
Software's best weekly news brief, deep technical interviews & talk show.
| Publishes | Twice monthly | Episodes | 1014 | Founded | 17 years ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Category | Technology | |||

This week I’m joined by Peer Richelsen, co-founder of Cal.com. What if the majority of open source repositories are already compromised and we just don’t know it yet? That’s the theory Peer brings to the table this week. We dig into how AI has flatte... more
Sam Lambert is back after 4 years and he does not hold back! We cover $5 PlanetScale Postgres, the Neki “do-over” of Vitess, agents shipping schema changes through deploy requests, rolling back a 500TB table in seconds, and the very real question of ... more
Haroon Meer is back! Haroon is the Founder of Thinkst, the ~50-person bootstrapped company behind Canary and Canarytokens — honeypots and tripwires you sprinkle inside your network and forget about until an attacker touches one. We talk about the AWS... more
This week I’m talking with Max Stoiber, currently working on ChatGPT’s plugin directory and app platform at OpenAI. We discuss the hundreds of open source projects nobody remembers alongside the big ones like react-boilerplate and styled-components, ... more
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Not sure this is the first time ive heard a human read out AI text but certainly the first time its been painfully obvious. Maybe still listenable if you skip the slop news episodes but not for me
Not sure this is the first time ive heard a human read out AI text but certainly the first time its been painfully obvious. Maybe still listenable if you skip the slop news episodes but not for me
Excellent content
Used to cover interesting but has now become the mouthpiece for AI companies.
I love how this show gets to the heart of the matter - how can we move quickly to build our businesses with IT? There is no superfluous marketing nor false advertising. Just brutal honest advice from people who have already achieved success!
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A tech-focused show blending quick weekly news with in-depth interviews and thoughtful dialogue about software development, open source, and developer tooling. Episodes frequently explore topics like security tooling, AI-assisted development, open source ecosystems, platform strategy, and cloud-native architectures, often with practitioners from leading tech companies or influential startups. A standout pattern is the mix of practical engineering discussions, firsthand product leadership insights, and occasional sponsor segments that illuminate real-world tool choices for developers and teams. The format's breadth—ranging from hands-on how-tos to big-picture strategy—makes it useful for engineers, tech leads, and decision-makers evaluating ... more
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Recent guests on this podcast include:
1. Peer Richelsen
2. Sam Lambert
3. Lachlan Donald
4. Haroon Meer
5. Max Stoiber
6. Matt Carey
7. Alex Kretschmar
8. Nicky Pike
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