Best Zach Jenkins Podcasts (2024)

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Building a New Terminal App (with Zach Lloyd) 1:07:39

5d ago1:07:39

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The terminal might be the most used development tool in history. So it’s a little odd that it hasn’t changed that much in the decades since the terminal first came into being. Is the terminal a “completed” project? Or are there new ways to look at it that might make it even more useful? This week’s guest—Zach Lloyd—is convinced the terminal is ripe…

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Building A Programming Language From Its Core (with Peter Saxton) 1:01:21

6d ago1:01:21

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A language’s AST—it’s abstract syntax tree—is nearly always a hidden implementation detail. It’s not treated as part of the language, but merely the intermediate step between parsing and compiling. But this week’s guest aims to flip that relationship on its head... Peter Saxton joins me to talk about EYG - an AST-first language that defines the fun…

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Practical Applications for DuckDB (with Simon Aubury & Ned Letcher) 1:08:04

13d ago1:08:04

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DuckDB’s become a favourite data-handling tool of mine, simply because it does so many small things well. It can read and write a huge number of data formats; it can infer schemas automatically when you just want to move quickly; and it can interface with most languages, run like lightning on the desktop or be embedded into a webpage. I’m a huge fa…

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Ilya Kroogman of The Digital Panda 49:01

20d ago49:01

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In this episode of "Turning Point," Blaine Bertsch, CEO of Dryrun, interviews Ilya Kroogman, founder of The Digital Panda, about his entrepreneurial journey and business growth. They discuss the challenges of hiring and the transition to remote work, emphasizing the importance of hiring for culture fit. The conversation dives into the impact of the…

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Recording and Replaying the Browser (with Justin Halsall) 1:02:50

20d ago1:02:50

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RRWeb is based on a simple idea: If you capture all the DOM events in a browser session, and when they happened, you could play it back later. Play it back for diagnosing error conditions, for understanding your user’s journey, or for creating demo videos that can be edited element-by-element instead of frame-by-frame. Unfortunately, the simple ide…

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Zig as a Multi-OS Build System (with Loris Cro) 1:19:05

1M ago1:19:05

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The ZigLang team have put an astonishing amount of effort into making Zig work an effective tool for compiling C across different architectures. Work that benefits the Zig language, but also has a chance to benefit languages like Python and Rust. Or indeed, any language that uses native C libraries somewhere in its stack. So this week we’re joined …

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Mike Begg from AMZ Advisors 44:15

1M ago44:15

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Join us on "Turning Point" as Mike Begg, co-founder and CEO of AMZ Advisors, shares his entrepreneurial journey and the evolution of his business. Mike discusses his early experiences, from working at a marina to selling on Amazon and launching his own brand. He explains the changes in the Amazon marketplace and the importance of building a profess…

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Creating and Evolving Elixir (with José Valim) 1:42:21

1M ago1:42:21

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Back in 2012, José Valim started building Elixir to as a way to have his ideal programming language running on the same platform as Erlang. Fast-forward 12 years and it’s become build anything from distributed infrastructure to notebooks and websites. In this week’s Developer Voices, José joins us to tell the history of Elixir in a series of design…

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PyO3: From Python to Rust and Back Again (with David Hewitt) 1:34:29

1M ago1:34:29

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There’s huge pressure on Python at the moment to get faster, ideally without changing at all. One increasingly–popular way of achieving that impossible task is to push the performance critical code down into C, C++, or Rust. And this week we’re focussing on the Python route, as we take a look at PyO3. David Hewitt’s the principal committer to PyO3,…

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Brandon Gano of Whadif 44:02

2M ago44:02

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Join us on "Turning Point" as Brandon Gano, Co-founder of Whadif, shares his entrepreneurial journey. From starting young to focusing on larger, more profitable clients, Brandon discusses the importance of having a clear mission and vision for sustainable growth. He highlights building relationships, leveraging testimonials, and knowing where your …

