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Kodsnack 703 - The subset needs to fit you, with Harald Achitz

19 May 2026 05:26 +0000

Fredrik chats to Harald Achitz about freelancing, C++ 26, and ten years of running the Swedencpp meetup.

Harald discusses the various oddities of the Swedish consultant and software market, both before but especially in the current environment. Consultants don’t cost what you expect them to when compared to employees, and a strange previous focus on headcount has not helped either.

We then talk about the standardization process for C++ and about new things in C++ 26. Harald discusses the issues of adding new things which are good in themselves, but perhaps don’t fit into a bigger picture, take a lot of focus and energy which in turn means many other things do not get considered which may be smaller and more widely and immediately useful.

Also: once something is in the standard library, it’s eternal. And there is still no real ecosystem around C++. Infrastructure is a hard thing. And Rust is out there.

Finally, we talk about Harald’s experience of running the Swedencpp meetup for ten years. What does it mean to run something for so long? Technology, talks, locations, providing a space for presentations, and trying to keep things evolving are all discussed.

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Titles

To take communication with Skatteverket
What is a consultant?
Horrendous prices for Powerpoint presentations
Somebody needs an excuse
Every hour counts
Flavors of consultant
I cost so much money
Why we have time to talk
Too much gatekeeping
Still just collecting profiles
Special in the terms of ISO
Why does Sweden not have a voice
I represent this type
It’s still ISO
A lot of big features again
They are also awesome
A lot of things to do, and to know
All these things deserve their own book
You can do a lot of magic
(I became) Too old for liking magic
There was magic everywhere
That’s really useful
Infinite ways of doing something
Define your subset
The subset needs to fit you
Awesome, to some extent
Paperwork is expensive
Everything is already being re-written
A step in the right direction
Where efficiency is a priority
Based on personal experience
If you go there, you can’t work
Let’s make something accessible
At least it’s not nothing anymore
Conference over space and time
What’s the next level?
Still an option

Kodsnack 701 - The chicken would explode, with Holly Cummins

05 May 2026 05:26 +0000

Fredrik chats to Holly Cummins about using Minecraft for observability, other amazing Quarkus tricks, and the value of joy at work.

Recorded during Øredev 2025.

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Titles

All in one room
When you say Quarkus
Really amazing throughput
The way that conferences work
Other people have done all the work
It unlocks a whole lot of possibilities
Slightly more tortured
Javascripv via WASM on the JVM
The absence of configuration
Unless you work for a bank
That zero friction
All of that dynamism
The reading of the configuration
Deep introspection of the application
Six demos in 40 minutes
The useful extensions had been written
The chicken would explode
Novel way of understanding the application
Manually implement the backpressure
Zoo of types
The containers were chickens
Joy and productivity
The happy piglets
You are a profitalbe piglet
The mandatory fun officer
I now have the language
On team cloud

Kodsnack 699 - A two-IDE person, with Shawn Wildermuth

21 Apr 2026 05:26 +0000

Fredrik chats to Shawn Wildermuth about evolving in the world of software development, small changes adding up, developer hiring, not chasing the new thing, and quite a bit more.

Fredrik is still hoping for the last episode of Shawn’s old podcast.

Making sure you use your time in a way that’s right for you. Whether it’s spending lots of time learning new stuff or getting deep into the tech you really enjoy.

Recorded during Øredev 2025.

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Titles

I feel like I never did a podcast
Edit the last one
What’s your focus?
There’s not enough to talk about here
Null forgiveness
Talk about nullability
The next fifteen years
Where I’m best used
Paid to learn the new stuff
I’m just happy to be around
Those quiet voices
Win the design meeting
Wrong about Webassembly
Actual system languages
Five years from being useful
A two-IDE person

Kodsnack 694 - Dark patterns … to rule them all, with Sergès Goma

17 Mar 2026 05:26 +0000

Fredrik chats to Sergès Goma about dark patterns and her Øredev presentation on them.

We start off by talking about giving presentations and the background to the dark patterns talk. All the great versions of a talk - you never know what’s going to happen. Dark patterns and ethics in software development are topics people like to share their experiences of. And it’s easy to get caught in the pull between protecting your user and finishing your tickets. We as developers do have a lot of power, but we also have a job to do.

Making (good) ethical decisions business decisions instead can suddenly get them budget and priority. Laws are good at creating such pressures sometimes.

Toward the end, we discuss falling behind in tech, and Sergès gets Fredrik to make some predictions about the AI bubble before wrapping up on a positive note.

Recorded during Øredev 2025.

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Titles

It was everything
Very future-forward
They nailed the theme
Dark patterns … to rule them all
You judge a talk by its name
The name is more important
Why not do a spinoff?
It was made for questions
It’s never the same talk for me
I just did whatever I wanted to do
They’re crazier than me
Be in character
Evil laugh competition
(I got to show) My true talent
If you are for everyone, you are for no-one
Focus more on the topic
Spotify’s dark pattern
Do I protect my user?
The baby koalas are going to die
The train is already gone
The train travels in a circle
The train from hell
The story of our job
Better jobs for humans
This is the bad place
You actually want humans
The pain in my existence
Write my own emails

Kodsnack 681 - German ortography, with Dylan Beattie

16 Dec 2025 05:26 +0000

Fredrik chats to Dylan Beattie about Rockstar, esoteric programming languages (Perl in latin, anyone?), and what might happen after the AI bubble.

AI will ruin jokes, they can’t do things just right. But some things hiding under the label are actually useful as well. Have we been in any similarly strange bubbles before, and what might be left that’s useful after it?

Also evolution, revolution, and strange Scrabble facts.

Recorded during Øredev 2025.

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Titles

Always good fun that one
The version of the story that I tell in the talk
Enough clichés
Resident mad scientist of the Perl community
Felis commidet piscem
Always the cat that is eating
Lexical flexibility
Fundamentally, programming is programming
A big win for everyone
Linguistic conventions and extended alphabets
That’s a different letter
Regional assumptions
German ortography
A piece of impressionist art
Hang it on the wall
Something hidden in something else
Physical comedy at its greatest
Money people believe exists
The amount of pretend money
It has to come from reality
Fortunately, I do not have a trillion dollars
Quietly siphoned off
Emotionally flat
What can I steal from?
A little LLM that works for you
A spectacular collapse
A billion lines of crap
Pruning the decision tree
Fix the next milestone in the public consciousness
Five years of excitement, five years of disappointment
Overdue for a little disappointment
Reliant on Dutch technology

Kodsnack 679 - Educational electronics, with David J. Cuartielles Ruiz

04 Dec 2025 07:26 +0000

Recorded on-stage at Øredev 2025, Fredrik talks to David J. Cuartielles Ruiz about the birth and growth of Arduino. It’s fantastic when an idea comes alive and starts growing. We talk about how Arduino began, how it started to grow, how you find parts and get things manufactured in northern Italy, and of course a bit about the magical logistics king.

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Titles

Algorithms for communication
Educational electronics
Making boards, not being paid
Old factories
Buy them by weight
The bootstrapping dilemma
Our logistics king

Kodsnack 678 - The intent of a human, with Justyna Zander

04 Dec 2025 07:26 +0000

Recorded on-stage at Øredev 2025, Fredrik talks to Justyna Zander about AI for self-driving cars, the noise of the present, and more.

Don’t let the noise of today demolish the positive signal of the future!

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Titles

You learn something new
We have it in the spatial sense
The policy of the machine
What did the human tell me to do?
How do you teach the machine empathy?
The first to be disrupted
The intent of a human
Engineering with purpose
Statistics on steroids

Kodsnack 677 - It's all quantum, with Natalia Chepiga

04 Dec 2025 07:26 +0000

Recorded on-stage at Øredev 2025, Fredrik talks to Natalia Chepiga about quantum computing and where you, personally, might see it first. We need classical computers to make quantum computers better. Natalia also tells us of the very natural way she got into quantum research, and encourages us to help make the future we want!

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Titles

So natural
It’s all quantum
Nature is quantum
I’m not selling anything
Using a microscope to nail down the nails
Building blocks

Kodsnack 676 - Maps will get you fired, with Simon Wardley

04 Dec 2025 07:26 +0000

Recorded on-stage at Øredev 2025, Fredrik talks to Simon Wardley about maps (not the same as charts!), stories, commodotization, digital sovereignty, getting labeled a heretic by all sides, and a lot more.

Among other things, Simon discusses how you can map things out and thereby find new ways to present and challenge the current state within and organization.

Not that it will necessarily be very popular, hence the bit about being called a heretic.

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Titles

We only had 50 minutes
A map, not a graph
The map is wrong
Maps will get you fired
As long as everyone else is just as bad
Look at the entire map
The size of Malmö
Sick-care systems
Shocks to the system
Wardleyconf

Kodsnack 675 - Curate the world, with Nicklas Hermansson

04 Dec 2025 07:26 +0000

Recorded on-stage at Øredev 2025, Fredrik talks to Sweden’s foremost trend spotter Nicklas Hermansson about how you become a futurist. From how Nicklas got there, what his days look like, and how he choses what to read and what to filter out.

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Titles

The audience is craving for your face
I thought I was becoming a rock star
My way into exploration
Clickmonster
Stuff people want for real
We destroyed our own business model
Fill it
I discovered journalism
Curate the world
Åhfanism
Automation proof

Kodsnack 674 - Make the visions louder, with Tiera Fletcher

04 Dec 2025 07:26 +0000

Recorded on-stage at Øredev 2025, Fredrik talks to Tiera Fletcher about her lightning tour of going to Mars and what might happen on the way. And also about - for example - finding visions to guide your daily work.

In 60 years, life on Mars could start to be comfortable.

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Titles

MOXIE+ liquefy
For another planet
A way to do it better
MOXIE is a big one
Small dogs and breathing
I have a small dog at home
My magic number
Right at the point of comfort
Checking on MOXIE
Your daily MOXIE
Make the visions louder

Kodsnack 662 - A super-super-app, with Teresa Wu

16 Sep 2025 05:26 +0000

Fredrik talks to Teresa Wu about devops for frontend and AI.

Why does frontend feel so complex? Does it have to be?

We also discuss the value of open language models, smaller and more specific language models and their benefits.

Is “AI” even a useful label anymore? Teresa thinks we’ll split into more specific terms over time.

Recorded during Øredev 2024.

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Titles

This was actually made to happen
The same fun and the same pain
The lucky ones
My own experience
I don’t have a word for it
A super-super-app
Explosion of complexity
A whole sea of new questions
They only do one thing

Kodsnack 658 - Failure of ergonomics, with Taylor Troesh

02 Sep 2025 05:26 +0000

Fredrik talks to Taylor Troesh about packaging things, generating code, and database evolution.

Why is it so hard to package and build things? Is it a failure of ergonomics? Is there hope for a change?

We also discuss generating code using LLMs, and Taylor presents the workflow of using them to generate projects from scratch, starting over if more fundamental changes are needed.

After that, we dig into databases and SQL, and Taylor has many thoughts and opinions about how they can be used and might evolve.

Finally, we discuss other interesting projects, keeping track of ideas, what the OPTC is, and why should you cut down a palm tree?

Recorded during Øredev 2024.

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Titles

Nothing besides IKEA
I did not besmirch the reputation
How strange we package things
I don’t think I have any advice
Failure of ergonomics
I do have hope
Drinking from the well
Brainless CRUD-stuff
(I have) No qualms with Elm
During the binges
Fifteen math professors
Tilting against palmtrees
OPTC

Kodsnack 656 - People want native controls, with Maddy Montaquila

19 Aug 2025 05:26 +0000

Fredrik talks to Maddy Montaquila about building user interfaces, and how .net has come a much longer way than people may think.

We talk about the various .net-related options for building user interfaces, mixing and matching MAUI stuff, Blazor stuff, and straight up web stuff. We discuss the way to go for Windows desktop apps among all these options.

The perception of .net - a challenge and something being actively worked on.

We also touch on actually useful AI, plus some unexpectedly fond memories of the touch bar.

Recorded during Øredev 2024.

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Titles

Two of my fun things
Trust me, I can ramble
I can ramble for eternity
The shimmer control
A bunch of wasted space in my brain
If you have a Javascript frontend
A lot with the hybrid stuff
Nice step up from Electron
MAUI doesn’t need me
People want native controls
Web is reach
If this guy’s on vacation
The only .net you ever have to see
Java with more
The polyglot world
A deeply native Windows experience
It was a nice volume slider
The .net perception
Three less indents
Purists of architecture
Blended experiences

Kodsnack 654 - German-style strings, with Matt Topol

05 Aug 2025 05:26 +0000

Fredrik talks to Matt Topol about Arrow and how the Arrow ecosystem is evolving. Arrow is an open source, columnar in-memory data format designed for efficient data processing and analytics - which means passing data between things without needing to transform it, and ideally even without needing to copy it.

What makes the ecosystem grow, and why is it very cool to have Arrow on the GPU? What is the connection between Arrow, machine learning, and Hugging face? Matt emphasizes the value of open standards, even as they work with or within more closed systems they can help open things up, and help bring about more modular solutions so that developers can focus on doing their core area really well.

This episode can be seen as a follow-up to episode 567, where Matt first joined to discuss everything Arrow.

Recorded during Øredev 2024.

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Titles

It’s gotten a lot bigger
The bones of it are in the repo
(Powered by ADBC)
Individual compute components
Feed it substrate
Where the ecosystem is going
Arrow on the GPU
The data stays on the GPU
A forced copy
Leverage that device interface
Without forcing the copy
Shy of that last mile
Turtles all the way down
The guy who said yes
German-style strings

Kodsnack 652 - The best of nature, with Grace Jansen

22 Jul 2025 05:26 +0000

Fredrik talks to Grace Jansen about cloud tools, and bringing them to your local machine in a better way. Opentelemetry is a great tool, but it’s not the whole story for observability. Gathering the data is just the first step.

In the second half, we leave telemetry and talk about realizing you have things to share and sharing them with other people. Find out what makes you tick, and share experiences around that. Grace also shares some concrete presentation-building tips at the end.

Ask the question, and be more you!

Recorded during Øredev 2024.

