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  • Join us for a laid back catch up on what's going on in the world of software, enterprise business, news for software and tech, and miscellaneous bureaucracy.
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  • Episode 15: Working with Neurodiversity

    Episode 15: Working with Neurodiversity
    Mar 29 2025
    Chris Knight, Head of Data & AI Demand, Delivery & Financial Operations, talks about his work life, and dealing with Neurodivergence Mark has been fiddling around with Kit and automation for emails for our newsletter. Chris is says you can only last a week without a dishwasher Michael calls people Rain Man. Hasn't even seen it. Subscribe to our new Newsletter! (https://newsletter.ctrl-alt-expletive.com/subscribe) Stay informed about new episodes, and get beautiful news and recommendation links. Who is Chris Knight? Chris has a very unusual story of how he eventually landed into his senior role. Buckle in! Quickfire Questions: What’s one thing that’s certain to distract you, when you’re working? When are you at your most focused? Do deadlines help or stress you out? What’s something neurotypical people often get wrong about neurodivergence? One app or tool you couldn’t live without? You meet someone new at work, and although they haven’t come out and said “I’m Neurodivergent”, you can just tell. What sort of things are you noticing? What does time management look like for neurodivergent people? Breaking Prod Chris is breaking records in style, with an email whoopsie to all customers Big Topic: Neurodiveristy What sort of stigma comes with being neurodivergent? Have you tried during your career did you pretend you weren't neurodivergent, by “masking”? Did you ever tell yourself, or have other people tell you, “you need to try harder”, even though you felt you were already giving it your all? When’s the right time to tell your boss/employer? From the corporate side, what does good support look like from your employer? In some ways, your Neurodivergence makes things more difficult – are there any ways in which it’s your superpower? What's your take on medication? What should parents know about neurodivergence? How do you support your daughter? News TikTok Misinformation Is Warping Young People's Understanding of ADHD (https://www.sciencealert.com/tiktok-misinformation-is-warping-young-peoples-understanding-of-adhd) (sciencealert.com) “of the top 100 most-viewed TikTok videos tagged for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) content, fewer than half matched the professional diagnostic criteria for the condition.” “using the top 100's five most accurate and five least accurate videos, as judged by clinical psychologists. These 10 clips were then shown to 843 undergraduates taking an introductory psychology course, who were asked to rate them based on their perceived educational value. While the best five videos scored an average of 3.6 from psychologists for accuracy, they only got a score of 2.8 from the students. The worst five videos for accuracy scored 1.1 from psychologists, but 2.3 from students.” Wes Streeting: there is overdiagnosis of mental health conditions. Health secretary says too many people are being ‘written off’ and that is driving ministers’ changes to welfare (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/19/culture-warriors-overdiagnosis-mental-health-cuts) (The Guardian) From Wes Streeting: “Here’s the other thing, mental wellbeing, illness, it’s a spectrum and I think definitely there’s an overdiagnosis, but there’s too many people being written off and, to your point about treatment, too many people who just aren’t getting the support they need. So if you can get that support to people much earlier, then you can help people to either stay in work or get back to work.” Neurodiverse staff well suited to a changing world (https://www.thetimes.com/business-money/article/neurodiverse-staff-well-suited-to-a-changing-world-pmzztt69k) (The Times, paywalled) > "People with conditions such as autism, ADHD, dyspraxia and dyslexia bring unique skills to the workplace" Recommendations Neurodivergence NHS Website (https://www.hee.nhs.uk/our-work/pharmacy/transforming/initial/foundation/resources/edi/neurodiversity) ADHD Love, YouTube Channel (https://www.youtube.com/@ADHD_love) How to ADHD, by Jessica McCabe (https://howtoadhdbook.com/) TV LOL: Last One Laughing (https://www.amazon.co.uk/LOL-Last-One-Laughing-Season/dp/B0DSJRWRHC), reality comedy on Amazon Prime Gangs of London (https://www.sky.com/watch/gangs-of-london) Action Drama from Sky Music Why? - The Well I Fell Into :: Alternative :: Apple Music (https://music.apple.com/gb/album/the-well-i-fell-into/1742837370) · Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/album/6s2rZ96eQJvjsN5j9eIv1Y) · YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAy2wbQa84SouruZQBc91U0iMo0UKIclG) HHY & the Kampala Unit :: Electronic Jazz :: Apple Music (https://music.apple.com/gb/artist/hhy-the-kampala-unit/1531710246) · Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/artist/7GcuBD0DAlemw4ebJU925p) · YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQ5uFxLSDeRApuTFBb1gyjg) Wilkinson :: Electronic, Drum 'n' Bass :: Apple Music (https://music.apple.com/gb/artist/wilkinson/3075647) · Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/...
