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10 Lessons I Learned In My Journey as a Product Manager Understand your Product: Product managers, will lead the development of your product and not only that, you'll be the one to define what success would look like for your product. Understanding your product's goals, Business goals, Vision of the product, and extensively understanding what problem your product is solving is key. Understanding your WHY, WHAT and How of your product is essential. Build yourself like a Product: I started my product management journey with not so clear vision of what I wanted to become, but one of the things I took serious was building my brand and positioning myself in the PM and Tech Space; well not like I've gotten to where I want to yet. As time went by, my career vision, long term & short goals became clearer, I kept building on myself, actively learning and open to feedback. As Product Managers you have to build yourself like a Product. Have an innovative mindset: To become a better Product Manager, you have to have an innovative mindset and be a critical thinker. Products aren't just built, it takes a lot ideation, critical thinking, research before it is being brought to life. As Tech evolves, you have to be actively thinking of ways to better improve your product and be innovative about your ideas. Product Management isn't a Shortcut to Tech: A lot of people tend to believe that since they can't code, the easiest Career path to delve into is Product Management. Product Management is hard, what other word can I use? It's hard and it's not easy. It takes a lot to be a Product Manager; Being a critical thinker, Decision Maker, Effective leader, People Manager, Empathetic Manager and many more. They seem easy but when you eventually have to start using these skills, you realize it's more than that. Prioritize both your physical and mental health: Health is wealth like we all say. Sometimes people only focus on the physical health and neglecting the mental health, forgetting that a healthy mind results to a healthy productive lifestyle. Product management can be so demanding that sometimes, you struggle to care for your mental health. Having healthy routines or habits that can help you balance a healthy mental health is key. Learn everyday: When I say learn everyday you know I'm not saying every day, I meant be an ‘active Learner'. Product Management is a broad Career path, and even though you don't have to be expert in all aspects, it's important to be able to understand every other aspects of Product Management. Learning from experts, online learning, learning from experience are ways to learn. Learning is a continuous journey and Tech itself is a fast pace sector. Build rich connections: Building rich connections is key in Tech, and it has a lot of its advantages. Remember that; “Your Network is your net-worth”, this is really true. Having the right connections and people in your corner would help your journey a lot easier as a product Manager; From learning from their experience, guidance, to even opportunities. Product Managers wears many hats : So far in my career, I've realized that not only are we Product Managers but we're superheroes. Product Managers are at the center of the Product, and we do more than managing the Product. Some Product Managers do responsibilities of Quality Assurance tester, Business analyst, marketing manager, Scrum Master, Project manager and many more. Kudos to all Product Managers! Documentation is a key aspect of Product Management: As product managers, ability to effectively document processes and tools, Product Documentations is key especially if you're just starting in PM or in the junior level. Documentation plays a crucial role in Product Development and it serves as a guide for knowledge sharing. Product Managers embraces Feedback: Feedback could be positive or negative, what makes you a better Product Manager is your ability to embrace feedback both on your product and on your Career journey.

Join host Chris Asbridge in an engaging discussion on product development with limited funding, featuring experts Kristoffer Nolgren, Head of Product at Sleip, Gustav Rådström, Product Manager at Levels, and Trevor Grady, Product Manager at Stepler. Explore innovative strategies and tactics for building successful products on a constrained budget. Gain insights into lean product development, agile methodologies, and effective product management practices, tailored for startups and organizations navigating resource limitations.

We have a premiere! For the first time I had two guests on the podcast: Mirela and Viktoria. We discussed: • The added value by having external PMs• How to make the collaboration successful • How to upskill as a Product ManagerEnjoy the show!---You can find Mirela on LinkedIn.You can find Viktoria on LinkedIn as well.Here is your way to the website from Product People.Here you can find Mirelas article about "Blazing Fast Onboarding for Product Managers".

Evo Nordics #444 - Anything Product - Product Leadership Within Mobile Apps by Evolution Exchange Nordics Podcast

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In this episode of Intercom on Product, our Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer Des Traynor and Paul Adams, our Chief Product Officer, discuss how AI is going to transform the software industry, and how startups can identify the best AI opportunities to target vulnerable incumbents. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this episode of Intercom on Product, our Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer Des Traynor and Paul Adams, our Chief Product Officer, discuss how AI is going to transform the software industry, and how startups can identify the best AI opportunities to target vulnerable incumbents. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this episode, delve into the magic of collaboration between product management and product marketing with Jameelah Calhoun, VP of Product Marketing at Eventbrite. Discover how they work hand in hand to solve customer problems and fine-tune products for the market. With real-world examples like Eventbrite's marketing tool subscription, which experienced a staggering 10x growth, learn more about the collaborative framework that propels this dynamic partnership forward.Get the FREE Product Book and check out our curated list of Product Management resources here.

Jack has 18 years of experience in the CPG sector, an MBA in finance and a track record of founding companies since he was 15 years old. Originating from Venezuela Jack discusses the obstacles he's faced building a brand in the USA as an immigrant. Duradry is experiencing great growth and Jack shares behind the scenes of the brand. We do a fun exercise that I found and adapted from @heyitsalexP on twitter where we break down the functional parts of a DTC brand and allocate points to determine the importance of each fraction.  If you want to give it a try here are the rules: If I gave you 100 points to build your brand, how would you distribute them across:Product Product market fitLogisticsTalentAcquisition marketing Retention marketing BrandWebsite experience OperationsPromotionsA big thank you to our sponsors:Rewind Shopify App.  Back up your Shopify store because not doing so is absolute lunacy!As a listener of the show, you can claim a no strings attached free month with this link: https://rewind.com/ecommercegold/‍VIXXR Shopify Agency. https://www.vixxr.com/ 

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WOW! You don't want to miss this jam-packed episode that is ALL about our new Spring 2019 products! This features the Product Advisory Council Leaders sharing juicy details that you don't want to miss. Product Advisory Council Members featured in this episode: Amy Browarski, Senior Vice President Sales Leader Amy Fullmer, Senior Vice President Sales Leader Judy Gelhaus, Vice President Sales Leader Carla MacQuarrie, Executive Vice President Sales Leader Katie White, Senior Vice President Sales Leader

