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Let’s talk about adulting— actual adulting. Not just paying bills or keeping a houseplant alive, but the kind that involves emotional maturity, healthy boundaries, and conscious self-leadership. Because let’s be honest, most of us weren’t taught how to be fully functioning adults… and it shows. Joining us is Michelle Chalfant , licensed therapist turned holistic life coach, creator of The Adult Chair® model, and author of the new book The Adult Chair: Get Unstuck, Claim Your Power, and Transform Your Life . With millions reached through her podcast, coaching programs, and retreats, she’s here to walk us through the five pillars of being a healthy, grounded adult. Here’s the truth: being an adult isn’t about checking boxes or pretending you’re fine. It’s about owning your truth. Feeling your feelings. Practicing compassion without letting yourself off the hook. It’s about setting firm boundaries—with no need for justification—and recognizing that your triggers are not flaws, they’re clues. None of us were handed a guidebook for how to grow up emotionally. We inherited patterns from people who were figuring it out as they went. But what Michelle shares today is empowering: it’s never too late to unlearn what no longer serves you and become the adult you were meant to be. Whether you’re starting this work or knee-deep in your personal development era, this episode will meet you where you are—and help you move forward with clarity, self-trust, and strength. Connect with Michelle: Website: https://theadultchair.com/ Book: https://theadultchair.com/book IG: https://www.instagram.com/themichellechalfant/?hl=en FB: https://www.facebook.com/@TheMichelleChalfant/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/michellechalfant Related Podcast Episodes: How To Build Emotionally Mature Leaders with Dr. Christie Smith | 272 Boundaries vs. Ultimatums with Jan & Jillian Yuhas | 297 Gentleness: Cultivating Compassion for Yourself and Others with Courtney Carver | 282 Share the Love: If you found this episode insightful, please share it with a friend, tag us on social media, and leave a review on your favorite podcast platform! 🔗 Subscribe & Review: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

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Creating YAML with Ingy döt Net 1:04:48

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Today's history lesson is about the non-markup language platform engineers love to hate, YAML Ain't Markup Language (YAML). Ingy tells us all about how and why it started, how it evolved over time, and what's happening next with YS. Note: sorry about the audio issues in this episode. We did our best to clean it up. Links: https://helmys.org/ https://yamlscript.org/ https://exercism.org/ https://yamlscript.org/ingydotnet/…

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Writing bugs with K.S. Bhaskar 59:08

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It's easy to talk about everything when you've been writing software for half a century. Bhaskar has some amazing insights from his impressive career building software using everything from punch cards to AI. If you like learning about the past to understand the future, this is an episode you don't want to miss. Links YottaDB https://yottadb.com…

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MCPing in the Open with Angie Jones 58:05

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Angie gives us a crash course on Model Context Protocol (MCP) and how you can get started using it with goose. We also talk about other projects Angie's worked on at Block and what drives her to keep learning new things in tech. Links Angie's website: https://angiejones.tech Goose https://github.com/block/goose Angie's Modern Day Mashups talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZbXq5qu55U…

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Motivated to Learn with Adriana Villela 1:14:19

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After 25 years in tech it’s hard not to coast. Adriana has come from writing word docs for the ops team to deploy software, through Devops, and now has a focus on OTel and Kubernetes. How do we get more people from 100 to 400 levels and why is there no content in between? And why we need junior engineers to make our senior engineers better. Links Bluefin wallpapers https://github.com/ublue-os/packages/tree/main/packages/bluefin/wallpapers Justin’s talk with balloons and a spreadsheet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0mWGaBawR8 Adriana on Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/adrianamvillela.bsky.social…

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Recovering from Disaster with Seth Eliot 1:02:13

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Disaster recovery is more than automation and infrastructure. There's a lot that goes into your services and some of those things can't be defined as code or automated. When was the last time you restored your database from a backup? How do you use least privileged access when your region changes and how do you even know you're having a disaster. Seth has a lot of experience and a ton of good insights in this episode. Links Seth’s Linktree https://linktr.ee/setheliot arpio https://arpio.io/services/ EKS Auto example repo https://community.aws/content/2sV2SNSoVeq23OvlyHN2eS6lJfa/amazon-eks-auto-mode-enabled-build-your-super-powered-cluster Disaster recovery white paper https://docs.aws.amazon.com/whitepapers/latest/disaster-recovery-workloads-on-aws/disaster-recovery-workloads-on-aws.html Disaster recovery blog series https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/architecture/tag/disaster-recovery-series/ Ship it! with Pete Naylor https://changelog.com/shipit/127 Engineering Resilient Systems on AWS by Jennifer Moran https://www.amazon.com/Engineering-Resilient-Systems-AWS-Resilience/dp/1098162420 Four Things Everyone Should Know About Resilience https://community.aws/content/2duX45O6vKOE7cmmXQ9Nj3tO3bL/should-know-resilience…

