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The world through the lens of software.

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Simon Thommes is a Lead Technical Artist at @studio.blender.org. He joins the podcast with Joe Nash to talk about how to build games using Blender and @godotengine.org.

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Blender and Godot in Game Development with Simon Thommes - Software Engineering Daily
Blender Studio is the creative arm of the Blender Foundation and it’s dedicated to producing films, games, and other projects that showcase the full potential of Blender. The studio functions as both ...
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December 25, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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Rafael Gonzaga is a Principal Open Source Engineer at @nodesource.bsky.social. He joins @joshuakgoldberg.com to discuss @nodejs.org performance, benchmarking, balancing speed and stability, and contributing to a major open source project.

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Node.js in 2026 with Rafael Gonzaga - Software Engineering Daily
JavaScript has grown far beyond the browser. It now powers millions of backend systems, APIs, and cloud services through Node.js, which is one of the most widely deployed runtimes on the planet. Keepi...
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December 23, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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Zach Barth is the founder of Zachtronics and creator of iconic engineering style games like SpaceChem, Infinifactory, TIS-100, and Shenzhen I/O. He joins Joe Nash to talk about the games he makes.

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Building Games at Zachtronics with Zach Barth - Software Engineering Daily
Zachtronics is a legendary independent game studio known for creating intricate, engineering-focused puzzle games that merge logic, creativity, and code. The studio was founded by Zach Barth in 2011, ...
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December 18, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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Dan Fornace is a game director and designer at Aether Game Studios, the developer of @rivals2.com. He joins the show with Joe Nash to talk about developing platform fighting games.

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Rivals of Aether with Dan Fornace - Software Engineering Daily
Rivals of Aether and Rivals of Aether II are indie fighting games that combine fast-paced platform combat with elemental-themed characters. The game takes inspiration from Super Smash Bros. and emphas...
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December 16, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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Serge Christiaans is a former Dutch Air Force pilot. He joins Gregor Vand to talk about aviation and cybersecurity, the aircraft as a digital attack surface, hybrid warfare, and the urgent need for aviation cyber resilience.

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Aviation Cybersecurity with Serge Christiaans - Software Engineering Daily
Aviation cybersecurity is becoming an urgent priority as modern aircraft increasingly rely on complex digital systems for navigation, communication, and engine performance. These systems were once iso...
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December 11, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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Feross Aboukhadijeh is the founder and CEO of @socket.dev. He joins @joshuakgoldberg.com to talk about his career, open source supply chain attacks, practical security lessons, the expanding attack surface in software development, and more.

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Blocking Software Supply Chain Attacks with Feross Aboukhadijeh - Software Engineering Daily
Modern software relies heavily on open source dependencies, often pulling in thousands of packages maintained by developers all over the world. This accelerates innovation but also creates serious sup...
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December 9, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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Samuel Colvin is the creator of @pydantic.dev and Pydantic AI. He joins Gregor Vand to talk about Pydantic origin, type safe AI applications, Pydantic AI’s evolution, LogFire observability, and the future of sustainable open-source AI tooling.

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Pydantic AI with Samuel Colvin - Software Engineering Daily
Python’s popularity in data science and backend engineering has made it the default language for building AI infrastructure. However, with the rapid growth of AI applications, developers are increasin...
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December 4, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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In this episode Gregor Vand and @seanfalconer.bsky.social cover Jeff Bezos's return with Project Prometheus, the debate on AI investment sustainability, Europe’s cloud push, Nordic startup growth, tech tipping points, and standout Hacker News threads.

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SED News: Bezos Returns to Building, AI’s Reality Check, and Europe’s Cloud Ambitions - Software Engineering Daily
SED News is a monthly podcast from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer unpack the biggest stories shaping software engineering, Silicon Valley, and the broader tech in...
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December 2, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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Johan Peitz is a games industry veteran and developer extraordinaire, having created dozens of games across many platforms. He's an expert in PICO 8 development, and he joins Joe Nash to talk about creating games for the console.

