The Alan Barr Show

00:00 Intro 01:15 What is Flow 04:40 The Autotelic Personality 07:00 Developer Productivity for Humans 13:30 Summary Engineering Enablement - Measuring Flow and Focus Developer Productivity for Humans, Part 6: Measuring Flow, Focus, and Friction for Developers

(00:00) Introduction (01:12) How are we using AI. (03:40) AI Products and Testing. (06:26) AI Testing. (10:09) Summary Article: Testing LLM-Based Applications: Strategy and Challenges

Topics I'll cover in 2024. ⁃ AI / LLM / Machine Learning ⁃ Book Summaries ⁃ Domain Driven Design ⁃ Flow ⁃ Metacognition / System Thinking ⁃ Software Engineering, Testing Links: - Website - https://www.alanmbarr.com/ - X - https://twitter.com/alanmbarr - YouTube - https://youtube.com/@alanmbarr

The Start of The Journey Recovery, The Journey so far Figuring Out the Next Level of my Learning https://www.aarp.org/caregiving/health/info-2019/dementia-warning-signs.html If you like the podcast, please subscribe and share it with others.

Act 1 - Your Elevator Pitch Act 2 - Prepare and Edit, liberally and ruthlessly Act 3 - Three Act Narratives, but mix it up Resources Start a Podcast - Kristen Meinzer Make Noise - Eric Nuzum NPR's Podcast Start Up Guide - Glen Weldon Edison Research, April 2019 "The Podcast Consumer" Edison Research Podcast Consumer - 2018 Otter Voice Meeting Notes - Otter.ai Voice Coach Yawning   Be a great...

Today’s Topic is a Book Summary by Vishen Lakhiani from the book The Buddha and the Badass. Act 1 - Make a big vision and great people will find you Act 2 - Massive Transformation Purpose and Make a Stand Act 3 - Craft Your Identity

Chainguard - The Principle of Ephemerality via Carlos Santana Get on with ephemerality; it's 2022. We had no choice but to build it ourselves before then. Nowadays, chaos engineering is an option. We use serverless and stateless technologies all the time. Virtual machines aren't even on our radar. Maintaining stateful systems is difficult. Make sure you have backups and failovers. To ensure that w...

Every week, I'll be posting one episode. I stopped in the past because I didn't have enough content to create a podcast with what I wanted to talk about. The podcast will help me improve my writing and voice. Hopefully, the content will be good as well. Improving my writing and sounding. Feel like I'm at 95% of what I used to be. Alan's education schedule from morning to night. I'm happy that norm...

Today's topic is Mindfulness and Awareness. Mayo Clinic says, "Mindfulness is a type of meditation in which you focus on being intensely aware of what you're sensing and feeling in the moment, without interpretation or judgment." Act 1 - Awareness Act 2 - Desire and Suffering Act 3 -Be Responsible for our actions and Let It Go

What Didn't Work? Phonics Elysian Disco John Maxwell Books Teen Books Tools Grammarly and Word Tune Accentia - Naver dictionary Bold Voice AnkiUse English for Everyone Vocabulary Typing.com Tutors and Preparing YouTube Videos from Tarle Speech and Rachel's English . Google search pronunciation on any search ESL Tutor Class ( Preply ) ESL Chat ( Tandem / Hello Talk ) Tactus Therapy IOS APP   C...

I am out so this week. Please enjoy the techniques of Negotiation such as Never Split the Different Act 1 - What is persuasion and why should we be persuasive? Act 2 - Low Stakes Persuasive Techniques Act 3 - Higher Stakes Persuasion

2021 dev.lab internal developer. I'll be back.

Alan Barr Podcast Interview with Tyler Lemke  Don't make me think Empathy Mapping Mentors in tech MIX08 Microsoft Office 2007: The Story of the Ribbon Get Your First Dev Job   Danny Thompson Tyler's Youtube Tyler's Website Junior To Senior Dev Podcast

The Five Disciplines - Systems Thinking - Personal Mastery - Mental Models - Building Shared Vision - Team Learning Leverage Points in Systems

Gergely Orosz Hiring juniors Dark matter developers "The average tenure of software engineers in small companies is only 1.5 years, where it’s 2.3 years for large companies." - Why Programmers Shouldn't Stay in One Company for a long time . Michael Nygard Coupling Definition Dave Farley Junior Developer Mistakes What are the skills you think juniors should be learning?

Act 1 - Your First Ultralearning Project Act 2 - Nine Principles of Ultralearning Act 3 - Alan’s Version of an Ultralearning Project/Habit Summary You will be more successful if you start by researching your learning plan. You can ask experts or review guides. Shape your environment to focus. Participate in activities that allow you to use the learning in a real or near-real environment. You can l...

In this episode, I review a few books on API Design. The Design of Web APIs by Arnaud Lauret the API Handyman, Irresistible APIs by Kirsten Hunter, and API Design Patterns by JJ Geewax. I also brainfart may refer to Kirsten Hunter as Kirsten Stewart so just ignore that. Act 1 - What is the goal of the API? API Goal Canvas - Who - What - How - Inputs - Outputs - Goals Alan's Digital Garden if the M...

What do you do when the majority of software in the world is vulnerable to a remote code execution exploit via the logger? The one type of system the majority of programs run. How can we get better as an industry to benefit from sharing our code but also keeping our code up to date? Can we show restraint in adding features? Can we improve our quality and review processes to find these types of mis...

Act 1 - Self-Awareness Act 2 - Emotional Regulation Act 3 - Patience and Acceptance

If mastering the fundamentals sets us apart, what are those fundamentals?

Act 1 - Influence Automatic Triggers - We use mental shortcuts to reduce thinking such as adding because to justify something which most people will simply accept. Reciprocity - Return favors and gifts. Commitment and Consistency - Human desire to stay consistent with commitments we made in the past especially written. Social Proof - Testimonials, Reviews Liking - We like those who like us and wan...

What is design Mike Montiero s ays, " A designer solves problems within a set of constraints". What is API Design? The goal of API design is to try and get the defined API interface as right as possible at the beginning because the consequences are severe and lasting when you don't get them right. The reason it is severe is because people can build on top of the API and you cannot change it easily...

Wardley Maps are a technique to visualize business strategy on a dual-axis of value from invisible to visible and another axis to illustrate the evolution. From genesis to commodity. Sun Tzu's Five Factors of Strategy Team Roles Make your own map. Cheatsheet and reference material . In progress refer to learn Wardley mapping if digital garden not working. Learn Wardley Mapping

A digital garden is a website featuring personal notes you share. The purpose is to curate, grow, and prune the thoughts you are developing. The benefit is that you can share your ideas with a wide community without the overhead of a full blog post. Linkerd certificates expired this week so learning how to deal with rare incidents like architecture is a gift to learn from.

Credibility is core. Never sacrifice it. You might win deals because of your credibility and reputation where others wouldn't.