-2022/speakers) Find out more about Stac and Parallax: * Stac (https://stac.works) * Parallax (https://parall.ax)
What are the benefits of using React Native to build mobile applications over platform specific frameworks? Where did it come from and why might it be a good choice for your next project? Hosts James & Josh discuss their use of React Native and how it’s helped streamline app development. 01 How it enables quick UI Iterations & rapid app development 02 Significant use cases 03 Where did you first hear about it? 04 How native UI is used 05 Improved debugging features 07 Patching your app 08 Lotte animation library 09 JSON definitions of animation 10 Xcode simulator 19 Ethos of Open Source 20 Haptic libraries 21 React query & axios 23 Flipper & error messages Find out more about Stac and Parallax: * Stac (https://stac.works) * Parallax (https://parall.ax)
How has the IoT changed how we build internet connected devices, and does this approach sometimes overly complicated things? Hosts James & Josh discuss the world of IoT, its real world applications and some of the pitfalls projects fall into. 00 - History of IoT 01 - Anything can be connected via a ESP32 controller 02 - ‘Making things more complex than they need to’ 03 - Petnet IoT Cat Feeder 04 - A Single point of failure ‘Starve your cat as a service’ 05 - Street lights in Aberdeen & how they store the schedule on the light 06 - IoT Dependencies 07 - Ring / Canary / Nest 08 - Nest works standalone off Wifi 09 - Smart Bins for N Yorkshire Council 12 - ‘Smart’ Plugs - hot wire toaster 13 - Asthma Studies 14 - Security & updating IoT devices 19 - Boring SSL - Less config the better 19 - Apple pass key + Signal 22 - Avoiding DDOSSing yourself Find out more about Stac and Parallax: * Stac (https://stac.works) * Parallax (https://parall.ax)
Off Script is back with a special episode as hosts Josh and James reflect on another successful All Day Hey! conference in Leeds and via live stream. Running through the talks and the dynamics of the day, listen in for a breakdown of how it all went and their thoughts on the talks of the day. Hey! Presents are uploading all of the content from the day over the next few weeks so make sure to head over to their website to check out the talks from this year’s fantastic speakers. 01 - Intro & thanks 04 - Benefit of IRL conversations 06 - Emily Cressey’s Design Systems talk and Sketch 10 - Different designs for different levels of complexity 11 - Power user vs Casual 12 - Design system manager 13 - Github 13 - 'Evaluate what design elements you use and delete what does not get used' 14 - Stephanie Stimac’s talk on ‘Progressive Webapps’ 20 - Live code streaming 22 - 3D CSS Stopwatch 27 - Luke Murphy’s illustration system in Figma 28 - 'Illustrations guiding emotional state' 35 - Functional Programming 38 - Responsive Design 39 - 'Let the browser do the heavy lifting' 40 - Utopia fluid type generator Resources: * Schedule & watch talks (https://heypresents.com/conference/2022/schedule) * Speaker information (https://heypresents.com/conference/2022/speakers) * Design Systems - The Monster We Created (https://heypresents.com/talks/design-systems-the-monster-we-created) * Building Beautiful Web Apps: User experience and visual design best practices for PWAs (https://heypresents.com/talks/building-beautiful-web-apps-user-experience-and-visual-design-best-practices-for-pwas) * Take your skills to the moon with creative coding (https://heypresents.com/talks/take-your-skills-to-the-moon-with-creative-coding) * Branding for Techies (https://heypresents.com/talks/branding-for-techies) * Building an Illustration System (https://heypresents.com/talks/building-an-illustration-system) * Unconscious Mentoring (https://heypresents.com/talks/unconscious-mentoring) * Functional Programming in JavaScript (https://heypresents.com/talks/functional-programming-in-javascript) * Be the browser’s mentor, not its micromanager (https://heypresents.com/talks/be-the-browser-s-mentor-not-its-micromanager) * Build Excellent Websites (https://buildexcellentwebsit.es/) * Utopia Fluid Type Scale Calculator (https://utopia.fyi/type/calculator/) * All talks from Hey! Presents (https://heypresents.com/talks) Find out more about Stac and Parallax: * Stac (https://stac.works) * Parallax (https://parall.ax)
On this episode of Off Script, James Hall (Parallax) runs us through his recent trip to South By South West (SXSW) and analyses what it all means with Josh Nesbitt (Stac). What were the main talking points? What were the new trends worth noting? Our hosts give us their thoughts on Zuckerberg's appearance & the exciting but possibly dystopic future the new tech could lead us to. Topics covered: - The programming of the event - Emerging tech trends - Our role as leaders - Robin Hood app & Gamification - Overvaluation of some tech companies - Is this a bubble? - Candle Media buying Youtube channels - Silo'd Metaverse experiences - Video games have been doing this for years - AI - Deepfakes - WAB AR/VR - Zuckerberg - Synthetic Biology - Tech Warfare - Flexible working & culture changes relating to equality - Digital IDs - HoloRide test - All Day Hey Find our more about Stac and Parallax: Stac: https://stac.works Parallax: https://parall.ax
What can we learn from the success and simplicity of Wordle? How can we be more aware of when we’re likely to over-engineer a solution? Hosts James Hall (Parallax) & Josh Nesbitt (Stac) discuss when to add complexity, when it’s not needed and scenarios where you’re more likely to encounter over-engineering difficulties. Topics covered: * Simplicity of Wordle * Hosting & Data Responsibility * Basecamp * Webflow * Microservices * Governance * Splitting Applications * GraphQL * Shopify Find our more about Stac and Parallax: Stac: https://stac.works Parallax: https://parall.ax
