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LikedTiffany Yu is the CEO & Founder of Diversability, an award-winning social enterprise to elevate disability pride; the Founder of the Awesome Foundation Disability Chapter, a monthly micro-grant that has awarded $92.5k to 93 disability projects in 11 countries; and the author of The Anti-Ableist Manifesto: Smashing Stereotypes, Forging Change, and Building a Disability-Inclusive World. As a person with visible and invisible disabilities stemming from a car crash, Tiffany has built a career on disability solidarity. Now that she has found success, she works to expand a network of people with disabilities and their allies to decrease stigmas around disability and create opportunities for disabled people in America. Episode Chapters 0:00 Intro 1:26 When do we choose to share our disability stories? 4:12 Jay’s disability story 8:35 Visible and invisible disabilities 13:10 What does an ally to the disability community look like? 16:34 NoBodyIsDisposable and 14(c) 21:26 How does Tiffany’s investment banking background shape her advocacy? 27:47 Goodbye and outro For video episodes, watch on www.youtube.com/@therudermanfamilyfoundation Stay in touch: X: @JayRuderman | @RudermanFdn LinkedIn: Jay Ruderman | Ruderman Family Foundation Instagram: All About Change Podcast | Ruderman Family Foundation To learn more about the podcast, visit https://allaboutchangepodcast.com/…
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1 Episode 51: Is Test Driven Development actually better now we have AI? 23:13
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedJosh and James discuss the implications of Test-Driven Development (TDD) in the context of the rapid advancements in AI technology. They explore how AI tools are changing the landscape of software development, the challenges of maintaining quality in fast-paced environments, and the importance of balancing speed with safety. Their conversation also touches on the future of coding, the training of new developers, and the evolving role of testing in ensuring robust software solutions. TDD is gaining renewed importance with the rise of AI. AI tools can enhance rapid prototyping but come with risks. Maintaining quality in software is crucial as teams move quickly. The balance between speed and safety is essential in development. Understanding system design and good architecture is foundational for developers. AI can assist in writing tests and fixing bugs effectively. The complexity of production apps increases with user volume. New tools are emerging to support error tracking and testing. Training the next generation of developers is vital in an AI-driven landscape. Investing in TDD and BDD can set teams apart in software development.…
1 Episode 50: The new age of tech job interviews and how to conquer them 25:27
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedIn this weeks episode, Josh and James discuss the challenges of securing a job in the tech industry, particularly focusing on the impact of ageism, evolving expectations for tech roles, and the influence of AI on the interview process. They cover the importance of communication skills, personal branding, and the need for candidates to be honest about their abilities. The discussion also highlights the necessity of adapting to the changing landscape of tech jobs and the skills required to succeed in interviews. The tech job market is becoming increasingly competitive. Ageism affects both junior and senior developers. Keeping up with new technologies is challenging as one ages. Expectations for tech roles have broadened significantly. Candidates are often expected to wear multiple hats in smaller teams. AI is influencing how candidates prepare for interviews. Honesty about skills can lead to better job fits. Good communication is essential in tech roles. Building a personal brand can enhance job prospects. Networking and personal connections are crucial for job opportunities.…
1 Episode 49: Navigating the AI discourse — Why can't we talk properly about AI? 29:29
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedIn this weeks episode, Josh and James delve into the complexities of the discourse surrounding artificial intelligence (AI), exploring the polarising perspectives that dominate discussions. In a balanced debate, they emphasise the importance of understanding AI as a tool rather than a stand-alone entity, highlighting the need for responsible usage and ethical considerations in its development and implementation. They cover the reality of AI's impact on engineering and the necessity of maintaining a human element in the design process. This episode is a call to action for technologists to navigate the AI hype responsibly and to create strong governance around its use. The original article that Josh wrote that prompted the chat. The discourse around AI is often polarising and broken. AI is frequently misrepresented in sensational headlines. Understanding AI as a tool is crucial for productive discussions. The reality of AI's impact on engineering is often overstated. Human involvement is essential in the design and implementation of AI. Ethical considerations are paramount in AI development. AI can improve accessibility and inclusivity in products. Navigating the AI hype requires careful evaluation and governance. The importance of productive friction in learning and development. AI's role in software development is evolving and requires adaptation.…
In this conversation, Josh and James discuss AI interoperability and the concept of MCP (Model Context Protocol). They explore the initial skepticism surrounding MCP, the process of building custom MCP servers, and the importance of permissions and security in AI integrations. The discussion also touches on the future of AI integration in various applications, particularly in shopping experiences, and the potential for these technologies to revolutionise how we interact with digital tools. MCP is a new way to integrate AI with existing tools. Initial skepticism can lead to valuable discoveries in technology. Building custom MCP servers can enhance personal productivity. Permissions and security are crucial when using AI tools. MCP has the potential to go mainstream with the right ecosystem. AI can act on behalf of users, changing the way we interact with technology. Real-world applications of MCP can simplify everyday tasks. The future of shopping may involve AI-driven experiences. AI tools need to be intuitive for non-developers to adopt them. The evolution of technology often leads to a blend of old and new experiences.…
1 Episode 47: Behind the scenes of running a tech conference 21:17
