Podcasts about Squint

Cullen and Mason chat with Brennen Wilkinson from Squint. They chat about why the band started, the hardcore scene, Brennen's influential albums, and much more.Check out Squint here: https://linktr.ee/SquintstlGet tickets for Furnace Fest here: https://www.furnacefest.usFollow us on Instagram: instagram.com/theblacksheeppodcastSubscribe to our YouTube channel: youtube.com/@theblacksheeppodcastBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-blacksheep-podcast-presented-by-hm-magazine--2258933/support.

Support the pod and get so much extra content for $5/month at   / stiffsockspod   Bonus eps also available on Apple Podcasts! https://www.apple.co/socks New studio even more chaos. Trevor and Michael roast the funniest college football names, rant about iPhone scams, and uncover the darkest product recalls (Easy-Bake ovens, beanbags, airbags). Plus, sleepover confessions, wild slang breakdowns, and a John Cena burger you'll have to squint to see.

Squint harder! There'll be no 76 wins this time! Hear award-winning columnist Dejan Kovacevic's Daily Shots of Steelers, Penguins and Pirates -- three separate podcasts -- every weekday morning on the DK Pittsburgh Sports podcasting network, available on all platforms: https://linktr.ee/dkpghsports Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hear award-winning columnist Dejan Kovacevic's Daily Shots of Steelers, Penguins and Pirates -- three separate podcasts -- every weekday morning on the DK Pittsburgh Sports podcasting network, available on all platforms: https://linktr.ee/dkpghsports Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

During this episode, Santosh is joined by Devin Bhushan, Founder and CEO of Squint. Devin shares how his company is revolutionizing manufacturing by using AI to capture and scale the tribal knowledge of frontline workers. The discussion covers the challenges of labor shortages, the importance of empowering operators, and the need to digitize best practices for efficiency and quality. Devin also explains how Squint's multimodal platform leverages video, voice, and data to create a centralized knowledge base, and emphasizes the critical role of trustworthy AI in mission-critical environments. Key takeaways include the value of combining human creativity with technology, the need for robust governance to prevent bad practices, Squint's vision to optimize the entire manufacturing supply chain from design to service, and so much more.Highlights from their conversation include:How Squint is Revolutionizing Manufacturing (0:41)Devin's Background & Inspiration (2:18)AI's Role: Augmenting Human Potential (4:20)Scaling Best Practices with AI (6:43)Designing Software for Factory Operators (7:48)Capturing and Sharing Tacit Knowledge (10:13)Retooling Brownfields & Quality Use Cases (13:54)Eliminating Search: The Future of Knowledge Access (15:03)Building Trustworthy AI for Mission-Critical Tasks (17:13)Preventing the Spread of Bad Practices (20:11)What's Next for Squint: Beyond the Factory Floor (23:30)Rapid-Fire “This or That” Segment (24:59)Final Thoughts and Takeaways (25:55)Dynamo is a VC firm led by supply chain and mobility specialists that focus on seed-stage, enterprise startups.Find out more at: https://www.dynamo.vc/

In this episode of The Lisa Fischer Said Podcast, Lisa sits down with Shannon Kates, founder of Squint Essentials, to explore how circadian rhythms, sunlight, and quantum biology can transform your health. From sleep and hormones to gut repair and metabolism, Shannon shares practical, science-backed strategies to align your body with natural light cycles, reduce inflammation, and restore energy. Discover why morning sunlight is medicine, how blue light disrupts melatonin, and why simplifying your wellness routine could be the key to vibrant health.     WEBSITE: https://squintessentials.com/     FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/squintessentials/     INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/squintessentials/     YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/@Squintessential     EPISODE SPONSOR:  https://www.davidsburgers.com/     EPISODE SPONSOR:  https://marlsgate.com     LISA'S LINKS:     Lisa Fischer Said Academy:  https://lisafischersaid.com/academy/     Website:  lisafischersaid.com     For more information on group intermittent fasting  coaching with Lisa, email fasting@lisafischersaid.com     For more information on one-on-one or group health coaching with Lisa, email healthcoaching@lisafischersaid.com     Podcast produced by clantoncreative.com    

Send us a texta link to my web page https://www.bookclues.comA link to 4PM Media https://4pmmedia.com/What happens when God breaks out of the church walls we've confined Him to? Author Philip Martin invites us into this provocative question through his collection of Catholic short stories titled "Ephaphatha" – an Aramaic word meaning "be opened."Martin weaves together elements of Southern Gothic and magical realism to create stories where divine mercy and justice intersect with everyday life. Drawing from his experience as a Catholic theology teacher, he understands that while truth may be black and white, people are wonderfully complex. This complexity demands more than simple doctrinal statements – it requires stories that speak to the heart."Falsehood is not attractive," Martin observes during our conversation. "It might be comfortable, but it's not attractive." This insight drives his storytelling approach, one that recognizes today's young people as "fertile soil" thirsting for authentic truth rather than comfortable lies. Through tales of hands breaking through church walls, mysterious healings, and unexpected divine encounters, Martin creates narrative spaces where readers can experience what happens when God refuses to stay confined to Sunday mornings.The discussion extends beyond literature to explore the interconnection between truth, beauty, and goodness – transcendental qualities that have traditionally guided Christian understanding of reality. When truth is abandoned, beauty inevitably suffers as well. Conversely, beauty can serve as a powerful pathway back to truth, making aesthetically rich storytelling a particularly effective evangelistic tool in our visually-oriented culture.Listen now to discover how Catholic fiction speaks to modern hearts and minds through the timeless power of story. Whether you're interested in faith, literature, or simply compelling narratives, this conversation offers fresh perspectives on how stories can transform lives in ways straightforward facts never could.

It's the one where David plays a bunch of new music, recapping the first half of 2025.It's not an official return of the DISCOVERED series, more like a 'hey, I was in the neighbourhood and though I'd pop by' sort of return.Featuring music from:Midnight Peg (photo credit Shannon Johnston), saturdays at your place, Jools, Belgravia, Little Low, Squint, downworld, Petey USA, Moving Mountains, Higher Power, Mint Club, Her Head's On Fire, Tired Radio, Feeble Attempt, You Vandal, and Brightr.OUR LINKS:GRAB SOME MERCHTWITTERINSTAGRAMFACEBOOK

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Squint for a second. Look at that college player that's made his way from D3 to D1. Look at the guy who's worked on his craft and transformed his game from the first time he stepped on a campus court. What's to say that his metamorphosis is complete? Is there another stage for him to get to? That's the question that Bryce Simon, (Game Theory, Pistons Pulse) and I are asking of Maxime Raynaud, Walter Clayton Jr, Cedric Coward, Ryan Kalkbrenner and Nique Clifford in this episode of The Drop Step. We look at the college seniors who have scrapped and fought to get here and ask if they might be diamonds in the rough, ready to contribute, ready to change the fortunes of your favourite NBA team. Give it a listen! Check out Bryce here: Bryce's Twitter: https://twitter.com/MotorCityHoops The Game Theory YT Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@GameTheoryPodcastwSamVecenie The Pistons Pulse: https://open.spotify.com/show/5zYsMLyTnrQW68xALK7Enz?si=aab6a0bf2d49408c Follow The Drop Step on Twitter here: https://x.com/TheDropStepNBA Subscribe to The Drop Step YT channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@TheDropStep_NBA Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What if happiness is the most powerful brand strategy no one's paying attention to? Mark Lester, Co-Founder and CSO at Squint, joins us to talk about how brands can drive massive impact, not by leaning harder into industry claims or trend forecasts, but by reconnecting with something far more fundamental: joy. From reimagining Ollipop as a “happiness drink” to rebuilding brand trust one hike at a time, Mark shares how deep listening, emotional resonance, and strategic empathy can transform the way brands show up in the world.This is Brand Story, a podcast celebrating the stories of real people who are making an impact on brands, business, and the world around them. Episodes feature guests from a variety of backgrounds who bring their own unique perspectives to the conversation.Brand Story is created and produced by Gravity Group, a full-service brand and marketing agency, and is hosted by Gravity Group President, Steve Gilman.Links and Information From the Episode Here: gravitygroup.com/podcast/the-happiness-advantageContinue the conversation on social:For more of Brand Story, check out our LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/gravitygroupmarketing), where we'll post previews and highlights of shows, behind-the-scenes sneak peeks, plus other marketing news you can use.We're also on: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/gravitygroupFacebook — https://www.facebook.com/gravitygroupmarketingChapters:(00:00) Introduction to Mark Lester(01:29) Mark's Journey to Launch His Own Agency, Squint(09:11) The Unhappiness Crisis & The Happiness Advantage in Brand Strategy(14:10) Case Study: The Success of Ollipop(22:57) Working with Nike on Women's Sports(26:55) The Importance of Relationships in Business(31:17) Empathy and Listening in the Industry(35:44) The Role of Hospitality in Branding(40:31) Embracing Responsibility and Peak Performance(43:04) Advice for Younger Marketers