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Titles

After-lunch lull
So polyglot
Ready for microservices
(You need) Many minds
Now I have a pile
(Take) The best of nature
The path was being them
Something I bring to the table
Ask the question
A unique presentation

Kodsnack 648 - Difficult skills, with Gitte Klitgaard

24 Jun 2025 05:26 +0000

Fredrik talks to Gitte Klitgaard about managers, diversity, and communication. We discuss how and why management has almost become a bad word. But we need management, and good management. What do you need out of managers when you have autonomous teams?

Conflict handling - we need small conflicts, and learn to handle them so they don’t become big conflicts.

Psychological safety and how to build it within and between your teams.

Building diverse teams, which kinds of managers we need, making good things visible, communicating and building psychological safety, diversity in thinking …

… and of course: a quick note on the evolution of LEGO instructions.

Recorded during Øredev 2024.

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Titles

Autonomous teams need great managers
A lot of things we agreed on
The catalyst
The multiplier
Taking care of humans
A manager who cares about me
Invisible people
A lot of the leader part
Difficult skills
Not everyone communicates well
We need the small conflicts
A thousand conflicts a day
The Xerox effect
The power of the pen
Hints here and there

Kodsnack 631 - Comfortable in uncertainty, with Barry O'Reilly

25 Feb 2025 05:26 +0000

Fredrik talks to Barry O’Reilly about software architecture.

Barry has spent a lot of time and energy connecting software architecture to actual code and development work, and finding good ways of actually training new generations of software architects.

Architecture is a level above programming, it is a different skill, and it needs to be properly taught so that more people can think and make active decisions about it. Oh, and architecture happens at a group level. You can’t really do it alone.

Barry’s quest led him to complexity science, a PhD to actually prove his ideas hold up, and two books. The idea that you have to understand what goes on in the code in order to do good architecture is more controversial than one might think.

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Links

Barry
Black tulip
Complexity science
IDE
Antifragile
Nassim Taleb
Nassim guesting Econtalk talking about antifragility while the book was in progress
Barry’s papers:
- No More Snake Oil: Architecting Agility through Antifragility (2019)
- An introduction to residuality theory: Software design heuristics for complex systems (2020)
- The Machine in the Ghost: Autonomy, Hyperconnectivity, and Residual Causality (2021)
- The Philosophy of Residuality Theory (2021)
- Residuality Theory, random simulation, and attractor networks (2022)
- Residuality and Representation: Toward a Coherent Philosophy of Software Architecture (2023)
Domain driven design Europe
Leanpub
Residues - Barry’s first book
Barry’s NDC talks - on process and on philosophy
Support us on Ko-fi
Our agile release train engineer stickers
The architect’s paradox - Barry’s second book
Accelerate
Øredev
Kodsnack 346 - Tomer Gabel about the golden age of tomfoolery
Dataföreningen
Dataföreningen kompetens

Titles

How we design and think about structure
Climbed the greasy pole
Keep close to the code
Remove themselves from the code as a status symbol
I would see a lot of grey
There’s a generation missing
A level of thinking above programming
When you look up from your IDE
We had to rescue architecture
When they say “architect”
Headed for that ivory tower
A self-titling profession
Comfortable in uncertainty
Multiple books, and a PhD
How does this thing break
Everything will always break
Patching those cracks
Do you have any proof of this?
The key to good software architecture is pessimism
The mincing of academic criticism
Typing furiously
Hope for the future
He’s from the real world!

Kodsnack 626 - The great flattening of everything, with Jon Sterling

21 Jan 2025 05:26 +0000

Fredrik talks to Jon Sterling about user interfaces old and new. Jon has created Aquaui - a Mac user interface library which is a small love letter to the Aqua user interface style for Mac OS X. Based on that, we discuss understandable and consistent user interfaces, how there seems to be little evolution and improvement, wish for brave new ideas, and a lot more.

Oh, and we also discuss living with old technology, like a seventh-generation Ipod. Plus liability laundering and the problems of building the whole house of out fire alarms.

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Titles

A love letter
A very different era
Beautiful blue liquid
The great flattening of everything
Unbelievable user interface regression
I feel powerless today when I’m using my computer
They did mess up the photo app
Like a pill
A long-lasting Ibuprofen
That upper-right corner
Bigger than my wingspan
Beautiful, unsullied whitespace
During the decline of Mac OS
Time to be a bit bold
A passable gradient
Start from a point of inspiration
Too much for the old hardware
The Aqua fire alarm
SSL fire alarms

Kodsnack 620 - Encapsulation of knowledge, with Dejan Milicic

17 Dec 2024 05:26 +0000

Fredrik talks to Dejan Milicic about software development - understanding, methods, and stories.

We start by talking about encapsulation of knowledge and the essential software in organizations. Almost every organization should - it can be argued - be developing software that solves their unique problems, and yet so many outsource so much of their knowledge encapsulation. Oh, and we can never completely encapsulate our knowledge in code either, so all the more reason to keep people who actually know what the code does and why around.

Dejan tells us about his way to Ravendb and a developer relations role - and how you can craft your own job, stepping suitably outside of your comfort zone along the way.

We also talk about shortening attention spans, daring to dig down a bit and find out about the context of things. Like the second sentence of some oft-repeated quote. Prohibit bad things, but help automate doing good things and avoid doing the bad things completely.

Dejan shares some database backstories - why would someone want to build one more database? Specifically, what lead to the creation of Ravendb? And the very strong opinions which have been built into it. Avoiding falling into marketing-driven development.

After that, we drift into talking about processes and how we work. Every organization is unique - which strongly speaks against adapting the “best practices” and methodologies of others. Or keeping things completely the same for too long. Innovation is also about doing what other people are not doing.

Why is concurrency still hard? The free lunch has been over for twenty years! Functional programming and immutability offer ways forward, why aren’t these concepts spreading even more and faster? We get right back to understanding more context when Dejan discusses how few of us seem to have understood, just for example, the L in SOLID. Dive deeper, read more, and you will find new things and come up with new ideas.

Finally, Dejan would like to see software development becoming just a little bit more mathematical. So that things can be established, verified and built on in a different way.

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Titles

A mathematician turned software developer
Coding, but without deadline
Saturated with software development
Encapsulation of knowledge
A bit surreal
Accept people as they are
There’s a second line
Professional depression
Prevented, not diagnosed
The pipeline kind of thinking
Frustration-driven development
(You shouldn’t be) Punished for being successful
The largest company of his or her life so far
Optimized for maintaining the status quo
Wash away all the context
Manager of one
The proverbial Jira
Substantial content
Methods of moving forward

Kodsnack 618 - This chaos element, with Ingrid af Sandeberg

06 Dec 2024 07:26 +0000

Recorded on-stage at Øredev 2024, Fredrik talks to Ingrid af Sandeberg about AI and people’s perception of it. While it’s very powerful to be able to interact with models through natural language, that interface in itself hides a lot of what’s actually going on.

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Titles

AI is a lot wider
A different type of error
This chaos element

Kodsnack 617 - Craving for the human touch, with Laura Herman

05 Dec 2024 05:26 +0000

Recorded on-stage at Øredev 2024, Fredrik talks to Laura Herman about creativity, creation, and AI.

Among other things, we discuss:

How the perspectives of different groups differ, and Laura talks about the many factors which inform how people feel about generative AI.
Generative AI as curation. How and where in our work processes we want AI assistance.
Dataset curation and specialized models, and how they can be important and interesting going forward. What happens if we have to be very picky about what we train models on?
How are people working with sustainability for generative models?
Laura’s own research into AI and creativity, and how other inventions have affected creativity and art.
Finally, we discuss curation, and the possibilities of alternate curation platforms for finding things you like.

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Titles

Many question marks
An ethically sound decision
A human touched this
Craving for the human touch
Let me build a model
That’s five PhD:s
In this emotional turmoil

Kodsnack 616 - Computers outside of computers, with Violet Whitney and William Martin

04 Dec 2024 05:26 +0000

Recorded on-stage at Øredev 2024, Fredrik talks to Violet Whitney and William Martin about the research they do into how we can interact with computers outside of the bounds of … well, a regular computer or phone.

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Titles

It sounds really fancy
A lot of prompt engineering
A very bizarre lifestyle
Right on the horizon
Use computers to reason about space
Who designed this hall?
Computers outside of computers
Interested in non-determinism

Kodsnack 615 - All I had to do was break the build, with Kent Beck and Beth Andres-Beck

03 Dec 2024 05:35 +0000

Recorded on-stage at Øredev 2024, Fredrik talks to Kent Beck and Beth Andres-Beck about development practices, code reviews, and more.

Unfortunately, sound quality is a lot worse than it should be. We apologize, and invite any sound processing wizards out there to get in touch if they have solid ways of improving it.

Has there actually been a backlash - a move toward more rigid processes? And what can we do about that? The development process is a shadow cast by the power structure, and in big organizations, you need someone who’s job it is to read all the documents.

Also: improving code reviews, and how breaking the build can land you in a room with exactly the right people.

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Titles

The waterfall’s coming back
Cowboy teams
How to critique effectively
A lot easier to manage
All the way to the forest
All I had to do was break the build

Kodsnack 614 - Somehow cheat the system, with David Jacoby

03 Dec 2024 05:26 +0000

Recorded on-stage at Øredev 2024, Fredrik talks to IT security expert David Jacoby about his way into IT security. What was it like to get interested in computer security early on, and to try start working with it before there really was an awareness of even the need for more security information? And when did the switch happen from annoying but harmless viruses and malware to the modern information stealing and blackmailing?

Finally, a horror movie tip.

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Titles

BBS systems and common acquaintances
Don’t talk about the keynote
Do some hacking on stage
For you, I’ll do it
30 years as an ethical hacker
Somehow cheat the system
A cat and mouse game
Still way behind

Kodsnack 613 - Opt-in nations, with Corin Ism

02 Dec 2024 05:26 +0000

Recorded on-stage at Øredev 2024, Fredrik talks to Corin Ism about the power of developers to change the world for the better.

Much of what we do is building virtual worlds - virtual nations if you will - and creating and enforcing their rules and power structures. We should take that power and responsibility seriously and think about what we build.

If you think about the interfaces you build as essentially being the law in the system, will that change how you build them?

We can easily fall into thinking about “the algorithm” as if it was some sort of rain god we pray to but can’t control - but we can and should use our control in everything we build. We think of things like evil puppet masters when we think of control, but everything we build controls in some way, and pretending we can abdicate control doesn’t help anyone. Corin talks about how to think positively in terms of making user of our power, how to see the possibilities, and where to look for inspiration. Oh, and don’t fall into the trap of thinking that what we have right now is set in stone and can’t and never should change. Let’s keep iterating!

Finally, we talk a bit of disconnecting from the internet to do deeper and more focused work.

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Titles

Thinking about what we’re building
These aren’t inconsequential products
Interfaces are basically the law
Completely different worlds
This is something I can change
Building a maze for the user
From a governance perspective
The rest is footnotes
We iterate
We can do a lot
Opt-in nations
Part of the wealth nation
Perform life

Kodsnack 612 - Where types first come in, with Pedro Abreu

26 Nov 2024 05:26 +0000

Fredrik talks to Pedro Abreu about the magical world of type theory. What is it, and why is it useful to know about and be inspired by?

Pedro gives us some background on type theory, and then we talk about how type theory can provide new ways of reasoning about programs, and tools beyond tests to verify program correctness. This doesn’t mean that all languages should strive for the nirvana of dependent types, but knowing the tools are out there can come in handy even if the code you write is loosely typed.

We wrap up with some further podcast tips, of course including Pedro’s own podcast Type theory forall.

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Titles

Type theory podcasts
Very odd for some people
Brazilian weather
Relearning to appreciate
The dawn of computer science
Layers of sets
Where types first come in
Bundle values together
The research about programming languages
If you squint your eyes enough
Nirvana of type systems
Proofs all the way down
Extra guarantees
If your domain is infinite
Formal guarantees
The properties of my system
What is the meaning of my program?
Building better systems

Kodsnack 607 - Emberisms, with Balint Erdi

22 Oct 2024 05:26 +0000

Fredrik talks to Balint Erdi about the web framework Ember. Where did Ember come from, what stands out about it today, how do new features get into the framework, and how is development being made more sustainable?

Plus: Balint’s experiences organizing Emberfest, and quite a bit of appreciation for the Ruby and Ember communities in general.

The episode is sponsored by Cursed code - a half-day conference with a halloween mood taking place on October 31st, in central Gothenburg.

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Titles

These two decades
I’m a web guy
Just one thing
It’a always useful
Rails carried me over
Ember was in flux
Javascript didn’t have classes
Emberisms
Nowadays I like explicitness more
Everything needs to be imported
A change they would like to see in the framework
(The) Emberfesting
Fellow emberino
We don’t do drama

Kodsnack 604 - Farmer's disposition, with Evan Czaplicki

01 Oct 2024 05:26 +0000

Fredrik talks to Evan Czaplicki, creator of Elm about figuring out a good path for yourself.

What do you do when you have a job which seems like it would be your dream job, but it turns out to be the wrong thing for you? And how do you escape from that?

You can’t put the success of something you build before your own personal and mental health, no matter how right the decision may be for the thing you build.

Is there ever a reproducible path? Aren’t most or all successful things in large part a result of their circumstances?

Platform languages and productivity languages - which do you prefer?

Thoughts on the tradeoffs of when and how to roll things out and when to present ideas.

Evan’s development mindset and environment, and the ways it has affected Elm’s design - all the way down to the error messages.

Finally, of course, the benefits of country life - out of the radiation of San Francisco.

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Titles

The personal aspects
A culture clash
I wasn’t supposed to be here
This numb feeling
I’ve never really been to the real world
Is this even real?
The path that Guido did
This is you
This isn’t for me, and it’s your fault
Valuing my own health
Reckless indifference
A dispute between colleagues
A nice solution will come out if you’re patient enough
Here’s your error message: good luck
Farmer’s disposition
These are good years
Getting paid in chickens for web development
Finding a place

Kodsnack 600 - Just use +, with Christian Clausen

03 Sep 2024 05:26 +0000

Fredrik talks to Christian Clausen about the many facets of simplicity.

