Friday Afternoon Deploy

Recent Episodes

May 1, 2021, 1:49 p.m.

Grab your safety glasses and join us in the lab

It's Lab Day at Lofty, and we are bringing you into our closing ceremony! Hear from new members of the team and see what we've been tinkering with to satiate our techno-curiosity.

April 16, 2021, 6:06 p.m.

We Can't Stop Hiring and Now We're Outnumbered

The Lofty team has been growing like crazy. Alan, Casey, and Tyrel reflect on our growth, how we're managing it, and how to prevent being overrun by the New Lofty hordes.

Lofty, Alan Fraley, Casey Kinsey, Tyrel Denison
91 mins.
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April 2, 2021, 9:27 p.m.

Uncle Blake teaches us how to trust Microsoft

Blake Johnston, the Captain to our Tenille, joins us to talk Microsoft's move on Discord, why you don't need your caps lock key, and how to make a better Box than Box.

March 5, 2021, 7:53 p.m.

Sometimes you smear, sometimes you spread w/ CK Hicks

Casey and Tyrel are joined by CK Hicks of Crema to discuss why Zoom calls can be so exhausting, how to stay plugged in to emerging tech as an agency, and if having a white table cloth disqualifies you from being a decent BBQ restaurant (it does).

Feb. 19, 2021, 8:35 p.m.

Reading in the future sucks, but new team members don't!

As the team braces for the great snowvid storm of 2021, we introduce the newest member of the Lofty family, Daniel, who has sadly been chained to a PC for work for the last several years. You can hear the relief of working on a Unix system in very word he utters.

Feb. 5, 2021, 8:49 p.m.

Understanding Django-CMS w/ Mario Colombo

Mario Columbo is the President of the Django CMS foundation, and he chats with Casey, Austin, and Tyrel about Django CMS and its role in the Python ecosystem.

Jan. 22, 2021, 8:39 p.m.

New Year's (Dev) Resolutions: 2021 Edition w/ Blake Johnston

Happy new year, we're talking resoultions!

Dec. 19, 2020, 4:42 a.m.

Web developers react to going full remote

The Lofty team has decided to embrace for the long haul, vaccines be damned.

Nov. 29, 2020, 9:02 p.m.

Wagtail v. Django CMS, A Python CMS Showdown

The crew chats about the top two CMS frameworks for Python.

Alan Fraley, Willow Moyer, Casey Kinsey, Tyrel Denison
73 mins.
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Nov. 14, 2020, 5:08 p.m.

Aussie Syntax and More w/ Tony Lamont

Patron Tony Lamont is back with us to talk programming, food, and the big differences he's noticed between the US and Australia

Nov. 1, 2020, 3:06 a.m.

Zombie Processes and Ghost Docker Containers

We run `docker ps` to see what's lurking in the shadows.

Oct. 16, 2020, 5 p.m.

Uber for Cats and other app pitch greatest hits

Casey can't let a Reddit thread go and we talk about some of the worst app ideas that have come through our front door.

lofty, Alan Fraley, Casey Kinsey, Tyrel Denison
75 mins.
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Oct. 2, 2020, 5:05 p.m.

JAM Stack and other classic architectures that people think are new w/ Blake Johnston

Blake is with us, and we're talking JAM Stack.

Sept. 18, 2020, 8:44 p.m.

Both members of the Julia community fire a shot over Python's bow

Julia fans coming in hot!

Aug. 7, 2020, 5 p.m.

Transitioning Projects, and Willow Really Hates Disney Movies

We're talking movies and the process of transitioning a project over to a client this week.

Alan Fraley, Willow Moyer, Casey Kinsey, Tyrel Denison
74 mins.
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July 25, 2020, 3:35 a.m.

Revisiting Kanban w/ Blake Johnston

Blake is back! We're back! Blake got us all fired up about Kanban last year so we couldn't wait to tell him we made the switch. Subscribe to find out if he goes all Javascript on us.

June 26, 2020, 8:12 p.m.

Game with Us: Talking Code and Playing Dominion

Casey, Alan, Tyrel, Austin, and Willow play a round of Dominion.games while we talk shop.

June 20, 2020, 2:52 a.m.

