Friday Afternoon Deploy

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May 20, 2019, 2:20 p.m.

We Installed Docker on our Tascam DR-40 and Ran Out of Disk Space

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.

May 10, 2019, 7:16 p.m.

Three Hungry Developers Talk about Elm, Conference Cities, and Foooood

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.

May 3, 2019, 4:29 p.m.

We Read the Django 2.2 Release Notes So You Don't Have To

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.

April 26, 2019, 2:13 p.m.

Live from NWA TechFest 2019 w/ Daniel Worthy and Chrissy Wainwright

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.

Chrissy Wainwright, Daniel Worthy, Lofty Labs
64 mins.
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April 19, 2019, 3:30 p.m.

Where to Get Started with Web Development in Python w/ Blake Johnston

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

April 12, 2019, 6:27 p.m.

High Availability and Site Reliability on a Flaky Friday

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

April 5, 2019, 3 p.m.

Project starter kits, Ph.D's in DnD, and Technical Debt w/ Blake Johnston

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.

March 29, 2019, 2 p.m.

eCommerce, Application Monitoring, and Dashboards

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

March 22, 2019, 3:19 p.m.

Developer Productivity and Kubernetes Part 2 w/ Sloan Ahrens and Blake Johnston

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

March 15, 2019, 2 p.m.

DNS, Registries, and Registrars 50% Live from the Cayman Islands w/ Tosh Lyons

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

March 8, 2019, 2:30 p.m.

Devops and Kubernetes with Sloan Ahrens

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

March 1, 2019, 3:19 p.m.

Ruby and Python, a Dysfunctional Arkansas Family Reunion w/ Alex Williams

Alex Williams joins us to do some comparing and contrasting between Ruby and Python.

Alex Williams, Alan Fraley, Casey Kinsey, Tyrel Denison
69 mins.
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Feb. 22, 2019, 3:30 p.m.

AppSec roundtable and Blake-shaming w/ guest Chris Hobbs

Chris Hobbs is a Sr. Software Engineer at Malwarebytes and he joins us again to talk web app security.

Feb. 15, 2019, noon

Developing for the Web in 2019 w/ Blake Johnston

We bring our semi-regular guest / token Javascript developer Blake Johnston back to talk about how building software for the web has changed over the years.

Feb. 8, 2019, 6 a.m.

Coffee with Nano w/ Guest Jeremy Welkley

Jeremy Welkley, Sr. Developer at Field Agent joins the crew to cover a whole bunch of ground including migrating to Python 3, text editors, regular expressions, Go, HTTP in C and more.

Feb. 1, 2019, 4 p.m.

Hiring and Getting Hired as An Entry Level Developer w/ Blake Johnston

Blake Johnston, aka the Rachel Maddow of Javascript, sits down with us again, this time to talk about how to hire and train entry level developer talent.

Jan. 25, 2019, noon

All About Side Hustles w/ Blake Johnston

Blake Johnston is back for another episode and we talk about side hustles!

Jan. 18, 2019, noon

PaaS Roundup for Python Apps and More

Tyrel, Alan, and Casey share some personal experiences and preferences with Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings and how they stack up.

Jan. 11, 2019, noon

All About Design Patterns and Vendor Lock Desensitization

The FAD crew finds a github repo with code samples of various design patterns implemented in Python and we do our absolute best to do more with it than read it to you over your speakers.

Jan. 4, 2019, 6 a.m.

Python API Framework Roundup: DRF, APIStar, Falcon, and More

asey, Alan, and Tyrel round up some of the Python web API frameworks they've been exploring and how they stack up to one another.

Dec. 28, 2018, 6 a.m.

Get Off My IRC Channel, Elder Millennial Edition

Just like Christmas at your house, it's not official until everyone has too much to drink and bitches about generational differences.

Dec. 21, 2018, 6 a.m.

Pee Sharks Joined the Call w/ Daniel Worthy

Dec. 14, 2018, noon

Left-pad 2.0 w/ Blake Johnston

Another npm package destroys the internet and Microsoft bows out of the browser wars w/ Blake Johnston

Dec. 7, 2018, 4 p.m.

Spinners and Flame Paint w/ Guest Chris Hobbs

We welcome our first guest to the show and talk about penetration testing and Django's proposed core team re-org.

Nov. 30, 2018, 11 p.m.

Panic Mode Debugging and Server Room Nostalgia

Tyrel, Alan, Casey, and Ben celebrate Tyrel's successful hunt and talk about debugging terrible situations from the war room.

Nov. 23, 2018, 4 p.m.

Outdoors 4 Nerds, Shell Tips, and Ham Radio.

Alan, Tyrel, and Hayden overflow a memory buffer into catfish noodling then share some tips and preferences with bash, zsh, and git.

Nov. 16, 2018, 6 a.m.

Skynet is an 8 Year Old

Casey, Ben, Alan and Hayden discuss AI's acting literally even though they knew what you meant.

Nov. 8, 2018, 6 a.m.

Guilty by Laravel Association, Zed v Guido, and AI Art

We explore why Laravel and Vue are so intertwined, whether or not AI can truly produce art, and more on our inaugural episode.

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Friday Afternoon Deploy Is:

Casey Kinsey

Co-Host / Founder & CEO @ Lofty Labs

Tyrel Denison

Co-Host / Senior Engineer @ Lofty Labs

Alan Fraley

Co-Host / Software Engineer @ Lofty Labs

Hayden Luckenbach

Co-Host / Software Engineer @ Lofty Labs