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.
SN 1083: Patch Tuesday à la AI - Arch Linux Repo Under SiegeThis episode unpacks the jaw-dropping surge in vulnerabilities unearthed by AI, revealing how Microsoft shattered its own patch records while adversaries and defenders ra…
Preparing for Q-DayMost of the cryptography securing the internet today rests on mathematical problems that classical computers cannot solve in any reasonable timeframe. That assumption is …
If context is king, architecture is the castleRecorded live at the AI Agent Conference, Ryan sits down with Apollo GraphQL CEO Matt DeBerglis to discuss how enterprises can leverage GraphQL and MCP as a structured se…
1012: Who Decides What Ships on the Web?Scott and Wes sit down with Jake Archibald from Mozilla to unpack how web standards actually get made at Firefox. From browser features and developer feedback to the dram…
The Bitter Lesson: The history of reinforcement learningI've been trying to understand how machine learning actually works. Not use it, understand it, down to the ifs and loops. How does a program built out of plain conditiona…
Agent Sandbox with Lovable, with Jonathan GrahlIn this episode we speak to Jonathan Grahl. Jonathan is the Team Lead of Infrastructure at Lovable where he oversees the platform stack the company runs on. We talked abo…
EuroPython 2026: Celebrating 25 YearsWhat's happening at EuroPython 2026? The conference celebrates its 25th anniversary this year in Kraków, Poland. This week on the show, organizers Mia Bajić and Dari…
- Developers are emotionally attached to their tools
Ryan welcomes Trisha Gee, a Java champion and developer productivity advocate, to explore how AI is transforming the role of IDEs and the broader developer experience; th…
#551: Stroll Down Startup Lane - 2026If you've ever been to PyCon, you know one of the best parts of the expo hall is Startup Row, a stretch of booths where early-stage companies built on Python show off wha…
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Developing Multiplayer Games in GodotMultiplayer games are among the hardest software systems to build, requiring developers to synchronize state across unreliable networks while maintaining fairness, perfor…
Zero Trust for AI AgentsAs AI agents become more capable and autonomous, they also introduce new security challenges. In this 'Fully Connected' episode, Dan and Chris unpack Anthropic’s Zero Tru…
- Database branching: Overcoming the bottlenecks of shared database environments
Database branching has, for a long time, been a troublesome piece in the modern developer workflow puzzle: a good idea in principle but in practice a slow and often expen…
When the cost of code approaches zero, what does engineering leadership look like?On this episode of Leaders of Code, Eric Anderson, director of engineering at Intuit, joins Stack Overflow engineering director Ben Matthews to talk about what happens to…
Braille Is Freedom with Bristol Braille's Ed RogersOn this episode of Hanselminutes, Scott talks with Ed Rogers of Bristol Braille Technology about the Canute project and the long road toward affordable multiline Braille.…
SN 1082: The Malicious Use of AI - Anthropic's Red Team ReportDiscover how Anthropic's secretive red team and the MITRE ATT&CK framework are mapping the chilling rise of malicious AI use, revealing cyber threats that now move faster…
SED News: Apple’s AI Problem, The Real Business Model of AI, and Token Cost ReckoningSED News is a monthly podcast from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer unpack the biggest stories shaping software engineering, Silicon V…
- Creating checkpoints by gaslighting a Postgres database
Ryan welcomes Bryan Clark, director of product for Lakebase at Databricks, to discuss what happens when AI agents become the primary creators and users of databases; why …
1011: tmux + Terminal Maxxing with Ben VinegarScott and Wes sit down with Ben Vinegar, former Syntax GM and founder of Modem.dev, to geek out over terminal-maxxing, from SSH-based development and tmux workflows to AI…
From open source hits to OpenAI (Interview)This week I'm talking with Max Stoiber, currently working on ChatGPT's plugin directory and app platform at OpenAI. We discuss the hundreds of open source projects nobody…
Reducing the Size of Python Docker ContainersHow can you easily reduce the size of a Python Docker container? What are the exceptions you should catch in your code? Christopher Trudeau is back on the show this week …
- Making the OWASP top ten in the vibe code era
Ryan welcomes back Tanya Janca, now part of the OWASP Top 10 team, to discuss what changed in the latest OWASP Top 10 release, how the list shifted from “outdated compone…
- Web Native Game Development
The web has quietly become one of the most capable platforms for game development. Advances in WebAssembly, WebGL, and WebGPU have given developers tools that rival nativ…
Breaking down the 2026 Stanford AI Index ReportAI models can win math olympiads… but still struggle to read an analog clock. In this fully connected episode, Dan and Chris break down the latest Stanford AI Index Repor…
"Observabilitying" the Future of Software with Charity MajorsCharity Majors is the co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb.io, where she pioneered the concept of modern observability for distributed systems. Before Honeycomb, she spent yea…
Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey HightowerBrought to You By:• Antithesis – verify your system’s correctness without human review or traditional integration tests – and avoid bugs or outages.• Buildkite – CI softw…
1010: No one cares anymore?On this episode, Scott and Wes dig into the messy reality of modern front-end work, from struggling to find skilled devs and navigating team chaos to questioning code qua…
SN 1081: AI Captured the Flag - Personal AI: Productivity Superpower or Privacy Threat?AI vulnerability discovery just upended the legendary Capture the Flag competitions, leaving top hackers sidelined while algorithms dominate the scoreboard. Hear why one …
- The Hardware Bottleneck AI Can’t Fix
Software engineering has developed powerful tools for observability, data management, and continuous testing, but hardware engineering has largely not kept pace. The feed…
175: BayrobIt started with a fake car listing on eBay.What looked like a simple online scam quietly grew, over more than a decade, into one of the most sophisticated cybercrime oper…
- What it takes to be a player in the international AI game
From the floor of HumanX, Ryan welcomes Songyee Yoon, managing partner at Principal Venture Partners (PVP), to chat about AI development outside the US, from the need to …