Panel: Eric Berry Charles Max Wood Nate Hopkins Special Guest: Paul Smith and Andrew Mason In this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panelists talk with Paul Smith and Andrew Mason! They discuss the platforms Lucky and Crystal. Other topics include: Ruby, Phoenix, Laravel Mix, Thoughtbot, Webpack, compilers, and much more! Check it out! Show Topics: 0:00 – Advertisement: Sentry.io 1:02 – Chuck: Welcome!! Eric Berry, Nate Hopkins, and myself are the panel - and our special guests are Paul Smith and Andrew Mason. Introduce yourself! 1:41 – Andrew / Guest: I have messed with every type of language, so there’s that! 1:55 – Paul / Guest: I have been here at my current company for 5 years and it’s a consultancy firm. I have been working on Crystal. 2:14 – Chuck: We are lucky to have you! Give people the elevator pitch for Lucky and Crystal? 2:33 – Guest: Let’s talk about Crystal and looks very similar to Ruby! It’s faster and it’s a compound language. It catches a fair amount of things at compile time. The other special features are... 4:17 – Guest mentions compilers. 4:23 – Chuck: Yeah we see this in the typescript. Is it language service – is that what it’s called? Pile and compile and all of this checking are a nice stage for it to run-through. Although the flipside is coding and to not worry about that – that’s nice! 4:56 – Guest: It has changed my approach for sure. 5:43 – Panel: How much slower are you? 5:54 – Guest: I am a lot faster in Crystal than I am in Ruby. 6:51 – Panel: Yeah you have to figure out where you want to save the time. 7:00 – Guest: Someone wrote a blog post and it said...the Rails service is like bolting a shelf on a wall and hoping to hit a stud and it’s not solid. But using Lucky it’s sold although it took a little longer. I think it can be true. You can do bad things with compilers, though. It depends on how you use it. 7:43 – Panelist asks a question. 7:53 – Guest: Every Friday is an investment day. Lucky is my “whatever I want thing.” I am technically getting paid to work on it. 8:33 – Panel: have you had to battle with the framework? 8:51 – Guest: Yes, even though Crystal looks like Ruby (at a high level) if you want to do it well you have to approach it in the Crystal-way. When I came to Crystal I came to it like Rails. The problem with that is I wanted to have type-saved parameters – you can’t do that in Crystal b/c...it doesn’t know when to have a parameter with... 10:48 – Panel: I have heard you talk about Crystal before on another podcast. You talked about templating and I am curious to hear about that. I have used Slim and others and now stick to ERB. 11:25 – Guest: Yes definitely. Let’s back up and talk about WHAT Lucky does! The guest talks about Rails, escaping, and more! 14:37 – Panel: So I imagine Rails partials are slow and expensive to render. I would imagine that this approach with Lucky... 15:00 – Guest: Yes exactly. It’s extremely fast! 15:20 – Panel: How is this for designers? 15:30 – Guest: Yes that was a concern of mine. With Lucky I tried to make it close to a regular HTML structure would look like! 16:32 – Panel: I spun up a Lucky app the other day. It looks like you are using... 16:50 – Guest: I have played around with a bunch of stuff. I landed on Laravel Mix. 18:27 – Panel: Yes webpack is a pain to set up and it’s hard to get it to working the way you want it to work. 18:47 – Guest: Yeah if you want React or whatever it will generate the configuration you need. I don’t like it b/c if you want to... 19:28 – Panel. 19:45 – Guest: I don’t want to maintain it. 19:54 – Panel: There is a Crystal community in Utah. I want to know – are you competing with Amber? Explain the difference between Lucky and Amber? 20:20 – Guest: Yes I did look at Amber but they are approaching it differently than us. The guest talks about the differences between Amber and Lucky. 21:54 – Guest (continues): With Lucky you will have to learn a little bit more but you get more of a pack! 23:23 – Panel: It sounds like Lucky is inspired by Elm – right? 23:32 – Guest: Yeah, I think so. The guest dives into this topic of Elm and Lucky! 24:35 – Panel: How much does the types feel like it’s getting in your way? How explicit is it? When I came to Ruby it was a breath of fresh air. I am a bit reluctant to go back to those days. 25:25 – Guest: I think Lucky does a happy medium. It doesn’t infer instant variables. I like the... 26:28 – Panel: I learned Java very early on in my computer science career. 27:00 – Guest. 27:10 – Panel: “Crystal...it’s not Java!” That should be your slogan! 27:20 – Fresh Books! 28:25 – Panel: A lot of people are moving to Elixir community. Do you see people moving from Ruby to Lucky and Crystal? How does Lucky compare to Phoenix? 28:55 – Guest: Good question! 29:10 – The guest talks about bamboo – see links below!! 29: 29 – Guest: Sure Ruby is fast but sometimes you spend more time on it then you would want to. 31:08 – Guest: Blessing and curse that Crystal looks so much like Ruby. That’s what I thought at first: why would I want to learn this if it’s so similar to Ruby. BUT there are so many benefits to Crystal vs. Ruby. 31:48 – Guest talks about Lucky catching the bugs. 32:00 – Panel: I wonder if that happened with Groovy and Rails? 32:21 – They go back-and-forth. 32:28 – Panel: Thoughtbot has always been on the forefront of Ruby. Can you talk about Thoughbot please? (See links below for Thoughtbot!) 33:15 – Guest: Great question. It’s hard to tell b/c there are different offices. I would say Ruby is our main thing. Ruby is the most mature thing that we use in-terms of web development. Guest: Actually – Rails is pretty nice! 34:54 – Panel: We went through the same thing with CodeFund! I wrote it initially in Python and then I wrote it in Elixir and it became so complex. Now we are moving everything back to Ruby and it’s been a fantastic decision.  36:30 – Chuck: You are talking about the sustainability of open source but there are benefits throughout the company right? There are tons of tangible benefits of doing it, especially when it’s your Friday schedule. You can level-up on things that could help you. I know a lot of companies cannot afford it if they are trying to hustle. 37:42 – Guest: It’s totally not charity through Thoughtbot. It’s a huge help for hiring new people. I know they are okay with letting me work on Lucky b/c it’s bringing on new developers and a good marketing tool, and finally recruiting! 39:07 – Chuck: Yeah, I have been talking about developer freedom and that’s what I am addressing through the DevRev show! It’s my new podcast show. We talk with Chris on Elixir Mix. It lends that credibility if they need to save our bacon. 40:02 – Panel: What’s your goal with Lucky? 40:11 – Guest: I would love to get it to the point where Thoughtbot could start a project and default to Lucky! Start a project and not resting every gem and be confident with launching it. 41:36 – Panelist asks a question. 41:45 – Guest: It’s not 1.0 and that means that the API will break with every release. I think that’s good to tweak stuff but that turns companies off, though. 42:40 – Chuck: Another thing that helps with adoption is Twitter used Rails to build their initial version. This blah, blah company uses important stuff and they are using Crystal and whatnot then that’s good! It sounds like you are waiting for social proof. 43:23 – Guest: Is the next Twitter going to even know about Crystal? 43:40 – Chuck: It literally only takes one enthusiast! 43:52 – Guest. 44:11 – Demo of Flickr Search is mentioned here! 45:13 – Panel: Is there something out there that you could POINT someone to? 45:27 – Guest: Not, yet. I built a small site with it! It is opensource and you can look at it. I want to show people a good example of what Lucky can do! 45:57 – Panel: You have very good docs and I am a visual learner. When I learned Rails I learned on my own and not through school. 46:20 – Panelist asks a question. 46:48 – Guest: What a huge advantage Lucky has through the Thoughtbot platform! Now that platform is kind of dried up. In terms of getting people excited it needs that killer app and they can see that it’s fast and killer! I think it takes a lot of time and finding time to do it so that’s tricky. It’s changing a lot when there is so much change. Getting Lucky to a 1.0 state so people can do videos and make apps. The hard part thing is that Lucky has to be 1.0 when Crystal is 1.0. The Lucky community is great b/c it’s encouraging and to respond in a very kind way. When you are starting something that’s new can be scary. We try to help out as much as we can and we are open and kind about it. 49:13 – Panel: “Paul is nice so Lucky is nice!” 49:19 – Guest: Everyone is super kind. It had to be short and simple. We in the dev community are very lucky – usually great pay/benefits and more w/o a college degree. What another field can you do that?! 51:00 – Panel: Great message and you need to push that! 51:10 – Panel: You were on a past podcast and you talked about how you are donating each month! Panel: Opensource maintainers are getting burned out and you want to support that. 51:40 – Guest: I think opensource sustainability what others need to do to make it sustainable. If you have the means to give we can be apart of that, too. It would be nice if companies did that. If it helps Crystal I am happy. 52:17 – Panel: I have a question about Crystal. 52:52 – Guest: Ruby right now you can do C sections right now. 53:01 – Panel. 53:10 – Guest: I don’t think so – it may but I would guess that you could do it but I don’t know how easy it would be. Note: Rust and C are mentioned. 53:37 – Panel comments. 53:46 – Guest: One thing I would say is to check-out the Lucky docs. We are happy to help! 54:10 – Panel: This is a favorite episode of mine! Both of today’s guests have been my favorite! 54:23 – Advertisement: Get A Coder Job! End – Cache Fly! Links: Get a Coder Job Course The DevRev Podcast Show DevChat TV Ruby Elixir Ruby on Rails Angular Cypress Vue React Jest.io Mocha.js Webpacker-Cli Amber Lucky The Lucky Philosophy The Bike Shed Thoughtbot CodeFund Lucky: Ruby on Rails to Lucky on Crystal... “Crystal is not Ruby Part 1” GitHub: Bamboo Ex_Machina Dialyxir Crystal Mastery Samsung T5 Carbon Copy Cloner iMazing Awesome-Lucky Paul Smith GitHub Sponsors: Sentry CacheFly Fresh Books Picks: Nate Samsung SSD Carbon Copy Cloner Application Eric iMazing HEIC Converter Charles Mastodon Andrew Upcase by Thoughtbot Awesome Lucky Paul Tailwind CSS Phoenix Live HTML Chris McCord Elixir Mix Episodes with Chris McCord