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NATS & Jetstream: The System Communication Toolkit (with Jeremy Saenz) 1:11:04

2M ago1:11:04

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Most message systems have an opinion on the right way to do inter-systems communication. Whether it’s actors, queues, message logs or just plain ol’ request response, nearly every tool has decided on The Right Way to do messaging, and it optimises heavily for that specific approach. But NATS is absolutely running against that trend. In this week’s …

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Cuis Smalltalk and the History of Computing's Future (with Juan Vuletich) 1:18:53

2M ago1:18:53

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Smalltalk is one of those programming languages that’s lived out of the mainstream, but often referenced as an influence and an important part of programming history. It’s the cornerstone of object-oriented programming, it was into message passing before actors were cool, and it blurs the line between operating system, programming language and pers…

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Herb Cogliano from Aspire Growth Advisors 46:31

2M ago46:31

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In this episode of Turning Point, Herb Cogliano, Managing Partner at Aspire Growth Advisors, shares his entrepreneurial journey and insights into the employment business. He discusses the early industry days and how his father's company pioneered temporary staffing. Herb emphasizes relationship-building and its evolution in the staffing industry. H…

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The Inko Programming Language, and Life as a Language Designer (with Yorick Peterse) 1:24:21

2M ago1:24:21

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This week we take a close look at the language Inko from two perspectives: The language design features that make it special, and the realities of being a language developer. Yorick Peterse joins us to discuss why he’s building Inko, and which design sweetspots he’s looking for. We begin with memory management, aiming for the kind of developer who …

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Building the Zed Text Editor (with Nathan Sobo) 1:23:51

2M ago1:23:51

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I’ve often wondered how you build a text editor. Like many software projects, it’s a simple idea at the core with an almost infinite scope for features. How do you build a solid foundation to expand on? Which features matter for launch? And how do you hope to satisfy the needs of every programmer, working in every language? My guest for this episod…

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Reimplementing Apache Kafka with Golang and S3 1:23:04

3M ago1:23:04

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This week on Developer Voices we’re talking to Ryan Worl, whose career in big data engineering has taken him from DataDog to Co-Founding WarpStream, an Apache Kafka-compatible streaming system that uses Golang for the brains and S3 for the storage. Ryan tells us about his time at DataDog, along with the things he learnt from doing large-scale syste…

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Adam Levinter from Scriberbase 45:59

3M ago45:59

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Adam Leventer, the visionary behind Scriberbase, unveils the narrative of his entrepreneurial voyage. Diving into the intricacies of launching a consulting venture and navigating the turbulent waters of the couponing industry, Adam talks about the evolution of Scriberbase into a premier authority in subscription commerce on a global scale. Emphasiz…

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Extending Postgres for High-Performance Analytics (with Philippe Noël) 1:07:33

3M ago1:07:33

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PostgreSQL is an incredible general-purpose database, but it can’t do everything. Every design decision is a tradeoff, and inevitably some of those tradeoffs get fundamentally baked into the way it’s built. Take storage for instance - Postgres tables are row-oriented; great for row-by-row access, but when it comes to analytics, it can’t compete wit…

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Zach Coleman from GymMark 52:03

3M ago52:03

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Zach Coleman, the owner of creative agencies GymMark and Creatitive, shares his entrepreneurial journey and the challenges he faced in the creative industry. He discusses the importance of having an entrepreneurial mindset and the influence of his parents' entrepreneurial journey. Zach talks about his transition from the corporate world to starting…

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Designing Actor-Based Software (with Hugh McKee) 1:12:02

3M ago1:12:02

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The actor model is a popular approach to building scalable software systems. And isn’t hard to understand when you’re just reading about the beginner’s examples. But how do you architect a complex design using the actor model? Which patterns work well? How do you think through it? Joining me to take us through it is Hugh McKee. Hugh’s a total actor…

