The inner workings of Wikipedia (Interview)
Let’s hear how Wikipedia actually works from long-time Wikipedian, Bill Beutler! Bill has been heavily involved with this “8th wonder of...
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What is a tech bubble anyway? (News)
Cedric Chin says comparisons of our current AI maybe-bubble to the dot-com bubble and the 2008 GFC are limiting, Matthew Prince does a...
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NOT a swarm! (Friends)
Practical AI co-host, Chris Benson, joins us to discuss the latest advancements in AI, drones, home automation, and robotic swarming tech....
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Creating communal computers (Interview)
Spencer Chang caught our attention with the alive internet theory website, but he creates all kinds of computery things to bring people...
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Why is Zig so cool? (News)
Nilo Stolte explains why Zig is “a totally new way to write programs”, George Mack gives twelve actionable ways to be more creative, Mario...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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#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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Bringing Atuin to the desktop (Interview)
Ellie Huxtable’s magical shell tool, Atuin, won developers’ hearts by syncing, searching, and backing up our shell history with ease. Now...
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The science behind developer flow states (News)
Csaba Okrona lays out exactly what Flow is (then shows you how to engineer your way back to it), a smart vacuum turned against an innocent...
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There will be bleeps (Friends)
Mike McQuaid and Justin Searls join Jerod in the wake of the RubyGems debacle to discuss what happened, what it says about money in open...
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Spec-driven development with Kiro (Interview)
We’re joined by Deepak Singh from the Kiro team. Kiro is AWS’s attempt at building an AI coding environment to take you from prototype to...
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The great software quality collapse (News)
Denis Stetskov describes how we’ve “normalized catastrophe” in the software industry, Meta is officially handing React and React Native...
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