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A programmer's career, notes, tabs, and attention collide in a candid look at systems that refuse to stay tidy.
Sophie frames programmer identity through useful contradictions. She works on backend systems at Eventbrite, where a coding mistake can stop someone from getting paid, but she is also the kind of programmer who may reach for a built-in application instead of building a custom…
A candid, human-scale conversation about accessibility and the cost of treating basic access as an inconvenience.
Accessibility starts with a glitchy keyboard voiceover, then settles into a candid conversation about how infrastructure, workplace habits, and everyday manners shape a disabled person's day.
A loose Nashville developer-community conversation on Rust, hiring, codebases, and Terraform.
NashDevCast brings Corey Elliott, Jason Orndorff, Will Golden, and Lisa French into a Nashville developer-community discussion that ranges across code tests, interview habits, Rust, and a final recommendation for Terraform.
A practical, funny look at how infrastructure engineers schedule software across machines.
Site reliability engineering comes through as infrastructure work made readable and concrete. Nathan Hubbard, a site reliability engineer at Twitter, joins Witt Morris, an infrastructure engineer at Simple, for a discussion that moves from earlier infrastructure iterations into…
A live developer-community conversation follows code-breaking curiosity all the way to Kryptos.
Cryptography runs through this live Nashville conversation as a path into developer culture, public service, and one persistent attempt to get closer to the Kryptos sculpture. Alanka Dunnan recalls an early interest in computers, then describes calling the FBI in St.
Specialists walking through software's tradeoffs, one system at a time.
Founders and engineers on AI coding agents like Claude Code, and supply chain security.
The engineering decisions behind code, agents, and control.
Python tools, practical trade-offs, and the occasional programming joke.
Matt Stratton interviews DevOps practitioners on security, platform engineering, and trusting AI-written code.
Sophie, a backend programmer at Eventbrite, says she works on money-related code where a mistake can mean somebody does not get their money.
On NashDev Podcast's Accessibility, Corey Elliott and Jason Wendorf turn a San Francisco conference into a case study of exclusion when the Castro Theater mezzanine has no elevator and cuts Wendorf's job-fair access by a third.
["NashDevCast's Corey Elliott talks with Jason Orndorff, Will Golden, and Lisa French about Rust, code tests, and interview practices in the Nashville developer community.", "Jason frames Rust as a Mozilla language for code where every microsecond matters, then contrasts it with C++ undefined behavior, segfaults, and the safety differences in C# and Python.", "The group also covers Rust's compiler bootstrapping, its use in cryptography, video encoding, image work, and other CPU-bound tasks, and Jason says the language can take about two years to learn well.", "The back half turns to hiring, code bases, commit logs, test coverage, paid code challenges, and why live coding interviews feel artificial."]
Rodney Norris brings Nathan Hubbard and Witt Morris onto NashDev to define site reliability engineering as software engineering applied to operations.
Corey Elliott and Lisa French record Nash DevCast live from Bar Camp Nashville with Alanka Dunnan, who says she has done cryptography, game development, and NPR interviews.
A conversation with a programmer about building a React/Redux app within a Backbone Marionette codebase.
The episode discusses the challenges of software maintenance and dependency updates in modern computing.
A panel of hosts interviews Scott Clousing about working with junior developers and the importance of community and professional development in software engineering.
A roundtable discussion among hosts about how they discovered a software school, focusing on the journey of junior developers.
Hosts introduce guests who will discuss cross-site scripting in JavaScript and the importance of testing.
A software engineer shares her unconventional path into programming, from linguistics to computer science, while balancing single motherhood and a child's medical condition.
The hosts discuss test-driven development and other software engineering topics within the Nashville developer community.