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ByteWax: Rust's Research Meets Python's Practicalities (with Dan Herrera) 1:01:54

3M ago1:01:54

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Bytewax is a curious stream processing tool that blends a Python surface with a Rust core to produce something that’s in a similar vein to Kafka Streams or Apache Flink, but with a fundamentally different implementation. This week we’re going to take a look at what it does, how it works in theory, and how the marriage of Python and Rust works in pr…

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Sam Jenkins from Punchcard Systems 48:47

4M ago48:47

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On this episode of Turning Point, Blaine Bertsch interviews Sam Jenkins, CEO of Punchcard Systems. They cover his entrepreneurial journey, focusing on his shift from web design to creating a healthcare analytics platform and the nuances of team management. The discussion highlights culture fit, the art of hiring effectively, and fostering a remote …

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Mojo Lang - Tomorrow's High Performance Python? (with Chris Lattner) 1:24:38

4M ago1:24:38

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Mojo is the latest language from the creator of Swift and LLVM. It’s an attempt to take some of the best techniques from CPU/GPU-level programming and package them up in a Python-compatible syntax. In this episode we explore why Mojo was created, and what it offers to Python programmers and non-Python programmers alike. How is it built for performa…

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Batch Data & Streaming Data in one Atom (with Jove Zhong) 51:46

4M ago51:46

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Every database has to juggle the need to process new data and to query old data. That task falls to any system that “does stuff and remembers stuff”. But it’s quite hard to really optimise one system for both use cases. There are different constraints on new and old data, and as a system gets larger and larger, those differences multiply to breakin…

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Advanced Memory Management in Vale (with Evan Ovadia) 1:09:31

4M ago1:09:31

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Rust changed the discussion around memory management - this week's guest hopes to push that discussion even further. This week we're joined by Evan Ovadia, creator of the Vale programming language and collector of memory management techniques from far and wide. He takes us through his most important ones, including linear types, generation referenc…

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Matt Howard from Maverick Agency 38:05

5M ago38:05

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In this episode, host Blain Bertsch, CEO at Dryrun, is joined by Matt Howard from Maverick Agency in Calgary, a creative agency known for its innovative work. The conversation explores Matt's entrepreneurial journey, starting from his early fascination with technology and creativity to founding Maverick Agency. Matt shares his experiences navigatin…

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Bringing Pure Python to Apache Kafka (with Tomáš Neubauer) 1:06:38

5M ago1:06:38

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The “big data infrastructure” world is dominated by Java, but the data-analysis world is dominated by Python. So if you need to analyse and process huge amounts of data, chances are you’re in for a less-than-ideal time. The impedance mismatch will probably make your life hard somehow. So there are a lot of projects and companies trying to solve tha…

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Taking Erlang to OCaml 5 (with Leandro Ostera) 1:03:47

5M ago1:03:47

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Erlang wears three hats - it’s a language, it’s a platform, and it’s an approach to making software run reliably once it’s in production. Those last two are so interesting I sometimes wonder why those ideas haven’t been ported to every language going. How much work would it be? This week we’re going to dig right down into that question with Leandro…

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How Apache Pinot Achieves 200,000 Queries per Second (with Tim Berglund) 1:14:28

5M ago1:14:28

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The likes of LinkedIn and Uber use Pinot to power some astonishingly high-scale queries against realtime data. The numbers alone would make an impressive case-study. But behind the headline lies a fascinating set of architectural decisions and constraints to get there. So how does Pinot work? How does it process queries? How are the various roles s…

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Neovim: Creating, Curating and Customising your Ideal Editor (with TJ DeVries) 1:07:41

5M ago1:07:41

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TJ DeVries is a core contributor to Neovim and several of its most interesting sub-projects, and he joins us this week to go in depth into how Neovim got started, how it’s structured, and what a truly programmable editor has to offer programmers who want the perfect environment. Along the way we look at what we can learn from Neovim’s successful fo…