Deploy With Us, a Content Expirement

We're trying something different this week. When the client needs a Friday deploy, we deliver. Ride along in the war room for a real Friday Afternoon Deploy.

Alan Fraley, Willow Moyer, Austin Hackett, Tyrel Denison
66 mins.
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June 12, 2020, 6:06 p.m.

Forensic Debugging and Technical Debt

We're back! Alan, Casey, Tyrel, and Willow talk about technical debt and a recent adventure trying to figure out the evolutionary rationale behind a piece of code.

Alan Fraley, Willow Moyer, Casey Kinsey, Tyrel Denison
74 mins.
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May 22, 2020, 9:12 p.m.

Design Patterns, State Machines, and We Built an App!

Alan, Tyrel, Casey and Willow talk design patterns and announce Lofty's first in-house product, Delegate.

Alan Fraley, Willow Moyer, Casey Kinsey, Tyrel Denison
70 mins.
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May 18, 2020, 5:03 a.m.

Apparently you find THESE PEOPLE when searching for Javascript podcasts w/ Tony Lamont

Tony Lamont joins us for a Saturday Morning Deploy (in his timezone). Our first international guest is also a Patron.

Tony Lamont, Alan Fraley, Casey Kinsey, Tyrel Denison
80 mins.
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May 4, 2020, 2:38 p.m.

Rails v Django and Casey hates YAML w/ Joey Cardosi

Joey Cardosi joins us to compare contrast Rails and Django.

April 27, 2020, 1:53 p.m.

Functional Programming Part II w/ Evan Mattiza

Special thanks to Tony Lamont for this weeks intro! Evan Mattiza is one of our Patrons who joins us this week to follow up on our functional programming episode.

April 19, 2020, 2:49 p.m.

We feel bad for Zoom

We're a bunch of zoom apologists over here.

April 11, 2020, 3:43 p.m.

Quarantine Entertainment and Speed Runs

Another week of isolation, another distributed episode. We chat Raspberry Pi projects, VR gaming, and Youtube speed runs.

April 3, 2020, 5 p.m.

Functional programming in a dysfunctional world

Austin and Willow are back with us to talk about functional programming in our third remote quarantine podcast.

March 28, 2020, 7:18 p.m.

Social Distancing, Week #2: Microsoft buys npm and we wait for the Langoliers to eat us

It's another week of podcasting remotely and Blake, who is absolutely dressed for success and well groomed in his home office, joins us for the fun.

March 20, 2020, 4 p.m.

Social Distancing, Week #1: How Does Work From Home?

Our first Podcast From Home episode for obvious reasons and we talk about remote work and what we expect that to look like over the next few weeks.

lofty, Alan Fraley, Casey Kinsey, Tyrel Denison
76 mins.
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March 13, 2020, 7:16 p.m.

Live from VueConf 2020 at the Austin Convention Center w/ Oscar Spencer

Recorded at the conference venue for VueConf 2020, we hang out with Oscar Spencer, one of the event's speakers and co-creator of the Grain programming language.

March 7, 2020, 4:41 p.m.

TypeScript and Leonardo DiCaprio Movies

Blake is with us to talk TypeScript and movies.

Feb. 29, 2020, 9:47 p.m.

Dial-a-Trade with Chris Hobbs

Chris Hobbs is back with us and we cover a lot of ground!

Feb. 21, 2020, 6 p.m.

What Got You Into Programming?

Austin, Willow, Casey, and Tyrel reminisce about what attracted us to the profession of code wranglin'.

Feb. 14, 2020, 6 p.m.

Scary Movies, Sleep Disorders, VueConf and Programming Language Choice

We're going to be at VueConf US! Blake hangs with us to talk about horror movies and how/why we choose programming languages and frameworks.

Feb. 7, 2020, 10:08 p.m.

Transitioning from Windows to Mac Dev Environment w/ Daniel Worthy

Daniel Worthy is back and recently made the switch from Windows to Mac for a development environment.

Jan. 31, 2020, 5:46 p.m.

Scrum vs Kanban and Agile Estimation

Blake drops in and we compare his team's development process framework to our scrum process at Lofty.

Jan. 24, 2020, 6 p.m.

Do we really need mobile apps?

Austin Hackett is new to the team at Lofty and joins us for an episode to talk about how much we hate mobile apps and other topics.