What is the metaverse and what has it got to do with Facebook? How do NFTs fit into it? Is it all 3D and gaming or is there more to it with business applications? Hosts James Hall (Parallax) & Josh Nesbitt (Stac) speak with our guest, Jack Sails and discuss where to begin with it and how to make sense of it all. Topics covered: * What is the metaverse? * What could it be? * Where's the transparency? * Turning off in these digital space * NFTs * When iPhone apps were new * Centralisation * VR / XR / AR * LIDAR * Hardware to support * Business application * Connected Wellbeing * How to get involved in the metaverse * Building an open framework and much more. Find our more about Stac and Parallax: Stac: https://stac.works Parallax: https://parall.ax IMA HOME: https://ima.global
2021 has been an eventful year! From January's launch of the AVIF format, April's Basecamp employee speech controversy and the web hitting 30 years old plus much more. Hosts James Hall (Parallax) & Josh Nesbitt (Stac) take us on a journey through the highs and lows of the year. Thanks to Cooper Press’ Frontend Focus and Ruby Weekly, invaluable resources that helped us go back in time to compile the monthly breakdown. Topics covered from 2021: Google Cloud Functions adds Ruby support GitHub makes it easier to rename branches Google migrating Puppeteer to TypeScript AVIF The Web didn't change, you did Edge Kids Mode Sonic Pi 3.3 Homebrew 3.0 10 Years of Open Source D3.js Basecamp's Employee speech controversy All Day Hey! Live 25 Years of CSS Sublime Text 4 Prawn library update Tim Berners-Lee NFT Github Codespaces Chrome Removing IFRAME support 30 Years of the web Decline of Firefox users Cloudflare outages Netlify Dev tooling LOG4J Find our more about Stac and Parallax: Stac: https://stac.works Parallax: https://parall.ax
How do you avoid burnout and keep productivity high? What methods can you use to help produce an efficient flow state? How have companies addressed these issues around hybrid working? Productivity and mental health go hand in hand but how do you manage it? Hosts James Hall (Parallax) & Josh Nesbitt (Stac) explore these issues around creating a positive motivated team. Topics Covered: Burnout Time boxing The side effects of being unproductive Mental health Exercise Setting boundaries Setting time limits on software and social media useage The benefits of side projects Mental health as the world reopens Hybrid working Empowering a team Find our more about Stac and Parallax: Stac: https://stac.works Parallax: https://parall.ax Resources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique https://culturedcode.com/things/ https://www.atlassian.com/blog/teamwork/how-to-run-effective-meetings https://www.usemotion.com/ https://www.wellgood.io/ https://www.leedscookeryschool.org.uk/ https://twitter.com/philhawksworth/status/1452930467049709571
What leadership style do you have? How do you foster a productive culture? When do you give people autonomy and when do you put your foot down? The decisions around how to lead a team can affect how successful a project delivery is. How did the pandemic and working from home impact things? Hosts James Hall (Parallax) & Josh Nesbitt (Stac) explore these questions and look at ways to engage the team. Topics covered: Different leadership styles The value of delegating How to keep people invested in the project Boundaries when working from home Tooling the team for the current times Giving autonomy Putting your foot down The curse of analysis paralysis How team structure affects leadership styles Creating a positive culture around leadership when starting a business Open Source software leadership How different management styles anchorage flow state Confluence Showing vulnerability from the leader Ensuring a work / life balance Find our more about Stac and Parallax: Stac: https://stac.works Parallax: https://parall.ax Resources: - Management book recommendation (https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0008128049/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_JAPVW9D94SHAV1R9FDCW) - Vulnerability (https://www.forbes.com/sites/danschawbel/2013/04/21/brene-brown-how-vulnerability-can-make-our-lives-better/)
How long will a project take to complete? How can you get this as close to reality as possible? Software estimation is an essential part of the development process and one that many people don’t know how to approach correctly. Is your team equipped with the right tools? Is there a shared understanding of the process within your team? Hosts James Hall (Parallax) and Josh Nesbitt (Stac) explore these questions and look at practical solutions to get it right. Topics covered in this episode: Mapping the user experience Demystifying the quote process with the client Understanding your team and the time estimates they give you Setting expectations Internal communication and the quote process Making tradeoff decisions Adapting the tools you use as a team Reusing code Time management with client tweaks Previous project analysis The cost for updating and maintaining a project in the future Early understanding of the client’s system Building trust Keeping devs on track via meetings Creating a shared understanding between front and back-end developers The value of face-to-face communication and more. Find our more about Stac and Parallax: Stac: https://stac.works Parallax: https://parall.ax Resources: Planning Poker: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planning_poker
What would your first steps be when working on application performance? What tools can you use to help you through this process? What are the challenges when you overly optimise your application? Our hosts James Hall (Parallax) and Josh Nesbitt (Stac) dive into these questions and outline their thoughts on the following and much more: Baselining where you are and establishing your starting point Monitoring and improving performance Speeding up your app speeds up dev time Chrome dev tools Game-changing services Image optimisation Reducing friction Unlearning best practices Testing Worker related scripts Lazy loading Preloading Find our more about Stac and Parallax: Stac: https://stac.works Parallax: https://parall.ax Resources: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/devtools/ https://web.dev/ https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/ https://www.fastly.com/ https://newrelic.com/ https://www.appsignal.com/ https://www.blackfire.io/
