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.
Astral has been acquired by OpenAI (News)Astral is joining OpenAI, which says a lot about where the center of gravity is moving for developer tools, LiteLLM got hit by a nasty supply-chain attack, and OpenCode b…
Limitations in Human and Automated Code ReviewWith the mountains of Python code that it's possible to generate now, how's your code review going? What are the limitations of human review, and where does mac…
Prevent agentic identity theftRyan is joined by Nancy Wang, CTO of 1Password, to discuss the security challenges local agents present, how enterprises can create robust governance of credentials throu…
Cilium, eBPF, and Modern Kubernetes Networking with Bill MulliganModern cloud-native systems are built on highly dynamic, distributed infrastructure where containers spin up and down constantly, services communicate across clusters, an…
#542: Zensical - a modern static site generatorIf you've built documentation in the Python ecosystem, chances are you've used Martin Donath's work. His Material for MKDocs powers docs for FastAPI, uv, AWS, OpenAI, and…
AI at the Edge is a different operating environmentWhat does “AI at the edge” really mean in 2026, and why does it matter now more than ever before? In this episode, we’re joined by Brandon Shibley, Edge AI Solutions Engi…
990: Vite Is Taking Over (Vite+)Wes, Scott, and CJ talk about Vite+, a unified JavaScript toolchain that combines linting, formatting, task running, monorepos, and more. They break down its evolution, o…
Games That Push Back with Bennett FoddyBennett Foddy is a legendary game designer known for creating wholly distinctive games such as QWOP, Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy, and the recently released Baby St…
Multi-stage attacks are the Final Fantasy bosses of securityRyan welcomes Gee Rittenhouse, VP of Security at AWS, to the show to discuss the complexities of multi-stage attacks in cybersecurity and how these attacks unfold, the ch…
- #494 – Jensen Huang: NVIDIA – The $4 Trillion Company & the AI Revolution
Jensen Huang is the co-founder and CEO of NVIDIA, the world’s most valuable company and the engine powering the AI computing revolution. Thank you for listening ❤ C…
989: State of JS 2025Scott and Wes dig into the latest State of JS survey results, breaking down which JavaScript libraries, frameworks, and tools are rising, falling, or holding steady in th…
Automate Exploratory Data Analysis & Invent Python ComprehensionsHow do you quickly get an understanding of what's inside a new set of data? How can you share an exploratory data analysis with your team? Christopher Trudeau is bac…
After all the hype, was 2025 really the year of AI agents?Ryan is joined by Stefan Weitz, CEO and co-founder of the HumanX Conference, for a conversation on how AI has evolved in the last year. They discuss whether “the year of …
#541: Monty - Python in Rust for AIWhen LLMs write code to accomplish a task, that code has to actually run somewhere. And right now, the options aren't great. Spin up a sandboxed container and you're payi…
Building the Internet with sendmail's Eric AllmanIn this episode, in association with the ACM ByteCast, Scott talks with Eric Allman, one of the foundational figures of the early internet. Best known for creating Sendma…
Prettier and Opinionated Code Formatting with James LongDeveloper tooling shapes how software gets written day to day, but the best tools often disappear into the background once they succeed. Formatting, linting, and build sy…
- Be brilliant at the basics: Inside Looking Glass 2026
The Thoughtworks 2026 Looking Glass report was published in January. Designed to provide business and technology leaders with the tools to better understand and navigate …
Building a global engineering team (plus AI agents) with NetlifyIn this episode of Leaders of Code, Stack Overflow’s Chief of Product and Technology, Jody Bailey, sits down with Dana Lawson, CTO at Netlify. Dana shares her insights on…
Building WhatsApp with Jean LeeBrought to You By:• Statsig — The unified platform for flags, analytics, experiments, and more.• Sonar – The makers of SonarQube, the industry standard for automated co…
988: Cloudflare’s Next.js Slop ForkWes and Scott talk with Steve Faulkner about vinext, a Vite-powered Next.js fork. They dive into AI coding workflows, agent browsers, code quality, and what modern dev to…
Humility in the Age of Agentic CodingWhat happens when an AI hater starts building with AI agents? In this episode, we talk with software engineer Steve Klabnik, known for his work on the Rust programming la…
Keeping the lights on for open sourceRyan sits down with Chainguard CEO Dan Lorenc to chat about how his team is keeping the foundation of the internet—open source projects—alive by forking archived but wide…
Skate Story with Sam EngSkateboarding games have long balanced technical precision with a sense of flow and expression, but Skate Story takes the genre in a radically different direction. It has…
987: Remote Coding AgentsScott and Wes break down the world of remote coding agents — what they are, why you’d want one, and all the different ways you can run them, from Cursor Cloud and Claude …
#540: Modern Python monorepo with uv and prekMonorepos -- you've heard the talks, you've read the blog posts, maybe you've seen a few tantalizing glimpses into how Google or Meta organize their massive codebases. Bu…
Crafting and Editing In-Depth Tutorials at Real PythonWhat goes into creating the tutorials you read at Real Python? What are the steps in the editorial process, and who are the people behind the scenes? This week on the sho…
Open source for awkward robotsRyan is joined by Jan Liphardt, CEO and co-founder of OpenMind, to chat about the rapidly evolving world of humanoid robotics and what it means for humans, why OpenMind i…
A cognition engine for science with Allen StewartScott Hanselman sits down with Allen Stewart, Partner Director of Software Engineering at Microsoft, to explore how AI agents with persistent memory are transforming scie…
DeepMind’s RAG System with Animesh Chatterji and Ivan SolovyevRetrieval-augmented generation, or RAG, has become a foundational approach to building production AI systems. However, deploying RAG in practice can be complex and costly…
- #493 – Jeff Kaplan: World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Blizzard, and Future of Gaming
Jeff Kaplan is a legendary Blizzard game designer of World of Warcraft and Overwatch, now preparing to launch a new game, The Legend of California, from his new studio Ki…