Have you ever known someone who's technical brilliance was overshadowed by personal failings? This is the story of Hans Reiser,... more

How do you know what matters? What if training to climb Everest left you certain you were on the wrong... more

 What if your corporate job left you feeling empty, and you decided to leap into venture capital? Tim Chen, a... more

Today the tables have turned and you're going to hear someone interview me.  Ronak and Guang from the Software Misadventures... more

What if you had to fight against your company's culture to bring a revolutionary tool to life? Meet Jeffrey Snover,... more

Can you imagine risking your career to making coding easier to learn? Meet Felienne Hermans, a professor who did just... more

What if the tools you trust were actually betraying you? Join us for a riveting story where a team of... more

Meet Mick West, whose career began in an unusual office setup — sandwiched between a kebab shop and a phone... more

What if your dedication to doing things right clashed with your company’s fast pace? Chris Krycho faced this very question... more

Greg Wilson has been on a decades-long quest to transform how we teach and talk about software design. From getting... more

What if your dreams were suddenly ripped away? What if your talents vanished, your passions erased? That's what happened to... more

From the early days of exploring creative possibilities on a 486 computer in his childhood to developing one of today's... more

How did Spotify scale from 10 engineers to 100s to 1000s ...without slowing down? Without becoming corporate?  Facing an IPO... more

Lost treasure. Conspiracy theories. Impossible tech demos.  Jan Sloot claimed to have invented revolutionary data compression that could fit a... more

Today, we go behind the scenes at Chef - the game changing infrastructure automation tool. Adam Jacob created Chef, and... more

Learning to code can feel impossible. Like facing a sheer rock wall with no ropes or harnesses. But what if... more

 Have you ever been frustrated with your job? Maybe not burnt out, but getting close to there? You used to... more

Today, we meet Ben Dumke-von der Ehe, one of the early developers on the Stack Overflow team.  He was on... more

How do you accomplish something massive over time? I've had the chance to meet with a number of exceptional software... more

Today's guest is Douglas Crockford. He's sharing the story of JSON, his discovery of JavaScript's good parts, and his approach... more

Shai Almog worked at Sun on Mobile JVMs just as phones started to turn from phones into something else.    ... more

I've been on many projects that get canceled. We're building cool stuff. We're going above and beyond, and we're excited.... more

Nothing good comes from being insecure about your worth, especially at your job. That's what today's episode is about. That's... more

Today Rebecca Burger Becky Heineman shares the tale of porting Doom to the 3DO console under extreme conditions. There is... more

Today story is from Son Luong Ngoc who shares what’s it was like for him to work and live in... more

What could you accomplish if your teammates were all excited and determined to hit some project timelines? What is... more

 I believe that getting underrepresented groups into software development is a good thing. This is not a controversial opinion until... more

CPAN was the first open-source software module repository. And on this day, Aug 1st, in 1995, CPAN was first announced... more

I recently got an email from Jeff Shrager, who said he'd been working hard to solve a mystery about some... more

On June 1st, 2014, the following question showed up on hacker news:  "Why is 80 characters, the standard limit for... more

Have you ever had a unique approach to a problem and been excited to use it, but you're met... more

On this day in 2014 "lame april fools' jokes" were banned from hacker news.    Today in our first This-Day-in-History... more

Whenever I work on a side project, I can't help but daydream of it taking off in a big way.... more

How would you build an operating system?     My answer is I wouldn't. First off, I don't know how. And... more

Today, I have two of my favorite guests together: Krystal Maughan and Don McKay. We are going to be sharing... more

The last episode, I said I wasn't sure there was such a thing as culture, but that's not the case.... more

Today’s story is an insider view of Debian. One of the oldest Linux distributions and probably one of the longest-running... more

Today's episode is about remote work. Well, sort of. I found someone with a different perspective on remote work and... more

Today, previous guest and my neighbor Don Mckay and I will discuss items from the endless fascinating Cursed Computer Iceberg... more

Today's show: How to Quit Your Job and Work on Open Source Full Time. This story has it all,... more