
18 episodes

Off Script Hey! Presents
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A podcast for the tech community. The theme for Off Script is to challenge ideas and opinions within the tech community. We dig into important topics with special guests, talking frankly in an unscripted setting.
Off Script is hosted by Josh Nesbitt and James Hall. Subscribe for future episodes.
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Episode 17: All Day Hey! 2022 round-up
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
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Episode 16: SXSW recap
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
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Episode 15: Over-engineering
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
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Episode 14: What is the metaverse?
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.
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Episode 13: 2021 Developer round-up
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
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Episode 12: Productivity & mental health
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
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