On this episode I sit down with Squint, a hardcore punk band from St. Louis, MO. We talk a brief history before jumping into their debut LP "Big Hand". Before we get to some stories we talk about their music videos and getting to tour Europe. Be sure to follow Squint and check out "Big Hand"!!! This episode features the songs "Well Wisher" and "Pack Rat" from the album Big Hand. You can find Squint at the following links: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/squintstl/ Twitter: https://x.com/squintstl Bandcamp: https://squintstl.bandcamp.com/ Merch: https://sundaydrive-records.com/collections/squint Packrat Music Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEl436FetXo _______________________________________ You can find Beers With Bands here: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BeersWithBands2 Twitter: https://twitter.com/BeersWBandsPod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/beerswithbandspod/ Bandcamp: https://beerswithbands.bandcamp.com Everywhere else: https://linktr.ee/BeersWithBands Logo and Banner design by Kaylyn Chileen Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/madam.fortress.mommy/ Website: https://kaylynchileen.art Beers With Bands intro by Thomas Allen of Say Days Ago and Last Autumn Say Days Ago: https://www.instagram.com/saydaysagoband/ Last Autumn: https://www.instagram.com/lastautumnband/

We dive into a series of harrowing and humorous stories revolving around unexpected eye injuries.

​Nick Sweetman​ is one of Toronto's most prominent graffiti artists. Last February I was walking down Lansdowne Avenue in Toronto with my friend ​Michael Bungay Stanier​, who was our guest back in ​Chapter 48​, and as we strolled under a giant bridge I saw a giant ... well, it looked like a photo! But it wasn't a photo. It was a massive spray-painted image of a ​Hooded Merganser​, and at the very bottom corner was a signature that said "Nick Sweetman." Looks like a photo, right? Look at that eye! That bill! But I discovered there's this Toronto mural artist named Nick Sweetman and turns out I've seen the guy's stuff all over the place. He paints ​pollinators​, ​birds​, ​insects​, and ​animals​ of all kinds... He painted a ​whale shark​ I've ridden by on my bike for years without knowing it was him! Squint and you'll see the 'Sweetman' underneath its cavernous mouth. So I decided to reach out to Nick Sweetman and ask him about doing a unique partnership with me and 3 Books. He was game! We found a 750 square foot brutalist bare concrete wall behind a subway station in Toronto begging to be beautified. And now 11 months later I am very proud to present... After I spent six months getting approvals from the Toronto Transit Commission (shoutout to Cameron Penman, David Nagler, Kerry-Ann Campbell, and Councillor Dianne Saxxe!), Nick started painting the wall behind ​Dupont Station​ on September 17th, 2024 (my birthday!) and finished it up on November 1st. What resulted is honestly the most beautiful piece of public art I have ever seen. I know I'm birdy biased but Nick's beauty, his eye, his senses—they just know no bounds. He doesn't use stencils! He's not tracing anything! The guy is literally just looking at a dirty, bare, curved 750-square-foot wall and, NO BIGGIE painting 16 HYPERREALISTIC LOCAL BIRDS ON IT! Over the six weeks of painting I pulled out my recorder many times, Nick's friend and fellow graffiti artist Blaze Wiradharma (​@blazeworks​) pulled up with his video gear, and then genius editor Scott Baker (​@adjacentp​) rolled in to edit our first-ever 3 Books audio-video documentary experience. Listen! Watch! Be amazed by the wonder of Nick Sweetman! We explore questions like: Why did Nick leave the wine drinking art gallery world for dirty street corners? What do people who have owe to people who don't? How do we see the crustaceans in our parking lot? And ... do we still have a shared reality? We talk about mural painting, graffiti, street art, what it means to live in a world where humans overtake everything and, of course, Nick's 3 most formative books. We even get a live splice of Leslie teasing out his third book in real-time which is pretty special! I highly recommend you WATCH this chapter if you can as we put so much heart and soul into making Nick's masterpiece come to breathtaking visual life. But, of course, as we flip the page to Chapter 144, you can always just listen in on Apple or Spotify, too.

I remember a simple yet enchanting holiday moment—it began with my grandparents standing beside the Christmas tree. Its lights were glowing gently in the early evening, and the house carried that pleasant hush that settles in once the day's bustle has quieted down. They leaned toward me and said, “Squint your eyes, and you'll see the lights better.” Naturally, as a curious child, I obliged. In an instant, those bright points of color blurred into radiant halos, as if each bulb had become a tiny star in its universe. It felt like stepping into a world shaped by whispers and warm glances, where small acts—like narrowing your eyes—could turn the ordinary into something magical... Podcast Notes: https://ancestralfindings.com/spinning-old-christmas-yarns/  Genealogy Clips Podcast: https://ancestralfindings.com/podcast Free Genealogy Lookups: https://ancestralfindings.com/lookups Genealogy Giveaway: https://ancestralfindings.com/giveaway Genealogy eBooks: https://ancestralfindings.com/ebooks Follow Along: https://www.facebook.com/AncestralFindings https://www.instagram.com/ancestralfindings https://www.youtube.com/ancestralfindings Support Ancestral Findings: https://ancestralfindings.com/support https://ancestralfindings.com/paypal  #Genealogy #AncestralFindings #GenealogyClips

This week we turn the show into a Dungeon Crawl podcast. Oh, and we discuss whether or not hardcore is art. Spoiler alert: it isn't. Unless it is. Also, yes, we had some audio difficulties with Matt's track this week. We should have it fixed for next week. I'M SORRY DON'T HIT ME.On this week's Right Profile:Dungeon CrawlSquintAmerican Thrills Check Us Out:PatreonSixth and Center PublishingMusical Attribution:Licensed through NEOSounds.“5 O'Clock Shadow,” “America On the Move,” “Baby You Miss Me,” “Big Fat Gypsy,” “Bubble Up,” “C'est Chaud,” “East River Blues,” “The Gold Rush,” “Gypsy Fiddle Jazz,” “Here Comes That Jazz,” “I Wish I Could Charleston,” “I Told You,” “It Feels Like Love To Me,” “Little Tramp,” “Mornington Crescent,” “No Takeaways.”

Podcast #716 puts on a brave face with help from Pizzicato Five, Night Court, Cast of Thousands, Squint, Alvilda, Lola Lola, The Jackets, & The Cure.

Podcast #716 puts on a brave face with help from Pizzicato Five, Night Court, Cast of Thousands, Squint, Alvilda, Lola Lola, The Jackets, & The Cure.

Everyone that listens to this podcast knows that I ride for Inspector 34. Their debut album, Love My Life was my album of the year when it came out and this is proving to be one of my favorites this year. Seriously, these guys are critically underrated and they deserve to be in your earholes. Also, this ep is fun if you enjoy musicians actually discussing the recording process. This band reps both coasts and everything inbetween and you won't regret listening. Links: Inspector 34 - "Squint Your Ears" on bandcamp: https://inspector34.bandcamp.com/album/squint-your-ears "It's Three O'Clock, Go To Your Sink, Pour Some Milk, And Start To Think .​.​.​About This Terrific New 'Beach Boys' Tribute From The Sad Milk Collective​!​!​!": https://sadmilkcollective.bandcamp.com/album/its-three-oclock-go-to-your-sink-pour-some-milk-and-start-to-think-about-this-terrific-new-beach-boys-tribute-from-the-sad-milk-collective Sad Milk Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/sadmilkcollective/posts MELLOW HARSHER: "THIS CAN ONLY BE AS TERRIBLE AS WE ARE" A Documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyBaW5NYmFE Full Livestream of the episode: https://youtube.com/live/y5VCEMS6QeI?feature=share OUR DISCORD: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://discord.gg/2stA2P7pTC⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/flyoverstatepark⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠  EVERYTHING ELSE: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://linktr.ee/FlyoverStatePark⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/albumconcepthour/support

“For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.” - 1 Corinthians 13:12 Maybe you remember with me how that phrase in King James was, “through a glass darkly.”  As a child I always imagined myself peering into a glass orb at some magical world, (maybe even Heaven), but not quite making out the shapes. That held some real mystique for me. I had no idea nor care what this could have to do with love, which was still an icky concept to me anyway. Alas, that was when I was a child. When I became a man, I put away childish things and got back to fairy tales.  I have since learned that it was ‘glass,' as in Alice's ‘looking glass.' The mirror mix-up reminds me of the astronomer Percival Lowell, who was convinced that he was seeing spoke-like features on the surface of Venus, yet unable to replicate the findings for other observers. As it happens, the ambitious stargazer had unwittingly turned his telescope into an ophthalmoscope and was actually just seeing the blood vessels in his own eyeballs reflected back onto his vision. Alice, too, thought she was peering into an alien world, when it turns out she was only learning about herself.  But how does focusing on yourself help you love God and others? Isn't love about self-denial? Well, we often cause hurt to others merely by being ourselves around them. They need us to be better, and love demands we try. So, I'm starting with the man in the mirror, and I'm asking him to change his ways.  Squint with me this Sunday and we'll see what we can see about all that.  

