Podcasts
Eighteen shows worth your commute — engineering, security, AI, and the people behind them. Audio streams from each show's own feed; every episode links home.
143: Jim Hates ScamsJim Browning has dedicated himself to combatting scammers, taking a proactive stance by infiltrating their computer systems. Through his efforts, he not only disrupts the…
- Story: Leaving LinkedIn - Choosing Engineering Excellence Over Expediency
What if your dedication to doing things right clashed with your company's fast pace? Chris Krycho faced this very question at LinkedIn. His journey was marked by challeng…
Take a look, it's in a bookNick delves into the intricacies of technical book writing with authors Adrienne Braganza Tacke and Dylan Hildenbrand. We talk about the process of working with a publish…
Creating art & visualizations with GoAngelica is joined by the wonderful Anthony Starks to discuss creative coding to create art & visualizations with Go. Anthony is an independent developer/designer interes…
Who's that girl? It's Jess!Apple kills EU web apps, Amazon launches a JS runtime optimized for serverless workloads & we play a game of 20 (15) questions to welcome Jessica Sachs to the party!
Foundations of Go performanceIn the first of a multi-part series, Ian & Johnny are joined by Miriah Peterson & Bryan Boreham to peel back the first layer of the things that matter when it comes to th…
Angular moves fast without breaking thingsKBall & Amal dive deep with the "Dazzle of Zebras" (possible future band name), Angular team members Jessica Janiuk & Mark "Techson" Thompson. Along with an absolute riot…
Gophers Say! GopherCon EU Athens 2024Our award winning worthy survey game show is back, this time Mat Ryer hosts it live on stage at GopherCon EU Athens 2024! Join in & play along as we see which team can be…
React Server Components 🧐The week Amal & guest co-host Eric Clemmons talk to Dan Abramov all about React Server Components. We learn about why they were created, what problems they solve & how th…
What's new in Go 1.22Our “what’s new in Go” correspondent, Carlana Johnson, joins Johnny & Ian to discuss what’s new with the latest iteration of Go in version 1.22.
142: AxactAxact sells fake diplomas and degrees. What could go wrong with this business plan?SponsorsSupport for this episode comes from NetSuite. NetSuite gives you visibility and…
- Story: Beautiful Code - Inside Greg Wilson's Vision for Software Design
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 term "beautiful code," to emp…
Go Capture the Flag! 🚩Angelica is joined by Neil S Primmer & Benji Vesterby to share their experience organizing "Capture the Flag" at GopherCon 2023. CTF events involve teams vying for suprem…
- Story - Code as a Lifeline: Brain Injury Sparks Python Mastery
What if your dreams were suddenly ripped away? What if your talents vanished, your passions erased? That's what happened to Jason McDonald when a traumatic brain injury a…
141: The Pig ButcherThe #1 crime which results in the biggest financial loss is BEC fraud. The #2 crime is pig butchering. Ronnie Tokazowski https://twitter.com/iHeartMalware walks us throug…
140: Revenge BytesMadison's nude photos were posted online. Her twin sister Christine came to help. This begins a bizarre and uneasy story.
- Story - From 486 to Vue.js: Evan You's Full-Time Gamble on Open Source
From the early days of exploring creative possibilities on a 486 computer in his childhood to developing one of today's most popular web frameworks, Evan You's journey is…
139: D3f4ultThis is the story of D3f4ult (twitter.com/_d3f4ult) from CWA. He was a hacktivist, upset with the state of the way things were, and wanted to make some changes. Changes w…
- Story: Platform Takes The Pain
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 300 teams to…
138: The Mimics of PunjabThis episode is about scammers in the Punjab region. Tarun (twitter.com/taruns21) comes on the show to tell us a story of what happened to him. Naomi Brockwell (twitter.c…
- Story: Sloot Digital Coding System
Lost treasure. Conspiracy theories. Impossible tech demos. Jan Sloot claimed to have invented revolutionary data compression that could fit a full movie into a tiny smart…
137: PredatorA new type of mercenary spyware came on the radar called Predator. It’ll infect a mobile phone, and then suck up all the data from it. Contacts, text messages, location, …
- Story: Configuring Identity: Adam Jacob and the Search for Self in Software
Today, we go behind the scenes at Chef - the game changing infrastructure automation tool. Adam Jacob created Chef, and it became a massively popular DevOps tool. But des…
- The Science of Learning to Code
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? A trail blazed smooth by mas…
136: Team XecuterTeam Xecuter was a group involved with making and selling modchips for video game systems. They often made mods that allowed the video game system to rip games or play pi…
- Story: A Dark Room
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 creative and empowering, but t…
- Story: Quitting (And Then Rejoining) Stack Overflow
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 programmers worked…
- Story: From Project Management to Data Compression Innovator
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 something I always wonder about. …
- Story: JSON vs XML
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 software. …
- Story: Sun's Mobile Blunders
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 amazing engineer…