The Alan Barr Show

Otter Voice Meeting Notes - Otter.ai

Voice Coach Yawning 

Be a great communicator Podcast

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.

• 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

• Phonics
• Elysian Disco
• John Maxwell Books
• Teen Books

• Grammarly and Word Tune
• Accentia - Naver dictionary
• Bold Voice
• AnkiUse
• English for Everyone Vocabulary
• Typing.com

• 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 

• 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

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

Leverage Points in Systems

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?

Raw Book Notes

Andrew Huberman’s neuroplasticity super protocols

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.

"If your story describes their problem better than they can describe it themselves, they will automatically assume you have the best solution." - Chris Orlob

Selling is a process of connecting people with a problem with your solution. Your goal is to make them feel confident that you, your company, and your product are the best solution to their problem. Chris Orlob calls out Alcoholics Anonymous as the best of connecting the problem to the solution. It started with a few drinks on the weekend...

Disconnect the "cost" of the solution from the understanding of value. “Does the idea make sense to you? Do you like the idea?”

Use tones to short circuit people's decision-making so they know when to listen or when to agree or disagree. People on the sales journey will have objections. It is your job as a salesperson to handle objections and educate the buyer as an expert on their problem.

Act 3 - Negotiation

• Negotiator Types
• Why me?
• Accusation Audit
• Labeling/Mislabeling
• Late Night FM DJ
• Mirroring
• Dynamic Silence

Mike Montiero says, "A designer solves problems within a set of constraints".

What is API Design?

The goal of API design is to try and get the defined API interface as right as possible at the beginning because the consequences are severe and lasting when you don't get them right. The reason it is severe is because people can build on top of the API and you cannot change it easily after that.

The goal of API design is to try and get the defined API interface as right as possible at the beginning because the consequences are severe and lasting when you don't get them right. The reason it is severe is because people can build on top of the API and you cannot change it easily after that.

API design is a cultural change in how people apply a process to doing their work. Microservices, domain driven design, cloud native, project to product, and inner sourcing are types of cultural transformations companies go on.

The Goal of Design

You are responsible for the work you put into the world based on Mike Montiero's summary of Victor Papanek's Design for the Real World.

API-First Design versus Code-First?

According to Kevin Sookocheff, this might be a false dichotomy with api development existing on a continuum.

• API Description First
• Coded API Description
• API Framework
• Implementation First

Implementation First suffers from two problems that other practices do not. A lack of forethought in API design and the risk of the API description becoming out of synchronization with the API description.

Good APIs according to JJ Geewax.

• Operational
• Expressive
• Simple
• Predictable

API Creation Process according to Kirsten Hunter

• Business Value
• Metrics
• Use Cases
• API Design & schema model

As designers of software it is our job to frame for others the decisions they are making.

Publishing an API is a consequential and irreversible decision. By adding friction to this activity we can create compounding leverage by developing a foundation of proven API design patterns to start with instead of starting from scratch each time. We can create better software products by removing the friction that makes doing work hard for no good reason. We can also improve what we make by adding friction that results in better quality experiences.

Poor designs cause real problems in the world like the Amazon s3 cli that cause an outage and the Citibank $500,000,000 UI problem.

Cheatsheet and reference material. In progress refer to learn Wardley mapping if digital garden not working.

Learn Wardley Mapping

Otter Recording

Kubernetes is the abstraction layer for infrastructure standardization.

Act 1 - Advocating and starting the change for a new platform.

People Process Technology

Unlearning and learning.

Communicate and engage leadership to advocate for your platform.

Act 2 - Marketing, Education, Training

Training is a great investment that communicates the value and gives everyone a baseline to understand. People using your system will have old mental models they will need to update. New patterns will be discovered and it takes time to understand and change how to apply. Encourage new habits and behaviors. Constantly market your product because people will not know and may see communication but not engage.

Act 3 - Completing the change and monitoring the results

Use metrics to advocate and promote the change. Be prepared for the next horizon to change. The journey is constant and there will always be a new place to go. The cycle will repeat.

Writing as thinking FAST, CRIBS. David Perell and his articulate thoughts on writing.

Act 2 - Writing for others

Software Documentation four types of documentation. Writing in context.

Act 3 - Writing to Persuade and Align

Visions, Decision making, clarifying thoughts, taking a stand, constructing a narrative to illustrate a good decision. Structuring reality and a framework for thinking. Illustrating how decisions are being made.

Conclusion

Writing is for communicating ideas to others. It adds value or it moves a conversation forward. In some cases, it provides a framework for others to think and to do their work.