“For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.” - 1 Corinthians 13:12 Maybe you remember with me how that phrase in King James was, “through a glass darkly.”  As a child I always imagined myself peering into a glass orb at some magical world, (maybe even Heaven), but not quite making out the shapes. That held some real mystique for me. I had no idea nor care what this could have to do with love, which was still an icky concept to me anyway. Alas, that was when I was a child. When I became a man, I put away childish things and got back to fairy tales.  I have since learned that it was ‘glass,' as in Alice's ‘looking glass.' The mirror mix-up reminds me of the astronomer Percival Lowell, who was convinced that he was seeing spoke-like features on the surface of Venus, yet unable to replicate the findings for other observers. As it happens, the ambitious stargazer had unwittingly turned his telescope into an ophthalmoscope and was actually just seeing the blood vessels in his own eyeballs reflected back onto his vision. Alice, too, thought she was peering into an alien world, when it turns out she was only learning about herself.  But how does focusing on yourself help you love God and others? Isn't love about self-denial? Well, we often cause hurt to others merely by being ourselves around them. They need us to be better, and love demands we try. So, I'm starting with the man in the mirror, and I'm asking him to change his ways.  Squint with me this Sunday and we'll see what we can see about all that.  

EP124 of the #ATIpodcast w/Barrett "Bear" Lewis welcomes back Brennen Wilkinson of SQUINT a #SaintLouis #HardcoreBand from  @SundayDriveRecords ! SQUINT: IG: https://www.instagram.com/squintstl/ X: https://twitter.com/squintstl FB: https://www.facebook.com/squintstl/ BANDCAMP: https://squintstl.bandcamp.com/ SUNDAY DRIVE RECORDS: https://www.sundaydrive-records.com/ Like, Listen, Enjoy, Subscribe to the ATI Podcast collective anywhere you get your podcast audio. ⁠https://flow.page/atipod⁠ #SQUINT #SQUINTSTL #SundayDriveRecords #ALLTHINGSINSANE #Hardcore #MelodicHardcore #jonmarkson #STLhardcore #AvacadoBooking #funeralforafriend #leavingtime #hallowsuns #feverchild #ustour #EuropeanTour #BigHand #PackRat #Magic #Sunshine #STL #everclear #thirdeyeblind #lit #somuchfortheafterglow #FamilyGuy #SoftKill --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ati-podcast/support

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This time around we're diving into the Father's Day campaign from Bottega featuring A$AP Rocky and shot by Carrie Mae Weems, Rihanna named the face of J'adore Dior, the overuse of Lil' Wayne's ‘A Milli', Jordan's shot back at Adidas, Black Nepotism, and much more. Tap in via the link in our bio to subscribe on YouTube, or listen wherever you find podcasts!

Abrimos con nuestra portada, el descubrimiento de la estupenda voz de la vocalista armenia Astghik Martirosyan que en el 2023 presentó Distance. La guitarra de Julian Lage suena de nuevo en La Montaña Rusa, esta vez con Squint, álbum publicado en 2021. Nuestro Clásico de la Semana fue la tuba de Ray Draper que junto a su Quintet firmó el clásico Tuba Sounds en 1957. Desde Italia escuchamos de nuevo al contrabajista Dario Piccioni con Caffé Tevere, de 2022. Aunque parezca mentira, hacía ya unos cuantos programas que no escuchábamos la música de John Zorn y sin que sirva de precedente, hoy volvemos a su universo de la mano de sus Bagatelles, estas del 2022 y el volumen 14, con el trompetista Peter Evans. Descubriremos la música de la vocalista y pianista lituana Liva Dumpe que este 2024 ha publicado Talskatis. Y cerarremos con el pianista alemana Julie Sassoon y su Quartet, con el estupendo Voyages de 2021.

Ivana debunked Trump R-word accusation! Calls: Should I keep my dog? She's all I got! Self-righteous phony MLK! Should we hate communism? The Hake Report, Tuesday, May 21, 2024 AD TIME STAMPS * (0:00:00) Start * (0:00:47) Topics: Trump R-word? (NOT the criminal story) * (0:02:17) Hey, guys! Amazin' T— Baby (JLP tee) * (0:04:31) Ivana denies Trump R-worded her * (0:12:53) Other lies: Stormy, Cohen * (0:15:48) Evil Joe cherry-picking lies, "hate crimes" (root lie: Anger) * (0:17:57) JONA, NC: Work clocks, Angel communication * (0:21:18) JONA: Switching jobs? Integrity Dr. * (0:26:20) DONALD, NY: My dog, she's all I got * (0:40:14) DANIEL, TX: Keep the dog! Adaptable. JLP, Sandy * (0:49:18) JOE, AZ: Huskies, Cohen, Trump R-word cases * (0:54:26) JAIME, MN: Did a turkey; Having dogs vs children * (0:59:46) Steve Taylor - "Cash Cow (A Rock Opera in Three Small Acts)" (1993, Squint) * (1:06:02) Super: Great show (Greggatron) * (1:06:28) Coffee: Dolton, IL mess! FBI investigation! * (1:08:08) Coffee: Nefarious anti-FE plan to rid of Sean! * (1:12:02) Coffee: Terri apology * (1:12:44) Coffee: MLK mind-reading? (Hake goes off!) * (1:19:56) MARK, CA: Joe lies vs Crishaun; MTG, Crocket, AOC. MLK. * (1:24:18) MARK: MLK exposed. Good black leaders. Evil: Hating Satan? * (1:34:19) Super: Jimmy Carter 100 in Oct! * (1:35:05) TERRI, OR: Sexual misconduct, Mark, Media, Divorce * (1:49:02) THOMAS, CA: Racism word, Bigotry, hatred of God's image, Adultery * (1:52:09) Knights of the New Crusade - "Ain't No Monkeys in My Family Tree" (2004) BLOG  https://www.thehakereport.com/blog/2024/5/21/the-hake-report-tue-5-21-24 PODCAST / Substack  HAKE NEWS from JLP  https://www.thehakereport.com/jlp-news/2024/5/21/icc-cries-war-crimes-on-bibi-france-agrees-hake-news-tue-5-21-24 Hake is live M-F 9-11a PT (11-1CT/12-2ET) Call-in 1-888-775-3773 https://www.thehakereport.com/show VIDEO  YouTube  -  Rumble*  -  Facebook  -  X  -  BitChute  -  Odysee*  PODCAST  Substack  -  Apple  -  Spotify  -  Castbox  -  Podcast Addict  *SUPER CHAT on platforms* above or  BuyMeACoffee, etc.  SHOP  Spring  -  Cameo  |  All My Links  JLP Network:  JLP  -  Church  -  TFS  -  Nick  -  Joel  Get full access to HAKE at thehakereport.substack.com/subscribe

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(Part 24 of 30) Who's Buying You? Until You Sell Yourself, You Won't Sell Much...Ch. 24 Understanding Sells: Squint with Your Ears; Listen with Your Eyes

