Friday Afternoon Deploy: A Developer Podcast

138 episodes - English - Latest episode: 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 19 ratings

Episodes and show notes available at friday.hirelofty.com. An unapologetic show about the culture and chaos of software engineering from the makers and breakers of digital products at Lofty Labs. We build software with Python and Django, Ruby and Rails, Golang, whatever frontend framework we're forced to use because it's popular this month, and anything else to get the job done right. Then on Friday afternoons we have a beer and talk about our regrets on this show.

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Episodes

Django 5: The Jury's Out and the Verdict is Async

February 09, 2024 23:15 - 1 hour - 142 MB

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

DDD (Disappointment Driven Development)

December 22, 2023 06:00 - 55 minutes - 50.5 MB

Memory Drift

December 08, 2023 23:37 - 1 hour - 84.2 MB

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.

Chainsaw on a Ladder

November 17, 2023 06:00 - 1 hour - 57.5 MB

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...

What is Medium Hard?

August 19, 2023 00:06 - 1 hour - 64 MB

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

Myth-Communication

August 05, 2023 05:07 - 1 hour - 76.8 MB

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

Rolling that NAT 20

July 21, 2023 19:00 - 1 hour - 73.9 MB

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...

Summer jobs and some are protein

July 01, 2023 04:50 - 1 hour - 64.2 MB

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!

Tech Debt Protocol

June 16, 2023 17:51 - 56 minutes - 51.5 MB

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.

Degenerate AI

June 02, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour - 72.2 MB

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

New Year Un-Resolutions

January 13, 2023 18:00 - 1 hour - 83 MB

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

Being Heard, not Herded

December 16, 2022 18:00 - 1 hour - 72.2 MB

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

Here’s To Them Holidays

November 18, 2022 18:00 - 1 hour - 60.6 MB

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

Guess Who's Back

November 04, 2022 17:00 - 1 hour - 61.6 MB

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

We Are Not Evel Knievel

October 07, 2022 17:00 - 1 hour - 68.6 MB

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

The Web Is F*cked

August 26, 2022 17:00 - 1 hour - 60.1 MB

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

A Bit of Perspective

August 12, 2022 17:00 - 1 hour - 57 MB

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

We haven't had time to podcast and its all Big Chris' fault

July 29, 2022 17:00 - 46 minutes - 42.3 MB

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

Pessimistic About The Blockchain

July 01, 2022 17:00 - 58 minutes - 79.7 MB

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

WebAssembly Everything with Oscar Spencer

May 06, 2022 17:00 - 1 hour - 56 MB

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

When Life Hands You Rollovers

April 22, 2022 17:00 - 1 hour - 59.1 MB

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

Lofty (Might) Want You

April 08, 2022 17:05 - 1 hour - 72 MB

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.

Never Enough Chrises

March 27, 2022 20:01 - 1 hour - 58.1 MB

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

Payday Loans for Loot Crates

March 11, 2022 21:06 - 1 hour - 44.5 MB

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

Well, It’s The Fetch

February 25, 2022 22:33 - 47 minutes - 43.4 MB

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?

High-Tech Hillbilly Hijinx

February 11, 2022 20:30 - 1 hour - 58.3 MB

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

I Have A New Dream: It is HTMX

January 28, 2022 19:38 - 1 hour - 58 MB

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 recei...

Paired Programming, One Desktop

January 14, 2022 21:56 - 1 hour - 44.2 MB

“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.’”

The Transatlantic Christmas Show

December 24, 2021 15:01 - 1 hour - 88.1 MB

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.

Aesthetically Skeuomorphic

December 10, 2021 21:54 - 1 hour - 55.8 MB

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.

Racing to Change

November 13, 2021 14:47 - 1 hour - 102 MB

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

Chrises all the way down

October 29, 2021 21:39 - 1 hour - 67.1 MB

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.

[email protected] teaches us about curry (and anvil)

October 15, 2021 22:39 - 1 hour - 65.7 MB

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.

Nothing Worse than Sand in a Mechanical Keyboard

October 01, 2021 22:47 - 1 hour - 82.3 MB

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.

For Ux Sake

September 17, 2021 21:40 - 1 hour - 68.5 MB

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

Ice fishing with Broccoli Rob (and Shawn)

September 03, 2021 19:34 - 1 hour - 65.8 MB

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.

Livestreaming Go Services for Dilithium

August 21, 2021 02:20 - 1 hour - 57.2 MB

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!

EPISODE 100, LIVE IN STUDIO WITH BLAKE, ZOMG!!1one

June 25, 2021 19:28 - 1 hour - 58.6 MB

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!

FAD Minor Version Release

June 11, 2021 20:42 - 2 minutes - 2.24 MB

We're releasing our 100th episode! But not yet....

Rust and Elixir and Pearl, Oh My!

May 30, 2021 03:30 - 1 hour - 62.5 MB

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.

Earlier adopters and the kernel panics that they love

May 14, 2021 20:40 - 1 hour - 71.2 MB

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.

Grab your safety glasses and join us in the lab

May 01, 2021 13:49 - 1 hour - 62.2 MB

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.

We Can't Stop Hiring and Now We're Outnumbered

April 16, 2021 18:06 - 1 hour - 83.6 MB

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.

Uncle Blake teaches us how to trust Microsoft

April 02, 2021 21:27 - 1 hour - 59.6 MB

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.

Sometimes you smear, sometimes you spread w/ CK Hicks

March 05, 2021 19:53 - 1 hour - 58.8 MB

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).

Reading in the future sucks, but new team members don't!

February 19, 2021 20:35 - 1 hour - 88.5 MB

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.

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