The One About Performance Reviews
We're back! After almost 3 months of paternity leave, Runtime Rundown is kicking off our 4th season with everyone's favorite topic - performance reviews. We're just getting back in the saddle, so this...
19 Jan 202547min
Should We Rewrite Our JavaScript Tooling?
In this episode we cover "Why I'm skeptical of rewriting javascript tools in faster languages" by Nolan Lawson. This is an interesting intersection between tech problems and people problems. There's b...
26 Okt 202445min
Pair Programming
In this episode, we cover "Pair Programming" written by the inimitable Matt Hamlin. We talk about what pair programming is, why you might do it, and when you maybe shouldn't. In other news, Joe forget...
12 Okt 202434min
You Don't Need to Be That Good
In this episode we cover "The T Shaped Engineer" by Alex Kondov, and make a few references to Adam Savage's video How to Ask for a Job (Without Asking). As usual we go off on many tangents and eventua...
29 Sep 202448min
Using AI For Code Reviews
In this episode we dive into another awesome article from Abi Noda, Using AI to encourage best practices in the code review process. This article covers a recent research paper released from Google ou...
19 Sep 202452min
Dogfooding
In this week's episode we cover "Using your own product is a superpower" on the PostHog engineering blog. Using your own software, AKA "dogfooding", is one of those topics thrown around by engineers a...
7 Sep 202444min
We're Speed-running a Side Business
In this follow-up to our Speed-running Projects episode, we talk about our ongoing effort to speed-run building a SaaS business from the ground up! We cover what we're building, how we approached it, ...
21 Aug 202444min
The One About Vim
Get ready for a knock-drown, drag-out brawl! Just kidding. Joe and I calmly debate the merits of Vim vs No Vim development and Joe nearly converts me.
10 Aug 202440min