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  • Episode 14: DevOps, Platform Engineering and Site Reliability Engineering, with Dave McNeill

    Episode 14: DevOps, Platform Engineering and Site Reliability Engineering, with Dave McNeill
    Mar 21 2025
    We have the long awaited and hugely experienced Dave McNeill, talking all things Operations, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, tales of incidents, working in a startup environment, opinions on golang and python, and so much more. Subscribe to our new Newsletter! (https://newsletter.ctrl-alt-expletive.com/subscribe). Stay informed about new episodes, and get beautiful news and recommendation links. Michael has been feeling old We're using Vault and wondering about building kubernetes operators Who is Dave McNeill? How did you first get into computers? How did you get your first job in tech? Where are you working now, What does your day to day job look like? Quickfire Questions Vim, VSCode, or vibe coding in cursor? You can only code in one language for the rest of your life, what do you pick? Personal texting – preferred platform? Why? Why not whatsapp? Biggest user crime of making container images? Oldest piece of untouched software you’ve seen running in production? Breaking Prod Leaderboard Surely someone in Ops has seen something go wrong... with account balances? Big Topics Hot Takes, and what Dave thinks of them: * "SRE is just re-branded Ops" * "DevOps is Dead, Long Live Platform Engineering" * "Programming Languages will become obsolete, English is the new programming language" * "Disaster recovery training is just something google wrote in a book and nobody does it" News * More supply chain attacks (https://www.wiz.io/blog/new-github-action-supply-chain-attack-reviewdog-action-setup) (wiz.io blog) Google Acquires Wiz for $32 Billion (https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/03/18/google-acquire-wiz-32-billion/) (helpnetsecurity.com) Amazon removing privacy options from Alexa (https://www.techspot.com/news/107175-amazon-removing-option-local-alexa-processing-forcing-all.html) (techspot.com) BYD have a car that charges in 5 minutes (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/18/byd-ev-fast-charging-system-petrol-fuel-speed) (The Guardian) Recommendations DevOps, Platform Eng, SRE The SRE Handbook (https://sre.google/sre-book/table-of-contents/) (Free google book) A Tour of Go website (https://go.dev/tour/list) Release It! (https://pragprog.com/titles/mnee2/release-it-second-edition/) (pragmatic prorammer bookshelf) Platform Engineering, Camille Fournier (https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/platform-engineering/9781098153632/) (O'Reilly) Wardley Mapping (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkePAhnkHeg) (YouTube) Music Truthpaste :: Manchester Indie Pop :: Apple Music (https://music.apple.com/gb/artist/truthpaste/1793805265) · Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/artist/1jX7jSANud3GSSMfs41KPs) · YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRsdPzCthUM&t=1s) Sharon Van Etten - Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory :: American singer-songwriter Alternative Album :: Apple Music (https://music.apple.com/gb/album/sharon-van-etten-the-attachment-theory/1770826874) · Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/album/5aGKc7OL3d1aJodCG2747F?si=o2VqwgKbTIernpKx6ES8GQ) · YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kwnCx-2Y7F_8SM8dLrOiz8aLML14-9OgU) The Bug Club :: Welsh indie energetic garage and punk :: Apple Music (https://music.apple.com/gb/artist/the-bug-club/1552259279) · Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/artist/7eiTMbuHYUPjrAMjIhAVDB?si=jo2FyAeARCCVfB7stSfTJA) · YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChXs6Ghb4yDtMGHypiRPj7w) TV Adolesence (https://www.netflix.com/gb/title/81756069) (Netflix) School Swap: UK to USA (https://www.channel4.com/programmes/school-swap-uk-to-usa) (Channel 4) Podcast Steering Engineering (https://steering-engineering-podcast.simplecast.com) If you enjoyed the show, please leave us a recommendation, subscribe to our new newsletter (https://newsletter.ctrl-alt-expletive.com/subscribe), but most importantly, tell a friend! Special Guest: Dave McNeill.