Today, Off Script hosts Josh Nesbitt (Stac) and James Hall (Parallax) discuss all things web application security. It’s something that is getting more and more important to get right. More cyber attacks. More ransomware attacks. They address good application hygiene and the common pitfalls they are seeing people fall for. Big data breaches can lead to losing customer trust so it’s so important to makes sure you’re running a tight ship with security. Basic security maintenance is essential but what can companies and individuals be doing to make sure their web applications are secure during a time of high value bug bounties being offered to people for finding vulnerabilities? Some topics covered in this episode: Bug bounties. The positives, negatives and relevancy to different sized agencies The use of bots to find MongoDB vulnerabilities Encrypted vaults The Slack issue How hard is it to put secure processes in place from the start? Canary and environment variables If you’re a security researcher, what do you do with responsible disclosure? The fine line between helping the hackers and helping the community What makes a good, secure app? Package managers Modern libraries making it obvious when you are doing a bad thing Open pull requests Get your house in order with OWASP Frameworks and the early standards they set with password management and security hygiene Importance of rotating keys Human interfaces and the floors surrounding them What can we learn from Twelve-Factor? Github Workspaces and recreatable environments The issues of convenience Macs vs dev accessibility and Windows catching up Github and Atom Good, automated test suites How to have a good view on what makes a good security test Falling into the trap of feeling productive Sitting down with the team to discuss testing value and priorities The creativity of SQL injection Reinventing the wheel Dangers of writing an encryption tool and importance of getting an external security company Find our more about Stac and Parallax: Stac: https://stac.works Parallax: https://parall.ax References: https://bounty.github.com/ https://snyk.io/ https://yarnpkg.com/ https://owasp.org/ https://12factor.net/ https://hyper.is/
We’re happy to welcome James Hall to Off Script as a new co-host alongside Josh Nesbitt in our new podcast format! The topic today is ‘Career progression’. Josh and James have known each other for many years and have a lot of professional experience in tech at the top level between them, ranging from agency work through to consulting. Josh runs Leeds-based software consultancy Stac whilst James runs Parallax - a digital agency specialising in websites, apps and much more. This gives our co-hosts different perspectives on the tech topics they’ll be getting into in the coming episodes and gives the listener a balanced take on today’s top topics in tech. If you enjoy this episode, make sure to subscribe so you don’t miss the next one! In today’s episode, Josh and James explore: How do you define a career path? The changes you experience as a developer as you progress up the career ladder within an agency and as a consultant. Knowing where to invest your time as a junior in tech to ensure suitable progression for yourself. What opportunities and challenges does remote working create for employees and employers? What can employers do to retain employees and create a rewarding career path for their staff? How often should companies speak to employees about progression and what frameworks are effective for this? Zoom fatigue and remote working. What does the future look like for offices with a mixture of remote working and people wishing to spend their time around people in person? Find our more about Stac and Parallax: Stac: https://stac.works Parallax: https://parall.ax
Why does the cyber security industry need to hire more anthropologists? Because the criminals already are. By 2025 it is estimated $10.5 trillion will be lost to cyber criminals. Hacking humans is a very lucrative business. Social engineering is one of the easiest and most effective ways to access a secure system. Cyber criminals know this, and they are increasingly leaning on the research and techniques of the social science disciplines to leverage the human element into letting them into our lives, our businesses and our bank accounts. Yet, while the security industry is always striving to be ‘one step ahead’ of the criminals in terms of technical capabilities, it often neglects the need to consider the very social nature of hacking. As more of our lives are now online, how can security practitioners increase security awareness and build up our resilience to unite against malicious actors looking to leverage our weakest, but what could be our strongest, defences in cyber-warfare - our people? This discussion puts people and social science at the centre of the solution. Utilising anthropological theories and methodologies - such as reciprocity, participant observation and tribalism - Lianne will demonstrate why cyber security teams need to hire beyond technical expertise and look towards the social sciences for the next advancements in cyber fortification to respond to this ever-increasing threat. To face this threat, we need to readdress the fact that technology does not exist without human interaction. Cyber security practitioners must cater for a wide breadth of expertise, capabilities, experiences, cultural norms, along with all equalities and disparities that frame these individuals. This task is not one for the computer scientist alone and it highlights the urgency to address this problem from an anthropological perspective.