Panel: Eric Berry Charles Max Wood Nate Hopkins Special Guest: Paul Smith and Andrew Mason In this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panelists talk with Paul Smith and Andrew Mason! They discuss the platforms Lucky and Crystal. Other topics include: Ruby, Phoenix, Laravel Mix, Thoughtbot, Webpack, compilers, and much more! Check it out! Show Topics: 0:00 – Advertisement: Sentry.io 1:02 – Chuck: Welcome!! Eric Berry, Nate Hopkins, and myself are the panel - and our special guests are Paul Smith and Andrew Mason. Introduce yourself! 1:41 – Andrew / Guest: I have messed with every type of language, so there’s that! 1:55 – Paul / Guest: I have been here at my current company for 5 years and it’s a consultancy firm. I have been working on Crystal. 2:14 – Chuck: We are lucky to have you! Give people the elevator pitch for Lucky and Crystal? 2:33 – Guest: Let’s talk about Crystal and looks very similar to Ruby! It’s faster and it’s a compound language. It catches a fair amount of things at compile time. The other special features are... 4:17 – Guest mentions compilers. 4:23 – Chuck: Yeah we see this in the typescript. Is it language service – is that what it’s called? Pile and compile and all of this checking are a nice stage for it to run-through. Although the flipside is coding and to not worry about that – that’s nice! 4:56 – Guest: It has changed my approach for sure. 5:43 – Panel: How much slower are you? 5:54 – Guest: I am a lot faster in Crystal than I am in Ruby. 6:51 – Panel: Yeah you have to figure out where you want to save the time. 7:00 – Guest: Someone wrote a blog post and it said...the Rails service is like bolting a shelf on a wall and hoping to hit a stud and it’s not solid. But using Lucky it’s sold although it took a little longer. I think it can be true. You can do bad things with compilers, though. It depends on how you use it. 7:43 – Panelist asks a question. 7:53 – Guest: Every Friday is an investment day. Lucky is my “whatever I want thing.” I am technically getting paid to work on it. 8:33 – Panel: have you had to battle with the framework? 8:51 – Guest: Yes, even though Crystal looks like Ruby (at a high level) if you want to do it well you have to approach it in the Crystal-way. When I came to Crystal I came to it like Rails. The problem with that is I wanted to have type-saved parameters – you can’t do that in Crystal b/c...it doesn’t know when to have a parameter with... 10:48 – Panel: I have heard you talk about Crystal before on another podcast. You talked about templating and I am curious to hear about that. I have used Slim and others and now stick to ERB. 11:25 – Guest: Yes definitely. Let’s back up and talk about WHAT Lucky does! The guest talks about Rails, escaping, and more! 14:37 – Panel: So I imagine Rails partials are slow and expensive to render. I would imagine that this approach with Lucky... 15:00 – Guest: Yes exactly. It’s extremely fast! 15:20 – Panel: How is this for designers? 15:30 – Guest: Yes that was a concern of mine. With Lucky I tried to make it close to a regular HTML structure would look like! 16:32 – Panel: I spun up a Lucky app the other day. It looks like you are using... 16:50 – Guest: I have played around with a bunch of stuff. I landed on Laravel Mix. 18:27 – Panel: Yes webpack is a pain to set up and it’s hard to get it to working the way you want it to work. 18:47 – Guest: Yeah if you want React or whatever it will generate the configuration you need. I don’t like it b/c if you want to... 19:28 – Panel. 19:45 – Guest: I don’t want to maintain it. 19:54 – Panel: There is a Crystal community in Utah. I want to know – are you competing with Amber? Explain the difference between Lucky and Amber? 20:20 – Guest: Yes I did look at Amber but they are approaching it differently than us. The guest talks about the differences between Amber and Lucky. 21:54 – Guest (continues): With Lucky you will have to learn a little bit more but you get more of a pack! 23:23 – Panel: It sounds like Lucky is inspired by Elm – right? 23:32 – Guest: Yeah, I think so. The guest dives into this topic of Elm and Lucky! 24:35 – Panel: How much does the types feel like it’s getting in your way? How explicit is it? When I came to Ruby it was a breath of fresh air. I am a bit reluctant to go back to those days. 25:25 – Guest: I think Lucky does a happy medium. It doesn’t infer instant variables. I like the... 26:28 – Panel: I learned Java very early on in my computer science career. 27:00 – Guest. 27:10 – Panel: “Crystal...it’s not Java!” That should be your slogan! 27:20 – Fresh Books! 28:25 – Panel: A lot of people are moving to Elixir community. Do you see people moving from Ruby to Lucky and Crystal? How does Lucky compare to Phoenix? 28:55 – Guest: Good question! 29:10 – The guest talks about bamboo – see links below!! 29: 29 – Guest: Sure Ruby is fast but sometimes you spend more time on it then you would want to. 31:08 – Guest: Blessing and curse that Crystal looks so much like Ruby. That’s what I thought at first: why would I want to learn this if it’s so similar to Ruby. BUT there are so many benefits to Crystal vs. Ruby. 31:48 – Guest talks about Lucky catching the bugs. 32:00 – Panel: I wonder if that happened with Groovy and Rails? 32:21 – They go back-and-forth. 32:28 – Panel: Thoughtbot has always been on the forefront of Ruby. Can you talk about Thoughbot please? (See links below for Thoughtbot!) 33:15 – Guest: Great question. It’s hard to tell b/c there are different offices. I would say Ruby is our main thing. Ruby is the most mature thing that we use in-terms of web development. Guest: Actually – Rails is pretty nice! 34:54 – Panel: We went through the same thing with CodeFund! I wrote it initially in Python and then I wrote it in Elixir and it became so complex. Now we are moving everything back to Ruby and it’s been a fantastic decision.  36:30 – Chuck: You are talking about the sustainability of open source but there are benefits throughout the company right? There are tons of tangible benefits of doing it, especially when it’s your Friday schedule. You can level-up on things that could help you. I know a lot of companies cannot afford it if they are trying to hustle. 37:42 – Guest: It’s totally not charity through Thoughtbot. It’s a huge help for hiring new people. I know they are okay with letting me work on Lucky b/c it’s bringing on new developers and a good marketing tool, and finally recruiting! 39:07 – Chuck: Yeah, I have been talking about developer freedom and that’s what I am addressing through the DevRev show! It’s my new podcast show. We talk with Chris on Elixir Mix. It lends that credibility if they need to save our bacon. 40:02 – Panel: What’s your goal with Lucky? 40:11 – Guest: I would love to get it to the point where Thoughtbot could start a project and default to Lucky! Start a project and not resting every gem and be confident with launching it. 41:36 – Panelist asks a question. 41:45 – Guest: It’s not 1.0 and that means that the API will break with every release. I think that’s good to tweak stuff but that turns companies off, though. 42:40 – Chuck: Another thing that helps with adoption is Twitter used Rails to build their initial version. This blah, blah company uses important stuff and they are using Crystal and whatnot then that’s good! It sounds like you are waiting for social proof. 43:23 – Guest: Is the next Twitter going to even know about Crystal? 43:40 – Chuck: It literally only takes one enthusiast! 43:52 – Guest. 44:11 – Demo of Flickr Search is mentioned here! 45:13 – Panel: Is there something out there that you could POINT someone to? 45:27 – Guest: Not, yet. I built a small site with it! It is opensource and you can look at it. I want to show people a good example of what Lucky can do! 45:57 – Panel: You have very good docs and I am a visual learner. When I learned Rails I learned on my own and not through school. 46:20 – Panelist asks a question. 46:48 – Guest: What a huge advantage Lucky has through the Thoughtbot platform! Now that platform is kind of dried up. In terms of getting people excited it needs that killer app and they can see that it’s fast and killer! I think it takes a lot of time and finding time to do it so that’s tricky. It’s changing a lot when there is so much change. Getting Lucky to a 1.0 state so people can do videos and make apps. The hard part thing is that Lucky has to be 1.0 when Crystal is 1.0. The Lucky community is great b/c it’s encouraging and to respond in a very kind way. When you are starting something that’s new can be scary. We try to help out as much as we can and we are open and kind about it. 49:13 – Panel: “Paul is nice so Lucky is nice!” 49:19 – Guest: Everyone is super kind. It had to be short and simple. We in the dev community are very lucky – usually great pay/benefits and more w/o a college degree. What another field can you do that?! 51:00 – Panel: Great message and you need to push that! 51:10 – Panel: You were on a past podcast and you talked about how you are donating each month! Panel: Opensource maintainers are getting burned out and you want to support that. 51:40 – Guest: I think opensource sustainability what others need to do to make it sustainable. If you have the means to give we can be apart of that, too. It would be nice if companies did that. If it helps Crystal I am happy. 52:17 – Panel: I have a question about Crystal. 52:52 – Guest: Ruby right now you can do C sections right now. 53:01 – Panel. 53:10 – Guest: I don’t think so – it may but I would guess that you could do it but I don’t know how easy it would be. Note: Rust and C are mentioned. 53:37 – Panel comments. 53:46 – Guest: One thing I would say is to check-out the Lucky docs. We are happy to help! 54:10 – Panel: This is a favorite episode of mine! Both of today’s guests have been my favorite! 54:23 – Advertisement: Get A Coder Job! End – Cache Fly! Links: Get a Coder Job Course The DevRev Podcast Show DevChat TV Ruby Elixir Ruby on Rails Angular Cypress Vue React Jest.io Mocha.js Webpacker-Cli Amber Lucky The Lucky Philosophy The Bike Shed Thoughtbot CodeFund Lucky: Ruby on Rails to Lucky on Crystal... “Crystal is not Ruby Part 1” GitHub: Bamboo Ex_Machina Dialyxir Crystal Mastery Samsung T5 Carbon Copy Cloner iMazing Awesome-Lucky Paul Smith GitHub Sponsors: Sentry CacheFly Fresh Books Picks: Nate Samsung SSD Carbon Copy Cloner Application Eric iMazing HEIC Converter Charles Mastodon Andrew Upcase by Thoughtbot Awesome Lucky Paul Tailwind CSS Phoenix Live HTML Chris McCord Elixir Mix Episodes with Chris McCord

