Dead Code
Jared NormanThe software industry has a short memory. It warps good ideas, quickly obfuscating their context and intent. Dead Code seeks to extract the good ideas from the chaos of modern software development.
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| Publishes | Twice monthly | Episodes | 81 | Founded | 3 years ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Category | Technology | |||
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On this episode of Dead Code, Jared talks with Dave Rooney, a developer since 1981 and co-founder of the Ottawa XP User Group, about his blog post "Rethinking 'Small.'" Dave's team got a vague ticket that XP practice would have split into about eight... more
On this Dead Code episode, Jared talks with Varun Gandhi, a Databricks engineer who works on Git performance for the company's monorepo. The topic is Varun's reply to Dan Luu's post "There's No Reason for Software to Be Slow Anymore," which argues th... more
On this episode of Dead Code, host Jared talks with Sofia Besenski and Alistair Norman of Super Good about DHH's 2026 Rails World keynote. In it, DHH announced that HEY is leaving Rails for six native apps and a Rust backend. He has called Rust hideo... more
Jared talks with Kerri Miller, a Staff Engineer at GitLab, about Keela. It's her new open-source tool that finds unused code in Rails apps, and it's named after a UK police dog known for finding buried bodies. It began about three years ago as an att... more
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A tech-focused conversation series that centers practical realities of software development, architecture, and open-source tooling. Episodes frequently explore how constraints like deadlines, client needs, and evolving tech influence delivery approaches—balancing speed, maintainability, and clear problem understanding. Topics span agile practices, XP, event sourcing, language design, and the evolving tooling landscape for Ruby and Java ecosystems, often with deep dives into JVM-based Ruby, AI-assisted coding, and thoughtful critiques of mainstream methodologies. Noteworthy is a recurring emphasis on pragmatic craft, sustainable open-source collaboration, and ecosystem health, with guests ranging from language designers and core maintainers ... more
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1. Varun Gandhi
2. Alistair Norman
3. Sofia Besenski
4. Kerri Miller
5. Noah Silvera
6. Charles Nutter
7. Nick Suresh
8. Nithin Bekal
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