The cloud and serverless was supposed to be simpler than running your own hardware, but you easily get stuck trying to select the right message bus, needing to know the intricacies of your chosen cloud provider infrastructure, and the like. You end up building your software around the infrastructure you’ve ended up with - rather than picking infrastructure which is right for your software.

The CFO should not be the architect of the software.

Core values and principles - set them up, reflect on them, and notice and decide what to do when they are broken. Should the system change if its core principles are broken, or should the principles be updated to reflect reality? Christian argues simplicity should be a core principle, and very carefully considered and encouraged.

There are enough barriers already, even before you start adding complexity around the problems you’re trying to solve.

And hide the things you do pull in behind true abstractions which don’t leak all over the place.

Don’t ask what you can add, ask what you can postpone.

Generality adds complexity. The more often something changes, the more specific it should be.

Where are the tools which suggest more things to remove instead of things to add?

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Titles

Life happened
Serverless the right way
It’s grown a lot
I love refactoring
Just as hard as choosing hardware
Everything into one collection
I don’t want the CFO to be the architect of the software
It disappears immediately
Entropy for the real world
I came back after six years
Why though?
Why do you have this?
What problem couldn’t you solve without it?
There are enough barriers already
Just use +
Zero of the founding principles
But it looks like ice cream
I’ve always hated frameworks
I feel like I’m writing Javascript
Was the salary worth it?
Lending the money to your future self
What can I postpone?
Generalization land
Suggest I remove things!
Is this the right problem to have?
I want to say no more
Humans can build this

Kodsnack 598 - Tiny dopamine hit, with Jack Cheng

20 Aug 2024 05:26 +0000

Fredrik talks to Jack Cheng - author and creator of the iPhone note capture app Bebop. Jack describes where Bebop came from and how he built it, and how and why Copilot and other AI tools became integral parts of the workflow.

Being aware of the maintenance cost of each decision, keeping things focused, avoiding building yourself into a bloated corner - sometimes even deciding certain things don’t belong in your app.

Coding on the side, needing to balance the time you have? Use it to your advantage!

Jack also talks about the other apps he uses for working with notes and writing, and how different apps feel right for different types of writing.

(Yes, Obsidian once again makes an appearance.)

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Titles

Addicted to the slot machine of social media
Just spin up an Iphone app
A specific thing I want to build
Advanced auto complete
Gold coins along the way
Freeze all these features
The maintenance cost of every decision
The speed of capture
Tiny dopamine hit
Use it to your advantage
Immediately useful
You can’t not be cliché
Today as the title

Kodsnack 595 - Maintain curiosity, with Woody Zuill and Martin Lassbo

30 Jul 2024 05:26 +0000

Fredrik paid a visit to Hogia and got the opportunity to talk to Woody Zuill and Martin Lassbo about mob programming, innovation, and keeping an open and curious mind.

Mob programming is still new.

Every time you say “that can’t work”, you tend to be proven wrong eventually. Try it, for a year or two. You can’t evaluate things after trying it for just an hour or two, some things take much longer.

But do steer and adjust often.

How frequently do you want to steer? Short iterations are valuable in that they give us more opportunities to steer work in a good direction.

Standardization stifles innovation. Sometimes you do want it, but it depends on which space you’re in.

We had a process, but we still succeeded!

Where did the thought I have originate? All your thoughts started somewhere else. The things we most believe can hide our biggest mistakes.

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Titles

There’s always a lot to talk about
The continuation
My best thinking time
The beginner’s mind
We just work together
Maintain curiosity
Steer towards better
Turn up the good
Getting a thing we thought we wanted
How frequently could we steer?
We think we know what we want
Not a systems thinker
Talent plus luck
A higher level than the work itself
A little more talent and a lot more luck
I’ll misquote it but I’m close
Re-think the things we already believe
Stay open-minded
Something else could eat us
A student of the biases
Walk down a different path

Kodsnack 593 - Into the view hierarchy, with Malin Sundberg and Kai Dombrowski

16 Jul 2024 05:26 +0000

Fredrik is again joined by Malin Sundberg and Kai Dombrowski for a review of attending this year’s WWDC, working with “AI”, and more.

The experience of attending - a lot about the great community. News from the conference - a Snow leopard year, in a good way. Lots of nice fixes and additions - Swiftui, fun widgets, and of course lots of question marks around whatever Apple intelligence will grow up to be. And of course a little side of the ongoing story of Apple versus the EU.

Apple intelligence also leads naturally into a discussion on how everyone works with language models, copilots, and so on.

There is also some discussion of summer development plans, localization, and the snobbiest coffee country in the world.

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Titles

Talking about IKEA furniture
The biggest watch party in the world
Essentially run by the community
The community aspect
The best Apple stories
Open-ended on purpose
A Snow leopard year
Pop to the root view
(Further) Into the view hierarchy
Forgotten behavior
Crisis averted
Spiteful of the EU
Grab a coffee together
More spiteful than necessary
Embrace fika culture
Often not where people live
All the timelines
Lots of different laters
Playful but also elegant
I know what I want to convey
Add small things to your home screen
I said no bears
I can not generate app icons that do not contain bears
Plain Mail again
The snobbiest coffee country in the world

Kodsnack 584 - A free deadline in September, with Malin Sundberg and Kai Dombrowski

14 May 2024 05:26 +0000

Fredrik is joined by Malin Sundberg and Kai Dombrowski for a quick chat about the Deep dish Swift conference, the past and present of Mercury weather, their next app project, and what might happen at Apple’s WWDC in June.

The first big topic is the developer conference Deep dish Swift. Malin and Kai not only participated in the conference itself, but also created the Slices podcast, interviewing the speakers of the conference. How are indie developers different from each other, and why might it be a bad idea for Malin and Kai to do a regular podcast with Charlie Chapman?

We then dig into the evolution of Mercury weather since the last episode - especially the trip forecast feature. Yes: timezones were a big part of the challenge. The secret marketing advantage of having a Mac version of your IOS app.

Next Malin and Kai talk about their movie industry project - an app for planning shoot days for movies and TV. A project which has given them lots of insight into the quirks of a whole new industry, and made them see whole different things in movies they watch.

We revisit our use of VR for work and gaming. VR of course shades naturally into bringing Mercury to Vision pro - a quick process, but some interesting adjustments were required.

With WWDC fast approaching, we talk wishes and ideas. What would we like the Ipad to become? We do some interesting speculation about Apple’s coming focus on “AI” and how that might work together with apps. Fredrik should perhaps spend some time on his Mac app?

Finally, Malin and Kai reveal their summer project: a kanban-style workflow tracking app. Done with paper cuts!

Also: good deadlines. If Apple gives you one for free, you take it!

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Titles

Gigabit for ten crowns less
Good job, brain
Completely solidified knowledge
In the right track already
A good strategy for conferences
The right amount of time to talk to people
Snub two people at once
It’s nice to be done
A procrastination project
Not the smartest time management decision
Proper pizza research
Podcasting and pizza
22 back to 3
An interesting pile of edge cases
How do we handle that in the app?
You lose most of your Sunday
Ask to push lunch
The logistics of filming
Making a movie versus building an app
The Ipad strapped to his belt
Everything gets to me
A world clock for weather
People have clocks for that
Xcode, but for touch
Done with paper cuts!
A very clean look into the state of our projects
Ever-growing “done” column
All the modes I made
A free deadline in September
If Apple gives you a free deadline, you take it
Venture together to Infinite Loop

Kodsnack 573 - This is not a toy project, with Leandro Ostera and Emil Privér

12 Mar 2024 05:26 +0000

Fredrik is joined by Emil Privér and Leandro Ostera for a discussion of the OCaml ecosystem, and making it Saas-ready by building Riot.

First of all: OCaml. What is the thing with the language, and how you might get into it coming from other languages? The OCaml community is nice, interested in getting new people in, and pragmatic. And it has a nice mix of research and industry as well.

Then, Leandro tells us about Riot - an experiment in bringing everything good about the Erlang and Elixir ecosystems into OCaml. The goal? Make OCaml saas-ready. Riot is not 1.0 just yet, but an impressive amount has been built in just five(!) months.

Emil moves the discussion over to the mindset of shipping, and of finding and understanding good ideas in other places and picking them up rather than reinventing the wheel. Leandro highly recommends reading the code of other projects. Read and understand the code and solutions others have written, re-use good ideas and don’t reinvent the wheel more often than you really have to.

Last, but by no means least, shoutouts to some of the great people building the OCaml community, and a bit about Emil’s project DBCaml.

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Titles

Few people can have a massive impact
Impact has been an important thing for me
It’s a language out there
A very long lineage of thinking about programming languages
Programs that never fail
The functional version of Rust
Melange is amazing
This is not a toy project
Yes, constraints!
Wonders in community growth
Arrow pointing toward growth
Programs that don’t crash
A very different schoold of reliability
Invert the arrow
Very easy on the whiteboard
Multicore for free
An entire stack from scratch
Built for the builders
A massive tree of things
Make OCaml saas-ready
Leo is a shipper
Standing on the shoulders of many, many giants
Learn from other people
I exude OCaml these days
Sitting down and building against the spec
You just give it something
Your own inner join
We build everything in public
The gospel of the dunes

Kodsnack 570 - Debug your ideas, with Eric Normand

20 Feb 2024 05:26 +0000

Fredrik is joined by Eric Normand for a discussion of debugging your ideas through domain modeling, using Eric’s concept of lenses to find more good questions to ask.

Eric is writing a book about domain modeling and has developed the concept of lenses - ways to look at various aspects of your domain, model, and code in order to better consider various solutions and questions.

Why? Because design is needed, but is easily lost in the modern urge to be fast and agile. There’s a lot you can and need do on the way to a working system. Eric pushes for design which is an integral part, perferably right in the code, rather than a separate one which can become outdated and separated without anyone noticing. Just spend a little more time on it.

Tricks for seeing your domain with fresher eyes.

Change is not always maximal and unpredictable! But thinking it is can lead to a lot of indirection and abstraction where a single if-statement could have sufficed for years.

Refactoring as a way of finding the seams in your model. What is the code actually supposed to do? How does it actually fit with the domain?

Recorded during Øredev 2023, where Eric gave two presentations about the topics discussed: Better software design with domain modeling and Stratified design and functional architecture.

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Titles

I’m really on to something
Anti-design trend
In a waterfall world
On the way to code
Experimentation in code
Not about moving your hand
I don’t want rules
Yes, that’s the right question!
Take five minutes
Spending more time on it
Code lets me play with ideas
I’m happy working on a whiteboard
Debug your ideas
Server babysitters

Kodsnack 567 - Arrow straight through, with Matt Topol and Lars Wikman

30 Jan 2024 05:26 +0000

Fredrik has Matt Topol and Lars Wikman over for a deep and wide chat about Apache Arrow and many, many topics in the orbit of the language-independent columnar memory format for flat and hierarchical data. What does that even mean? What is the point? And why does Arrow only feel more and more interesting and useful the more you think about deeply integrating it into your systems?

Feeding data to systems fast enough is a problem which is focused on much less than it ought to be. With Arrow you can send data over the network, process it on the CPU - or GPU for that matter- and send it along to the database. All without parsing, transformation, or copies unless absolutely necessary.

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Titles

For me, it started during the speaker’s dinner
Old, dated, and Java
A real nerd snipe
Identical representation in memory
Working on columns
It’s already laid out that way
Pass the memory, as is
Null plus null is null
A wild perk
Arrow into the thing
So many curly brackets you need to store
Arrow straight through
Something data people like to do
So many backends
The SQL string is for people
I’m rude, and he’s polite
Feed the data fast enough
A depressing amount of JSON
Arrow the whole way through
These are the problems in data
Reference the bytes as they are
Boiling down to Arrow
Data lakehouses
Removing inefficiency

Kodsnack 560 - Starting with courage, with Diana Larsen

15 Dec 2023 05:26 +0000

Recorded on-stage at Øredev 2023 just after her keynote, Fredrik chats to Diana Larsen about leadership and building good teams.

How to get into leaderhip? Often it’s more about picking up expectations than getting a formal onboarding
Learning to not do things yourself when you start leading - everything you do is one less thing the team learns to do for itself
Leadership roles are on different levels, and on a different level than non-leadership positions. A lot of thing can become invisible to people on other levels. Some things should be, others should be made visible. People want to be understood, and understand what other people in the organization are doing and what challenges they have.

And everything doesn’t have to be a formal meeting with agendas and stuff.

Power dynamics - hard to percieve and to talk about. Even what location you are in can become part of the power dynamics and important to take into consideration.

Teams - they also exist on different levels. They don’t have to be static.

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Titles

Leaders and followers
Starting with courage
Learning is okay here
We can’t know it all
Unknown power
Strong three-person teams

Kodsnack 559 - Non-fungible plants, with Cyrus Clarke

14 Dec 2023 05:26 +0000

Recorded on-stage at Øredev 2023 just after his keynote, Fredrik chats to Cyrus Clarke about plants, imagining things, exploring, and building. And not presenting speculative things as possible here right now. Daring to not be useful right now.

How to bridge the gap between theory and academia on one side and practice and industry wanting to build things right now? By example.

Do our short time scales and focus on iteration hurt us? Eighteen months sounds like an impossibly long timespan, because we think in two-week iterations of what we have and customers want right now.

Getting in touch with researchers. Adapt how you talk to people! Scientists and artists are very similar.

We are all at intersections between things.

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Titles

Data and plants
Non-fungible plants
That nice melting pot
Scientists are also artists
A little bit more imaginative
That’s all we are
Constant “of course"s

Kodsnack 558 - Software outlives you, with Na'Tosha Bard

13 Dec 2023 05:26 +0000

Recorded on-stage at Øredev 2023 just after her keynote, Fredrik chats to Na’Tosha Bard about picking good building blocks, getting products done, and code outliving you.

Software outlives you. How early is it meaningful to consider that fact?

Will we get better at handling long-lived software?

Make tradeoffs with open eyes.

Na’Tosha has worked on many different levels of hardware and software, as well as many different levels in organizations - what can be picked up from the various levels?

