Tech: Off-topic
25 episodes - English - Latest episode: 6 months ago -Interested in Technology, Development, and all the random stuff around it? So are we! This podcast is the sidebar discussions that you'd normally hear at a tech event but broadcast over the internet for all to enjoy.
I'm Mike Elsmore and I'll regularly be hosting guests talking about the culture and community in technology circles, the tech itself, and have a giggle along the way.
To see it live head to https://twitch.tv/ukmadlz at 3 pm UK time every other Friday.
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Episodes
Multitenancy, nerdom, and down with capitalism (even though it's how we earn money) with Ollie Read (@ollieread)
January 22, 2024 12:56 - 1 hour - 74.4 MBHello 2024, it's Tech: Off-topic here! Mike (https://twitter.com/ukmadlz https://mastodon.social/@ukmadlz) has brought in Ollie Read (https://twitter.com/ollieread https://phpc.social/@ollieread) to talk tech and what's happened recently. However, that barely happens and the tangents are strong. We end up talking about: Multitenancy in software (you can ask Ollie about that all you want) RGB & Camera stuff (thanks to tech difficulties) Gundam, Warhammer, and hobbyist "plasti...
Stuart Langridge (@sil) is a true wonder of the world, off-topic is default setting!
April 03, 2023 20:00 - 1 hour - 76.1 MBMike (https://twitter.com/ukmadlz https://mastodon.social/@ukmadlz) and co-host Jim (https://twitter.com/secondej https://phpc.social/@SecondeJ) gather for the first time in a while and are joined by Stuart Langridge (https://twitter.com/sil https://mastodon.social/@sil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Langridge). The usual variety of social tech chat goes truly off the rails to the point where it's more teachable moments than tech discussion. But some of what we cover is: Elon is a...
The one where Jim got replaced with Diana
March 14, 2023 17:17 - 1 hour - 71.6 MBMike (https://twitter.com/ukmadlz) couldn't bring Jim with him to Japan so we replaced him with Diana (https://twitter.com/dianasoyster) and she was the best co-host/guest you could ask for! The one is a truly off-topic session, so much so that we didn't actually follow many of our starter points. But we did cover: Bidets Vending machines VR influence to save the virtual world https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-64862006 Mushroom clothes! https://www.bbc.com/news/business-64810935 Robot r...
What the heck does international tomato trolling have to do with time shares?
February 27, 2023 15:34 - 1 hour - 93.7 MBMike (https://twitter.com/ukmadlz) and Jim (https://twitter.com/secondej) are at it again, did you miss the tangential chat? The odd directions the conversation goes in this episode are truly off-topic, but our starter topics are: Trongate, the legendary new PHP Framework New Relic is hiring! That was an expensive mistake ChatGPT Articles and Avatar 2 gaslighting - https://twitter.com/MovingToTheSun/status/1625156575202537474 Google wants people to share a desk - https://fortune.com/202...
Big biz has been weird this month, let's talk about it
February 06, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour - 84 MBMike (https://twitter.com/ukmadlz) and Jim (https://twitter.com/secondej) missed a few weeks due to life but they're back talking about some of the weird and terrible things that have happened in software land: Twitter turning off the API with a week to spare https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/2/23582615/twitter-removing-free-api-developer-apps-price-announcement Netlify buys Gatsby https://thenewstack.io/netlify-acquires-gatsby-its-struggling-jamstack-competitor/ Netlfix canning shared pass...
New year, same noise, but it is shenanigans
January 10, 2023 18:52 - 1 hour - 81.3 MBMike (https://twitter.com/ukmadlz) and Jim (https://twitter.com/secondej) start the year with shenanigans, and the usual madness covering: Mastodon rejecting funding https://technology.inquirer.net/120533/mastodon-rejects-funding Tech salaries https://mastodon.online/@chaosmonster/109545607020550255 CES provides https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/loreal-brow-magic-eyebrow-printer-ces-2023-news/ Salesforce ELT wouldn't understand Slack https://fortune.com/2023/01/05/leaked-slack-all-han...
TikToks, Tantrums, Leaks, and some Christmas Cheer with Steve Goode & Christopher Miller
December 24, 2022 16:21 - 1 hour - 72.3 MBMike (https://twitter.com/ukmadlz) couldn't get Jim to come to play, so instead dragged along Chris Miller (https://twitter.com/ccmiller2018) and Steve Goode (https://twitter.com/sociablesteve1) to keep me company during this holiday episode: Myspace Tom to replace Elon Musk https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/myspace-tom-twitter-elon-musk-ceo-position/ SBF got out of jail for $250m https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64068810 LastPass leak https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/202...
