Systems can be simple, complicated, complex, or chaotic… but even that model is too simple, because they can also be all of these at once! Notes: The post The Cache Flush Episode 13: The Grammar of Systems first appeared on avdi.codes.By Avdi Grimm

In 1964, Joseph Weizenbaum created the famous "ELIZA" program, with which a human user could hold a simulated "therapy" session. The implications of the human reactions to ELIZA and later research inspired Weizenbaum to write one of the formative cautionary reflections on ethics in artificial intelligence. Today, as ChatGPT storms the world, this b…

In this episode, selections from Chapter 2 of The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America. Notes Transcript This is the Cache Flush, a programmer’s audio scrapbook. This is episode 11, recorded Sunday, April 30th, 2023. Today I have some selections from chapter two of the Closed World Computers and […] The post The…

A semi-reboot of the show. I'll be reading selections from my "software humanities" library - books and papers at the intersection of code and history, psychology, politics, ethics, ecology, and systems thinking. The post The Cache Flush Episode 010: Making Errors, Making Sense, Making Use first appeared on avdi.codes.…

Booknotes from Domain-Driven Design and Reactive Design Patterns, and some notes on mentorship vs sponsorship. The post 009 Sponsorship Specifications first appeared on avdi.codes.By Avdi Grimm

Thoughts on strong opinions and terms for complexity; some booknotes from Reactive Design Patterns and Domain-Driven Design; notes from Jessica Kerr. The post 008 Reconstituted sophisticated opinions first appeared on avdi.codes.By Avdi Grimm

Booknotes on Domain Driven Design, and conversations with Jessica Kerr about silver bullets and why your own codebase always feels full of holes. The post 007 Silver duct tape factories first appeared on avdi.codes.By Avdi Grimm

Musings on the over-use of the term “impostor syndrome”, what it means to persist an object, and some booknotes on “Understanding Systems”. The post 006 Persistence of Impostor Relationships first appeared on avdi.codes.By Avdi Grimm

A conversation I had with Jessica Kerr, who says that when it comes to change, technical debt is not our biggest obstacle. The post 005 Jessica Kerr on the true barriers to change first appeared on avdi.codes.By Avdi Grimm

Musings on the meaning of software engineering, editor evolution, and balancing parenting with work. The post 004 Kids, Editors, Engineering first appeared on avdi.codes.By Avdi Grimm

Podcast RSS Show Notes: Artist, web designer Lynn Fisher is a serial creator. Her projects include: A Single Div, AirportCod.es and Why.AZ among others. I specialize in light-hearted projects. Lynn shares why she started A Single Div, why she loves using constraints for her creative projects and why she finds CSS an expressive medium to experiment …

Podcast RSS Show Notes: Prolific creator Kate Ray shares her experience of working on Crying in Public, a community-based map based in New York City. The project was one of her more technically complicated ones. “Users create all of the problems even while they create all of the value.” Kate talked about: getting labeled as “offensive content” by F…

Podcast RSS Show Notes: Software developer, screencaster and author Avdi Grimm gives Indiedotes a look behind the scenes of the creation of Ruby Tapas and Master the Object-Oriented Mindset in Ruby and Rails. “You can delegate more than you think…the only really essential part of what I do is my taste.” Avdi talks about how he determined what to de…

Podcast RSS Show Notes: Leah Culver talks about building Breaker, iOS app focused on podcast discovery. "I’m the kind of person who just plugs away at something until it’s done.” She shared the one test she uses to know when it’s time to bring in others, the approach they took to get users, how she picked Erik Berlin to work with, the two week prod…

Podcast RSS Show Notes: Sean Griffin built Diesel to answer the question he was asking himself: Can Rust work as a high level language? “I decided pretty early on that I didn’t want this to be my project, I wanted this to be the community’s project.” Sean went back through his early commits to understand how the project started and evolved. He shar…

Show Notes: Software developer and community manager Elizabeth Barron is an avid nature photographer who longed to find more places to shoot so she created Find a Shot. "We're all strapped for time....what can I do in a half hour?" Elizabeth talks about how she finds places to photograph, why she decided against open sourcing the project, crafting …

Podcast RSS Show Notes: Tracy Osborn is an author, designer and developer who has run four successful Kickstarter campaigns. "You can't just press the button..." Indiedotes spoke to Tracy about her latest Kickstarter campaign for Hello Web App 2.0 and what it really takes to run a successful Kickstarter. Tracy also shared her tips for running a suc…

Podcast RSS Show Notes: Serial maker and one of the founders of Botlist, Seth Louey shares the back story and how Botlist successfully launched on Product Hunt. “You just need to make an impact for a handful of people.” Seth shares: his advice for launching on ProductHunt, why Botlists launch was so successful, how the site makes money and why Botl…

Podcast RSS Show Notes: Brian Hogan built Codecaster to get the most out of the time he had with students in class by maximizing practice. “If you’re the teacher it’s your responsibility to create a welcoming teaching environment.” The creator of Codecaster on creating a product to solve your own problem, why he built it in a language he’d never us…

Show Notes Experienced software developer Andy Croll has helped shut down a number of projects. Rather than being a low point, it helped him gain more clarity. “You go in full of enthusiasm.” Andy shares why he doesn’t consider shutting a project down a total loss, and how a project ending helped him figure out his technological preference, what he…

