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The stories and people behind the code. Hear stories of software development from interesting people.
Kate Gregory has been writing C++ for over forty years. Books, keynotes, a consulting firm she built from the ground up. At sixty-three, she...
Corey told me about his AI cat reel problem. He found these AI-genearted cat videos hilarious. Who makes these? He kept sending them to his...
Multiple VS Code windows. "Agent stopping" in a robot voice. A laptop stand on the treadmill so Claude can keep working while I run. The Big...
Ron Garret left JPL for a 100-person startup he'd just discovered on Usenet. Four a.m. alarms. Burbank to San Jose on Southwest. A rented ro...
Imagine facing a problem you can't name, something that feels bigger than any bug you've ever had to fix. How do you debug your own mind whe...
What do you do when your code breaks and the only fix is to dig into the runtime below? Matt Godbolt lives for that. Tile-based renderers, c...
What if a software bug drained your savings, ruined your reputation, and nobody believed it wasn't your fault? Scott Darlington took over a...
A quick update from Adam about the podcast's current state, consistency challenges, and what's coming next. Episode Page Support The Show Su...
What do we risk when we let AI do the heavy lifting in our coding? Are we giving up the thinking that makes us good at what we do? And as ex...
I've always found meaning—and a lot of strength—in building things. Now, with AI coding agents changing the way we work, it's easy to feel t...
What if your search for connection took you somewhere you never meant to go—almost costing you everything? John Walker grew up building comp...
Have you ever found yourself in a situation where learning felt like an uphill battle? Like no matter how hard you tried, the pieces just wo...
Can a single line of code change the way we see science, policy, and trust? In this episode we explore the "Climategate" scandal that erupte...
What if a simple game became a gateway to computational breakthroughs? David Freiberg and Felipe set out on a journey to conquer Hatetris, a...
What if internet trolls could become your greatest collaborators? Nolen Royalty discovered this unexpected truth when his simple checkbox ga...
What if leaving your dream job was the way to discover your true self? Jon de la Motte failed his first Stripe interview, but he didn't give...
What if you had to break life-changing news to your team—could you handle the weight of their futures? Allison's journey from software engin...
Have you ever known someone who's technical brilliance was overshadowed by personal failings? This is the story of Hans Reiser, a software d...
How do you know what matters? What if training to climb Everest left you certain you were on the wrong career path? Join us as we explore Yo...
What if your corporate job left you feeling empty, and you decided to leap into venture capital? Tim Chen, a software engineer, was disillus...
Today the tables have turned and you're going to hear someone interview me. Ronak and Guang from the Software Misadventures podcast are goin...
What if you had to fight against your company's culture to bring a revolutionary tool to life? Meet Jeffrey Snover, the Microsoft architect...
Can you imagine risking your career to making coding easier to learn? Meet Felienne Hermans, a professor who did just that by stepping beyon...
What if the tools you trust were actually betraying you? Join us for a riveting story where a team of software developers discovers that the...
Meet Mick West, whose career began in an unusual office setup — sandwiched between a kebab shop and a phone sex hotline. From there he worke...
What if your dedication to doing things right clashed with your company's fast pace? Chris Krycho faced this very question at LinkedIn. His...
Greg Wilson has been on a decades-long quest to transform how we teach and talk about software design. From getting rejections for using the...
What if your dreams were suddenly ripped away? What if your talents vanished, your passions erased? That's what happened to Jason McDonald w...
From the early days of exploring creative possibilities on a 486 computer in his childhood to developing one of today's most popular web fra...
How did Spotify scale from 10 engineers to 100s to 1000s ...without slowing down? Without becoming corporate? Facing an IPO deadline, Pia Ni...
Lost treasure. Conspiracy theories. Impossible tech demos. Jan Sloot claimed to have invented revolutionary data compression that could fit...
Today, we go behind the scenes at Chef - the game changing infrastructure automation tool. Adam Jacob created Chef, and it became a massivel...
Learning to code can feel impossible. Like facing a sheer rock wall with no ropes or harnesses. But what if there was a path up the mountain...
Have you ever been frustrated with your job? Maybe not burnt out, but getting close to there? You used to love what you did, and it felt so...
Today, we meet Ben Dumke-von der Ehe, one of the early developers on the Stack Overflow team. He was on the front lines as the platform tran...
How do you accomplish something massive over time? I've had the chance to meet with a number of exceptional software developers and it's som...
Today's guest is Douglas Crockford. He's sharing the story of JSON, his discovery of JavaScript's good parts, and his approach to finding a...
Shai Almog worked at Sun on Mobile JVMs just as phones started to turn from phones into something else. Sun had deep expertise in mobile dev...
I've been on many projects that get canceled. We're building cool stuff. We're going above and beyond, and we're excited. But the project en...
Nothing good comes from being insecure about your worth, especially at your job. That's what today's episode is about. That's what today's g...
Today Rebecca Burger Becky Heineman shares the tale of porting Doom to the 3DO console under extreme conditions. There is an engine to tweak...
Today story is from Son Luong Ngoc who shares what's it was like for him to work and live in many different countries around the world, incl...
What could you accomplish if your teammates were all excited and determined to hit some project timelines? What is it like for a group of pe...
I believe that getting underrepresented groups into software development is a good thing. This is not a controversial opinion until you star...
CPAN was the first open-source software module repository. And on this day, Aug 1st, in 1995, CPAN was first announced to a private group of...
I recently got an email from Jeff Shrager, who said he'd been working hard to solve a mystery about some famous code. Eliza, the chatbot, wa...
On June 1st, 2014, the following question showed up on hacker news: "Why is 80 characters, the standard limit for code width." You probably...
Have you ever had a unique approach to a problem and been excited to use it, but you're met with skepticism? Today's story: what happens if...
On this day in 2014 "lame april fools' jokes" were banned from hacker news. Today in our first This-Day-in-History segment, I want to share...
Whenever I work on a side project, I can't help but daydream of it taking off in a big way. For today's guests, something like that did happ...