Joël conducted a thoughtbot mini-workshop on query plans, which Stephanie found highly effective due to its interactive format. They then discuss the broader value of interactive workshops over traditional talks for deeper learning. Addressing listener questions, Stephanie and Joël explore the strategic use of if and else in programming for clearer code, the importance of thorough documentation in identifying bugs, and the use of Postgres' EXPLAIN ANALYZE, highlighting the need for environment-specific considerations in query optimization. Episode mentioning query plans (https://bikeshed.thoughtbot.com/418) Query plan visualizer (https://explain.dalibo.com/) RailsConf 2024 (https://railsconf.org/) Episode 349: Unpopular Opinions (https://bikeshed.thoughtbot.com/349) Squint test (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bZh5LMaSmE) Episode 405: Retro on Sandi Metz rules (https://bikeshed.thoughtbot.com/405) Structuring conditionals in a wizard (https://thoughtbot.com/blog/structuring-conditionals-in-a-wizard) Episode 417: Module docs (https://bikeshed.thoughtbot.com/417) Episode 416: Multidimensional numbers (https://bikeshed.thoughtbot.com/416) ruby-units gem (https://github.com/olbrich/ruby-units) Solargraph (https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=castwide.solargraph) parity (https://github.com/thoughtbot/parity) Transcript: STEPHANIE:  Hello and welcome to another episode of The Bike Shed, a weekly podcast from your friends at thoughtbot about developing great software. I'm Stephanie Minn. JOËL: And I'm Joël Quenneville, and together, we're here to share a bit of what we've learned along the way. STEPHANIE: So, Joël, what's new in your world? JOËL: Just recently, I ran a sort of mini workshop for some colleagues here at thoughtbot to dig into the idea of query plans and, how to read them, how to use them. And, initially, this was going to be more of a kind of presentation style. And a colleague and I who were sharing this decided to go for a more interactive format where, you know, this is a, like, 45-minute slot. And so, we set it up so that we did a sort of intro to query plans in about 10 minutes then 15 minutes of breakout rooms, where people got a chance to have a query plan. And they had some sort of comprehension questions to answer about it. And then, 15 minutes together to have each group share a little bit about what they had discovered in their query plan back with the rest of the group, so trying to balance some understanding, some application, some group discussion, trying to keep it engaging. It was a pretty fun approach to sharing information like that. STEPHANIE: Yeah. I wholeheartedly agree. I got to attend that workshop, and it was really great. Now that I'm hearing you kind of talk about the three different components and what you wanted people attending to get out of it, I am impressed because [laughs] there is, like, a lot more thought, I think, that went into just participant engagement that reflecting on it now I'm like, oh yeah, like, I think that was really effective as opposed to just a presentation. Because you had, you know, sent us out into breakout rooms, and each group had a different query that they were analyzing. You had kind of set up links that had the query set up in the query analyzer. I forget what the tool was called that you used. JOËL: I forget the name of it, but we will link it in the show notes. STEPHANIE: Yeah. It was helpful for me, though, because, you know, I think if I were just to have learned about it in a presentation or even just looked at, you know, screenshots of it on a slide, that's different still from interacting with it and feeling more confident to use it next time I find myself in a situation where it might be helpful. JOËL: It's really interesting because that was sort of the goal of it was to make it a bit more interactive and then, hopefully, helping people to retain more information than just a straight up, like, presentation would be. I don't know how you feel, I find that often when I go to a place like, let's say, RailsConf, I tend to stay away from more of the workshop-y style events and focus more on the talks. Is that something that you do as well? STEPHANIE: Yeah. I have to confess that I've never attended a workshop [laughs] at a conference. I think it's partly my learning style and also partly just honestly, like, my energy level when I'm at the conference. I kind of just want to sit back. It's on my to-do list. Like, I definitely want to attend one just to see what it's like. And maybe that might even inspire me to want to create my own workshop. But it's like, once I'm in it, and, you know, like, everyone else is also participating, I'm very easily peer pressured [laughs]. So, in a group setting, I will find myself enjoying it a lot more. And I felt that kind of same way with the workshop you ran for our team. Though, I will say a funny thing that happened was that when I went out into my breakout group with another co-worker, and we were trying to grok this query that you gave us, we found out that we got the hardest one, the most complicated one [laughs] because there were so many things going on. There was, like, multiple, like, you know, unions, some that were, like, nested, and then just, like, a lot of duplication as well, like, some conditions that were redundant because of a different condition happening inside of, like, an inner statement. And yeah, we were definitely scratching our heads for a bit and were very grateful that we got to come back together as a group and be like, "Can someone please help? [laughs] Let's figure out what's going on here." JOËL: Sort of close that loop and like, "Hey, here's what we saw. What does everybody else see?" STEPHANIE: Yeah, and I appreciated that you took queries from actual client projects that you were working on. JOËL: Yeah, that was the really fun part of it was that these were not sort of made-up queries to illustrate a point. These were actual queries that I had spent some time trying to optimize and where I had had to spend a lot of time digging into the query plans to understand what was going on. And it sounds like, for you, workshops are something that is...they're generally more engaging, and you get more value out of them. But there's higher activation energy to get started. Does that sound right? STEPHANIE: Yeah, that sounds right. I think, like, I've watched so many talks now, both in person and on YouTube, that a lot of them are easily forgettable [laughs], whereas I think a workshop would be a lot more memorable because of that interactivity and, you know, you get out of it what you put in a little bit. JOËL: Yeah, that's true. Have you looked at the schedule for RailsConf 2024 yet? And are there any workshops on there that you're maybe considering or that maybe have piqued your interest? STEPHANIE: I have, in fact, and maybe I will check off attending a workshop [laughs] off my bucket list this year. There are two that I'm excited about. Unfortunately, they're both at the same time slot, so I -- JOËL: Oh no. You're going to have to choose. STEPHANIE: I know. I imagine I'll have to choose. But I'm interested in the Let's Extend Rails With A Gem by Noel Rappin and Vision For Inclusion Workshop run by Todd Sedano. The Rails gem one I'm excited about because it's just something that I haven't had to do really in my dev career so far, and I think I would really appreciate having that guidance. And also, I think that would be motivation to just get that, like, hands-on experience with it. Otherwise, you know, this is something that I could say that I would want to do and then never get [chuckles] around to it. JOËL: Right, right. And building a gem is the sort of thing that I think probably fits better in a workshop format than in a talk format. STEPHANIE: Yeah. And I've really appreciated all of Noel's content out there. I've found it always really practical, so I imagine that the workshop would be the same. JOËL: So, other than poring over the RailsConf schedule and planning your time there, what has been new for you this week? STEPHANIE: I have a really silly one [laughs]. JOËL: Okay. STEPHANIE: Which is, yesterday I went out to eat dinner to celebrate my partner's birthday, and I experienced, for the first time, robots [laughter] at this restaurant. So, we went out to Hot Pot, and I guess they just have these, like, robot, you know, little, small dish delivery things. They were, like, as tall as me, almost, at least, like, four feet. They were cat-themed. JOËL: [laughs] STEPHANIE: So, they had, like...shaped like cat...they had cat ears, and then there was a screen, and on the screen, there was, like, a little face, and the face would, like, wink at you and smile. JOËL: Aww. STEPHANIE: And I guess how this works is we ordered our food on an iPad, and if you ordered some, like, side dishes and stuff, it would come out to you on this robot cat with wheels. JOËL: Very fun. STEPHANIE: This robot tower cat. I'm doing a poor job describing it because I'm still apparently bewildered [laughs]. But yeah, I was just so surprised, and I was not as...I think I was more, like, shocked than delighted. I imagine other people would find this, like, very fun. But I was a little bit bewildered [laughs]. The other thing that was very funny about this experience is that these robots were kind of going down the aisle between tables, and the aisles were not quite big enough for, like, two-way traffic. And so, there were times where I would be, you know, walking up to go use the restroom, and I would turn the corner and find myself, like, face to face with one of these cat robot things, and, like, it's starting to go at me. I don't know if it will stop [laughs], and I'm the kind of person who doesn't want to find out. JOËL: [laughs] STEPHANIE: So, to avoid colliding with this, you know, food delivery robot, I just, like, ran away from it [laughs]. JOËL: You don't know if they're, like, programmed to yield or something like that. STEPHANIE: Listen, it did not seem like it was going to stop. JOËL: [laughs] STEPHANIE: It got, like, I was, you know, kind of standing there frozen in paralysis [laughs] for a little while. And then, once it got, I don't know, maybe two or three feet away from me, I was like, okay, like, this is too close for comfort [laughs]. So, that was my, I don't know, my experience at this robot restaurant. Definitely starting to feel like I'm in the, I don't know, is this the future? Someone, please let me know [laughs]. JOËL: Is this a future that you're excited or happy about, or does this future seem a little bit dystopian to you? STEPHANIE: I was definitely alarmed [laughter]. But I'm not, like, a super early adopter of new technology. These kinds of innovations, if you will, always surprise me, and I'm like, oh, I guess this is happening now [laughs]. And I will say that the one thing I did not enjoy about it is that there was not enough room to go around this robot. It definitely created just pedestrian traffic issues. So, perhaps this could be very cool and revolutionary, but also, maybe design robots for humans first. JOËL: Or design your dining room to accommodate your vision for the robots. I'm sure that flying cars and robots will solve all of this, for sure. STEPHANIE: Oh yeah [laughter]. Then I'll just have to worry about things colliding above my head. JOËL: And for the listeners who cannot see my face right now, that was absolutely sarcasm [laughs]. Speaking of our listeners, today we're going to look at a group of different listener questions. And if you didn't know that, you could send in a question to have Stephanie and I discuss, you can do that. Just send us an email at hosts@bikeshed.fm. And sometimes, we put it into a regular episode. Sometimes, we combine a few and sort of make a listener question episode, which is what we're doing today. STEPHANIE: Yeah. It's a little bit of a grab bag. JOËL: Our first question comes from Yuri, and Yuri actually has a few different questions. But the first one is asking about Episode 349, which is pretty far back. It was my first episode when I was coming on with Chris and Steph, and they were sort of handing the baton to me as a host of the show. And we talked about a variety of hot takes or unpopular opinions. Yuri mentions, you know, a few that stood out to him: one about SPAs being not so great, one about how you shouldn't need to have a side project to progress in your career as a developer, one about developer title inflation, one about DRY and how it can be dangerous for a mid-level dev, avoiding let in RSpec specs, the idea that every if should come with an else, and the idea that developers shouldn't be included in design and planning. And Yuri's question is specifically the question about if statements, that every if should come with an else. Is that still an opinion that we still have, and why do we feel that way? STEPHANIE: Yeah, I'm excited to get into this because I was not a part of that episode. I was a listener back then when it was still Steph and Chris. So, I am hopefully coming in with a different, like, additional perspective to add as well while we kind of do a little bit of a throwback. So, the one about every if should come with an else, that was an unpopular opinion of yours. Do you mind kind of explaining what that means for you? JOËL: Yeah. So, in general, Ruby is an expression-oriented language. So, if you have an if that does not include an else, it will implicitly return nil, which can burn you. There may be some super expert programmers out there that have never run into undefined method for nil nil class, but I'm still the kind of programmer who runs into that every now and then. And so, implicit nils popping up in my code is not something I generally like. I also generally like having explicit else for control flow purposes, making it a little bit clearer where flow of control goes and what are the actual paths through a particular method. And then, finally, doing ifs and elses instead of doing them sort of inline or as trailing conditionals or things like that, by having them sort of all on each lines and balancing out. The indentation itself helps to scan the code a little bit more. So, deeper indentation tells you, okay, we're, like, nesting multiple conditions, or something like that. And so, it makes it a little bit easier to spot complexity in the code. You can apply, and I want to say this is from Sandi Metz, the squint test. STEPHANIE: Yeah, it is. JOËL: Where you just kind of, like, squint at your code so you're not looking at the actual characters, and more of the structure, and the indentation is actually a friend there rather than something to fight. So, that was sort of the original, I think, idea behind that. I'm curious, in your experience, if you would like to balance your conditionals, ifs with something else, or if you would like to do sort of hanging ifs. STEPHANIE: Hanging ifs, I like that phrase that you just coined there. I agree with your opinion, and I think it's especially true if you're returning values, right? I mean, in Ruby, you kind of always are. But if you are caring about return values, like you said, to avoid that implicit nil situation, I find, especially if you're writing tests for that code, it's really easy, you know, if you spot that condition, you're like, okay, great. Like, this is a path I need to test. But then, oftentimes, you don't test that implicit path, and if you don't enter the condition, then what happens, right? So, I think that's kind of what you're referring to when you talk about both. It's, like, easier to spot in terms of control flow, like, all the different paths of execution, as well as, yeah, like, saving you the headaches of some bugs down the line. One thing that I thought about when I was kind of revisiting that opinion of yours is the idea of like, what are you trying to communicate is different or special about this condition when you are writing an if statement? And, in my head, I kind of came up with a few different situations you might find yourself in, which is, one, where you truly just have, like, a special case, and you're treating that completely differently. Another when you have more of a, like, binary situation, where it's you want to kind of highlight either...more of a dichotomy, right? It's not necessarily that there is a default but that these are two opposite things. And then, a third situation in which you have multiple conditions, but you only happen to have two right now. JOËL: Interesting. And do you think that, like, breaking down those situations would lead you to pick different structures for writing your conditionals? STEPHANIE: I think so. JOËL: Which of those scenarios do you think you might be more likely to reach for an if that doesn't have an else that goes with it? STEPHANIE: I think that first one, the special case one. And in Yuri's email, he actually asked, as a follow-up, "Do we avoid guard clauses as a result of this kind of heuristic or rule?" And I think that special case situation is where a guard clause would shine because you are highlighting it by putting it at the top of a method, and then saying like, you know, "Bail out of this" or, like, "Return this particular thing, and then don't even bother about the rest of this code." JOËL: I like that. And I think guard clauses they're not the first thing I reach for, but they're not something I absolutely avoid. I think they need to be used with care. Like you said, they have to be in the top of your method. If you're adding returns and things that break out of your method, deep inside a conditional somewhere, 20 lines into your method, you don't get to call that a guard clause anymore. That's something else entirely. I think, ideally, guard clauses are also things that will break out of the method, so they're maybe raising exception. Maybe they're returning a value. But they are things that very quickly check edge cases and bail so that the body of the method can focus on expecting data in the correct shape. STEPHANIE: I have a couple more thoughts about this; one is I'm reminded of back when we did that episode on kind of retroing Sandi Metz's Rules For Developers. I think one of the rules was: methods should only be five lines of