Panel: Eric Berry Charles Max Wood Nate Hopkins Special Guest: Paul Smith and Andrew Mason In this episode of Ruby Rogues, the panelists talk with Paul Smith and Andrew Mason! They discuss the platforms Lucky and Crystal. Other topics include: Ruby, Phoenix, Laravel Mix, Thoughtbot, Webpack, compilers, and much more! Check it out! Show Topics: 0:00 – Advertisement: Sentry.io 1:02 – Chuck: Welcome!! Eric Berry, Nate Hopkins, and myself are the panel - and our special guests are Paul Smith and Andrew Mason. Introduce yourself! 1:41 – Andrew / Guest: I have messed with every type of language, so there’s that! 1:55 – Paul / Guest: I have been here at my current company for 5 years and it’s a consultancy firm. I have been working on Crystal. 2:14 – Chuck: We are lucky to have you! Give people the elevator pitch for Lucky and Crystal? 2:33 – Guest: Let’s talk about Crystal and looks very similar to Ruby! It’s faster and it’s a compound language. It catches a fair amount of things at compile time. The other special features are... 4:17 – Guest mentions compilers. 4:23 – Chuck: Yeah we see this in the typescript. Is it language service – is that what it’s called? Pile and compile and all of this checking are a nice stage for it to run-through. Although the flipside is coding and to not worry about that – that’s nice! 4:56 – Guest: It has changed my approach for sure. 5:43 – Panel: How much slower are you? 5:54 – Guest: I am a lot faster in Crystal than I am in Ruby. 6:51 – Panel: Yeah you have to figure out where you want to save the time. 7:00 – Guest: Someone wrote a blog post and it said...the Rails service is like bolting a shelf on a wall and hoping to hit a stud and it’s not solid. But using Lucky it’s sold although it took a little longer. I think it can be true. You can do bad things with compilers, though. It depends on how you use it. 7:43 – Panelist asks a question. 7:53 – Guest: Every Friday is an investment day. Lucky is my “whatever I want thing.” I am technically getting paid to work on it. 8:33 – Panel: have you had to battle with the framework? 8:51 – Guest: Yes, even though Crystal looks like Ruby (at a high level) if you want to do it well you have to approach it in the Crystal-way. When I came to Crystal I came to it like Rails. The problem with that is I wanted to have type-saved parameters – you can’t do that in Crystal b/c...it doesn’t know when to have a parameter with... 10:48 – Panel: I have heard you talk about Crystal before on another podcast. You talked about templating and I am curious to hear about that. I have used Slim and others and now stick to ERB. 11:25 – Guest: Yes definitely. Let’s back up and talk about WHAT Lucky does! The guest talks about Rails, escaping, and more! 14:37 – Panel: So I imagine Rails partials are slow and expensive to render. I would imagine that this approach with Lucky... 15:00 – Guest: Yes exactly. It’s extremely fast! 15:20 – Panel: How is this for designers? 15:30 – Guest: Yes that was a concern of mine. With Lucky I tried to make it close to a regular HTML structure would look like! 16:32 – Panel: I spun up a Lucky app the other day. It looks like you are using... 16:50 – Guest: I have played around with a bunch of stuff. I landed on Laravel Mix. 18:27 – Panel: Yes webpack is a pain to set up and it’s hard to get it to working the way you want it to work. 18:47 – Guest: Yeah if you want React or whatever it will generate the configuration you need. I don’t like it b/c if you want to... 19:28 – Panel. 19:45 – Guest: I don’t want to maintain it. 19:54 – Panel: There is a Crystal community in Utah. I want to know – are you competing with Amber? Explain the difference between Lucky and Amber? 20:20 – Guest: Yes I did look at Amber but they are approaching it differently than us. The guest talks about the differences between Amber and Lucky. 21:54 – Guest (continues): With Lucky you will have to learn a little bit more but you get more of a pack! 23:23 – Panel: It sounds like Lucky is inspired by Elm – right? 23:32 – Guest: Yeah, I think so. The guest dives into this topic of Elm and Lucky! 24:35 – Panel: How much does the types feel like it’s getting in your way? How explicit is it? When I came to Ruby it was a breath of fresh air. I am a bit reluctant to go back to those days. 25:25 – Guest: I think Lucky does a happy medium. It doesn’t infer instant variables. I like the... 26:28 – Panel: I learned Java very early on in my computer science career. 27:00 – Guest. 27:10 – Panel: “Crystal...it’s not Java!” That should be your slogan! 27:20 – Fresh Books! 28:25 – Panel: A lot of people are moving to Elixir community. Do you see people moving from Ruby to Lucky and Crystal? How does Lucky compare to Phoenix? 28:55 – Guest: Good question! 29:10 – The guest talks about bamboo – see links below!! 29: 29 – Guest: Sure Ruby is fast but sometimes you spend more time on it then you would want to. 31:08 – Guest: Blessing and curse that Crystal looks so much like Ruby. That’s what I thought at first: why would I want to learn this if it’s so similar to Ruby. BUT there are so many benefits to Crystal vs. Ruby. 31:48 – Guest talks about Lucky catching the bugs. 32:00 – Panel: I wonder if that happened with Groovy and Rails? 32:21 – They go back-and-forth. 32:28 – Panel: Thoughtbot has always been on the forefront of Ruby. Can you talk about Thoughbot please? (See links below for Thoughtbot!) 33:15 – Guest: Great question. It’s hard to tell b/c there are different offices. I would say Ruby is our main thing. Ruby is the most mature thing that we use in-terms of web development. Guest: Actually – Rails is pretty nice! 34:54 – Panel: We went through the same thing with CodeFund! I wrote it initially in Python and then I wrote it in Elixir and it became so complex. Now we are moving everything back to Ruby and it’s been a fantastic decision.  36:30 – Chuck: You are talking about the sustainability of open source but there are benefits throughout the company right? There are tons of tangible benefits of doing it, especially when it’s your Friday schedule. You can level-up on things that could help you. I know a lot of companies cannot afford it if they are trying to hustle. 37:42 – Guest: It’s totally not charity through Thoughtbot. It’s a huge help for hiring new people. I know they are okay with letting me work on Lucky b/c it’s bringing on new developers and a good marketing tool, and finally recruiting! 39:07 – Chuck: Yeah, I have been talking about developer freedom and that’s what I am addressing through the DevRev show! It’s my new podcast show. We talk with Chris on Elixir Mix. It lends that credibility if they need to save our bacon. 40:02 – Panel: What’s your goal with Lucky? 40:11 – Guest: I would love to get it to the point where Thoughtbot could start a project and default to Lucky! Start a project and not resting every gem and be confident with launching it. 41:36 – Panelist asks a question. 41:45 – Guest: It’s not 1.0 and that means that the API will break with every release. I think that’s good to tweak stuff but that turns companies off, though. 42:40 – Chuck: Another thing that helps with adoption is Twitter used Rails to build their initial version. This blah, blah company uses important stuff and they are using Crystal and whatnot then that’s good! It sounds like you are waiting for social proof. 43:23 – Guest: Is the next Twitter going to even know about Crystal? 43:40 – Chuck: It literally only takes one enthusiast! 43:52 – Guest. 44:11 – Demo of Flickr Search is mentioned here! 45:13 – Panel: Is there something out there that you could POINT someone to? 45:27 – Guest: Not, yet. I built a small site with it! It is opensource and you can look at it. I want to show people a good example of what Lucky can do! 45:57 – Panel: You have very good docs and I am a visual learner. When I learned Rails I learned on my own and not through school. 46:20 – Panelist asks a question. 46:48 – Guest: What a huge advantage Lucky has through the Thoughtbot platform! Now that platform is kind of dried up. In terms of getting people excited it needs that killer app and they can see that it’s fast and killer! I think it takes a lot of time and finding time to do it so that’s tricky. It’s changing a lot when there is so much change. Getting Lucky to a 1.0 state so people can do videos and make apps. The hard part thing is that Lucky has to be 1.0 when Crystal is 1.0. The Lucky community is great b/c it’s encouraging and to respond in a very kind way. When you are starting something that’s new can be scary. We try to help out as much as we can and we are open and kind about it. 49:13 – Panel: “Paul is nice so Lucky is nice!” 49:19 – Guest: Everyone is super kind. It had to be short and simple. We in the dev community are very lucky – usually great pay/benefits and more w/o a college degree. What another field can you do that?! 51:00 – Panel: Great message and you need to push that! 51:10 – Panel: You were on a past podcast and you talked about how you are donating each month! Panel: Opensource maintainers are getting burned out and you want to support that. 51:40 – Guest: I think opensource sustainability what others need to do to make it sustainable. If you have the means to give we can be apart of that, too. It would be nice if companies did that. If it helps Crystal I am happy. 52:17 – Panel: I have a question about Crystal. 52:52 – Guest: Ruby right now you can do C sections right now. 53:01 – Panel. 53:10 – Guest: I don’t think so – it may but I would guess that you could do it but I don’t know how easy it would be. Note: Rust and C are mentioned. 53:37 – Panel comments. 53:46 – Guest: One thing I would say is to check-out the Lucky docs. We are happy to help! 54:10 – Panel: This is a favorite episode of mine! Both of today’s guests have been my favorite! 54:23 – Advertisement: Get A Coder Job! End – Cache Fly! Links: Get a Coder Job Course The DevRev Podcast Show DevChat TV Ruby Elixir Ruby on Rails Angular Cypress Vue React Jest.io Mocha.js Webpacker-Cli Amber Lucky The Lucky Philosophy The Bike Shed Thoughtbot CodeFund Lucky: Ruby on Rails to Lucky on Crystal... “Crystal is not Ruby Part 1” GitHub: Bamboo Ex_Machina Dialyxir Crystal Mastery Samsung T5 Carbon Copy Cloner iMazing Awesome-Lucky Paul Smith GitHub Sponsors: Sentry CacheFly Fresh Books Picks: Nate Samsung SSD Carbon Copy Cloner Application Eric iMazing HEIC Converter Charles Mastodon Andrew Upcase by Thoughtbot Awesome Lucky Paul Tailwind CSS Phoenix Live HTML Chris McCord Elixir Mix Episodes with Chris McCord