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedHow do you structure and run the perfect tech conference? What things are involved behind the scenes that attendees don’t see? What advice would you give to someone looking to start their own event? We’re glad you asked! This episode is an All Day Hey! Special where hosts, Josh and James spill the beans on what goes on behind the All Day Hey! conference curtain, how we can collectively safeguard the future of events and what makes running a tech conference like this so special. Join us in Leeds on Thursday, 1st May for this year’s All Day Hey! Tickets and schedule at https://heypresents.com/conferences/2025 00:00 How to run a conference 01:00 Why start a conference? - The aim behind All Day Hey! 02:00 What do you want to provide for the audience? 03:00 Avoiding trends and providing backed knowledge 04:00 How to plan the day of talks to keep people engaged? 05:00 Dealing with technical blunders 07:00 Process of picking speakers and who to contact 08:00 Avoiding talks being sponsored ads 11:00 Getting diversity of topic and idea 12:00 All Day Hey! is community focussed - how to create this? 13:00 How to open up the networking and make it welcoming 14:00 How to close a conference to provoke questions 15:00 Tips for other organisers 16:00 Investing in production quality 17:00 Setting up a conference in 2025 19:00 Keeping the indie conference alive Find out more about Stac and Parallax: https://stac.works https://parall.ax…
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedWhat is a discovery workshop and how can they be used to work through problems in your business? In this episode, James and Josh discuss how they've run them in the past and offer some tips and tricks to getting the most out of these sessions. Listen now for a brand new instalment of Off Script! 00:00 Introduction 01:00 What is a discovery workshop 02:00 Using Miro 02:30 Slideument - slide deck with a documents worth of content 03:00 Use the right medium to foster discussion 04:00 Break workshop sessions into two 05:00 Use other physical spaces to inspire 06:00 Framing the problem but not steering 07:00 Amazon's idea - Write the Press Release 08:00 What are the challenges, resources, and politics? 09:00 What would the bad press be? 10:00 How to be honest and open? 11:00 Creating a safe environment 14:00 Find out what they want from the session 16:00 90 min cycles of energy 17:00 Risk register 18:00 Walk and talk to reenergise 20:00 Keeping discussions on track 21:00 Capturing and processing the data 22:00 Using AI to digitise and distribute 23:00 The next steps 23:30 One Two Three All 26:00 Handy thing to do to unblock Find out more about Stac and Parallax: https://stac.works https://parall.ax…
It’s time to reflect and plan ahead! James and Josh look back at a tumultuous 2024 in tech and ask the big questions about where things are heading. What were the highlights? What lessons can we learn? How do we prepare for 2025? Listen now as we kick-off the year with a brand new instalment of Off Script! In praise of indie conferences The struggles of smaller events AWS re:Invent conference Multi Cloud Distributed SQL - DSQL Tough time for tech in 2024 All Day Hey! Publishing platforms Tech Influencers Complete CSS - Any Bell Learn with Jason The state of the tech economy Whisper Flow CrowdStrike outage AI, Automation, valid JSON, OLLAMA , Constrained Sampling AI Agents, Cursor IDE SASS is in danger? Adobe Podcast New Ruby on Rails Laravel 11 Deno BlueSky References https://piccalil.li/complete-css https://www.youtube.com/@learnwithjason Find out more about Stac and Parallax: https://stac.works https://parall.ax…
1 Episode 44: Future of software engineering leadership - Part 2 22:59
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedPart 2 has landed! For this outing of Off Script, Josh and James explore the ‘Future of engineering leadership’. This is an episode born from Q&A discussions and ideas at the recent Off Script Live event in Leeds. Dive into the modern challenges and the future direction of leadership in software engineering. AI Sustainability Company energy offset Energy demands of AI vs speed of innovation AI on device Apple Siri LLM on device? Loneliness in leadership positions Talk with peers in other companies Lattice HR for feedback Finding your role Event culture Consistency creates community Organiser sets the tone Challenges for future leaders Addressing the gap between vocal and and non vocal team members Communication types Generating positive feedback culture Find out more about Stac and Parallax: https://stac.works https://parall.ax…
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like Liked"It's not enough just being right. You've got to actually convince people of your way of thinking and take other people on the journey". Off Script is back with Josh and James hosting the first episode in a massive two-parter! They take lessons and hot topics from the recent Off Script Live event in Leeds. Dive into the modern challenges and the future direction of leadership in software engineering in this episode. Part 2 out soon! Subscribe so you don’t miss it. Recorded: 27th November 2024 Recap re:invent festival AI announcements Event themes Remote & Hybrid working Slack working dynamics Methods of communication Importance of communication Huddle to convey tone of information Reduce crosstalk and chatter Mandating behaviour vs Encouraging participation Sarah Wells Talk - Nudge Theory - LINK Make it easy for people to do the right thing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Hiring policies Soft Skills in hybrid working Empowering vs washing hands of decisions AI Important to understand the black box Using AI for leadership decisions Reference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxcgywwC4u8 Find out more about Stac and Parallax: https://stac.works https://parall.ax…
The historically popular development process of “move fast and break things” has got the biggest companies in the world far. In the age of AI, can we still take these risks in the name of progress or are the potential repercussions too great? Josh and James are joined by guest Jack Sails to discuss. Recorded: 17th July 2024 02 Open AI fearless implementation 03 Is developing in a vacuum worse? 04 Google move fast and break things becomes more dangerous 05 OpenAI haven't lost trust yet 06 How did OpenAI get its data - Mira Murati 09 Scraping the internet for data 10 A open internet vs private companies 10 ARC browser hover LLM description 11 Imperfect innovation, where does it come from? 11 Innovating to solve a problem vs innovation into unknown areas 12 Microsoft Copilot AI 13 ChatGPT taking over Google as the go-to for questions 16 Kodak & digital images 18 Humans bring value and craft 19 The iPhone was a ipod killer 20 Fearing innovation and protectionism 21 Nokia's lack of smartphone innovation 25 Theranos - Fake it till you make it in medicine 28 Now no one will touch the Metaverse 29 Zoe smart patch and gut tracking 35 Lime Scooters late night testing for alcohol 36 Innovation that's not required 37 Coke's new flavour 39 Segway 42 Cars 43 Napster's innovation Find out more about Stac and Parallax: https://stac.works https://parall.ax…
