Podcast Episodes

Retiring from programming w/ Justin Searls

Season 3 Episode 5

Matt just got back from Rails World, where DHH's keynote left a lot of people thinking Rails was over. Justin Searls of Breaking Change, who gave his…

12 hours ago

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Irrefutable proof w/ Thorsten Ball

Season 3 Episode 4

Thorsten Ball, who works on Amp, doesn't like the term "software factory." He'd rather be in a workshop, a garden or a "primordial soup" of throwaway…

12 hours ago

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Camping chair development w/ John Nunemaker

Season 3 Episode 3

John Nunemaker runs Fireside, Flipper and Box Out. He used to think of himself as a craftsman, until last December, when he found out that what he re…

1 day, 11 hours ago

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LLM junk food w/ Justin Duke

Season 3 Episode 2

Justin Duke, who runs Buttondown, calls himself a "radical LLM centrist." About two-thirds of Buttondown's merged code comes from LLMs, but he still …

1 day, 11 hours ago

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Infinite plausible PRs w/ Nate Berkopec

Season 3 Episode 1

Back in February, Nate said that coding workflows built around adding more human-in-the-loop steps were a dead end, and that the end state is the "da…

2 days, 8 hours ago

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What would you say...you do here?

Season 3

Software used to be something you sat down and wrote.
Line by line. 
Decision by decision.

The work lived in the hands of the person at the keyboard.

Tha…

2 days, 12 hours ago

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Programming Books w/ Aaron Francis

Season 2 Episode 6

Matt and Aaron talk about programming books and try to answer the question "do we need them?"

This season of YAGNI was made possible by our friends at…

2 years, 9 months ago

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Redis w/ Nate Berkopec

Season 2 Episode 5

Matt and Nate talk about Redis and try to answer the question "do we need it?"

This season of YAGNI was made possible by our friends at Flipper Cloud …

2 years, 10 months ago

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Service Objects w/ Jason Swett

Season 2 Episode 4

Matt and Jason talk about Service Objects and try to answer the question "do we need them?"

This season of YAGNI was made possible by our friends at F…

2 years, 10 months ago

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Testing w/ Josh Pigford

Season 2 Episode 3

Matt and Josh talk about automated testing and try to answer the question "do we need them?"

This season of YAGNI was made possible by our friends at …

2 years, 10 months ago

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