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Rob Danard from Black Owl Systems 56:15

5M ago56:15

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In this episode of "Turning Point," host Blaine Bertsch welcomes Rob Danard from Black Owl Systems to discuss his story of entrepreneurship and innovation. The episode kicks off with Blaine reminiscing about meeting Rob in Texas during South by Southwest, highlighting the significance of networking in such events. Rob shares his entrepreneurial jou…

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Creating Hackathons that Work (with Jon Gottfried) 1:02:52

6M ago1:02:52

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Done right, a Hackathon can be a fantastic place to be a programmer - you get time and space to build and learn, in a room full of like-minded people, with swag and prizes to sweeten the deal. It’s a great way to pick up new ideas and run with them. But done wrong it can be a waste of time. What’s the difference between a good hackathon and a bad o…

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Automate Your Way to Better Code: Advanced Property Testing (with Oskar Wickström) 1:07:09

6M ago1:07:09

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One of the most promising techniques for software reliability is property testing. The idea that, instead of writing unit tests we describe some property of our code that ought to always be true, then have the computer figure out thousands of unit tests that try to break that rule. For example, you might say, “No matter which page you visit on my w…

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Bridging the Gap Between Languages (with Martin Johansen) 49:01

6M ago49:01

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If you ever feel overwhelmed by the number of different programming languages, this week’s episode might just offer you some solace, as we talk about an attempt to reunify many of the most popular languages by focussing on the bread & butter things that every language supports. I’m joined by Martin Johansen, who’s been working on a new tool called …

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Lior Pozin from AutoDS 38:32

6M ago38:32

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In this episode of "Turning Point," host Blaine Bertsch dives into the innovative world of e-commerce and dropshipping with guest Lior Pozin, CEO and co-founder of AutoDS. Lior shares his story of building AutoDS from its inception as a simple idea to the complexities of managing a global e-commerce platform. Lior shares his entrepreneurial beginni…

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If You Want Better Code, Do It For Me (with Jonathan Schneider) 1:02:48

6M ago1:02:48

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A lot of programming is split into the mechanical work of writing what you know, and the creative work of figuring out what you don’t know. Wouldn’t it be nice to automate the mechanical stuff away? Well the good news is we’re already automating a lot of it. Every time you run a refactoring tool or a pretty-printer, you’re handing boring work off t…

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Implementing Hardware-Friendly Databases (with DuckDB co-creator, Hannes Mühleisen) 1:20:12

6M ago1:20:12

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SQLite could do with a little competition, so when I invited the co-creator of DuckDB in to talk, I thought we'd be discussing the perils of trying to build a new in-process database engine. I quickly realised things went much deeper than just a tech refresh. Hannes Mühleisen joins me this week to blend his academic credentials as a database resear…

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Verse, Haskell & Core Language Design (with Simon Peyton Jones) 1:23:07

7M ago1:23:07

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This week we talk to Simon Peyton Jones, a veteran language designer and researcher, and key figure in the development of Haskell. Haskell. Simon has made countless contributions to advancement of functional programming, and computer programming in general, and is currently working at Epic Games, working on the foundations of their new programming …

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Shouldn't Data Connections Be Easier? (with Ashley Jeffs) 1:15:25

7M ago1:15:25

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Benthos wants to be part of your Data Engineering toolkit - it’s there as a quick and easy way to set up data pipelines and start streaming data out of A and into B. In contrast to a lot of the tools we’ve talked about on Developer Voices, Benthos seems focussed on cutting development time down to a minimum, so you can quickly configure a new pipel…

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What can game programming teach us about databases? (with Tyler Cloutier) 1:05:31

7M ago1:05:31

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The world of game programming might seem a million miles away from 'regular' programming. But they still have to deal with the same kinds of data, scale and concurrency problems that we’re all familiar with in the software world. And that makes the gaming world an interesting place for new ideas - under the hood they’re solving those same problems …

