Best Codebasics Podcasts (2024)

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630: Frostapalooza Recap, Follow Up, and Messy Codebases 1:01:37

2h ago1:01:37

1:01:37

Show Description Chris has a birthday today , we recap our Frostapalooza experience celebrating Brad Frost's birthday, do all codebases become a mess, Mermaid, TLDraw, and Figjam thoughts, making tiny games, where's the follow up in web and world news, and what's the current state of CMS' on the web? Listen on Website → Links Frostapalooza – Chris …

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The best, worst codebase (News) 8:18

11d ago8:18

8:18

Jimmy Miller tells us about the best, worst codebase he’s ever seen, The Phylum Research Team follows up on the great npm garbage patch, Zach Leatherman logs his findings on sneaky serverless costs, David Cain wants you to go on quests instead of goals & Ashley Janssen gives us szeven rules for effective meeting culture. Leave us a comment Changelo…

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The best, worst codebase 8:18

7d ago8:18

8:18

Jimmy Miller tells us about the best, worst codebase he’s ever seen, The Phylum Research Team follows up on the great npm garbage patch, Zach Leatherman logs his findings on sneaky serverless costs, David Cain wants you to go on quests instead of goals & Ashley Janssen gives us szeven rules for effective meeting culture. Leave us a comment Changelo…

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437: Contributing to Open Source in the Midst of Daily Work with Steve Polito 35:28

20m ago35:28

35:28

Are you passionate about open source but struggling to find time amidst your daily work? Today on the podcast, Joël Quenneville sits down with Steve Polito to discuss practical strategies for making meaningful contributions to the open-source community, even when your schedule is packed. Steve is a developer with extensive experience in the open-so…

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What good programmers worry about 9:26

28m ago9:26

9:26

Waymo cars make bad neighbors, Leonardo Creed pulls together wisdom from Linus Torvalds & the Art of Unix Programming to conclude what good programmers worry about, Max Schmitt makes the argument that toast notifications create a bad user experience, ChartDB is a web-based database diagramming editor, Simon Tatham makes a list of code review anti-p…

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What good programmers worry about (News) 9:26

1h ago9:26

9:26

Waymo cars make bad neighbors, Leonardo Creed pulls together wisdom from Linus Torvalds & the Art of Unix Programming to conclude what good programmers worry about, Max Schmitt makes the argument that toast notifications create a bad user experience, ChartDB is a web-based database diagramming editor, Simon Tatham makes a list of code review anti-p…

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Threat hunter in the machine (Friends) 1:45:27

18m ago1:45:27

1:45:27

Adam & Jerod catch up with our ol’ friend, Suz Hinton! It’s been a couple years since Suz was a regular on JS Party. Since then, she moved back to Australia, earned a degree in cyber security & won a fidget spinner from the NSA… but that’s not all! Leave us a comment Changelog++ members save 10 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disa…

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Flavors of Ship It! (Interview) 2:09:01

1d ago2:09:01

2:09:01

Flavors of Ship It on The Changelog — if you’re not subscribed to Ship It yet, do so at shipit.show or by searching for “Ship it” wherever you listen to podcasts. Every week Justin Garrison and Autumn Nash explore everything that happens after git push — and today’s flavors include running infrastructure in space, managing millions of machines at M…

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Practices of reliable software design (News) 8:38

2d ago8:38

8:38

Chris Stjernlöf got nerd-sniped and ended up writing down his practices of reliable software design, Ben Visness has had enough with the npm community’s propensity to pull in micro-libraries to suit every need, “Stay SaaSy” makes three metaphors for problem solving categories, Troy Hunt takes us inside the “3 billion people” National Public Data br…

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Practices of reliable software design 8:38

7d ago8:38

8:38

Chris Stjernlöf got nerd-sniped and ended up writing down his practices of reliable software design, Ben Visness has had enough with the npm community’s propensity to pull in micro-libraries to suit every need, “Stay SaaSy” makes three metaphors for problem solving categories, Troy Hunt takes us inside the “3 billion people” National Public Data br…

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629: The Great Divide, Global Design + Web Components, and Job Titles 56:40

1d ago56:40

56:40

Show Description A bit of follow-up on vibe driven development and JavaScript not causing The Great Divide, writing testing automation, global design systems and web components, could PHP be used for web components, what if view transitions are going to be everywhere, and frontend engineer vs design systems engineer job titles and descriptions. Lis…

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The Winamp era (Friends) 1:39:45

10d ago1:39:45

1:39:45

You won’t believe the bizarre secrets Jordan Eldredge found investigating corrupt Winamp skins (#7 will shock you)! You also won’t believe how long we can wax nostalgic about the era of Napster, Aladdin & Pearl Jam. Leave us a comment Changelog++ members get a bonus 5 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today! Sponsors: Paragon – …

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Why we need Ladybird (Interview) 1:43:02

9d ago1:43:02

1:43:02

Andreas Kling and Chris Wanstrath have joined forces to form a non-profit called Ladybird Browser Initiative to manage the newly forked Ladybird browser. We discuss what it’s going to take to get to alpha, the why behind Ladybird, avoiding incentives other than those of the users, their plans for incremental adoption of Swift as the successor langu…

