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Expanding Beyond

Expanding Beyond

By: Monica Giambitto & Urban Hafner
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 Monica and Urban discuss their work life as developers and development managers.© 2025 Monica Giambitto, Urban Hafner Career Success Economics
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  • Episode 62: The one where we talk about AI

    Episode 62: The one where we talk about AI
    Jul 21 2025
    We finally have the in depth discussion about LLMs, how we use them, and what we think they might evolve into. We also touch on starting to pay more and more for stuff. Ask questions via our anonymous feedback form (https://forms.gle/MW8qZFD7RLYriqKj8) You can reach us via email at hosts@expandingbeyond.it (mailto:hosts@expandingbeyond.it). Where to find Monica on the internet: Website: monicag.me (https://monicag.me/) Bluesky: @nirnaeth.bsky.social (https://bsky.app/profile/nirnaeth.bsky.social) Mastodon: @nirnaeth@mastodon.online (https://mastodon.social/@nirnaeth@mastodon.online) Github: @nirnaeth (https://github.com/nirnaeth) Blog: dev.to/nirnaeth (https://dev.to/nirnaeth) Where to find Urban on the internet: Mastodon: @ujh@masto.ai (https://masto.ai/@ujh) Bluesky: @urbanhafner.bsky.social (https://bsky.app/profile/urbanhafner.bsky.social) Github: @ujh (https://github.com/ujh/) Blog: urbanhafner.com (https://urbanhafner.com/) The intro and outro music is Our Big Adventure (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Scott_Holmes/Happy_Music/Our_Big_Adventure) by Scott Holmes (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Scott_Holmes). It's licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
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    47 mins
  • Episode 61: Keep your database close

    Episode 61: Keep your database close
    Feb 24 2025
    It's side project time! Urban talks about moving a project from Heroku to fly.io and Monica starts volunteering her time to keep motivated. Fountain Pen Companion (https://www.fountainpencompanion.com/) FPC Github repository (https://github.com/ujh/fountainpencompanion/) fly.io (fly.io) LiteFS (https://fly.io/docs/litefs/) Pgvector (https://github.com/pgvector/pgvector) Vostel (https://vostel.de/) Freetown Christiania (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freetown_Christiania) Ask questions via our anonymous feedback form (https://forms.gle/MW8qZFD7RLYriqKj8) You can reach us via email at hosts@expandingbeyond.it (mailto:hosts@expandingbeyond.it). Where to find Monica on the internet: Website: monicag.me (https://monicag.me/) Bluesky: @nirnaeth.bsky.social (https://bsky.app/profile/nirnaeth.bsky.social) Mastodon: @nirnaeth@mastodon.online (https://mastodon.social/@nirnaeth@mastodon.online) Github: @nirnaeth (https://github.com/nirnaeth) Blog: dev.to/nirnaeth (https://dev.to/nirnaeth) Where to find Urban on the internet: Mastodon: @ujh@masto.ai (https://masto.ai/@ujh) Bluesky: @urbanhafner.bsky.social (https://bsky.app/profile/urbanhafner.bsky.social) Github: @ujh (https://github.com/ujh/) Blog: urbanhafner.com (https://urbanhafner.com/) The intro and outro music is Our Big Adventure (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Scott_Holmes/Happy_Music/Our_Big_Adventure) by Scott Holmes (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Scott_Holmes). It's licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
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    41 mins
  • Episode 60: Everyone is sick

    Episode 60: Everyone is sick
    Dec 18 2024
    Urban gets his AWS certificate and we discuss certifications in general and what they are good for. Especially in a B2B world. We also talk about project management and how no one seems to be in charge in a lot of places, as well as LLM generated code as yet another level of abstraction. Roles and Responsibilities retro (https://retromat.org/en/?id=146) Trillions by Robin Wigglesworth (https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/b554727d-69c4-4427-b66b-285f39f8b959) Dreamweaver (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Dreamweaver) AI Won't Fix the Fundamental Flaw of Programming (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82JpGhctWpU) Ask questions via our anonymous feedback form (https://forms.gle/MW8qZFD7RLYriqKj8) You can reach us via email at hosts@expandingbeyond.it (mailto:hosts@expandingbeyond.it). Where to find Monica on the internet: Website: monicag.me (https://monicag.me/) Bluesky: @nirnaeth.bsky.social (https://bsky.app/profile/nirnaeth.bsky.social) Mastodon: @nirnaeth@mastodon.online (https://mastodon.social/@nirnaeth@mastodon.online) Github: @nirnaeth (https://github.com/nirnaeth) Blog: dev.to/nirnaeth (https://dev.to/nirnaeth) Where to find Urban on the internet: Mastodon: @ujh@masto.ai (https://masto.ai/@ujh) Bluesky: @urbanhafner.bsky.social (https://bsky.app/profile/urbanhafner.bsky.social) Github: @ujh (https://github.com/ujh/) Blog: urbanhafner.com (https://urbanhafner.com/) The intro and outro music is Our Big Adventure (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Scott_Holmes/Happy_Music/Our_Big_Adventure) by Scott Holmes (https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Scott_Holmes). It's licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
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    50 mins
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