==Dell==Thin and lighthttps://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops/inspiron-13-7000/spd/inspiron-13-7370-laptop This was a bit of a compramise... which is a shame. I wanted to recomend the dell XPS 13, but the value just isn't there... 1,000 is just too much IMO for a thin and light basic use laptop of that kind of performance. mid rangehttps://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/dell-laptops-and-notebooks/new-vostro-5471/spd/vostro-14-5471-laptop This one is a nice spot down the middle. An acceptable price point with alot of options to be a small mobile work horse while avoiding the high price of the XPS line and Latitude line. workstationhttps://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops/dell-g3-15-gaming/spd/g-series-15-3579-laptop a great budget buy, granting a quad core i5 at the base price and hard to find the upgrades too expensive. The G5 and G7 versions however are little puzzling, offering only stype for addtional cost. If you wanted to spend more to get more machine, go for the alienwares rather than the G5 and G7 Used notes:Dell is one of my favorite laptops to grab used since most businesses use it and the super high end is built very well. I would focus on Dell Latitude models for used, especially the Latitude E6240, Latitude E6440, and the Precision m4800/m6800 which can be had for 200 to 500 price range. ==HP==Thin and lighthttps://store.hp.com/us/en/pdp/hp-probook-x360-11-g2-ee-notebook-pc-p-2ez91ut-aba--1 I am super disapointed that this was the only pick I could take that fits my paramaters of being the ideal thin and light. HP just prices small laptops way high. I would rather recomend the Spectre but that is just too expensive mid rangehttps://store.hp.com/us/en/pdp/hp-probook-640-g4-notebook-pc-customizable-2gl96av-mb Im fairly happy with this pick... but I do wish there was something built stronger in this price point... workstationhttps://store.hp.com/us/en/pdp/omen-laptop-15t-3ns58av-1 yea, no surprise there. The omen is a respectable gaming laptop. Get as much laptop as you can afford. The more you buy now, the longer it lasts as long as you treat it well. UsedElite books and Z books ONLY. ==Lenovo==Thin and lighthttps://www.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpad-x/ThinkPad-X280/p/22TP2TX2800 Come on... did you really think I was gonna pick anything else? It's think pad. Even in it's modern form, the X series can't steer you wrong. mid rangehttps://www.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpad-t-series/ThinkPad-T480/p/22TP2TT4800 This IS the idea of a midrange laptop. Large enough to have work real estate, small enough to be portable, and plenty of IO and power on top of top tier durrability. Some have said there is a flaw with this laptop... but I can't find evidence to support it... just be gentle and keep an eye on everything durring that warranty period. workstationhttps://www.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/legion-laptops/legion-y-series/Lenovo-Legion-Y530-15ICH/p/88GMY501020 pretty solid for it's price point. But again, be gentle... it isn't a think pad. Used notes:ONLY GO FOR THINK PAD. Used Idea pads are a joke. ==Microsoft==Thin and lighthttps://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/surface-go/8V9DP4LNKNSZ?icid=SurfaceCat_R1_CP1_SurfaceGo_072018&activetab=pivot%3aoverviewtab It seems almost too good to be true... good contruction, alittle lacking under the hood... but otherwise seems like a good get. Definatly get the version with 8gb of ram though. mid rangehttps://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/config/surface-book-2/8MCPZJJCC98C?cid=surfacebook2interstitial&selectedColor= Shockingly enough, the very base model of this laptop makes a very good mid range machine that can also be a pretty good laptop. workstationhttps://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/config/surface-book-2/8MCPZJJCC98C?cid=surfacebook2interstitial&selectedColor= the suface book pro with a core i7 makes for a respectable gaming and work computer... but does get very VERY pricy quick. ==Apple==Thin and lighthttps://www.apple.com/ipad-pro/ yea... this is how bad it is... the ipad is the best thin and light for basic use that apple has to offer. Definatly go with the pro version for better speakers and keyboard connections mid rangehttps://www.apple.com/macbook-air/ This is literally the only new apple laptop that is worth it... The macbook is just way to expensive for what it is and the macbook pro is flawed. workstationNONE! Used notesGo for the macbook pros and only from 2012 to 2015. avoid the butterfly keyboards and avoid 2011 MBP like the plague ==Others==Thin and lighthttps://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834234929&ignorebbr=1 It's hard to hate the asus zenbook. Excelent build quality plus really good performance to boot. mid rangehttps://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA2F87SD0952&ignorebbr=1 alittle on the high side for price, but still decent... I would be more likely to buy the zenbook though for the same slot workstationhttps://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIAA0S7VW4752&ignorebbr=1 Asus knows what it's doing for gaming... and this ROG Strix gaming rig is pretty good. alittle on the expensive side, but very upgradable. again, do most of your upgrading up front.

==Dell==Thin and lighthttps://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops/inspiron-13-7000/spd/inspiron-13-7370-laptop This was a bit of a compramise... which is a shame. I wanted to recomend the dell XPS 13, but the value just isn't there... 1,000 is just too much IMO for a thin and light basic use laptop of that kind of performance. mid rangehttps://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/dell-laptops-and-notebooks/new-vostro-5471/spd/vostro-14-5471-laptop This one is a nice spot down the middle. An acceptable price point with alot of options to be a small mobile work horse while avoiding the high price of the XPS line and Latitude line. workstationhttps://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops/dell-g3-15-gaming/spd/g-series-15-3579-laptop a great budget buy, granting a quad core i5 at the base price and hard to find the upgrades too expensive. The G5 and G7 versions however are little puzzling, offering only stype for addtional cost. If you wanted to spend more to get more machine, go for the alienwares rather than the G5 and G7 Used notes:Dell is one of my favorite laptops to grab used since most businesses use it and the super high end is built very well. I would focus on Dell Latitude models for used, especially the Latitude E6240, Latitude E6440, and the Precision m4800/m6800 which can be had for 200 to 500 price range. ==HP==Thin and lighthttps://store.hp.com/us/en/pdp/hp-probook-x360-11-g2-ee-notebook-pc-p-2ez91ut-aba--1 I am super disapointed that this was the only pick I could take that fits my paramaters of being the ideal thin and light. HP just prices small laptops way high. I would rather recomend the Spectre but that is just too expensive mid rangehttps://store.hp.com/us/en/pdp/hp-probook-640-g4-notebook-pc-customizable-2gl96av-mb Im fairly happy with this pick... but I do wish there was something built stronger in this price point... workstationhttps://store.hp.com/us/en/pdp/omen-laptop-15t-3ns58av-1 yea, no surprise there. The omen is a respectable gaming laptop. Get as much laptop as you can afford. The more you buy now, the longer it lasts as long as you treat it well. UsedElite books and Z books ONLY. ==Lenovo==Thin and lighthttps://www.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpad-x/ThinkPad-X280/p/22TP2TX2800 Come on... did you really think I was gonna pick anything else? It's think pad. Even in it's modern form, the X series can't steer you wrong. mid rangehttps://www.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpad-t-series/ThinkPad-T480/p/22TP2TT4800 This IS the idea of a midrange laptop. Large enough to have work real estate, small enough to be portable, and plenty of IO and power on top of top tier durrability. Some have said there is a flaw with this laptop... but I can't find evidence to support it... just be gentle and keep an eye on everything durring that warranty period. workstationhttps://www.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/legion-laptops/legion-y-series/Lenovo-Legion-Y530-15ICH/p/88GMY501020 pretty solid for it's price point. But again, be gentle... it isn't a think pad. Used notes:ONLY GO FOR THINK PAD. Used Idea pads are a joke. ==Microsoft==Thin and lighthttps://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/surface-go/8V9DP4LNKNSZ?icid=SurfaceCat_R1_CP1_SurfaceGo_072018&activetab=pivot%3aoverviewtab It seems almost too good to be true... good contruction, alittle lacking under the hood... but otherwise seems like a good get. Definatly get the version with 8gb of ram though. mid rangehttps://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/config/surface-book-2/8MCPZJJCC98C?cid=surfacebook2interstitial&selectedColor= Shockingly enough, the very base model of this laptop makes a very good mid range machine that can also be a pretty good laptop. workstationhttps://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/config/surface-book-2/8MCPZJJCC98C?cid=surfacebook2interstitial&selectedColor= the suface book pro with a core i7 makes for a respectable gaming and work computer... but does get very VERY pricy quick. ==Apple==Thin and lighthttps://www.apple.com/ipad-pro/ yea... this is how bad it is... the ipad is the best thin and light for basic use that apple has to offer. Definatly go with the pro version for better speakers and keyboard connections mid rangehttps://www.apple.com/macbook-air/ This is literally the only new apple laptop that is worth it... The macbook is just way to expensive for what it is and the macbook pro is flawed. workstationNONE! Used notesGo for the macbook pros and only from 2012 to 2015. avoid the butterfly keyboards and avoid 2011 MBP like the plague ==Others==Thin and lighthttps://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834234929&ignorebbr=1 It's hard to hate the asus zenbook. Excelent build quality plus really good performance to boot. mid rangehttps://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA2F87SD0952&ignorebbr=1 alittle on the high side for price, but still decent... I would be more likely to buy the zenbook though for the same slot workstationhttps://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIAA0S7VW4752&ignorebbr=1 Asus knows what it's doing for gaming... and this ROG Strix gaming rig is pretty good. alittle on the expensive side, but very upgradable. again, do most of your upgrading up front.

