30 episodes

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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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.

    Episode 29: The future of large language models

    Episode 29: The future of large language models

    Returning podcast guest Jack Sails joins James and Josh to discuss developments in large language models! Over this episode they discuss how LLMs are being used, Open AI and its current offerings, tips on how to use them and any concerns they may have around this new technology.


    [Recorded 19th April, 2023]



    02 - Metaverse & Crypto
    03 - Online virtual spaces
    04 - Chat GPT evolution
    05 - GPT-4
    06 - Apple audiobooks
    06 - SIRI + LLM
    07 - A GPT does not understand you
    09 - What are LLMs and how do they work?
    10 - 1 word = 1 token
    11 - What is temperature in the context of LLMs?
    13 - OpenAI Playground
    14 - Clippy on crack
    16 - Should we be concerned about the flaws? It can’t even add 2+2
    18 - Siri Skills
    19 - How can we lean into this technology to improve our productivity
    20 - Decision paralysis
    20 - Good prompt writing is key
    22 - Megaprompting
    23 - How can you learn how to reprompt to get the output you’re looking for
    24 - Privacy concerns
    26 - Bias
    27 - D.A.N
    31 - NPCs in games
    34 - How do we remain ethical in a world of generated content?
    35 - UK Chancellor using it to craft a speech
    41 - How can we use this today, in our everyday lives?
    44 - Example prompts
    45 - Becoming an editor


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    Episode 28: Tech misconceptions

    Episode 28: Tech misconceptions

    There are a lot of misconceptions in the tech world. In this episode James and Josh shine some light and dispel some common myths!



    01 - Private browsing is private
    04 - Agile development means no planning
    06 - Adding more developers speeds up projects
    09 - Code should be optimised right form the begining
    12 - Usability testing is done once the product is ready
    14 - Adding more features makes products better
    16 - AI will replace developers


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    • 19 min
    Episode 27: Engineering culture

    Episode 27: Engineering culture

    Off Script is back! This episode, James and Josh discuss engineering culture and some of the best practices and processes they’ve implemented for reliable development cycles. What’s the release process? How do you monitor the application and ensure robust code quality? How do Infrastructure and security considerations affect the development? All covered in this episode!



    02 Release process - Continuous integration
    03 Feature flagging
    05 Versioning
    07 Application Monitoring & alerting
    09 Flare error message mishap
    10 Centralised Dashboards
    11 Shipping a better product
    11 Tips for a new hire
    12 Linting
    13 Versioning
    15 Testing
    17 Reduce the feedback loop
    20 Architecture review
    22 Programming patterns
    25 Infrastructure
    26 Tooling setup and access (Consul, Vault, etc)
    28 Infrastructure as code
    30 Data residency and regional deployments
    32 Security
    33 Secret storage and environment specific configuration
    34 Regulatory compliance (e.g. ISO 27001, GCloud expectations
    35 Dependency review
    36 External security review
    37 On-boarding/off-boarding Documentation
    38 OpenAPI documents
    40 Slack
    44 Communication is key


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    • 46 min
    Episode 26: 2022 developer round-up

    Episode 26: 2022 developer round-up

    The state of the world, green engineering, James' wedding, Elon's meltdowns. To round off the year, James and Josh look back at the many ups and downs from the world of tech and beyond.



    00 - State of the world
    01 - Good to be back in the office
    03 - Figma & its Adobe acquisition
    04 - Mozilla started to accept Crypto then halted
    05 - Web3
    06 - Google Fonts Privacy & GDPR breach
    07 - Reducing the web's carbon footprint. Optimising & green engineering
    08 - Building a Greener Web talk by Michelle Barker
    09 - Netify sponsoring open source eleventy
    10 - MDN Mozilla Dev Network refresh
    11 - '5 Web things that you don't need Javascript for'
    12 - CSS Tricks acquired by Digital Ocean
    13 - US announced plans to make daylight saving time permanent
    15 - Devs for Ukraine
    17 - Twitter embeds
    18 - Duck Duck Go for Mac & other Chromium forks
    20 - US court reaffirmed that web scraping is legal
    21 - All Day Hey! 2022
    22 - Blogging making a comeback - Own your own thoughts
    23 - Is Mastodon any good?
    25 - Mailing lists are back
    25 - CSS Day is back
    26 - Internet Explorer was retired
    27 - Stranger Things had a hacking scene that featured Flexbox
    28 - WWWDC - Human interface guidelines
    29 - Apple Passkeys
    30 - W3C became a public interest not-for-profit enterprise
    31 - UK Online Safety Bill - a disappointment that targets individuals not big tech
    33 - Cookie Pop-up failure of policy
    34 - Heroku down all the time
    36 - James got married
    37 - Chrome version 105
    38 - No Code Tools Article
    40 - Don't throw away code - article
    40 - GitHubs - What's your first github contribution
    42 - Source code webkit is now managed on GitHub
    43 - Heather Burns - Data Privacy Book
    44 - Chris Coyier - Talk 'The web is good now'
    45 - Cloudflare SVG support for images
    46 - Leeds Digital Festival - DALLE event
    48 - btconf - Berlin Trip
    48 - PassKey Support by Google
    49 - CSS Working Group - The View Transition API + Scrolled Linked Transitions
    51 - Way Back Machine Turned 21
    53 - Hey! Presents Social in Leeds
    54 - ffconf pod episode
    54 - Advent of Code
    55 - Josh on 'Another Idea Podcast' - Creative Podcast
    55 - Web Sustainability Resources
    56 - Practical Accessibility Course
    57 - re:Invent episode
    57 - 'Engineering management for the rest of us' - book by Sarah Drasner
    58 - Google switching to a continuous scroll
    59 - 25 years since Microsoft FrontPage 98
    61 - Parallax won many awards this year
    62 - Chatloop


