The stories and people behind the code. Hear stories of software development from interesting people.
104 episodes transcribedLost treasure. Conspiracy theories. Impossible tech demos. Jan Sloot claimed to have invented revolutionary data compression that could fit a full mo...
Today, we go behind the scenes at Chef - the game changing infrastructure automation tool. Adam Jacob created Chef, and it became a massively popular...
Learning to code can feel impossible. Like facing a sheer rock wall with no ropes or harnesses. But what if there was a path up the mountain? A trail...
Have you ever been frustrated with your job? Maybe not burnt out, but getting close to there? You used to love what you did, and it felt so creative...
Today, we meet Ben Dumke-von der Ehe, one of the early developers on the Stack Overflow team. He was on the front lines as the platform transformed h...
How do you accomplish something massive over time? I've had the chance to meet with a number of exceptional software developers and it's something I a...
Today's guest is Douglas Crockford. He's sharing the story of JSON, his discovery of JavaScript's good parts, and his approach to finding a simple way...
Shai Almog worked at Sun on Mobile JVMs just as phones started to turn from phones into something else. Sun had deep expertise in mobile developme...
I've been on many projects that get canceled. We're building cool stuff. We're going above and beyond, and we're excited. But the project encounters r...
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 he...
Today Rebecca Burger Becky Heineman shares the tale of porting Doom to the 3DO console under extreme conditions. There is an engine to tweak, deadline...
Today story is from Son Luong Ngoc who shares what’s it was like for him to work and live in many different countries around the world, including work...
What could you accomplish if your teammates were all excited and determined to hit some project timelines? What is it like for a group of people to g...
I believe that getting underrepresented groups into software development is a good thing. This is not a controversial opinion until you start talking...
CPAN was the first open-source software module repository. And on this day, Aug 1st, in 1995, CPAN was first announced to a private group of PERL user...
I recently got an email from Jeff Shrager, who said he'd been working hard to solve a mystery about some famous code. Eliza, the chatbot, was built in...
On June 1st, 2014, the following question showed up on hacker news: "Why is 80 characters, the standard limit for code width." You probably know what...
Have you ever had a unique approach to a problem and been excited to use it, but you're met with skepticism? Today's story: what happens if you tak...
On this day in 2014 "lame april fools' jokes" were banned from hacker news. Today in our first This-Day-in-History segment, I want to share some of...
Whenever I work on a side project, I can't help but daydream of it taking off in a big way. For today's guests, something like that did happen. Whe...