The Shark Gang get to talking about monitors and our computer woes. The "Ikea Table" Computer Chassis we were talking about. https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811112473&ignorebbr=1 There is some debate as to whether Nvidia will or will not be coming out with some new graphics card models soon. https://www.pcgamer.com/nvidia-probably-wont-announce-new-graphics-cards-at-gdc-or-gtc/

Special guest Cillian Dwyer returns to That Old Pod to share his thoughts on this week's WWDC conference. Conversation dives into how Apple's announcement positions them relative to their competitors, what surprised us, and how we see the tools and advancements announced this week impacting the future. Longer discussion around the impacts of Apple joining the AR/VR revolution. Show Notes:What is WWDC 2017?Watch Apple’s 2017 WWDC Keynote which is the basis of today’s conversation, watching this first will drastically improve the listening experienceGoogle has their own version every year called Google I/O and its held each year in late MayMicrosoft's conference is named Microsoft Build which is generally held in early May each yearA seasoned Apple Developer commenting on the relaxed atmosphere of WWDC being held in San JoseTV and tvOSAmazon Prime tvOS app announcementHere’s Apple’s product page for watchOS 4Apple has opened up the future of Bluetooth accessories working directly with WatchWhat is NFC?Apple is opening up NFC to developers in iOS 11, which has been a subject of some contentionWatch satisfaction rates are through the roof, consistent across all the companies wearablesPotential glucose monitoring for WatchApple Watch health measurement’s accuracy is best in classWatch compared to proper chest monitorsWatch distance calculation is best in classApple allowing gym equipment providers to directly sync with WatchCustomers call using Pay on the watch a magical experiencewatchOS 2 to 3 was a major overhaul of the user experienceRecent comparison studies into Siri’s accuracy have shown room for improvement, although the results are fairly inconsistentSiri speaks 21 languages and 36 localizations, Cortana speaks 8, Google Assistant 4 and Alexa is merely bilingualYou can read Apple’s privacy page which does a terrific job of explaining how Apple prioritizes your privacy; the section on Siri has yet to be updated for iOS 11 where your device will sync the Siri data with each other, but that data will not be available to Apple; the best way I’ve seen this described was Horace Dediu who framed it that “Siri knows you, Apple does not”Siri’s learned behaviors are synced between your devices with iCloud in iOS 11The Wall Street Journal’s recent hit piece on Siri has garnered lots of attention recently, I felt the sourcing was pretty light for such a heavy tone, and it looks like I’m not the only oneUnderstanding extensions, released with iOS 8 in 2014, possibly one of the most underused power features of iOSExtensions allow the user to pass data between apps, something Android has allowed in a far less elegant form I believe since 2008 when the OS first launched, but certainly since 2009 when Cupcake added support for widgets I’ve shared my thoughts before on Android Wear 2.0’s adoption of cell radio supportApple announces MacOS High SierraWhat is Apple File System (APFS)?Many of the features of APFS such as full disk encryption and modern concepts such as snapshots and clones will theoretically allow Apple to provide drastically better solutions for system wide file encryption than File Vault, or system wide backup with Time MachineWhat is this ZFS Lucio speaks of?Remembering Mac OS X 10.6 Snow LeopardZFS support stripped from Snow LeopardWhat is HFS+? John Siracusa changed my life with these elegant write ups of file systems and backup solutionsApple to enforce 2FA as mandatory in iOS 11What is 2FA for Apple accounts?Mac OS Sierra and iOS 11 support HEVC, what is it?Apple announces Metal 2What is an eGPU?What is DirectX?Many windows machines powered by DirectX 11, but all machines running Windows 10 are powered by DirectX 12I had trouble finding the exact article Cillian was quoting to compare frame rates of World of Warcraft in Mac OS Sierra and Windows 10, but apparently performance in metal is terrificXamarin enables development of iPhone apps on Windows without a MacNew iMacs announcedNvidia explains why GPUs are so important for tasks such as augmented reality/virtual reality/mixed reality/machine learning/neural networksApple finally making desktop caliber video cards standard in all its 4k and 5k iMacs with the Radeon Pro 500 seriesHow does Radeon 580 Pro compare with Nvidea GTX 1080?AMD and it’s new Radeon Vega lineJohn Knoll, co-developed Photoshop with his brother and later started Industrial Light and Magic which has produced such movies as The Abyss, Pirates of the Caribbean, Speed Racer, Avatar, Hugo and all the modern Star Wars movies among many othersIndustrial Light and Magic (ILM)Cost of a graphics cardsApple stuns the world with the iMac ProCost of iMac Pro is stunningly lowApple’s 5k displays are getting ridiculousAffinity Photo appAffinity Photo demoCost of a last generation 8-core Xeon processor ranges from around $400 - $900What is ECC RAM?what is a teraflop?22 Teraflops is 4x more powerful than the Xbox Microsoft has teased releasing sometime this year codenamed ScorpioMicrosoft Surface StudioAppleCare+ for MacMacbook can now be configured with Intel’s i5 and i7 kaby lake chipsAre these processors custom Intel parts? I can’t find it listed anywhereKaby LakeiOS memory management16GB ram limit for Macbook ProsApple’s official dev kit for eGPUThe Talk Show goes live with Craig Federighi andPhil SchillerHTC ViveFinal Cut Pro XiOS 11 previewNew App Store design aestheticWhat is Aqua?Here’s a terrific history on the evolution of the Mac’s user interface designiTunes design evolution on the MacApple Music design has set the standard we are now seeing everywhereThere are currently around 2.2 million apps available in the App StoreNetflix prediction algorithms are gaining notorietyNetflix paralysis is being used to study human’s response to overwhelming optionsWhat is dogfooding?iMessage sync with iCloud and the new iMessage App drawerApple Pay with person to person payments in iOS 11Square provides a fantastic user experienceSplit view has been an option on the iPhone since the launch of iPhone 6 and iOS 9, provided you are not in zoomed modeControl center is redesigned to one page and is now customizableWhat is jailbreaking?All about Notification CenterA nice comprehensive look at all the design changes in iOS 11Airplay 2 and it’s support for multiple roomsWhat is a QR code?The iPhone camera app is now a basic QR code readerWhen guests are attempting to join your wifi network, iOS 11 will prompt you to provide your wifi passwordApple adds indoor maps for airports and mallsApple Maps gaining lane guidance and a specialized automatic Do Not Disturb Mode1PasswordSherlocking is a reference to an Operating System (OS) taking a third party app’s functionality and making it part of the native system, thus destroying the app’s market viability, R.I.P Sherlock1Password showing off their new iPad experienceiCloud keychain works within apps in iOS 11OS level integration of Facebook and Twitter was introduced in iOS 6, now removedWhat is iCloud keychain and how do I use it?Two step verification with Apple, which is different from 2FAWhat is Authty?Hacking with fan noiseWhat is an air gapped computer?The myth of security by obscurityMusic starts with workouts on watchOS 4Apple and silence is a dangerous comboThis is the biggest you can see album art in iTunes 12Lots of wasted space in Apple Music, look how small those navigation letters are!New iPad Pro, including new 10.5” screen sizeOG iPadiPhone upgrade programiPad Pro 12.9” offers 2732 x 2048 which is 5,595,136 at a density of 264 pixels per inch; the 15” MacBook Pro offers 2880 x 1800which is 5,184,000 pixels (about 2% more) with a density of 220 PPIUnderstanding ProMotion and the variable refresh rate displayBattery testing difficultiesiPad Pro performance improvementsPrevious gen iPad performance was already astoundingApple launches ARKit, a tool to allow developers to make augmented reality appsMicrosoft HoloLens is available today, but as this picture shows the limitations are still severeARKit demos are already absolutely mind boggling, remember these are being made by people on their iPhones and iPads less than 4 days after the tool launched while all of these people have been busy at the conference it was announced at (i.e., no free time)Understanding the new Depth APIMaui Jim sunglassesPlatforms State of the Union KeynoteARKit supports all A9 and A10 devicesPalm rejectionThis drag and drop demo from 3-5 minutes is absolutely stunningWhat are permissions?A10X SoC with 3x performance cores, 3x efficiency cores and a 12 core GPUApple announces the HomePod Apple MusicSpotifySpotify collaborative playlistsWhat is Chiptune?Reviews of quality of sound for the HomePod are very positiveBen Bajarin, Lucio butchers last namesHomePod spatial awarenessiPod HiFiLucio always assumes “late in the year” means the 2nd week in December, thus he is basically guaranteed to be correct or pleasantly surprisedSonos Play 3A8 processor in the HomePod, same as the current AppleTVHomePod does have a display, and according to Neil Cybart it’s the whole top, not the Siri waveformMagic LeapMicrosoft Satya Nadella, again, Lucio butchers last namesLucio and Cillian have discussed in much further depth on the topics of AR/VR here and on AMD here and hereThanks for listening! Lucio will be posting a written form of his WWDC impressions as soon as he can finish it.

