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Dead Code

Jared Norman
Ruby On Rails
Software Development
Postgresql
Test-Driven Development
Integrated Tests
Agile Development
Open Source
Software Engineering
E-Commerce
Ruby
Extreme Programming
Postgres 17
High Performance Postgresql For Rails
Automation
Technical Debt
Career Development
Shopify
Testing
Accessibility
Prism

The 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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In this Dead Code episode, Jared and ReScript contributor Josh Vlk explain why ReScript is a strongly typed, sound language for web development that compiles to JavaScript, offers first-class React support, and favors a “one right way” approach (buil... more

In this episode, Dave Copeland discusses Brut, his Ruby web framework built atop Sinatra that prioritizes “simple over easy” design principles. Brut replaces traditional MVC with pages, forms, and handlers, uses Flex for HTML generation, Sequel for d... more

Jared talks with Adam Tornhill, founder of CodeScene, about the psychology of programming and how understanding human cognitive limits leads to better software. Adam explains that since working memory can only juggle a few items at once, developers m... more

Jared sits down with Trail of Bits security engineer Matt Schwager to discuss the persistent security risks of Ruby’s Marshal library. Matt explains that while Marshal (and Python’s Pickle) makes serialization simple and fast for tasks like caching, ... more

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Recent Guests

David Bryant Copeland
Ruby developer and author with extensive experience in programming.
Episode: Brut-al Death (with David Bryant Copeland)
Adam Tornhill
Founder of CodeScene and a programmer with over 30 years of experience
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Episode: God Class Funeral (with Adam Tornhill)
Matt Schwager
A security engineer at Trail of Bits with 12 years of experience in tech, specializing in security issues.
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Episode: Deserial Killer (with Matt Schwager)
Kasper Timm Hansen
Former member of Rails Core, Ruby and Rails consultant
Episode: Crushing Riffs (with Kasper Timm Hansen)
Justin Searls
A seasoned programmer and co-founder of Test Double with 20 years of experience.
Test Double
Episode: Fear-Driven Everything (with Justin Searls)
Dave Gauer
Web developer since 1999, known for Ziglings learning project and writings on the Forth programming language
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Episode: Radiation Hardened (with Dave Gauer)
Fabien Basmaison
French UI developer with 25 years of experience in web development and HR SaaS.
Episode: Naked and Semantic (with Fabien Basmaison and Jens Oliver Meiert)
Jens Oliver Meiert
Web developer and author, managing at PandaDoc.
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Episode: Naked and Semantic (with Fabien Basmaison and Jens Oliver Meiert)
Ivo Anjo
A Ruby performance engineer specializing in building the Datadog Ruby Profiler and advocating for Ruby's concurrency model improvements.
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Episode: Eat Your Greens (with Ivo Anjo)

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Brut-al Death (with David Bryant Copeland)
Q: Have you thought about how Brut's gonna handle the learning curve from developers coming from other frameworks?
I plan to create content guiding Rails developers on transitioning to Brut, emphasizing conceptual differences.
Brut-al Death (with David Bryant Copeland)
Q: Can you tell me a little bit about your Ruby Web Framework?
I wanted to create a framework that avoids the over-complication of Rails while maintaining powerful features.
God Class Funeral (with Adam Tornhill)
Q: What should developers remember most about writing code for humans rather than machines?
To emphasize the importance of naming concepts clearly, as this significantly aids in reasoning about the code.
God Class Funeral (with Adam Tornhill)
Q: How have you measured productivity improvements when working with healthy code?
We measured code health and correlated it with task completion times and defect rates to find strong correlations between healthy code and productivity.
God Class Funeral (with Adam Tornhill)
Q: What are the strategies you've discovered to help software developers deal with the sort of fundamental limitations?
Raising the abstraction level using techniques like chunking can help manage cognitive load.

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Focus centers on software development practices, exploring topics like code health, programming methodologies, and innovative coding techniques. Episodes feature discussions on key challenges such as security vulnerabilities, the importance of collaboration in coding, and the psychological aspects of decision-making in software development. Unique concepts like 'riffing'—a playful, experimental approach to coding—are highlighted, along with critical narratives regarding organizational impacts on productivity and the evolution of programming practices in contemporary tech culture. The podcast stands out for its mix of technical insights and engaging storytelling, making it particularly relevant for software developers and tech professionals ... more

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