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Just Five Mins!
by D. Sheardown
Take a break. Learn something new. Coffee-powered podcasts on tech topics in just five mins!
Episodes
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Episode 168 - Web MCP
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Episode 167 - Omarchy Linux
Another adventure into running Linux Desktops… Hey, this is a free podcast. However, if you feel you want to support me then check out Patreon. I will have some more detailed deep dives for Patreon members as well as one-to-one sessions. Or just buy a unicorn a coffee here! Oh, and yes, I have...
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Episode 166 - Herdr Agent Management
We are just herding digital cattle… Hey, this is a free podcast. However, if you feel you want to support me then check out Patreon. I will have some more detailed deep dives for Patreon members as well as one-to-one sessions. Or just buy a unicorn a coffee here! Oh, and yes, I have ended up on...
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Episode 165 - Are we still using personal agents
Okay, we are back - sort of! Personal agents? soooo many to choose from, but can you (or do you need to!) set up mostly local without spending a lot of cash? Take a listen! Some resource links below… Hey, this is a free podcast. However, if you feel you want to support me then check out Patreon.…
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Episode 164 - An agent an agent my kingdom for an agent
Hey, this is a free podcast. However, if you feel you want to support me then check out Patreon. I will have some more detailed deep dives for Patreon members as well as one-to-one sessions. Or just buy a unicorn a coffee here! Oh, and yes, I have ended up on YouTube (doesn’t everyone…
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Episode 163 - Markdown or HTML for Skills and Instructions
Hey, this is a free podcast. However, if you feel you want to support me then check out Patreon. I will have some more detailed deep dives for Patreon members as well as one-to-one sessions. Or just buy a unicorn a coffee here! Oh, and yes, I have ended up on YouTube (doesn’t everyone…
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Episode 162 - AI costs - the reckoning
Hey, this is a free podcast. However, if you feel you want to support me then check out Patreon. I will have some more detailed deep dives for Patreon members as well as one-to-one sessions. Or just buy a unicorn a coffee here! Oh, and yes, I have ended up on YouTube (doesn’t everyone…
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Episode 161 - AI Design is getting better Claude Design
Hey, this is a free podcast. However, if you feel you want to support me then check out Patreon. I will have some more detailed deep dives for Patreon members as well as one-to-one sessions. Or just buy a unicorn a coffee here! Oh, and yes, I have ended up on YouTube (doesn’t everyone…
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Episode 160 - Goodbye WordPress Hello WordPress
Hey, this is a free podcast. However, if you feel you want to support me then check out Patreon. I will have some more detailed deep dives for Patreon members as well as one-to-one sessions. Or just buy a unicorn a coffee here! Oh, and yes, I have ended up on YouTube (doesn’t everyone…
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Episode 159 - Google Gemma 4 and using it for your personal AI assistant
Hey, this is a free podcast. However, if you feel you want to support me then check out Patreon. I will have some more detailed deep dives for Patreon members as well as one-to-one sessions. Or just buy a unicorn a coffee here! Oh, and yes, I have ended up on YouTube (doesn’t everyone…
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Episode 158 - Your Own Development Team in your Coding Editor
Hey, this is a free podcast. However, if you feel you want to support me, then check out Patreon. I will have some more detailed deep dives for Patreon members as well as one-to-one sessions. Or just buy a unicorn a coffee here! Oh, and yes, I have ended up on YouTube (doesn’t everyone...
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Episode 157 - Skills Skills and more Skills Weekend Edition
Hey, this is a free podcast. However, if you feel you want to support me, then check out Patreon. I will have some more detailed deep dives for Patreon members as well as one-to-one sessions. Or just buy a unicorn a coffee here! Oh, and yes, I have ended up on YouTube (doesn’t everyone...
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Episode 156 - Designers are stitched up
Hey, this is a free podcast. However, if you feel you want to support me, then check out Patreon. I will have some more detailed deep dives for Patreon members as well as one-to-one sessions. Or just buy a unicorn a coffee here! Oh, and yes, I have ended up on YouTube (doesn’t everyone...
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Episode 155 - Impeccable Frontend UI
Hey, this is a free podcast. However, if you feel you want to support me, then check out Patreon. I will have some more detailed deep dives for Patreon members as well as one-to-one sessions. Or just buy a unicorn a coffee here! Oh, and yes, I have ended up on YouTube (doesn’t everyone...
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Episode 154 - PromptFoo taking care of your AI prompts
Hey, this is a free podcast. However, if you feel you want to support me, then check out Patreon. I will have some more detailed deep dives for Patreon members as well as one-to-one sessions. Or just buy a unicorn a coffee here! Oh, and yes, I have ended up on YouTube (doesn’t everyone...
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Episode 153 - VS Code Integrated Browser
Okay, so this is a little niche perhaps, but if you are a coder or even a bit of a coder (vibing!), then this new feature is pretty cool and at first look: you might miss it or think, “Well it’s just another browser, isn’t it?” But the new integrated browser in VS Code is pretty phenomenal...