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Building a Datacenter with Jake Cooper 1:03:41

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Railway wanted to build a better cloud so they started on Google Cloud and ended up building datacenters. Through the burden of success, they figured out there was a lot of things they had to learn and build themselves if they wanted to offer the best cloud experience they could. Jake tells us how they accomplished the move in 9 months, why the built their own orchestrator, and what they’re working on next. Check out Railway at https://railway.com/ and their blog at https://blog.railway.com. Specifically read the post discussed in this episode. https://blog.railway.com/p/data-center-build-part-one…

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Staying Curious with Scott Hanselman 42:16

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You can't grow in technology without learning new things. But sometimes those new things are actually old things. We talk with Scott about a wide range of interests about software, video games, 3D printing, and food. If you want to know why junior engineers are important for your teams you need to listen. Highlights (0:00) What makes good engineers? (12:00) Vibe coding (19:00) Doom scrolling with intention (24:00) Making vs buying (26:00) Praising hard work (30:00) Loss of empathy Links Scott's website: https://www.hanselman.com/ Hanselminutes Podcast: https://hanselminutes.com/ Scott and Mark Learn to... Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0M0zPgJ3HSf4XZvYgZPUXgSrfzBN26pf…

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Vectorizing Your Databases with Steve Pousty 1:14:10

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What exactly is an LLM doing and why do you need to learn so many new terms? Steve Pousty is here to explain that most of those new terms are things you already know. It’s not new technology, it’s new words to describe technologies applied in a new field. We have a wild, ADHD roller coaster looping through embeddings, vectors, RAG, and LLMs. Make sure to keep your hands and arms inside the pod for this one. Chapters (0:00) Intro (9:00) Embeddings (19:00) Graph DB vs Vector DB (21:00) Vector Algebra (36:00) Open Source (41:00) Vector databases (51:00) What is RAG? (58:00) What is an LLM doing? (1:08:00) Dating advice Links • 🦋Steve on Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/thesteve0.bsky.social • ▶️ Steve on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@thesteve0 • 📍Voxel 51 https://voxel51.com/ • 🎮 Vector algebra game https://neal.fun/infinite-craft/ • 📘The Alignment Problem https://www.amazon.com/Alignment-Problem-Machine-Learning-Values/dp/0393635821 • 🎥 Mitchells vs The Machines https://www.netflix.com/title/81399614 • 📀 MNIST dataset https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MNIST_database • 📝 What ChatGPT is not https://blog.techravenconsulting.com/what-chatgpt-is-not/ • 📝 Why I am excited about ChatGPT https://blog.techravenconsulting.com/why-i-am-excited-about-chatgpt/…

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Testing Your Performance with Ada Lundhe 1:13:22

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How Rachel Ray’s crawler lead to Ada developing a new performance testing framework, hyperscale. This leads to a great conversation about the benefits of rust, modern python package managers, and why MySpace went out of business. The importance of connecting what you’re building to business value and understanding every line of code has a cost. Show Highlights (0:00) Intro (8:00) Rachel Ray crawler (15:00) Performance testing (20:00) Moving in to tech (31:00) Hyperscale and uv (39:00) Does memory safety matter? (43:00) Datavant (54:00) Connecting performance to business (1:02:00) Spicy takes Links Referenced Performance testing tools: https://locust.io/ https://k6.io/ https://github.com/hyper-light/hyperscale Modern Python packaging: https://github.com/astral-sh/uv FAFO starter pack: https://go.bsky.app/LqoyyNq Sponsor FAFO at https://fafo.fm/sponsor…

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Getting to Know Kafka with Elad Eldor 56:36

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Is running Kafka on-prem different than running it in the cloud? You’ll find out from Elad Eldor’s years of experience running, tuning, and troubleshooting Kafka in production environments. Elad didn’t set out to learn Kafka, but he kept asking questions and was given the opportunity to dive deep into system performance. He not only knows what all the columns of iostat mean, he knows what his customers want. Make sure to subscribe to this topic on all your consumers. Show Highlights (0:00) Intro (9:30) Why do people use Kafka (15:00) Learning cloud vs on-prem (18:30) Kafka vs Linux troubleshooting (27:00) scaling clusters (38:00) How to get started Links Referenced Elad’s book: Kafka Troubleshooting in Production https://www.amazon.com/Kafka-Troubleshooting-Production-Stabilizing-premises-ebook/dp/B0CJ4FSGMD Systems Performance book by Brendan Gregg https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2020-07-15/systems-performance-2nd-edition.html Kafka: The Definitive Guide book by Neha Narkhede https://www.amazon.com/Kafka-Definitive-Real-Time-Stream-Processing/dp/1491936169 Sponsor https://www.softwaredefinedtalk.com Sponsor FAFO at https://fafo.fm/sponsor…

