
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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| Publishes | Twice monthly | Episodes | 78 | Founded | 3 years ago |
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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
Jared talks with Noah Silvera, a Super Good Software engineer and the show's most frequent guest, about treating requirements as negotiable rather than as literal instructions. Requirements reach engineers through a game of telephone, so she argues y... more
Charles Nutter has led JRuby for 20 years and still spends much of his time correcting the assumption that running Ruby on the JVM means writing Java. It doesn't. Rails and Hanami apps come over and run, and what you get underneath is world-class gar... more
Host Jared Norman talks with Nik Suresh, who runs Hermit Tech, an extreme programming data consultancy in Melbourne, about why Scrum fails. Nik argues Scrum spread through dishonest marketing (Sutherland's "twice the work in half the time" promise) a... 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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Recent guests on Dead Code include:
1. Noah Silvera
2. Charles Nutter
3. Nick Suresh
4. Nithin Bekal
5. Ted M. Young
6. Kasper Timm Hansen
7. Dave Copeland
8. Sean Goedecke
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