Off Script

What can we learn from the success and simplicity of Wordle? How can we be more aware of when we’re likely to over-engineer a solution?

Hosts James & Josh discuss when to add complexity, when it’s not needed and scenarios where you’re more likely to encounter over-engineering difficulties.

• Simplicity of Wordle
• Hosting & Data Responsibility
• Basecamp
• Webflow
• Microservices
• Governance
• Splitting Applications
• GraphQL
• Shopify

Find out more about Stac and Parallax:

• Stac
• Parallax

In this episode, Josh and James explore Josh’s recent trip to ffconf 2022 in Brighton. They discuss the talks, all the highlights and takeaways raised during the conference.

• 2 - ffconf hacked gameboy game in gift pack
• 5 - Talk: Florence Okoye - Designing as we want, to create the experiences that we need
• 6 - Design justice framework
• 9 - Talk: Heydon Pickering - Capitalism, The Web, And You
• 11 - The Gig Economy, Slavery, Uber & Exploitation
• 13 - Talk: Lex Lofthouse - Design for Developers
• 14 - Bootstrap
• 16 - Talk: Sophie Koonin - This Talk is Under Construction: a love letter to the personal website
• 17 - Back to blogs
• 18 - “The Modern web is not for creators, it’s for consumers”
• 19 - “Building a website is a radical act in this day and age”
• 20 - Talk: Lily Madar - Programming with Yarn
• 23 - Talk: Natalia Waniczek - Working towards a greener world from behind the keyboard
• 24 - Green engineering principles
• 25 - Music streaming greenhouse gas emissions
• 26 - Optimising for region hosting
• 27 - Talk: Sareh Heidari - Digital exclusion in healthcare & how to change it
• 28 - The digital device bank
• 29 - Plain english consortium
• 30 - Silktide breaks down reading age
• 31 - Internet Access as a human right
• 32 - Talk: Ruth John - Day Disco
• 33 - Using audio web apis to create fun things
• 33 - Digital TR 909 to program in browser
• 34 - Web Midi

Resources:

• https://2022.ffconf.org/
• https://help.silktide.com/
• https://roland50.studio/

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• Parallax

We welcomed Sharon Steed to Hey! Live as our guest in November for a special, free live-streamed lecture. Sharon and Hey! Founder, Josh Nesbitt explored "Empathy at work".

Transformational culture starts with empathy. But how do you make that happen? How do you create a culture that everyone feels heard in? Respected? Where each individual knows them and their ideas are valuable to not only their coworkers, but the company at large?

These are the ideas Communilogue’s founder and principal Sharon Steed examines in her ebook "Empathy at work". Communilogue is also an empathy consultancy, so we can't wait for Sharon's insight into this fascinating topic at our live-streamed event.

Sharon speaks at companies and conferences globally on empathy at work. Her story is unique in that she got her start speaking and consulting in a non-traditional way.

Sharon is a life-long stutterer, and she uses her speech impediment to teach what empathy is and how to use it as a foundation for positive and effective communication. Stuttering has informed her view of communication as a result of years of being both terrified to speak but also fascinated with the the intricacies of conversation. She has spoken about empathy and communication, vulnerability and her experiences as a stutterer at conferences and companies globally.

"Empathy at work" is a topic Sharon has fantastic insight into. She has written an ebook about it facilitates a training course of the same name.

We're happy to welcome Lu Liu, software engineer from Fintech industry to Off Script by Hey! Radio.

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.