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Saturday Sep 21, 2024
Saturday Sep 21, 2024
Woody Zuill joins Gary Longsine on the Free Birdseed podcast to discuss his book Software Teaming, mob programming, and how better collaboration in software development leads to better software and better development outcomes. A little bluegrass music, too.
Sunday May 22, 2022
Sunday May 22, 2022
Free Birdseed talks with Michael Bissell about API design and the importance of defining identities on the overall security of a system. Software shouldn't make people cry."We're protected more by firewall rules, now, than by design." — Michael Bissell
Free Birdseed
the podcast for people who make software
Join host Gary Longsine on a quest to discover what makes great software and how to make helpful, fun, delightful software.
Has a software system ever made you want to throw your phone against the wall?
Have you ever wondered, "how could this system possibly be this bad?"
Complex information systems have woven themselves into our daily lives, for better and for worse.
Let's explore software from different perspectives.
Do we bring joy or frustration?
Do we gift or inflict our service upon our user communities?
When we gamify a big data system (like social media) are we tricking our own inner ancient monkey psychology to do something we need or want to do, or are we manipulating ourselves and our society in destructive ways?
As makers of software we’re not only inventors, or creative cogs in the machinery which makes it, but we’re users, too.
How do the culture and organizational dynamics of a startup, an enterprise, a government agency, or venture capital investment community influence what succeeds and what fails on App Stores?
Software by many objective measures is better than it’s ever been, and yet there’s clearly so much we could be doing better.
Let’s take a walk in nature together and talk about software.