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Eric Mayville from Fairgame 58:17

7M ago58:17

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In the latest episode of "Turning Point," host Blaine Bertsch chats with Eric Mayville, the Co-Founder and CEO of Fairgame, where they aim to revolutionize the golf tech landscape, concentrating on building community and enhancing the golf experience through cutting-edge technology. This episode dives into Eric's journey, tracing his path back to c…

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Is Odin, "programming done right"? (with 'Ginger' Bill Hall) 1:00:04

7M ago1:00:04

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Odin’s creator, Bill Hall, makes some bold claims about the language, including that it’s “programming done right”. Before that starts a war on the internet, we’d best ask him to explain what that means, and how Odin tries to achieve it. And while we get deep into the details, overall his answer seems to be, “By gathering masses of feedback and the…

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Can Event-Driven Architecture make Software Design Easier? (with Bobby Calderwood) 1:09:59

8M ago1:09:59

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This week’s guest describes Event Sourcing as, “all I’m going to use for the rest of my career.” But what is Event Sourcing? How should we think about it, and how does it encourage us to think about writing software? In this episode we take a close look at systems designed around the idea of Events, with guest Bobby Calderwood. Bobby’s been designi…

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How Lisp is designing Nanotechnology (with Prof. Christian Schafmeister) 52:58

8M ago52:58

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One of our oldest languages meets one of our newest sciences in this episode, as we talk with Professor Christian Schafmeister, an award-winning nanotech researcher who's been developing a language and a design suite to help research the future molecular machines. In this episode Christian gives us a quick chemistry lesson to explain what his resea…

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Roc - A Functional Language looking for those Software Sweetspots (with Richard Feldman) 1:01:48

8M ago1:01:48

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Sometimes, what a programming language makes harder is just as important as what it makes easier. For a simple example, think of GOTO. We’ve been wisely avoiding it for decades because it makes confusing control flow desperately easy. Types and tests are other examples - they’re as much about specifying what shouldn’t work as what should. And persp…

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If Kafka has a UX problem, does UNIX have the answer? (with Luca Pette) 1:19:29

8M ago1:19:29

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One of the recurring themes in the big data & data streaming worlds at the moment is developer experience. It seems like every major tool is trying to answer this question: how do we make large-scale data processing feel trivial? In some places the answer is any library you like as long as it’s Python. In other realms, a mixture of Java and SQL sho…

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Chris Wehbe from Caissa 57:03

8M ago57:03

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In this episode of Turning Point, Blaine engages in a conversation with entrepreneur Chris Wehbe from Caissa, an advisory firm that serves small businesses and nonprofits. They discuss Chris’ experiences in managing a business across diverse cultural and regulatory environments. Drawing on his engineering background, Chris shares how it influences …

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Will we be writing Hare in 2099? (with Drew DeVault) 54:38

9M ago54:38

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This week we're back on systems programming with Hare. A C-like language for the ages. We talk to its creator, Drew DeVault, about what he thinks we can learn from the past 50 years of programming, and how we can build that hindsight into a new language that will last for the next 100. In among all that long-term ambition we talk cover everything f…

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Startups Should Solve Real People's Real Problems (with Michael Drogalis) 51:30

9M ago51:30

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A few months ago, Michael Drogalis quit his job and decided launch 4 viable startup business ideas in 4 months, publically documenting every step of the journey. Over here at Developer Voices it seemed fun, inspired, and just crazy enough to work. We had him on the podcast a few months back just as that journey was beginning, and since he launched …

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Satyam Kantamneni from UXReactor 47:01

9M ago47:01

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This episode of "Turning Point," hosted by Blaine Bertsch, features a deep dive into user experience (UX) design with guest Satyam Kantamneni, Managing Partner & Chief Experience Officer from UX Reactor. The conversation explores the intricacies of UX design, Satyam's entrepreneurial journey, and the significant impact of UX on technology and busin…

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