code. And I recall we'd realized, at least I had realized for the first time, that if you write an if-else condition in Ruby, that's exactly five lines [laughs]. And so, now that I'm thinking about this topic, it's cool to see that a couple of these rules converge a little bit, where there's a bit of explicitness in saying, like, you know, if you're starting to have more conditions that can't just be captured in a five-line if-else statement, then maybe you need something else there, right? Something perhaps like polymorphic or just some way to have branched earlier. JOËL: That's true. And so, even, like, you were talking about the exceptional edge cases where you might want to bail. That could be a sign that your method is doing too much, trying to like, validate inputs and also run some sort of algorithm. Maybe this needs to be some sort of, like, two-step thing, where there's almost, like, a parsing phase that's handled by a different object or a different method that will attempt to standardize your inputs and raise the appropriate errors and everything. And then, your method that has the actual algorithm or code that you're trying to run can just assume that its inputs are in the correct shape, kind of that pushing the uncertainty to the edges. And, you know, if you've only got one edge case to check, maybe it's not worth to, like, build this in layers, or separate out the responsibilities, or whatever. But if you're having a lot, then maybe it does make sense to say, "Let's break those two responsibilities out into two places." STEPHANIE: Yeah. And then, the one last kind of situation I've observed, and I think you all talked about this in the Unpopular Opinions episode, but I'm kind of curious how you would handle it, is side effects that only need to be applied under a certain condition. Because I think that's when, if we're focusing less on return values and more just on behavior, that's when I will usually see, like, an if something, then do this that doesn't need to happen for the other path. JOËL: Yes. I guess if you're doing some sort of side effect, like, I don't know, making a request to an API or writing to a file or something, having, like, else return nil or some other sentinel value feels a little bit weird because now you're caring about side effects rather than return values, something that you need to keep thinking of. And that's something where I think my thing has evolved since that episode is, once you start having multiple of these, how do they compose together? So, if you've got if condition, write to a file, no else, keep going. New if condition, make a request to an API endpoint, no else, continue. What I've started calling independent conditions now, you have to think about all the different ways that they can combine, and what you end up having is a bit of a combinatorial explosion. So, here we've got two potential actions: writing to a file, making a request to an API. And we could have one or the other, or both, or neither could happen, depending on the inputs to your method, and maybe you actually want that, and that's cool. Oftentimes, you didn't necessarily want all of those, especially once you start going to three, four, five. And now you've got that, you know, explosion, like, two to the five. That's a lot of paths through your method. And you probably didn't really need that many. And so, that can get really messy. And so, sometimes the way that an if and an else work where those two paths are mutually exclusive actually cuts down on the total number of paths through your method. STEPHANIE: Hmm, I like that. That makes a lot of sense to me. I have definitely seen a lot of, like, procedural code, where it becomes really hard to tell how to even start relating some of these concepts together. So, if you happen to need to run a side effect, like writing to a file or, I don't know, one common one I can think of is notifying something or someone in a particular case, and maybe you put that in a condition. But then there's a different branching path that you also need to kind of notify someone for a similar reason, maybe even the same reason. It starts to become hard to connect, like, those two reasons. It's not something that, like, you can really scan for or, like, necessarily make that connection because, at that point, you're going down different paths, right? And there might be other signals that are kind of confusing things along the way. And it makes it a lot harder, I think, to find a shared abstraction, which could ultimately make those really complicated nested conditions a little more manageable or just, like, easier to understand at a certain complexity. I definitely think there is a threshold. JOËL: Right. And now you're talking about nested versus non-nested because when conditions are sort of siblings of each other, an if-else behaves differently from two ifs without an else. I think a classic situation where this pops up is when you're structuring code for a wizard, a multi-step form. And, oftentimes, people will have a bunch of checks. They're like, oh, if this field is present, do these things. If this field is present, do these things. And then, it becomes very tricky to know what the flow of control is, what you can expect at what moment, and especially which actions might get shared across multiple steps. Is it safe to refactor in one place if you don't want to break step three? And so, learning to think about the different paths through your code and how different conditional structures will impact that, I think, was a big breakthrough for me in terms of taking the next logical step in terms of thinking, when do I want to balance my ifs and when do I not want to? I wrote a whole article on the topic. We'll link it in the show notes. So, Yuri, thanks for a great question, bringing us back into a classic developer discussion. Yuri also asks or gives us a bit of a suggestion: What about revisiting this topic and doing an episode on hot takes or unpopular topics? Is that something that you'd be interested in, Stephanie? STEPHANIE: Oh yeah, definitely, because I didn't get to, you know, share my hot topics the last episode [laughs]. [inaudible 24:23] JOËL: You just got them queued up and ready to go. STEPHANIE: Yeah, exactly. So, yeah, I will definitely be brainstorming some spicy takes for the show. JOËL: So, Yuri, thanks for the questions and for the episode suggestion. STEPHANIE: So, another listener, Kevin, wrote in to us following up from our episode on Module Docs and about a different episode about Multi-dimensional Numbers. And he mentioned a gem that he maintains. It's called Ruby Units. And it basically handles the nitty gritty of unit conversions for you, which I thought was really neat. He mentioned that it has a numeric class, and it knows how to do math [laughs], which I would find really convenient because that is something that I have been grateful not to have to really do since college [laughs], at least those unit conversions and all the things that I'd probably learned in math and physics courses [laughs]. So, I thought that was really cool, definitely is one to check out if you frequently work with units. It seemed like it would be something that would make sense for a domain that is more science or deals in that kind of domain. JOËL: I'm always a huge fan of anything that tags raw numbers that you're working with with a quantity rather than just floating raw numbers around. It's so easy to make a mistake to either treat a number as a quantity you didn't think of, or make some sort of invalid operation on it, or even to think you have a value in a different size than you do. You think you're dealing with...you know you have a time value, but you think it's in seconds. It's actually in milliseconds. And then, you get off by some big factor. These are all mistakes that I have personally made in my career, so leaning on a library to help avoid those mistakes, have better information hiding for the things that really aren't relevant to the work that I'm trying to do, and also, kind of reify these ideas so that they have sort of a name, and they're, like, their own object, their own thing that we can interact with in the app rather than just numbers floating around, those are all big wins from my perspective. STEPHANIE: I also just thought of a really silly use case for this that is, I don't know, maybe I'll have to experiment with this. But every now and then, I find the need to have to convert a unit, and I just pop into Google, and I'm like, please give me, you know, I'll search for 10 kilometers in miles or something [laughs]. But then I have to...sometimes Google will figure it out for me, and sometimes it will just list me with a bunch of weird conversion websites that all have really old-school UI [laughs]. Do you know what I'm talking about here? Anyway, I would be curious to see if I could use this gem as a command-line interface [laughs] for me without having to go to my browser and roll the dice with freecalculator.com or something like that [laughs]. JOËL: One thing that's really cool with this library that I saw is the ability to define your own units, and that's a thing that you'll often encounter having to deal with values that are maybe not one of the most commonly used units that are out there, dealing with numbers that might mean a thing that's very particular to your domain. So, that's great that the library supports that. I couldn't see if it supports multi-dimensional units. That was the episode that inspired the comment. But either way, this is a really cool library. And thank you, Kevin, for sharing this with us. STEPHANIE: Kevin also mentions that he really enjoys using YARD docs. And we had done that whole episode on Module Docs and your experience writing them. So, you know, your people are out there [laughs]. JOËL: Yay. STEPHANIE: And we talked about this a little bit; I think that writing the docs, you know, on one hand, is great for future readers, but, also, I think has the benefit of forcing the author to really think about their inputs and outputs, as Kevin mentions. He's found bugs by simply just going through that process in designing his code, and also recommends Solargraph and Solargraph's VSCode extension, which I suspect really kind of makes it easy to navigate a complex codebase and kind of highlight just what you need to know when working with different APIs for your classes. So, I recently kind of switched to the Ruby LSP, build with Shopify, but I'm currently regretting it because nothing is working for me right now. So, that might be the push that I need [laughs] to go back to using Solargraph. JOËL: It's interesting that Kevin mentions finding bugs while writing docs because that has absolutely been my experience. And even in this most recent round, I was documenting some code that was just sort of there. It wasn't new code that I was writing. And so, I had given myself the rule that this would be documentation-only PRs, no code changes. And I found some weird code, and I found some code that I'm 98% sure is broken. And I had to have the discipline to just put a notice in the documentation to be like, "By the way, this is how the method should work. I'm pretty sure it's broken," and then, maybe come back to it later to fix it. But it's amazing how trying to document code, especially code that you didn't write yourself, really forces you to read it in a different way, interact with it in a different way, and really, like, understand it in a deep way that surprised me a little bit the first time I did it. STEPHANIE: That's cool. I imagine it probably didn't feel good to be like, "Hey, I know that this is broken, and I can't fix it right now," but I'm glad you did. That takes a lot of, I don't know, I think, courage, in my opinion [laughs], to be like, "Yeah, I found this, and I'm going to, you know, like, raise my hand acknowledging that this is how it is," as supposed to just hiding behind a broken functionality that no one [laughs] has paid attention to. JOËL: And it's a thing where if somebody else uses this method and it breaks in a way, and they're like, "Well, the docs say it should behave like this," that would be really frustrating. If the docs say, "Hey, it should behave like this, but it looks like it's broken," then, you know, I don't know, I would feel a little bit vindicated as a person who's annoyed at the code right now. STEPHANIE: For sure. JOËL: Finally, we have a message from Tim about using Postgres' EXPLAIN ANALYZE. Tim says, "Hey, Joël, in the last episode, you talked a bit about PG EXPLAIN ANALYZE. As you stated, it's a great tool to help figure out what's going on with your queries, but there is a caveat you need to keep in mind. The query planner uses statistics gathered on the database when making decisions about how to fetch records. If there's a big difference between your dev or staging database and production, the query may make different decisions. For example, if a table has a low number of records in it, then the query planner may just do a table scan, but in production, it might use an index. Also, keep in mind that after a schema changes, it may not know about new indexes or whatever unless an explicit ANALYZE is done on the table." So, this is really interesting because, as Tim mentions, EXPLAIN ANALYZE doesn't behave exactly the same in production versus in your local development environment. STEPHANIE: When you were trying to optimize some slow queries, where were you running the ANALYZE command? JOËL: I used a combination. I mostly worked off of production data. I did a little bit on a staging database that had not the same amount of records and things. That was pretty significant. And so, I had to switch to production to get realistic results. So, yes, I encountered this kind of firsthand. STEPHANIE: Nice. For some reason, this comment also made me think of..., and I wanted to plug a thoughtbot shell command that we have called Parity, which lets you basically download your production database into your local dev database if you use Heroku. And that has come in handy for me, obviously, in regular development, but would be really great in this use case. JOËL: With all of the regular caveats around security, and PII, and all this stuff that come with dealing with production data. But if you're running real productions on production, you should be cleared and, like, trained for access to all of that. I also want to note that the queries that you all worked with on Friday are also from the production database. STEPHANIE: Really? JOËL: So, you got to see what it actually does, what the actual timings were. STEPHANIE: I'm surprised by that because we were using, like, a web-based tool to visualize the query plans. Like, what were you kind of plugging into the tool for it to know? JOËL: So, the tool accepts a query plan, which is a text output from running a SQL query. STEPHANIE: Okay. So, it's just visualizing it. JOËL: Correct. Yeah. So, you've got this query plan, which comes back as this very intimidating block of, like, text, and arrows, and things like that. And you plug it into this web UI, and now you've got something that is kind of interactive, and visual, and you can expand or collapse nodes. And it gives you tooltips on different types of information and where you're spending the most time. So, yeah, it's just a nicer way to visualize that data that comes from the query plan. STEPHANIE: Gotcha. That makes sense. JOËL: So, that's a very important caveat. I don't think that's something that we mentioned on the episode. So, thank you, Tim, for highlighting that. And for all of our listeners who were intrigued by leaning into EXPLAIN ANALYZE and query plan viewers to debug your slow queries, make sure you try it out in production because you might get different results otherwise. STEPHANIE: So, yeah, that about wraps up our listener topics in recent months. On that note, Joël, shall we wrap up? JOËL: Let's wrap up. STEPHANIE: Show notes for this episode can be found at bikeshed.fm. JOËL: This show has been produced and edited by Mandy Moore. STEPHANIE: If you enjoyed listening, one really easy way to support the show is to leave us a quick rating or even a review in iTunes. It really helps other folks find the show. JOËL: If you have any feedback for this or any of our other episodes, you can reach us @_bikeshed, or you can reach me @joelquen on Twitter. STEPHANIE: Or reach both of us at hosts@bikeshed.fm via email. JOËL: Thanks so much for listening to The Bike Shed, and we'll see you next week. ALL: Byeeeeeeeee!!!!!!! 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EP106 of the #ATIpodcast w/ Barrett aka "Bear" welcome #BRENNEN of #Squint a #StLouis #Hardcore band from Sunday Drive Records! Barrett & Brennen, Lead Vocalist & Lyricist for Squint, open the chat w/ Brenna's early musical influences, including punk rock and metalcore. Brennen also talks about his personal growth and struggles with drinking during this time. He discusses how he rediscovered #hardcore music, in a more modern context and personal fitness during COVID; which in-turn led to his own personal growth. In the final act, the boys talk about the formation of Squint and their quick rise in the heavy music scene. The convo covers such topics as: recording vocal demos in a Home Depot parking lot, the inception SQUINT, the various backgrounds & influences of each band member, the relationship between Squint & #SundayDriveRecords, music catalog (now streaming), and their recent recording experience in the North East- heading toward an exciting new album to be release in 2024! SQUINT: IG: https://www.instagram.com/squintstl/ X: https://twitter.com/squintstl FB: https://www.facebook.com/squintstl/ BANDCAMP: https://squintstl.bandcamp.com/ LISTEN: https://dthw.sh/squint-feelitall hate5six  set 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4dVj50lIzM #Hate5six set 2: https://youtu.be/qQ2BRf0sBJ0?si=m9ZoiJdMtBTZo-Kj SUNDAY DRIVE RECORDS: https://www.sundaydrive-records.com/ Like, Listen, Enjoy, Subscribe to the ATI Podcast collective anywhere you get your podcast audio. ⁠https://flow.page/atipod⁠ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ati-podcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ati-podcast/support

