Episodes

  • Self-hosted media server goodness (Friends)

    Self-hosted media server goodness (Friends)
    May 17 2024
    Alex Kretzschmar joins Adam to discuss their experiences with building the “perfect media server” and all the hardware and software involved to make it happen — LinuxServer.io, PerfectMediaServer.com, Plex, Jellyfin, ZFS, mergerfs, TrueNAS, Docker Compose and so much more in this episode.
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    1 hr and 43 mins
  • Building the Patreon for developers (Interview)

    Building the Patreon for developers (Interview)
    May 15 2024
    Birk Jernström from Polar joins the show to tell us all about the creator platform for developers: why he built it, how it works, why it works how it works, what’s in store for the future & we even give Birk some super deep UX feedback on the funding flow.
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    1 hr and 47 mins
  • Avoiding the soft delete anti-pattern (News)

    Avoiding the soft delete anti-pattern (News)
    May 13 2024
    Tim Fisken explains the problem with soft deletion, a simple measure of software dependency freshness is proposed, a deep-dive on sound design in software, a web app with over 80 handy developer tools built in & Luke Plant reminds us that programming mantras are proverbs, not laws.
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    7 mins
  • Motivated by play (Friends)

    Motivated by play (Friends)
    May 10 2024
    Annie Sexton has been on quite a journey since she was last on the show back in early ‘22. On this episode, Annie takes us on that journey, shares her new-found perspective & tells us about how she’s approaching her side project this time around.
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    1 hr and 37 mins
  • Good timing makes great products (Interview)

    Good timing makes great products (Interview)
    May 8 2024
    Paul Orlando is back to talk about his book titled “Why Now?” You may remember Paul from his last appearance (a fan favorite) talking with Jerod about complex systems & second-order effects. Paul’s book, “Why Now?” explores the concept of timing and the importance of understanding the ‘why now’ in business and product development. We discuss timing examples from the book that were either too early or too late (such as the first video phone and car phones), the need to consider both technological advancements and user demand when assessing timing, the significance of timing in the success of companies like Apple and the launch of the iPhone, Uber and Heroku, and more. Also, join our Slack community for a chance to get a signed copy of Paul’s book.
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    1 hr and 20 mins
  • Why your framework doesn't matter (News)

    Why your framework doesn't matter (News)
    May 6 2024
    Bahaa Zidan says your web framework doesn’t matter, DHH writes about magic machines, Dylan Huang reviews thousands of opinions on HTMX, Tim Ottinger says programming is thinking & Tim Spann says small language models (SLM) for the win.
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    8 mins
  • The Wu-Tang way (Friends)

    The Wu-Tang way (Friends)
    May 3 2024
    Our friend Ron Evans is a technologist for hire, an open source developer, an author, a speaker, an iconoclast, and one of our favorite people in tech. This conversation with Ron goes everywhere: from high-altitude weather balloons, to life on Mars, to Zeno’s paradox applied to ML, to what open source devs should learn from the Wu-Tang Clan & more.
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    1 hr and 45 mins
  • Castro leans into indie (Interview)

    Castro leans into indie (Interview)
    May 1 2024
    This week we’re joined by Dustin Bluck to discuss his acquisition of the well known (and beloved) Castro podcast app to take it indie-focused once again. As previous users of Castro, we were excited to dig into the details behind this popular podcast client to see what’s next, how the deal was done, a peek into the code, and where exactly this indie and creator focused podcast app can go.
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    56 mins