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Titles

A lot of nodding
Perfect is maybe also a delusion
Microservice theater
Solving a problem for humans
Software outlives you
Sitting on a mainframe somewhere

Kodsnack 557 - All I had was science fiction, with Galit Ariel

12 Dec 2023 05:26 +0000

Recorded on-stage at Øredev 2023 just after her keynote, Fredrik chats to Galit Ariel about being inspired by the right science fiction, uninspired futures, and much more.

It’s all thanks to Star Trek - a vision of the future which is actually positive and thoughtful
What science fiction can teach us about what we think of as the other
Uninspired future building - is it that things become so big they become more bland because they can’t afford to not be wide and bland?
Too much push for product and profit
Microsoft, AI, and the panic to surf the current wave
Will cultures change? Perhaps a recession will help - reality is biting a bit at the worst misdirections. When things are stale and still, more interesting and nuanced things have the time to happen
Also: the new generation is looking good!

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Titles

My whole family is tiny
All I had was science fiction
The whole paradigm of Star Trek
What we think the “other” is
The M-word
A 3d shopping mall
A virtual Excel sheet
A better person to drive over
You solved a discomfort and created a bigger problem
The beige
This is reality biting

Kodsnack 556 - Informed hope, with Monika Bielskyte

11 Dec 2023 05:26 +0000

Recorded on-stage at Øredev 2023 just after her keynote, Fredrik chats to Monika Bielskyte about finding, building, and approaching better visions for the future.

We discuss things such as:

Disabilities for innovation and better design
More inclusion in design for people on edges improves the world for precisely everyone
Why does a concept like protopia feel so new? Why have we been stuck thinking about dystopias and exclusive utopias for so long?
Informed hope. Everything has a context, and the context matters! No huge solution for everything
Design with, not for

We all create the future all the time. Propaganda and disinformation wants to overwhelm, to disengage. But we can all counteract this and improve the world by doing good things in our daily lives. Put more good information into the systems - and remember to make it cool as well!

We never arrive at a perfect future, it’s the steps we take and what we make here and now that builds it. All or nothing is the old utopia-dystopia thing again - the zero-sum game. Dystopian storytelling is way too easy.

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Titles

From Los Angeles to Doha
Subtitles aren’t just for deaf people
When your country gets invaded
From a neurodivergent lens
At the bleeding edge of harm
Lack of curiousity
Informed hope
Written by a chatbot
Look how the subduing worked out for us
Open to be wrong
Beyond just inflammatory headlines
Create the best possible world
We lift each other up

Kodsnack 550 - This beautiful abomination, with Natalia Tepluhina

07 Nov 2023 05:26 +0000

Recorded at Øredev 2022, Fredrik chats with Natalia Tepluhina about perhaps the most complicated part of frontend development: state management.

Why is state management so tricky, and what can we do about it? Natalia tells a fascinating story of a beautiful abomination of state management libraries in a single application.

Don’t be the bottleneck. Some people enjoy it, but it doesn’t do you any good (or your company for that matter). Natalia realized she had become one, and took action to resolve the issue.

Once we leave state behind us, we discuss documentation writing and contributions - in many ways it’s actually harder than contributing to code. You need a much wider perspective, so the idea that documentation is some easy start to contributing isn’t necessarily correct.

Finally: never forget to reach out! Report the issue, offer to help, ask for the feature, or whatever else it is that you’ve thought about doing but never got around to!

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Titles

I don’t have frontend in my title
Silver bullets in the world of state management
Explaining magic to your team mates
Pretty simple but not that magical
Too much magic going on
Contagious reactivity
This beautiful abomination
Constantly growing and changing
Another kind of abomination
Some people enjoy being a bottleneck

Kodsnack 542 - The whole software is in your hand, with Daniel Eke

12 Sep 2023 05:26 +0000

Fredrik chats with Daniel Eke about creative visual coding, learning through side projects, and a lot more. The discussion revolves around Daniel’s apps: the visualizer Ferromagnetic, polygon drawing tool Handstract, and photo polygonizer Centroid.

Code lets you create art which is interactive and immersive in a way many other art forms can’t.

Develop your side projects so that you save time - re-use code, structure it in ways which make things easy and fast for you.

Focus on hard problems rather than getting all caught up in low-hanging fruit and simple feature requests.

Learn the systems you are using, look at others to learn more tricks.

Try stuff out, and don’t worry too much about the tools. Build it inside something you already have. Or, use Apple’s Shortcuts - that might be much easier than setting up some service to run a script.

The magic of programming is that you can create something valuable by thinking through problems and expressing the solution in code.

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Titles

Your hand as a polygon
Vector graphic finger painting
The best thing is to listen to slow songs
Start with a desktop application
Use the whole capability of the phone
All the secondary things
The whole software is in your hand
I like creating art more than playing games
Value out of nothing
A totally even distribution

Kodsnack 536 - I choose computer science, with Michele Riva

01 Aug 2023 05:26 +0000

Recorded at the Øredev 2022 developer conference, Fredrik chats with Michele Riva about writing a full-text search engine, maintaining 8% of all Node modules, going to one conference per week, refactoring, the value of a good algorithm, and a lot more.

Michele highly recommends writing a full-text search engine. He created Lyra - later renamed Orama, and encourages writing your own in order to demystify subjects. Since the podcast was recorded, Michele has left his then employer Nearform and founded Oramasearch to focus on the search engine full time.

We also discuss working for product companies versus consulting, versus open source. It’s more about differences between companies than anything else. Open source teaches you deal with more and more different people. Writing code is never just writing code.

Should we worry about taking on too many dependencies? Michele is in favour of not fearing dependencies, but ensuring you understand how things important parts for your application work.

Writing books is never convenient, but it can open many doors.

When it comes to learning, there are areas where a whole level of tutorials are missing - where there is only really surface-level tutorial and perhaps deep papers, but nothing in between. Michele works quite a bit on bridging such gaps through his presentations.

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Titles

For foreign people, it’s Mitch
That kind of maintenance
A very particular company
A culture around open source software
Now part of the 8%
Nothing more than a radix tree
One simple and common API
Multiple ways of doing consultancy
What you’re doing is hidden
You can’t expect to change people
A problem we definitely created ourselves
Math or magic
Writing books is never convenient
Good for 90% of the use cases
(When I can choose,) I choose computer science

Kodsnack 535 - Let's make something number one, with Cliff Hazell

25 Jul 2023 05:26 +0000

Recorded at the Øredev 2022 developer conference, Fredrik chats with Cliff Hazell about connecting the whole organization as it grows, priorities, and more.

Don’t just sit around in your room and think about horses. Talking across silos and departments, all without overloading everyone with meetings? Learn to surf rather than trying to control the ocean. Make good changes and enable flexibility without making process out of everything.

Just making something top priority and finishing it can get you so much more done, rather than trying to make everything number one, or think forever about which thing to prioritize.

How is something we are doing actually moving us toward our goals?

Wrapping up by discussing combining doing good work with taking responsibility for our impact on the team, the company, and the world. It’s not that you either can do good or make money.

Finally, related to one of Øredev’s keynotes , Fredrik admits his annoyance at the fact that deadlines can be a good thing.

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Titles

Similar to the problems of product development
Figured out in the proper places
Between the functions
Should I be thinking about that problem?
You assume that you are the user
Understand horses
Talk across that silo
Control the waves
There’s a swell coming
Coach of coaches
You only have one thing, and it’s wrong
Let’s make something number one
Getting the right people to talk to the right people

Kodsnack 525 - The double bottleneck, with Aino Vonge Corry

16 May 2023 05:26 +0000

Recorded at the Øredev 2022 developer conference, Fredrik chats with Aino Vonge Corry about patterns and their effects on our lives.

Aino works with both academia and industry, regularly switching between the two, and talks about what each can and wants to learn from the other.

We also discuss Aino’s own research, and how programming languages and patterns influence each other. We talk about teaching patterns - and who teaches the teachers to teach.

It is easy to get stuck thinking that the patterns in the book are the one true list, when the whole power of a pattern is giving a name to some common thing in your own environment so that you can discuss it at a higher level.

Which are the patterns in your organization?

Perhaps you too could be helped by trying a double bottleneck?

Also: antipatterns! They help you learn from mistakes, and make it easier to talk, reason, and joke about them.

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Titles

Teaching the teachers how to teach
I get easily bored
I can change what I do every day
Hypothesis-driven development
Take the language constructs with them
We don’t want a negative book
The double bottleneck
The problems to appreciate the solutions
Learning from mistakes

Kodsnack 512 - Enrich the graphics, with Denis Radin

14 Feb 2023 05:26 +0000

Recorded at the Øredev 2022 developer conference, Fredrik chats with Denis Radin about React, Webgpu, standards development, coding standards, and a lot more.

We start way back, with early React development - while React was still in beta, on amazingly bad hardware. A project where focus was actually on optimization and education instead of throwing hardware at solving the performance problem.

We discuss AI art generation a bit, and how it affects our world.

Denis then gets into how Webgpu is different from Webgl, mostly a lot better for a lot more use cases.

What’s holding back really cool graphical things in the browser now? Getting paid!

Denis tells us about the development of the Webgpu standard, a unique standard which filled a gap major players all wanted filling.

What if we applied NASA coding guidelines to Javascript? Denis did it to show that Javascript can be taken as seriously as C or other low-level languages, if we just want to. Do we web developers have more to internalize when it comes to pride in craftmanship? But examples are out there if we just know to look for them.

What does Denis think of React’s evolution?

Finally, fullstack frameworks are coming and exciting. They are a revolution for Denis' side projects already!

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Titles

Amazingly shitty hardware
The performance and scalability wasn’t there
Let’s use this pipeline
Enrich the graphics
How do you monetize?
A standard that fills a gap
Javascript developer: no
Change the perception
This is engineering
Innovate by simplicity
A fullstack developer with a couple of commands

Kodsnack 493 - I really care about the weather, with Malin Sundberg and Kai Dombrowski

04 Oct 2022 05:26 +0000

Fredrik talks to Kai Dombrowski and Malin Sundberg of Triple glazed studios about their new weather app Mercury weather.

Malin and Kai tell us how the app went from idea to release in a few short months, and why they will try not to pick the summer months the next time they start a new app. What was the release like, what was it like to be mentioned by John Gruber, and how did that change the bug reports?

Do people care about weather apps? Yes, they very much do! We also talk weater API:s, easter eggs, and a whole lot more.

We wrap up with some chat about Fredrik’s recent (lack of) Mac devlopment, the right phone size, and this year’s Iphones in general.

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Titles

Malin only brought me as an excuse
Essentially one screen
Our favorite weather app
A heat warning in Vancouver
So many people care
When are raindrops expected
Best beta period ever
I really care about the weather
Sydney has weather
A lot more of an emotional response
Before we were developers
Wait two seconds, and ask again
A frownie in the northern hemisphere
Dismiss an app in different directions
A good direction for UI design

Kodsnack 484 - Underneath your library, with Chris Ferdinandi

02 Aug 2022 05:26 +0000

Fredrik chats with Chris Ferdinandi about vanilla Javascript, the pros and cons of libraries, the state of web components, and a lot more.

Chris tells us about how and why he became the vanilla Javascript guy, and why he dislikes vanilla-js.com. We talk about why we as web developers pick up so many libraries, and why we often seem to use really large tools on really small problems. We wonder if different types of developers should think in different ways about libraries. Chris also talks about how different groups attending his courses approach the subject of vanilla Javascript in different ways, and of course a bit about where he hopes and thinks web development might be heading in the next few years.

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Titles

I help people learn vanilla Javascript
Largely because of Jquery
The vanilla JS guy
The phrase “at scale” gets thrown in there
Trying to hang a painting on your wall with a sledgehammer
Perfect for a very narrow and specific set of use cases
Just throwing one more of them in
The pain of their own tech choices
Teaching engineers how to find their next job
I didn’t realize you could do so much without a library
Underneath your library
Without punishing the user
Mostly HTML and a little bit of Javascript
Waiting for the build to compile
You never have to feel bored

Kodsnack 462 - A little metaverse in itself, with Niels Østergaard

01 Mar 2022 05:26 +0000

Fredrik chats with Niels Østergaard about working with AR and VR. How is the experience is different and how can you think differently about VR and AR? VR can take you to a completely different place, but you still have to worry about the physical world around you breaking the immersion (or your TV).

We discuss “the M-word” - metaverse - what and who is it for? Niels explains how it might actually be useful in some circumstances!

What’s exciting right now in AR? Remember how AR is already here in a lot of ways - including in most people’s phones. Who makes the most exciting devices right now, who makes intersting AR experiences, and will Apple’s possible headsets make any difference?

What’s missing right now? Niels thinks more of common formats would be useful - to make it easier to move content between experiences. Niels also predicts AI-supported generation of content will be a big thing.

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Titles

Spread the purple feeling around
What is the next step?
A very versatile experience
I hit the cat
That breaks the illusion
Standing on the cable
Standing next to a real Volvo
A virtual Volvo
The M-word
A lot of metaverses in it
A little metaverse in itself
Why use a keyboard anyway?
You disappear from the real world
An extra digital layer
There’s a lot of content to generate

Kodsnack 445 - The momentum of developer love, with Guy Podjarny

11 Nov 2021 05:26 +0000

This episode is sponsored by Snyk. Fredrik talks to Snyk founder and president Guy Podjarny about building security tools for developers, tools which you will actually use and enjoy.

Guy talks about how Snyk was built to bring developer focus into security, building with a great focus on the user instead of on the person paying the bills for tools or looking at the reports. The world may not stop revolving around developers - meaning we need to cover wider and wider areas of knowledge - but we need to accept the responsibility of this, and use good tools to enable us to build better things more easily and take on all that responsibility in a good way.

Guy describes Snyk’s suite of tools and how they are built to be maximally useful and convenient to developers. Security problems and their fixes can be as easy as fixing a spelling mistake if built right! Snyk’s tools can look at the whole application and understand the context. They can look at node_modules and filter out the problems which actually do not affect your app, and suggest appropriate fixes for the problems which do.