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Game Development on the PICO-8 with Johan Peitz - Software Engineering Daily
PICO-8 is a software-based gaming console for making, sharing, and playing small games with a retro aesthetic. It emulates the look and feel of 8-bit consoles, providing limited color palettes, screen...
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November 27, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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Dimitri Mitropoulos recently ported Doom to TypeScript, a monumental, year-long effort. He joins @joshuakgoldberg.com to talk all about the project.

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Running Doom in TypeScript with Dimitri Mitropoulos - Software Engineering Daily
Doom has seemingly been ported to every electronic device imaginable, including picture frames, lamps, and coffee machines. The meme of “it runs Doom” has become so widespread that it spawned the r/it...
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November 25, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Simon Shuster is a staff correspondent for TIME and he’s covered Russia and Ukraine for over 15 years . He joins @kball.llc to discuss drone warfare, AI-assisted targeting, gamified combat, and how drones are reshaping global security.

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Drone Warfare in Ukraine with Simon Shuster - Software Engineering Daily
Simon Shuster is a journalist who has reported on Russia and Ukraine for over 15 years, most of that time as a staff correspondent for TIME Magazine. He was born in Moscow, and he and his family came ...
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November 20, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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Chance Strickland is a software engineer at @workos.bsky.social and a maintainer of @radix-ui.com. He joins @nicknisi.com to discuss Radix, its primitives, its connection with shadcn/ui, the evolution of web primitives, and more.

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Radix UI with Chance Strickland - Software Engineering Daily
Radix UI is an open-source library of React components. Its “headless” primitives handle the complex logic and accessibility concerns—like dialogs, dropdowns, and tabs—while leaving styling completely...
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November 18, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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The @stackoverflow.com.web.brid.gy team recently released the results of their legendary annual developer survey. Jody Bailey and Erin Yepis worked on this year’s survey and they join @seanfalconer.bsky.social to talk about the results.

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The 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey with Jody Bailey and Erin Yepis - Software Engineering Daily
The Stack Overflow Developer Survey is an annual survey conducted by Stack Overflow that gathers comprehensive insights from developers around the world. It offers a valuable snapshot of the global de...
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November 13, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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Byran Huang is a full stack developer who made headlines by creating anyon_e, a highly integrated open-source laptop showcasing impressive design, hardware, and software. He joins Gregor Vand to talk about building it and the journey behind the project.

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Building an Open-Source Laptop with Byran Huang - Software Engineering Daily
Byran Huang is a full stack developer who recently made headlines in the hacker space when he created the anyon_e, which is a highly integrated, open source laptop. The effort was a massive undertakin...
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November 11, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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Erik Seidel is a Network Engineer at @cloudflare.social. He joins Gregor Vand to discuss his journey into tech, how the modern internet works, networking in China, and more.

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The Architecture of the Internet with Erik Seidel - Software Engineering Daily
The modern internet is a vast web of independent networks bound together by billions of routing decisions made every second. It’s an architecture so reliable we mostly take it for granted, but behind ...
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November 6, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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In this episode Gregor Vand and @seanfalconer.bsky.social cover the $1.7B Security AI acquisition, @langchain.bsky.social’s valuation, Periodic Labs’s $300M funding, the @awscloud.bsky.social outage, the trillion-dollar AI infrastructure deal, and more.

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SED News: AMD’s Big OpenAI Deal, Intel’s Struggles, and Apple’s AI Long Game - Software Engineering Daily
SED News is a monthly podcast from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer unpack the biggest stories shaping software engineering, Silicon Valley, and the broader tech in...
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November 4, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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Sam Bhagwat and Abhi Aiyer are co-founders at Mastra. They join the podcast with @nicknisi.com to talk about t about the state of frontend tooling for AI agents, AI agent primitives, MCP integration, and more.

