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Victor, VP of Marketing at Strapi, walks us through how AI can be used in content creation—what tools work, what to watch out for, and how you can try some of...

Victor, VP of Marketing at Strapi, walks us through how AI can be used in content creation—what tools work, what to watch out for, and how you can try some of...

My desire to run a sustainable software business started somewhere near 2003 in the Business of Software forum. I've built, sold, and acquired a dozen of products since that time, with I have to admit the majority of failures.I've seen three distincts era for software companies, we're definitably...

In this episode, Josh and Otto dive into the world of Debian packaging, exploring the challenges of supply chain security and the importance of transparency in open source projects. They discuss Otto's blog post about the XZ backdoor and how it's a nearly impossible attack to detect. Otto does a great job breaking down an incredibly complex problem into understandable pieces. The show notes and blog post for this episode can be found at
Week Notes 25#44 (2 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2025-10-27?
Guy Zerega led sales and marketing at Stack Overflow, where he once hired me.Now he leads sales at Cyborg - they offer end-to-end encrypted inference data. This...

In late 2021, the Log4Shell vulnerability sent shockwaves through the global tech community. For the first time, we're sharing the untold, inside story from ...

New proposal: go vet check for using %q with integer typesBlog: I'm Independently Verifying Go's Reproducible Builds by Andrew AyerJetBrains' language promise indexReddit: Why I built a ~39M op/s, zero-allocation ring buffer for file watchingBlog: A modern approach to preventing CSRF in Go


Adam Jacob joins us to discuss how agentic systems for building and managing infrastructure have fundamentally altered how he thinks about everything, including the last six years of his life. Along the way, he opines on the recent AWS outage, debates whether we're in an AI-induced bubble, quells any concerns of AGI an...
It's a FRIGHT...when your record a podcast with dead projects all around. Tech debt, poor choices, timing, market shift, and optimizing for the wrong things are all lurking around waiting to pop out at you! Just don't forget to push record.
Why, yes I am having to spend my Sunday morning looking into reducing the impact of bot scraping on my website after a significantly large AWS bill, why do you ask?

Pretty sure I have the scariest engineering costume of the day.
Welcome back to Break, a Fallthrough aftershow! In this episode, Kris, Matt, and Steve talk extend their discussion from Fallthrough episode #43.Enjoying the aftershow? Let us know on social media! If you prefer to watch instead of just listen, head over to YouTube where you watch this episode of...

Jujutsu is a new version control system that's gaining in popularity. Its swappable backends allow users to continue using version control systems like Git without other users even noticing. Steve Klabnik aims to be a big part of it. Much like with Rust, he's getting involved early and making...

This is why I have a website. It’s also why everything I’ve ever written has appeared on my website with *very* few exceptions Having a single domain name that’s YOU is invaluable. My website gets lots of compliments on its branding and appearance. My slides borrow that appearance, too It matters! [contains quote post or other embedded content]
Honestly, if you value content you've created always make sure it has a home outside of a single company. Always. [contains quote post or other embedded content]
It seems so rude and careless to make me, a person with thoughts, ideas, humor, contradictions and life experience to read something spit out by the equivale...

It's our first Kaizen after the big Pipely launch in Denver and we have some serious mopping to do. Along the way, we brainstorm the next get-together, check out our new cache hit/miss ratio, give Pipely a deep speed test, discuss open video standards, and more!
Welcome back to Break, a Fallthrough aftershow! In this episode, Kris, Matt, Angelica, and Cory O'Daniel talk extend their discussion from Fallthrough episode #42.Enjoying the aftershow? Let us know on social media! If you prefer to watch instead of just listen, head over to YouTube where you...

Thanks to Forge for sponsoring this episode!Find Forge at https://withforge.com/. They are HIRING! Find Forge's jobs page here: https://in-the-forge.notion.site/hiring-rolesDRAFT RELEASE NOTES — Go 1.26Coding Challenge #100 - BitTorrent ClientThe Evolution of Caching Libraries in GoThis episode...

