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The Alan Barr Show

The Alan Barr Show

Hosted by Alan Barr

Episodes

39

Latest episode

Jan 2024

Language

EN

About the show

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

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39 recent
January 28, 202414 min

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

January 7, 202410 min

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

December 29, 20230 min

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

May 16, 202218 min

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.

May 9, 202223 min

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

May 2, 202224 min

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

April 25, 202214 min

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.

April 11, 202214 min

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

April 4, 202215 min

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

March 21, 202222 min

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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