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How do scientists uncover phenomena and explain their connections? How do engineers design machines, methods and infrastructure? At omega tau, experts give detailed answers. Over the last ten years, we have produced over 350 episodes in which we dug deeper, until we ran out of questions. Join us on our journey through the world of science and engineering: the closer you look and listen, the more interesting things get.
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In Leanpub's Frontmatter podcast, we interview authors and special guests about their lives & careers, their areas of expertise and the issues of the moment, and their experiences as writers. Every episode is deeply researched and covers areas that are equally of human interest, general interest, and professional interest.
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Alex Pukinskis is the author of the Leanpub book The Art of Connected Facilitation: Stop Wasting Time in Zoom and Make Plans that Stick. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Alex about his background and career, what facilitation is and why it’s important, and the future of work.This interview was recorded on August 28, 2023.The…
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Special Guest Peter H. Gregory is the author of The Art of Writing Technical Books: The Tools, Techniques, and Lifestyle of a Published Author. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Peter about his background and career, his work writing and publishing over 50 technical books, and the possibilities AI holds for authors in the fut…
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Alexandru Cernat is the author of the Leanpub book Longitudinal Data Analysis Using R. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Alexandru about his background and career, his book, and his experience as an author.This interview was recorded on August 2, 2023.The full audio for the interview is here: https://s3.amazonaws.com/leanpub_…
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Soledad Galli is the author of the Leanpub book Feature Selection in Machine Learning with Python: Over 20 methods to select the most predictive features and build simpler, faster, and more reliable machine learning models. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Soledad about her background and career, moving away from academia in…
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brian d foy is the author of the Leanpub book Perl New Features: The evolution of Perl from v5.10 to now. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with brian about his background and career, his book, and his experience as both a conventionally-published and as a self-published author.This interview was recorded on July 11, 2023.The full…
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Jeroen Leenarts is the author of the Leanpub book Being a Lead Software Developer. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Jeroen about his background and career, his book, and his experience as a writer.This interview was recorded on June 12, 2023.The full audio for the interview is here: https://s3.amazonaws.com/leanpub_podcasts/…
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Bruno Rodrigues is the author of the Leanpub book Building reproducible analytical pipelines with R. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Bruno about his background and career, his book, and his experience as a writer.This interview was recorded on June 7, 2023.The full audio for the interview is here: https://s3.amazonaws.com/l…
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Host: Nora Ludewig Shownoter: Jochen Spalding Gast: Etienne Benson I wanted to make an episode on a topic from the history of science for a long time, finally it happened. This is an interview with Etienne Benson, professor of the history of science and technology, on the history of how people of the western world have been seeing, studying and exp…
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Host: Nora Ludewig Shownoter: Jochen Spalding Gast: Etienne Benson I wanted to make an episode on a topic from the history of science for a long time, finally it happened. This is an interview with Etienne Benson, professor of the history of science and technology, on the history of how people of the western world have been seeing, studying and exp…
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Neil Keleher is the author of the Leanpub book Learning how to learn: Mental models. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Neil about his life and career, his books, what mental models are and how you can improve them, and about his approach to writing.This interview was recorded on May 11, 2023.The full audio for the interview i…
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Diana Montalion is the author of the Leanpub book Writing as Thinking: Practices for Technology Professionals. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Diana about her background and her career, becoming a systems architect, the nature of non-linear systems thinking, and how writing can help you learn how to think differently.This i…
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Markus Voelter is the author of the Leanpub book How to Understand Almost Anything: A Practitioner’s Guide to Domain Analysis. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Markus about about his background and career, the omega tau podcast, the fascinating topic of domain analysis, and his writing.This interview was recorded on April 5,…
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Tim McConnaughy is the author of the Leanpub book The Hybrid Cloud Handbook for AWS: AWS Cloud Networking for Traditional Network Engineers. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Tim about his background and career, the essential work network engineers do, his book, and his experience as an author.This interview was recorded on M…
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Ebenezer Don is the author of the Leanpub book Simplified JavaScript for Very Important Programmers: The Fast Track to Mastering Essential JavaScript Concepts. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Ebenezer about his background and career, how he learned to be a programmer, the value of learning the basics, his book, and his expe…
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Pavel Yosifovich is the author of the Leanpub book Windows Kernel Programming, Second Edition. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Pavel about his background and career, his book, and his experience as an author.This interview was recorded on March 8, 2023.The full audio for the interview is here: https://s3.amazonaws.com/leanp…
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Étienne Garbugli is the author of the Leanpub book Lean B2B: Build Products Businesses Want (Second Edition). In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Étienne about his background and career, his love of inventing, startups, business-to-business product development and sales, his book, and at the end, about his experience as a write…
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Gareth Heyes is the author of the Leanpub book JavaScript for hackers: Learn to think like a hacker. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Gareth about investigating software security, the nature of hacking, his book, and his experience as a writer.This interview was recorded on February 13, 2023.The full audio for the interview …
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Marcin Moskała is the author of the Kotlin for Developers Series. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Marcin about his background, Kotlin, his book series, and at the end, they talk a little bit about his experience as a self-published author.This interview was recorded on January 24, 2023.The full audio for the interview is he…
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Mark Watson is the author of the Leanpub book Practical Python Artificial Intelligence Programming. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Mark about his background and career in computing and artificial intelligence, how AI technology and practice has changed over time, and his journey as a book author.This interview was recorded…
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Allan Kelly is the author of the Leanpub book Books to be written: A non-fiction author’s how-to guide to writing, publishing & marketing you own books. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Allan about his background, his book, and at the end, they talk a little bit about his experience as a self-published author.This interview …
