To wrap up the Future of Work mini-season, we wanted to talk less about technology and more about the people who make this technology. We wanted to discuss how we can make our future of work safer and more inclusive.

From ChatGPT, Dall-E, and Stable Diffusion, to Amazon CodeWhisperer and GitHub Co-Pilot. Artificial intelligence is now more popular, powerful, and accessible than ever. Some greet new machine-learning tech with curiosity and fascination, while others are alarmed or even scared of what the future may hold.

We continue to talk about the future of work. In today's episode, we look into the fundamentals of Agile, team compositions and synergies.

Fork Pull Merge Push is back! In season three, we talk about the future of work and how this future will look for us, people working in tech. To kick things off, we invited Miku and Pauliina to talk about software engineering — how the roles have been shaping, what the current trends and challenges are, and how we can shape the future of our profession. Tune in and join our semi-practical, semi-philosophical conversation.

It's 2022, and we don't need to convince anyone that data management and analytics are essential for any business. Whether you're a big corporation, a high-tech startup, or you sell DIY jewelry online — data is everywhere. The better you know your data, the better you understand it — the better results you get across the board. That said, in many organizations, analytics are still often put on the back burner. Why? We invited analytics expert Matias Muhonen to talk about that in this episode. We touch upon the basics of analytics, the whys and hows of data collection, management, and security. Tune in!

"Hello, IT. Have you tried switching it off and on again?" The role of sysadmin has quite a flat, stereotypical image in pop culture as the 'ultimate nerds'. In reality, the admin function is the backbone of any organization. They are the enablers that ensure you have the means to do your work well. They are guardians that look after the company's data safety. Finally, they are the ultimate problem-solvers. In today's episode, we dive into the admin world in the Reaktor context. For that, we invited Robin Laurén, a full-stack admin, who's been with Reaktor for over nine years. We talk about what qualities make a great sysadmin and why empathy and people skills are as necessary as tech skills. We touch upon the topics of data security and mobile device management (MDM). Finally, Robin shares some fascinating stories from his years of experience working in IT.

What’s the best way to learn a new skill or technology? And how make sure you got it right? In this episode, we talk about continuous learning with Laura Beatris, full-stack developer from Reaktor Amsterdam. Laura opens up about why teaching others also helps her grow professionally. She also shares her learning techniques & processes.

Jesse Luoto from Reaktor Helsinki shares his hard-earned lessons from planning, launching, and promoting dozens of side projects of all shapes and sizes. What’s the right balance between the speed and quality of your open source project? When should you launch, how to promote your work, and how to maintain it with the help of dev communities? Tune in to get answers to these and many more questions.

Today’s episode is all about artificial intelligence, data science, and software development. We look at AI from technological and business perspectives. Henrik Aalto, a business-savvy data scientist at Reaktor, shares his thoughts on different use cases of AI and why it might actually be the last resort in solving business problems. We discuss when and why AI is feasible in software development projects and what developers need to understand about it.

Fork Pull Merge Push is back with new voices, new topics, and insights! The first episode of season two takes us closer to user experience and digital anthropology. In this episode, we talk about ego and bias, life and death in a digital context. We discuss how important it is for software developers to master their soft skills like empathy and communication in order to build successful products or services. Anna Haverinen, Design Anthropologist at Reaktor, shares her hard-earned lessons and puts some of the common ideas in the tech world into perspective. This is also the co-hosting debut for brilliant Anna Fröblom. Welcome, Anna! 🤟

Microsoft is arguably taking over the open source world. Esko, Paavo, Juuso and Sam debate the role the company plays in today’s open source community – TypeScript, GitHub, VS Code, npmjs.com and all – and discuss the advanced features of TypeScript.

Cheers to the 14th trip around the sun of the language that’s made up of data! In this episode, Esko, Matti and Toni discuss Clojure, REPL, and how you can use them in your next project.

Category theory may strike you as intimidating, but trust us, you can (and after this episode, are probably itching to) talk applicative functors and parser combinators over afterwork drinks. Listen in to learn why Esko and Antti – both of whom started programming with dynamically typed languages – are so into category theory right now that they see applications of it everywhere.

Two years ago, David and Tijn formed Amsterdam Hackers: a group of developers willing to conquer and learn from tech problems they had previously found impossible. In this episode, Esko talks to the two Amsterdam-based engineers about the group’s philosophy, as well as their two largest projects; the gbforth and Delisp.

Multiple threads or only one thread, and why should it matter? Blocking or non-blocking IO, and what benefits do each of them offer? What’s the problem of using callbacks? Hold on to your hats, folks – in this episode, Esko, Andy and Otto plow through some of the most fundamental questions regarding runtime environments.

Still writing bespoke functions and boilerplate to immutably manipulate a complex data structure? Statically typed optics will both do the heavy lifting for you, AND give your TypeScript hustle an unforeseen boost.

GraphQL has arguably changed the entire paradigm of writing full-stack web applications. In today’s episode, Esko, Ian and Dirk discuss GraphQL, Apollo, and Relay, and why they can, in good conscience, be called a web developer’s cheat codes.

React, it turns out, is not what lies at the end of the web development rainbow. In this episode, Esko, Juha and Jussi talk about achieving super fast user interfaces by combining functional programming techniques and embedding observables directly into the DOM with Harmaja.