Mike Elsmore

Podcasts

I'm lucky enough to have had the chance to start a couple of podcasts, as well as appear as a guest on others.

My current personal hobby podcast is Tech: Off-topic which is usually every other week with my friend Jim Seconds.

Episodes

DevRel, DevEx and Video All The Things with Jake Ward

A first for Tech: Off-topic, our resident internet denizen Mike Elsmore gets to interview Jake Ward (https://x.com/Jacobmward), the CEO of Data Protocol (https://dataprotocol.com/).


Mike learned how Jake came up with the idea for Data Protocol, how he started it, and what it does. They also chatted about Developer Experience and learning and Developer Relations in general.

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Multitenancy, nerdom, and down with capitalism (even though it's how we earn money) with Ollie Read (@ollieread)

Hello 2024, it's Tech: Off-topic here! Mike (⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/ukmadlz⁠⁠⁠ ⁠https://mastodon.social/@ukmadlz⁠) has brought in Ollie Read (⁠⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/ollieread https://phpc.social/@ollieread) to talk tech and what's happened recently. However, that barely happens and the tangents are strong. We end up talking about:

  • Multitenancy in software (you can ask Ollie about that all you want)
  • RGB & Camera stuff (thanks to tech difficulties)
  • Gundam, Warhammer, and hobbyist "plastic crack"
  • Corporations and patent fights https://news.sky.com/story/apple-watch-to-lose-feature-after-us-court-reinstates-sales-ban-over-patent-dispute-13050692
  • Super rich (plenty of tech money) spending lots of money to build a city... https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/17/tech-billionaire-new-city-plan-california-forever-san-francisco
  • Pothole robots https://news.sky.com/story/hertfordshire-worlds-first-pothole-preventing-robot-to-hit-roads-in-test-rollout-13045036

This episode has plenty of side quest adventures so enjoy the chaos

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Stuart Langridge (@sil) is a true wonder of the world, off-topic is default setting!

Mike (⁠⁠https://twitter.com/ukmadlz⁠⁠ https://mastodon.social/@ukmadlz) and co-host Jim (https://twitter.com/secondej https://phpc.social/@SecondeJ) gather for the first time in a while and are joined by Stuart Langridge (https://twitter.com/sil https://mastodon.social/@sil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Langridge). The usual variety of social tech chat goes truly off the rails to the point where it's more teachable moments than tech discussion. But some of what we cover is:

The topics list was a lot longer, and this is all we got to. I think we hit a new level of off-topic with this episode, so enjoy.

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The one where Jim got replaced with Diana

Mike (https://twitter.com/ukmadlz) couldn't bring Jim with him to Japan so we replaced him with Diana (https://twitter.com/dianasoyster) and she was the best co-host/guest you could ask for! The one is a truly off-topic session, so much so that we didn't actually follow many of our starter points. But we did cover:

Enjoy the truly random conversation we had, we enjoyed having it

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What the heck does international tomato trolling have to do with time shares?

Mike (https://twitter.com/ukmadlz) and Jim (https://twitter.com/secondej) are at it again, did you miss the tangential chat? The odd directions the conversation goes in this episode are truly off-topic, but our starter topics are:

And the usual off-topic tangents.

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Big biz has been weird this month, let's talk about it

Mike (https://twitter.com/ukmadlz) and Jim (https://twitter.com/secondej) missed a few weeks due to life but they're back talking about some of the weird and terrible things that have happened in software land:

And the usual off-topic tangents.

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New year, same noise, but it is shenanigans

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TikToks, Tantrums, Leaks, and some Christmas Cheer with Steve Goode & Christopher Miller

Mike (https://twitter.com/ukmadlz) couldn't get Jim to come to play, so instead dragged along Chris Miller (https://twitter.com/ccmiller2018) and Steve Goode (https://twitter.com/sociablesteve1) to keep me company during this holiday episode:

And the usual off-topic tangents.

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Generative AI, Perpetual Late Stage Capitalism, and Naruto Running: A Conversation with guests Julia Biro and Eli Holderness

Mike (https://twitter.com/ukmadlz) and Jim (https://twitter.com/secondej) drag along Julia Biro (https://twitter.com/juliadoesthat) and Eli Holderness (https://twitter.com/EliHolderness) for a genuinely unruly and off-topic conversation. Any yes, one of the topics did generate the title of this episode:

And the usual off-topic tangents.

