In this Weekly Squeak I have my old cohost back to discuss recent trends in IoT and her visit to IFA in Berlin, will the hybrid format be the future of conferences in the medium term? I also cover Goodreads, Flutter, Swift, Kubernetes, and famous historical deaths.

In this DXpose I look at the developer experience behind the Microsoft Quantum development kit. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/quantum/development-kit

Rebecca, Jason, and Chris try to encourage cats in space to give opinions and senators in heaven are selling meeples. Will the games we create be total nonsense, or race to the top of the hotness lists?

In this episode of the Solo Adventurer I play the first part of Alone against the flames by Gavin Inglis, which is a Call of Cthulhu solo scenario.

In this episode of the Weekly Squeak I speak with Jiten Vaidya and Sugu Sougoumarane of Planet Scale, a solution for scaling MySQL on Kubernetes. I also cover Mozilla, returning to the office, Canonical, and can open source be bought?

In this DXpose I look at the developer experience behind Planet Scale, simple, scalable MySQL on Kubernetes.

Your Kubernetes configuration represents environments that are a fundamental part of your application, unyet we generally treat them as less important from our application code. In this post we look at best practices for managing changes to configuration, and how to treat it the way it deserves.

I wanted to create a cross-platform app to aggregate all my todos across various services. I turned to Flutter; was it a good idea? Read on to find out.

In DXpose I look at the experience behind a developer focussed tool. This week it’s the turn of Insomnia that promises to let you design, debug, and test APIs like a human, not a robot. https://insomnia.rest/

In this episode I speak with Christian Nunciato, author of Pulumi in Action from Manning.

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Join me on a solo roleplaying game exploring violence, woe, and dissociation.

So many documentation websites rely on search as part of their information architecture. But what do you actually need to consider if you want to make your site search return answers for users in relevant, efficient ways? Join Peter Levan from Funnelback with regular guests Chris, Jared, and Tom for a talk all about making search work well on your site. Some of the questions discussed include: Why can’t you just let Google do the searching and indexing for you? Do you need to pay big money to get a site search tool? How do you make your docs site talk robot?

In this episode I speak with Paolo Negri about their API-first content platform. Also features the story of Bullfrog, history books for roleplayers, judging an open source project, and more.

This episode I look at Contentful, The content platform for the digital-first era.

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