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?

Play Podcast (mp3): Download (Duration: 1:05:36 — 45.1MB) It’s all about the community this week as expert Jono Bacon joins us but before that, Plasma Mobile is looking good, flight simulator dev …

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

Did developers have a major impact on the rise of kubernetes? Opinions differ, as we discuss. We also talk about what, if anything, cloud companies owe open source and strategies for picking which conferences to send talks to. Also, the longest Datadog ad read ever.

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.

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Josh and Kurt talk to Rami Saas, the CEO of WhiteSource about 3rd party open source security as well as open source licensing. …

Play Podcast (mp3): Download (Duration: 43:07 — 29.7MB) With Graham and Will firmly on board, we talk about the future of the web and how Google’s AMP will affect it. That’s after a news section that …

Josh and Kurt talk about Let’s Encrypt with co-founder Josh Aas. We discuss the past, present, and future of the project. …

Frank & Jos of Nextcloud join to discuss their fork of ownCloud, the history & the reaction by ownCloud. Plus Valve's Steam Machines, Oracle vs Google & more!

This week we discuss last Friday's passing of our dear friend and colleague Jerry Pournelle, when AI is turned to evil purpose, whether and when Google's Chrome browser will warn o…

Risky Business #467 -- HPKP as an attack vector

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The number of ways that applications can fail is numerous. Disks fail all the time. Servers overheat. Network connections get flaky. You assume that you are prepared for such a scenario because you have replicated your servers. You have the database backed up. Your core application is spread across multiple availability zones. But are you

Dogecoin was started in 2013 as a joke. Jackson Palmer forked Bitcoin and created his cryptocurrency as a play-off of the “doge” meme. The currency became popular as a means of Reddit users “tipping” each other. If I made a comment on Reddit that you liked, you might send me some Dogecoin. This use case

Bill Kennedy joined the show and talked with Carlisia about learning Go, teaching Go (which is something we’ll do at some point or another), making good presentations, and other interesting projects and news.

Rico Sta. Cruz joined us to talk about his project Devhints (cheatsheets for developers). There are more than 365 cheatsheets you can contribute to and it’s open source. We talked about the design, technical implementation, community, alternate interfaces like the command line. We also talked about RSJS, RSCSS, and Doc...

Due to Coté feeling weird (and being diagnosed with the flu), this week you get a curated selection of our new podcast, Software Defined Interviews. There are two artisanal selected clips. First, a discussion with Jon Collins about GDPR - will it actually work, or just be another regulation eye-roller? Then, there’s a rapid fire questions session with Nancy Gohring of 451 Research - we talk about Cisco’s AppDynamics acquisition, ServiceNow, and Honeycomb. Both of these are just a tiny bit of the full interviews, which you should totally check out by subscribing to Software Defined Interviews: [http://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/](http://www.softwaredefinedinterviews.com/)

Resources Creating a Vue.js Serverless Checkout Form Stdlib Build a “Serverless” Stripe Store in 5 Minutes with Node.js and StdLib Serverless Microsoft Azure Functions IBM Cloud Functions Amazon Lambda Sponsors Datadog Datadog is a SaaS-based monitoring platform that provides dev and ops teams with a unified view of all their systems, apps, and services. Check them out today at Datadog.com/toolsday to start your 14 day free trial and don't forget your T-shirt!

Resources Creating a Vue.js Serverless Checkout Form Stdlib Build a “Serverless” Stripe Store in 5 Minutes with Node.js and StdLib Serverless Microsoft Azure Functions IBM Cloud Functions Amazon Lambda Sponsors Datadog Datadog is a SaaS-based monitoring platform that provides dev and ops teams with a unified view of all their systems, apps, and services. Check them out today at Datadog.com/toolsday to start your 14 day free trial and don't forget your T-shirt!

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Play Podcast (mp3): Download (Duration: 48:17 — 33.2MB) It’s Ikey’s last show and Jesse’s last show for a while, and Félim is off sick. Graham Morrison joins us to discuss 2 factor authentication, …

As a humanist, Leo Igwe doesn't believe in divine intervention -- but he does believe in the power of human beings to alleviate suffering, cure disease, preserve the planet and turn situations of poverty into prosperity. In this bold talk, Igwe shares how humanism can free Africans from damaging superstitions and give them the power to rebuild the continent.

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Want to connect with a depressed friend but not sure how to relate to them? Comedian and storyteller Bill Bernat has a few suggestions. Learn some dos and don'ts for talking to people living with depression -- and handle your next conversation with grace and maybe a bit of humor.