Podcast RSS Show Notes: Robby Russell created Oh My Zsh to support his co-workers, never intending it to become a popular open source project. "This side project was a good way to experiment with some ideas.” Robby shares how a rescinded verbal offer transformed his career, setting him on a new path ultimately to starting Planet Argon. He speaks ab…

In Conversation With Avdi Grimm Avdi Grimm is in town(Bangalore) for RUBYCONF India 2018. Earlier today Atul Jha had a chance to sit with and talk about state of Ruby and other programming languages Links RubyConf India Avdi's Blog - Virtuouscode Twitter - @avdiBy Subramani Jaisankar

Podcast RSS Show Notes: Lara Hogan is the author of three books, including her latest, Demystifying Public Speaking. " I thought, maybe it will go horribly wrong, and maybe I'll learn something about myself." Lara shares how she found her publishers, finding her writing routine, how she got feedback, how she found the angle of her book and how long…

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Podcast RSS Show Notes: Ryan Luikens shares why he stopped drawing, how he got started again and reclaimed his creativity. " I had to find a way to transform from a professional non-creative into someone who made things." Ryan shares the story of how he wrote his first picture book in two weeks, changing his perception of himself and his theory of …

Podcast RSS Show Notes: Eric Holscher attended a 48 hour hackathon hoping to have a fun weekend building something. That project, Read the Docs, now has seven millions developers on the platform each month and is his full time job. "I'm wearing a pager, people are depending on me, it's something that's important to the community, so I need to inves…

Podcast RSS Show Notes: Lynne Tye created key : values to help match software developers with companies which hold similar values. She might make you rethink how you find your next job or your next employees. “Looking for a job was so painful.” The creator shares why she created key : values and: How she was able to go full time The role of mini la…

CES 2018 Observations on Technologies & Products appeard in CES 2018 Five themes that emerge out of CES 2018 ( Quantum Computing, IoT Orchestration, Transpotation(Urban mobility),VR, Robotics) Links CES 2018By Subramani Jaisankar

Podcast RSS Show Notes: A job interview inspired software developer Vaidehi Joshi to create Basecs, a weekly series, as a way to teach herself Conway’s Game of Life and other computer science problems. Along the way she's helped thousands of others do the same. “I thought it was just me who didn’t understand it.” Vaidehi shared how she found a bala…

Open Source 2017 What are some of the Open source technologies that grabbed healdlines in 2017 ? Docker Swarm VS Kubernetes. Can we say Kubernetes is inching ahead? How cloud service providers like Azure trying to adopt & adjust? AI Everywhere Good, Bad, Evil ? Indian IT Industry laid off 56,000 in 2017, This may just be a start. Hybrid crowd platf…

AWS re:INVENT 2017 - IoT Links AWS IoT Core AWS Greengrass AWS IoT Device Management AWS IoT Device Defender – Secure Your IoT Fleet AWS IoT Analytics: Delivering IoT Analytics AWS Greengrass ML Inference Amazon FreeRTOS AWS IoT 1-ClickBy Subramani Jaisankar

AWS re:INVENT 2017 - ML and DeepLens Links AWS DeepLens – Deep learning enabled video camera for developers - AWS AWS DeepLens – Get Hands-On Experience with Deep Learning With Our New Video Camera | Amazon Web Services Amazon SageMaker – Accelerating Machine Learning | Amazon Web Services Amazon Transcribe – Automatic Speech Recognition - AWS…

Podcast RSS Show Notes: Jake Sutton is a software developer and the creator of Tonight’s Negroni and the Dipsomania Podcast. Jakes uses side projects as a means of exploring different types of media. “I didn’t do it to create an audience, I did it for creative expression." Our wide ranging conversation covered the challenges of different mediums, h…

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Podcast RSS Show Notes: Justin Weiss is a software developer and the author of Practicing Rails. “Opportunities showed up or it was this job needs doing. So I’ll go and do it." Justin told us about learning to be a manager for the first time, how he knew when it was time to make a change, the question he asked himself to find happiness in his caree…

Podcast RSS Show Notes: Andrew Nesbitt, creator of Libraries.io, Dependency CI and 24 Pull Requests, cares deeply about solving the problems of discoverability and sustainability in open source. He created Libraries.io to help developers find new open source libraries, modules, frameworks, and keep track of the ones they depend on. “You are not you…

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Show Notes: Michael Eaton heads up Kalamazoo X, a tech conference that’s about everything except code. We talked about what it's like to run a conference described as a braver, more profane set of Ted Talks. Michael talks about the challenges fo marketing a conference that’s about the human side of technology, leaving the content in your speaker’s …

Podcast RSS Show Notes: After writing a traditionally published book, Anne Gentle, self-published her second: Docs Like Code. “No one else is doing this, I better write this down.” A product manager at Cisco, Anne used her side project as a way to experiment with the full scope of product management from writing, to selling, and marketing it. Anne …

Podcast RSS Show Notes: Software developer and author Zed Shaw recently made the decision to start charging for his Learn Python the Hard Way book. He discusses why he made this decision after offering the book for free to the community for years. “In many ways open source has conditioned me to not appreciate the value of what I do.” Zed talks abou…