Expanding Beyond
Monica and Urban discuss their work life as developers and development managers.
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We finally come back to the mic to talk about what everyone is talking about: LLMs at work. Urban has stopped handwriting code, Monica is delegating debugging to Claude between meetings, and we both wonder out loud whether our processes, our hiring, and honestly our jobs are quietly being rewritten while we ride the wave.
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We finally have the in depth discussion about LLMs, how we use them, and what we think they might evolve into. We also touch on starting to pay more and more for stuff.
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Where to find Monica on the internet:
- Website: monicag.me
- Bluesky: @nirnaeth.bsky.social
- Mastodon: @nirnaeth@mastodon.online
- Github: @nirna...
It's side project time! Urban talks about moving a project from Heroku to fly.io and Monica starts volunteering her time to stay motivated.
- Fountain Pen Companion
- FPC Github repository
- [fly.io](fly.io)
- LiteFS
- Pgvector
- Vostel
- Freetown Christiania
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Where to find Monica on the internet:
- Website: monicag.me
- Bluesky: ...
Urban gets his AWS certificate and we discuss certifications in general and what they are good for. Especially in a B2B world. We also talk about project management and how no one seems to be in charge in a lot of places, as well as LLM generated code as yet another level of abstraction.
- Roles and Responsibilities retro
- Trillions by Robin Wigglesworth
- Dreamweaver
- AI Won't Fix the Fundamental Flaw of Programming
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In this episode we discuss meeting in person, thinking about architecture, and most importantly finding out the WHY for things.
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Where to find Monica on the internet:
- Website: monicag.me
- Mastodon: @nirnae...
In this episode we discuss LLMs, writing blog posts, running retros (in spreadsheets!), Shape Up and other processes. We end by asking YOU (the listener) to get back to us with what process you are using and if it works for you or not.
- Using a LLM to fight spam
- Obie Fernandez: Pioneering AI in Ruby on Rails Development
- Retromat
- Avoiding Waste retro
- Shape Up™
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- You ...
In this episode we talk about certifications and how they are somehow similar to hiring, cheating during interviews, and the pitfalls of employee surveys.
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Where to find Monica on the internet:
- Website: monicag.me
- Mastodon: @nirnaeth@mastodon.online
- Github: @nirnaeth
- Blog: de...
It's been a hot minute since the last episode and a lot has happened. Urban and Monica discuss their new jobs, getting fired, and of course LLMs!
- https://www.fountainpencompanion.com/blog/10-new-pen-and-ink-suggestion-widget-now-with-ai
- https://cursor.sh/
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Urban tells about his new job, and how it's quite different than the previous one. Monica thinks about her future and what kind of job to do next.
- Martijn Doolaard (renovating in the Italian Alps)
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Where to find Monica on the internet:
- Website: monicag.me
- Mastodon: @nirnaeth@mastodon.online
- Githu...
Urban is just chilling, but Monica is trying to help her team to be less scared about releasing to production and maybe ... maybe go back to being a developer ... at some point.
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- Website: monicag.me
- Mastod...
Urban talks about resigning and what to do for the remaining time and how different notice periods can affect offboarding. Monica is looking for contractors (let her know where to look!) and thinks about the similarities and differences when working for small or big companies.
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We discuss rubyday 2023, taking care of large applications, testing strategies for startups, and the dearth of practical literature around startups in general.
- rubyday 2023
- Metaprogramming Ruby 2
- Programming Ruby (Pickaxe book)
- Pragmatic Programmer
- packwerk
- Software Testing | worx4you Inc
- Scratch from MIT
- Gosu
- PyGame Zero
- Guinea Pig YouTube channel
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Monica and Urban discuss what they've been up to in the last six months.
- Why Construction Projects Always Go Over Budget
- Release It! by Michael Nygard
- Engineering Management for the Rest of Us by Sarah Drasner
- An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management by Will Larson
- Listener question: https://masto.ai/@edebill@wandering.shop/109501793033994252
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We are reminiscing about doing 49 episodes, as well as answer listener questions!
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Where to find Monica on the internet:
- Website: monicag.me
- Mastodon: @nirnaeth@mastodon.online
- Github: @nirnaeth
- Blog: dev.to/nirnaeth
Where to find Urban on the internet:
...Urban's company got acquired and Monica quits her job!
- You can reach us via email at hosts@expandingbeyond.it.
- You can follow us on Twitter at @podcast_eb.
Where to find Monica on the internet:
- Website: monicag.me
- Mastodon: @nirnaeth@mastodon.online
- Github: @nirnaeth
- Blog: dev.to/nirnaeth
Where to find Urban on the internet:
- Twitter: @ujh
- Github: @ujh
- Blog: urbanhafner.com
Monica gets on her soapbox to complain about (the misuse of) user stories, rethinking processes in JIRA. We also discuss making decisions in big groups.
- You can reach us via email at hosts@expandingbeyond.it.
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Where to find Monica on the internet:
- Website: monicag.me
- Twitter: @KFMolli
- Github: @nirn...
We discuss OKRs, release testing, and Urban's side project.
- Urban’s side project
- You can reach us via email at hosts@expandingbeyond.it.
- You can follow us on Twitter at @podcast_eb.
Where to find Monica on the internet:
- Website: monicag.me
- Twitter: @KFMolli
- Github: @nirnaeth
- Blog: dev.to/nirnaeth
Where to find Urban ...
We discuss how successful side projects require the same to scale than actual companies, but on a smaller scale, what to do as a manager when your team suddenly has a project manager, as well as release testing.
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Where to find Monica on the internet:
- Website: monicag.me ...
We discuss Urban's appearances on other podcasts (that you should listen to!) as well as Monica handling layoffs from the point of view of a manager.
- On the maintainable podcast with Robby Russel: https://www.maintainable.fm/episodes/urban-hafner-management-isnt-for-everyone
- On the Code With Jason podcast: https://www.codewithjason.com/podcast/10785120-150-urban-hafner/
- You can reach us via email at hosts@ex...
- You can reach us via email at hosts@expandingbeyond.it.
- You can follow us on Twitter at @podcast_eb.
Where to find Monica on the internet:
- Website: monicag.me
- Twitter: @KFMolli
- Github: @nirnaeth
- Blog: dev.to/nirnaeth
Where to find Urban on the internet:
- Twitter: @ujh
- Github: @ujh
- Blog: urbanhafner.com
The intro and outro music is Our Big Adventure by Scott Holmes. It's licensed under Attr...
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