China’s only female Apache member on the rise of open source in China
SphereEX builds distributed data systems, making it easier for organizations to load balance massive data stores across multiple servers. Now that open-source software has taken over Western software,...
11 Helmi 202227min
There’s no coding Oscars. Write software that works
Ceora has her second brain stored in Notion, complete with GIFs and pretty color to get that aesthetic.Ancient history in blog years: Cassidy talks about the perils of being bleeding-edge instead of c...
8 Helmi 202228min
Moving from CEO back to IC: A chat with Mitchell Hashimoto on his love for code
Neopets: A little-known gateway into a software career. (Nineties kids will remember.)Among the products Mitchell helped build at Hashicorp: Terraform, Vagrant, and Vault.Not many C-level execs return...
4 Helmi 202235min
A collaborative hub for infrastructure as code
On this sponsored episode of the podcast, we talk with Marcin Wyszynski, founder and CEO at Spacelift. Marcin says Spacelift aims to be for infrastructure-as-code what GitHub is to git. It centralizes...
2 Helmi 202222min
Next stop, Cryptoland?
The Twitter thread that brought Cryptoland to the team’s attention.Ceora wonders whether participants in a hypothetical, decentralized version of YouTube (a YouTube-like dApp) would need coding skills...
1 Helmi 202236min
Using synthetic data to power machine learning while protecting user privacy
You can learn more about Gretel here. The company is hiring for numerous positions. Think your commits are anonymous? Think again: DefCon researchers figured out how to de-anonymize code creators by t...
28 Tammi 202226min
How to defend your attention and find a flow state
The inspiration for today's episode was a terrific article from The Guardian about the many ways in which the modern world, specifically the software we use every day, was designed to steal our attent...
25 Tammi 202223min
Who's going to pay to fix open source security?
Will no one think of the maintainers? As The New Stack points out, watching millions of projects fail because of a bug in an open source library has become common enough that we shrug and reply, "Tol...
21 Tammi 202221min