Jack Sails (IMA) is back with James & Josh to discuss the recent WWDC24 Apple Developer conference. Was AI the word of the conference? Find out as they work through everything revealed this year and how it will affect their products going forward. In this episode: 00 Intro 01 Apple Intelligence 02 AI & Apple’s Privacy first approach 04 SIRI & Natural language AI integration 06 Natural language vs pre scripted 09 Image Playground AI image creator 10 SIRI x Open AI 12 Genmoji 12 IOS 18 16 Transcribed calls 17 New apps 18 New password app 21 Sequoia macOS 23 Does the UK follow the EU restrictions 24 Supporting old hardware 29 Vision OS 2 References: https://www.macrumors.com/roundup/wwdc/ Find out more about Stac and Parallax: https://stac.works https://parall.ax…
Inspired by reading ‘Investments Unlimited’ and other books built around the principles of storytelling, James and Josh dive into DevSecOps and the bigger picture of shifting security left in this new episode of Off Script! In this episode: 00:00 Fictional Bugs - Investments Unlimited 01:00 DevSecOps 02:00 Moving security testing to the beginning 03:00 Reducing the friction of releases 04:00 Go through pain points early 05:00 Strict linting, function length, no unused variables 06:00 Early automated tests to prevent Git leaks 08:00 Making it easy for the developer 10:00 Bearer 11:00 Concise reporting 12:00 Dependabot 13:00 Secret Management 14:00 Making it easy to do the right thing 16:00 Having pride in your security 17:00 What if your language doesn’t have much security support? 19:00 Dynamic & Static languages 20:00 Language agnostic tools 21:00 Key takeaways References: https://itrevolution.com/product/investments-unlimited/ https://www.bearer.com/ https://github.com/dependabot Find out more about Stac and Parallax: https://stac.works https://parall.ax…
What do fish donuts, a passion for cooking and elaborate recipes have to do with productivity? Are you getting enough of a creative outlet around your busy schedule? Josh and James discuss the importance of side projects and how the variety they add to your week benefits your work-life balance and output! In this episode: 00:00 Welcome 01:00 What are our side projects? 02:00 Coding 03:00 Cooking 04:00 Josh’s chef stage experience 11:00 Service state - Flow state when coding 12:00 Find your creative outlet 13:00 Find the time 16:00 Adding variety to life 17:00 Book - One Thing 18:00 Having side projects when being a leader 19:00 Consistency References: https://www.amazon.co.uk/One-Thing-Surprisingly-Extraordinary-bestselling/dp/1848549253 Find out more about Stac and Parallax: https://stac.works https://parall.ax…
What are AI risks? What do we need to consider when looking at our projects? Josh and James are are back for another episode of Off Script to dig deeper into this important topic! 00 - ISO 42001 Regulation 03 - What are the risks 04 - Hallucinations 05 - How do we critically assess the output 06 - Human in the loop 08 - Authorised API integrations 13 - Prompt Injection 14 - Sleeper agent LLM 18 - Denial OF Service models 22 - Exact phrasing on outputs 25 - Rabbit.tech Find out more about Stac and Parallax: https://stac.works https://parall.ax…
It’s time for our annual review of the year! In this episode, James and Josh discuss the many twists and turns that the last 12 months brought in this 2023 developer round-up. Thank you for listening this year. We’ll be back with more episodes in the New Year! 01 A look back at the year 03 The year AI went mainstream 05 Tech layoffs 07 Open AI x Microsoft partnership 08 M2 Apple Mac chips 09 Google Bard 12 Stephen Wolfram wrote "What is ChatGPT doing.. And why does it work?" 13 Web IOS & Ipad 15 ChatGPT Plus & Whisper API's 15 Parallax hosted "stories on the road" 19 React.dev 21 Apple vs Epic Games 22 Meta fined 1.3B 23 EU Cookie policy 24 Final Cut & Logic Pro on IOS 27 Advent of code 28 Chrome added web GPU support 29 Native to web based apps 30 All Day Hey 2023 31 Fluency Bot 32 SEC sue Coinbase & Binance 33 NASA lost connection to Voyager 2 34 Microsoft Type Chat 36 Meta Launched Threads 38 Temporary disabilities 40 Josh joins Glean as CTO 41 Apple launched Name Drop 42 Air traffic control meltdown 43 Hyperdx 44 Webflow Conf 46 WCAG 2.2 47 M3 Macs 49 re:invent 50 Deno KV 51 StyleX 53 iA writer 54 CloudFlare year in review 55 Spotify Wrapped References: [ https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-doing-and-why-does-it-work/]([https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-doing-and-why-does-it-work/) https://openai.com/blog/introducing-chatgpt-and-whisper-apis https://www.storyblok.com/ev/stories-on-the-road-uk-23 https://heypresents.com/conferences/2023/schedule https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2023/temporarily-abled/ Find out more about Stac and Parallax: https://stac.works https://parall.ax…
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Are all leaders extroverts? Does agile development mean there is no plan or documentation? Do leaders have to be the best developer? Following on from a recent in-person talk, James and Josh discuss more common tech misconceptions in the area of leadership. 01 Misconception in leadership 01 Leadership is the only way for progression 02 Tech path vs management path 03 Dual track progression 04 Good code is all that matters 05 How teams interact 06 We'll cross the bridge when its comes to it 09 Have to be the best engineer to be a leader 10 It’s not about you 11 Tech skills trump company culture 12 Diversity 14 More developers = more velocity 17 Documentation is less important for agile teams 19 Agile development means no plan 22 All leaders are extroverts 25 Leadership is lonely 27 You don't need a mentor or peers Find out more about Stac and Parallax: https://stac.works https://parall.ax…
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Any team will have a variety of emotional states when responding to problems. How do you analyse, understand and make meaningful decisions based on these differences? In this episode, James and Josh discuss different methods of understanding a team’s characteristics and how taking these into account can lead you to getting the best out of everyone. 01 SDIs 01 Strength, Deployment, Inventory 02 Stress states 05 Trickle down management 06 Myers briggs 07 Performance, Process, People 08 Dissecting Josh’s results 12 Using the results within a team 13 Strengths and weaknesses 14 What brings out the best in you 15 Being accountable 16 Applying the findings Resources: Find out more about Stac and Parallax: https://stac.works https://parall.ax…