Jan. 19, 2020, 8:09 p.m.

Listen to us listening to YouTube videos

Not really, that's only 6 minutes of the show.

Jan. 11, 2020, 4:55 a.m.

Browser power concentration and the most expensive computer you can buy

It's a full house today with Tyrel, Blake, Casey, Willow, and Alan.

Dec. 28, 2019, 5:07 a.m.

Stakeholder Management: Unplugging and Pushing Back

Tyrel and Casey chat about managing client expectations and avoiding burnout.

Dec. 21, 2019, 2:02 a.m.

We told Blake we were full stack JS to get him back on the show

Blake Johnston is back to talk Vue, Ember and more.

Dec. 13, 2019, 6:22 p.m.

Discovery and Terrible Software Analogies

We talk about how our team does discovery on new projects, and the terrible analogies that get used to compare the pricing and process software development to other skilled trades.

lofty
66 mins.
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Dec. 6, 2019, 10:23 p.m.

We Take Listener Questions on Developer Education

We take some questions from a listener on what our approach would be to developer education.

lofty
53 mins.
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Dec. 1, 2019, 6:26 p.m.

3 Devs and a Sales Guy talk D&D

Alan, Tyrel, Casey and Jon get on a tangent about Dungeons and Dragons that never ends.

lofty
46 mins.
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Nov. 22, 2019, 6:53 p.m.

App Hospice w/ Brad Cantin

Brad Cantin is a Software Architect for Malwarebytes and he joins us to chat about managing apps and products in long-term maintenance mode.

Nov. 15, 2019, 9:25 p.m.

Company Rebrand Party w/ Meagan and Jon

The company behind the show has changed its name from Lofty Labs to simply Lofty, and we're in party planning mode.

Lofty
56 mins.
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Nov. 8, 2019, 5:59 p.m.

Lorem Ipsum, image generators, and other tools for lazy front end work

Lorem Ipsum, Fill Murray, and our other favorite tools for pre-generating content when building and testing front-end applications.

Lofty
51 mins.
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Nov. 1, 2019, 8:53 p.m.

One Year of FAD: A Retrospective Without the Product Owner Beating You.

We've been making this show for a year and wanted to celebrate with some of our favorite moments!

Lofty
49 mins.
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Oct. 18, 2019, 6:09 p.m.

Our Favorite Programming and non-Programming Subreddits

We're talking Reddit and what we sub to, and also the fast food industry for some reason.

Oct. 11, 2019, 5:42 p.m.

We're Back on Spotify so We Talk about Coding Music

Alex, Blake, Tyrel, and Casey talk about what kind of music they listen to while slinging code.

Oct. 4, 2019, 5:31 p.m.

It's Crunch Time

Tyrel, Alan, and Casey are in the middle of a big push on a project deadline so we see how many PRs we can put up during the podcast. Alex watches from the distance and comfort of his cushy, low stress staff augmentation project.

Sept. 27, 2019, 6:57 p.m.

Raw SQL and Regular Expressions in Django w/ Jeremy Welkley

Jeremy Welkley is with us to defend his love of Raw SQL and Regular Expressions.

Sept. 20, 2019, 9:49 p.m.

Friday Morning Deploy: Strange Loop Recap, Elm, and Graphql

Tyrel recaps his adventures at Strangeloop / Elm Conf and the whole team experiences a dramatic conversion to GraphQL evangelism.

Sept. 13, 2019, 7:32 p.m.

Regex and a Pile Of Sticks

We're talking regex and Agile software development.

Sept. 6, 2019, 5 p.m.

Busted Sprints w/ Patron Guest

One of our Patrons, Wayman Bell, joins us to talk about Agile fails and broken sprint goals.

Aug. 30, 2019, 7:07 p.m.

Patron's Request: War Stories

As requested by one of our Patreon supporters, this week we're telling war stories of failed demos, service outages, and deleted databases.

Aug. 23, 2019, 4:15 p.m.

Web Software Architecture Extravaganza

Casey, Alan, and Alex talk through different architectures, from monoliths to microservices, in search of the perfect candidate.

Aug. 16, 2019, 3 p.m.

Programming Vices w/ Blake Johnston

On this week's episode Alex, Alan, Casey, and Blake talk about their vices when building applications.