Generative AI, Perpetual Late Stage Capitalism, and Naruto Running: A Conversation with guests Julia Biro and Eli Holderness
December 12, 2022 12:23 - 1 hour - 77.1 MBMike (https://twitter.com/ukmadlz) and Jim (https://twitter.com/secondej) drag along Julia Biro (https://twitter.com/juliadoesthat) and Eli Holderness (https://twitter.com/EliHolderness) for a genuinely unruly and off-topic conversation. Any yes, one of the topics did generate the title of this episode: Was anything interesting from DevRelCon? That new OpenAI chatGPT bot Lensa and its considerations New Pokemon called Spidops in the Scarlet/Viole Raspberry Pi managed to hire some nutter...
Some spice and odd takes on events and open-source with Alistair Hey
November 27, 2022 15:53 - 1 hour - 71 MBMike (https://twitter.com/ukmadlz) and Jim (https://twitter.com/secondej) have our usual chat and pseudo spicy takes, this episode with guest Alistair Hey (https://twitter.com/alistair_hey), and cover: Modern Frontends Live!! https://dylanbeattie.net/2022/11/22/modern-frontends-2022.html / https://www.cassie.codes/posts/modern-frontends/ / https://dev.to/thisisjofrank/my-experience-of-modern-frontends-conference-1cgg Going through a lovely bit of MongoDB marketing fluff https://www.theregi...
Every topic ends with Elon Musk and special guest Luke Browne
November 24, 2022 00:22 - 1 hour - 81.9 MBA quick note to start, sorry about the audio... teething problems with the new kit Mike (https://twitter.com/ukmadlz) and Jim (https://twitter.com/secondej) have our usual chat and weird humour, this episode with guest Luke Browne (https://twitter.com/lukebrwne), and cover: The regular cycle of layoffs Finding some amusing takes about Musk’s Twitter bin fire THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT ATTEMPT TO LAUNCH ON DISCORD, RESULTS ARE HILARIOUS https://kotaku.com/uk-britain-treasury-discord-governmen...
We predicted the future and discussing how some companies are just plain stupid
October 27, 2022 19:21 - 1 hour - 74.1 MBMike and Jim have our usual chat and weird humour, this time we give our take on: PHP gets a new web server, built-in Go! https://github.com/dunglas/frankenphp Hey, pop the cloud, move to physical infrastructure Pulumi get busted papering themselves all over Hashiconf Canonical’s interview process - I’m sure we never discussed this and it came up recently No Man’s Sky drops another enormous update. How are Hello Games making money First Github Copilot litigation has arrived, as predict...
Something got burnt in the Oven.sh and reaffirming the Internet is a weird place to be
August 29, 2022 14:32 - 1 hour - 77 MBMike and Jim have our usual chat and weird humour, this time we give our take on: Oven.sh “grind” culture https://twitter.com/oven_sh/status/1562248121656102914 (thread after deleted tweets https://twitter.com/oven_sh/status/1562248122633314304) Build a city with your GH contributions because why the hell not https://honzaap.github.io/GithubCity/ https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1562104562219196416 wtf John Carmack is at Meta FN Meka dropped by Capitol Records https://edition.cnn...
Tech tangents, memes, and a sprinkling of shiny new PHP
August 15, 2022 11:35 - 1 hour - 69 MBMike and Jim have our usual chat and dark humour moments, but this time we also chat about interesting new tech. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tech-off-topic/message
Buns and sports ball! Things are interesting here in Brum
July 29, 2022 16:11 - 1 hour - 62.4 MBMike Elsmore & Jim Seconde can't help but talk about the commonwealth game, but we also have takes on bun.sh, latest layoffs, and evil corp. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tech-off-topic/message
No crypto but plenty of tech bad takes
June 23, 2022 23:00 - 1 hour - 81.3 MBMike Elsmore & Jim Seconde chat about all the things that have been happening in the tech space recently. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tech-off-topic/message
Chatting about tech built on blockchain and a giggle along the way with Matt from RippleX
January 14, 2022 13:00 - 1 hour - 85.7 MBThis is episode was an awesome chat with Matt Hamilton who is the Principle Developer Advocate from RippleX. Our chat covered his route into his current role, including the home experiments that got him to Ripple, as well as Mike learning a lot about Ripple and the XRP Ledger. If you want to be part of the live recording and give opinions and ask a question, please just head to https://twitch.tv/ukmadlz and join the conversation. If you have anything you'd like to follow up, or you'd like ...
What happened to the community and life around us with Hannah & Andy from Fusion
August 13, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour - 79.8 MBI had the amazing chance to have a nice chat with Hannah Jones & Andy Jones from The Fusion Group, you may have heard of a little thing they run called Fusion Meetup. During this chat, which we kept relatively short, we covered recruitment, the community in and around Birmingham (our shared city), and some of the transition for people working in tech over the last year or so. If you want to be part of the live recording and give opinions and ask a question, please just head to https://twitc...