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Episode 152 - Dont use your keyboard
So, we are all inherently lazy I guess, so why keep typing on the keyboard? I guess it is ingrained a bit however, what about actually putting AI to work to help with this? Some links from the show: Wispr (TBH, my favourite) Typeless Hey, this is a free podcast. However, if you feel you want to...
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Episode 151 - My Little (Pony) AI Agent
So, OpenClaw made a splash and hyped up things to frenzy level about AI agent assistants. n8n is still an amazing platform - free open source too, and you can do pretty much everything with n8n as I am explaining in this podcast. n8n is a graphical workflow/AI tool but you still need some...
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Episode 150 - OpenClaw or n8n (or even Claude Agents!)
Well, if you haven’t heard of “ClaudeBot”, “MoltBot” or now “OpenClaw”, then shame on you! You have once again missed the hype train ;)(probably not a bad thing, I think people out there have a real life?) Since recording this episode, I have seen some great examples where peeps have taken the…
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Episode 149 - Get Yo Skills
You need skills… from making coffee (decent coffee at least!) to whatever you do in your day job. Skills for AI has been introduced by the claude folks Anthropic. Skills are really useful and powerful, and in essence, just a set of folders in your code project (but not limited to code! could be a...
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Episode 148 - Moar AI Coding
It has been a little while… but I am back! and as ever, the subject is AI - of course it is! This one became (unintentionally!) a bit of a weekend ramble… Some links from the podcast: GitHub Copilot - get all of the main AI models in one place and for $10 :) Traycer AI - Sure, VS Code and other...
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Episode 147 - Javascript Frameworks vs Web Components
The ebb and flow… “this is great”… “this is bad…” the neverending movement. Well, there isn’t anything wrong with Javascript frameworks… use what you need and what you love. However, given the modern state of Javascript (and Typescript if that is your thing), do you really need the frameworks?…
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Episode 146 - Christmas Day 2025 Edition
Okay, it might sound a bit sad recording a JFM on Christmas day, but there we go :) Hey, this is a free podcast. However, if you feel you want to support me, then check out Patreon. I will have some more detailed deep dives for Patreon members as well as one-to-one sessions. Or just buy a unicorn…
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Episode 145 - Vibe Coding and then what?
So, where is all of this vibe coding taking us? Serious question, and I am not knocking the whole vibe coding thing - it does really does help anyone build apps, but what kind of apps? and how are they working in production/live? Some links from the show: Lovable Replit Google Antigravity -...
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Episode 144 - MCPs using all of those tokens!!
Here is the link from Anthropic about the topic being discussed. Hey, this is a free podcast. However, if you feel you want to support me then check out Patreon. I will have some more detailed deep dives for Patreon members as well as one-to-one sessions. Or just buy a unicorn a coffee here! Oh,...
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Episode 143 - Weekend Ramble #6
Well, it is one of those rambling weekends again! Link to the research paper here about TRM (Tiny Recursive Model) Hey, this is a free podcast. However, if you feel you want to support me then check out Patreon. I will have some more detailed deep dives for Patreon members as well as one-to-one...
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Episode 142 - Agents Agents MCP and A2A
Well, more agent stuff then! but what are you all doing with these AI agents? Open AI just released agent builder. If you believe their documentation, codex (their coding AI offering) wrote 80% of the agent builder itself… if that is indeed true, it is rather amazing. However, building out agent...
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Episode 141 - JetBrains free DataGrip
Who doesn’t like FREE ? Well, JetBrains (the folks who created WebStorm, PyCharm and Rider etc.) have now released one of my favourite database management tools free; DataGrip. Free for non-commercial use, but what a great tool to get across. So many different databases you can connect to not to...
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Episode 140 - LLMs Vectors Search and Quantization Explained
Okay, a little experiment. Okay, I have been researching how LLMs work with vectors and how AI search works for a while now. But rather than me warble on for a while (and more than 5 mins!), I have tried an AI approach to explain the research ;) In fairness, I did listen back to this, and...
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Episode 139 - RAG is Expensive but is it really
🧠 What RAG Actually Does RAG enhances LLMs by retrieving relevant external information (e.g. from documents or databases) at query time, then feeding that into the prompt. This allows the LLM to answer with up-to-date or domain-specific knowledge without retraining. 💸 Is RAG Expensive? Yes, it...
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Episode 138 - UX Pilot UI Design with AI
Design for UI/UX is obviously an art form, but can AI do as good a job or better? or as the case may well be, using AI to help with the tedious stuff? UX Pilot Figma Hey, this is a free podcast. However, if you feel you want to support me then check out Patreon. I will have some more detailed…
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Episode 137 - Warmwind OS AI Operating System
Okay, AI agent automation is everywhere and so are MCPs (Model Context Protocol) to allow you to connect to anything and everything via AI. However, this still needs some technical know-how, even in the low-code offerings. But what if you have a complete virtual AI employee? and better yet, where...
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Episode 136 - Using AI to Generate Test Data
So, a slightly boring episode but surprisingly useful, I think. Hey, this is a free podcast. However, if you feel you want to support me then check out Patreon. I will have some more detailed deep dives for Patreon members as well as one-to-one sessions. Or just buy a unicorn a coffee here! Oh…
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Episode 135 - Vibe Coding is Dead Long Live Context Engineering!