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What are the steps to building a thriving community? What challenges might you face along the way? In this episode, James and Josh draw on their experience of creating and building communities online and offline, sharing their insights on how to make it a success. 04 Starting a community 06 Building trust 08 Give value, not a sales pitch 10 Josh on building a conference 12 Creating a welcoming environment 15 Letting people know your weaknesses 16 Trust 17 Empathy 18 Dealing with conflict 20 Don’t fear conflict 22 Lack of commitment or direction 23 Inclusion 24 Avoidance of accountability 26 The enemy of accountability is ambiguity 27 Shared ownership 30 Rethinking views 31 Diversity Resources: https://www.executiveagenda.com/resources/blog/five-dysfunctions-team Find out more about Stac and Parallax: https://stac.works https://parall.ax…
AI ethics - a hot, divisive topic and rightly so. James and Josh are back with a brand new episode of Off Script to dig in and explore a space that is impacting our lives more and more. 01 Intro 02 Applied AI event 03 Bethan Vincent's talk 03 Jack Sails’ talk 06 Outcomes are not determined by intentions 07 EU Cookie law 09 Tech can’t be decided by those who know the least about the tech 10 Regulation 11 AI marking of papers 12 Only as good as the dataset it is trained on 13 Why as a company would we use this? 14 Disclaimers 15 AI Consultancy 18 Risk 19 Oxford Uni CapAI implementation 20 What happens when things don’t go right? 22 Accountability 25 The Trolley problem 27 Deontology 28 The moral machine self driving car 29 7 Things to consider when implementing AI in your business 30 Fluency bot for Slack and confluence References https://www.linkedin.com/events/7099321618157461505/comments/ https://www.moralmachine.net/ https://www.fluencybot.ai/ Find out more about Stac and Parallax: https://stac.works https://parall.ax…
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James and Josh explore the world of SSGs (static site generators)! The differences between SSGs and full stack frameworks, the associated technologies out there and what to consider with your project when deciding what is best for it. [Recorded 13th July, 2023] 01 Intro 02 The Personal Website 02 Static Site Generators 02 ASTRO 03 Content driven site vs Logic and functional site 04 Jekyll 04 Webapps 07 Full stack frameworks 08 MPA vs SPA 10 Islands 15 It’s a cms without the cms 16 Flexible data structures enforced via TypeScript 20 Deployment - compilation step, already do this on most frameworks anyway 22 Still require a rich runtime environment of JS deps etc 25 Bring your own db and cache 26 Environmental impact 27 New SSGs References https://docs.astro.build/en/concepts/why-astro/ https://docs.astro.build/en/concepts/mpa-vs-spa/ https://docs.astro.build/en/concepts/islands/ Find out more about Stac and Parallax: Stac Parallax…
What is the blockchain? How has it changed over time? Is it still killing the planet? James and Josh discuss various types of blockchain systems and how they might have some real world applications for social good. [Recorded 13th July, 2023] 1 Blockchain 02 How did it start 03 Bitcoin 03 Ethereum 03 Proof of work vs Proof of stake 05 Hardforking 06 Web3 bros 06 Masterdon & De-centralisation 07 Microservices 10 Real word aplications 11 Music Industry 12 Coinbase 14 Wallet management 17 User identity 18 Social good smart contracts 19 Blockchain kickstarter 20 Bored Ape 21 Digital art Find out more about Stac and Parallax: Stac Parallax…
James & Josh discuss the recent WWDC 2023 conference and break down some of the announcements. Dive in to the episode to hear all their thoughts on the latest developments coming out of Apple HQ and the impact it may have on us. [Recorded 9th June, 2023] 05 - Apple Vision Pro 09 - Product reveals 11 - MacOS Sonoma 12 - Paprika 13 - Safari Profiles 15 - ARC Browser 18 - Widgets 19 - Presenter Overlays 20 - Installable Webapps 21 - WatchOS 10 & promoting health 23 - Apple & AI Spacial Computing 24 - Squid Soup 24 - Spacial audio 25 - Apple Vision Pro 30 - New dev tools and experiences for headset 35 - Nest Cameras & Starling Hub 37 - JPEG XL 40 - The future of Apple development & products Find out more about Stac and Parallax: Stac Parallax…
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedReturning podcast guest Jack Sails joins James and Josh to discuss developments in large language models! Over this episode they discuss how LLMs are being used, Open AI and its current offerings, tips on how to use them and any concerns they may have around this new technology. [Recorded 19th April, 2023] 02 - Metaverse & Crypto 03 - Online virtual spaces 04 - Chat GPT evolution 05 - GPT-4 06 - Apple audiobooks 06 - SIRI + LLM 07 - A GPT does not understand you 09 - What are LLMs and how do they work? 10 - 1 word = 1 token 11 - What is temperature in the context of LLMs? 13 - OpenAI Playground 14 - Clippy on crack 16 - Should we be concerned about the flaws? It can’t even add 2+2 18 - Siri Skills 19 - How can we lean into this technology to improve our productivity 20 - Decision paralysis 20 - Good prompt writing is key 22 - Megaprompting 23 - How can you learn how to reprompt to get the output you’re looking for 24 - Privacy concerns 26 - Bias 27 - D.A.N 31 - NPCs in games 34 - How do we remain ethical in a world of generated content? 35 - UK Chancellor using it to craft a speech 41 - How can we use this today, in our everyday lives? 44 - Example prompts 45 - Becoming an editor Find out more about Stac and Parallax: Stac Parallax…
There are a lot of misconceptions in the tech world. In this episode James and Josh shine some light and dispel some common myths! 01 - Private browsing is private 04 - Agile development means no planning 06 - Adding more developers speeds up projects 09 - Code should be optimised right form the begining 12 - Usability testing is done once the product is ready 14 - Adding more features makes products better 16 - AI will replace developers Find out more about Stac and Parallax: Stac Parallax…
