Episodes

  • Flow
    Jan 28 2024

    00:00 Intro

    01:15 What is Flow

    04:40 The Autotelic Personality

    07:00 Developer Productivity for Humans

    13:30 Summary


    Engineering Enablement - Measuring Flow and Focus Developer Productivity for Humans, Part 6: Measuring Flow, Focus, and Friction for Developers


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    14 mins
  • AI / LLM Testing
    Jan 7 2024

    (00:00) Introduction

    (01:12) How are we using AI.

    (03:40) AI Products and Testing.

    (06:26) AI Testing.

    (10:09) Summary


    Article: Testing LLM-Based Applications: Strategy and Challenges

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    11 mins
  • Announcement: Rebooting my podcast
    Dec 29 2023

    Topics I'll cover in 2024. ⁃ AI / LLM / Machine Learning ⁃ Book Summaries ⁃ Domain Driven Design ⁃ Flow ⁃ Metacognition / System Thinking ⁃ Software Engineering, Testing Links: - Website - https://www.alanmbarr.com/ - X - https://twitter.com/alanmbarr

    - YouTube - https://youtube.com/@alanmbarr

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    Less than 1 minute
  • Alan's Updates May 15th 2022
    May 16 2022

    The Start of The Journey

    Recovery, The Journey so far

    Figuring Out the Next Level of my Learning

    https://www.aarp.org/caregiving/health/info-2019/dementia-warning-signs.html

    If you like the podcast, please subscribe and share it with others.

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    18 mins
  • Creating a Podcast
    May 9 2022

    Act 1 - Your Elevator Pitch

    Act 2 - Prepare and Edit, liberally and ruthlessly

    Act 3 - Three Act Narratives, but mix it up


    Resources

    • Start a Podcast - Kristen Meinzer
    • Make Noise - Eric Nuzum
    • NPR's Podcast Start Up Guide - Glen Weldon

    Edison Research, April 2019 "The Podcast Consumer"

    Edison Research Podcast Consumer - 2018

    Otter Voice Meeting Notes - Otter.ai

    Voice Coach Yawning 

    Be a great communicator Podcast

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    24 mins
  • Vision, Buddha and the Badass Book Summary
    May 2 2022

    Today’s Topic is a Book Summary by Vishen Lakhiani from the book The Buddha and the Badass.

    Act 1 - Make a big vision and great people will find you

    Act 2 - Massive Transformation Purpose and Make a Stand

    Act 3 - Craft Your Identity

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    25 mins
  • Ephemerality
    Apr 25 2022

    Chainguard -The Principle of Ephemerality via Carlos Santana

    • Get on with ephemerality; it's 2022. We had no choice but to build it ourselves before then. Nowadays, chaos engineering is an option. We use serverless and stateless technologies all the time. Virtual machines aren't even on our radar. Maintaining stateful systems is difficult. Make sure you have backups and failovers.
    • To ensure that we have evidence of malicious software, you can test your code regularly. The COVID test provides a means of ensuring that historical evidence is reviewed over time.
    • Combining and shortening an app's lifespan makes it more likely for an attacker to fail.
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    15 mins
  • Alan's Updates April 10th 2022
    Apr 11 2022

    Every week, I'll be posting one episode. I stopped in the past because I didn't have enough content to create a podcast with what I wanted to talk about. The podcast will help me improve my writing and voice. Hopefully, the content will be good as well.

    • Improving my writing and sounding.
    • Feel like I'm at 95% of what I used to be.
    • Alan's education schedule from morning to night.
    • I'm happy that normal people can't even tell I had any issues.
    • Speechify is a tool that helps me read a hard text and speech it quickly.
    • Summarizing writing.
    • Preply is a helpful tool for tutors of English
    • Recording sounds to type words for Asphia apps.
    • Went back to part-time work for learning again.
    • Saturday Zoom Python Meetup
    • Discord Accountability Group
    • Comprehensible Input
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    14 mins