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Listened to Episode 35 - Interview with Tech Icon Adam Jacob, CTO of Chef - The Tech Fugitives Show!
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Welcome back to the Tech Fugitives podcast.  No Safe spaces today.  Straight talk from the “No A-hole” zone with Chef CTO, Adam Jacob. Just because you’re infrastructure is code, doesn’t mean you’re not an A-Hole.  Don’t be that person…Listen to Adam Jacobs.  Chef was clearly the tip of the sword during the birth of DevOps.  …

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Listened to A history of the Windows 95 Start Button and User Research at Microsoft with Kent Sullivan and Derek Hoiem by Scott Hanselman 
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Kent Sullivan and Derek Hoiem were some of the original hires at the User Research Labs at Microsoft. The worked on the exploratory user research that produced the taskbar and Start menu, as well as the iterative research that helped nail down the details. How did the Start Menu and Start Button come to be?

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Listened to Stripe Observability Pipeline with Cory Watson
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Stripe processes payments for thousands of businesses. A single payment could involve 10 different networked services. If a payment fails, engineers need to be able to diagnose what happened. The root cause could lie in any of those services. Distributed tracing is used to find the causes of failures and latency within networked services. In

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Listened to Pursuit Podcast: Freelancing Long Term: Remy Sharp
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Thinking about getting into freelancing and wondering what the long term impacts of working for yourself might be? Or perhaps you've been working for yourself for some time and want to see how your experiences stack up? Battle-scarred veteran freelancer of joins us to talk about the challenges of working for yourself long term. We'll look at isolation, avoidance and motivation, offering tips and tricks to help you do more.