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Titles

A developer security company
The performance industry
The giants at the time
The tools better be amazing for my stack
Security gravitates toward breadth
Security has to go broad
Naivité helped
The momentum of developer love
Run without any bottlenecks
One helper
Right-click and autocorrect
How much you care, and how hard it is
Opinionated integrations
npm install snyk

Kodsnack 431 - A game is just smoke and mirrors, with Tommy Maloteaux

17 Aug 2021 05:26 +0000

Fredrik chats with Tommy Maloteaux about his VR god game Deisim and all the interesting stuff which has happened in and around the game since episode 406 where Tommy first was a guest on the podcast.

We start with some background on Tommy and how he got into game development from a start as a web developer. Then Tommy tells us how he got started creating the game. Tommy likes to start small and iterate, and he chose to start with the AI. We also discuss how the word AI can sound a lot more intimidating than when you actually need to build for your game.

Deisim is available on multiple platforms, and since we last spoke it has become available through Oculus App lab, and thus much easier to play on Oculus quest. Tommy tells us about how App lab works, and how it has changed things for Deisim (and saved Oculus a lot of developer accounts).

The other major event for Deisim since last time is that the game sells enough that it has allowed Tommy to make the game his full time job. Tommy talks about how going full time has changed how he works on the game, like both having more time, and also given him a chance to find a nice work-life balance. Also: how temperature can affect what gets worked on for the game.

We discuss what hardware Tommy uses to develop the game, and interesting differences between running on desktop versus mobile hardware. On the Quest, the game is GPU bound, on the PC it’s CPU bound.

A 2D mode for the game is in development, and Tommy talks about that version and what changes he needed to make to get the game running in 2D on a PC with a mouse. A well-factored code base and build pipeline helped a lot.

Last but not least, Tommy discusses the power of having core values for your project, which the core values for Deisim are, and letting them guide what gets put in or not.

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Titles

Very different worlds
Something interesting to me
A very indirect game
Autonomous humans
It’s really incremental
I created life!
A lot of coding to do
A learning project
My first AI project
Years of big code
When people say “AI”
A bit like Blade runner
A store of non-approved games
The exact name of the game
I had to limit the world
Bigger worlds, with shaders
The shader look
The Populous mode
A game is just smoke and mirrors
The same texture for everything
Starting a war without giving orders
Complex enough to be interesting
A big sandbox
Look at the ball of spaghetti

Kodsnack 429 - This is a meetup, with Harald Achitz

03 Aug 2021 05:26 +0000

Kristoffer chats with Harald Achitz about test-driven development, Djinni, meetups, and the standardization of C++.

How does Harald do TDD? His focus on code coverage plays a role too. Clouds make it easier to skip tests, because everything becomes part of a big puzzle which only lives in production? Building habits are the big thing, not which actual tools you use and whether they can be used everywhere.

Then, we discuss Djinni - a interface definition language and code generator for integrating C++ into applications written in other languages.

The discussion then moves on to the C++ meetups Harald arranges, another aspect of solving the difficult social side of programming by networking and sharing information. Harald also puts the presentations on Youtube and is fascinated by how accessible the tools are nowadays for recording, producing and publishing video these days. The C++ meetup paused during the pandemic, and we discuss the pros and cons of moving to online meetups.

Finally, we discuss the standardization process of C++, and the possibility of forming a local C++ body for Sweden to be involved in the standardization process. We should be interested in getting involved in the standard, both as developers, companies, and industries. Get in touch with Harald if you have ideas and want to help things happen!

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Titles

First in the shoes of the user
People are lazy, and I’m also lazy
I always want the computer to do the job for me
Part of a big puzzle that lives in production
Solutions often has a long life
Existing developers will not be very happy
A completely new language every time
The difficult part of programming is the social part
Communicate practices
This was the best meetup
A huge box of DVI adapters
“Let’s make a simple video!”
Download and print as much as I could
You need to be reachable, and you need to be responsive
This is a meetup
I need to see that it’s not just you
C can make the life of C++ very hard
The standards process has been a mystery
It was never a secret
The beauty of the world we live in

Kodsnack 428 - Yes, it gives me no guarantee, with Harald Achitz

27 Jul 2021 05:26 +0000

Kristoffer chats with Harald Achitz about Harald’s path as a developer, test-driven development, seeing the big picture, and more.

The first part of the discussion is Harald’s background: Growing up on the far side of Europe, focusing on music, and how he eventually landed in computing. Freelancing as a developer in 1995 - what was that like? How did one find customers? The story then goes into Harald’s way into C and C++. Developing for medical devices and hospitals. Moving toward Linux, making a living as an open source developer, and eventually ending up in Sweden.

Then, the conversation moves to Harald’s increasing interest in what happens after you finish writing the code; builds, releases, integrations, package managers, build systems, and so much more. We talk quite a bit about seeing the big picture, and how our code is, at best, a temporary and unimportant part of the greater whole. Are we too focused on the next task, at the expense of thinking about and seeing the whole?

Harald explains why he likes to have 100% code coverage, how he goes about setting up his tests, and the challenges of setting up tests when responsibilities strech across teams.

Many of the hardest problems are organizational, the code we write is, on the whole, often not very important. Code is temporary. All of which is more motivation for testing more.

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Titles

Austria in the 80s
On the side of Europe
I started and stopped a lot of things
Just jamming around
Where you play the songs you hate
There were computers in offices
I was the young person
The internet became a thing
Freelancing back in 95
I really loved databases
I came back to medical devices
Would you like to go to Switzerland?
A different spirit in the Linux world
I have no problem if things work
It’s not just the code I write
I love to have everything automated
Holistic thinking
All the tests are passing, but the thing is not useful
Yes, it gives me no guarantee
You need to fake it
The place where people give up
Software is their bread and butter
The code I write is most likely not very important
Software systems tend to change
Code is temporary
Throw it away as soon as possible
Never enough, but always too much

Kodsnack 411 - The performance to generate the next CPU, with Wilson Snyder

30 Mar 2021 05:26 +0000

Fredrik chats with Wilson Snyder about Verilator, chip design, performance, and open hardware.

This episode is a bit of a follow-up to episode 389 where Robert Wikander talked - in Swedish - about verification of circuit designs. Afterward, Robert mentioned that we should really ask Wilson Snyder to talk about Verilator, and here we are! Wilson works with CPU and other hardware design, and is one of the lead developers of Verilator. When you design hardware, hardware description languages come in handy - you use them to describe hardware precisely. Then you can generate runnable code simulating the hardware, and run batteries of tests against it without needing to manufacture physical hardware.

Verilator is one tool for turning code in the Verilog hardware description language into C++ or Systemc. The major competing tools are more on the interpreter side - which means that Verilator usually has a performance advantage. Oh, and it’s GPL licensed as well. As we discuss, Verilator doesn’t actually support all of Verilog, but that’s being worked on. And increased performance in itself is a clear goal of both research and concrete improvements.

We also discuss a bit what might come out hardware-wise in the future. Wilson predicts DPUs - data-offload units, basically - will become even more of a thing than today.

The second part of the discussion is focused on Verilator itself - how it’s built, designed, and developed. People with knowledge of compilers will feel right at home inside the Verilator source code.

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Titles

An open source tool that could do verification
It started as a hobby
It has a life of its own
Into actual hardware gates
Matching the languages
A good escape story
It’s bascially a compiler
Open source hardware design
The performance to generate the next CPU
Innovation feedback cycles
Download a core
Always a little bit of a focus
My real job is CPU design

Kodsnack 406 - Sit down in the middle of the world, with Tommy Maloteaux

23 Feb 2021 05:26 +0000

Fredrik chats with Tommy Maloteaux, developer of VR god game Deisim. Tommy tells us where the inspiration came from, how he started developing the game, the tools he’s used, and more. Deisim has been developed most of the time as an early access game with a active community of players contributing heavily to the process.

Also discussed are the problems of 2016, and the advantage of not knowing too much when starting.

Since we recorded, Oculus has released App lab - a feature which makes it possible to buy and try Deisim and many other games right inside the Quest headset, without the need of sideloading or other complicating processes. The VR future is full of exciting things!

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Titles

A third-party app store for VR
A really early adopter of VR
Sit down in the middle of the world
The world spreads out around me
Play with small toys
Always room for expansion
Especially in 2016
It was not the case in 2016
It can be considered a game

Kodsnack 396 - Not as distributed as you'd like it to be, with Dave Jones

15 Dec 2020 05:26 +0000

Fredrik chats with Dave Jones of Podcast index - a new open podcast directory and API, and also one of the drivers of a new podcasting namespace for RSS.

Podcasting as infrastructure has not advanced much at all in a long time. Dave, Adam and Podcast index wants to preserve podcasting as free and distributed, and also advance what the ecosystem can be - such as providing value.

The namespace contains down-to-earth things such as chapters and location tags, but also much more ambitious ideas. Part of the vision is to reimagine podcasting as a platform of value where listeners can more easily and naturally support not only podcasters, but also app developers and anyone else who might be involved. This is where the value tag and cryptocurrencies enter the picture.

We also discuss programming languages a bit - what it takes to entice you to really get into a programming language. Perhaps the specific languages we use are no longer as critical as they used to be?

How hard is it to set up your own podcast directory? Not that hard, says David, but keeping it within a sane budget can take some balancing. And if everyone supported Websub things wouldn’t be nearly as tricky.

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Titles

Podcasting as a platform for free speech
Podcasting as a platform of value
Take back the open nature of podcasting
Apple or Google is not the center of the universe
A big chicken and egg problem
People have been wedging things in
Picks and shovels
The value block
100 Satoshis a minute
If I know I can pay this podcaster
A very steep learning curve
Developers are busy
Beyond the point where the language layer is the critical part of the puzzle
npm audit fix and hope for the best
Now you’ve got two stacks
The reverse of JSX
1.3 million feeds
Not as distributed as you’d like it to be
Google reader bad vibes
You just don’t get pinged sometimes
You don’t have to be at the mercy of Google
The days of free need to die
Free is very expensive
The silo companies
But you don’t have to sell your soul
AI your way into discovery
Always human suggestion
A personal relation of some kind
Synapses firing in the brain
Aboutness
Science our way out of every problem
What makes artificial intelligence artificial
Err on the side of freedom
A de-humanizing force
International fun time

Kodsnack 380 - yarn generate book, with Sara Vieira

25 Aug 2020 05:26 +0000

Fredrik chats with Sara Vieira about The Opinionated Guide to React - the guide to making all the choices React doesn’t make for you (plus hooks). We talk about the magic train ride from Prague which led to the creation of the book, what the writing and publication process was like, and of course about the surprising and horrific code Sara uses to create the final book files. We also discuss MC:ing conferences, what happens when world events explode all over your writing, finding your voice, and making the most of your Grammarly plan.

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Titles

It’s like sad Spanish
I make buttons
Goth Glitch
I finished something
The stress doesn’t end
On a train from Prague
Also kind of European
Apparently I started this on Christmas
It depends
Why it depends
I don’t think that’s an answer
Thank you for not calling it “React Best Practises”
March never ended
I can only write like I speak
I’m not school-smart
yarn generate book
A very dirty Javascript function
A different type of terrifying
All of a sudden, nothing’s scary anymore
“I think this thing has a computer”
It was the worst visa

Kodsnack 366 - No servers involved, Beaker with Paul Frazee

19 May 2020 05:26 +0000

Paul Frazee returns to discuss the evolution of Beaker - the peer-to-peer browser for web hackers. Just released as a public beta, Beaker has gone through a lot of changes since October when we last chatted. Paul tells us about what Beaker is and some of the important concepts, such as feeds, the file system, and starting to create things on top of them.

On the surface, Beaker looks like a standard web browser with some unusual buttons, but just below the UI there’s a lot of peer-to-peer technology, a serverless model of the web where you can just as easily edit, add, and remix as you can browse.

Beaker feels like a tool to make the web open and easily editable - something anyone can pick up and start hacking on without strange hurdles of server setups, package management, hosting fees, and build scripts.

We also talk about the very iterative and open development process of Beaker, and the high value of user testing. Paul talks about some of the many interesting problems left to solve, and the reasons why they’re better solved later.

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Titles

A peer-to-peer browser for web hackers
Bittorrent 2.0
No servers involved
Almost an IDE in itself
Open up the creative side of web development
Lowering the barrier to hackcess
Standards all the way down
Empower userland
That’s what we’re trying to do: give developers new problems
New problems of their own choosing
Pulling it from Denmark
You don’t need a server for it
Only superficially like other browsers
The answer is “maybe”
Your personal anchor
Plane wifi is getting pretty good
What you choose to put in front of people
Lots of auditability

Kodsnack 362 - It's hard to get mad at the bot, with Nate Ebel

28 Apr 2020 05:26 +0000

Recorded at Øredev 2019, Fredrik talks to Nate Ebel about special cases in programming - like the importance of performance when it comes to drawing. Then we discuss automation - also the topic of Nate’s talk at the conference. Code review should be an enjoyable thing! Nate discusses how to use tools to automate away all the little things you might want to check during development - such as how the size of the built app changes. As a bonus, it’s hard to get mad at a picky bot.

We also discuss the importance and difficulty of taking the extra step and making your automation really turnkey, instead of something you set up once and then forgot to maintain or make easy for others to use.

We talk about the book Nate just (at the time of the interview) wrote on Kotlin. We discuss both the approach and contents of the book, and also the process of actually writing the book.

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Titles

Drawing at 60 frames per second
Automate literally all the things
More like a turnkey thing
As if it was another person
It’s hard to get mad at the bot
Go copy this random script
Hello world plus
Such an all or nothing approach

Kodsnack 361 - There's no way they're using a mainframe, with Marianne Bellotti

21 Apr 2020 05:26 +0000

Recorded at Øredev 2019, Fredrik talks to Marianne Bellotti; keynote speaker, software anthropologist and frequent modernizer of legacy systems.

We start our discussion talking about modernizing old yet mission critical systems, while they’re still being used, without breaking everything. “Legacy” might invoke ancient software, but even a young system can have a lot of legacy which has not been updated in a surprisingly long time. From there we move on to code as the new pottery shards - coming to understandsing software from a perspective of anthropology - it’s a surprisingly natural and interesting way to approach legacy systems.

We also talk about mindmapping and knowledge transfer, how to teach people to think like that amazing code reviewer instead of asking the reviewer all the time.