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436: Creating Conditions For Your Best Work with Steph Viccari 43:09

15d ago43:09

43:09

How can we optimize our time and environment to do our best work as developers? In today’s episode, we are joined by Stephanie Viccari, former co-host of The Bike Shed and Senior Developer at thoughtbot, to unpack the steps for creating work conditions that enhance productivity. In this conversation, we delve into her unique communication style and…

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628: Tending to RSS Feeds, Code Hike’s Fine Markdown, and Cloudflare R2 55:28

1d ago55:28

55:28

Show Description Doc told me to travel but there's COVID on the planes, Dave's got a 2x life update, how often do you manage or prune your RSS feed subscriptions, checking in on Code Hike and their fine grained Markdown approach, JavaScript decorators use case, and using Cloudflare R2 for image storage. Listen on Website → Links Noah Kahan - Stick …

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Picking a database should be simple (Friends) 1:06:45

10d ago1:06:45

1:06:45

Database aficionado, Ben Johnson, joins Jerod to answer the age ol’ question: which database should you use? Answering that isn’t always easy, which means it’s time to play the “It Depends” jingle & weigh (some of) the options. Leave us a comment Changelog++ members save 9 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Spo…

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Into the Bobiverse (Interview) 1:30:45

7d ago1:30:45

1:30:45

Dennis E. Taylor joins the show to take us “Into the Bobiverse” and other books he’s written. Dennis shares the backstory on how he went from programmer to author/writer and creator of Audible’s Best Science Fiction Book of 2016, his process for iterating and developing the story as he writes, plans for a Bobiverse movie, and what’s next in book 5 …

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80% of professional programmers are unhappy (News) 6:44

8d ago6:44

6:44

The latest Stack Overflow Developer Survey has some concerning results, Joeri Sebrechts helps you do plain vanilla web dev, MIT’s “missing semester” course looks pretty amazing, a dive into the fascinating history of CSV & a tool to get request analytics from the nginx access logs. Leave us a comment Changelog++ members support our work, get closer…

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80% of professional programmers are unhappy 6:44

19d ago6:44

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The latest Stack Overflow Developer Survey has some concerning results, Joeri Sebrechts helps you do plain vanilla web dev, MIT’s “missing semester” course looks pretty amazing, a dive into the fascinating history of CSV & a tool to get request analytics from the nginx access logs. Leave us a comment Changelog++ members support our work, get closer…

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627: Getting Comfortable with the Struggle and Vibe Driven Development 1:00:37

23d ago1:00:37

1:00:37

Show Description Chris brings some blog posts to talk about including being comfortable with the struggle of developer life, Cloudflare Workers + monorepos, vibe driven development, and questions about database migrations, and whether we think AI free blogs are going to be a rarity in the future? Listen on Website → Links Comfortable with the strug…

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From Chef to System Initiative (Friends) 2:18:52

10d ago2:18:52

2:18:52

Adam Jacob goes solo with Adam for an epic pod into his journey to get to System Initiative. From SysAdmin at 8 years old, to discovering Linux and working for Mom-and-pop ISPs, to open source changing his life and starting Opscode and building Chef. Buckle up. This is a different flavor of “Friends” for you. Enjoy. Leave us a comment Changelog++ m…

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Open is the way (Interview) 1:49:25

16d ago1:49:25

1:49:25

Joseph Jacks (JJ) is back! We discuss the latest in COSS funding, his thesis for investing in commercial open source companies, the various rug pulls happening out there in open source licensing, and Zuck/Meta’s generosity releasing Llama 3.1 as “open source.” Leave us a comment Changelog++ members save 13 minutes on this episode because they made …

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435: Cohesive Code with Jared Norman 28:45

14d ago28:45

28:45

How easy is it for a layperson to understand your systems? Jared Norman is a software consultant, speaker, and host of the Dead Code Podcast who specializes in building e-commerce applications in Ruby on Rails. This episode follows two recent talks at RailsConf and covers a theme that emerged from both of them: coupling and cohesion. Tuning in, you…

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The Swiss government goes open source (News) 7:06

15d ago7:06

7:06

The Switzerland federal government requires releasing its software as open source, Google decides not to deprecate third-party cookies, Mark Zuckerberg says “open source” AI is the path forward, GitHub allows anyone access to deleted / private repository data & Tailscale wants to build a New Internet. Leave us a comment Changelog++ members support …

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The Swiss government goes open source 7:06

26d ago7:06

7:06

The Switzerland federal government requires releasing its software as open source, Google decides not to deprecate third-party cookies, Mark Zuckerberg says “open source” AI is the path forward, GitHub allows anyone access to deleted / private repository data & Tailscale wants to build a New Internet. Leave us a comment Changelog++ members support …

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626: We Were Wrong and Keep Getting in Trouble 55:32

