
Illustrator and graphic designer Adelaide Leeder joins us to talk about creative careers, freelance client disasters, pricing design work, and what generative AI means for artists. Mark returns from Truck Festival with...


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Hosted by Mark McCracken & Michael McCarthy · technology · EN
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ctrl-alt-expletive is hosted by Mark McCracken & Michael McCarthy. The show has published 17 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Episode 17: Graphic Design, Freelancing and AI, with Adelaide Leeder" (31 July 2026, 84 minutes), "FinOps, with Alison McIntyre" (13 June 2025, 92 minutes), and "Working with Neurodiversity, with Chris Knight" (29 March 2025, 96 minutes).
ctrl-alt-expletive publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 86 minutes across 17 episodes.
Booking probability for ctrl-alt-expletive is 38%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. ctrl-alt-expletive requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. ctrl-alt-expletive's contact route on record: verified email.
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Mark McCracken & Michael McCarthy hosts ctrl-alt-expletive, a technology podcast with 17 episodes published.
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Illustrator and graphic designer Adelaide Leeder joins us to talk about creative careers, freelance client disasters, pricing design work, and what generative AI means for artists. Mark returns from Truck Festival with...

Episode #16
<p>Alison McIntyre, Director of Cloud Economics at Capgemini gives us a tour of modern FinOps, and the state of FinOps report</p> Michael is investigating Liberating Structures Mark doesn't know what a Clementine is...

<p>Chris Knight, Head of Data & AI Demand, Delivery & Financial Operations, talks about his work life, and dealing with Neurodivergence</p> Mark has been fiddling around with Kit and automation for emails for our...

<p>We have the long awaited and hugely experienced Dave McNeill, talking all things Operations, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, tales of incidents, working in a startup environment, opinions...

<p>We've got Raxit Ramani, a highly experienced Agile Coach and Project Manager talking about Scaled Agile, SAFe, Stories of things being wrong, and how different government bodies have operated in the past.</p>...

<p>We've got Director of Engineering Sam Jones talking all things Engineering Management. How to get into it, how she stays organised, great books to learn from, and how she approaches the challenges of the job.</p>...

<p>We've got BAFTA winning Creative Director Nikki Stearman, talking about tech for good. She shares her experience designing and crafting experiences for children who are about to go to hospital, to help them...

Michael keeps up with his "listen to 100 albums in a year" resolution. Mark has a weights rack of shame. Chris fails dry Jan by a matter of days. There's a 1% chance we'll all be mush anyway. <p>GIVE US FEEDBACK! Do...

Episode #9
<p>Michael has caved and got a new microphone, China are back in the news, and we've got a better joke than last time.</p> Michael is on the super stouts Marie is doing dry "couple-of-days" What's a plosion? Michael has...

What does James do? Is Sky a big company? What's your favourite file format to read from? Favourite format of book to digest? East London vs. West London What even is Burns Night? Deep fried battered scottish things...

<p>After an extended break, our first episode of the year is here!</p> <p>CES 2025 has come and been</p> Michael thinks about persuading his cats to come to work I want to charge my phone in 5 econds <p>Are we dry...

<p>We've got Jean-Paul Ashby, a.k.a. JP, a recruiter, director, entrepreneur, talking about all things recruitment, CVs, interviews, and more</p> Lenny Visits Wayde Michael finishes the last Espresso Martini Mouse JP...

<p>It's become less surprising as the weeks fly by that we're still doing it.</p> Ian gives us his tooling preferences and why. Cynic to advocate for public cloud The phones are ringing off the hooks, thanks to Ian...

<p>We're still here for number 4.</p> We add some jingles and an intro. Michael gets third party confirmation that he's old All the guests have mugged us off, so it's just Michael and I Mark predicts the rise of AI...

Episode #3
<p>We've got Fredrik Alm, Infrastructure Architect from Sweden on, to talk about Smart Home setups.</p> Michael goes on mute, leading to widespread panic DIY Dishwasher APIs Everyone hates JFrog, but not as much as Mark...

<p>We're back for episode two!<br> We've got an old friend, Mitan Patel as our guest this week.</p> Mitan tells us about his career break. We chat about AI tools. Mark reviews the last recommendations, badly. Michael...

Episode #1
<h1>We're live!</h1> How early is too early for the Christmas Tree? How many plugs is the right number of plugs for your workspace? Who even are these people? <h2>Imposter syndrome is our big topic</h2> <p>Who are these...
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