I've been trying to figure out how to communicate Podcasts and links that I found to be informational or interesting but I don't want to clutter up my site with junk so I'm going to start creating roundups every month so I can still communicate these but not have 100 one link posts.

FLOSS

#335 Taiga.io

This sounds like a really interesting Agile project management system. I've created an account and it looks amazing.

This Week In Startups

Episode: 543: LAUNCH Incubator 2: Des Traynor, Cofounder Intercom, on product vision, roadmap, virality, & everything you need to know for "Starting Up"

This is a really interesting presentation about a bunch of topics that are important if you're creating a project. I've listened to it twice and I'll keep coming back to it. I might even listen to it again and post my notes. It was packed with information.

Sound of Symfony

Episode 7 - Talking about tools

An overview of various tools use in PHP development. I'm always looking for better tools to improve my work.

Episode 8 - Concerning command buses

An interesting overview of command buses.

HANSELMINUTES PODCAST

Accessibility (a11y) with OpenDirective's Steve Lee

TIL a11y = Accessibility because it starts with an "a", ends with a "y", and has 11 characters in between.

Accessibility is one of those things that I think I should do more with but never do. I'm really going to make it a goal to get my stuff together and test my sites for accessibility.

Saving Bletchley Park with Dr. Sue Black

Bletchley Park is where Turing helped create the computer that broke the Enigma. This interview talks to one of the people who was involved in converting it to a mueseum and clears up some inaccuracies in The Imitation Game (a great movie if you haven't seen it yet)

Diversity Hiring

We just finished hiring a new programmer at Zimco and almost all of the candidates we got were white men (a lot of that is due to our office's location in Mid-Michigan). It was interesting to hear two separate podcasts that discussed diversity hiring within as many days.

  1. Stack Exchange Podcast #64: Diverse Hiring and a Cat Named Alan Turing
  2. Improving Diversity in Tech with Ashe Dryden & Faruk Ateş