Finally, we talk about how and why people feel the need to back their ideas up with research, or not, and how an idea can run away from you and suddenly become truth just because you happened to package it well.

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Titles

A very simple question that’s getting progressively harder to answer
Legacy modernization
Hard to define when something becomes legacy
The organizational dynamics around fear
Code as an artifact of human thought
Code is the new pottery shards
Crap, I probably would have done it this way
Really good at doing what they’re doing
The oldest technology is government technology
A knack for organizing engineering teams
Who actually knows what the hell they’re doing?
Re-acclimate to the non-government world
Screaming into the void
You will find a way to apply it at some point
Absorb as much as you can
I don’t have to understand this now
Systems that are ungooglable
I just started writing it down
A bet we’ll never be able to settle
The ultimate datastore for a web application
There’s no way they’re using a mainframe
Scientific research in triplicate
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs for reliability

Kodsnack 355 - I think I can actually help, with Stephanie Gasche

10 Mar 2020 05:26 +0000

Recorded at Øredev 2019, Fredrik talks to Stephanie Gasche, who decided to use her skills from the agile software development world to make the larger world better.

Stephanie started thinking about wanting to make a positivt impact, and how in many consulting jobs you can give a lot without getting to see a big-picture impact of your work. The refugee movement in 2014-2016 made her realize this was an area where she could make an impact. She started working helping refugees arriving in Austria, and eventually realized something really missing was one good single starting point for refugees.

We also discuss why there are so few people doing similar things. It’s hard to get funding in general, and even harder if you don’t fit in specific enough slots that might have specific funding. Also: slow processes.

Also: how hitch-hiking can change the world.

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Titles

Making an impact, in any way I can
Making an impact on people’s lives
I rolled into the agile world
Knowledge never ends
I was doing everything for other people
I thought I was going to write a book
How hitch-hiking can change the course of the world
It was a new situation
Democracy moves a bit slower
We use what we know for a situation that has never happened before
I think I can actually help
Full-time from the inside
Lots of interesting press
Being the glue
A very agile approach
We can’t really fail

Kodsnack 346 - A golden age of exploration and tomfoolery, with Tomer Gabel

07 Jan 2020 05:26 +0000

Recorded at Øredev 2019, Fredrik talks to Tomer Gabel. We start from Tomer’s talk about microservices, why the timing was right to do a microservices talk in the form of a retrospective, what is happening now, and how the answer to the question of whether you should go microservices has changed in the last few years. Tomer discusses how problems and solutions evolve, are commoditized and sometimes almost disappear as a concept (or gain new terminology to describe them). In the future, we might not be talking or thinking about microservices at all, but the concept may have evolved and adapted and actually form a basis for everything we do - technology becoming so central that we don’t even need to think about it anymore.

Also: it may not be worth it to migrate everything into the future. Common sense and judgement required, as always.

We discuss how many of the peculiarities of the software development industry may simply be because the industry is so young. Tomer thinks we as an industry will eventually figure things out and become a lot more settled down, and less exciting if you will. We should all be excited about being around in the industry right now, when there is so much freedom and so many things to do and try.

Is the software industry somewhat unique in being so much about sharing knowledge? And are we making the most out of our golden age?

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Titles

I think I just got the timing right
Everyone’s kind of doing it
I’m totally an apostate
It’s worth wondering why
Should you go microservices
Computation substrate
Lambdas were unimaginable ten years ago
The industry is so new
Software is the only industry in which the word “legacy” has a negative connotation
We’re a very new industry
We don’t really understand how to do what we do
Completely different and a lot more boring
I hope I don’t live to see that
The next thing no-one knows how to build
Software is starting to matter
When you consume a service
At some point the demand for software won’t be as extreme
Why we get to have fun
The golden age of software engineering
A golden age of exploration and tomfoolery
We’re young, we’re happy, we get to play with toys

Kodsnack 344 - How to be a successful heretic, with Carmen Medina

24 Dec 2019 05:26 +0000

Recorded at Øredev 2019, Fredrik talks to Carmen Medina about affecting change in organizations. Carmen used to work at CIA, and talks about her work there as a heretic, working to affect changes at a theological level.

How can you get your ideas implemented without being in a position of power?

How can you sneak ideas through side doors?

Why might you consider digging into the beaurucratic sides of the organization?

And what do tug boat pilots have to do with all this?

Finally, we touch a bit on the challenges of promoting diversity and diversity of thought. Does your organization have a working agreement on how to disagree?

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Titles

Puerto Rican by birth and Texan by nationality
A big formative influence
A veteran of the CIA
I was a heretic at CIA
How to be a successful heretic
Be a good thinker
I was arguing theological change
What made me try again
There is no silver bullet that fits all shoe sizes
Befriemd the beaurucratic black belts
Tug boat pilots
Learn to be a better beaurucrat
Make your idea community property
Creating a climate where new ideas are always welcome
How do we disagree?
The nice, orderly process of disagreement

Kodsnack 338 - A tough battle for AR, with Azad Balabanian

12 Nov 2019 05:26 +0000

Recorded at Øredev 2019, Fredrik talks to Azad Balabanian about virtual and augmented worlds. Azad works with photogrammetry - a process of capturing environments and objects for, among onther possibilities, use in VR and AR. He also hosts the Research VR podcast and dives deep into all aspects of virtual realities.

We start with discussing photogrammetry, how it works and what its challenges currently are for those wanting to get into scanning environments on top of just photographing or filming them.

Then we discuss how AR is or is not coming along and how to get a feel for what might be coming - by going to hardware conferences and piecing together what different companies are developing. AR has a lot of promise, but it is still a long way from being something you really could imagine wearing all day. There are promising initial use cases, but we are still looking for real consumer killer apps and hardware.

We then gradually move over into VR, games, good experiences and how room space and motion sickness are perhaps not the big problems people imagined at the start. Fredrik gets excited by how close most of us regular computer users may actually be to being able to work in VR.

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Titles

Spatial photography
Volumetric photography
The shot that you get is the shot that you have
Structure from motion
Lightning in real life is so good
An extension of photography
With just a phone
I like to know what’s around the corner
Get over that Google glass hump
Not for all relationships
The yellow brick road for you to follow
A tough battle for AR
Plenty of different hurdles
At its hardest mode for AR
It has to be procedural
Nobody has a VR room
It makes you feel awesome
Teleporting kind of sucks
Be expressive in a video game
Begging to be ripened
Real remote working experiences
Headphones for your eyes
A lot of room for growth

Kodsnack 336 - Less like the web and more like Unix, with Paul Frazee

29 Oct 2019 05:26 +0000

Fredrik talks to Paul Frazee about Beaker browser and making the web more peer-to-peer rather than client-server. Beaker also aims to make it radically easier to create and publish your own content rather Paul explains what Beaker browser is and the technologies it builds on. The central piece of technology is the distributed file system Hyperdrive and the DAT protocol which provides a sort of file- and folder-based API for building applications and handling their data.

Paul discusses the hard problems of Beaker and P2P networks - such as deciding when and how you as a peer start to share something online in the system. Sharing everything all the time does not feel like the right solution to the problem. We also discuss how to think about things more like applications and dynamic web sites in the Beaker way.

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Titles

Trying to move to the next version of the web
Just a little hobby project
P2P and web decentralisation
A peer-to-peer file system
Bittorrent, but a little bit better
Bittorrent upgraded
That was the easy part
The discovery swarm
Poor behaviour still gets punished
Does it get pushed to a wide audience?
(We are not what I call) topological purists
Less like the web and more like Unix
A global file system
Social design by nature
A totally client-side architecture
Inverting the server-client-relationship
Making the server very dumb
This giant distributed computer
Millions of files in a single folder
navigator.filesystem
Just a little bit broken
Not the web browser you know
/public/friends
You know that has presentation in there
The web is somebody else’s computer

Kodsnack 328 - Cacophonous, but beautiful at the same time, with Nolan Lawson

03 Sep 2019 05:26 +0000

Fredrik talks to Nolan Lawson - web performance expert, Mastodon instance maintainer, creator of a highly accessible Mastodon web client, and more. We discuss, among other things, the joys of distributed social media, where unlike centralized places like Twitter nobody can stop innovation when it comes to clients and interfaces and ways of use. Nolan talks about how and why he built Pinafore - his Mastodon client. We touch on the different experiences people have and want out of social media, digital wellness, and how caring about performance cam be an act of empathy.

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Titles

I was really excited
Falling in and out of it
Tweets are toots
The goal of a lot of web standards
I really mistrust a library
I believe in the open web
Eugene had already thought about this
Mixed degrees of success
My preference is single column
She’s on weird Mastodon
It’s all kind of cacophonous, but it’s beautiful at the same time
Every component has a bit of Svelte in it
It’s really based on empathy

Kodsnack 324 - Any error message that's confusing is a bug, with Steve Klabnik

06 Aug 2019 05:26 +0000

Recorded at Øredev 2018, Fredrik talks to Steve Klabnik about Rust and Webassembly. We talk a lot about error messages, based on Steve’s talk on how Rust handles and displays error messages. We discuss Rust’s error messages thinking an handling, but also error messages more in general, such how to think in order to produce error messages both developers and end users have a chance of understanding. Steve explains how and why the Rust compiler is switching from a pass-based compilation approach to a query-based approach to better facilitate partial recompilation upon smaller code changes. We also talk about Rust 2018, how Rust puts out new releases and what major features are on their way.

We then switch to talking about Webassembly. We discuss how Webassembly is moving along, among other things how it is getting better at playing well with others, enabling people to rely on Webassembly code without necessarily even needing to know about it.

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Titles

Something that should not be an afterthought
Hard actual work
What messages to give or how to give them
Any error message that’s confusing is a bug
Git blame always returns your own name
The internal deadline is tomorrow
The harder problem
The real test of being usable
More useful to more people
Broader than just the DOM
A host can do these things
The design is sort of not there
We need more teachers and explainers

Kodsnack 323 - Paying attention is an active pursuit, with Judy Rees

30 Jul 2019 05:26 +0000

Recorded at Øredev 2018, Fredrik talks to Judy Rees. We start from Judy’s presentation Getting them to get it and discuss the challenges of really listening, communication, and the how the clean language technique can help you both understand others better, and get your own ideas across better as well.

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Titles

I would present you as a Jedi master
Jedi mistress
A master listener
As a result of paying attention
Listening has such a low status in the world
Don’t talk and don’t think about talking
It’s against our programming to pay complete attention
Paying attention is an active pursuit
A question is a much more precise tool
The nearest thing the FBI have to a Jedi mind trick
The tools to reason about conversation
See through the leaves
Enabling them to heal themselves
It’s designed for use with humans
People are really rubbish at saying what they want in all kinds of domains of their lives
Humanity is currently the limit
The modeling brain
Their model of David’s model

Kodsnack 321 - No more day prisons, with Lisette Sutherland

16 Jul 2019 05:26 +0000

Recorded at Øredev 2018, Fredrik talks to Lisette Sutherland about making remote teams work, and working in remote teams. Lisette works remotely, manages remote teams, does extensive research, podcasts and has written a book on the subject. We cover topics from good tools to handling manager worries about remote work. And when Lisette talks tools it is not just your everyday Skype for business software replacements. I did not think about holograms as a good tool for remote work before talking to Lisette.

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Titles

If you acutally manage a remote team
When you actually deal with conflict
It’s good to keep grounded
Remote workers are not lazy
If they’re lazy at home they’re lazy in the office
It must be working
No one right way
A personality thing, not a tools thing
Real presence in the room
Our Faraday cage conference room
You want to have the Star trek experience
Tech gets in the way
Something always happens
How do you experiment in small steps
Some chaos is good
Day prisons
I just lost my home office
The alignment is always difficult
Sometimes alone, sometimes in person
No more day prisons

Kodsnack 318 - Do not disturb for four years, with Heather Wilde

25 Jun 2019 05:26 +0000

Recorded at Devsum 2019, Kristoffer and Fredrik talk burnout and more with Heather Wilde. Sometimes you really need the right kind of abrasive person in your life, or keep being that annoying friend to someone else. Heather shares some of her own experiences with burnout, breaking free from notifications, and tips for dealing with stress. Spoiler: it doesn’t have to be yoga!

Last but not least, Heather tells us a bit about Antarcticonf, the conference at the end of the world.

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Titles

Based on the stress-level of the crowd
The more important skill
My team was very concerned
Your brain is so happy
(My phone on) do not disturb for four years
The bully becomes the victim
My average is three hours per week
What they feel is urgent is not urgent at all
Google will read through it
Follow your urges
We need to interfere here
Keep knocking on their door
Keep being that annoying friend
The paranoia of the remote worker
We were on the same boat
When your parent dies, it’s a thing
Clinical signs of burnout
It’s not yoga

Kodsnack 316 - On top of the real world, with Roshan Khan

11 Jun 2019 05:26 +0000

Recorded at Øredev 2018, Fredrik talks VR with Roshan Khan. Why does he think AR will get accepted quicker even though he considers VR the more exciting area? We also discuss where exciting things are happening that you may not think of - like travel, education, medical training, and car sales. Responsiveness and content quality - big factors for great VR.

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Titles

Everybody wants to make a difference
On top of the real world
That’s the new reality
The virtual is the new reality
Directly in the line of creativity
If I lean forward nothing happens
My world is broken
High-end content
Get used to it!
Prepare!
It’s all ruins!

Kodsnack 308 - An infinite amount of monitors and windows, with Az Balabanian

16 Apr 2019 05:26 +0000

Fredrik talks VR with Azad Balabanian. Az is director of photogrammetry at Realities.io, likes flying cameras and hosts the excellent Research VR podcast. We cover how VR is coming along, how it has evolved since 2016, and what exciting things are happening right now. We also discuss how you might get started with VR, as a developer or otherwise, how Az and other do exciting work in VR, and some of the interesting ethical questions being raised. Hopefully we won’t make all the mistakes of social networks again in VR.

