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The Alan Barr Show
Alan Barr
39 episodes
11 hours ago
I'm passionate about software, software testing, and writing. The intersection of metacognition, organization, and technology.
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I'm passionate about software, software testing, and writing. The intersection of metacognition, organization, and technology.
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The Alan Barr Show
Flow

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


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1 year ago
14 minutes 16 seconds

The Alan Barr Show
AI / LLM Testing

(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

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1 year ago
10 minutes 55 seconds

The Alan Barr Show
Announcement: Rebooting my podcast

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

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1 year ago
29 seconds

The Alan Barr Show
Alan's Updates May 15th 2022

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.

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3 years ago
18 minutes

The Alan Barr Show
Creating a Podcast

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 communicator Podcast

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3 years ago
23 minutes 52 seconds

The Alan Barr Show
Vision, Buddha and the Badass Book Summary

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

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3 years ago
24 minutes 47 seconds

The Alan Barr Show
Ephemerality

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 we have evidence of malicious software, you can test your code regularly. The COVID test provides a means of ensuring that historical evidence is reviewed over time.
  • Combining and shortening an app's lifespan makes it more likely for an attacker to fail.
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3 years ago
14 minutes 51 seconds

The Alan Barr Show
Alan's Updates April 10th 2022

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 normal people can't even tell I had any issues.
  • Speechify is a tool that helps me read a hard text and speech it quickly.
  • Summarizing writing.
  • Preply is a helpful tool for tutors of English
  • Recording sounds to type words for Asphia apps.
  • Went back to part-time work for learning again.
  • Saturday Zoom Python Meetup
  • Discord Accountability Group
  • Comprehensible Input
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3 years ago
14 minutes 10 seconds

The Alan Barr Show
Mindfulness and Awareness

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

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3 years ago
15 minutes 27 seconds

The Alan Barr Show
50 Days After My Stroke

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 

Creating Content to help me learn again

  • Alan's first podcast try
  • Kdenlive is an open-source Video Editing App
  • YouTube of BoldVoice
  • Speech Therapy and Occupational Therapy help
  • Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It
  • Work Emails
  • Manga
  • Mind Maps


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3 years ago
22 minutes 47 seconds

The Alan Barr Show
Repeat - The Importance of Persuasion and Techniques to Try

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

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3 years ago
24 minutes 26 seconds

The Alan Barr Show
Repeat - Lessons Learned Building Dev.Lab Internal Developer Platform

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

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3 years ago
23 minutes 45 seconds

The Alan Barr Show
Software Design, Empathy, Personas and Career

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

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3 years ago
53 minutes 30 seconds

The Alan Barr Show
Systems Thinking

The Five Disciplines

- Systems Thinking

- Personal Mastery

- Mental Models

- Building Shared Vision

- Team Learning

Leverage Points in Systems

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3 years ago
26 minutes 3 seconds

The Alan Barr Show
Junior Developers

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?

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3 years ago
26 minutes 7 seconds

The Alan Barr Show
Ultralearning

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 learn what you are learning is composed of and learn to drill the parts that provide leverage. As you are applying the learning you are forced to retrieve that information or you are testing your knowledge via other tools. You either seek others to give you specific feedback for improvement, give yourself feedback via tracking, then use that feedback to tweak your learning. To retain what you learn you space learning out over time. You use the Feynman technique to teach others what you know which forces you to confront if there is a gap in your understanding. Finally, you play with variables with what/how you learned something so that it is more interesting and you learn new things about what you are learning.

If you walk away with nothing else:

  1. Plan what you are going to learn and how you will learn it.
  2. Systematize your learning, What activities will I apply it to, how can I get feedback to improve my performance, Incorporate the ideas into the learning.
  3. Experiment to keep it interesting and to stretch yourself.

Raw Book Notes

Andrew Huberman’s neuroplasticity super protocols

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3 years ago
49 minutes 6 seconds

The Alan Barr Show
API Design

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 Manning link doesn't work in the future.

Act 2 - What makes a “good” API?

Act 3 - RESTful HTTP Guidance and Support

Summary

  • Define the goals and metrics of the API via design discussions and the API Goal Canvas and get feedback.
  • A good API is fit for purpose, consistent, and expressive.
  • RESTful HTTP Guidance and Supporting your API is more than the implementation. Support, Examples, Tutorials, workflows. etc.
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3 years ago
41 minutes 59 seconds

The Alan Barr Show
Log4Shell

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 mistakes sooner?

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3 years ago
12 minutes 18 seconds

The Alan Barr Show
Self-Leadership

Act 1 - Self-Awareness

Act 2 - Emotional Regulation

Act 3 - Patience and Acceptance

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3 years ago
25 minutes 43 seconds

The Alan Barr Show
Fundamentals

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

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3 years ago
13 minutes 20 seconds

The Alan Barr Show
I'm passionate about software, software testing, and writing. The intersection of metacognition, organization, and technology.