Where databases, web monetisation, music, and a lions mane meet with Simon Metson
July 30, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour - 70.4 MBIn this episode Tech: Off-topic, Mike Elsmore has Simon Metson, VP of Engineering at EDB get ever so nostalgic and then the conversation gets interesting. An amazing conversation unfolds talking about music, web monetisation (if interested check out https://coil.com/), and building stuff. If you want to be part of the live recording and give opinions and ask a question, please just head to https://twitch.tv/ukmadlz and join the conversation every other Friday at 3pm UK time. If you have an...
Tinkering with things on the internet with Marcus Noble
February 25, 2021 00:57 - 1 hour - 65.9 MBIn this episode of Tech: Off-topic, Mike Elsmore has Marcus Noble, Principle Systems Engineer at Elsevier on for a conversation about tinkering. Over the course of the conversation we talk, home setups, IoT, Smart Home tech, and all roads seem to lead to a Kubernetes conversation. If you want to be part of the live recording and give opinions and ask a question, please just head to https://twitch.tv/ukmadlz and join the conversation every other Friday at 3pm UK time. If you have anything y...
Surviving Bootcamp, chatting to the amazing people graduating from the School of Code
January 25, 2021 10:11 - 1 hour - 67.1 MBIn this episode of Tech: Off-topic, Mike Elsmore, a Developer Advocate at Logz.io, has a gaggle of bootcampers new and old from the School of Code in Birmingham to talk about the experience and everything around it from remote learning to the realities. The bootcampers involved were: Chris Miller (Cohort 1) from Jump24.co.uk (can be found on Twitter & LinkedIn) Katie Hawcutt (Cohort 4) and is available for full-stack JS work (can be found on Twitter & LinkedIn) Tom Bennett (Cohort 4) and ...
Unicorns, pictures, and internet from a bygone era with Lech Guzowski
January 10, 2021 19:46 - 1 hour - 63.4 MBIn this episode of Tech: Off-topic, Mike Elsmore, a Developer Advocate at Logz.io, has Lech Guzowski, the man behind Human.pm, on for a chin wag and gentle heckling. We talk tech, a tiny bit of politics, and just have a giggle ridiculous things happening at the moment. If you want to be part of the live recording and give opinions and ask a question, please just head to https://twitch.tv/ukmadlz and join the conversation every other Friday at 3pm UK time. If you have anything you'd like ...
Happy Techmas! 2020 Gift Roast
December 25, 2020 06:00 - 54 minutes - 50 MBIn this episode of Tech: Off-topic, Mike Elsmore, a Developer Advocate at Logz.io, and co-host James Seconde, also a Developer Advocate at Jump24 decided to roast tech gifts. Earlier in the month, we asked the internet to suggest the worst tech gifts they could think of and we decided to give eight of them the once over. In no particular order, here they are and you can judge for yourself: https://portal.facebook.com https://www.crateandbarrel.com/revolution-cooking-r180-smart-toaster/s661...
Protocols, fire, and corporate overlords with Jon Kingsley
December 11, 2020 18:45 - 1 hour - 65.8 MBIn this episode of Tech: Off-topic, Mike Elsmore, a Developer Advocate at Logz.io, and co-host James Seconde, also a Developer Advocate at Jump24 just chat about some interesting stuff that's happened recently. This episode we were joined by Jon Kingsley who's a Software/Hardware Engineer (genuine builder of many random things…), and we chat about everything from start-ups and protocols, meetups, past Kingsley adventures, and even some on our corporate overlords. If you want to be part of t...
Kerbal SpaceX
November 28, 2020 20:42 - 1 hour - 65.6 MBIn this episode of Tech: Off-topic, Mike Elsmore, a Developer Advocate at Logz.io, and co-host James Seconde, also a Developer Advocate at Jump24 just chat about some interesting stuff that's happened recently. We chat about start-ups, outages, space, and our home town of Birmingham (BHX). We also mention some events coming up, here are the links: PyJamas, Dec 5th - https://pyjamas.live/ NorDev: the Webb Telescope, Norwich Astronomical Society, Dec 3rd - https://www.meetup.com/Norfolk-Dev...
Start talking before the year gets cancelled
November 16, 2020 18:22 - 1 hour - 63.6 MBThe first episode of Tech: Off-topic, Mike Elsmore, a Developer Advocate at Logz.io, and co-host James Seconde, also a Developer Advocate at Jump24 just chat about some interesting stuff that's happened recently. We also mention some events coming up, here are the links: Fusion Meetup, November 26th https://www.meetup.com/Fusion-Technology-Meetup-Birmingham/events/274553750/ Fusion Workshops: Introduction to Distributed Systems (.NET Core) with Dylan Beattie, November 19th https://www.ev...