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Memes: Squat and Squint Meme - "The first one that I'm going to describe is of a black woman and she's in this like light pink kind of jacket blazer, these black pants, and she's outside and she's kind of leaning down and she's like what I assume out of breath, tired, just like, 'Oh, my gosh, what, what, what am I doing?'"Drew Scanlon Reaction Meme / White Man Blinking Meme - "The second meme is of this white guy. And he's, I'm guessing maybe sitting, but he does this kind of blink thing. And I feel like I use that a lot when someone says something or does something that I'm like, 'Really, is that actually happening? Is this actually what we're doing?'"Follow us on Instagram @memesmetaphorsandmagic to view the meme(s) for this episode. And learn more about your personal year number with this free resource I made especially for you! Metaphors:MEMES AND METAPHORS ARE BRIDGES.MEMES AND METAPHORS ARE CONTAINERS.MATCHING A MEME WITH YOUR EXPERIENCES IS GOING THROUGH A ROLODEX OF EXPERIENCES.COMMUNICATION IS SENDING."Keep little things little." (MANAGEABLE MATTERS ARE SMALL IN SIZE.)"Let my light shine." (MY LIGHT IS MY POSSIBILITY AND MAGIC. THE DEGREE MY LIGHT IS SHINING REFLECTS MY CIRCUMSTANCES.)"Life's about choices." (LIFE IS A NEVER ENDING SERIES OF CHOICES.)LIFE IS A CREATIVE PROCESS.TWITTER/X IS A DUMPSTER FIRE.Underlying, or primary, metaphors:CONSIDERING IS WEIGHINGIMPORTANCE IS SIZE.EXISTENCE IS VISIBILITY. (aka "Representation matters.")CIRCUMSTANCES ARE WEATHER.GOOD IS BRIGHT/BAD IS DARK.KNOWING/UNDERSTANDING IS SEEING.MORE/POSITIVE/POWERFUL IS UP.Magic:8 Expression Number (Numerology)Communication® (Gallup CliftonStrengths®)Connectedness® (Gallup CliftonStrengths®)Context® (Gallup CliftonStrengths®)Ideation® (Gallup CliftonStrengths®)Intellection® (Gallup CliftonStrengths®)Responsibility® (Gallup CliftonStrengths®)Strategic® (Gallup CliftonStrengths®)Woo® (Gallup CliftonStrengths®)Type 2: The Helper (Enneagram)ESFJ Myers Briggs TypeSupport and Connect with Mika!Read her Dissertation! Unapologetically Black: A Sista Circle Study Highlighting the Brilliant, Bold, and Brave Leadership Approaches of Black Women in Student Affairs by Dr. Shamika KarikariFollow her on Instagram @thecincymamaFollow her on Twitter/X @MikaKarikariResources:A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life by Parker PalmerThe Enlightened Eye: Qualitative Inquiry and the Enhancement of Educational Practice by Elliot W. Eisner The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters by Priya ParkerFoundations of Meaning: Primary Metaphors and Primary Scenes by Joseph Grady 

