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A decade ago Jamis Buck was not loving his job. He was an important open source contributor. He worked for the hottest trendiest software company at the time,...

The promise of functional programming is code that is easier to reason about, test and maintain. Referential transparency means there is no extra context to...

A quick update from Adam about the podcast's current state, consistency challenges, and what's coming next. […]

Edwin Brady is the creator of the Idris programming language and Author of the book Type-Driven Development with Idris and a computer science lecturer. The...

Bob Nystrom is the author of Crafting Interpreters. I speak with Nystrom about building a programming language and an interpreter implementation for it. We...

Today's Interview is with Charity Majors. We talk about how to make it easier to debug production issues in today's world of complicated distributed systems. A...

Legacy code is everywhere. I don't think I've met anyone who doesn't have to deal with legacy code in the substantial portion of his work.Our guest, Jonathan...

Richard Whaling has an interesting perspective on software development. If you write software for the JVM or if you are interested in low level system...

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 simple way to build...

Did you ever meet somebody who seemed a little bit different than the rest of the world? Maybe they question things that others wouldn't question or said...

Can you imagine risking your career to making coding easier to learn? Meet Felienne Hermans, a professor who did just that by stepping beyond academia to...

In object oriented languages, modeling a complex problem domain is a well understood process. Books like Domain Driven Design contain techniques for breaking...

You can write more correct software and even rigorous mathematical proofs. Prepare for some mind stretching.Previous guests like Edwin Brady and Stephanie...

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 transformed how...

Today Adam talks to Shadaj Laddad. What is React? Why do we need front end frameworks at all. Shadaj explains modern front end web development. He also...

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 happen. When Nadia...

How do you know what matters? What goals are worth pursing? What if training to climb Everest left you certain you were on the wrong career path? Yoshio's...

Heather Miller is an Assistant Professor at CMU. She is concerned that key open source projects are at risk of failure and no one is paying attention. Adam...

Software is just the tool and it should get out of your way. In this episode, Jim discusses how to build a great developer tool. It all started with: “What's...

John De Goes and I talk flame wars, monad transformer performance, IO monad flavours, and reasoning about polymorphic type signatures. On the lighter side, we...

Today I talk with Jim Blandy, one of the authors of Programming Rust. We talk about what problems rust is trying to solve, the unique language features and...

Scala is a functional and object oriented programming language built on the JVM. Scala Native takes this language, loved by many, and brings it to bare...

Today we try a different format. Adam invites his neighbour, Don McKay, over to ask him questions. An interesting discussion on recursion, corecursion and the...

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 development, and unique...

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, was built in 1964, and...

Things are easier to learn when you are passionate about something. A lot of great careers are built on curiosity and obsession including Krystal Maughan our...

What is abstraction? Can we have a precise definition of abstraction that, once understood, makes writing software simpler?Runar has thought a lot about...

How do you build a business around tools for software engineers? Adam talks to Lee Edwards, a VC who spends a lot of time thinking about this question....

Meet Mick West, whose career began in an unusual office setup — sandwiched between a kebab shop and a phone sex hotline. From there he worked all over...

How did Spotify scale from 10 engineers to 100s to 1000s ...without slowing down? Without becoming corporate? Facing an IPO deadline, Pia Nilsson worked with...

How do we make javascript easier to work with? Chris Krycho has been using typescript to add types to javascript since 2016.Chris is a software developer at...

What if a software bug drained your savings, ruined your reputation, and nobody believed it wasn’t your fault?Scott Darlington took over a village post...

As a system becomes more complex, the chance of failure increases. At a large enough scale, failures are inevitable. Incident response is the practice of...

Today's episode is about remote work. Well, sort of. I found someone with a different perspective on remote work and a fantastic story to share, Paul Lutus. I...

Purescript is a functional programming language that compiles to JavaScript. It is a strict haskell dialect that can run anywhere that javascript does.Justin...