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.
#537: Datastar: Modern web dev, simplifiedYou love building web apps with Python, and HTMX got you excited about the hypermedia approach -- let the server drive the HTML, skip the JavaScript build step, keep thin…
Exploring MCP Apps & Adding Interactive UIs to ClientsHow can you move your MCP tools beyond plain text? How do you add interactive UI components directly inside chat conversations? This week on the show, Den Delimarsky from…
That's good Mojo - Creating a Programming Language for an AI world with Chris LattnerWhat does it take to design a programming language from scratch when the target isn’t just CPUs, but GPUs, accelerators, and the entire AI stack? In this episode, I sit d…
Selling SDKs in the era of many Claudes (Interview)Steve Ruiz joins us for a deep-dive on tldraw (a very good free whiteboard) and the business he's built selling SDKs that help others build very good whiteboards (and mor…
Inside China’s Great Firewall with Jackson SippeChina’s Great Firewall is often spoken about but is rarely understood. It is one of the most sophisticated and opaque censorship systems on the planet, and it shapes how …
Inside AI/works™: An agentic development platformIn January 2026, Thoughtworks launched AI/works™, an agentic development platform. It promises to make the capabilities of AI agents a reality for the enterprise, helping…
Cognitive Synthesis and Neural AthletesAs AI accelerates innovation and adoption, leaders are facing rising cognitive load, shifting systems, and new emotional realities inside their organizations. In this epi…
980: AI Coding ExplainedWes and Scott talk about the state of AI coding in 2026—from editors and models to agents, skills, slash commands, MCPs, and more. They unpack what these things actually …
Optimizing Agent Behavior in Production with Gideon MendelsLLM -powered systems continue to move steadily into production, but this process is presenting teams with challenges that traditional software practices don’t commonly en…
All the Claw things (News)Peter Steinberger joins OpenAI, ZeroClaw is "claw done right", MimiClaw runs on a $5 chip, Steve Yegge on managing the AI Vampire, and the day the telnet died.
979: WebMCP: New Standard to Expose Your Apps to AIScott and Wes unpack WebMCP, a new standard that lets AI interact with websites through structured tools instead of slow, bot-style clicking. They demo it, debate imperat…
Han shot first (Friends)Our ol' friend, Brett Cannon, is back to talk all things Python. But first! Star Wars, Machete Order, Lost, Babylon 5, Game of Thrones, Murderbot, Ted Lasso, Project Hail…
AI incidents, audits, and the limits of benchmarksAI is moving fast from research to real-world deployment, and when things go wrong, the consequences are no longer hypothetical. In this episode, Sean McGregor, co-founde…
Running Local LLMs With Ollama and Connecting With PythonWould you like to learn how to work with LLMs locally on your own computer? How do you integrate your Python projects with a local model? Christopher Trudeau is back on t…
The programming language after Kotlin – with the creator of KotlinBrought to You By:• Statsig — The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more.• Sonar – The makers of SonarQube, the industry standard for automated co…
The Rise of The Claw with OpenClaw's Peter SteinbergerThere’s a new wave of AI tools that don’t just live in the cloud, don’t just autocomplete code, and don’t just sit in a browser tab. They reach into your local environmen…
- #491 – OpenClaw: The Viral AI Agent that Broke the Internet – Peter Steinberger
Peter Steinberger is the creator of OpenClaw, an open-source AI agent framework that’s the fastest-growing project in GitHub history. Thank you for listening ❤ Chec…
- Building the machine that builds the machine (Interview)
Paul Dix joins us to discuss the InfluxDB co-founder's journey adapting to an agentic world. Paul sent his AI coding agents on various real-world side quests and shares a…
978: Should A New Coder Use AI?Wes and Scott answer your questions about AI agents, learning to code with AI, pagination patterns, skilling up from outdated tech stacks, balancing side projects with fa…
- #536: Fly inside FastAPI Cloud
You've built your FastAPI app, it's running great locally, and now you want to share it with the world. But then reality hits -- containers, load balancers, HTTPS certifi…
- Vouch for an open source web of trust (News)
Mitchell Hashimoto's trust management system for open source, Nicholas Carlini has a team of Claudes build a C compiler, Stephan Schwab recounts the history of attempted …
- It's a renaissance woman's world (Friends)
Amal Hussein returns to tell us all about her new role at Istari, what life is like outside the web browser, how she's helping ambitious orgs in aerospace, what the SDLC …
Improving Your GitHub Developer ExperienceWhat are ways to improve how you're using GitHub? How can you collaborate more effectively and improve your technical writing? This week on the show, Adam Johnson is…
- Unlearning, experimentation and engineering rigor in an agentic world
In a world that's being transformed by AI agents and agentic systems, how do software developers unlearn what they know while also maintaining engineering rigor? In an in…
The AI Vampire with Gas Town's Steve YeggeAI is making developers dramatically more productive...so why is everyone so exhausted? In this episode, Scott talks with Steve Yegge, legendary blogger and creator of Ga…
- Setting Docker Hardened Images free (Interview)
In May of 2025, Docker launched Hardened Images, a secure, minimal, production-ready set of images. In December, they made DHI freely available and open source to everyon…
The third golden age of software engineering – thanks to AI, with Grady BoochBrought to You By:• Statsig — The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more.• Sonar – The makers of SonarQube, the industry standard for automated co…
- Notes: The Universal Paperclip Clicker
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 Rich sitting unread by the fi…
170: PhrackPhrack is legendary. It is the oldest, and arguably the most prestigious, underground hacking magazine in the world.It started in 1985 and is still running today. In this…
- The tech monoculture is finally breaking (News)
Jason Willems believes the tech monoculture is finally breaking, Don Ho shares some bad Notepad++ news, Tailscale's Avery Pennarun pens a great downtime apology, Milan Mi…