Off Script is back! This episode, James and Josh discuss engineering culture and some of the best practices and processes they’ve implemented for reliable development cycles. What’s the release process? How do you monitor the application and ensure robust code quality? How do Infrastructure and security considerations affect the development? All covered in this episode! 02 Release process - Continuous integration 03 Feature flagging 05 Versioning 07 Application Monitoring & alerting 09 Flare error message mishap 10 Centralised Dashboards 11 Shipping a better product 11 Tips for a new hire 12 Linting 13 Versioning 15 Testing 17 Reduce the feedback loop 20 Architecture review 22 Programming patterns 25 Infrastructure 26 Tooling setup and access (Consul, Vault, etc) 28 Infrastructure as code 30 Data residency and regional deployments 32 Security 33 Secret storage and environment specific configuration 34 Regulatory compliance (e.g. ISO 27001, GCloud expectations 35 Dependency review 36 External security review 37 On-boarding/off-boarding Documentation 38 OpenAPI documents 40 Slack 44 Communication is key Find out more about Stac and Parallax: Stac Parallax…
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The state of the world, green engineering, James' wedding, Elon's meltdowns. To round off the year, James and Josh look back at the many ups and downs from the world of tech and beyond. 00 - State of the world 01 - Good to be back in the office 03 - Figma & its Adobe acquisition 04 - Mozilla started to accept Crypto then halted 05 - Web3 06 - Google Fonts Privacy & GDPR breach 07 - Reducing the web's carbon footprint. Optimising & green engineering 08 - Building a Greener Web talk by Michelle Barker 09 - Netify sponsoring open source eleventy 10 - MDN Mozilla Dev Network refresh 11 - '5 Web things that you don't need Javascript for' 12 - CSS Tricks acquired by Digital Ocean 13 - US announced plans to make daylight saving time permanent 15 - Devs for Ukraine 17 - Twitter embeds 18 - Duck Duck Go for Mac & other Chromium forks 20 - US court reaffirmed that web scraping is legal 21 - All Day Hey! 2022 22 - Blogging making a comeback - Own your own thoughts 23 - Is Mastodon any good? 25 - Mailing lists are back 25 - CSS Day is back 26 - Internet Explorer was retired 27 - Stranger Things had a hacking scene that featured Flexbox 28 - WWWDC - Human interface guidelines 29 - Apple Passkeys 30 - W3C became a public interest not-for-profit enterprise 31 - UK Online Safety Bill - a disappointment that targets individuals not big tech 33 - Cookie Pop-up failure of policy 34 - Heroku down all the time 36 - James got married 37 - Chrome version 105 38 - No Code Tools Article 40 - Don't throw away code - article 40 - GitHubs - What's your first github contribution 42 - Source code webkit is now managed on GitHub 43 - Heather Burns - Data Privacy Book 44 - Chris Coyier - Talk 'The web is good now' 45 - Cloudflare SVG support for images 46 - Leeds Digital Festival - DALLE event 48 - btconf - Berlin Trip 48 - PassKey Support by Google 49 - CSS Working Group - The View Transition API + Scrolled Linked Transitions 51 - Way Back Machine Turned 21 53 - Hey! Presents Social in Leeds 54 - ffconf pod episode 54 - Advent of Code 55 - Josh on 'Another Idea Podcast' - Creative Podcast 55 - Web Sustainability Resources 56 - Practical Accessibility Course 57 - re:Invent episode 57 - 'Engineering management for the rest of us' - book by Sarah Drasner 58 - Google switching to a continuous scroll 59 - 25 years since Microsoft FrontPage 98 61 - Parallax won many awards this year 62 - Chatloop Resources: Figma hidde.blog https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2022/01/using-google-fonts-breaches-gdpr/ https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2022/02/reducing-web-carbon-footprint-optimizing-social-media-embeds/ Building a Greener Web by Michelle Barker https://lexoral.com/blog/you-dont-need-js/ https://www.devsforukraine.io/ https://heypresents.com/conferences/2023 https://webkit.org/blog/12840/web-platform-and-web-extensions-features-highlighted-at-wwdc22/ https://webdevlaw.uk/2022/07/11/your-compliance-obligations-under-the-uks-online-safety-bill/ https://adactio.com/journal/19370 https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2022/09/understanding-privacy-pre-release/ https://2022.cascadiajs.com/speakers/chris-coyier https://blog.cloudflare.com/svg-support-in-cloudflare-images/ https://leedsdigitalfestival.org/events/dall-e-2-how-ai-will-shape-the-future-of-creativity/ Spotify https://css-irl.info/web-sustainability-resources/ https://practical-accessibility.today/ https://www.engmanagement.dev/ https://bima.co.uk/nexus-parallax/ https://www.cssdesignawards.com/sites/nexus-by-hexagon/42228/ https://www.awwwards.com/sites/nexus https://thefwa.com/cases/nexus-by-hexagon https://www.chatloop.com/ Find out more about Stac and Parallax: Stac Parallax…
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James is back from his Vegas trip for AWS re:Invent! In this episode, they discuss James’ impression of the city, the hot topics of the talks and James’ exploration of the variety of American fast food joints. 00 - What Vegas is like 01 - Elastic vs Serverless 02 - Event overview 06 - Redshift Serverless 07 - Zero ETL 08 - Aurora into Redshift 09 - DataZone 10 - QuickSight Q 11 - Keynote: Swami Sivasubramanian Fully managed databases AWS Glue Data Quality The new geospatial capabilities in Amazon SageMaker allow data scientists to predict natural disasters, manage relief efforts, and navigate roads using satellite imagery and pre-trained neural networks. DataZone, governance for data lakes, data viruses, and machine learning 15 - Keynote: Dr. Werner Vogels Parallelism and concurrency Event-driven architectures AWS Application Composer Resources: https://reinvent.awsevents.com/ Keynotes Find out more about Stac and Parallax: Stac Parallax…
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1 Episode 24: The evolution of GPT and ChatGPT 20:54
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedFollowing on from the previous conversation about GPT-3, James & Josh discuss the explosion of ChatGPT's popularity. In this episode they explore how it's different from previous iterations, the way its features are impressing the tech community and also where its limitations may lie. 00 - What does it do differently to GPT-3 01 - Maybe prompt writing won't be a job of the future! 03 - A helpful debugging companion 04 - A new way to interface with Stackoverflow 06 - It doesn't know how to be evil... yet 06 - Finding flaws in Smart Contracts 08 - Live Captioning 09 - What are the roadblocks in AI development? 10 - We can learn a lot from it 12 - AI writing its own prompts or feeding into DALL-E 13 - Where to put checks and balances? 14 - Try asking it a Google question 15 - Book Recommendation: Life 3.0 17 - Teething issues with the new technology 18 - Safeguarding & the online Safety Bill considerations Resources: https://chat.openai.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_3.0 Find out more about Stac and Parallax: Stac Parallax…