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Titles

The signs and designs of virtual reality
What VR was, what it is right now and what it will be
The peak of the hype of VR
The empathy machine
Lesser platforms
A massively serious workout
Huge incremental progress happening
Perceptual hacks
Show intent to the app
Not just for Beat saber at home
Fractal worlds
I eat in VR
An infinite amount of monitors and windows
A hack of your perceputal system
It only takes five years

Kodsnack 298 - Purposeful stumbling, with Woody Zuill

05 Feb 2019 05:26 +0000

Fredrik talks to Woody Zuill, writer of the book on mob programming, facilitator of happy teams and thoughtful teller of stories. Woody talks about how he and his team discovered mob programming, how it is evolving, how focusing on the good is the way forward, and how he may have aquired his mindset. Recorded on-stage at Øredev 2018.

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Titles

I think of myself as a software developer
Trying to make a better work environment
I don’t believe we can manage people
This time of year seven years ago
Purely by accident
Sitting and thinking at the keyboard alone
One member who’s not there
Five or six people programming
Opening different doors
If you open a door, there’s a good chance somebody will welcome you in
Superconnectors
One of those connector things
Oddly, it is working for us
Purposeful stumbling
I stopped looking for solutions to problems
A habit we need to build
I just went ahead and did it
I’ll discover stuff if I just try it
We follow the path that develops in front of us
Your job is very important
He was extending trust to me
These things are not related
A gentle way to think about our lives

Kodsnack 294 - The immediate feedback loop, with Dan Lebrero

08 Jan 2019 05:26 +0000

Fredrik talks to Dan Lebrero, long-time Java developer turned Clojure developer, REPL-user, efficiency-thinker and more.

We discuss the wonders of REPL-driven development, and how it works. Dan opens Fredrik’s eyes somewhat to the possibilities and how they happen. The REPL can complement TDD, and also probably kill test writing for those not completely test infected.

We also discuss finding good tools, learning them, and of course building your own tools. Have you learned Bash as well as it deserves?

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Titles

I’m just a regular guy
Out of desperation I looked at Clojure
I remember the day that I gave up on Java
It was a very long walk
The fastest feedback loop that I know of
It’s a long loop
The exploration phase
Keep modifying your running application
You are already done
A proper IDE in your dev tools
It just happens, and it’s immediate
The immediate feedback loop
I never misplace a parenthesis
I never have to select things by hand
I’m not sure what I’m missing
Little automation tools for yourself

Kodsnack 292 - Why would there be a simple solution? with Bartosz Milewski

25 Dec 2018 05:26 +0000

Fredrik talks to Bartosz Milewski - programmer, writer and creator of mind-expanding presentations - about a wide range of things in the lands between mathematics and programming. Bartosz explains his increasing interest in mathematics, type and category theory and why he thinks mathematics and programming can and are coming closer together.

We eventually get to the topic of Bartosz' talk last year, and perhaps the only way humans can understand things and how that affects what we discover. Perhaps even what we are able to discover.

Recorded on stage at Øredev 2018.

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Titles

I skipped a lot of slides
Something related to math
Pushed by external forces
What is fascinating to me at the moment
Tone down the category theory
I’m really comfortable with math
I discovered a whole new franchise
I read a few first sentences
The idea of category theory is not that difficult
Multiply and divide things for months
This gap between programming and math
(There is) A lot of commonality
How to split things and how to compose them
The science of composition
We humans have to structure things
The different ways of splitting things
Mathemathics is the future
Who wants to program in assembly language
Test-driven proof development
A lot of hand-waving in math as well
Mechanizing proofs
An outgowth of type theory
The only way we humans can understand nature
Life can only exist in a decomposable environment
Our brains work by decomposing things
Why would there be a simple solution?

Kodsnack 279 - Going to the supermarket alone, with Rikke Koblauch

25 Sep 2018 05:26 +0000

Recorded at Øredev 2017, Fredrik talks to Rikke Koblauch about social anxiety, turning a passion into a side project and possibly even a living eventually. One of Rikke’s examples is Steps - the service Rikke is creating to help overcome social anxiety. How can we make environments more inclusive in a world which seems very designed for extroverts? Healtcare and preventive tools - wouldn’t everything be better if we all could get help and tools easily before small health problems turn into big ones? Rikke has worked with the Danish mental health fund and shares some experience on getting support from and working with large government organizations. We also talk a bit about how to avoid burning out on passion projects should they become popular and generate excitement from others. Perhaps we need to manage our own expectations of ourselves better?

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Titlar

Where to start?
Going to the supermarket alone
More like a passion thing
The fear of being judged by others
Helping yourself through exposure therapy
Writing our code and pushing our pixels
Making it your full time thing
I see a lot of passion in this industry
My idea of burning out
Making the world a bit better
Handling your own expectations

Kodsnack 263 - The NPM of CPP

05 Jun 2018 05:26 +0000

From Swampup 2018, Tobias and his colleague Tamás Szelei summarize the conference, their impressions and the talks. Liquid software, mentalists, talks way over your head and speakers who are an aquired taste.

Then, Tobias and Jerry Wiltse discuss Bincrafters and their work on creating packages for Conan. The quest to make Conan the NPM of C++.

Finally Tobias chats with Diego Rodriguez-Losada - who discussed Conan in episode 198 - about his experience of the conference and the Conan aspect and community in particular. Conan’s two user groups - the open source side who basically wants Conan to be the NPM of C++, and the enterprise side with people like Tobias, who are interested in controlling their whole stack without relying on external packages and want to control of the whole toolchain.

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Titles

It’s totally Hungarian
There’s a book
I think about package management every day, as you do
We are before the sonic boom
He’s probably an aquired taste
The dawn of liquid software
There’s no version number and no concept of updates
Talking about things that go over your head
Really nice but really loud
He wanted a mean skeptic guy
Breakfast, then keynote again
Twenty different hammers
They all have three-letter names
Old man shouting at clouds
The NPM of CPP
In the early days of 2017
Push Conan to cast a wider net
Community helping community
Remote crazy guys in Spain

Kodsnack 260 - Such a gangster name for a keyswitch

15 May 2018 05:26 +0000

Tobias and Fredrik talk to Erez Zukerman, CEO and co-founder of Ergodox EZ, creators of the ergonomic mechanical keyboard of the same name. Tobias is a fan and user since a while back, and Erez tells us about why you decide to make a keyboard, how you manage to ship hardware on time the first time, how things are going and a little bit about what’s in store for the future of Ergodox EZ. We wrap up with a few listener questions. If you have more, just send them to Erez or us, we will grab any reasons to talk even more about keyboards! Thanks a lot for taking the time Erez!

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Titles

Me wanting a keyboard
A lot of money for me to pay for a box of parts
Ortholinear and bowl-shaped
Just because it was cool and expensive
I went from being able to type 120 words per minute to being able to type 10
The full strange experience
My first foray into hardware
We shipped on time
Go with the right partner
The interests are aligned
Extreme transparency
Each keyswitch is a moving part
We’re sorry, we have an enormous lead time
Thousands of keyswitches which we can’t use
Big enough to get Cherry’s attention
I’m still emotional about that
Developing software is my refuge
Such a gangster name for a keyswitch
Like typing on popcorn
The key pushed the socket out of the PCB
Direct support from the plastic
Just like you pull a tooth
Be genuinely nice
Favor-driven development
A number of frantic pairing sessions
I’m not looking for the hockey stick
We’re not great for everyone
We make it in an office building in Taiwan
We pay models to hang out with the keyboard
I don’t try to convince you
I give you the facts and I trust you
Geeking out with keyboards

Kodsnack 258 - Object-oriented assembly with Marco Ceccione

01 May 2018 05:26 +0000

Recorded at Øredev 2017, Fredrik talks to Marco Ceccione about the ZX Spectrum, positive hacking (the only kind there is!), the benefits of getting closer to the metal and finally balancing coding and management.

Marco is an engineering manager at Toptal. Before that, he worked at Stack overflow, where, among other things, he wrote object-oriented assembly to solve real-wold problems on a huge scale. Yes, that’s a real thing, discussion and links explains it all.

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Titles

I was presenting this very very old computer
Take the train and go to Milan
Disassembling code by hand
A very hands-on period
Supremely hackable
First repair it, then write some software for it
Object-oriented assembly
Ultimately, you have to code for the machine
Hacking is always positive
If they break, we don’t fix them

Kodsnack 245 - An empathetic thing, with Steve Klabnik

30 Jan 2018 05:26 +0000

Fredrik chats with Steve Klabnik about Rust, why the lucky stiff, Closure and Webassembly.

What does Steve do, how is Rust coming along and how does the process work?

Who was why the lucky stiff and why does his publication later named Closure matter to people?

Finally: Webassembly, making the web good for applications in general and why Steve thinks it will be the biggest thing since Javascript was added to browsers.

Recorded on stage at Øredev 2017.

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Titles

Hi, I’m Steve
Straight to Linux
Building a commons
People over companies
Could be rich by being miserable
An empathetic thing
Words that weren’t going out of date
Safety, performance and ergonomics
People don’t build bridges on sand
My job is all English, not code
Picking up someone else’s life work
None of this makes any sense, Steve
Compile Rust in Rust in the browser

Kodsnack 241 - Looking for the killer apps in VR

02 Jan 2018 05:26 +0000

Fredrik discusses VR with Noah Falstein of the Inspiracy (and previously companies such as Google and Lucasfilm games). We talk about where VR is today, which platforms are good today and what might happen going forward. VR might be on the verge of a big breakthrough but there is still a lot left to be discovered, from ways of controlling experiences to entire new genres.

Recorded on stage at Øredev 2017.

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Titles

Nobdy had ever experienced that
I become a character in the computer?
A realtime, constant back and forth
A version that doesn’t allow you to do most of the fun stuff
It demos well
Still looking for the killer apps in VR
The grammar of VR storytelling
The Spielberg or Lucas of VR
An “of course” moment
Something came along and ate the flower
I’m tired of watching things eat eachother
The Pixar movies of 2020
Hard plastic is actually preferable
As scary as they need to be
A robot named Floyd
We were discovering entirely new genres
Put that house into VR
Page number 27: things you find in a kitchen

Kodsnack 240 - The persistent fear of being exposed as a fraud

26 Dec 2017 05:26 +0000

Tobias, Amanda and Fredrik discuss impostor syndrome with Wendi Dunford, LCSW. Impostor syndrome affects all three of us and so many others, so we thought it was time to talk to someone who really knows the subject. Our discussion covers defining impostor syndrome, how we all experience it, various types of impostor syndrome and things both we and others can do to combat it.

Spoiler: the secret to impostor syndrome is your ego!

Five types or aspects of impostor syndrome:

The perfectionist - I’m never good enough
The superwoman or superman - workaholics to compensate
The natural genius - I freak out if I can’t get it right the first time
The individualist - I go at it alone, and I don’t ask for help
The expert - I somehow tricked everybody, it was a glitch

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Titles

You’re never enough
You’re a real psychologist, right?
The feeling that you don’t belong
An inability to internalize your accomplishments
The persistent fear of being exposed as a fraud
It was just luck
Oops, I just won!
More eyes makes it more stressful
Throw someone off, confidence-wise
I don’t deserve this anyway
That’s not a reason to not take a job
The story you tell yourself
I don’t have to perform for friends
The work of children is to play
I don’t have to buy into it
Try the compliment trick
Being wrong doesn’t make you fake
Reveal yourself as the fraud you are

Kodsnack 227 - Xiki: an idea whose time has come

26 Sep 2017 05:26 +0000

Fredrik chats with Craig Muth, creator of the more than slightly mind-bending Xiki about the past, present and future of this weird and wonderful evolution of the command line. Seeing Xiki in action is probably the best way to begin to grasp it, and Craig has created several great videos and screencasts.

We go all the way from Xiki’s beginnings as a framework inside of Emacs to its current state as a standalone companion to your normal command line, and its just launched Kickstarter to take the next step and become social by making it super simple to share and find commands. We also look further into the future, entering completely free-form speculation about where things could go both for command lines and user-extendable interfaces. (Yes, Hyper card and Opendoc both come up.)

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We hope to see you there, and that you bring along a friend or two! The number of seats are limited, so send an email as soon as possible to livepodd@gmail.com with your name, company and if you’re bringing anyone along.

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Titles

The command line is awesome when you know exactly what to type
All right, now I get it
Lost, but in a really exciting way
Make the command line work like a search engine
A missing piece in the command line
Making all the search results myself
It doesn’t take that many people
Riverdance with the horse and the banana
Now I get the one thing, but I don’t care
An idea whose time has come
Hey, that’s like a command line
Way back in Ohio
The power you get when you do remember the commands
The germ of Xiki
I’ve never been able to stop working on it
Users are so key
I could add something here!
Hey, this doesn’t exist yet!
In Ohio working at boring banks
This better work!
My friend Keith thinks I should move to San Francisco
Feeling comfortable in my skin for the first time
Escape gets you into more trouble!
People will fill in the gaps
Do for commands what Github did for code
Utterly freeform
This neat open thing

Kodsnack 210 - Expose yourself to ideas

30 May 2017 05:26 +0000

Recorded at Gothenburg startup hack 2017, a little celebration of being social around coding. Fredrik chats to first Erik Thorelli of the Gothenburg Sketch & design meetup, then Erik Larkö of the Bring your own project Gothenburg group. Topics stretch from what Sketch is and what it can do for you, over group recommendations, to side projects, where to find ideas and how to get over whichever obstacles we put up in our minds to playing with new things.

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02:19: Sketch & design with Erik Thorelli 22:01: Bring your own project with Erik Larkö

Titles

Two Eriks
Not so cluttered as an Adobe app
Visualizing what the heck you’re trying to build
I spend ten minutes adjusting the battery level
DevUX
Can I use it for something?
Maybe you’ve never designed anything before
Appealing, even for me
Faster than fiddling around with CSS
It helps reduce waste
A caricature of a designer and a developer
Asymmetrical pair programming and designing
A compiler for design
Feels weird, but in a good way
Semi-empty Github projects
I want my Github page to be cool
Why do you want to be John Cleese?
Dare to fail
Be a good person
I don’t think I’ve ever finished a project
Where do you get your ideas from? I steal them
Expose yourself to ideas
The world doesn’t need another Pong game, but you need to write a Pong game
Developing as a developer

Kodsnack 198 - I'm opposed to magic

07 Mar 2017 05:26 +0000

This episode is presented in English.

