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In this episode we talk about Wordware, programming with LLMs, and what it now means to be a developer. Robert and Filip explain how they're building tools that...

In this episode we talk about Wordware, programming with LLMs, and what it now means to be a developer. Robert and Filip explain how they're building tools that...
Our old friend Chris McCord, creator of Elixir's Phoenix framework, tells us all about his new remote AI runtime for building Phoenix apps. Along the way, we vibe code one of my silly app ideas, calculate all the money we're going to spend on these tools, and get existential about what it all means.
Today marks one year since I joined the Civil Service—what a year it’s been, with department changes and a new government along the way. Navigating digital accessibility challenges in such a large and …
It's so commercialised now, people have forgotten the meaning of flying ant day
Happy ‘flying ant day’ to all those who celebrate, personally I stopped after I learnt it was just invented by Hallmark as a ploy to sell more cards.
Between and I took 10365 steps.
Avoiding naming Go packages after common nouns like <code>rate</code> or <code>server</code> so that they don’t clash with variable names, and how to find a more fitting name for them instead.
Today, came across a Go package literally named "event". Such bland naming doesn't just hurt users, it hurts the package because being hard to google makes it less likely to be adopted. Ultra-generic naming isn't cool. It's just bad. For the love of god: https://brandur.org/fragments/go-no-common-nouns
Week Notes 25#25 (2 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2025-06-23?
Chris Anderson joins the show. You may recognize Chris from the early days of CouchDB and Couchbase. Back when the world was just waking up to NoSQL, Chris was at the center of it all, shaping how developers think about data distribution and offline-first architecture. These days, Chris is working on Vibes.diy and Fir...
ngrok Go SDK v2 released🚁 Go 1.25 interactive tour by Anton ZhiyanovJSON evolution in Go: from v1 to v2 by Anton Zhiyanov📘 Free eBook: Data Serialization in Go by Jonathan HallJSON BenchmarksLightning Round🐍 charm FangYouTube short: CoPilot API is written in Go⌨️ Typst: Compose text fasterJeremy...
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This week on The Business of Open Source, I spoke with Nick Veenhof, Director of Contributor Success at GitLab. GitLab has probably the most well-articulated open source strategy out there, and we talked about the two main prongs of that strategy, the co-create strategy and the dual flywheel...
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Listen to Still Panicking: How to Pass your Theory Test from Nobody Panic. Still Panicking: Stevie has been smashing it in the latest series of Taskmaster. To celebrate, this week we look back at some practical How-Tos to help guide you through tasks of your own.Stevie recently passed and has many thoughts. Tessa passed a couple of decades ago before there was an app. If you’ve been putting off booking your theory test because you’re worried about failing, or have it looming in a few weeks, this is the episode for you.Recorded and edited by Aniya Das for Plosive.Photos by Marco Vittur, jingle by David Dobson.
Tony Holdstock-Brown is the CEO and founder of Inngest, a tool to run AI and backend workflows at scale.This episode is brought to you by WorkOS. If you're thin...
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Ah nice! I remember having that magically work in bash
before but not have it set on zsh
- that's another good option
This week on The Business of Open Source I talked with Alya Abbott, COO of Zulip, about managing community contributors. This is a hot topic for open source companies — and for that matter, open source projects in general, including those that aren’t being monetized in any way. It’s a bit of a...
Me, all day yesterday to my kids: it's hot commie summer lmao and everyone wants merch 15, this morning: oh btw I made this last night [contains quote post or other embedded content]
Checking out the branch from a fork in GitHub Actions, when using pull_request_target
(3 mins read).
How to use gh pr checkout
to fetch a forked PR's branch, when using pull_request_target
.
Disabling zsh history for a given shell session (1 mins read).
How to temporarily disable zsh saving history of interactive shell commands.
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Go 1.25rc1 releasedOpinion: Go should be more opinionated by Elton MinettoBlog: HTTP QUERY and Go by Kevin McDonaldInterview with Redowan DelowarBlog post: You probably don't need a DI frameworkBlogFx dependency injection framework for GoBlog: How I program with agents
Kebab has already been skewered? 😝
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Jerod tells Adam about how bad he hates the taste of Gin, sips on some Generative A Rye (on the rocks), they open the comments section for a bit, and then land the plane talking about being alone, naked, and afraid.
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In this episode, Abi Noda speaks with Gilad Turbahn, Head of Developer Productivity, and Amy Yuan, Director of Engineering at Snowflake, about how their team builds and sustains operational excellence. They break down the practices and principles that guide their work—from creating two-way...
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I'm joined by Philippe Ombredanne, creator of the Package URL (PURL), to discuss the surprisingly complex and messy problem of simply identifying open source software packages. We dive into how PURLs provide a universal, common-sense standard that is becoming essential for the future of SBOMs and securing the software supply chain. The show notes and blog post for this episode can be found at
If you, a business, are reliant on an open source project to function it is YOUR responsibility to assess and ensure the health of that project by either contributing to it yourself or by using an alternative if project health cannot be guaranteed.
Today's history lesson is about the non-markup language platform engineers love to hate, YAML Ain't Markup Language (YAML). Ingy tells us all about how and why it started, how it evolved over time, and what's happening next with YS. Note: sorry about the audio issues in this episode. We did our...
Week Notes 25#24 (2 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2025-06-16?
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I love this and I’m stoked about this, but I feel for OSS communities that don’t have the outsized impact and leverage of CNCF. This wouldn’t have happened to anyone else, I suspect [contains quote post or other embedded content]
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I have never passed a single LeetCode-type interview. Because I didn't ever have to use this skill professionally & consider it ridiculous in the first place. That said, I have this interview today & I didn't have enough time to prepare. Yolo 🤪 Failing is still practice!
Jerod is joined by Carson Gross, the creator of htmx –a small, zero-dependency JavaScript library that he says, "completes HTML as a hypertext". Carson built it because he's big on hypermedia, he even wrote a book called Hypermedia Systems. Carson has a lot of strong opinions weakly held that we dive into in this conve...
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