David Gale was the first significant client that hired my old architecture/planning firm, back in 2001. Dave was already a successful developer of master-planned communities in Lee's Summit, Missouri, and we worked together for several years to create Kansas City's first and largest Traditional Neighborhood Development called New Longview. Cutting out the jargon, that means the first new, walkable community planned along the lines of older communities.Gale Communities has worked for years on the Winterset developments in Lee's Summit, and Dave has brought his passion and vision to suburban development. My experience is, he's always tried to push the envelope of quality development, while maintaining a sharp focus on what is profitable. He blends a deep knowledge of marketing and business, with a Canadian's eye on creating community.Twenty years later, I really enjoyed having this conversation with Dave. His perspective has always been unique in the KC market, and his success speaks for itself. Hopefully, his work can inspire younger people about what is possible and the difference they can make in the lives of people through thoughtful development.Find more content on The Messy City on Kevin's Substack page.Music notes: all songs by low standards, ca. 2010. Videos here. If you'd like a CD for low standards, message me and you can have one for only $5.Intro: “Why Be Friends”Outro: “Fairweather Friend” Get full access to The Messy City at kevinklinkenberg.substack.com/subscribe

Welcome back, everyone. It's been a minute, but it looks like that minute is up—the tenth season of The Anhedonic Headphones Podcast is upon us. It's the 54th episode overall since the show began, and in the first episode of the new season, Kevin welcomes his first in person guest in three years, Anastasia Stier.  The two talk about poor mental health, how you never grow out of being an emo kid, and fixating on Julien Baker. For additional information about Anhedonic Headphones, please click here; or follow Kevin on Instagram and on Twitter. And please give the podcast he co-hosts with Alyssa Savino, A Reasonable Day, a listen.  Intro Music: “6 Underground,” written by John Barry, Chris Corner, Liam Howe, and Ian Pickering; performed by Sneaker Pimps. Becoming X, Clean Up, 1997. Closing Music: “Numb,” written by Beth Gibbons, Geoff Barrow, and Adrian Utley; performed by Portishead. Dummy, Go Disc, 1994.  Music Credits: “I Won't Stay Long,” written by Sam Nash; performed by Sixpence None The Richer. Sixpence None The Richer, Squint, 1997. “Telethon,” written by Emily Haines; performed by Emily Haines and The Soft Skeleton. What Is Free to A Good Home?, Last Gang, 2007. “Reckless” written and performed by Tilly and The Wall. Wild Like Children, Team Love, 2004.  “This Is Our Emergency,” written and performed by Pretty Girls Make Graves. The New Romance, Matador, 2003. “Empty,” written and performed by Metric. Live It Out, Last Gang, 2005. “Sea of Love” written by Philip Baptiste and George Khoury; performed by Cat Power. The Covers Record, Matador, 2000. “Buttoned Down,” written and  performed by Straylight Run. The Needles The Space, Universal, 2007. “This is The Last Time,” written by Aaron Dessner, Bryce Dessner, and Matt Berninger; performed by The National. Trouble Will Find Me, 4AD, 2013. “Hurt Less,” written and performed by Julien Baker. Turn Out The Lights, Matador, 2017 “I'll Never Smile Again,” written by Ruth Lowe; performed by Tommy Dorsey and His Orchestra and Frank Sinatra. Victor, 1940.  