    Resources:



    Figma
    hidde.blog
    https://www.zylstra.org/blog/2022/01/using-google-fonts-breaches-gdpr/
    https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2022/02/reducing-web-carbon-footprint-optimizing-social-media-embeds/
    Building a Greener Web by Michelle Barker
    https://lexoral.com/blog/you-dont-need-js/
    https://www.devsforukraine.io/
    https://heypresents.com/conferences/2023
    https://webkit.org/blog/12840/web-platform-and-web-extensions-features-highlighted-at-wwdc22/
    https://webdevlaw.uk/2022/07/11/your-compliance-obligations-under-the-uks-online-safety-bill/
    https://adactio.com/journal/19370
    https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2022/09/understanding-privacy-pre-release/
    https://2022.cascadiajs.com/speakers/chris-coyier
    https://blog.cloudflare.com/svg-support-in-cloudflare-images/
    https://leedsdigitalfestival.org/events/dall-e-2-how-ai-will-shape-the-future-of-creativity/
    Spotify
    https://css-irl.info/web-sustainability-resources/
    https://practical-accessibility.today/
    https://www.engmanagement.dev/
    https://bima.co.uk/nexus-parallax/
    https://www.cssdesignawards.com/sites/nexus-by-hexagon/42228/
    https://www.awwwards.com/sites/nexus
    https://thefwa.com/cases/nexus-by-hexagon
    https://www.chatloop.com/


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    Episode 25: AWS re:Invent 2022 round-up

    Episode 25: AWS re:Invent 2022 round-up

    James is back from his Vegas trip for AWS re:Invent! In this episode, they discuss James’ impression of the city, the hot topics of the talks and James’ exploration of the variety of American fast food joints.



    00 - What Vegas is like
    01 - Elastic vs Serverless
    02 - Event overview
    06 - Redshift Serverless
    07 - Zero ETL
    08 - Aurora into Redshift
    09 - DataZone
    10 - QuickSight Q
    11 - Keynote: Swami Sivasubramanian


    Fully managed databases
    AWS Glue Data Quality
    The new geospatial capabilities in Amazon SageMaker allow data scientists to predict natural disasters, manage relief efforts, and navigate roads using satellite imagery and pre-trained neural networks.
    DataZone, governance for data lakes, data viruses, and machine learning

    15 - Keynote: Dr. Werner Vogels


    Parallelism and concurrency
    Event-driven architectures
    AWS Application Composer



    Resources:



    https://reinvent.awsevents.com/
    Keynotes


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    • 21 min
    Episode 24: The evolution of GPT and ChatGPT

    Episode 24: The evolution of GPT and ChatGPT

    Following on from the previous conversation about GPT-3, James & Josh discuss the explosion of ChatGPT's popularity. In this episode they explore how it's different from previous iterations, the way its features are impressing the tech community and also where its limitations may lie.



    00 - What does it do differently to GPT-3
    01 - Maybe prompt writing won't be a job of the future!
    03 - A helpful debugging companion
    04 - A new way to interface with Stackoverflow
    06 - It doesn't know how to be evil... yet
    06 - Finding flaws in Smart Contracts
    08 - Live Captioning
    09 - What are the roadblocks in AI development?
    10 - We can learn a lot from it
    12 - AI writing its own prompts or feeding into DALL-E
    13 - Where to put checks and balances?
    14 - Try asking it a Google question
    15 - Book Recommendation: Life 3.0
    17 - Teething issues with the new technology
    18 - Safeguarding & the online Safety Bill considerations


    Resources:



    https://chat.openai.com/
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_3.0


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    Stac
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    • 20 min

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