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The world through the lens of software.

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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
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Turbopuffer is a vector database startup that's steadily gaining popularity for AI applications. The company’s founder, @sirupsen.bsky.social, joins Gregor Vand to discuss @turbopuffer.bsky.social's origin, design, the economics of vector storage, and more.

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Turbopuffer with Simon Hørup Eskildsen - Software Engineering Daily
Vector search has become a foundational technology for AI applications, enabling everything from semantic code search to contextual retrieval for large language models. However, a major challenge with...
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September 30, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Jay Baylis and Tom Coxon are the creators of Cassette Beasts at @byttenstudio.bsky.social. They join the show with Joe Nash to talk about the development of their game.

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Building an Indie Hit in Godot with Jay Baylis and Tom Coxon - Software Engineering Daily
Cassette Beasts is a turn-based monster-battling RPG that lets players record creatures onto cassette tapes and transform into them during battle. The game was an indie hit, and is also one of the mos...
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September 25, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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Robert Balicki is a Staff Engineer at Pinterest and creator of the open-source project Isograph. He joins Gregor Vand to discuss challenges and solutions for managing data in frontend apps.

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Rethinking GraphQL Frontends with Robert Balicki - Software Engineering Daily
A challenge in modern frontend application design is efficiently fetching and managing GraphQL data while keeping UI components responsive and maintainable. Developers often face issues like over-fetc...
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September 23, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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Zoltan Kochan is a full stack web developer and the creator of @pnpm.io. He joins the show with @joshuakgoldberg.com to talk about the state of package management for web dev.

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pnpm with Zoltan Kochan - Software Engineering Daily
Traditional package management systems for JavaScript have faced several inefficiencies related to dependency storage, resolution, and project performance. pnpm is a fast, disk-efficient package manag...
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September 18, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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Tobie Morgan Hitchcock is the CEO and co-founder of @surrealdb.com com He joins @kball.llc to talk about handling multi-model and unstructured data, building event-driven AI apps, and coupling databases with AI models.

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SurrealDB 3.0 and Building Event-Driven AI Applications with Tobie Morgan Hitchcock - Software Engineering Daily
Modern application development often involves juggling multiple types of databases to handle diverse data models. The lack of unification can lead to complex architectures with attendant security conc...
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September 16, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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Jessica Janiuk is a Staff Software Engineer at Google where she works on @angular.dev, which recently hit version 19. In this episode, Jessica joins the show with @joshuakgoldberg.com to talk about the Angular project.

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Angular with Jessica Janiuk - Software Engineering Daily
Modern web development faces several challenges, particularly when building scalable, maintainable, and high-performance applications. As applications grow, managing complex user interfaces, and ensur...
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September 11, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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In this episode Gregor Vand and @seanfalconer.bsky.social discuss Perplexity’s bid for Chrome, the US stake in Intel, Meta’s AI hiring pause, what agentic AI can really do, and highlights from Hacker News.

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SED News: Perplexity’s Chrome Play, Meta’s AI Freeze, and Intel Becomes Too Big to Fail - Software Engineering Daily
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September 9, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Shinji Kim is the founder and CEO of Select Star. She joins @seanfalconer.bsky.social to discuss solving metadata curation challenges, managing data context at scale, using LLMs for SQL generation, emerging trends in metadata management, and more.

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Context-Aware SQL and Metadata with Shinji Kim - Software Engineering Daily
A common challenge in data-rich organizations is that critical context about the data is often hard to capture and even harder to keep up to date. As more people across the organization use data and d...
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September 4, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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Robert Kosara is a Data Visualization Developer at Observable. He joins the show with @seanfalconer.bsky.social to talk about modern data visualization and his work at Observable.

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Modern Data Visualization with Robert Kosara - Software Engineering Daily
Data visualization is increasingly important as organizations prioritize data-driven decision-making. Tools that transform complex datasets into intuitive, interpretable visualizations are arguably ju...
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September 2, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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Werner Vogels is the Chief Technology Officer at Amazon and he joins @kball.llc to discuss his more than 20-year career at Amazon, the birth of AWS, the principles of the Frugal Architect, and much more.

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A Conversation with Amazon CTO Werner Vogels - Software Engineering Daily
Werner Vogels is the Chief Technology Officer at Amazon, where he has played a pivotal role in shaping the company’s technology vision for over two decades. Before joining Amazon in 2004, Werner was a...
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August 28, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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Andrew Brookins is a Principal Applied AI Engineer at Redis. He joins the show with Sean Falconer to discuss the challenges of building AI agents, the role of memory in agents, hybrid search versus vector-only search, and more.

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Redis and AI Agent Memory with Andrew Brookins - Software Engineering Daily
A key challenge with designing AI agents is that large language models are stateless and have limited context windows. This requires careful engineering to maintain continuity and reliability across s...
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August 26, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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Will Stewart is the co-founder and CEO of Northflank. In this episode, he joins @seanfalconer.bsky.social to talk about the contemporary challenges and solutions around workload deployment.

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Complex Workload Deployment with Will Stewart - Software Engineering Daily
Deploying and managing cloud workloads is a complex task that requires developers to handle infrastructure, scaling, CI/CD pipelines, and database hosting. Configuring and maintaining Kubernetes, ensu...
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August 21, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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Tobias Dunn-Krahn is the CTO and Doug Peete is the Chief Product Officer of Atono. They join the podcast with @kball.llc to talk about the challenges of modern product development, the importance of low-friction UX, and the role of AI in product tooling.

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Empowering Cross-Functional Product Teams with Tobias Dunn-Krahn and Doug Peete - Software Engineering Daily
Modern software teams typically rely on a patchwork of tools to manage planning, development, feature rollout, and post-release analysis. This fragmentation is a known challenge that can create fricti...
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August 19, 2025 at 12:11 PM