15d ago55:32

55:32

Show Description Chris has some follow up on blog posts and past podcast episodes to respond to including browsers and browser engines, advertising on the web, magazines, Cara, peak AI slop, and view transitions. Listen on Website → Links FROSTAPALOOZA - A CONCERT/PARTY/HAPPENING ON AUGUST 17th, 2024 kottke.org - home of fine hypertext products Dar…

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The BSOD CrowdStrikes back (Friends) 1:31:32

1M ago1:31:32

1:31:32

Robert Ross joins us in CrowdStrike’s wake to dissect the largest outage in the history of information technology… and what it means for the future of the (software) world. Leave us a comment Changelog++ members get a bonus 9 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today! Sponsors: Cronitor – Cronitor helps you understand your cron jo…

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The man behind the Sandwich (Interview) 1:39:30

20d ago1:39:30

1:39:30

Adam Lisagor (Sandwich Video founder) takes us behind the Sandwich to share his insights into the importance of storytelling in the tech industry, the value of helping Founders communicate their stories effectively, the details behind his new AI company, and the apps he’s making for Apple Vision Pro at Sandwich Vision. Leave us a comment Changelog+…

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434: Git and GitHub Workflows 47:42

21d ago47:42

47:42

It's Calls for Proposals (CFP) season, and in the process of helping our friends and colleagues flesh out their CFPs, we came up with a few questions to help them frame their proposals for success. After learning about the importance of finding your audience and angle of approach for your CFP, we dive into today's main topic – our Git and GitHub wo…

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Southwest flies high over CrowdStrike outage 8:17

1M ago8:17

8:17

Brendan Gregg details how eBPF can help us have no more blue Fridays, Misty De Meo thinks GitHub is starting to feel like legacy software, Gavin D. Howard does not want Rust to be used for everything, The Notion team published a deep dive into how they used the WASM version of SQLite to improve browser performance & Gregor Ojstersek writes up how t…

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Southwest flies high over CrowdStrike outage (News) 8:17

22d ago8:17

8:17

Brendan Gregg details how eBPF can help us have no more blue Fridays, Misty De Meo thinks GitHub is starting to feel like legacy software, Gavin D. Howard does not want Rust to be used for everything, The Notion team published a deep dive into how they used the WASM version of SQLite to improve browser performance & Gregor Ojstersek writes up how t…

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625: CarTalk, Ownership of A Book Apart, and URL Shorteners 43:47

28d ago43:47

43:47

Show Description Dave's putting together a platform for his presidential bid and workshops his policies, discussing vehicle options for a family in 2024, Chris and other authors get ownership of their A Book Apart books back, and the ramifications and reasoning behind Google killing a URL shortener. Listen on Website → Links ‎Office Space (1999) di…

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There’s a TUI for that (Friends) 1:53:12

25d ago1:53:12

1:53:12

Nick Janetakis is back and this time we’re talking about TUIs (text-based user interfaces) — some we’ve tried and some we plan to try. All are collected from Justin Garrison’s Awesome TUIs repo on GitHub. This episode is “AI free.” Leave us a comment Changelog++ members get a bonus 17 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today! Spo…

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What even is the modern data stack (Interview) 1:12:05

27d ago1:12:05

1:12:05

Benn Stancil’s weekly Substack on data and technology provides a fascinating perspective on the modern data stack & the industry building it. On this episode, Benn joins Jerod to dissect a few of his essays, discuss opportunities he sees during this slowdown & explain why he thinks maybe we should disband the analytics team. Leave us a comment Chan…

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433: Riffing with Kasper Timm Hansen 37:20

1M ago37:20

37:20

Have you ever wondered how improvisation can revolutionize coding? In today’s episode, Stephanie sits down with Kasper Timm Hansen to discuss his innovative “riffing” approach to code development. Kasper is a long-time Ruby developer and former member of the Rails core team. He focuses on Ruby and domain modeling, developing various Ruby gems, and …

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The six dumbest ideas in computer security (News) 8:14

29d ago8:14

8:14

Marcus J. Ranum’s 2005 post on dumb ideas in computer security still holds up, Barry Jones argues why story points are useless, Posting is an HTTP client as a TUI, Varnish ceator Poul-Henning Kamp (phk) reflects on ten years of working on the HTTP cache & es-tookit is a major upgrade to Lodash. Leave us a comment Changelog++ members support our wor…

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The six dumbest ideas in computer security 8:14

1M ago8:14

8:14

Marcus J. Ranum’s 2005 post on dumb ideas in computer security still holds up, Barry Jones argues why story points are useless, Posting is an HTTP client as a TUI, Varnish ceator Poul-Henning Kamp (phk) reflects on ten years of working on the HTTP cache & es-tookit is a major upgrade to Lodash. Leave us a comment Changelog++ members support our wor…

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624: Blogging, In App Browsers are Bad, and Teaching CSS from Scratch 48:23

29d ago48:23

48:23

Show Description On this epsiode we're talking about the current state of blogging and social media, the polyfill hack, whether in app browsers should be banned, web components and the difficulty of front end web dev, and how we would go about teaching CSS from scratch in 2024. Listen on Website → Links Polyfill Attack Impacts Over 380,000 Hosts, I…

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