A technology journey spanning engineering, product strategy, opensource, marketing, and business development, Mark Collier shares lessons learned along the way. Getting everyone aligned on the outcome remains an unsolved problem. As always, Andrew needs a computer that actually works.

Jackals Are People Too

Reflecting on 20 years of system administration, Miss Amy, self identifies as an SRE/DBRE. She brings her perspectives, valuing resilience engineering and organizational dynamics over machines and tools, to the weird trick mafia audience.

Self ID as SRE

Henry Zhu joins the mafia. Open Source, Funding, Burnout, Fun and Games until someone gets hurt

Open Independence

Jess and Andrew get with Abby Fuller (@abbyfuller), Container Czarina extraordinaire, to share stories about startups, cold emails, hacking salesforce and getting in the middle of the cloud container game.

Extremely on Brand

Sarah Drasner, Renaissance woman extraordinaire, shares stories, insight and advice with the Weird Trick Mafia. Tech, feelings, purpose, pandas.

Find Your Laser Panda

Jess goes on safari in San Francisco and a wild Lachlan Evenson appears. Jess, Andrew and Lachlan discuss the journey from building the internet in the Australian Outback to Cloud Native and wrap up weighing Net Neutrality.

Index of Refraction

Sophie Haskins, ops witch at github (@sophaskins) shares stories about collecting and learning from old hardware with our heroes Jess and Andrew

Discover the Past

Erica Windisch, CTO, Co-Founder of IOpipe walks down memory lane, working with Jess and Drew, building clouds, serverless, and more random tech feelings.

Remember the Future

Senior Staff Engineer at VMware and Co-Chair of Kubecon, Bryan Liles  (@bryanl) shares his stories and philosophies with Jess and Andrew.

That's My Super Power

Verónica López (@maria_fibonacci) shares her software engineering journey from physics and mobile projects in Mexico to Cloud Native Kubernetes in Silicon Valley with Andrew and Jess.

Resourceful & Persistent

Andrew Clay Shafer and Jess Frazelle discuss Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos.

Bleeding Silicon

Andrew Clay Shafer and Jess Frazelle discuss open source hardware and firmware from open compute summit.

Open All the Compute

Andrew Clay Shafer and Jess Frazelle discuss open source foundations.

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