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Hosted by Mark McCracken & Michael McCarthy · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 16 episodes
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Join us for a laid back catch up on what's going on in the world of software, enterprise business, news for software and tech, and miscellaneous bureaucracy.
Mark McCracken & Michael McCarthy hosts ctrl-alt-expletive, a technology show with 16 episodes published.
Alison McIntyre, Director of Cloud Economics at Capgemini gives us a tour of modern FinOps, and the state of FinOps report Michael is investigating Liberating Structures Mark doesn't know what a Clementine is Alison gets
Chris Knight, Head of Data & AI Demand, Delivery & Financial Operations, talks about his work life, and dealing with Neurodivergence Mark has been fiddling around with Kit and automation for emails for our newsletter. Ch
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 on g
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. Subscribe to ou
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. Michael pre
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 understand wh
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. GIVE US FEEDBACK! Do this fo
Michael has caved and got a new microphone, China are back in the news, and we've got a better joke than last time. Michael is on the super stouts Marie is doing dry "couple-of-days" What's a plosion? Michael has over-re
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 Jame
After an extended break, our first episode of the year is here! CES 2025 has come and been Michael thinks about persuading his cats to come to work I want to charge my phone in 5 econds Are we dry January-ing? No. Resolu
We've got Jean-Paul Ashby, a.k.a. JP, a recruiter, director, entrepreneur, talking about all things recruitment, CVs, interviews, and more Lenny Visits Wayde Michael finishes the last Espresso Martini Mouse JP sipps a du
It's become less surprising as the weeks fly by that we're still doing it. Ian gives us his tooling preferences and why. Cynic to advocate for public cloud The phones are ringing off the hooks, thanks to Ian Reeves! What
We're still here for number 4. 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 Santa Mark p
We've got Fredrik Alm, Infrastructure Architect from Sweden on, to talk about Smart Home setups. Michael goes on mute, leading to widespread panic DIY Dishwasher APIs Everyone hates JFrog, but not as much as Mark We've g
We're back for episode two! We've got an old friend, Mitan Patel as our guest this week. Mitan tells us about his career break. We chat about AI tools. Mark reviews the last recommendations, badly. Michael has put some e
We're live! 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? Imposter syndrome is our big topic Who are these psychpaths that don't
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