Welcome to a special edition of digitalSoup where we discuss what tech we would buy if we were given $5000 and had to spend it on tech. The guys go over their wishlists. • Samsung 850 EVO 4TB $1480.77 - https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147566&cm_re=samsung_evo_4tb-_-20-147-566-_-Product • MSI GeForce GTX 1080 8GB DirectX 12 256-Bit GDDR5X PCI Express 3.0 x16 $1399.77 - https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA73M4TF1955&cm_re=MSI_GeForce_GTX_1080_8GB-_-9SIA73M4TF1955-_-Product • Creative Sound Blaster ZxR PCIe 124dB SNR Sound $378.99 - https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA1K64K22134 • Acer Predator X34 34” Curved IPS $1100 - https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824009869&cm_re=Acer_Predator_X34-_-24-009-869-_-Product • Fuji X-T2 $1,500 - http://www.fujifilm.com/products/digital_cameras/x/fujifilm_x_t2/ • DJI Mavic Pro $1,000 - https://www.dji.com/mavic • DJI Ronin MX $1,500 - https://www.dji.com/ronin-mx • Asus Zenbook UX310UQ $799 - https://www.asus.com/Notebooks/ASUS-Zenbook-UX310UQ/specifications/ • PS4 Pro $400 - https://www.playstation.com/en-us/explore/ps4-pro/ • WD 16TB My Cloud PR4100 Pro series media server with transcoding NAS - 4 bays $1079.99 - https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16822235107 - • LG 34UC79G - 34" Ultrawide IPS curved gaming monitor $697.99 - https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIAC4Z5241544 - • Samsung 65” 4K Smart TV $1571.02 - https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-UN65KS8000-65-Inch-Ultra-Smart/dp/B01C5TFNSM/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8 • Playstation 4 $300 - https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16868110185 Be sure to subscribe to us on iTunes and leave a review, lets us know what you think. You can reach us at the digitalSoup podcast website, Facebook or on Twitter @thedigitalsoup. Our Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/digitalsouppodcast. Have a follow up thought to anything we discussed or have an idea on what we should talk about in a future episode then drop us a message on Twitter or our Facebook page or better yet record the message on your computer or phone and email it to jason@digitalsouppodcast and we will play it on the air. Thanks for listening!! What the guys are doing outside the podcast: Jason - http://www.youtube.com/GameGuru Adam - https://twitter.com/StarfieldEscape Dave - http://www.davidszweduik.com/

They guys get the ball rolling with Adam's destruction of his ancient iPhone 5, rant about Nick Cage movies, cover a creepy doll story, recommend some photo apps and finish up looking at scrapbooking (yes, scrapbooking). iPhone Rigging: https://beastgrip.com/ https://www.iographer.com/ https://www.shoutmeloud.com/best-iphone-camera-accessories.html Favorite photo apps to use on mobile phones: Dave Recommends Filmborn for photo editing and Filmic Pro for Video editing VSCO Cam - https://vsco.co/store/app Filmborn by Mastin Labs - https://www.filmborn.com/ Snapseed - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/snapseed/id439438619?mt=8 Lightroom Mobile (must be a Creative Cloud subscriber) - http://www.adobe.com/products/lightroom-mobile.html Filmic Pro for video - http://www.filmicpro.com/ Laptop for scrapbooking - https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834315672 Nokia bringing back the classic Nokia simple phone - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/gallery/2017/feb/27/nokia-mobile-phones-history-pictures-3310 My Friend Cayla is the devil - http://www.pcmag.com/news/350180/these-internet-connected-toys-provide-joy-and-surveillance Be sure to subscribe to us on iTunes and leave a review, lets us know what you think. You can reach us on Twitter @thedigitalsoup or our Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/digitalsouppodcast. Have a follow up thought to anything we discussed or have an idea on what we should talk about in a future episode then drop us a message on Twitter or our Facebook page. Thanks for listening!! What the guys are doing outside the podcast: Jason - http://www.youtube.com/GameGuru Adam - https://twitter.com/StarfieldEscape Dave - http://www.davidszweduik.com/

The holidays are around the corner and that means deals galore! The cast breaks down their favorite buys for the holiday season in our 2016 holiday gift guide. We cover consoles, peripherals and games. We also get our hands on Eagle Flight VR, Planet Coaster, Overwatch's new Sombra character and more. In our news segment we have a sneak peek of a new game in Watch Dogs 2, Hideo Kojima gets the award he deserves and Star Wars Battlefront Rogue One DLC. Jingle Bells! Show Notes: 01:50 - Eagle Flight VR 11:15 - Dishonored 2 17:21 - The Deadly Tower of Monsters 23:57 - Planet Coaster 33:05 - Overwatch and Sombra 38:21 - Gaming News 51:11 - 2016 Holiday Gift Guide The Inner Gamer's 2016 Holiday Buyer's Guide ------------------------------------------------------------------ Game Systems and Hardware------- Nintendo NES Classic Edition ($59.99) - N/A Playstation VR ($499.99) - https://m.gamestop.com/product/ps4/accessories/playstation-vr-launch-bundle/129234 Xbox One S Bundle with Gears of War 4 and Deus Ex Mankind Divided ($299.99) - http://www.ebay.com/itm/302140565492 Playstation 4 Pro ($359.99) - http://a.co/i1RVH5M HTC Vive ($799.99) - http://a.co/e22SKl6 Limited Edition Nintendo 3DS ($99) - All U.S. Retailers Nvidia Geforce GTX 1080 8GB ($499.99) - http://bhpho.to/2aPeh0e MSI Geforce GTX 1060 6GB ($254.99) - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127963 Video and Displays------- Logitech HD Pro Webcam CP920 ($49.99) - http://a.co/aAIJrbD LG 34UM94-P Black 34” 4K ($599.99) - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824025066 LG 34UM67-P 34” 2K ($399.99) - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=0JC-000D-003Z3 Samsung KS8000 55” 4K HDR TV ($999.99) - http://bit.ly/2fS87vV Peripherals and More------- Google Wifi ($129.99) - http://a.co/7UxpHA2 TP-LINK AV500 2 Port Powerline Starter Kit ($29.99) - https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B010Q29KRK DX Racer Boss Series ($441.75) - http://www.dxracer.com/us/en-us/product/1/office_chairs/boss_series/oh-be120-nc/ Sennheiser GAME ONE Headset ($154.99) - http://a.co/5c1ITrz Corsair M65 Pro RGB Mouse ($45.99) - http://a.co/do5tGFv Games------- Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition Books - http://a.co/hVsL0XM Arkham Horror ($47.99) - http://a.co/ef7N0mW Twilight Imperium ($99.99) - http://a.co/3iGM6gs Battlefield 1 ($35) - Target Black Friday Titanfall 2 ($35) - Target Black Friday Rachet and Clank ($14.99) - Best Buy Dark Souls 3 ($19.99) - Best Buy The Witcher 3: Blood and Wine ($38.99) - http://a.co/9HEBhq3 Warhammer Vermintide ($29.99) Uncharted 4 ($42.99) - https://www.amazon.com/Uncharted-4-Thiefs-End-PlayStation/dp/B00GODZYNA?th=1 Call of Duty Infinite Warfare Legacy Edition Overwatch ($34.99) - http://a.co/dz5lcq2 Dishonored 2 ($53.99) - http://a.co/0oKOrSv The Inner Gamer is a podcast built for the casual gamer. Your weekly dose of video game news, reviews, opinions and discussions every Tuesday. Like what you hear? Share our podcast with your friends! Also be sure and subscribe to our podcast on iTunes and leave us a review! You can find all of our social channels at www.theinnergamer.net. If you have any questions or suggestions please reach out to us at hello@theinnergamer.net. CREDITS: "Blue Groove Deluxe" by BlueFoxMusic on audiojungle.net Woman Announcer - Arie Guerra; Austin, TX based Actress