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  • Episode 13: Scaled Agile processes and stories with Raxit Ramani

    Episode 13: Scaled Agile processes and stories with Raxit Ramani
    Mar 14 2025
    We've got Raxit Ramani, a highly experienced Agile Coach and Project Manager talking about Scaled Agile, SAFe, Stories of things being wrong, and how different government bodies have operated in the past. Subscribe to our new Newsletter! (https://newsletter.ctrl-alt-expletive.com/subscribe). Stay informed about new episodes, and get beautiful news and recommendation links. Michael is still pale after a weekend in the sun. He didn't shed a tear after being in the Spa's floation tank Mark dropped a treadmill on his foot. Raxit had a good job interview You only need one server, given it is sufficiently powerful... Quickfire Questions Your opinion of Agile, in one word. Personal preference: Public sector or private sector work? What’s the biggest crime against Jira? Worst excuse you’ve ever heard for missing a sprint goal or PI goal, or just not having a bit of work done? Longest you’ve ever seen a story carried over in the next, and the next, and the next sprint? You join a team, day 1, they show you their organisation stuff, and they do all planning in excel. Do you go with the flow, or immediately advocate something else? Why? Biggest red flag that someone isn’t really agile? What’s a task you dread doing throughout the PI increment? Most valuable certifications? ## Breaking Prod Leaderboard We have a new winner! With 3 distinct stories! Big topic for the week How would you describe to a new developer, the definition of modern agile software development? What’s it all about? You’ve done a scrum master / agile lead type role before. How does a department know when it’s ready to start thinking about a scaled agile framework? What sort of problems might they notice first that agile hasn’t seemed to solve for them, even though they’re doing scrum and/or kanban well? If 5 or so teams have identified the problem, how do they get business buy-in to get someone in to help with a scaled agile framework? Have you seen a scaled agile implementation fail? What are the biggest mis-steps in scaled agile failing? How would you even know it’s failing? What sort of stuff gets measured? Are there KPIs? Does it make any impact on individual contributors? Or is this just something that helps their managers and product owners be better organised? Do top software companies do this? Are there any scenarios you’ve seen people implement this, and it was just the wrong idea? News Google chrome sale from DOJ (https://www.macrumors.com/2025/03/10/doj-google-chrome-sale/) (MacRumors) Google donates to Trump inauguration (https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/09/google-donates-1-million-to-trumps-inauguration-fund.html) (CNBC) Artists release album “Is This What We Want?”, protesting AI (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/feb/25/kate-bush-damon-albarn-1000-artists-silent-ai-protest-album-copyright) (The Guardian) HR managers creates 22 fake employees and cashes their pay check for 10 years (https://townflex.com/hr-manager-created-22-fake-employees-steal-2-2-million/) (TownFlex.com) Recommendations SAFe & Scaled Agile Scaled Agile Website (https://scaledagile.com) The Art of Avoiding a Trainwreck (https://www.abebooks.co.uk/9781094752280/ART-Avoiding-Train-Wreck-Practical-1094752282/plp) (Abe Books) Learning Agile (https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/learning-agile/9781449363819/) (O'Reilly) Tech Ghostty (https://ghostty.org) vs. Warp (https://www.warp.dev), and oh-my-posh (https://ohmyposh.dev) Music Courting - Lust for Life, Or: 'How To Thread The Needle And Come Out The Other Side To Tell The Story' :: British Alt Rock album :: Apple Music (https://music.apple.com/gb/album/lust-for-life-or-how-to-thread-the-needle-and-come/1773066446) · Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/album/7m3pnC0KsBgoLlkTkiaId6?si=LQlcNK7ZRFKqOdvi3Ar5yA) · YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILaWbHwRjXo&list=PLHTo__bpnlYUN_ffmtGQXosM0w-IkQjxz) Mercury Rev :: American Rock Band :: Apple Music (https://music.apple.com/gb/artist/mercury-rev/3240538) · Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/artist/77oD8X9qLXZhpbCjv53l5n) · YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMmXzJaR-kZgt12dhyncGCw) Fat White Family - Champagne Holocaust :: British Alt Rock album :: Apple Music (https://music.apple.com/gb/album/champagne-holocaust-deluxe-edition/1090360470) · Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/album/6WeKsrSDY4XHEYenu3HEZc) · YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSWOXeS19vdpX4GxZTkcj5A) The Limiñanas :: French Rock band:: Apple Music (https://music.apple.com/gb/artist/the-limi%C3%B1anas/389053777) · Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/artist/2joJCoCL4EmiVqic3vZn7n?si=RaChBiS7RyiFSOOXY-WVqQ) · YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqtSEOA-Toztj74wKq6H7gw) DJ Counselling - Caring EP :: House album :: Apple Music (https://music.apple.com/gb/album/caring-ep/1733656722) · Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/album/1OlUD0LH7yiFLfDiSatt8l) · YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nu0JuFN5xhXWVQNJhkl327YJNYWCfuN7E) TV Drive ...
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