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What is GPT-3 and how does the future look? How will AI affect work? What ethical dilemmas must we consider? James & Josh talk about all things GPT-3 and the recent surge in the use of AI from business applications to experimental art. 01 - What is GPT-3 01 - DALLE 2 02 - The future of the company 03 - Use Cases 04 - How prompts work 05 - AI Idea generator 06 - Used in GITHub co-pilot 07 - Summarise.tech 09 - Translation AI 11 - AI targeted advertising 12 - Conversational applications 15 - How do you train an AI model on ethics 16 - Misuse of AI 18 - Costs 20 - How to get involved 21 - The future of the platform and GPT-4 Resources: https://openai.com/api/ https://github.com/features/copilot https://towardsdatascience.com/gpt-4-is-coming-soon-heres-what-we-know-about-it-64db058cfd45 https://www.summarize.tech/ Find out more about Stac and Parallax: Stac Parallax…
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In this episode, Josh and James explore Josh’s recent trip to ffconf 2022 in Brighton. They discuss the talks, all the highlights and takeaways raised during the conference. 2 - ffconf hacked gameboy game in gift pack 5 - Talk: Florence Okoye - Designing as we want, to create the experiences that we need 6 - Design justice framework 9 - Talk: Heydon Pickering - Capitalism, The Web, And You 11 - The Gig Economy, Slavery, Uber & Exploitation 13 - Talk: Lex Lofthouse - Design for Developers 14 - Bootstrap 16 - Talk: Sophie Koonin - This Talk is Under Construction: a love letter to the personal website 17 - Back to blogs 18 - “The Modern web is not for creators, it’s for consumers” 19 - “Building a website is a radical act in this day and age” 20 - Talk: Lily Madar - Programming with Yarn 23 - Talk: Natalia Waniczek - Working towards a greener world from behind the keyboard 24 - Green engineering principles 25 - Music streaming greenhouse gas emissions 26 - Optimising for region hosting 27 - Talk: Sareh Heidari - Digital exclusion in healthcare & how to change it 28 - The digital device bank 29 - Plain english consortium 30 - Silktide breaks down reading age 31 - Internet Access as a human right 32 - Talk: Ruth John - Day Disco 33 - Using audio web apis to create fun things 33 - Digital TR 909 to program in browser 34 - Web Midi Resources: https://2022.ffconf.org/ https://help.silktide.com/ https://roland50.studio/ Find out more about Stac and Parallax: Stac Parallax…
What is and isn’t an API? How has the technology changed over time? What are new considerations that have arisen? Hosts James & Josh discuss a variety of APIs and the benefits and faults that help refine the APIs of today. 00 - What is an API? 03 - S.O.A.P 05 - Restful API 06 - RSS & JSON 07 - Public API’s 10 - Documentation driven development 13 - React API & GitHub 16 - Graph QL 19 - Twilio 20 - Stripe Payment 23 - Paypal 24 - Web hooks 27 - Pusher 30 - Modern API Considerations 31 - Cloud Front/ API Gateway 34 - Documentation - What is design without documentation 37 - Facebook & Open Graph 40 - PAW MAC API 44 - 3D Secure Resources: https://pusher.com/ https://graphql.org/ https://paw.cloud/ https://github.com/ Find out more about Stac and Parallax: Stac Parallax…
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1 Episode 20: Beyond Tellerrand Berlin 2022 round up 1:08:38
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedThis episode of Off Script, Josh and James explore Josh’s recent trip to Berlin to the single-track conference, Beyond Tellerrand. They discuss and break down all the hot topics for us. 01 Intro 03 Venue 03 The Pac Man Rule - Always leave a gap in your circle! 04 Live subtitles at the event 06 All together now by Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino 15 Inviting People In by Michelle Chin - Different ways we were forced to collaborate during the pandemic. 20 If You’re Not Scared, You’re Not Living by Vic Lee 24 Make it sound by Tiziana Alocci involving the use of non speech audio to convey information. 28 Dragon slayer by Espen Brunborg - How to be a better web designer 32 The reinvention of normal by Dominic Wilcox - About creativity and being creative. 40 Stand in talk - Pragmatic Sketching 45 Visualising connections by Nadieh Bremer including bringing open source constellation maps to life. 50 The Content Design of Civil Discourse: Turning Conflict into Collaboration by David Thomas - What does a productive conversation about a topic look like 54 Less thinking. More tinkering by Gavin Strange - Create a space for creativity to happen 57 Making by breaking by Dina Amin - A book is not a book. It’s paper, string, words, letters 101 Making the impossible possible by Janis McDavid - Who are we when we are alone, who are we when no one is watching Resources: All together now by Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino Inviting People In by Michelle Chin If You’re Not Scared, You’re Not Living by Vic Lee Make it sound by Tiziana Alocci Dragon slayer by Espen Brunborg The reinvention of normal by Dominic Wilcox Visualising connections by Nadieh Bremer The Content Design of Civil Discourse: Turning Conflict into Collaboration by David Thomas Less thinking. More tinkering by Gavin Strange Making by breaking by Dina Amin Making the impossible possible by Janis McDavid Schedule Find out more about Stac and Parallax: Stac Parallax…
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1 Episode 19: Why you should use React Native 37:05
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Play Later Play Later Lists Like LikedWhat are the benefits of using React Native to build mobile applications over platform specific frameworks? Where did it come from and why might it be a good choice for your next project? Hosts James & Josh discuss their use of React Native and how it’s helped streamline app development. 01 How it enables quick UI Iterations & rapid app development 02 Significant use cases 03 Where did you first hear about it? 04 How native UI is used 05 Improved debugging features 07 Patching your app 08 Lotte animation library 09 JSON definitions of animation 10 Xcode simulator 19 Ethos of Open Source 20 Haptic libraries 21 React query & axios 23 Flipper & error messages Find out more about Stac and Parallax: Stac Parallax…
