Nathan Sobo is co-founder of Zed, a super-fast, collaborative, AI-powered, code editor. We chat about his journey to build the... more

After 4 years in development, our book is out! Along with our friend and lead-author, Bill Frasure, we we discuss... more

⁠Stephan Janssen⁠ is always on the bleeding edge of both helping developers grow and with how he uses technology to... more

We chat with Venkat about his upcoming dev2next conference and the new Stream Gatherers API (preview in JDK 22). Discuss this... more

Johannes Schickling (@schickling | schickling.dev⁠) gets us up-to-speed on Effect, the ZIO-inspired Effect System for TypeScript, and the Local-First movement.... more

Diana Montalion teaches us about Systems Thinking and why it matters for those of us building software. Diana is founder... more

We chat with Trond Hjorteland about Agile and why it hasn't led to successful outcomes in many traditional organizations. Mentioned and... more

We chat with Valentina Servile about her upcoming book on Continuous Deployment and reducing the risks to keeping HEAD not... more

We chat with Philip Hölzenspies, one of the maintainers of the new Pkl configuration language (pkl-lang.org). Resources: James' Pkl for GitHub... more

We chat with April Wensel, founder of Compassionate Coding, about helping programmers bring more compassion to themselves and others. Resources: Confessions... more

We chat with Gwen Shapira, co-founder of Nile, about her journey to creating a virtualized, serverless Postgres database service. We... more

We chat with Trisha Gee about Test Driven Development (TDD), flaky tests, ops & observability for builds, and developer productivity. Mentioned... more

When Gunnar Morling announced the 1 Billion Row Challenge a few weeks ago, he had no idea it'd go crazy... more

We chat with Adam Warski about Loom, Virtual Threads, and his Loom-based Scala library, Ox, for structured concurrency & Go-Like... more

Announcing Graboo, a collection of experiments to reduce friction with Gradle. Repo: https://github.com/jamesward/graboo Buy your Happy Path Programming Shirt: https://happy-path.printify.me/products Discuss this episode: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

Most of us have managers but they aren't always great. We chat with James' best manager, Sushila Sahay, about what... more

We learn about Algebraic Effects with the Scala library Kyo ( getkyo.io) from the creator, Flavio Brasil. Discuss this episode: ⁠⁠https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

Arty Starr is a PhD student and entrepreneur focused on helping developers thrive. We chat about her research on developer... more

Zalim Bashorov (@bashorov) works on Kotlin/Wasm at JetBrains and answers our many questions about Wasm, GC, the Component Model, and... more

Sabine went from acedemia and a PhD in formal methods, to Python, Elm, Haskell, and now OCaml. We chat about... more

Our chat with John De Goes starts with his Scala & Rust journeys, then goes into Golem Cloud, a serverless... more

We chat with Dormain Drewitz about failure and reliability. Ironically our recording software crashed near the end of the episode... more

At the Rust Developer Retreat we explored Structured Concurrency with Tokio. With the attendees we chat about our projects and... more

Bruce and James chat about the future of programming. Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

Michael created Effect, a functional effect system inspired by Scala ZIO, for TypeScript. We chat about Functional Programming, the TypeScript... more

Renee Shah is a partner at Amplify Partners, an early stage venture capital firm. We discuss some broad industry trends:... more

We chat with Oliver Drotbohm about what Domain-Driven Design is and how it might intersect with Microservices, Monoliths, or Moduliths.... more

First a short rant about mutability followed by learning about Smithy, an Interface Description Language (IDL), with Jakub Kozłowski. Discuss this... more

Holly Cummins, a Senior Principal Software Engineer on Quarkus at Redhat, joins us to chat about Microservices and Quarkus. Discuss this... more

WebAssembly (Wasm) finds a way for the web to move forward to near-native performance while avoiding the limitations of JavaScript.... more

We learn the motivations behind Haskell and why it is the pinnacle of Functional Programming from Kris Jenkins, a Developer... more

Developer Productivity Engineering (DPE) is a set of tools & practices that help engineers be more productive. We chat with... more

After being told many times that Nix is all we dream for when it comes to software packaging, we finally... more

The Pants build tool is polyglot (Python, Java, Kotlin, Scala, Go, etc) and focused on helping developers be more productive... more

Simon Vergauwen shares about Arrow, a collection of Functional Programming libraries for Kotlin.  Sincere apologies for Bruce & James' bad... more

Grace Jansen joins us to chat about how bees and biology can help us better understand software development tools &... more

Bruce continues his archaeological dig into the foundations of mainstream programming. Referenced blog: Why Are There Functions? Discuss this episode: https://discord.gg/nPa76qF

Andrew Harmel-Law shares a better way to make decisions in software teams using the "Advice Process" which he has used... more

Finally Bruce gets a whole episode about Python with our friend Luciano Ramalho, author of Fluent Python.  In the words... more

No doubt that Rust is hot right now. We chat with Christopher Hunt about his journey through Java, Scala, and... more