The ZADevChat Podcast

At the end of every episode we all get a turn to present a few picks. These can be serious or comical, technical or analogue, or anything else really.

We hope you enjoy this selection of mostly random links! If you find something useful please let us know!

73 - Let's Test with Louise Perold

• Louise
  • Quality Software book bundle by Gerald M Weinberg
• Len
  • NVIDIA DGX Station
• Kenneth
  • A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

72 - Ladies that UX with Inez, Ridhwana & Lara

• Inez
  • UCOOK
  • Simple Habit
• Lara
  • UX Strategy
  • Design Kit
• Ridhwana
  • Sketch
  • InVision
  • Egghead
  • Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
• Chantal
  • 10 Usability Heuristics for User Interface Design
  • git it gurl t-shirt
• Kenneth
  • Pink-IT with Ruddy Riba
  • Sim Daltonism
  • Prototype on Paper
• Kevin
  • Clubhouse
  • You-Dont-Know-Js
  • Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems

71 - Is intelligence just an algorithm? With Jade Abbott

• Jade
  • Kaggle
  • Sunspring | A Sci-Fi Short Film
  • Creativity: how is AI impacting this human skill?
• Chantal
  • For Computers, Too, It's Hard to Learn to Speak Chinese
• Kenneth
  • Westworld
• Len
  • Instaparse

69 - Pink-IT with Ruddy Riba

• Ruddy
  • Go Programming Language
  • Pink-IT
• Chantal
  • Tracy Chou / @triketora
  • Sailor Mercury / @sailorhg
• Kenneth
  • #ILookLikeAnEngineer
  • Diversify who you follow on Twitter to gain different perspectives!
  • Wonder Woman (2017)
  • Amazing Twitter thread on Wonder Woman costumes

67 - The Imposter Within with Clarice Bouwer

• Chantal
  • Accidentally destroyed production database on first day of a job, and was told to leave, on top of this i was told by the CTO that they need to get legal involved, how screwed am i?
• Clarice
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• Kenneth Kalmer
  • Shots of Awe

62 - Data of all shapes & sizes with Gail Shaw

• Gail
  • Kaggle
  • Microsoft Research
• Len
  • TensorFlow
• Chantal
  • Boomerang for Gmail
• Kenneth
  • Theory of Everything

61 - Provincial wifi & Docker in production with Tim Haak

• Kenneth
  • Tariffic
  • Pink-I.T
• Kevin
  • Datadog
• Tim
  • Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
  • Docker Swarm

60 - Software, wearables & biltong with Lance Gleason

• Kenneth
  • Loxton Lager
  • Borderlands
• Kevin
  • The Ultimate Guide to Building Database-Driven Apps with Go
• Chantal
  • rAge Expo
  • Earth View from Google Earth
  • Chanel's Data Center Collection by Karl Lagerfeld
• Lance
  • MbientLab
  • NodeMcu
  • Purr Programming

59 - Morgan 3D Printers with Quentin Harley

• Len
  • OneOps by WalmartLabs
  • Electrode
• Kenneth
  • Art of Synergy

58 - Kevin Trethewey on building Driven Alliance

• Kenneth
  • Code Retreat
• Kevin
  • Google Cloud Platform
• Chantal
  • Have I been pwned?
  • KeyPass
• Kevin Trethewey
  • Scott Adams: How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big

57 - Pycon ZA and the Local Python Community

• Kevin
  • 144Hz monitors for gaming
  • Ubuntu Desktop Linux
• Chantal
  • TYCHO
• Kenneth
  • The Hundred-Foot Journey
  • FOKOFPOLISIEKAR
  • Rokoff CD+DVD
  • MK Hoordosis
• Simon
  • Conflict-free Replicated Data Type, or CRDT
• Simon & Neil
  • Sphinx documentation
  • Read the Docs
• David
  • Radiooooo