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Special Guest: Hugh Hodges is the author of The Fascist Groove Thing: A History of Thatcher’s Britain in 21 Mixtapes. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Hugh about his background, his book, and his experience writing and publishing a book with an independent press.This interview was recorded on January 24, 2023.The full audio …
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Marc Reid is the author of the Leanpub book You Are (Not) a Fraud: A Scientist’s Guide to the Imposter Phenomenon. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Marc about his background, his book, and at the end, they talk a little bit about his experience as a self-published author.This interview was recorded on [interview-date].The fu…
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Mike Gold is the author of Creating a Wordle Game in React and TypeScript. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Mike about his background, his book, and his experience writing and self-publishing.This interview was recorded on December 14, 2022.The full audio for the interview is here: [episode-audio-url]. The Frontmatter podcas…
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Mathias Verraes is co-author of the Leanpub book Design and Reality: Essays on Software Design. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Mathias about his background, Domain-Driven Design, his book, and at the end, they talk a little bit about his experience as a self-published author.This interview was recorded on December 1, 2022.…
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Special Guest Jane Friedman is a publishing industry expert and co-founder and editor of The Hot Sheet, a paid newsletter for authors. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Jane about what happened in the book publishing industry in 2022. They cover a lot of ground, from ebook pricing to audiobooks to the PRH/Simon & Schuster cas…
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Helen Scott is co-author of the Leanpub book Getting to Know IntelliJ IDEA: Level up your IntelliJ IDEA knowledge so that you can focus on doing what you do best. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Helen about her background, her book, and at the end, they talk a little bit about her experience co-authoring a self-published bo…
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Trisha Gee is co-author of the Leanpub book Getting to Know IntelliJ IDEA: Level up your IntelliJ IDEA knowledge so that you can focus on doing what you do best. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Trisha about her background and career, her book, and at the end, they talk a little bit about her experience co-authoring a self-p…
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Host: Markus Völter Shownoter: Jochen Spalding Gäste: Markus Bünsen, Daniel Seiler, Nico Redlich Die Firma Flight Calibration Services ist dafür zuständig, IFR Verfahren zu validieren und Instrumentenlandesysteme zu vermessen. Dazu setzt sie King Airs und Learjets ein. In dieser Episode spreche ich mit Markus, Daniel und Nico über ihre Arbeit und b…
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Luke Pivac is the author of the Leanpub book An Agile Playbook for Technical Communicators: A Guide for Technical Communicators Working with Agile Teams. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Luke about his background, the history of technical documentation in the military and the art of plain language, being diagnosed with ADHD …
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Special Guest: Matthew Guay is co-founder of Reproof. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Matthew about what he’s been up to since his first appearance on the podcast in 2017, startups and entrepreneurship, his experience of the pandemic working on distributed teams, livestream group podcasting, and his work on Reproof at repro…
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John Koster is the author of the Leanpub book Advanced PHP Strings: Text analysis, generation, and parsing via. Laravel. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with John about his background, some of the fundamentals of Computer Science, Laravel , his book, and at the end, they talk a little bit about his experience as a writer.This in…
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Andrew Rathbun is co-author of the Leanpub book EZ Tools Manuals. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Andrew about his background in military service and law enforcement, emotional intelligence and high-intensity work, his amazing Discord server that has connected digital forensics professionals from around the world, his book …
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Vagner Figueredo de Santana is the author of the Leanpub book Interaction Data Analytics: Methods, Tools, and Applications. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Vagner about his background, getting a PhD, the fascinating details of human-computer interaction, computer anxiety, explicit and implicit forms of interaction,his book,…
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Host: Markus Völter Shownoter: Matthias Kuhn Gäste: Katharina Diehn, Emily Eberhardt, Ulrich Deck, Kai Rohde-Brandenburger, Oisín Smith, Johanna Haug, Ines Weber und Daniel Hardt Wie jedes Jahr haben sich auch 2022 die akademischen Fliegergruppen zum ihrem Sommertreffen getroffen. Ich bin hingeflogen und habe mich mit ein paar der Teilnehmer über i…
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Dave Farley is the author of the Leanpub book Continuous Delivery Pipelines: How to Build Better Software Faster. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Dave about his background, solving really hard problems with performance and scalability while building a trading platform, continuous delivery and the application of scientific p…
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Special Guest: Guy LeCharles Gonzalez is Chief Content Officer at LibraryPass. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Guy about what he’s been up to since he first appeared on the podcast in 2020, his work for the Panorama Project and LibraryPass, the unique challenges of a library-related startup, comic books and book bans, the D…
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Michael Zanatta is the author of the Leanpub book Modern IT Automation with PowerShell: Modern Automation with PowerShell. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Michael about his background and career, the nature and importance of the work systems administrators do, his book, and at the end, they talk a little bit about his exper…
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Simon Brown is the author of the Leanpub book Software Architecture for Developers: Technical leadership and the balance with agility. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Simon about his background and career, software architecture and the C4 model for visualising software architecture, and how the first version of his Leanpub …
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Gäste: Jochen Ludescher, Josef Kallo Host: Markus Völter Shownoter: Jochen Spalding In dieser Episode betrachten wir Antriebe auf Basis von Wasserstoff und Brennstoffzellen. Mit Jochen Ludescher spreche ich über Grundlagen und den Einsatz in Kraftfahrzeugen. Im zweiten Teil spreche ich dann mit Josef Kallo über die besonderen Herausforderungen beim…
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Daniel Vacanti is the author of the Leanpub book Flow Metrics for Scrum Teams: Because story points were never a part of Scrum anyway. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Daniel about his background, Kanban, flow and productivity, doing less to do more, and at the end, they talk a little bit about his experience as a self-publi…
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Frank Delporte is the author of the Leanpub book Getting started with Java on the Raspberry Pi. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Frank about his professional background, his first experiences with electronics and computers, how access to documentation and technology has changed over the decades, how video editing technology …
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