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Retreat to attack (Friends)
Do you like director’s commentaries and extended cuts? This episode is like that, but for this week’s News. We go deep on the alive internet theory, Meshtastic mesh networks, Zstandard compression, t…
Published on 11 hours ago
DO repeat yourself! (Interview)
Prolific software blogger, Sean Goedecke, joins us to discuss why he believes software engineers need to be involved in the politics of their organization, how to avoid worry driven development, what…
Published on 2 days, 8 hours ago
This new AI role is exploding (News)
A new AI-led tech role has emerged with a massive increase of job postings, Corey Quinn explains why younger devs won’t tolerate pain in the AWS, Thomas Ptacek makes the case that you should write an…
Published on 4 days, 9 hours ago
#define: sheer resistance (Friends)
On this seventh iteration of our award-worthy game show filled with obscure jargon, fake definitions, and expert tomfoolery: past winners battle to determine the champion of champions. (Also, Adam.)
…Published on 1 week ago
The world of open source metadata (Interview)
Andrew Nesbitt builds tools and open datasets to support, sustain, and secure critical digital infrastructure. He’s been exploring the world of open source metadata for over a decade. First with libr…
Published on 1 week, 2 days ago
The overlooked power of URLs (News)
Ahmad Alfy explains how URLs are state containers, Shrivu Shankar shares how he uses every Claude Code feature, Yusuf Aytas laments how AI broke technical interviews, Wu Xiaoyun tells how he saved Ti…
Published on 1 week, 4 days ago
We see dead projects (Friends)
It’s a FRIGHT…when your record a podcast with dead projects all around. Tech debt, poor choices, timing, market shift, and optimizing for the wrong things are all lurking around waiting to pop out at…
Published on 2 weeks ago
Agentic infra changes everything (Interview)
Adam Jacob joins us to discuss how agentic systems for building and managing infrastructure have fundamentally altered how he thinks about everything, including the last six years of his life. Along …
Published on 2 weeks, 1 day ago
Code like a surgeon (News)
The Dead Internet Theory dies, Geoffrey Litt tries to code like a surgeon, Matt Sephton thinks spreadsheets are great for UI design, Nate Meyvis advocates for front-end maximalism, Hemant Pandey thin…
Published on 2 weeks, 4 days ago
Kaizen! Mop-up job (Friends)
It’s our first Kaizen after the big Pipely launch in Denver and we have some serious mopping to do. Along the way, we brainstorm the next get-together, check out our new cache hit/miss ratio, give Pi…
Published on 3 weeks ago