56 - After-dark banter with Simon Stewart

• Simon
  • Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley
• Kenneth
  • 22seven
  • Productive
• Chantal
  • Classic Programmer Paintings
• Len
  • µLisp
• Kevin
  • intermezzOS

55 - Machine Learning with Guillaume Belrose

• Guillaume
  • Batman and Ethan
  • Neural Networks and Deep Learning
  • Chasing Cats
• Len
  • Yetibot
• Chantal
  • DESIGN HACKERS
• Kenneth
  • Deep Learning for Java
  • The Man Who Knew Infinity

54 - Trail Running with Armand du Plessis

• Kenneth
  • Big Red Barn (trail runs & mountain biking)
  • Zombies, run!
• Kevin
  • Ubuntu
• Armand
  • Cape Town Running Company Wolfpack Trails
  • Kibana

53 - Segfault E_TOO_MUCH_COMPUTE

• Kevin
  • Humanscale Float desk
• Len
  • Immutant

52 - A Series of Long Conversations with Mike Hewitson

• Kenneth
  • Pokémon Go
• Len
  • SuperCollider
• Mike
  • "Learning Mindset" (Mindset by Carol Dweck)
  • Wacaco Minipresso
  • Adventures in Angular

51 - Who still needs a tester?

• Kenneth
  • How much does the president really matter? (Rebroadcast)
• Kevin
  • Blameless PostMortems and a Just Culture
• Janco
  • C2 Wiki
  • Refactoring by Martin Fowler
  • No Silver Bullet
• Oz
  • Software Craftsmanship: The New Imperative
  • @HistoryInPics
  • Let's Test South Africa 2-4 Oct 2016

50 - Frolicking Down Memory Lane

• Kevin
  • Everyones playing Pokemon again, blink 182 has a #1 song, a Clinton's running for president, Tarzan in theaters. Welcome to 2001
  • Dell UltraSharp U2415 Monitor
• Kenneth
  • Machete by Amanda Palmer
• Len
  • Prometheus 1.0
• Pieter
  • Alfred
  • Dash
• Steven
  • Pokemon GO
  • Until Dawn
  • NLP for Rookies

48 - Datomic with Robert Stuttaford

• Robert
  • "Learning Mindset" (Mindset by Carol Dweck)
  • Lego

47 - React and Redux through a fresh pair of eyes with Taariq Isaacs

• Taariq
  • The SoundCloud Client in React + Redux
• Kevin
  • Untappd
  • Fuller's Honey Dew golden ale
• Kenneth
  • AeroPress Coffee Maker
  • Able DISK Coffee Filter

46 - Prolific Idea(s) with Rishal Hurbans

• Kenneth
  • Dremel 4000 rotary tool
  • Dremel Versatip
• Kevin
  • Griffin Elevator
• Rishal
  • Code Off - new challenge almost every week
  • Monthly AI Meetup
  • Hivemind

45 - Angular 2 with Mike Geyser

• Kenneth
  • JavaScript Jabber 209 TypeScript with Anders Hejlsberg
• Len
  • Falcor
• Mike
  • Tern
  • The ng-show: Angular 2

44 - Accessibility with Steve Barnett & Justin Slack

• Kenneth
  • GAAD in the Ember Community
  • ember-a11y
  • f.lux
  • Night shift on iOS
• Len
  • Datomic
• Steve
  • Tenon
• Justin
  • NVDA Screen Reader
  • HTML5 Outliner

41 - Infrastructure As Code with Charlene Tshitoka

• Kevin
  • Unit testing
  • Test first
• Kenneth
  • AfrikaBurn
• Charlene
  • Look at your infrastructure as code and give it the same tender love & care as your normal production code.

