Friday Afternoon Deploy: A Developer Podcast

Casey, Alan, & Joseph go through, some highlights of the Django 5.0 release notes: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.0/releases/5.0/

Alan & Joseph catch up with Tyrel, getting nihilistic about software development and all things technology...with maybe a shred of hope somewhere out there. © 2023

Casey, Alan, & Joseph try to discuss what podcasts we're listening to and devices on the edge, but we ended up with a couple of great podcast names instead.

Casey and Joseph talk about data management: unlocking data science potential by understanding the problems, strategic planning, and implementing well-defined efficient programming standards and operations, while only taking a few shots at tech behemoths and JS...

Joseph asks the engineers AI generated software engineering questions; our chaotic mess ensues...

Product and Engineering remain civil, but honest as we discuss the excuses we use when things heat up.

It's another imaginative episode of "Friday Afternoon Deploy". Join Alan, Evan, Joseph, Andrew, and Audrey (the newest inductee) as they authoritatively discuss comfy chairs, table-top gaming, probability, life as an introvert, and touch on few software development opinions like observability, telemetry, and SLAs. It's definitely unconventional, possibly wise, and definitely light-hearted fun...

Old faithful FAD pod attendee Alan is joined by Joseph, Evan, and Cody to discuss Apple's Vision Quest, mixed/augmented/virtual reality, and 1990s movie choice for a special Friday Afternoon Deploy...at midnight. ENJOY!

Some of the Lofty Northwest Arkansas locals joined for a podcast episode crammed full of their favorite...or at least most recently watch YouTube resources.

Tired of hearing about AI? We've got some stories, and more than a few opinions...

New Year resolutions from the FAD crew? (Almost) none at all - but not for the reasons you may think.

Casey & the team close out the year with honest commentary about coding, Slack, and company communications.

The FAD crew gather ‘round to discuss why smoking turkey is superior to frying. Plus some Python.

Tyrell makes a quick return to the podcast as the team muses on games, pop culture, and software development.

Casey, Alan and Cody catch their breath after the latest round of sales conferences to chat about coding. Plus hiring!

Stories of hot brass, cold spiders, and Basecamp woes get tossed around with the FAD crew. Send in your arachnid tale, if you dare.

Alan and Casey muse on streaming content, figuring out Lofty’s identity, and the FAD Patreon.

The FAD team (finally) get together to talk about being profitable, Big Chris’s car problems, and Lofty’s growing pains.

Casey, Chris & Alan talk about Web 3.0, cryptocurrency, and why they’re skeptical about what the future claims to be.

Suborbital’s Director of Engineering Oscar makes a long-awaited return to FAD with real, undiluted excitement for Grain & WASM’s future.

Fake job applicants? Vehicle accidents? Swedish death cleaning in software? The FAD crew muse about mortality, tech and more.

Big Chris, Tyrel, and Casey finally fit in the new sound booth - just in time to talk about pop culture, dogs, and the wild hiring season.

Sometimes, Casey and the FAD crew actually talk about coding, Javascript, Python, HMTX, and more. Who would have thought?

The team gets together to regale listeners about origin stories, SaaS fillers, and the adventures of having tech-savvy kids. Plus we're hiring! https://lofty-labs-llc.breezy.hr

It’s Lab Day at Lofty! The crew get together to talk about demos, speculate on dropping tables, and enable custom Slack notifications. Hummus, anyone?

The FAD Crew gather around to share stories of their watch choices, subscription-only seat warmers, and the FCC's 'official observers'. Also, Kubernetes.

Blake rejoins Casey and Tyrel to regale them with tales of his new workplace. They discuss why the podcast is a great culture filter for Lofty, what databases shouldn’t be your primary persistent data store, and why it’s so hard to stay off Facebook. Get on the enterprise service bus - it’s time for Friday Afternoon Deploy. “I want some guarantees: whether it's guaranteed to be right, guaranteed to be run once, guaranteed to only be delivered once, or guaranteed to be redelivered until receipt. Like there's a lot of things there that you want to be able to configure that Redis Pub/Sub is not exactly … It's not just like, who wants to be the one to tell Doug McMillon that we lost an entire Walmart day worth of retail data? You know what I mean? Or like, we accidentally counted February twice. It says a whole thing.”

“So we actually did lots of, like, unformalized pairing. And I think, in a remote situation you do kind of have to formalize some of that, because what you don't realize is how much domain knowledge gets lost or siloed really quickly that without being in a room together, just even hearing conversations and stuff like that. … Stuff organically percolates and expands when you're all in the same room.’”

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from the FAD Crew! We welcome back Meredydd, founder of Anvil, and talk the virtues of tv's as monitors, transatlantic cabling, and Lisp.

Tyrel and Casey are joined once more by Chris Allen (Big Chris) as they talk about being NFT-curious, why being software-aware in sales works, and where the idea of mallsoft meets HTMLX. Also, mayonnaise versus Miracle Whip.

Blake joins Alan and Casey to talk about Blake's new job, our new office, and frustrating people.

The studio is overrun with Chrises as Chris Hobbs and Chris Allen join Tyrel to discuss marketing in the modern world, asynchronous messaging for inter-service communication, and the corruptive power of Chris Allen's uncle.

Alan and Tyrel are joined by Meredydd Luff, founder of Anvil (anvil.works), to discuss cycling, curry, and the great lengths some people will go to avoid javascript.

Alan and Tyrel hold down the fort, while Casey has officially become a digital nomad. We talk life on the road while trying to maintain quality internet connection, who's the best budget vps provider, and question why syncing media across devices is still so terrible.

The triumphant return of Shawn is coupled with the Trent's first full episode to bring you episode 1 of For Ux Sake!

We are excited to have Shawn Bielefeldt join the podcast to discuss the benefits of incorporating a real ux designer and the dangers of Figma.

We talk go and when to use it (you can probably guess what we think at this point), we unpack some Star Trek lore, and best of all, you can go watch it on our Youtube channel!

It's our 100th episode of Friday Afternoon Deploy! Thank you all for coming on the ride these past couple of years. AND, we're back in the live studio with the original crew: Casey, Alan, Tyrel and Blake!

Alan, Tyrel, and Christopher Hobbs (now a card-carrying team member!) discuss sparkling vs still water, linting and ci, our old cd binders, and the finer points of some non-Python languages.

Tyrel and Daniel are joined by Chris Allen, the Director of Marketing for Lofty. They discuss the joys of using first gen hardware, how to tell stories about software development, and how close are we actually getting to Skynet.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

Happy new year, we're talking resoultions!

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

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

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