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CoRecursive: Coding Stories
CoRecursive: Coding Stories
Adam Gordon Bell - Software Developer

The stories and people behind the code. Hear stories of software development from interesting people.

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Episodes

Story: Inside Shopify's Layoffs

What if you had to break life-changing news to your team—could you handle the weight of their futures? Allison's journey... more

02 Dec 2024 · 43 minutes
Story: ReiserFS

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

04 Nov 2024 · 52 minutes
Story: From Everest to Startups: Yoshio's Journey of Resilience and Coding

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

02 Oct 2024 · 50 minutes
Story: From Code to Capital - Tim Chen's Journey from Engineer to VC

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

02 Sep 2024 · 46 minutes
Behind the Mic: Adam Gordon Bell on Communication with Software Misadventures Podcast

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

06 Aug 2024 · 1 hour, 3 minutes
Story: Jeffrey Snover and the Making of PowerShell

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

04 Jul 2024 · 49 minutes
Story: From Burnout to Breakthrough

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

04 Jun 2024 · 52 minutes
Story: Coding Machines

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

03 May 2024 · 48 minutes
Story: Code, Kickflips and Crunch Time - Mick West's Neversoft Journey

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

02 Apr 2024 · 57 minutes
Story: Leaving LinkedIn - Choosing Engineering Excellence Over Expediency

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

04 Mar 2024 · 47 minutes
Story: Beautiful Code - Inside Greg Wilson's Vision for Software Design

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

02 Feb 2024 · 57 minutes
Story - Code as a Lifeline: Brain Injury Sparks Python Mastery

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

02 Jan 2024 · 44 minutes
Story - From 486 to Vue.js: Evan You's Full-Time Gamble on Open Source

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

04 Dec 2023 · 46 minutes
Story: Platform Takes The Pain

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

02 Nov 2023 · 48 minutes
Story: Sloot Digital Coding System

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

02 Oct 2023 · 51 minutes
Story: Configuring Identity: Adam Jacob and the Search for Self in Software

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

01 Sep 2023 · 42 minutes
The Science of Learning to Code

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

02 Aug 2023 · 50 minutes
Story: A Dark Room

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

03 Jul 2023 · 40 minutes
Story: Quitting (And Then Rejoining) Stack Overflow

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

02 Jun 2023 · 53 minutes
Story: From Project Management to Data Compression Innovator

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

02 May 2023 · 59 minutes
Story: JSON vs XML

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

03 Apr 2023 · 49 minutes
Story: Sun's Mobile Blunders

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

02 Mar 2023 · 51 minutes
Story: Shipping Graphing Calculator

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

02 Feb 2023 · 46 minutes
Story: The Unfulfilled Engineer

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

02 Jan 2023 · 42 minutes
Story: DOOMed to Fail

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

02 Dec 2022 · 45 minutes
Story: Software World Tour

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

02 Nov 2022 · 48 minutes
Story: Android's Unlikely Success

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

03 Oct 2022 · 1 hour,
Story: From Prison To Programming

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

02 Sep 2022 · 46 minutes
CPAN - This Day In History

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

01 Aug 2022 · 56 minutes
Story: The History and Mystery Of Eliza

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

05 Jul 2022 · 44 minutes
Chat: Why still 80 columns?

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

01 Jun 2022 · 39 minutes
Story: LISP in Space

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

02 May 2022 · 38 minutes
Chat: April Fools' Is Cancelled

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

01 Apr 2022 · 38 minutes
Story: The Story Graph with Nadia Odunayo

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

02 Mar 2022 · 48 minutes
Story: Serenity OS

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

01 Feb 2022 · 41 minutes
Chat: The Internet Is Made of Duct Tape

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

02 Jan 2022 · 42 minutes
Story: Cocoa Culture

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

02 Dec 2021 · 44 minutes
Story: Leaving Debian

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

02 Nov 2021 · 40 minutes
Story: The Original Remote Developer

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

04 Oct 2021 · 41 minutes
Chat: Quines, Polygot Code, and Other Fun Computations

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

02 Sep 2021 · 1 hour, 1 minute
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How would you build an operating system?     My answer is I wouldn't. First off, I don't know how. And the second... more