We chat with Diego Rodriguez-Losada about the C and C++ package manager Conan. Where did it come from, where is it going, the philosophy behind it (very, very pragmatic) and how Tobias has put it to use at Plex. We also move on to package managers and build systems in general. Also: the interesting topic of being magical versus not.

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Titles

I was loooking for alternatives
We decided to try again
The perfect academic solution
Usually it’s a bash script
We know what kind of pain they go through
The community won’t move
We wanted to be hackable
When I wrote my own dependency system
A beautiful concept you can implement with generators
We all hate the syntax of cmake
Just an abuse of the system
The full devops world has to change
We know how to automate all the parts
A mistake by design
We are betting on that this is going to help us in the long run
We had four build systems
One of the reasons we wanted to switch is that it was horrible
I remember the gnashing of teeth
The pain is bigger than the investment
Being very magical
The magic eventually becomes a pain point
I’m opposed to magic
Freedom to shoot yourself in the foot
The biggest gun to shoot yourself
The domain was available

Kodsnack 175 - It's let me leave work earlier

27 Sep 2016 05:26 +0000

Fredrik talks to Pete Hunt about monoliths, breaking them up and when not to. And of course React, how it came about and how the introduction to the world looked from the inside. How to handle releases of software and working with communication around it. What happens when you go from underdog to being the safe choice?

This episode was recorded during the developer conference Øredev 2015, where Pete gave presentations on monolith-first apps with Node and building React backends.

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Titles

Everyone has a monolith
Follow the hype train
HTML in my Javascript!
It’s let me leave work earlier

Kodsnack 167 - You're part of the sample

02 Aug 2016 05:26 +0000

From the podcaster’s corner at Devsum 16, Fredrik talks to Basia Fusinska about data science, R and data analysis. We discuss the ethics and science around data science and analysis. All of us are giving out a lot of data all the time, and there are so many aspects worth considering around what and how we give our data away. Briefly, we talk about what impressions we have of the .NET community, an impression which is changing even as we speak.

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Titles

Data solutions architects - whatever that means
I’m still figuring out what that means
Adding up numbers
As scientific as can be
You’re part of the sample
Once you have this Stockholm syndrome

Kodsnack 166 - On the periphery of the monolith

26 Jul 2016 05:26 +0000

Fredrik talks to James Turnbull of Kickstarter, Docker and several other companies. Topics range from switching between types of companies and solutions to writing books, documentation and contributing to software in ways other than code. Of course, we also discuss Docker, whether it’s succeeded in various ways and where it might be going. Who should be thinking about Docker? How to start thinking about it? Where do you start picking on your monolith to start bringing it into the container future?

This episode was recorded during the developer conference Øredev 2015, where James gave a presentation on Orchestrating Docker.

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Titles

A lot of similar paralells
The unit of the container
A unit of compute
I want my code to run somewhere where it makes me money
A new way of thinking about architecture
On the periphery of the monolith
Useful information trapped in the heads of smart people
My commits tend to be more documentation than code
Aspects of being an engineer
A higher level of tolerance and precision

Kodsnack 157 - I have no idea what a startup is

24 May 2016 05:26 +0000

Live on stage at Startup arena 2016 in Gothenburg, Fredrik talks to Bob Jelica, Johannes Tveitan and Magnus Gudmundsson and try to nail down just what a startup is and what working for one means.

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Länkar

Titlar

I don’t do coding anymore
I have no idea what a startup is
A small company trying to do something
Spending someone else’s money
Does everyone have to disrupt shit?
Pivot, come on, pivot
Infinite hours for minimum wage
You should have started by then
We need to burn some people
You have passion for this now
Real passion is contagious
Riding the unicorn
Watch out for the unicorn riders
The luxury of chasing the dream
Suddenly we did know shit
Stop disrupting shit

Kodsnack 143 - The web standards bug

16 Feb 2016 05:26 +0000

Fredrik talks to Aaron Gustafson about web standards. His origin story, how he got into web standards. How the standards work and who should get involved. The problems with prefixes and how we use them.

This episode was recorded during the developer conference Øredev 2015, where Aaron gave two talks.

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Titles

You’re the web standards guy
Who falls into web standards and how does it happen?
Between midnight and 5 a.m.
Things were starting to stabilize a bit on the web
The only way to build a solid foundation
The web standards bug
Before coming to the web
In the trenches every day making web pages
Help make other specs better
Vendor prefixes have bitten us in the ass
We don’t experience the web the way everyone else does
I can’t believe I want them to make their ads more accessible

Kodsnack 141 - We end up with everybody being better

02 Feb 2016 05:26 +0000

Fredrik talks to Sallyann Freudenberg - “Agile/Lean coach and practitioner, psychology of software development researcher, neuro-diversity advocate, ageing punk-rocker.” - about her research into pair programming, offices for everyone and how people actually (do not) split work when pair programming.

We also discuss what makes an expert an expert? What are lists and verbalization really good for? Research versus practise and how and what each side can learn from the other. And why the rift is there in the first place. The goals and methods of the two groups are pretty different.

We talked ina surprisingly noisy hotel lobby, so apologies for all the background noise. The conversation is clear enough that further filtering mostly made everything sound worse.

This episode was recorded during the developer conference Øredev 2015, where Sallyann gave a keynote presentation.

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Titles

More about everything
Commercial pair programmers
The softer, broader stuff
The benefits of pair programming
We end up with everybody being better
Knocking down all the offices with sledge hammers
What I’d like to see is a blended environment
14500 pieces of pair programmer dialogue
We want to think we’re so structured
Everybody needs a quiet space from time to time
My sample size of one

Kodsnack 136 - You can do all of this with the brain of a sesame seed

30 Dec 2015 17:26 +0000

This episode is a little special. It is kind of bonus material for the Øredev conference of 2015. In it, you will hear Tim Urban and Torill Kornfeldt discuss artificial intelligence, life extension and the differing mindsets of technology and biology.

Tim Urban is the writer of Wait but why, a fantastic website of deep dives into topics like artificial intelligence, Tesla and SpaceX but also softer topics like procrastination and the fear of what other people think.

Torill Kornfeldt is a biologist and science journalist who is currently working on a book about de-extinction - the bringing back of extinct species.

We call this bonus material because you probably want some background in order to enjoy their conversation to its fullest. We highly recommend watching both their Øredev keynotes, and Tim’s ideas are of course well covered on Wait but why as well.

The conversation was recorded on stage at the conference and is also available in video form. Unfortunately there is some buzzing in the audio which I’ve done my best to filter out in this version. That’s why it sounds pretty processed. Special thanks to Stephen Chin of nighthacking.com for providing all the tech and expertise which made this recording possible!

We are so happy this conversation came together and how it turned out, pure audio quality aside, and we hope you will enjoy it too!

Titles

You can do all of this with the brain of a sesame seed
People both overestimate and underestimate the brain
Kill the queen in a hot ball of fire
That is so annoying for her
Can we just talk about bees?
I don’t talk to enough biologists
Lacking a good definition of intelligence
From the drive to get a Nobel price to the drive to go to the toilet
We’re going to have a huge problem communicating with it
The constantly changing hardwarex
Every single want is a chemical
That good enough-level
A completely different take on aging

Kodsnack 134 - Allowed to be a beginner again

22 Dec 2015 17:26 +0000

Fredrik talks to Rachel Reese about F#, Xamarin, the the MIT study (on diversity, sexism and career for women faculty at MIT) and related topics. We also cover good communities and being allowed (by yourself and others) to be a beginner.

This episode was recorded during the developer conference Øredev 2015, where Rachel gave two talks.

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Titles

Some big American conference
I figured out what a script file did
I’m definitely not advanced
I just sat there amazed
The magic grandfather
It’s a lot of little things
It could have been like this all the time
A natural next step
A perceived lack of support
A discriminated union
I love to hate Xcode
Surely it’s slow?
Release the Herrup
Package it in a view and pretend it’s native
Exactly like the study said it would
Do I want this now?
The most depressing thing I’ve ever heard
Too senior to be encouraged anymore
To be allowed to be a beginner again
They thought I had been speaking
People still want me to speak, apparently
There has been progress everywhere else

Kodsnack 83 - Easy by virtue of travelling the hard way

30 Dec 2014 10:26 +0000

We chat with Rob Ashton, freelance developer, speaker and recent discoverer of how to learn things properly, live on stage during Øredev 2014. Topics include learning, the plateaus of learning and how to actually do things right to keep evolving and learning. The problems of frameworks wanting to make X easy. Perhaps we should learn about programming in general instead of learning the next big framework in the hope that it will solve our problems without us needing to understand them?

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Titles

I haven’t got an elevator pitch for myself at the moment
I’ve become a real person living in the real world
It has changed the way I approach learning
I just build software every single day
Tangible and listenable
A transformative moment
Fingerpicking and scales
Competent throwing things together
I wouldn’t say my day job betters me
Why am I learning this crappy pointer stuff
Deliberate learning
Easy by virtue of travelling the hard way
My day job is mostly Erlang with a hint of C
Erlang is acutally incredibly boring
Lisp with horrible syntax
Things that mutate in the background
The world becomes a happy place
I’ve started writing a MUD in Haskell
And then you die in the next scene
A problem that noone has anymore
It’s good for you imagination
Factory providers and god knows what else
Hate’s a very strong word
The framework ain’t gonna help you
Shortcutting problems
I don’t do prescriptive
Preferable to gouge my eyes out with a spoon
That “wonderful” is sarcastic
It was an abomination
If there is such a thing as good C
Transcoding and cloud nonsense
That’s because you skipped the learning step
Copying and pasting things off of the internet
Shuffling piles of binary around the place

Kodsnack 82 - It's very difficult to make a joke in this space

23 Dec 2014 10:26 +0000

We chat with James Mickens, researcher and most likely funniest man at Microsoft, live on stage during Øredev 2014. Topics include C development, the purity of incrementation, death by specifications, scandinavian death metal and its font choices and also British football, distributed systems and the problems you encounter dealing with them. The downsides of being stuck alone in a set of universes is that Stack overflow can’t help you. And how should we fix the Javascript and web browser technology world?

Comments on the internet? No.

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Titles

This is just Hollywood stuff
We’ll edit this out with CGI
What happens on the set
#freedom #america
What prevents me from being a happy person in life
It cheapens the art
Homelessness is bad too
At least you have hope
Do you like iteration?
I only increment variables
Only go forward
Black Gandalf
Not just fair or balanced
Otto von Hyphen
We laugh to stop from crying
Darkness is delightful
The great thing about scandinavian death metal
What would Beelzebub do?
That TV is in the cloud now
Like jazz musicians
Like trying to write Inception 2
The left hand of satan
Multiple speculative universes
What universe am I in?
A low-rent Stephen Hawking
Firebug had no notion of my separate universes
The Odin object
In the regular development world
Chicanery all the way down
Function calls are not our strong point
Not nothing will happen
XHR:s over passenger pidgeon
LOL I took a hard dependency on it
It’s very difficult to make a joke in this space
We don’t even issue writes
devnulldb
But we have hoverboards
Tread carefully on the polyfills
Close the tab and reboot the machine
This is such a character builder
Mumblefoo.js
Fast Javascript, and cancer
No-lock cancer
Asynchronous cancer
That kitten on a tradmill is not going to watch itself
Another special type of disaster
Folk wisdom on the web
127i content
Emu futures
If I had a website, I’d run it like Singapore
Every computer should come with an old person
This whole alternate semantic reality

Kodsnack 80 - Where numbers don't have to be special anymore

09 Dec 2014 10:26 +0000

We chat with Stefan Karpinski, creator of the Julia programming language, live on stage during Øredev 2014. Topics include deciding to build a new language, the interesting unsolved problems of numerical computing, concurrency solutions, developing with and on LLVM, handling deprecation nicely, things (possibly) in the future for Julia and why Swift is exciting for Julia and other languages.

This recording exists as good as it is thanks to Stephen Chin of nighthacking.com for providing and masterfully wrangling all the necessary technology.

There is a minute and a half of worse audio quality just after the nine minute mark, where microphone problems forced us to fill in with audio from our backup microphone.

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Titles

Some of the interesting tradeoffs
Bridge that gap between high-level and low-level
A huge pointer graph of some kind
It’s good to have a focus, initially
The point where we’re pushing things
The classic tradition of a ton of IFDEFs
This brings us back to garbage collection
Specializing for numerical work
Where numbers don’t have to be special anymore
(The question is:) How useful is that generalization?
You don’t necessarily know what code you’re going to need in advance
Trading off memory for performance
Really doing the deprecation process
A situation where normally you’d JIT something
You might end up in a slow case
You can always just fall back on an interpreter
A partially compiled interpreter
Nobody needs to know that it was written in Julia
A really capable C library
As easy as walking a linked pointer list
I’m really glad someone else implemented it

Kodsnack 78 - Stirring the pot is necessary

25 Nov 2014 10:26 +0000

We chat with Fred George, handgrenade of software development, live on stage during Øredev 2014. Topics include choosing clients, getting out before you start breaking things, the right ways of changing, the value of methodologies, remote work, gams, languages and more.

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Kodsnack 34 - Intervju med Jono Bacon

29 Nov 2013 18:58 +0000

Jono Bacon

Internetdagarna är över! Vi lämnade Stockholm Waterfront med ett par intervjuer, reflektioner och en hel del idéer och uppslag för vad vi vill göra med podcasten framöver.

Först ut är vår intervju med Jono Bacon. Jono är Community Manager på Canonical, företaget som ligger bakom Linux-distributionen Ubuntu. Han var på Internetdagarna för att hålla en keynote med teman Community, så våra frågor började där. Han är dock även programmerare, musiker och en allmänt trevlig snubbe, så vi hinner avverka allt möjligt från hemmakontor till mobilprogrammering.

Jono har även sin egen podcast som vi rekommenderar till alla som är intresserade av öppen källkod eller bara vill höra mer av Jono. Vi låter det här citatet från vår intervju tjäna som ett smakprov eller varning!

“Some people are just assholes. Some people are just grade-A, copper-bottom, 24 carat gold assholes out there!”