Podcast Episodes

Hiring only senior engineers is killing companies (News)

Andrew Churchill thinks companies should really be hiring junior engineers, Addy Osmani announces Chrome DevTools MCP, GitHub lays out a roadmap to fend off npm attacks, Jerry Liu builds an app that …

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Inside Oxide (Friends)

Bryan Cantrill and Steve Tuck, the co-founders of Oxide, are on the pod live (to tape) from the stage at OxCon. Jerod and I were invited to Oxide’s annual internal conference to meet the people and t…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Voices of Oxide (Interview)

Voices of Oxide on the pod! Cliff Biffle (engineer), Dave Pacheco (engineer), and Ben Leonard (designer) are on the show today. Jerod and I were invited to Oxide’s annual internal conference called O…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

An escape route from YAML hell (News)

Adolfo Ochagavía believes we’re approaching the problem of configuration from a flawed starting point, Annie Mueller hits us with a wakeup call about how she reads beginner tutorials, Brian Kihoon Le…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Linux Fest in Texas! (Friends)

Carl George joins the show to talk about Texas Linux Fest, Omarchy, Linux desktop environments, configuring Linux, and more. Use the code CHL15 for 15% off your ticket to Texas Linux Fest.

Join the d…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Flowing with agents (Interview)

Everything is changing. Adam is joined by his good friend Beyang Liu from Sourcegraph — this time, talking about Amp (ampcode.com). Amp is one of the many, and one of Adam’s favorite agentic coding t…

Published on 1 month, 4 weeks ago

Just enough automation (News)

Zach Gates quantifies the value of automating things, Albania’s new prime minister names an AI “minister” to his Cabinet, Eckart Walther launches Really Simple Licensing (RSL) along with some big nam…

Published on 1 month, 4 weeks ago

Why AI coding claims don't add up (News)

Mike Judge breaks down why he doesn’t believe the AI coding claims add up, the folks behind Cactoide create an open source alternative to Meetup / Eventbrite, Ryan Farley tells the story of how RSS b…

Published on 2 months ago

XO Ruby is hitting the road (Interview)

Jim Remsik has lived on the bleeding edge (but also the heart’s center) of the Ruby world for decades. This fall, he’s organizing six (yes, SIX) XO Ruby confs all around the United States.

On this ep…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

Next.js is infuriating (News)

Dominik Meca is infuriated by Next.js, Josh Bressers explains why open source is just one person, Huon Wilson describes the usefulness of “Copy as cURL”, Herman Martinus re-licenses Bear, and Nawaz D…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago