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Technical interviews about software topics.
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A grounded look at FreeBSD's staying power, with real infrastructure stories and enough context to make the history land.
FreeBSD's staying power is the point here. John Baldwin and Gregor Vann walk through how a Berkeley-born operating system became quiet infrastructure, with the focus on engineering choices that kept it useful: governance, kernel scalability, storage work, and the discipline…
A sharp talk about difficulty, accessibility, and how streaming and speedrunning change the way hard games are played.
Bennett Foddy's games are the starting point, but the real subject is how frustration turns into meaning. Joe Nash keeps the conversation moving through QWOP, Getting Over It, and Baby Steps while staying on the mechanics underneath them: why challenge matters, how accessibility…
A clear look at what opinionated formatting is meant to solve, and when a Rust rewrite earns its keep.
James Long treats Prettier less like a feature list and more like a tradeoff: less friction, faster calls, and fewer small decisions every day.
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.
John Baldwin discusses FreeBSD's 30-year history, from its Berkeley origins to powering Netflix's CDN and the PlayStation 4.
Bennett Foddy, creator of QWOP and Getting Over It, discusses his physics-driven approach to game design where gameplay is discovered rather than invented.
James Long, creator of Prettier, discusses how the opinionated code formatter became one of JavaScript's most widely adopted tools despite initial community pushback.