Aug. 9, 2019, 6:22 p.m.

Commerce on the Internet is Hard

Tyrel is selling a car over the internet and his story takes some strange turns. Alan and Casey find some odd and admittedly contrived resonance in his experience with building eCommerce applications.

Aug. 2, 2019, 2:30 p.m.

Pokemon Flow Control

Alan, Alex and Casey chat flow control and structured concurrency.

July 27, 2019, 2:58 a.m.

blake run serve

Blake is back! We cover a range of topics, including Alan's latest bash alias.

July 19, 2019, 3:42 p.m.

Lofty Labs Turns 5! Live from the Crossroads in Kansas City

We're in Kansas City to celebrate Lofty Labs turning 5!

July 12, 2019, 2 p.m.

Pull Request: Elissa Shevinsky and Brett Thomas from Faster Than Light Talk Static Analysis with Python

Pull Requests are our guest interview format, and for our first ever we've got Elissa Shevinsky (formerly of Geekcorps, Everyday Health, and Brave) and Brett Thomas (formerly of PGP, Vindicia) who are co-founders of Faster Than Light chatting with us about static analysis and devops.

Brett Thomas, Elissa Shevinsky, Lofty Labs
67 mins.
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July 5, 2019, 1:51 p.m.

We Made a Rails Developer Write Django and a Django Developer Write Rails

Alex is a Rails developer who has come to build Django apps at Lofty. Alan is a Django developer who just inherited a Rails project for maintenance. Casey plays Dr. Phil and asks them to say nice things about the other's framework.

June 28, 2019, 5:17 p.m.

Drag and Drop App Building with Anvil, Is it Useful?

Check us out on Patreon! https://patreon.com/fridayafternoondeploy Alan, Casey, and Tyrel talk about web app builder tools like Anvil (which we were recently introduced to) and try to evaluate their usefulness and audience.

June 21, 2019, 7:11 p.m.

We Asked the Sales Guy to Define Programming Terms

Seth Kaffka, Account Executive here at Lofty Labs joins us for the show where Alan and Casey quiz him on his programming knowledge.

June 14, 2019, 4:11 p.m.

Frustrations with Web Sockets and Django, Exploring Pipenv, and Code Review

Alex talks through his frustrations trying to add Django Channels to an existing Django project, we talk about the new hotness with Pipenv, and touch on the value of good code review etiquette.

June 7, 2019, 6:27 p.m.

Python Developers Write Vue.js, Guido Drama, and Ducks

We cover a lot of topics, including recent work on a Vue.js project, some drama in the Python community, whatever the hell Milkshaking is, and more.

June 1, 2019, 2:41 a.m.

Shadowlands for Ethereum w/ Cath Thomas

Cath Thomas, developer of the Shadowlands Dapp platform for Etherium, joins us this week to talk, Python, cryptocurrencies, Etherium, and about his app Shadowlands.

May 24, 2019, 3:59 p.m.

The Path to Asnyc Django and Mispronounced Programming Terms

Alex Williams is back with us this time as a Lofty Labs teammate and not a guest! Alex, Tyrel, Alan, and Casey talk about some of the movement towards AsyncIO in Django's roadmap most recently brought to attention by Tom Christie's keynote at DjangoCon Europe 2019.

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

Daniel Worthy is a Director of Technology for VMLY&R in Rogers, AR. He was very disappointed to not be flame war'd over his language choices. The group discusses the favorite editors / IDEs between Atom, VSCode, Pycharm and Vim. Daniel talks about his experience on the advisor board for NWA TechFest. Jesse spreads untruths about the fabled Icelandic pee shark. Tyrel tells the story of peeing with a hot mic during a conference call and the group recalls their own conference call embarrassments. [http://friday.hirelofty.com/](http://friday.hirelofty.com/) [https://facebook.com/fridaydeploy](https://facebook.com/fridaydeploy) [https://twitter.com/fridaydeploy](https://twitter.com/fridaydeploy) **Mentioned in this Episode** - [NWA TechFest](https://nwatechfest.com/)

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

Tyrel Denison

Co-Host / Senior Engineer @ Lofty

Alan Fraley

Co-Host / Software Engineer @ Lofty