In our first episode, H. Jon Benjamin joins Amber Nash to talk about the pilot episode of Archer, “Mole Hunt.”…

Week Notes 25#43 (2 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2025-10-20?
Oof A House of Dynamite was intense but a very good film - would recommend!
Had some very similar vibes to Leave the World Behind
Finding missing releaseTimestamps in Renovate (3 mins read).

How to query your Renovate debug logs (or renovate-graph exports) for missing release timestamps.
Ellie Huxtable's magical shell tool, Atuin, won developers' hearts by syncing, searching, and backing up our shell history with ease. Now Ellie is tackling the desktop with a GUI built to help teams make their workflows repeatable, shareable, and reliable.
What's in the SOSS? features the sharpest minds in security as they dig into the challenges and opportunities that create a recipe for success in making software more secure. Get a taste of all the ingredients that make up secure open source ...

In this episode, hosts Angelica Hill and Matthew Sanabria are joined by special guest Cory O'Daniel to dive deep into DevOps. They chat through some of the big questions shaping the industry: Is the "cloud promise" still holding up? What role does on-prem infrastructure play now? And perhaps most...

Adding type hints to Renovate config.js files (1 mins read).

How to add JSDoc type hints to a config.js Renovate global self-hosting configuration file.
Week Notes 25#42 (2 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2025-10-13?
Go 1.25.3 and 1.24.9 released🪲 Blog: How we found a bug in Go's arm64 compiler by Thea Heinenzsh support progress for sh🇺🇸 Go meetup & live episode @ San Francisco🌩️ Lightning roundqjs, a CGO-Free, modern, secure JavaScript runtime for Go applications📺 Kaizen, watch anime from the terminal

The best software engineers are fantastic written communicators. Here's why: - breaks information out of silos (DMs, emails) so others can reference, build upon, and expand your work - supports remote teams, different timezones, and helps colleagues catch up after time off - unblocks teammates by reducing repetitive conversations - prepares you for the lest of your career. Senior+ roles ARE writing roles: architecture docs, code reviews, technical specs, etc. 1/
Ben Dicken is a developer educator at PlanetScale, he's an incredible writer and teacher, who's made some amazing technical articles that developers actually lo...

Post-recording update: As I've been lobbying for (both publicly and behind the scenes), it has been announced that the RubyGems and Bundler client libraries are…

Mike McQuaid and Justin Searls join Jerod in the wake of the RubyGems debacle to discuss what happened, what it says about money in open source, what sustainability really means for our community, making a career out of open source (or not), and more. Bleep!
We're joined by Deepak Singh from the Kiro team. Kiro is AWS's attempt at building an AI coding environment to take you from prototype to production. It does that by bringing structure to your agentic workflow with spec-driven development. Their aim: the flow of AI coding, leveled up with mature engineering practices.
In this episode of the CHAOSScast, host Alice Sowerby sits down with Andrew Nesbitt and Damián Vicino to discuss the formation and objectives of the new Package Metadata Working Group within the CHAOSS community. They discuss the complex issues surrounding package manager metadata, its interoperability challenges, and how the working group aims to address these through mapping and standardization efforts. They also touch upon the importance of these efforts for various stakeholders, including developers, researchers, and tool builders. The conversation highlights both the immediate and long-term goals of the group and provides information on how interested individuals can get involved. Hit download now to hear more!

Elixir creator, José Valim, is throwing his hat into the coding agent ring with Tidewave –a coding agent for full-stack web development. Tidewave runs in the browser alongside your app, but it's also deeply integrated into Rails and Phoenix. On this episode, José tells us all about it. Also: his agent flow, YOLO mode, ...
"Entitled white billionaire wants to decide laws" I don't give a fuck if Harry Potter was your whole childhood. It's not more important than the lives of trans people.
Welcome back to Break, a Fallthrough aftershow! In this episode, Kris, Matt, and Mitchell talk extend their discussion from Fallthrough episode #41.Enjoying the aftershow? Let us know on social media! If you prefer to watch instead of just listen, head over to YouTube where you watch this episode...

Mitchell once again joins Matt and Kris to give us an update about Ghostty, a new library he's working on called libxev, and some of his thoughts around AI.We continue this discussion in this week's episode of Break! We get into some of the topics briefly mentioned during the main episode. Watch...

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