40 - The Swift Programming Language with Simon Stewart

• Simon
  • John Sculley's book autobiography at Apple Odyssey
• Len
  • Gluu (OAuth2 Server)
• Kevin
  • Fearless

39 - Android with Rebecca Franks

• Kenneth
  • AfrikaBurn
• Len
  • Durable Queue
• Rebecca
  • Android Weekly
  • Riggaroo blog
• Kevin
  • Evening of Mastery
  • Clean Code
  • The Clean Coder
  • Working Effectively with Legacy Code
  • Refactoring
  • The Deep Synergy between Testability and Good Design

38 - Testing with Joshua Lewis

• Kenneth
  • pacto
• Len
  • miniKanren - Dan Friedman and William Byrd

37 - Data Visualization with Jeff Fletcher

• Kevin
  • Episode 26 - Open Data and Civic Hacking with Jason Norwood-Young
• Kenneth
  • Information is Beautiful
  • Minard's visualization of Napoleon's March
  • Among the Oscar Contenders, a Host of Connections
• Len
  • Johannesburg Clojure Meetup
• Jeff
  • The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
  • OECD Better Life Index
  • Real time global wind map

36 - Sisonke Rising with Mandla Magagula and Theo Bohnen

• Kenneth
  • Bounce
  • CityROCK
• Len
  • Suture - Supervision Trees for Go
• Theo
  • Extreme Programming Explained
  • Crucial Conversations
  • A Way with Words
• Mandla
  • elm - the best of functional programming in your browser

33 - Web Frontend Performance with Mannuel Ferreira

• Kevin
  • statsd
  • Chrome Developer Tools
• Kenneth
  • High Performance Browser Networking
• Mannuel
  • CSS Stats
  • Big Rig
  • SpeedCurve

32 - PHP with Etienne Marais

• Build
  • Lumen
  • Laracasts
  • Terraform by Hashicorp
• Kevin
  • Kubernetes
• Len
  • Semantic UI

31 - PolarbearJS and 12Factor Apps with Ben Janecke

• Kenneth
  • Ember.js NYC, Feb 2016: ember-concurrency (from 1:07:42)
  • ember-concurrency: the solution to so many problems you never knew you had
• Ben
  • Rambda
  • Eric Elliott: The Two Pillars of JavaScript
  • Eric Elliott: 10 Interview Questions Every JavaScript Developer Should Know
• Kevin
  • Cordies on Quirky

29 - The Spine Model with Danie Roux and Kevin Trethewey

• Kevin
  • Russell L. Ackoff
  • Coding Horror: The Book
• Danie
  • Freedom from Command and Control: A Better Way to Make the Work Work
  • Lean Enterprise: How High Performance Organizations Innovate at Scale
  • The Nature of Software Development
• Kenneth
  • How to Build Stable Systems

28 - Hardware Hacking At House4Hack with Toby Kurien

• Kevin
  • Johnny-Five
  • Arduino Starter Kit
• Kenneth
  • Lanseria Airport
  • Adafruit Learn Arduino Series
• Toby
  • Hacker News
  • uMatrix browser addon
  • Detect and disconnect WiFi cameras in that AirBnB you're staying in
• Len
  • Lichess

27 - Clojure with Robert Stuttaford

• Kenneth
  • Simple Made Easy by Rich Hickey
• Len
  • Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
  • SICP Lecture Videos
• Robert
  • emacs
  • Mindfulness meditation
  • Tim Ewald - Clojure: Programming with Hand Tools
• Kevin
  • Spacemacs
  • Coggle

26 - Open Data And Civic Hacking with Jason Norwood-Young

• Kenneth
  • Bounce
  • The Revenant
• Len
  • WolfenGo
• Kevin
  • Pocket

25 - Indie Game Development with Ben Myres and Sean Goncalves

• Kevin
  • Daniel Smith (@jellym4nn) - RubyGL talk at Rubyfuza 2016
• Kenneth
  • Buffer
  • Humble Bundle
• Ben
  • Thomas was Alone
  • The floor is jelly
  • Ludum Dare
  • No Man's Sky
• Sean
  • GIMP
  • Blender
  • Twine

