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Join Ty Franck (one half of James S.A. Corey) and Wes Chatham ('Amos Burton' on The Expanse) as we celebrate our 100th episode where our patrons got to ask the guys anything...

Reviving vintage tech is about more than just nostalgia, @janaboruta discusses open source community building for startups, and the value of collaborative maintainership now on The ReadME Project:

In Episode 80, Alex and James are joined by the incredible Hana Walker-Brown to discuss being diagnosed as adults with ADHD. Alongside Hana's story,  the usual bits of nonsense occur, including  'What has James lost, forgotten or mislaid this week...

Pre-release announcement for Go 1.20.1 & 1.19.6 to fix private security issuesPre-release announcement for golang.org/x/image/tiff & golang.org/x/image to fix private security issuesTransparent TelementryGitHub Discussion (now locked)Blog post explaining the problem and proposed solutionGopherCon...

This week we invited our friend Mat Ryer to join us for some good conversation about some Git tooling that’s been on our radar. You may know Mat from Go Time and also Grafana’s Big Tent, which we help to produce. We speculate, we discuss, we laugh, and Mat even breaks into song a few times. It’s good fun.

A quick look at the history of building web apps, followed by a discussion of htmx and how it compares to both modern and traditional ways of building.

Mrs ADHD returns to join Alex and James for an episode on use/overuse/addiction to smartphones in ADHD.   As usual, the episode includes brain-numbingly dull psycho-education delivered by Alex,  personal reflections from all three ADHD adults abou...

Last September, at the 🇨🇭 Swiss Cloud Native Day, Florian Forster, co-founder & CEO of ZITADEL, talked about why they switched to serverless containers. ZITADEL has a really interesting workload that is both CPU intensive and latency sensitive. On top of this, their users are global, and traffic is bursty. Florian t...

In our ops & infra world, we learn to optimise for redundancy, for mean time to recovery and for graceful degradation. We instinctively recognise single points of failure, and try to mitigate the risks associated with them. For some years now, Daniel Vassallo has been doing the same, but in the context of life &amp...

It’s “Call For Papers” (CFP) season in Go land, so we gathered some seriously experienced conference organizers to help YOUR submission be the best ever.

Mike chats with Co-Founder of Stack Aid, Dudley Carr, about the importance of funding Open Source projects, and Stack Aid's approach to helping Open Source organizations get paid.

Ole Bulbuk & Sandor Szücs join Natalie to discuss the ins & outs of long-term code maintenance. What does it take to maintain a codebase for a decade or more? How do you plan for that? What about inheriting a codebase for the long term? Oh, and (how) can AI help?

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This week we’re talking about by Postgres with Craig Kerstiens, Chief Product Officer at Crunchy Data, and a well known ambassador for Postgres. Just Postgres. That’s what this week’s show is about.

Lars is big on Elixir. Think apps that scale really well, tend to be monolithic, and have one of the most mature deployment models: self-contained releases & built-in hot code reloading. In episode 7, Gerhard talked to Lars about “Why Kubernetes”. There is a follow-up YouTube stream that showed how to automate depl...

Ty Franck (one half of James S.A. Corey) and Wes Chatham ('Amos Burton' on The Expanse) discuss S6E4 and that amazing scene where Josep loses his arm... as well as top 5 limb losing scenes in movies.

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Max Countryman wrote up a framework for prioritizing tech debt, shadcn builds a copy/paste-able UI component library in public, Justin Etheredge shares 20 things he’s learned in his 20 years as a software engineer, Jacob Stopak’s git-sim lets you easily visualize git operations without affecting your repo & Mattias...

Twitter is a social media platform that does some incredibly complex stuff when it comes to distributed systems engineering to keep the website up and running. Twitter has open sourced a lot of projects for others to use. Twitter created a fork of Memcached called Twemcache and also a fork of Redis to handle the

Tech lawyer Luis Villa returns to Go Time to school us once again on the intellectual property concerns of software creators in this crazy day we live in. This time around, we’re focusing on the implications of Large Language Models, code generation, and crazy stuff like that.

Jerod is joined by Yehonathan Sharvit, author of Data-Oriented Programming, to discuss the virtues of treating data as a first-class citizen in our applications and the four principles that make it possible.

Ty Franck (one half of James S.A. Corey) and Wes Chatham ('Amos Burton' on The Expanse) talk S6E3 of The Expanse... Holden and top dumb decisions in movies...

Paul Smith (from “Obama’s Trauma Team”) tells us the tale of how Go played a big role in the rescuing and rebuilding of the HealthCare.gov website. Along the way we learn what the original team did wrong, how the rescue team kept it afloat during huge traffic spikes, and what they’ve done since to rebuild it to serve t...