We welcomed Sharon Steed to Hey! Live as our guest in November for a special, free live-streamed lecture. Sharon and Hey! Founder, Josh Nesbitt explored "Empathy at work". Transformational culture starts with empathy. But how do you make that happen? How do you create a culture that everyone feels heard in? Respected? Where each individual knows them and their ideas are valuable to not only their coworkers, but the company at large? These are the ideas Communilogue’s founder and principal Sharon Steed examines in her ebook "Empathy at work". Communilogue is also an empathy consultancy, so we can't wait for Sharon's insight into this fascinating topic at our live-streamed event. Sharon speaks at companies and conferences globally on empathy at work. Her story is unique in that she got her start speaking and consulting in a non-traditional way. Sharon is a life-long stutterer, and she uses her speech impediment to teach what empathy is and how to use it as a foundation for positive and effective communication. Stuttering has informed her view of communication as a result of years of being both terrified to speak but also fascinated with the the intricacies of conversation. She has spoken about empathy and communication, vulnerability and her experiences as a stutterer at conferences and companies globally. "Empathy at work" is a topic Sharon has fantastic insight into. She has written an ebook about it facilitates a training course of the same name.
We're happy to welcome Lu Liu, software engineer from Fintech industry to Off Script by Hey! Radio. This is a story with practical lessons about how it's never too late to get into technology. Lu shares her journey into tech, how she got into the industry and how she overcame the difficulty and obstacles she encountered at the beginning of her career. She extracts key advice and takeaways she's learned that will be useful for people who are trying to change their career path into tech or students who want to pursue a career in tech. There are lessons in Lu's talk that also benefit anyone with more experience in the industry who wants to reconnect with what that journey feels like if say, you manage a team with people who are. It's easy to lose sight of what the beginning feels like so there is something in this for all levels of industry experience.
In this discussion with Laura and Hey! founder Josh Nesbitt, we’ll cover technologies that improve our everyday lives as well as powering online movements, and how those same technologies can be used against us. Over the past few years, Laura has invested her time fighting for the regulation of surveillance capitalism, while building alternatives in her work for the Small Technology Foundation. In today’s world, activism increasingly relies on technology, making now a more important time than ever to discuss how technology can be used quickly and safely to spread facts and support action. Do you have any thoughts on the topics covered or your own experiences? Join the conversation and let us know with a review or via our social media channels. Subscribe for future episodes.
In this episode of Off Script, All Day Hey! co-founders Josh Nesbitt and Harry Roberts break down what it takes to run a conference and how it came to be. We discuss: How All Day Hey! Came into existence and why we do it The responsibility of hosting people and bringing them into the city This year’s ADH lineup and how we curate it Reflecting on an event References: - Chris Kershaw’s Lightening Talk from All Day Hey! 2018 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4-w6s50V3E) - alldayhey.com (https://alldayhey.com/) Do you have any thoughts on the topics covered or your own experiences? Join the conversation and let us know with a review or via our social media channels. Subscribe for future episodes.
I'm excited to welcome James Hall to the first episode of Off Script as we explore a favourite topic of mine, "Wasn't the web better 10 years ago?". James is a good friend who I've known for many years. We've have had plenty of conversations about the state of web technology as we've progressed through our careers and during this episode James gives a good insight into how web technologies have changed over the years. In this episode we discuss: Historical traits of the web What has changed with the web compared to 10 years ago? The evolution of web frameworks How JavaScript tooling has has become more complicated The problems solved by package managers Do you have any thoughts on the topics covered or your own experiences? Join the conversation and let us know with a review or via our social media channels. Subscribe for future episodes.
The theme for Off Script is to challenge ideas and opinions within the tech community. We dig into important topics with special guests, talking frankly in an unscripted setting. Hey! Radio is hosted by Josh Nesbitt. Josh runs a software consultancy called Stac based in Leeds and is the founder of micro-conference and conference Hey! and All Day Hey! respectively. Subscribe for future episodes.