
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 | 75 | Founded | 2 years ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Category | Technology | |||

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
On this episode of Dead Code, Jared talks with Nithin Bekal, a longtime Ruby developer at Shopify, about Sapphire, his hobby programming language: a gradually typed, object-oriented language inspired by Ruby but stripped of metaprogramming magic, imp... more
On Dead Code, Jared talks with returning guest Ismael, a London-based developer who came to programming from fine arts, about event sourcing, CQRS, and the Ruby stack he's built around them. Ismael frames event sourcing as thinking in time rather tha... more
Tim Riley returns to discuss the launch of Hanakai, a new organization unifying the Hanami, Dry, and ROM projects into a cohesive Ruby ecosystem focused on modern architecture, collaboration, and community. He explains how Hanami 3.0 represents the c... more
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Technical conversations with software professionals, researchers, and practitioners that explore practical programming practices, architecture, and evolving tooling. Episodes frequently center on craft, testing, open source tooling, language ecosystems (Ruby, Rust, OCaml, ReScript), design principles, and the impact of AI on software development. Guests range from language designers and framework creators to security engineers and proponents of code quality, often sharing hands-on experiences, real-world trade-offs, and actionable advice for engineers and engineering leaders. The show's standout is its ability to pair rigorous technical discourse with approachable storytelling, including practical demos, off-site anecdotes, and critical tak... more
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Recent guests on Dead Code include:
1. Nithin Bekal
2. Ismael Celis
3. Tim Riley
4. Ted M. Young
5. Dave Copeland
6. Sean Goedecke
7. Russ Olsen
8. Daniel Fichtinger
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