BJ Burns and Will Gant
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Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Will and Beej connect everyday development choices to their consequences for software, teams, security, and maintenance.
Will and Beej turn software development into a conversation about judgment: which HTTP method preserves the right behavior, what belongs on a dashboard, and how much abstraction a codebase can bear. Complete Developer Podcast favors explanation through practical consequences.
Homemade encryption gets roasted, and your next security meeting gets a fighting chance.
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A clear, grounded look at second-order ignorance and over-abstraction as senior-level warning signs.
Complete Developer Podcast frames seniority as a matter of judgment, not just tenure or technical reach. Will and Beej focus on what happens when a developer arrives at a senior role with meaningful gaps still intact, then tie that concern to second-order ignorance: the risk of…
A practical HTTP verbs review built around GET and the trouble it can cause.
HTTP verbs give the episode its shape as Will and Beej move from HTTP's basic job of transferring documents like HTML and images between client and server into the rules that make methods predictable.
A grounded look at how COVID, money, migration, inflation, and demographic change are reshaping software work.
The Great Resignation looks at why software companies are having a harder time finding, hiring, motivating, and keeping talented people as COVID and other pressures continue to reshape work.
A grounded developer-focused review of cognitive bias, assumptions, and clearer debugging decisions.
Complete Developer Podcast treats critical thinking as a practical tool for developers, less as an abstract ideal than as a way to slow down, organize a messy problem, and notice cognitive bias before it drives the decision.
Spanish-language narrative journalism from across Latin America and Latino life.
The hosts introduce PCI DSS compliance for credit card transactions, discussing its importance and consequences of breaches, while sharing a personal story about Will's knee pain and upcoming MRI.
The hosts introduce principles for building effective application dashboards when user requirements are unclear, then share personal updates including Will's knee injury and home lab project.
In this episode of Complete Developer Podcast, hosts Will and Beej introduce the updated OWASP Top Ten 2021 list of web application vulnerabilities, comparing it to the 2017 version and discussing new entries.
["Complete Developer Podcast's Under Skilled Seniors argues that seniority means judgment, not elapsed time, and opens with a 25-year developer who still debates random-number seeds.", "Will and Beej then name five failure modes: missing fundamentals, over-abstraction, unwillingness to learn, intent-technique mismatch, and inability to teach.", "Their examples include Whitney's keyboard part for a church set, a tenant middleware method that keeps growing user data, and a Silverlight-to-WebAssembly comparison.", "The episode lands on humility and growth mindset as the difference between a useful senior and someone repeating the same year for a decade."]
["Complete Developer Podcast frames HTTP verbs around 39 total methods, with Will and Beej separating safe, idempotent, and cacheable behavior from the verbs themselves.", "They walk through POST, GET, PUT, PATCH, and DELETE with concrete codes like 200, 201, 204, and 404, plus examples from AWS and a user-table soft delete.", "The episode then moves to HEAD, OPTIONS, TRACE, CONNECT, UPDATE, PURGE, PROPFIND, and SEARCH, including CORS, proxy tunneling, and OWASP concerns.", "The most practical section is the API-design tradeoff: when to replace a whole resource, when to patch fields, and when a delete is really a flag change."]
Complete Developer Podcast frames the Great Resignation as workers voluntarily resigning en masse beginning in early 2021, with Will and Beej treating it as a tech labor problem rather than a temporary COVID story.
Complete Developer Podcast's "Steps To Critical Thinking" breaks critical thinking into six ordered steps for debugging and hard decisions.
Complete Developer Podcast hosts Will and Beej explain how developers can improve meeting notes by triaging low-value meetings, preparing questions, and marking action items visibly.