Hosted by Eric McClintock, and Chris Palmer. Listen Here: Download Audio Here Laptop Voicemail from Dave http://laptops.toshiba.com/laptops/qosmio Specs: Core i7 4GB RAM Mobile GTS 360M $1500!! Which Sim? From Alex Hi all you guys, If i were going to use a flight simulator platform for general aviation flying, would it be logical to use x-plane or FSX? I know x-plane is more realistic in terms of aerodynamics, but the aircraft graphics are pathetic, compared to some pay-ware from FSX (carenado for example) However FSX is much more detailed in graphics, but in FSX, the aerodynamics are unrealistic because you just tell the airplane how fast it goes, how steep it can turn(as far as i know, correct me if i am wrong ;) ) Any ideas? Cheers Alex Screenshot Program for FSX and FS9 on Win7 Eric, On your first video brodcast I asked if you were having trouble with screenshots on your new PC running Windows7. You said you were. Will I found one that works with both FSX and FS9. Its a program called Aeroshot Image Capture. You can download it from FSPilotShop. It's only $18.00. I've attached some screenshots taken in FSX and FS9. The program works great. You can set where to save your pics, and in what format.It uses your printsren key, and does not pause your fightsim. I gives a sound to let you know it captured your shot. Check it out. http://www.fspilotshop.com/product_info.php?manufacturers_id=153&products_id=1594 Aeroshot Image Capture (AEF-230) = $18.00 From Phil PS, Chris recommends PicNik for online photo editing. Airplane Recommendations Hey Guys, I really like your show. I would like to recommend to aircrafts, both were released on Dec 25, I don't think they were mentioned during your show. Both aircrafts are products of love. First one is the Westland Lysander, I was captivated by its unique looks, and bought it right away. It has really amazing history - RAF used them to drop and pick up agents in France during WWII. It is easy to fly, but hard to land, great aircraft!! http://fsaddon.eu/wpfsaddon/fsaddon-products/lysander-secret-operations/ The second one is Cessna O-1/L-19 - I just got this one today, activation process (Copy protection is not so great), but overall aircraft is very nice. http://www.sibwings.com/birddog.php Thank you, Ilya From the forums: SimCheck A300 Hey don't forget to mention the new Simcheck A300 airplane available from Aerosoft... truly awesome aircraft! From BionicCrab Aircraft Features: http://www.aerosoft.com/cgi-local/us/iboshop.cgi?showd,,11145   TweakFS Recommendation from George Hi guys Happy New Year from the other side of the pond, were it is freezing cold, and I am buried in about 20cms of snow. Some time ago, in a previous email or voicemail, I mentioned a suite of products for both FS10 and FSX from Australia, which can be found at www.tweakfs.com The utilities are mainly about providing you with tools that make it easy for you to tweak your Flight Sim. I have had these utilities for some time now - but like most things, the more you explore the more you find. One that I would like to suggest as a 'hot' pick, is TweakFlight, which is available for both FS10 and FSX for US$24.95.What is even better is that you can download a demo version for 30 days For those simmers that like setting up scenarios or approaches, this allows you to do it all within a few key strokes, and you can continue to tweak it as and when you want. The navigation bar at the top covers 9 screens, all with different parameters that can be set for your flight, which can then be saved and edited at will. The screens cover:- Main - Title, description, date, time, camera views and aircraft position. This is neat, as you can select your position by just double clicking on a zoomable and moveable map, and set your height, heading and speed - just so cool. Autopilot - any of the functions of the autopilot can be preset Engines - for each engine you can set, Throttle, Prop, Mixture, RPM and Cowl and synchronise (or not) the engines Avionics - Set Master Switch, Com Radios, Nav Radios, ADF/Transponder, and DME/Audio Controls - Set spoilers, flaps, gear,brakes,yoke/rudder and trim Systems - choose which systems and lights you want on or off Fuel - quickly and simply set your fuel levels either by centre, left or right tanks or synchronise by % General - gives you the options to display or not, things like EFIS, ATC menu, simulation rate etc etc Briefing - create your own briefing notes - although this looks like you need some knowledge of HTML If you do decide to try it - I hope you get as much enjoyment as I have had Happy New Year to the Community http://secure.simmarket.com/tweakfs-tweakflight-fsx.phtml USB video card + flight sim = terrible, terrible idea   Hi Eric, Just a quick note: I can't speak for flight sim, but for X-Plane, no user should ever attempt to put any kind of X-Plane output onto a USB video card! The performance will be truly dreadful. X-Plan requires a "real" graphics card, meaning: - A graphics card that has a high quality 3-d accelerator on it and - that graphics card has to be in a slot wide enough for x-plane to just blast it with data. PCIe x16 is really a must, PCIe x16 2.0 is even better. USB is waaaay too slow. Yep...the processing has to come from somewhere. :-) It's a very smart idea for low-end computers...where the goal is to bring down price, where the CPU is already over-powered, where casual users probably aren't even using the second CPU. It's similar to what happened with sound cards...there's just no point in shipping sound cards with DSPs any more - that DSP is one more part, $20 more of cost (and that matters now, things are so cheap) when the second core can do sound mixing with 3% of its capacity. Of course, as flight simmers this sucks because it means the mainstream trend in hw (and what "most" new users who get a flight sim will already own) is a machine inappropriate to running FS X or x-plane. If I browse Dell's site, I can't even find the _option_ to put an ATI or NV card in most of the time, and when you do find a video card you find ... ... wait for it ... Radeon 4350 NVideo Geforce GTS 240 (You will find the 4350 at the BOTTOM of the 4xxx list - it is the most stripped down config. Surprisingly the GTS 240 isn't the bottom of the NV barrel, but being two levels down from the "real" part, the 280, it's going to be terrible for flight sim.) So a user who tries to build a "nice" machine before getting into flight sim is going to pay more and still get a machine that tanks. Sigh... cheers Ben   Answer to last week's Question About Object Placing   I was listening to your show last night (great show BTW) and i heard someone was looking for a freeware object placer. Now i use Instant scenery for my scenery design which is great if you want to spend the money before i brought Instant scenery i got this freeware one recommend to me. http://lc0277.nerim.net/wiki/index.php?whisplacer it's called whisplacer, it basically just uses the object libraries you've got in your FSX installation and im sure that there is a nav becon in one of the libaries that he could use. so try it out Cheers, Mitchell Sale OZx Developer   From the forum: Show Suggestions from Flinty72 G'Day FSBreak Crew, Loving the show especially the live broadcasts which I was lucky enough to catch the end of today. So I had an idea recently for the show and wanted to put it out to you guys for consideration. Not that I think the shows needs revamping but consider it a possible enhancement, if you think it is worthy... Anyway it struck me that each of you have specific areas of great knowledge & experience within the show. Now what if each you had a dedicated segment in the show to these areas? These segments could then be included into the show in different ways, either all segments each week, fortnightly or monthly or on a rolling rotation making it a monthly cycle between each indiovidual segment. Here is what I had in mind; "Eric's PC Hardware & Software Roundup" (related to flightsimming and PC performance) "Mark's Multisim Persepective" (X-plane, ORBITER, etc.) &/or "GA Flying Instruction Tutorial" (like the recent flying the traffic pattern video discussion) "Brendan's All Things Tubeliner's" (Products, Flying Tips, VA Operations) "Danton's Community Coverage & Super Slueth Inside Scoops" (Community & Developer Rumblings, VATSIM & Other FS Events) Anyway let me know what you think, maybe other listeners have better ideas as well...? Keep up the great work. Flinty. Recommendations Eric: Asus USB 3.0 and SATA III PCI Express Card, and Android Air Control. Chris: http://www.twitter.com   PS, we have recieved this release for the newest editing of the MyCockpit.org podcast. A great way to get more in depth coverage on cockpit building in podcast form: Mycockpit.org, the worlds largest community for home cockpit builders is proud to announce two new Podcasts, in association with FSBreak.net.    1. "Tips And Discussions" 2nd Edition, with Ian.  In this Edition of "Tips And Discussions", we talk to the famous Ian, well know for his wonderful B737 project. In this edition we talk all about "Inputs"   2. "Builder Of The Month" for February 2010, Shawn Lund.   Shawn is the creator of an unique project, someone who has chosen something different, since he is not exactly a home cockpit builder but I am sure we can draw a lot of inspiration from his approach..   MyCockpit Podcast can be found here:  http://www.mycockpit.org/forums/content.php?8   Mycockpit continues in the future with further Podcast editions of "Tips And Discussions," Feature Interviews" and "Builder Of the Month" interviews 

Hosted by Eric McClintock, Mark Stewart, Brendan Farmer, and Special Guest Cameron Son. Listen Here: Download Here Cameron Son, X-Aviation.com Interview about X-Plane addons and the upcoming CRJ-200 Previews of the CRJ-200 Aircraft: Year End Recommendations Eric's Recommendations 1. Logitech illiumnated keyboard ($40 refurb, $80 new) and logitech mx revolution mouse ($35 on sale, otherwise $100). 2. Saitek x52 flight control system ($80 Used) 3. Real Environment Extreme ($35) 4. Asus 23.6" LCD Monitor ($190) 5. A2A Simulations Piper J-3 Cub with Accusim ($45) 6. Orbx and OZx freeware products Mark's Recommendations 1. Space shuttle mission 2007 2. Aerosoft's AspenX 3. Wilco's E-Jet Series   4. X-Plane Inside Passage, Canadian Rockies, and Final Frontier scenery. (All 3 Bundled $54) 5. PNY Nvidia Geforce 9600 GSO 768MB Card 6. How I run FS Document Brendan's Recommendations 1. Flytampa Freeware Boston 2. Freeware HDE Clouds 3. Project Open Sky 777 Series 4. Mach1 Scenery Design 5. Project Tupolev TU-154 Voicemail from Chris Palmer A voicemail from Chris Palmer, of AOA: Check out Chris's AOA Blog Here. Video of 787: