Episodes

  • Windows 3.1 keeps Southwest flying high (News)

    Windows 3.1 keeps Southwest flying high (News)
    Jul 22 2024
    Brendan Gregg details how eBPF can help us have no more blue Fridays, Misty De Meo thinks GitHub is starting to feel like legacy software, Gavin D. Howard does not want Rust to be used for everything, The Notion team published a deep dive into how they used the WASM version of SQLite to improve browser performance & Gregor Ojstersek writes up how to build good relationships inside and outside your engineering teams.
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    8 mins
  • There’s a TUI for that (Friends)

    There’s a TUI for that (Friends)
    Jul 19 2024
    Nick Janetakis is back and this time we're talking about TUIs (text-based user interfaces) — some we've tried and some we plan to try. All are collected from Justin Garrison's Awesome TUIs repo on GitHub. This episode is "AI free."
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    1 hr and 53 mins
  • What even is the modern data stack (Interview)

    What even is the modern data stack (Interview)
    Jul 17 2024
    Benn Stancil's weekly Substack on data and technology provides a fascinating perspective on the modern data stack & the industry building it. On this episode, Benn joins Jerod to dissect a few of his essays, discuss opportunities he sees during this slowdown & explain why he thinks maybe we should disband the analytics team.
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    1 hr and 12 mins
  • The six dumbest ideas in computer security (News)

    The six dumbest ideas in computer security (News)
    Jul 15 2024
    Marcus J. Ranum's 2005 post on dumb ideas in computer security still holds up, Barry Jones argues why story points are useless, Posting is an HTTP client as a TUI, Varnish ceator Poul-Henning Kamp (_phk_) reflects on ten years of working on the HTTP cache & es-tookit is a major upgrade to Lodash.
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    8 mins
  • Last DevRel standing (Friends)

    Last DevRel standing (Friends)
    Jul 12 2024
    Shawn "swyx" Wang is back to talk with us about the state of DevRel according to ZIRP (the Zero Interest Rate Phenomenon), the data that backs up the rise and fall of job openings, whether or not DevRel is dead or dying, speculation of the near-term arrival of AGI, AI Engineering as the last job standing, the innovation from Cognition with Devin as well as their mis-steps during Devin's launch, and what's to come in the next innovation round of AI.
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    1 hr and 33 mins
  • It all starts with Postgres (Interview)

    It all starts with Postgres (Interview)
    Jul 11 2024
    Paul Copplestone, CEO of Supabase (the meme-lord himself), joins the show to take us on the journey of Supabase leading Postgres for life, and how it all starts with Postgres as the base-layer substrate for the entire Supabase platform. They're laser focused on the drive ahead, not the rear-view mirror. Disclosure: Adam and Jerod are angel investors in Supabase.
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    1 hr and 35 mins
  • Programming advice for my younger self (News)

    Programming advice for my younger self (News)
    Jul 8 2024
    Marcus Buffett writes his younger self programming advice, Swyx asks and answers whether or not DevRel is dead, the Ghost team opens up their ActivityPub server, Pongo is like MongoDB but on Postgres, Jack Kelly is funding Ladybird because he can't fund Firefox & Hyrum's Law.
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    9 mins
  • A different kind of rug pull (Friends)

    A different kind of rug pull (Friends)
    Jul 5 2024
    Adam & Jerod discuss the news! But first, we discuss how you can keep up with the software world (good question, Tyler Boyd!) On the docket: Developer job postings trend, the Ladybird Browser Initiative, the Polyfill.js supply chain attack & is the future self-hosted?
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    1 hr and 30 mins