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Friday 1 May
Agentic Data Science Pair Programming With marimo pair
How do you add agent skills to your data science workflow? How can a coding agent assist with data wrangling and research? This week on the show, Trevor Manz from marimo joins us t…
original ↗Time is a construct but it can still break your software
Ryan welcomes Jason Williams, senior software engineer at Bloomberg and the creator of Rust-based JavaScript engine Boa, to the show to dive into why date and time handling in Java…
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Thursday 30 April
Making opinionated AI tooling decisions with Nimbalyst's Greg Hinkle
Greg Hinkle, co-founder of Nimbalyst and former VP of Software Engineering at Salesforce, joins Scott to discuss the future of AI-assisted development. They explore the challenges …
original ↗The Ethics of Autonomous Weapons Systems
Artificial intelligence is transforming warfare faster than the legal and ethical frameworks designed to govern it. Militaries around the world are deploying AI-powered decision su…
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Anthropic Mythos: Hype, reality and the actual security implications
Anthropic Mythos garnered significant attention when it was launched in mid-April 2026. Yet despite it apparently presenting an unprecedented threat to global software, you don't h…
Wednesday 29 April
Bitwarden CLI compromised (News)
Bitwarden's CLI got hit by the Checkmarx supply-chain campaign, TypeScript 7.0 beta lands with the Go-rewritten compiler running ~10x faster than 6.0, and pgBackRest lost its maint…
original ↗Building Pi, and what makes self-modifying software so fascinating
Brought to You By:• Statsig — The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more.• Sonar – The makers of SonarQube, the industry standard for automated code review•…
original ↗1000: Syntax Episode 1,000!
Wes and Scott celebrate 1000 episodes of Syntax, reflecting on how the podcast started, the team behind it, memorable moments, listener stats, inside jokes, and how the show has ev…
original ↗SN 1076: FAST16.SYS - Unmasking the NSA's Most Diabolical Digital Sabotage
What if your engineering calculations secretly sabotaged your nation's best efforts? This week, we reveal how a newly uncovered 21-year-old NSA rootkit quietly corrupted scientific…
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Tuesday 28 April
Open-Weight AI Models
Open-weight models are AI systems whose trained parameters are publicly released, which allows developers to run, fine-tune, and deploy them independently rather than accessing the…
original ↗Your LLM issues are really data issues
Ryan welcomes Harsha Chintalapani, co-founder and CTO at Collate and co-creator of Open Metadata, to the show to discuss why AI and LLMs struggle with real-time, structured product…
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Monday 27 April
#546: Self hosting apps for Python people
The cloud is convenient until it isn't. You upload your photos, sync your contacts, click through the cookie banners. Then prices go up again or you read about a family that lost t…
original ↗999: Writing Maintainable CSS
Scott and Wes break down what makes CSS truly manageable—from preventing style leaks and embracing fluid layouts to choosing the right methodology, whether that’s utility CSS, comp…
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Friday 24 April
Exploring with agents (Interview)
Today on the show I’m talking with Amelia Wattenberger — designer, data-viz veteran, ex-GitHub Next, and now designing Intent at Augment Code. What if the last 30% of any software …
original ↗Becoming a Better Python Developer Through Learning Rust
How can learning Rust help make you a better Python Developer? How do techniques required by a compiled language translate to improving your Python code? Christopher Trudeau is bac…
original ↗Lights, camera, open source!
Ryan is joined on the show by Cult.Repo producers Emma Tracey and Josiah Mcgarvie to discuss making documentaries about open-source software and the people behind the major technol…
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Thursday 23 April
The Joy of Unplugging Cables: Kelly Shortridge on Security Resilience
Kelly Shortridge, author of "Security Chaos Engineering: Sustaining Resilience in Software and Systems" and CPO at Fastly, joins Scott for an ACM ByteCast joint episode about why s…
original ↗Hype and Reality of the AI Coding Shift
AI coding tools have gone from novelty to core infrastructure in under three years. Today, many devs use AI daily, a substantial share of new code is AI-generated, and expectations…
original ↗The mythos of Mythos and Allbirds takes flight to the neocloud
In this Fully-Connected episode, Dan and Chris start with Anthropic's Mythos frontier model, parsing what is publicly known about its cybersecurity capabilities and projecting its …
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Wednesday 22 April
Designing Data-intensive Applications with Martin Kleppmann
Brought to You By:• Statsig — The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more.• Sonar – The makers of SonarQube, the industry standard for automated code review•…
original ↗998: How to Fix Vibe Coding
Wes and Scott talk about making AI coding more reliable using deterministic tools like fallow, knip, ESLint, StyleLint, and Sentry. They cover code quality analysis, linting strate…
original ↗How to get multiple agents to play nice at scale
SPONSORED BY INTUITChase Roossin, group engineering manager, and Steven Kulesza, staff software engineer, from Intuit join the podcast to chat about what might be the hardest probl…
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Tuesday 21 April
Unlocking the Data Layer for Agentic AI with Simba Khadder
AI agents are increasingly capable of reasoning and performing autonomous work over long periods. However, as agents take on more complex, longer-horizon tasks, keeping them suppli…
original ↗173: Tarjeteros
In the streets of the Dominican Republic, a new economy thrives in the shadows. It’s built not on tourism or sugar, but on stolen data. They call them tarjeteros. And they are maki…
original ↗We still need developer communities
Ryan welcomes Mike Swift, co-founder and CEO of Major League Hacking, to the show to chat about the never-ending need for software developer communities and entry points into progr…
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Monday 20 April
Friday 17 April
Reassessing the LLM Landscape & Summoning Ghosts
What are the current techniques being employed to improve the performance of LLM-based systems? How is the industry shifting from post-training towards context engineering and mult…
original ↗No country left behind with sovereign AI
Ryan welcomes Stephen Watt, distinguished engineer and VP of Red Hat’s Office of the CTO, to chat about digital sovereignty and sovereign AI. They explore major infrastructure cons…
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Thursday 16 April
#545: OWASP Top 10 (2025 List) for Python Devs
The OWASP Top 10 just got a fresh update, and there are some big changes: supply chain attacks, exceptional condition handling, and more. Tanya Janca is back on Talk Python to walk…
original ↗Agentic Mesh with Eric Broda
AI agents are evolving from individual productivity tools into distributed systems components inside enterprises. The next frontier is coming into focus, and it involves large-scal…
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