Marcos Nils has been into platform engineering for the best part of the last decade. He helped architect & build developer platforms using VMs & OpenStack, containers with Docker, and even Kubernetes. He did this at startups with 10 people, as well as large, publicly traded companies with 1000+ software enginee...

Welcome to 2023 — we’re kicking off the year talking to Justin Searls about the state of web development and why he just might write a “You Might Not Need React” post. He’s been so productive using Turbo and Stimulus (and tailwind) in Rails 7 that we had to talk about the state of Rails development today and a bunch of...

Dr Suzi Gage and Scroobius Pip discuss psychedelics, including LSD, magic mushrooms and DMT. The risks of taking them, but also potential medical benefits currently being investigated. As well as discussing myths surrounding psychedelics.

In this series, I’m investigating different drugs, busting some myths and explaining potential harms and benefits. This week, I say yay or neigh to ketamine

In this series, I’ll be investigating different drugs, busting some myths and explaining potential harms and benefits. This week I’m looking at the highs and lows of MDMA

Nothing good comes from being insecure about your worth, especially at your job. That's what today's episode is about. That's what today's guest is here to discuss. It's a slow burn, but if you listen to the end, I think you will value yourself more professionally. My Guest is Don Mckay. Someone longtime listeners will undoubtedly know. […]

Full Stack Developers Wes Bos and Scott Tolinski dive deep into web development topics, explaining how they work and talking about their own experiences. They cover from JavaScript frameworks like React, to the latest advancements in CSS to simplifying web tooling.

Jackson Huff’s clipboard powertool for the command line, Fernando Borretti thinks tools for thought should be unbundled, Listen Notes helps you run a microfeed on Cloudflare, Martin Rue says to be productive, be prepared & Paul Sawers takes TechCrunch readers inside Matrix and features its recent adoption wins.

In this episode with Taylor Lorenz, we talk about how she became the It-Girl in reporting, her thoughts on Elon Musk buying Twitter, her constant online bullying and harassment, and her thoughts on how the recession will affect the creator economy space. You don't want to miss this! 

Ty Franck (one half of James S.A. Corey) and Naren Shankar (Showrunner of The Expanse) welcome our special guest CLiton Shorter (Composer of The Expanse) to dive deep into the music of The Expanse...

 Rich Burroughs is a Staff Developer Advocate at Loft Labs who interacts with the community and works with Kubernetes. In this episode he takes us through his journey from growing up with ADHD and being involved in improv comedy, to having a succe...

Our 5th annual year-end wrap-up episode! Sit back, relax, pour a glass of your favorite beverage and join us for listener voice mails, our favorite episodes, some must-listens, and of course the top 5 most listened to episodes of the year. Thanks for listening! 💚

Scott talks with Kris Nova who has been building and scaling Hachyderm, a Mastodon instance that began in her basement and is now moving into the cloud. Nova shares her extensive knowledge on the technical challenges and solutions involved in creating and maintaining Hachyderm, as well as her insights on the importance of building and maintaining a welcoming and inclusive online community.

Ty Franck (one half of James S.A. Corey) and Wes Chatham ('Amos Burton' on The Expanse) do a deep dive into Season 6 episode 2 and TOP SEXY CHARACTERS!!! Grab your EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal by going to nordvpn.com/tatg to get a Huge Discount off your NordVPN Plan + 4 months for free! It’s completely risk free with Nord’s 30 day money-back guarantee!


We’re back! This is from our “lost episodes” — This is your brain…and this is your brain on burnout, any questions? OK, but seriously, burnout effects everyone, even if they/you don’t admit it. Burnout is a state of physical, emotional, and mental exhaustion caused by prolonged stress. It can affect ANYONE, but it is e...

Eight months ago, in 🎧 episode 49, Alex Sims (Solutions Architect & Senior Software Engineer at James & James) shared with us his ambition to help migrate a monolithic PHP app running on AWS EC2 to a more modern architecture. The idea was some serverless, some EKS, and many incremental improvements. So how did ...

Mat invites Bartłomiej Płotka, Kemal Akkoyun & Christian Simon to discuss how to make Go code more efficient through modern observability practices.

Show/Hide Transcript Gift calendar updates, Twitter meltdowns, and a return of webactions. It’s the audio edition for This Week in the IndieWeb for December 10th - 16th, 2022. You can find all of my …

Maybe it’s the Californian sun. Or perhaps it’s the time spent at Disney Studios, the home of the best stories. One thing is for sure: Taylor Dolezal is one of the happiest cloud native people that Gerhard knows. As a former Lead SRE for Disney Studios, Taylor has significant hands-on experience running cloud native te...