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ctrl-alt-expletive

Mark McCracken & Michael McCarthy

Episodes 16
Avg. Duration 1h 25m
Activity Dormant
Since Nov 2024
Latest Episode Jun 2025

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Join us for a laid back catch up on what's going on in the world of software, enterprise business, news for software and tech, and miscellaneous bureaucracy.

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Episode 16: FinOps, with Alison McIntyre

Jun 13, 2025 1h 32m

Alison McIntyre, Director of Cloud Economics at Capgemini gives us a tour of modern FinOps, and the state of FinOps report Michael is investigating Liberating Structures Mark doesn't know what a…

Episode 15: Working with Neurodiversity, with Chris Knight

Mar 29, 2025 1h 35m

Chris Knight, Head of Data & AI Demand, Delivery & Financial Operations, talks about his work life, and dealing with Neurodivergence Mark has been fiddling around with Kit and automation…

Episode 14: DevOps, Platform Engineering and Site Reliability Engineering, with Dave McNeill

Mar 21, 2025 1h 15m

We have the long awaited and hugely experienced Dave McNeill, talking all things Operations, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, tales of incidents, working in a startup…

Episode 13: Scaled Agile processes and stories, with Raxit Ramani

Mar 14, 2025 1h 12m

We've got Raxit Ramani, a highly experienced Agile Coach and Project Manager talking about Scaled Agile, SAFe, Stories of things being wrong, and how different government bodies have operated in the…

Episode 12: Engineering Management, with Director of Engineering Sam Jones

Feb 24, 2025 1h 18m

We've got Director of Engineering Sam Jones talking all things Engineering Management. How to get into it, how she stays organised, great books to learn from, and how she approaches the challenges of…

Episode 11: Tech for Good: Games for Kids in Hospital, with creative director Nikki Stearman

Feb 21, 2025 1h 7m

We've got BAFTA winning Creative Director Nikki Stearman, talking about tech for good. She shares her experience designing and crafting experiences for children who are about to go to hospital, to…

Episode 10: Career Changes and Coding Bootcamps, with Chris Hunter

Feb 08, 2025 1h 27m

Michael keeps up with his "listen to 100 albums in a year" resolution. Mark has a weights rack of shame. Chris fails dry Jan by a matter of days. There's a 1% chance we'll all be mush anyway. GIVE…

Episode 9: Contracting Insights, with Marie Wigmore

Jan 31, 2025 1h 27m

Michael has caved and got a new microphone, China are back in the news, and we've got a better joke than last time. Michael is on the super stouts Marie is doing dry "couple-of-days" What's a…

Episode 8: Data Lakehouse and Data Mesh, with James Balloch

Jan 24, 2025 1h 36m

What does James do? Is Sky a big company? What's your favourite file format to read from? Favourite format of book to digest? East London vs. West London What even is Burns Night? Deep fried battered…

Episode 7: Executive Strategy and Execution, with Georgia Smith

Jan 15, 2025 1h 27m

After an extended break, our first episode of the year is here! CES 2025 has come and been Michael thinks about persuading his cats to come to work I want to charge my phone in 5 econds Are we…

Episode 6: Recruitment, and starting a company, with Jean-Paul Ashby

Dec 20, 2024 1h 40m

We've got Jean-Paul Ashby, a.k.a. JP, a recruiter, director, entrepreneur, talking about all things recruitment, CVs, interviews, and more Lenny Visits Wayde Michael finishes the last Espresso…

Episode 5: Data Center Repatriation, with Ian Reeves

Dec 13, 2024 1h 17m

It's become less surprising as the weeks fly by that we're still doing it. Ian gives us his tooling preferences and why. Cynic to advocate for public cloud The phones are ringing off the hooks,…

Episode 4: Technical Diagrams, and Breaking Prod Leaderboard

Dec 06, 2024 1h 36m Transcript

We're still here for number 4. We add some jingles and an intro. Michael gets third party confirmation that he's old All the guests have mugged us off, so it's just Michael and I Mark predicts the…

Episode 3: Home Automations, with Fredrik Alm

Nov 29, 2024 1h 28m Transcript

We've got Fredrik Alm, Infrastructure Architect from Sweden on, to talk about Smart Home setups. Michael goes on mute, leading to widespread panic DIY Dishwasher APIs Everyone hates JFrog, but not…

Episode 2: Discovering AI on your career break, with Mitan Patel

Nov 22, 2024 1h 25m Transcript

We're back for episode two! We've got an old friend, Mitan Patel as our guest this week. Mitan tells us about his career break. We chat about AI tools. Mark reviews the last recommendations,…

Episode 1: Imposter Syndrome, with Jess O'Neill

Nov 14, 2024 1h 22m Transcript

We're live! How early is too early for the Christmas Tree? How many plugs is the right number of plugs for your workspace? Who even are these people? Imposter syndrome is our big topic Who are…

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