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FAFO Live with Sam Rose 51:56

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Sam is back with us for a live episode where we discuss important questions such as “is coffee is good?”, “are people on the Internet good writers?”, and “is content creation consistency actually important?” We also share links about turning your hand writing into a font and hacking McDonald’s delivery app. Finally, we wrap up with a new game FAANG GANG. Chapters (0:00) Intro (9:00) Codifying your handwriting (10:30) I’m loving it (27:00) Consistency in content (39:00) FAANG gang game Links Shared Codifying your Handwriting https://www.amygoodchild.com/blog/cursive-handwriting-in-javascript I’m lovin’ it https://eaton-works.com/2024/12/19/mcdelivery-india-hack/ Sponsor VocalCat: https://fafo.fm/vocalcat Sponsor the FAFO Podcast! https://fafo.fm/sponsor…

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Animating the Stack with Sam Rose 1:14:00

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This episode is stacked with information. You could even say “full stacked.” Sam has built and run some large scale systems as a SRE at Google, now building backend services at Budibase, and he spends his free time teaching others how systems work at understandable scale. We dive into what makes Google SRE different from other companies, what it’s like to be a parent, and how Sam got started with building animations for his blog. Don’t forget to visit and check out the easter eggs he’s hidden throughout. Show Highlights 0:00 - Intro 2:00 - Sam’s background 6:00 - How Google did SRE 15:00 - Importance of docs 19:00 - The problems with Java 26:00 - Budibase 32:00 - Borg vs Kubernetes 39:00 - Building animations 46:00 - Being a better teacher 56:00 - Art in the age of AI 1:00:00 - What’s next Links Referenced SRE book https://sre.google/books/ Sam’s Blog https://samwho.dev/ Budibase - https://budibase.com/ Bartosz Ciechanowski’s website - https://ciechanow.ski/ Life Animated book - https://www.amazon.com/Life-Animated-Sidekicks-Heroes-Autism/dp/1484741234 Andy Matuschak’s website - https://andymatuschak.org/ Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE) - https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/22x Sponsor The sponsor for this week is YOU! Please share and rate this episode! https://fafo.fm/sponsor…

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Predicting Bluesky’s Scale with Jaz 1:05:57

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Bluesky has been on a roller coaster of growth for over a year. From the early days of figuring out a new distributed social protocol—AT protocol—to actually building it and inviting 30 million of their closest friends. Not only has the site gone through tremendous growth, the team has been optimizing, re-architecting, and adding features the entire time. Jaz is a software engineer focused on the infrastructure at Bluesky, and they share how they achieved exponential growth without exponential costs. We cover some of the key components of the protocol and how that affects the architecture. There’s some amazing advice from the trenches we know you’ll enjoy. Show Highlights (0:00) Intro (5:00) Jaz’s background (12:30) Bluesky Infrastructure (17:00) Predicting the future (20:00) What is a PDS? (22:30) Relay and firehose (26:00) Work queues (30:00) Scaling physical servers (37:00) How do you handle incidents? (41:00) Where’s Kubernetes? (43:30) How video changes (45:00) Data locality (46:30) Hardware decisions (53:00) What bad decisions? (57:00) Launching video (1:00:00) What’s next? About Jaz Jaz is a software engineer who learned from on-the-job experience. They have a background with hardware which makes them better with software. If they’re not drinking Monster they’re building a single purpose database, or maybe they’re doing both. Jaz went from building with AT protocol to building AT protocol in a matter of months. They also have an impressive collection of plushies and power tools. Sponsor the FAFO Podcast! http://fafo.fm/sponsor…

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Making Smart Infrastructure Decisions with Lauren Long 45:28

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Today we find out how building a product at Big Tech can be very different than a startup. Lauren Long has done both. Building parts of Firebase and eventually taking the things she learned to build Ampersand. We discuss what Ampersand is and go into detail about what the back end looks like. We even drop some hot takes about serverless and Kubernetes. We think you’ll love it! Show Highlights (0:00) Intro (1:00) What is Ampersand? (3:00) What is the backend? (4:00) What is Lauren’s background (6:00) How are people using it? (10:00) How is Temporal used? (14:00) How to keep APIs in check (21:00) What did you learn? (24:00) What has broken? (26:00) Why use Kubernetes? (32:00) What have customers done? (38:00) What’s next? About Lauren Long Lauren Long is the CTO and co-founder of Ampersand, an API integration and workflow engine for enterprises to integrate their data with hundreds of applications. Lauren co-founded Ampersand after working at Google on their serverless products and saw a need for a different kind of integration for customers. She’s a developer with a great intuition on how to build reliable and scalable systems. Sponsor the FAFO Podcast! http://fafo.fm/sponsor…

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FAFO Live with Crystal Preston-Watson 53:37

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