Bonus content: Mike did in fact break the chair and hurt himself https://twitter.com/EliHolderness/status/1601239042967801862

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Some spice and odd takes on events and open-source with Alistair Hey

Mike (https://twitter.com/ukmadlz) and Jim (https://twitter.com/secondej) have our usual chat and pseudo spicy takes, this episode with guest Alistair Hey (https://twitter.com/alistair_hey), and cover:

And the usual off-topic tangents.

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Every topic ends with Elon Musk and special guest Luke Browne

A quick note to start, sorry about the audio... teething problems with the new kit

Mike (https://twitter.com/ukmadlz) and Jim (https://twitter.com/secondej) have our usual chat and weird humour, this episode with guest Luke Browne (https://twitter.com/lukebrwne), and cover:

And the usual off-topic tangents.

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We predicted the future and discussing how some companies are just plain stupid

Mike and Jim have our usual chat and weird humour, this time we give our take on:

  • PHP gets a new web server, built-in Go! https://github.com/dunglas/frankenphp
  • Hey, pop the cloud, move to physical infrastructure
  • Pulumi get busted papering themselves all over Hashiconf
  • Canonical’s interview process - I’m sure we never discussed this and it came up recently
  • No Man’s Sky drops another enormous update. How are Hello Games making money
  • First Github Copilot litigation has arrived, as predicted on Tech: Off Topic.
  • The price of a Bratwurst and a beer at the Birmingham Christmas Market

And the usual off-topic tangents.

We did attempt to stay clear of politics…

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Something got burnt in the Oven.sh and reaffirming the Internet is a weird place to be

Mike and Jim have our usual chat and weird humour, this time we give our take on:

And the usual off-topic tangents.

PS Sorry Mike's mum for the introduction

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Tech tangents, memes, and a sprinkling of shiny new PHP

Mike and Jim have our usual chat and dark humour moments, but this time we also chat about interesting new tech.

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Buns and sports ball! Things are interesting here in Brum

Mike Elsmore & Jim Seconde can't help but talk about the commonwealth game, but we also have takes on bun.sh, latest layoffs, and evil corp.

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No crypto but plenty of tech bad takes

Mike Elsmore & Jim Seconde chat about all the things that have been happening in the tech space recently.

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Chatting about tech built on blockchain and a giggle along the way with Matt from RippleX

This is episode was an awesome chat with Matt Hamilton who is the Principle Developer Advocate from RippleX. Our chat covered his route into his current role, including the home experiments that got him to Ripple, as well as Mike learning a lot about Ripple and the XRP Ledger.

If you want to be part of the live recording and give opinions and ask a question, please just head to https://twitch.tv/ukmadlz and join the conversation.

If you have anything you'd like to follow up, or you'd like to be a guest at a later date, feel free to reach out to me on Twiter at https://twitter.com/ukmadlz

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What happened to the community and life around us with Hannah & Andy from Fusion

I had the amazing chance to have a nice chat with Hannah Jones & Andy Jones from The Fusion Group, you may have heard of a little thing they run called Fusion Meetup. During this chat, which we kept relatively short, we covered recruitment, the community in and around Birmingham (our shared city), and some of the transition for people working in tech over the last year or so.

If you want to be part of the live recording and give opinions and ask a question, please just head to https://twitch.tv/ukmadlz and join the conversation every other Friday at 3pm UK time.

If you have anything you'd like to follow up, or you'd like to be a guest at a later date, feel free to reach out to me on Twiter at https://twitter.com/ukmadlz

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Where databases, web monetisation, music, and a lions mane meet with Simon Metson

In this episode Tech: Off-topic, Mike Elsmore has Simon Metson, VP of Engineering at EDB get ever so nostalgic and then the conversation gets interesting. An amazing conversation unfolds talking about music, web monetisation (if interested check out https://coil.com/), and building stuff.

If you want to be part of the live recording and give opinions and ask a question, please just head to https://twitch.tv/ukmadlz and join the conversation every other Friday at 3pm UK time.

If you have anything you'd like to follow up, or you'd like to be a guest at a later date, feel free to reach out to me on Twiter at https://twitter.com/ukmadlz

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Tinkering with things on the internet with Marcus Noble

In this episode of Tech: Off-topic, Mike Elsmore has Marcus Noble, Principle Systems Engineer at Elsevier on for a conversation about tinkering. Over the course of the conversation we talk, home setups, IoT, Smart Home tech, and all roads seem to lead to a Kubernetes conversation.

If you want to be part of the live recording and give opinions and ask a question, please just head to https://twitch.tv/ukmadlz and join the conversation every other Friday at 3pm UK time.

