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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
High Performance Postgresql For Rails
Postgres 17
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 talks with longtime Rubyist and former Rails Core member Kasper Timm Hansen about “riffing,” a sketch-first approach to software design. Instead of jumping straight into migrations and production code, Kasper opens a ... more

On this episode of Dead Code, Jared talks with Justin Searls, co-founder of Test Double, about programming workflows, decision-making, and the evolving role of developers. They explore how the order and tempo of thought matter more than static code, ... more

The 50th episode of the Dead Code Podcast brought Karl Weber, Jared Norman, Benjamin Wil, Sofia Besenski, and Noah Silveira together to mark the milestone with sharp, funny, and critical takes on the state of tech. They skewered CEOs bragging about A... more

In this episode of Dead Code, Jared interviews Dave Gauer, creator of the Ziglings project—a whimsical, hands-on tutorial for learning the Zig programming language. Dave shares how Ziglings began as a personal learning tool and grew into a widely lov... more

In this episode of Dead Code, Jared and guest Mond explore how James C. Scott’s concepts of legibility, metis, and episteme apply to tech interviews, arguing that standardized hiring processes prioritize what’s easy to measure over what truly reflect... more

In this episode of Dead Code, Jared speaks with Jens Oliver Meiert and Fabien Basmaison, co-maintainers of CSS Naked Day, a long-standing web tradition that invites developers to strip CSS from their websites for one day to emphasize semantic HTML, a... more

In this episode of Dead Code, Jared interviews Ivo Anjo, a Ruby performance expert at Datadog, about Ruby’s concurrency model and his work improving visibility into it. They discuss the Global VM Lock (GVL), which simplifies Ruby’s internals but hind... more

In this episode of Dead Code, Jared talks with Marco Roth about Herb, a new fault-tolerant parser for HTML and ERB designed to improve the developer experience in the Rails ecosystem. Unlike tools like Deface or Nokogiri, Herb doesn’t auto-correct or... more

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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
ratfactor.com
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.
PandaDoc
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.
Datadog
Episode: Eat Your Greens (with Ivo Anjo)
Marco Roth
Rails developer with a focus on open source and editor tooling based in Switzerland
Episode: Herbicide (with Marco Roth)
Alan Ridlehoover
Senior Engineering Manager at Cisco Meraki, leading the platform engineering team for the Meraki Dashboard
Cisco Meraki
Episode: Coffee Grindcore (with Alan Ridlehoover)
Scott Werner
CEO and co-founder of Sublayer, an AI agent framework for Ruby.
Sublayer
Episode: Wish Granted (with Scott Werner)
Noel Rappin
Staff engineer at Chime Financial, author and co-author of several technical books.
Chime Financial
Episode: Pickaxe Resurrection (with Noel Rappin)

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Eat Your Greens (with Ivo Anjo)
Q: What excites you the most about Ruby's future right now?
The excitement comes from a renewed interest in improving Ruby, with more people contributing to Ruby Core and developing tools for profiling and debugging.
Eat Your Greens (with Ivo Anjo)
Q: What is MN Scheduling?
MN Scheduling is an approach separating how Ruby threads work from how the Ruby VM manages the operating system thread, aimed at improving scalability.
Coffee Grindcore (with Alan Ridlehoover)
Q: What is the main message for developers who want to fight back against the tide of complexity in their codebases?
Developers should take proactive measures to address complexity, including recognizing it as inevitable but manageable through techniques like code rehydration.
Epistemic Extinction (with Mond)
Q: What role does the competitive job market play in making these interviews feel worse than they might actually be?
In an incredibly competitive job market, there is pressure to ensure that the hiring process is stringent, which can lead to overly complex and unsatisfactory interview experiences.
Epistemic Extinction (with Mond)
Q: What aspects of senior engineering work are fundamentally difficult to measure in a standardized interview format?
Everything that's easy to measure is likely something that's easy to practice and optimize away. Senior engineers deal with complex systems that require deep understanding and adaptability, which is hard to test in an interview.

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This podcast explores the intricacies and evolving practices within the software development industry. Each episode focuses on a range of topics, from programming languages like Ruby, Python, and Rust to concepts such as AI ethics, state management, and code maintainability. Listeners are treated to engaging discussions with experts who share insights into their fields, as well as the challenges developers face in an environment that is constantly changing. The unique angle of this series lies in its commitment to clarifying complex ideas within software engineering, making it approachable for both enthusiasts and seasoned professionals. Alongside technical learning, there are thoughtful conversations about the implications of technology in... more

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