How has the Internet of Things changed how we build internet connected devices, and does this approach sometimes overly complicated things? Hosts James and Josh discuss the world of IoT, its real world applications and some of the pitfalls projects fall into. 00 - History of IoT 01 - Anything can be connected via a ESP32 controller 02 - ‘Making things more complex than they need to’ 03 - Petnet IoT Cat Feeder 04 - A Single point of failure ‘Starve your cat as a service’ 05 - Street lights in Aberdeen & how they store the schedule on the light 06 - IoT Dependencies 07 - Ring / Canary / Nest 08 - Nest works standalone off Wifi 09 - Smart Bins for N Yorkshire Council 12 - ‘Smart’ Plugs - hot wire toaster 13 - Asthma Studies 14 - Security & updating IoT devices 19 - Boring SSL - Less config the better 19 - Apple pass key + Signal 22 - Avoiding DDOSSing yourself Find out more about Stac and Parallax: Stac Parallax…
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Off Script is back with a special episode as hosts Josh and James reflect on another successful All Day Hey! conference in Leeds and via live stream. Running through the talks and the dynamics of the day, listen in for a breakdown of how it all went and their thoughts on the talks of the day. Hey! Presents are uploading all of the content from the day over the next few weeks so make sure to head over to their website to check out the talks from this year’s fantastic speakers. 01 - Intro & thanks 04 - Benefit of IRL conversations 06 - Emily Cressey’s Design Systems talk and Sketch 10 - Different designs for different levels of complexity 11 - Power user vs Casual 12 - Design system manager 13 - Github 13 - 'Evaluate what design elements you use and delete what does not get used' 14 - Stephanie Stimac’s talk on ‘Progressive Webapps’ 20 - Live code streaming 22 - 3D CSS Stopwatch 27 - Luke Murphy’s illustration system in Figma 28 - 'Illustrations guiding emotional state' 35 - Functional Programming 38 - Responsive Design 39 - 'Let the browser do the heavy lifting' 40 - Utopia fluid type generator Resources: Schedule & watch talks Speaker information Design Systems - The Monster We Created Building Beautiful Web Apps: User experience and visual design best practices for PWAs Take your skills to the moon with creative coding Branding for Techies Building an Illustration System Unconscious Mentoring Functional Programming in JavaScript Be the browser’s mentor, not its micromanager Build Excellent Websites Utopia Fluid Type Scale Calculator All talks from Hey! Presents Find out more about Stac and Parallax: Stac Parallax…
On this episode of Off Script, James runs us through his recent trip to South By South West (SXSW) and analyses what it all means with Josh. What were the main talking points? What were the new trends worth noting? Our hosts give us their thoughts on Zuckerberg's appearance & the exciting but possibly dystopic future the new tech could lead us to. The programming of the event Emerging tech trends Our role as leaders Robin Hood app & Gamification Overvaluation of some tech companies Is this a bubble? Candle Media buying Youtube channels Silo'd Metaverse experiences Video games have been doing this for years AI Deepfakes WAB AR/VR Zuckerberg Synthetic Biology Tech Warfare Flexible working & culture changes relating to equality Digital IDs HoloRide test All Day Hey Find out more about Stac and Parallax: Stac Parallax…
What can we learn from the success and simplicity of Wordle? How can we be more aware of when we’re likely to over-engineer a solution? Hosts James & Josh discuss when to add complexity, when it’s not needed and scenarios where you’re more likely to encounter over-engineering difficulties. Simplicity of Wordle Hosting & Data Responsibility Basecamp Webflow Microservices Governance Splitting Applications GraphQL Shopify Find out more about Stac and Parallax: Stac Parallax…
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What is the metaverse and what has it got to do with Facebook? How do NFTs fit into it? Is it all 3D and gaming or is there more to it with business applications? Hosts James & Josh speak with our guest, Jack Sails and discuss where to begin with it and how to make sense of it all. What is the metaverse? What could it be? Where's the transparency? Turning off in these digital space NFTs When iPhone apps were new Centralisation VR / XR / AR LIDAR Hardware to support Business application Connected Wellbeing How to get involved in the metaverse Building an open framework and much more. Find out more about Stac and Parallax: Stac Parallax IMA HOME…
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2021 has been an eventful year! From January's launch of the AVIF format, April's Basecamp employee speech controversy and the web hitting 30 years old plus much more. Hosts James & Josh take us on a journey through the highs and lows of the year. Thanks to Cooper Press’ Frontend Focus and Ruby Weekly, invaluable resources that helped us go back in time to compile the monthly breakdown. Google Cloud Functions adds Ruby support GitHub makes it easier to rename branches Google migrating Puppeteer to TypeScript AVIF The Web didn't change, you did Edge Kids Mode Sonic Pi 3.3 Homebrew 3.0 10 Years of Open Source D3.js Basecamp's Employee speech controversy All Day Hey! Live 25 Years of CSS Sublime Text 4 Prawn library update Tim Berners-Lee NFT Github Codespaces Chrome Removing IFRAME support 30 Years of the web Decline of Firefox users Cloudflare outages Netlify Dev tooling LOG4J Resources: Google Cloud Functions GitHub - Support for Renaming an Existing Branch Hotwire Migrating Puppeteer to TypeScript AVIF has landed - Jake Archibald The web didn't change; you did - Remy Sharp The Verge - Microsoft Edge GitHub - Sonic PI Homebrew Observable WordPress Tavern Ghost Chromium Blog GitHub - Rails John Nunemaker The Verge - Breaking Camp All Day Hey! Ruby on Rails Sublime Text Meyerweb Web Design Museum The Register GitHub - Prawn CNN Style Microsoft Edge Blog GitHub Copilot GitHub - Codespaces The Register - Chrome W3C PC Gamer 9to5 Mac The Verge - Mozilla Cloudflare Matthias Ott Missouri Independent Lea Verou Microsoft Edge Insider Netlify David Heinmeier Hansson Wired Find out more about Stac and Parallax: Stac Parallax…
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How do you avoid burnout and keep productivity high? What methods can you use to help produce an efficient flow state? How have companies addressed these issues around hybrid working? Productivity and mental health go hand in hand but how do you manage it? Hosts James & Josh explore these issues around creating a positive motivated team. Burnout Time boxing The side effects of being unproductive Mental health Exercise Setting boundaries Setting time limits on software and social media useage The benefits of side projects Mental health as the world reopens Hybrid working Empowering a team Resources: The Pomodoro Technique Things Atlassian Motion Well Good Leeds Cookery School Phil Hawksworth Find out more about Stac and Parallax: Stac Parallax…