If you have anything you'd like to follow up, or you'd like to be a guest at a later date, feel free to reach out to me on Twiter at https://twitter.com/ukmadlz

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Surviving Bootcamp, chatting to the amazing people graduating from the School of Code

In this episode of Tech: Off-topic, Mike Elsmore, a Developer Advocate at Logz.io, has a gaggle of bootcampers new and old from the School of Code in Birmingham to talk about the experience and everything around it from remote learning to the realities. The bootcampers involved were:

If you want to be part of the live recording and give opinions and ask a question, please just head to https://twitch.tv/ukmadlz and join the conversation every other Friday at 3pm UK time.

If you have anything you'd like to follow up, or you'd like to be a guest at a later date, feel free to reach out to me on Twiter at https://twitter.com/ukmadlz

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Unicorns, pictures, and internet from a bygone era with Lech Guzowski

In this episode of Tech: Off-topic, Mike Elsmore, a Developer Advocate at Logz.io, has Lech Guzowski, the man behind Human.pm, on for a chin wag and gentle heckling. We talk tech, a tiny bit of politics, and just have a giggle ridiculous things happening at the moment. 

If you want to be part of the live recording and give opinions and ask a question, please just head to https://twitch.tv/ukmadlz and join the conversation every other Friday at 3pm UK time. 

If you have anything you'd like to follow up, or you'd like to be a guest at a later date, feel free to reach out to me on Twiter at https://twitter.com/ukmadlz

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Happy Techmas! 2020 Gift Roast

In this episode of Tech: Off-topic, Mike Elsmore, a Developer Advocate at Logz.io, and co-host James Seconde, also a Developer Advocate at Jump24 decided to roast tech gifts. Earlier in the month, we asked the internet to suggest the worst tech gifts they could think of and we decided to give eight of them the once over. In no particular order, here they are and you can judge for yourself:


Also, we mentioned the Fusion Community Discord, if you like the Fusion meetups etc help to maintain the community over at https://discord.gg/pCejkYXYsr

If you want to be part of the live recording and give opinions and ask a question, please just head to https://twitch.tv/ukmadlz and join the conversation every other Friday at 3pm UK time.

If you have anything you'd like to follow up, or you'd like to be a guest at a later date, feel free to reach out to me or Jim at the links below:

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Protocols, fire, and corporate overlords with Jon Kingsley

In this episode of Tech: Off-topic, Mike Elsmore, a Developer Advocate at Logz.io, and co-host James Seconde, also a Developer Advocate at Jump24 just chat about some interesting stuff that's happened recently. This episode we were joined by Jon Kingsley who's a Software/Hardware Engineer (genuine builder of many random things…), and we chat about everything from start-ups and protocols, meetups, past Kingsley adventures, and even some on our corporate overlords.

If you want to be part of the live recording and give opinions and ask a question, please just head to https://twitch.tv/ukmadlz and join the conversation every other Friday at 3pm UK time.

If you have anything you'd like to follow up, or you'd like to be a guest at a later date, feel free to reach out to me or Jim at the links below:

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Kerbal SpaceX

In this episode of Tech: Off-topic, Mike Elsmore, a Developer Advocate at Logz.io, and co-host James Seconde, also a Developer Advocate at Jump24 just chat about some interesting stuff that's happened recently. We chat about start-ups, outages, space, and our home town of Birmingham (BHX).

We also mention some events coming up, here are the links:

If you want to be part of the live recording and give opinions and ask a question, please just head to https://twitch.tv/ukmadlz and join the conversation every other Friday at 3pm UK time.

If you have anything you'd like to follow up, or you'd like to be a guest at a later date, feel free to reach out to me or Jim at the links below:

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Start talking before the year gets cancelled

The first episode of Tech: Off-topic, Mike Elsmore, a Developer Advocate at Logz.io, and co-host James Seconde, also a Developer Advocate at Jump24 just chat about some interesting stuff that's happened recently.

We also mention some events coming up, here are the links:

  1. Introduction to Distributed Systems (.NET Core) with Dylan Beattie, November 19th https://www.eventbrite.com/e/introduction-to-distributed-systems-net-core-with-dylan-beattie-tickets-119602742021
  2. Communication for Software Teams, November 24th - 27th https://www.eventbrite.com/e/communication-for-software-teams-tickets-120395206303

If you want to be part of the live recording and give opinions and ask a question, please just head to https://twitch.tv/ukmadlz and join the conversation every other Friday at 3pm UK time.

If you have anything you'd like to follow up, or you'd like to be a guest at a later date, feel free to reach out to me or Jim at the links below:

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