• The programming of the event
• Emerging tech trends
• Our role as leaders
• Robin Hood app & Gamification
• Overvaluation of some tech companies
• Is this a bubble?
• Candle Media buying Youtube channels
• Silo'd Metaverse experiences
• Video games have been doing this for years
• AI
• Deepfakes
• WAB AR/VR
• Zuckerberg
• Synthetic Biology
• Tech Warfare
• Flexible working & culture changes relating to equality
• Digital IDs
• HoloRide test
• All Day Hey

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• Burnout
• Time boxing
• The side effects of being unproductive
• Mental health
• Exercise
• Setting boundaries
• Setting time limits on software and social media useage
• The benefits of side projects
• Mental health as the world reopens
• Hybrid working
• Empowering a team

Resources:

• The Pomodoro Technique
• Things
• Atlassian
• Motion
• Well Good
• Leeds Cookery School
• Phil Hawksworth

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• Different leadership styles
• The value of delegating
• How to keep people invested in the project
• Boundaries when working from home
• Tooling the team for the current times
• Giving autonomy
• Putting your foot down
• The curse of analysis paralysis
• How team structure affects leadership styles
• Creating a positive culture around leadership when starting a business
  
• Open Source software leadership
• How different management styles anchorage flow state
• Confluence
• Showing vulnerability from the leader
• Ensuring a work / life balance

Resources:

• Management book recommendation
• Vulnerability

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• Mapping the user experience
• Demystifying the quote process with the client
• Understanding your team and the time estimates they give you
• Setting expectations
• Internal communication and the quote process
• Making tradeoff decisions
• Adapting the tools you use as a team
• Reusing code
• Time management with client tweaks
• Previous project analysis
• The cost for updating and maintaining a project in the future
• Early understanding of the client’s system
• Building trust
• Keeping devs on track via meetings
• Creating a shared understanding between front and back-end developers
• The value of face-to-face communication and more.

Resources:

• Planning Poker

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• Baselining where you are and establishing your starting point
• Monitoring and improving performance
• Speeding up your app speeds up dev time
• Chrome dev tools
• Game-changing services
• Image optimisation
• Reducing friction
• Unlearning best practices
• Testing
• Worker related scripts
• Lazy loading
• Preloading

Resources:

• Chrome DevTools
• web.dev
• Cloudflare
• Fastly
• New Relic
• AppSignal
• Blackfire

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Basic security maintenance is essential but what can companies and individuals be doing to make sure their web applications are secure during a time of high value bug bounties being offered to people for finding vulnerabilities?

• Bug bounties. The positives, negatives and relevancy to different sized agencies
• The use of bots to find MongoDB vulnerabilities
• Encrypted vaults
• The Slack issue
• How hard is it to put secure processes in place from the start?
• Canary and environment variables
• If you’re a security researcher, what do you do with responsible disclosure?
• The fine line between helping the hackers and helping the community
• What makes a good, secure app?
• Package managers
• Modern libraries making it obvious when you are doing a bad thing
• Open pull requests
• Get your house in order with OWASP
• Frameworks and the early standards they set with password management and security hygiene
• Importance of rotating keys
• Human interfaces and the floors surrounding them
• What can we learn from Twelve-Factor?
• Github Workspaces and recreatable environments
• The issues of convenience
• Macs vs dev accessibility and Windows catching up
• Github and Atom
• Good, automated test suites
• How to have a good view on what makes a good security test
• Falling into the trap of feeling productive
• Sitting down with the team to discuss testing value and priorities
• The creativity of SQL injection
• Reinventing the wheel
• Dangers of writing an encryption tool and importance of getting an external security company

Resources:

• GitHub Security Bug Bounty
• snyk
• Yarn
• The Open Web Application Security Project
• 12 Factor
• Hyper

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Josh and James have known each other for many years and have a lot of professional experience in tech at the top level between them, ranging from agency work through to consulting. Josh runs Leeds-based software consultancy Stac whilst James runs Parallax - a digital agency specialising in websites, apps and much more. This gives our co-hosts different perspectives on the tech topics they’ll be getting into in the coming episodes and gives the listener a balanced take on today’s top topics in tech.

If you enjoy this episode, make sure to subscribe so you don’t miss the next one! In today’s episode, Josh and James explore:

• How do you define a career path?
• The changes you experience as a developer as you progress up the career ladder within an agency and as a consultant.
• Knowing where to invest your time as a junior in tech to ensure suitable progression for yourself.
• What opportunities and challenges does remote working create for employees and employers?
• What can employers do to retain employees and create a rewarding career path for their staff?
• How often should companies speak to employees about progression and what frameworks are effective for this?
• Zoom fatigue and remote working.
• What does the future look like for offices with a mixture of remote working and people wishing to spend their time around people in person?

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This is a story with practical lessons about how it's never too late to get into technology. Lu shares her journey into tech, how she got into the industry and how she overcame the difficulty and obstacles she encountered at the beginning of her career. She extracts key advice and takeaways she's learned that will be useful for people who are trying to change their career path into tech or students who want to pursue a career in tech.

There are lessons in Lu's talk that also benefit anyone with more experience in the industry who wants to reconnect with what that journey feels like if say, you manage a team with people who are. It's easy to lose sight of what the beginning feels like so there is something in this for all levels of industry experience.

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