What leadership style do you have? How do you foster a productive culture? When do you give people autonomy and when do you put your foot down? The decisions around how to lead a team can affect how successful a project delivery is. How did the pandemic and working from home impact things? Hosts James & Josh explore these questions and look at ways to engage the team. Different leadership styles The value of delegating How to keep people invested in the project Boundaries when working from home Tooling the team for the current times Giving autonomy Putting your foot down The curse of analysis paralysis How team structure affects leadership styles Creating a positive culture around leadership when starting a business Open Source software leadership How different management styles anchorage flow state Confluence Showing vulnerability from the leader Ensuring a work / life balance Resources: Management book recommendation Vulnerability Find out more about Stac and Parallax: Stac Parallax…
How long will a project take to complete? How can you get this as close to reality as possible? Software estimation is an essential part of the development process and one that many people don’t know how to approach correctly. Is your team equipped with the right tools? Is there a shared understanding of the process within your team? Hosts James and Josh explore these questions and look at practical solutions to get it right. Mapping the user experience Demystifying the quote process with the client Understanding your team and the time estimates they give you Setting expectations Internal communication and the quote process Making tradeoff decisions Adapting the tools you use as a team Reusing code Time management with client tweaks Previous project analysis The cost for updating and maintaining a project in the future Early understanding of the client’s system Building trust Keeping devs on track via meetings Creating a shared understanding between front and back-end developers The value of face-to-face communication and more. Resources: Planning Poker Find out more about Stac and Parallax: Stac Parallax…
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What would your first steps be when working on application performance? What tools can you use to help you through this process? What are the challenges when you overly optimise your application? Our hosts James and Josh dive into these questions and outline their thoughts on the following and much more: Baselining where you are and establishing your starting point Monitoring and improving performance Speeding up your app speeds up dev time Chrome dev tools Game-changing services Image optimisation Reducing friction Unlearning best practices Testing Worker related scripts Lazy loading Preloading Resources: Chrome DevTools web.dev Cloudflare Fastly New Relic AppSignal Blackfire Find out more about Stac and Parallax: Stac Parallax…
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Today, Off Script hosts Josh and James discuss all things web application security. It’s something that is getting more and more important to get right. More cyber attacks. More ransomware attacks. They address good application hygiene and the common pitfalls they are seeing people fall for. Big data breaches can lead to losing customer trust so it’s so important to makes sure you’re running a tight ship with security. Basic security maintenance is essential but what can companies and individuals be doing to make sure their web applications are secure during a time of high value bug bounties being offered to people for finding vulnerabilities? Bug bounties. The positives, negatives and relevancy to different sized agencies The use of bots to find MongoDB vulnerabilities Encrypted vaults The Slack issue How hard is it to put secure processes in place from the start? Canary and environment variables If you’re a security researcher, what do you do with responsible disclosure? The fine line between helping the hackers and helping the community What makes a good, secure app? Package managers Modern libraries making it obvious when you are doing a bad thing Open pull requests Get your house in order with OWASP Frameworks and the early standards they set with password management and security hygiene Importance of rotating keys Human interfaces and the floors surrounding them What can we learn from Twelve-Factor? Github Workspaces and recreatable environments The issues of convenience Macs vs dev accessibility and Windows catching up Github and Atom Good, automated test suites How to have a good view on what makes a good security test Falling into the trap of feeling productive Sitting down with the team to discuss testing value and priorities The creativity of SQL injection Reinventing the wheel Dangers of writing an encryption tool and importance of getting an external security company Resources: GitHub Security Bug Bounty snyk Yarn The Open Web Application Security Project 12 Factor Hyper Find out more about Stac and Parallax: Stac Parallax…
We’re happy to welcome James Hall to Off Script as a new co-host alongside Josh Nesbitt in our new podcast format! The topic today is ‘Career progression’. Josh and James have known each other for many years and have a lot of professional experience in tech at the top level between them, ranging from agency work through to consulting. Josh runs Leeds-based software consultancy Stac whilst James runs Parallax - a digital agency specialising in websites, apps and much more. This gives our co-hosts different perspectives on the tech topics they’ll be getting into in the coming episodes and gives the listener a balanced take on today’s top topics in tech. If you enjoy this episode, make sure to subscribe so you don’t miss the next one! In today’s episode, Josh and James explore: How do you define a career path? The changes you experience as a developer as you progress up the career ladder within an agency and as a consultant. Knowing where to invest your time as a junior in tech to ensure suitable progression for yourself. What opportunities and challenges does remote working create for employees and employers? What can employers do to retain employees and create a rewarding career path for their staff? How often should companies speak to employees about progression and what frameworks are effective for this? Zoom fatigue and remote working. What does the future look like for offices with a mixture of remote working and people wishing to spend their time around people in person? Find out more about Stac and Parallax: Stac Parallax…
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