Oh dear, so many meme phrases! Hey, this is a free podcast however, if you feel you want to support me then check out Patreon. I will have some more detailed deep-dives for Patreon members as well as one-to-one sessions. Or just buy a unicorn a coffee here! Oh, and yes, I have ended up on YouTube...
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Episode 134 - VSCode AI Toolkit
Using VS Code (free and open source) along with the AI Toolkit extension allows you to play with several different AI models as well as local models - all from one user interface. Yes, you can run AI models locally! (okay, not the larger online ones!) and certainly the SLM (small language models)...
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Episode 133 - Microsoft AI Extensions MCPs and Azure AI Foundry Local
What does all this mean? Microsoft AI Extensions: An abstract set of classes to enable a c# .Net developer to talk to different AI models/platforms instead of specific individual frameworks. Also allows you to create and interact with MCP (model context protocol). MCP: Model Context Protocol -...
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Episode 132 - AI Agent Automations with n8n
How easy is it to create AI agents? without code (or at least minimal!)? Take a listen as we refresh our memories with n8n.io. Build automation workflows but specifically AI agent-based ones! all this locally or on your infrastructure too! Hey, this is a free podcast. However, if you feel you…
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Episode 131 - Tick Tick: The endless search for the perfect ToDo app
Well, I have been trying to settle on some day-to-day tools i.e. OneNote for my note taking (don’t shoot me!) and I did have Todoist for tracking my endless lists of things to either “really do” or attempt to capture for later (yeah right!). Although there are lots of choice, and that is a good...
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Episode 130 - AI Code Custom Instructions
So, are you “vibe coding”? or just asking AI to help with some code? Have you come across custom instructions for VS Code? Windsurf and Cursor AI etc. all of their options too. Provide a preset app requirements and/or product requirements document (PRD) and you can make building apps with AI a…
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Episode 129 - Weekend Ramble #5 More AI
Well, just a ramble as advertised! Some links mentioned in the show: Microsoft Build 2025 Google IO Anthropic Google Stich Hey, this is a free podcast. However, if you feel you want to support me then check out Patreon. I will have some more detailed deep dives for Patreon members as well as...
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Episode 128 - Into the Void... local AI coding with local LLMs for real this time!
Firstly, I am not sure what AI did to generate that title image! As mentioned in the shameless plug, I will be starting to do some further deep dives/one-to-one things soon via Patreon… if you are interested of course! (see links below). Anyway, plugging aside, I did a video a few months ago…
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Episode 127 - Cross Platform Code Editing
So, if you code (including “Vibe Coding” if you must!) or are just a “fiddler” (like myself!) then you have no doubt used some sort of code editor. Because I mostly live in a Microsoft world, Visual Studio (as of this recording, v 2022) has been my mainstay. But what about cross platform editors...
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Episode 126 - Coding with Open AI Codex CLI
Oh yes, jumping on the band wagon again! Open AI released a whole lot of updated models and so on last week. But one tool (in preview) jumped out. Open AI Codex CLI. Now, from first impressions, this looks and feels a lot like Anthropic Claude Code that I looked at a few weeks back. But hey,...
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Episode 125 - MCP (Model Context Protocol) in C# DotNet
I have already burdened you with an episode about MCP. Now, I am digging into some actual code examples in dotnet (maybe I will try other languages later). What the heck is an MCP host? MCP client? MCP server?Well, take a listen to find out more! A few links mentioned in this episode: Microsoft...
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Episode 124 - .NET Aspire in Azure Functions
Indeed! Azure Functions has been around for some time. Like AWS Lambda, it allows you to create the smallest piece of functionality for whatever code you need to build i.e. an API, a timer-based execution function and so on. Although you can build an extensive system with Azure functions, you can...
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Episode 123 - Replit AI App Builder
Well, love it or hate it, consumer-based AI app building is here. I haven’t had chance to try Loveable as yet, but for today, we have Replit. Replit is a new kind of online app building environments that you can use in your browser (or even from a mobile phone) without having to download any...
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Episode 122 - MCP Model Context Protocol
Who would have thought? Tron Unicorns! oh yes! The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard designed to connect AI models with external tools, data sources, and services. Think of it as a "USB-C for AI applications"—a universal interface that simplifies how AI systems interact with…
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Episode 121 - Weekend Ramble #4
What to say? Well, thanks to Tim Abell for all of the JFM suggestions - I will get to them I am promise! You can also take a listen to software should be free (and actually, part of this ramble is about just how much free resources there is!). Hey, subscription to this podcast is FREE if you want...
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Episode 120 - Msty: Local AI :)
I hadn’t realised “Play misty for me” was a crazy phycological thriller (apparently, the first film Clint Eastwood directed). But I just remembered the song actually! Anyway, similar to Ollama, LM Studio, Msty looks like a very easy option to run LLMs locally (as well as accessing larger models…
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Episode 119 - AI Overwhelm (again): Claude Code
Well, another day another AI tool - for coding anyway. I had a go at building a cross-platform mobile app using GitHub Copilot. It did eventually build something I wanted and better still, using best practices. But it did take some patience! I have the fortunate (or unfortunate) position to not...
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