24 - The Rust Programming Language

• Kevin
  • Motherland coffee
• Kenneth
  • CityRock

23 - Devconf ZA with Rob Maclean

• Kenneth
  • Programming Elixir by Dave Thomas
• Len
  • Org Mode for emacs
• Robert
  • David Wong
  • Devconf ZA website
• Kevin
  • Game Programming Patterns

21 - Ansible, DevOps And Automation

• Andre
  • Sysadmin Advent
• Gabriel
  • Let's Encrypt
• Kenneth
  • Ulysses App
  • SE Radio episode on Continuous Delivery
• Kevin
  • WeeChat IRC Client
  • Let's Encrypt
• Len
  • Rundeck

20 - Buildstuff.lt with Pieter Germishuys

• Kevin
  • Atom
  • Rubyfuza 2016
• Kenneth
  • etcd
• Len
  • 99 Bottles of Beer
• Pieter
  • Buildstuff conference
  • Babun shell
  • Terraform
  • Packer

19 - iHub Kenya with Kennedy Kirui

• Kevin
  • The Go Programming Language
• Kenneth
  • Sentry
• Kennedy
  • Readme
• Len
  • The Explorer's Guild

18 - Elixir with Simon van Dyk and Theo Bohnen

• Simon
  • Programming Elixir (book by Dave Thomas)
  • Pundit Ruby gem
• Kenneth
  • GetSentry for error monitoring
  • Kubernetes
• Kevin
  • CodeRetreat South African meetup page
  • The Clean Coder (book by Uncle Bob Martin)

17 - CouchDB with Garren Smith

• Len
  • Learn Python the Hard Way
• Kenneth
  • Netflix Scaling
  • Netflix Culture
  • Ember-Pouch adapter
• Kevin
  • Visual6502 emulator
  • Easy6502 Assembly tutorial
• Garren
  • CouchDB
  • PouchDB
  • NPM Browser
  • Hoodie

16 - Usergroups, Conferences And Community with Gabriel Fortuna

• Kenneth
  • Samson Meteor Mic
  • Meetup
• Gabriel
  • A podcast where musicians take apart their songs, and piece by piece, tell the story of how they were made.
  • Star Wars Sphero Droid
  • Rubyfuza 2016 CFP site
• Kevin
  • Steelseries Sensei
  • Neat Bumblebee Mic

15 - Code Retreat and Mob Programming with Martin Cronje

• Len
  • The Orbit in Braamfontein (Go support local music!)
• Kenneth
  • Kubernetes
  • Stellenbrau Jonkers Weiss
• Kevin
  • Extreme Programming Explained

10 - University Education for Developers

• Len
  • Piezo audio recorder for OSX
• Steven
  • Build2015

8 - CSharp 6, Roslyn and Open Source

• Len
  • .Net Repo on GitHub
  • C# Design Meeting Notes
• Rob
  • Apple Core
  • Build
  • InterviewZen
• Pieter
  • SpaceMacs
• Gordon
  • GitHub Large Binary Support
• Steve
  • ReThink DB 2.0

6 - Team Zero One

• Len
  • Ansible
• Kenneth
  • Shush
  • Team Zero One!
• Gabriel
  • GTD 2015 revision
  • MonoDraw
  • AOL Reader
  • Leech Block
  • StayFocused
• Ridhwana
  • EggscellentApp
• Steven
  • Tom Dale: Stop Breaking the Web

5 - Long running teams with Paul Sainsbury

• Steve
  • Game of Thrones Episode 3 by TellTalegames
  • The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni
• Pieter
  • Vagrant
• Paul
  • MeteorJS
  • Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

4 - DI With Len Weincier

• Len
  • Go
  • Atom Editor
• Steven
  • Ruby Rogues Ep 200

3 - EmberJS with Kenneth Kalmer

• Kenneth
  • Ember.land podcast
  • EmberConf Keynote
  • EmberConf 2015 TDD by example
  • Rock 'n Roll with Ember.js
  • Untappd
• Pieter
  • ZA Developers Slack Team
• Steve
  • Rob Conery's Mastering your own Domain course