The [REFACTORED] Podcast

Refactored 080: "Banish the Stuckness"

Wherein corporate overlords always put consumers first.

Show Notes

• Frank recommends The Legend of Vox Machina.
• Chris has been really busy slacking lately.
• Homepages suck (most of the time). You really gotta RTFM, but YouTube can help.
• Frank is really enjoying Turbo and Stimulus but still trying to detox from jQuery.
• Are you stuck? If you’re not getting stuck, you may need to think more abstractly. If you stay stuck, you aren’t phoning a friend quickly enough.
• What IS work/life balance? Chris struggles. We have it as an episode tag and can’t even define it well.
• Feedback: Anonymous asks, “How do you find the right balance between marketing/sales and engineering/product?”
• … and much more!

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Refactored 079: "That Time Where the Guys Talk About Time All the Time"

Wherein it's Franks birthday and Chris was born with a crew cut.

Show Notes

• Chris has officially gone off the deep end. He thinks - and just hear him out - that everyone should use:
  1. ISO 8601 everywhere always for dates
  2. 24-hour time. No more am/pm
  3. UTC, and abolish UTC
• The only thing Frank agrees to, is that all servers MUST use UTC or you are paving the path to madness.
• Frank loves Redactor X. The guys talk editors. Quill and TinyMCE are discussed.
• Frank pushes back on NFTs. Chris agrees the current offerings suck, but doubles down on the long term bull thesis.
• The pick of the week is Wicked Cushions, aftermarket headphone accessories.
• … and much more!

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Refactored 078: "To Centralize or to Decentralize?"

Wherein humans are so dumb. They are really dumb. Fo real.

Show Notes

• Frank is The Riddler. Not the new Paul Dano Riddler, the Jim Carey Riddler at the end where his head looks weird.
• Frank goes to Blackhat and DEF CON and shares all about it. Spoiler: it was a mixed bag. Chris asks about policy because he’s a dumb corporate drone now.
• Chris and Frank wrestle apart the nuance between a “single team” vs “distributed pods” for shared company expertise (like security, architecture, etc).
  • Frank is convinced it must be pushed out ot the edges. YOLO, or something.
  • Chris has concerns about effectively managing the diffuse structure but has been considering the model.
• The guys agree that rules and enforcement go hand-in-hand. One is entirely inappropriate without the other. So you can run and tell that. Home boy.
• … and much more!

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