00:00 Intro01:15 What is Flow04:40 The Autotelic Personality07:00 Developer Productivity for Humans13:30 SummaryEngineering Enablement - Measuring Flow and FocusDeveloper Productivity for Humans, Part 6: Measuring Flow, Focus, and Fric

AI / LLM Testing

Jan 7th, 2024 10m 55s

(00:00) Introduction(01:12) How are we using AI.(03:40) AI Products and Testing.(06:26) AI Testing.(10:09) SummaryArticle: Testing LLM-Based Applications: Strategy and Challenges

Announcement: Rebooting my podcast

Dec 29th, 2023 29s

Topics I'll cover in 2024.⁃ AI / LLM / Machine Learning⁃ Book Summaries⁃ Domain Driven Design⁃ Flow⁃ Metacognition / System Thinking⁃ Software Engineering, TestingLinks:- Website - https://www.alanmbarr.com/- X - https://twitter.com/a

Your Bulletproof Financial Savings Plan

May 23rd, 2022 10m 32s

FearPlanGive, Give, GiveResourcesThe 9 Steps to Financial Freedom - Suze OrmanThe Index Card - Helaine Olen and Harold PollackMoney Master the Game - Tony Robbins

Alan's Updates May 15th 2022

May 16th, 2022 18m

The Start of The JourneyRecovery, The Journey so farFiguring Out the Next Level of my Learninghttps://www.aarp.org/caregiving/health/info-2019/dementia-warning-signs.htmlIf you like the podcast, please subscribe and share it with others.

Creating a Podcast

May 9th, 2022 23m 52s

Act 1 - Your Elevator PitchAct 2 - Prepare and Edit, liberally and ruthlesslyAct 3 - Three Act Narratives, but mix it upResourcesStart a Podcast - Kristen MeinzerMake Noise - Eric NuzumNPR's Podcast Start Up Guide - Glen WeldonEdi

Vision, Buddha and the Badass Book Summary

May 2nd, 2022 24m 47s

Today’s Topic is a Book Summary by Vishen Lakhiani from the book The Buddha and the Badass.Act 1 - Make a big vision and great people will find youAct 2 - Massive Transformation Purpose and Make a StandAct 3 - Craft Your Identity

Ephemerality

Apr 25th, 2022 14m 51s

Chainguard -The Principle of Ephemerality via Carlos SantanaGet 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 a

Veterans United Home Loans Software Engineering Conference 2022

Apr 18th, 2022 25m 47s

Today’s topic is the VU Software Engineering ConferenceAct 1 - Architectures are relativeAct 2 - TDD + ArchitecturesAct 3 - dev.lab storiesSummaryTrade-offs depend on the needs of your business.Test-Driven Development can make your te

Alan's Updates April 10th 2022

Apr 11th, 2022 14m 10s

Every week, I'll be posting one episode. I stopped in the past because I didn't have enough content to create a podcast with what I wanted to talk about. The podcast will help me improve my writing and voice. Hopefully, the content will be good

Mindfulness and Awareness

Apr 4th, 2022 15m 27s

Today's topic is Mindfulness and Awareness.Mayo Clinic says, "Mindfulness is a type of meditation in which you focus on being intensely aware of what you're sensing and feeling in the moment, without interpretation or judgment."Act 1 - Awaren

50 Days After My Stroke

Mar 21st, 2022 22m 47s

What Didn't Work?PhonicsElysian DiscoJohn Maxwell BooksTeen BooksToolsGrammarly and Word TuneAccentia - Naver dictionaryBold VoiceAnkiUseEnglish for Everyone VocabularyTyping.comTutors and PreparingYouTube

Repeat - The Importance of Persuasion and Techniques to Try

Mar 7th, 2022 24m 26s

I am out so this week. Please enjoy the techniques of Negotiation such as Never Split the DifferentAct 1 - What is persuasion and why should we be persuasive?Act 2 - Low Stakes Persuasive TechniquesAct 3 - Higher Stakes Persuasion

Repeat - Lessons Learned Building Dev.Lab Internal Developer Platform

Feb 21st, 2022 23m 45s

2021 dev.lab internal developer. I'll be back.

Software Design, Empathy, Personas and Career

Feb 8th, 2022 53m 30s

Alan Barr Podcast Interview with Tyler Lemke Don't make me thinkEmpathy MappingMentors in techMIX08 Microsoft Office 2007: The Story of the RibbonGet Your First Dev Job Danny ThompsonTyler's YoutubeTyler's WebsiteJunior To Senior Dev P

Systems Thinking

Jan 24th, 2022 26m 3s

The Five Disciplines- Systems Thinking- Personal Mastery- Mental Models- Building Shared Vision- Team LearningLeverage Points in Systems

Junior Developers

Jan 10th, 2022 26m 7s

Gergely Orosz Hiring juniorsDark 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.Mich

Create Prolifically

Jan 3rd, 2022 11m 32s

2022 is here. Make the most of it.

Ultralearning

Dec 27th, 2021 49m 6s

Act 1 - Your First Ultralearning ProjectAct 2 - Nine Principles of UltralearningAct 3 - Alan’s Version of an Ultralearning Project/HabitSummaryYou will be more successful if you start by researching your learning plan. You can ask experts o

API Design

Dec 20th, 2021 41m 59s

In this episode, I review a few books on API Design. The Design of Web APIs by Arnaud Lauret the API Handyman, Irresistible APIs by Kirsten Hunter, and API Design Patterns by JJ Geewax. I also brainfart may refer to Kirsten Hunter as Kirsten St

Log4Shell

Dec 13th, 2021 12m 18s

What do you do when the majority of software in the world is vulnerable to a remote code execution exploit via the logger? The one type of system the majority of programs run. How can we get better as an industry to benefit from sharing our cod

Self-Leadership

Dec 6th, 2021 25m 43s

Act 1 - Self-AwarenessAct 2 - Emotional RegulationAct 3 - Patience and Acceptance

Fundamentals

Nov 29th, 2021 13m 20s

If mastering the fundamentals sets us apart, what are those fundamentals?

Influence, Sales, Negotiation

Nov 22nd, 2021 33m 46s

Act 1 - InfluenceAutomatic Triggers - We use mental shortcuts to reduce thinking such as adding because to justify something which most people will simply accept.Reciprocity - Return favors and gifts.Commitment and Consistency - Human

API-First Design

Nov 15th, 2021 39m 31s

What is designMike 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 a