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Water-cooler conversation about web-development. We want to entertain, inspire, and motivate you -- or to put it another way, make your coding career more enjoyable.

"We have solved all of the world's problems." Observability past the point where more logs stop helping, continuous deployment when...

It's 11:30 PM and you're still prompting. The code is better than anything you'd have shipped a year ago. The output is prolific, the roadma...

You spend all day steering AI through code. Then you step outside and it's steering everything else. AI is listening to therapy sessions and...

The productivity gains are real. So is the nagging feeling that something else might be happening. The crew use AI every day, and this week...

What if the best way to get good work out of AI is to stop being nice to it? Adam and Tim have both landed on the same uncomfortable discove...

Tim spent a single Sunday afternoon with Claude and built Show Bot -- a sarcastic Discord bot trained on every Working Code transcript, comp...

Testing sounds simple until you actually try it. Private methods that can't be reached without hacks. Dependency injection that doubles your...

Do commit messages even matter anymore, or did pull requests kill them? Ben works one commit per PR and thinks the commit message is the PR...

For ten years, Adam's codebase has carried an ORM layer that everybody knew was wrong and nobody was touching. Nine hundred functions. Fifte...

Ben had been riding high on vibe coding—throwaway scripts, zero attachment, pure productivity magic. Then he tried the same approach on a pr...

Adam built a Claude Code skill for his Taffy REST framework and wanted to share it with the CFML community. Simple enough—create a GitHub re...

Ben's been circling vibe coding for months, kept at bay by a simple fear: what if he spends more time fighting the AI over formatting than a...

Tim stores his passwords in the browser. There, we said it. But before you grab your pitchforks, it turns out he's got an ancient password v...

It's a new year and you've probably got a mental list of things you want to learn. But how do you decide what's worth the investment? Ben ex...

It's the holidays, and the Working Code crew has a gift for you: a peek behind the velvet rope. In the spirit of Captain Crunch's "Oops!...

It's that time of year—each host reaches into Santa's sack of topics to see who's been naughty and who's been nice. Ben returns from visitin...

How do you teach an LLM to write code you can actually trust? Carol's federal government team has been tasked with exploring unattended AI c...

Remember that you will die. That's the meaning behind "Memento Mori," and it's the theme of this week's episode. Guest Shawn Oden, j...

How do you stay motivated when you're stuck building features you don't understand? Carol brings a conversation she's been having with her t...

What happens when your passion project becomes so successful that you have to shut it down? Advent of Code creator Eric Wastl announced he w...

When you use ChatGPT instead of Google, you're not just getting a faster answer—you're cutting out the content creators who made that knowle...

In this week's episode the gather round and share what they've been up to for trunk or treat. Adam shares his waning motivation for his Jump...

How do you keep millions of people safe on 40 different dating sites while simultaneously figuring out what drives them to buy memberships?...

Can you really multitask, or are you just rapidly switching between contexts and hoping your brain doesn't lose track? This week, we dig int...

How do you resist the siren call of shiny new features when you're months into a project that really matters? Adam finds himself six weeks i...

In this week's episode the crew is back to discuss the never-ending journey of self-improvement in the tech industry, are we idiots to ignor...

In this week's episode the whole crew is back, and Ben brings our attention to "good" friction. It's all too common in business to h...

Common sense isn't so common, or maybe it's a myth entirely? On this week's episode, Adam, Ben, and Carol discuss common sense in programmin...

In this week's episode, Adam, Ben, and Carol dive into the nuanced world of software development as they explore the subjectivity inherent i...

In this week's episode, Adam, Ben, and Tim discuss the never ending rabbit hole that is implementing soft deletes in a database. What starts...

In this week's episode, Ben, Carol, and Tim are back to discuss picking the right tool for the right job. More specifically, the value of pr...

In this week's episode, Adam asks the question: To sync or not to sync? Sparked by an exploration of a competitor's API approach, the team s...

In this week's episode, the crew discuss the relevance and significance of open-source software in the age of AI. The open source community...

To be a good producer you have to be a good consumer. In this week's podcast, the whole team is back to delve into the concept of 'skin in t...

In this week's episode, Adam and Ben discuss the notion of “If I'm still telling you what to do in six months, then something went wrong”, a...

In this week's episode, Adam and Tim delve into Gemini CLI, a command line interface tool for AI by Google, test-driving it on real code to...

In this week's episode, the full crew is back to talk about practical replatforming. In past episodes we've discussed replatforming in a mor...

In this week's episode, the team gets into it with special guest Dan Wilson, an AI & tech consultant that has recently created free and paid...

In this week's episode, the team dives into a potluck of topics including the effective usage of Large Language Models (LLMs) by feeding the...

In this week's episode, the crew is back to discuss and question quickly shifting values in the world and their implications for developers....

In this week's episode, Adam puts the spotlight on Svelte, and takes us on a deep dive of Svelte features, latest developments and some of h...

In this week's episode, the team discusses Ben's new job in a radically different domain, the common difficulties when joining a new team wi...

In this week's episode, the full crew is back to discuss the challenges and strategies of managing development teams. Tim shares his new rol...

In this week's episode, Adam, Ben, and Tim discuss the evolving perception of technology, shifting from an optimistic view in the 80s and 90...

In this week's episode, Adam, Ben, and Tim discuss strategies to stay motivated during long-term projects or repetitive tasks. If you've bee...

In this week's episode, Adam, Ben, and Tim tackle the intriguing and timely topic of AI and its implications for the future of coding. They...

In episode 211, Adam, Carol, and Tim play 'Roast My Desk, Rate My Clean-up.' Listeners submitted before and after photos of their desks, and...

In week's this episode, the crew explores the often confusing phrase 'free as in speech, not as in beer.' They discuss the differences betwe...

In this week's episode, Adam seeks support from Ben and Tim as he ventures into creating a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) for a new app design...

In this week's episode, the crew play Real or Fake for esoteric programming languages. Are Whitespace, JSF***, Cow or DeadFish real or fake?...