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Building AI Agents on the Frontend with Sam Bhagwat and Abhi Aiyer - Software Engineering Daily
Most AI agent frameworks are backend-focused and written in Python, which introduces complexity when building full-stack AI applications with JavaScript or TypeScript frontends. This gap makes it hard...
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October 30, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Ben Supnik is a Software Engineer at Laminar Research and has spent 20 years building @xplaneofficial.bsky.social flight simulator. He joins the podcast with @kball.llc to talk about X-Plane and the engineering behind flight simulation.

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The X-Plane Flight Simulator with Ben Supnik - Software Engineering Daily
X-Plane is a popular flight simulator developed by Laminar Research. It features a first-principles physics engine, realistic aircraft systems, and a wide variety of aircraft. We wanted to understand ...
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October 28, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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Chris Weichel is the CTO at Ona (formerly Gitpod). He joins @kball.llc to talk about Ona, the impact of coding with parallel agents, the future of IDEs, agent-friendly languages, and code review as a new bottleneck in development.

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Turning Agent Autonomy into Productivity with Chris Weichel - Software Engineering Daily
A common challenge in software development is creating and maintaining robust development environments. The rise of AI agents has amplified this complexity by adding new demands around permission cont...
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October 23, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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Homebrew is a package manager for macOS and it has become an essential developer tool. In this episode, @mikemcquaid.com talks with @kball.llc about how it all started, the project’s architecture, automation, CI/CD, and what keeps Homebrew sustainable today.

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Homebrew and macOS Package Management with Mike McQuaid - Software Engineering Daily
Homebrew is a widely used package manager that simplifies the installation of open-source software on macOS. It was created in response to the growing demand for a lightweight, developer-friendly tool...
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October 21, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Yechezkel Rabinovich, or Chez, is the CTO and Co-founder of groundcover. He joins the podcast with @kball.llc to discuss his journey from kernel engineering to building an eBPF-powered observability company.

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Engineering in the Age of Agents with Yechezkel Rabinovich - Software Engineering Daily
Modern software platforms are increasingly composed of diverse microservices, third-party APIs, and cloud resources. The distributed nature of these systems makes it difficult for engineers to gain a ...
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October 16, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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Jake Zimmerman is a software engineer at Stripe and he leads development on Sorbet. Jake joins the podcast with @joshuakgoldberg.com to discuss his background, the challenges of typing in Ruby, the motivation behind Sorbet, its architecture, performance optimizations, and more.

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Static Analysis for Ruby with Jake Zimmerman - Software Engineering Daily
Dynamic languages like Ruby, Python, and JavaScript determine the types of variables at runtime rather than at compile time. This flexibility allows for rapid development and concise code, but it also...
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October 14, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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Guy Gur-Ari is a Co-Founder at @augmentcode.com and he joins the podcast with @kball.llc to talk about the company, full context for enterprise codebases, code review as the new bottleneck in AI-driven dev, and more.

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Scaling AI in Enterprise Codebases with Guy Gur-Ari - Software Engineering Daily
The rise of language-model coding assistants has led to the creation of the vibe coding paradigm. In this mode of software development, AI agents take a plain language prompt and generate entire appli...
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October 9, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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In this episode Gregor Vand and @seanfalconer.bsky.social cover nvidia's $5B Intel deal, Meta's AR stumble, Electronic Art’s $50B acquisition, AnthropicAI's record Series F, Google's Genie 3, and more.

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SED News: NVIDIA Bets on Intel, Meta’s Demo Crash, and Anthropic’s Explosive Growth - Software Engineering Daily
SED News is a monthly podcast from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer unpack the biggest stories shaping software engineering, Silicon Valley, and the broader tech in...
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October 7, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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Viren Baraiya is the Founder and CTO at Orkes and he’s the creator of Netflix Conductor. Viren joins Gregor Vand to discuss microservice orchestration, rule-based vs programmatic workflows, agentic orchestration, MCP, and more.

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Orkes and Agentic Workflow Orchestration with Viren Baraiya - Software Engineering Daily
Modern software systems are composed of many independent microservices spanning frontends, backends, APIs, and AI models, and coordinating and scaling them reliably is a constant challenge. A workflow...
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October 2, 2025 at 10:35 AM