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The BugBash Podcast

Antithesis
Software Reliability
Code Quality
Incident Response
Property-Based Testing
Software Engineering
Distributed Systems
Configuration Management
Database Management
RR Replay Debugger
Debugging Tools
Queuing Theory
Flaky Tests
Mozilla
Artificial Intelligence
Deterministic Simulation Testing
Durable Execution
Designing Data-Intensive Applications
Fuzzmap
Reliability
Database Development

The BugBash podcast is a lively look at all aspects of software reliability, by enthusiasts, for everyone. Each episode brings leading engineers and researchers together for deep dives on everything from formal methods to testing to observability to human factors. There’s concrete advice on best practices, and nuanced discussion of how these strategies combine to deliver software that works. And i... more

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Can you stress-test a React UI completely hands-free? In this episode, Oskar Wickström and I are joined by Jonathan Chan to discuss the origins of Fuzzmap.

From a janitor’s closet in Figma—where end-to-end tests once lived on a "spicy pillow" MacBoo... more

With the "Agentic Era" coming online, teams are onboarding new AI "minions" into our codebases every thirty minutes. So a critical question emerges: Are we actually becoming more productive, or just more busy?Jessica Kerr (Jessitron) joins me to expl... more

Today we’re talking with Rain from Oxide Computing, tracing their journey from the massive, data-driven scale of Meta to the high-stakes, air-gapped world of shipping a 'cloud in a box'. We talk about moving from an environment of over 10,000 enginee... more

Everyone wants reliable software. But nobody wants to test messy legacy code. Today, Lewis Campbell from Outdata joins the show to share a practical approach for bringing deterministic simulation testing to existing systems.

We get into why React c... more

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Recent Guests

Jonathan Chan
Guest, co-developer of Fuzzmap and expert in fuzzing React front-ends
Fuzzmap (project founder), formerly at Figma
Episode: The Dollar Bet that Fuzzed Figma: Exploding Laptops and UI Reliability with Jonathan Chan
Jessica Kerr
Software developer and speaker known online as Jessitron
Episode: Semmathesy and the Agentic Era: Learning Systems in 2026
Lewis Campbell
Founder/consultant at Outdata
Outdata
Episode: Escaping the Spaghetti: How to Test Untestable Codebases
Robert O'Callahan
Creator of the RR Replay debugger and currently working at Google.
Google
Episode: How rr Became a Protected Species: A Story of Necessary Hacks
Martin Kleppmann
Co-author of 'Designing Data-Intensive Applications'
University of Cambridge
Episode: Re-Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Shift to Cloud-Native Storage
Chris Riccomini
Co-author of 'Designing Data-Intensive Applications'
Antithesis
Episode: Re-Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Shift to Cloud-Native Storage
David MacIver
Creator of the Property-Based Testing Library Hypothesis
Anthropic
Episode: Hypothesis vs. Hallucinations: Property Testing AI-Generated Code
Rohan Padhye
Professor at Carnegie Mellon University and head of the PASTA research group focusing on software testing and debugging.
Carnegie Mellon University
Episode: From the Lab to Production: Making Cutting-Edge Testing Practical
Qian Li
Co-founder of the DeBoss Durable Execution Engine
DeBoss
Episode: Ergonomics, reliability, durability

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David Wynn
Host of discussions focusing on software reliability and testing methodologies, bringing insights from various fields of expertise.
David Nguyen
Co-host dedicated to exploring various aspects of software reliability, testing, and best practices in the industry.

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The Dollar Bet that Fuzzed Figma: Exploding Laptops and UI Reliability with Jonathan Chan
Q: What were the biggest design decisions that made Fuzzmap practical for React UIs?
The core decisions were to instrument for coverage, focus on event handlers as the sequence of actions that drive state, and collapse states to a small, meaningful set for both fuzzing efficiency and visualization. This required balancing the granularity of state representation with the need to keep the search space tractable.
The Dollar Bet that Fuzzed Figma: Exploding Laptops and UI Reliability with Jonathan Chan
Q: Could you explain at a high level how Fuzzmap works and how it relates to React's lifecycle?
Fuzzmap instruments the React code to gather coverage data and to persist a state map, yes; it uses a queue of input seeds, instruments conditionals to see which branches are taken, and tracks event handlers to reproduce states. The visualization collapses many states to a manageable set to guide fuzzing and help humans reason about the UI state's evolution.
From the Lab to Production: Making Cutting-Edge Testing Practical
Q: What would be a recommendation for a VP of Engineering?
Invest in a culture of testing, incorporating automated testing with advanced tools as a first-class activity in software design.
From the Lab to Production: Making Cutting-Edge Testing Practical
Q: What recommendation do you have for a senior developer?
Ensure that a software system is testable and well-designed for other tools, allowing tools to effectively find bugs.
From the Lab to Production: Making Cutting-Edge Testing Practical
Q: What advice would you give to a brand new developer?
Do not underestimate random testing; it goes a long way before using any other fancy tool.

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