Podcast Episodes

#116 Infrastructure as Effects with Sam Goodwin

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Season 1 Episode 116

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Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is "code" but without most of the benefits of being code. Sam Goodwin is reinventing IaC with Alchemy and an upcoming Alchemy Effect project which aims to manage infrastr…

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Published on 8 hours ago

#115 More Python Type Checking! Pyrefly with Aaron Pollack & Steven Troxler

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Season 1 Episode 115

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Excitement around Python type checking continues to grow and the tools continue to evolve. We chat with Aaron Pollack and Steven Troxler about ⁠Pyrefly - a Rust-based Python type checker and IDE exte…

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Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

#114 ty: Fast Python Type Checking with Carl Meyer

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Season 1 Episode 114

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Carl Meyer works on the ty Python type checker, built in Rust by Astral the creators of Ruff and uv. We chat about type systems, the evolution of static typing in Python, and the focus on performance…

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Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

#113 Graph & RAG with Jennifer Reif

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Season 1 Episode 113

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We chat with Jennifer Reif about integrating LLMs with data using RAG, vectorized data, and Graph databases.

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Published on 1 month, 4 weeks ago

#112 AI Agents Get More 9's with Rod Johnson

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Season 1 Episode 112

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Rod Johnson, creator of the Spring Framework, has created a JVM-based AI Agent framework called Embabel. We dive in and learn how enterprises can build more reliable Agents using deterministic planni…

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Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

#111 Wasm & MCP with Steve Manuel

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Season 1 Episode 111

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We chat with Steve Manuel (of dylibso.com and mcp.run) about LLM "plugins" with Wasm & MCP (Model Context Protocol).

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Published on 5 months, 1 week ago

#110 Unlocking Developer Productivity with Justin Reock

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Season 1 Episode 110

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Justin Reock has spent a lot of his career thinking about how to help developers be more productive. In this episode we learn about the methodologies that can help developers spend more time in "flow…

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Published on 5 months, 1 week ago

#109 AI, LLMs, and MCP with Lize Raes

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Season 1 Episode 109

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Lize Raes teaches us about AI models, LLMs, Tools, Agents, and MCP.

Article from Anthropic on Agent architectures: Building effective agents

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Published on 6 months, 4 weeks ago

#108 Winter Tech Forum and Current Projects

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Season 1 Episode 108

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Join us at the 2025 Winter Tech Forum! www.wintertechforum.com

Projects Mentioned:

uv for Python TypeScript Effect Pkl CloudFormation Extras Pkl GitHub Actions

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Published on 7 months, 2 weeks ago

#107 The Joy of Programming with Dave Thomas

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Season 1 Episode 107

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We chat with Dave Thomas, co-author of The Pragmatic Programmer, about the joy of programming and the tensions between our and others needs.

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Published on 8 months, 2 weeks ago