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Technical interviews about software topics.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
It makes complex engineering legible by connecting technical mechanisms to the team, infrastructure, and design decisions around them.
All Content Archives - Software Engineering Daily turns technical subjects into conversations about how systems are built and how engineering choices behave in practice.
Three and a half trillion lines of TypeScript types: just enough to make your side project seem reasonable.
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A clear, grounded tour of the networks, exchanges, and edge infrastructure that carry internet traffic toward customers.
The internet takes shape as a practical, human-made system of independent networks, routing choices, and busy meeting points. A Cloudflare network engineer walks through border gateway protocol, peering versus transit, and the company's edge architecture, using a city metaphor…
A sharp look at how Ukraine turned drone warfare into a public system of morale, evidence, and unresolved limits.
Ukraine's drone war comes through here as a fight shaped not only by hardware, but by incentives, visibility, and trust in information. Simon Schuster follows how drone commanders built public profiles through social accounts, billboards, and television interviews, turning…
SED News weighs AI hype and European cloud ambitions against startup risk, adoption timing, and failure.
SED News frames technology's supposed tipping points less as sudden breakthroughs than as slower tests of timing, trust, and cost. Gregor Vand and Sean Faulkner move from the lure of building a startup, including the years and money it can absorb, to Europe's cloud ambitions,…
A grounded look at how PICO-8's limits turn game development into deliberate invention.
Game Development on the PICO-8 with Johan Peitz treats the deliberately constrained software console as a real working medium for small games.
A spectacular TypeScript port turns into a practical discussion about the teams that inherit advanced code.
Running Doom in TypeScript is the kind of engineering stunt that earns attention on scale alone: three and a half trillion lines of types, 90 gigabytes of RAM, and a year of work to model the game entirely inside the language.
A loose, useful monthly scan of tech headlines, deeper AI discussion, and Hacker News highlights.
SED News stays faithful to its monthly shape: a run through current headlines, a deeper middle section, and Hacker News highlights at the end. That structure gives the episode real utility.
This episode features an interview with Byron Huang, a high school student and full-stack developer, discussing his open-source laptop project called Enneany, which aims to demonstrate that anyone can build their own laptop.
This episode discusses the results of the 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey with guests Jody Bailey and Erin Yepis, exploring insights into global developer trends.
This episode features an interview with Chance Strickland, a software engineer and Radix UI maintainer, discussing the open-source React component library, its relationship with ShadCN UI, and its role in modern web development.
This episode features an interview with Jake Zimmerman, a Stripe engineer who leads development on Sorbet, a static type checker for Ruby, discussing its motivation, architecture, and challenges in typing dynamic languages.
This episode explores how AI coding assistants like Augment Code address the challenges of scaling AI in large enterprise codebases by focusing on contextual understanding and automating code review processes.
Samuel Colvin discusses the origins of Pydantic and its evolution into Pydantic AI, a type-safe agent framework for building reliable AI systems in Python.
This episode of SED News covers recent tech headlines including AMD's OpenAI deal, Intel's struggles, and Apple's AI strategy, while also discussing predictions and cybersecurity trends.
Mike McQuaid discusses Homebrew's origins, architecture, automation focus, sustainability, and trade-offs as a macOS package manager with host Kevin Ball.
This episode features an interview with Sam Bhagwat and Abhi Aiyer, co-founders of Mastra, discussing their open-source TypeScript framework for building AI agents on the frontend to bridge the gap between back-end AI tools and JavaScript/TypeScript applications.
This episode features an interview with Ben Supnik, a software engineer who has worked on the X-Plane flight simulator for over 20 years, discussing the engineering behind the simulator and his career journey.
This episode features an interview with Chris Weichel, CTO of ONA, discussing how their platform integrates AI agents into software development to enhance productivity while maintaining security and control for enterprises.
This episode features an interview with Yechezkel Rabinovich, CTO of GroundCover, discussing how eBPF-powered observability platforms address challenges in modern distributed software systems and adapt to AI-generated code.
This episode features an interview with Viran Barea, founder and CTO of Orkes, discussing the challenges of orchestrating microservices and AI models in modern software systems.
Jeff Bezos returns as CEO of Project Prometheus, a company with $6.2 billion in funding and a focus on AI for engineering and manufacturing computers, automobiles, and spacecraft.
Software Engineering Daily's The Architecture of the Internet follows Cloudflare network engineer Eric Seidel through BGP, peering, transit, China, and anycast.
Joe Nash opens with a count: Johan Peitz says he has seven or eight of the 30 PICO-8 games on Steam.
Dimitri Matropoulos says the TypeScript type system can be pushed far enough to render Doom, after a project that used three and a half trillion lines of types, 90 gigabytes of RAM, and about a year of work.
Software Engineering Daily’s K-Ball talks with Simon Schuster about how Ukraine turned drone warfare, electronic warfare, and battlefield software into a fast-moving innovation loop.
Host Gregor Vand and guest Sean Falconer discuss recent tech news, including NVIDIA's investment in Intel, Meta's failed AR demo, and Anthropic's massive revenue growth.
Simon Eskildsen discusses TurboPuffer, a vector database focused on speed and cost scalability, covering its origins, technical design, and adoption by companies like Cursor and Notion in an interview with host Gregor Vand.