Scott & Tim Sports Show  Season 7 Episode 10 “Holiday Extravaganza 2023!” with Squint Martindale 12/2821/2023    Huge show! We go big by covering a ton of different sports topics. It is too long to list! NFL, MLB, NHL, Golf, College Football Playoffs and much much more. We bring back Squint Martindale who gives us some great trivia questions.  Follow us on Twitter:  @scottohsman  @tboyle15   Instagram  Scottohsman Tboyle15  

Squint is a FIlm Director and photographer who leads visual composition, brand strategy, and creative director for some of the biggest celebrities and companies in the world.  From Michael Jordan to Michael B. Jordan, Squint has captured iconic images of the most well-known faces of our generation in a manner that exudes authenticity.  From Apple to Nike, the boldest brands in the world turn to Squint for his creative vision and execution.   As comfortable in a room full of venture capital billionaires debating rap music as he is in a room full of hip-hop stars debating tech investments, Squint's authenticity is contagious.  He is too caring to clout-chase and too busy to brag.  Squint pours high-octane love into the world.  And that love comes back to him.   Squint grew up in Palo Alto and his favorite place in the world is the nearby Bay Bridge, which connects the global hub of technology, San Francisco and the mecca of arts and activism, Oakland.  Squint doesn't just move between these worlds, he weaves them together. Squint has written and produced shows with NFL Super Bowl winner Marshawn Lynch, shot magazine cover photos for Harley Davidson, and directed a documentary for Grammy award winning artist Lecrae.  From television programming to print, the deliverables Squint produces lead to increased revenue for his clients and collaborators.  Squint's role extends beyond the production of media content to developing and operationalizing the strategies for shaping clients' public identities in ways that center their authenticity and unique flavor. Throughout his career, Squint has worked with brands including HBO, ESPN, YouTube, Google, Facebook, Lyft, Monster, Roc Nation, Bleacher Report, Beast Mode Productions, No Script, and Shoe Palace.  His client roster includes Stephen Curry, Draymond Green, Aaron Gordon, Frank Gore, and D'Angelo, H.E.R and Goapele.  If you are lucky enough to get to know Squint, one day he might hand you his phone and show you beautiful photos he's snapped of some of your favorite artists and athletes that capture the humanity so often obscured by fame.    Squint studied photography and film direction at the Academy of Arts University, and studied design as a Fellow at Stanford University's d.school.  He is now passionate about supporting the next generation of artists and entrepreneurs through his work with StreetCode Academy, a nonprofit organization that is preparing the next generation of technology leaders.    Whether it's for Fortune 500 companies, world class athletes, or local nonprofits, Squint's mission is as clear as his camera lens: to capture the full essence of his subjects and what they represent to themselves and to the world.  His clients see him as a friend first.  Ask anyone who has worked with Squint and they will tell you the same thing—no matter what they are working on, they always want him involved.  While this is undoubtedly due to his perspective and technical talent, it is also due to the foundation he builds of trust, sincerity, gratitude, and the secret ingredient that makes everything Squint touches special: love.

Podcast #673 celebrates the guitar with honorees Raspberries, Leatherman, Values Here, Squint, Why Bother?, Outtacontroller, Obra Negra, & Netherfrost.

The time has finally come for us to cover Steve Taylor properly on the show. He's come up many times before so we're diving into his 1993 record, Squint, in honor of its 30th anniversary. Will we cross The Finish Line with both hands raised, or will we too buckle under these Curses? We spent some time on The Moshing Floor, and we're ready for that old-time Easy Listening.Visit colliderecords.com and use promo code “churchjamsnow” for 20% off your first purchase!If you like what you hear, please rate, review, subscribe, and follow!Connect with us here:Email: churchjamsnowpodcast@gmail.comIG: @churchjamsnowTwitter: @churchjamsnowFB: https://www.facebook.com/churchjamsnowpodcastPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/churchjamsnowpodcast

Greta's stuffed Octopus, Rashida Tlaib last week. Tons of calls on Religion: Islam, Koran, Bible, "truth," history, and IMMIGRANTS! The Hake Report, Tuesday, October 24, 2023 AD TIME STAMPS * (0:00:00) Start* (0:02:32) Topics: Greta's octopus, Rashida mess last week…* (0:04:38) DAVID, FL: Devalued dollar, Trump haters* (0:08:54) DAVID story: immigrants, early passing, giving* (0:14:34) DAVID rapture, Matt 24, Hake tunes out* (0:16:50) ALEX, TX: Bitcoin, scam, valued number on screen* (0:20:20) ALEX: Islam origin, vocal inflection, uptalk* (0:23:31) ALEX: External vs internal truth? Confidence, love* (0:28:02) Greta Thunberg's stuffed octopus* (0:32:13) Rashida Tlaib, Dr Omar Suleiman, hospital explosion (old)* (0:38:46) JAIME, MN: JLP interviews, Islam, Jewish writings* (0:47:48) JAIME: Corruption in the Bible?* (0:56:49) Joel Friday TV* (0:59:03) "Cash Cow (A Rock Opera in Three Small Acts)" - Steve Taylor (1995, Squint) * (1:05:17) ZEUS, FL: Bible convo, version, Ethiopian, Solomon* (1:16:40) Research, Gnosis, Gnosticism* (1:18:02) JESSE, GA: Islam, Abraham, Josephus, war, Dracula, Ethiopia* (1:28:01) CHUCK, NJ: Economy, Immigration, Oil, 10 Commandments* (1:46:04) Supers: Trump vs US haters. Fertility propaganda!* (1:51:23) HECTOR, NM: Nixon removed gold standard* (1:53:22) "Children, Children" - The Donut Man (2001, Praise Him)BLOG https://www.thehakereport.com/blog/2023/10/24/the-hake-report-tue-10-24-23 PODCAST by HAKE SubstackLive M-F 9-11 AM PT (11-1 CT / 12-2 ET) Call-in 1-888-775-3773 – thehakereport.com  VIDEO  YouTube  |  Rumble*  |  Facebook  |  X  |  BitChute  |  Odysee*  PODCAST  Apple  |  Spotify  |  Castbox  |  Substack  (RSS)  *SUPER CHAT on asterisked above, or  BuyMeACoffee  |  Streamlabs  |  Ko-fi  SUPPORT HAKE  Substack  |  SubscribeStar  |  Locals  ||  SHOP  Teespring  ALSO SEE  Hake News on The JLP Show  |  Appearances (other shows, etc.)  JLP Network:  JLP  |  Church  |  TFS  |  Hake  |  Nick  |  Joel  Get full access to HAKE at thehakereport.substack.com/subscribe

This week, Gaspare shares his revolutionary new co-teaching communication technique: The Squint Method. Meanwhile, Joe discovers a new button that will take the podcast to a whole new level, and the guys read the spookiest listener email yet.

THURSDAY HR 5 The K.O.D. - His highness contemplates a statue of himself. The City of Orlando wants ides to develop the space under I4 Monster Messages & Hot Takes Bring the cone heads back?

ESTHER 2:1-4 Thanks to everyone who supports TMBH at patreon.com/thetmbhpodcast You're the reason we can all do this together! Discuss the episode here Opening song, "A Premonition" from the album, "The Clamour and the Crash" by Jeff Foote

 I Don't Wanna Hear It Podcast221 - Deep Dives For Dummies: Epitaph Records (Part 1)We finally arrive at our punk rock ground zero: the almighty Epitaph Records. Mr. Brett created a crack-fueled juggernaut that fucked every major label right in their goddamn face for the entirety of the 1990's. This is their story. At least, according to us and our farts.Check out more of our stuff at I Don't Wanna Hear It and join the Patreon, jabroni. I mean, if you want. Don't be weird about it. Oh, and we publish books now at WND Press because we want to be bankrupted by a dying medium.We now have a Big Cartel where you can buy shirts, pins, mugs, and coffee.Also, you should listen to our 2021 Christmas special: A Black Metal Christmas Carol, our 2022 Halloween special: Ghoulie Ghoulie Ghoul, Where Are You?, our 2022 Christmas Special: How the Stench Stole Christmas, as well as Mikey's true crime podcast, Wasteland and Shane's psychology podcast, Why We Do What We Do.Aaannnddd... our good buddy and frequent third host Matt Moment is in a great hardcore band called Contact. Check 'em out! You can preorder their upcoming record, Before and Through and Beyond All Time right here from Patient Zero Records.Episode Links:For My SinsDomainSquintInto the Unknown by Bad ReligionSuffer by Bad Religion No Control by Bad ReligionRancid '93 by Rancid Against the Grain by Bad Religion White Trash, Two Heebs, and A Bean by NOFXSmash by The OffspringLet's Go by RancidPunk In Drublic by NOFX...And Out Come the Wolves by Rancid

Every creative has a dream project: something they'd love to do if they had infinite time and resources. But what if you got the chance to pull off that dream project, and it didn't succeed?  That's what happened to Steve Taylor, who poured himself into directing Blue Like Jazz, only to see a middling response at the theater. To him, that result felt like humiliation. This week, we hear about how his experience creating art for a living has changed his approach to success, risk-taking, and his own personal worth.  Filmmaker/writer/producer/recording artist/entrepreneur Steve Taylor earned his “Renaissance Man” stripes (Prism Magazine) from a body of work that's garnered him multiple Grammy, Billboard, Telly, Addy, and Dove awards and nominations. As a recording artist, he's sold over one million albums worldwide, garnered two Grammy nominations for Meltdown (1984) and Squint (1993), and made history as the only artist to twice win Billboard Music Video Awards for self-directed music videos. He also fronted the MCA-signed rock band Chagall Guevara.