Best Ms. Debbie Podcasts (2025)

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The Imagine Cup Finalists from Build! 41:01

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It's the Imagine Cup Finalists! While at Build, Carl and Richard sat down with Daniel Kim, Matt Steele, and Gheida Omar to talk about their projects in the Imagine Cup. Gheida discussed Signvrse, a mobile app that enables real-time translation of speech, text, and sign language. Matt tells the story of Hairmatch, a mobile app for women with texture…

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Frictionless Development with Nicole Forsgren 57:50

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How do you eliminate the friction of development? Carl and Richard talk to Nicole Forsgren about her upcoming book on eliminating the friction from software development. Building on her earlier book, Accelerate, Nicole discusses the role of AI technologies in software development, along with more traditional DevOps elements, such as automating test…

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5.1 Cypress Teeth by Natasha King 16:47

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An imprisoned god is bound to the trees of an ancient swamp, until one day someone comes looking. Content warnings: Violence, body horror Copyright khōréō magazine 2025. Story by Natasha King, edited by Zhui Ning Chang. Audio edition read by Suzie Rai and produced by Lian Xia Rose, with casting by Jenelle DeCosta. Visit khoreomag.com and follow us …

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Changing Testing using Playwright MCP with Debbie O'Brien 49:11

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What happens when AI comes to your web testing tool? While at Build, Carl and Richard talked to Debbie O'Brien about the latest features in Playwright, including Playwright MCP, the model control plane for Playwright capabilities. Debbie talks about using Playwright MCP to buy a table. Ask your LLM what tests should be written for your web page, an…

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Changing Testing using Playwright MCP with Debbie O'Brien 50:00

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What happens when AI comes to your web testing tool? While at Build, Carl and Richard talked to Debbie O'Brien about the latest features in Playwright, including Playwright MCP, the model control plane for Playwright capabilities. Debbie talks about using Playwright MCP to buy a table. Ask your LLM what tests should be written for your web page, an…

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Coding Agents with Scott Hunter 54:57

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How will coding agents change your code? While at Build, Carl and Richard chatted with Scott Hunter about the announcements around coding agents at the keynote. Scott talks about the agent mode available in Visual Studio Code - and now in Visual Studio! Agent mode allows the LLM to evaluate the code across an entire solution, not just the file you'…

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170: How blood sugar & protein affect the skin | Rakhi Roy, M.S., R.D. 46:34

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“ Simplify your skincare and diversify your diet. Rotate your foods and not your skincare,” says registered dietitian and acne and eczema specialist Rakhi Roy, M.S., R.D. In this episode of Clean Beauty School, mindbodygreen beauty director and host Alexandra Engler chats with Roy about diversifying your diet, eating more protein, and how blood sug…

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Serverless Elastic with Ken Exner 44:00

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What if you could use ElasticSearch serverless? While at Build, Carl and Richard chatted with Ken Exner about the new announcements around Elastic providing serverless storage and search! Ken talks about paying for only the data you move and store with serverless, rather than needing to operate any infrastructure for Elastic. The conversation digs …

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C# Networking with Chris Woodruff 1:05:00

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Do you understand how networking works in C#? Carl and Richard chat with Chris Woody Woodruff about his new book on networking with C#. Chris runs down the fundamentals of networking and then discusses the different approaches readily available in the C# world, including web sockets, gRPC, SignalR, and many more! The conversation also turns to the …

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Backend for Frontend Security Framework with Erwin van der Valk 52:00

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How do you secure browser-based frontends with ASP.NET Core backends? Carl and Richard discuss the Backend for Frontend (BFF) Security Framework with Erwin van der Valk. Erwin talks about Sam Newman's BFF Pattern and how it helps deal with the diversity of clients, including web, desktop, and mobile, to work with a common backend. OAuth 2.0 is capa…

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4.4 Kolumbo 1619: Choose Your Own Adventure by KÁNYIN Olorunnisola 21:23

1M ago21:23

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In an RPG game, a Black avatar repeatedly attempts to survive an encounter with the police. Content warnings: Violence, death, racism, hateful language, xenophobia Copyright khōréō magazine 2025. Story by KÁNYIN Olorunnisola, edited by Isabella Kestermann. Audio edition read by Isabella Tugman and produced by Lian Xia Rose, with casting by Jenelle …

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Architecture vs Code with Steve Smith 56:00

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How do you balance architecture and code? Carl and Richard talk to Steve Smith about various architectural strategies and the swing back-and-forth against over-designing architecture and getting code written. Steve talks about how architecture changes depending on the size and number of teams, how the latest tools can help with architectural choice…

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169: The best clean makeup right now | Clean beauty creator Sara Rose Donahue 40:00

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“Turn your beauty routines into beauty rituals, so it’s not about adding another 20 minutes of meditation to your scheudle. These are steps you do every single day, and if you can just be a bit slower and more mindful, it affects the rest of your day,” says clean beauty content creator Sara Rose Donahue, also known as @sararosie on Instagram. In th…

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The Open Source Maintenance Fee with Rob Mensching 1:06:00

2M ago1:06:00

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Open Source Maintainers are burning out or going commercial - how do we solve this? Carl and Richard chat with Rob Mensching about his work to create the open source maintenance fee through GitHub. Rob talks about the common problem of single maintainers getting buried under issues and demands of consumers for a project. Recognizing that most peopl…

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4.4 The Secret by Fumio Takano 32:29

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In 2102, Michi goes undercover as a maid for a hacking job, while in 2030, Ryo sells his appearance to a tech company. Their lives intersect to expose the dirty laundry of neo-feudal futuristic Japanese elite society. Content warnings: Classism, injustice Copyright khōréō magazine 2025. Story by Fumio Takano, translated by Sharni Wilson, edited by …

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AI for Government RFPs with Vishwas Lele 55:00

2M ago55:00

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How can a large language model help your organization answer government RFPs? Carl and Richard talk to Vishwas Lele about his startup pWin, as in proposal win. Vishwas talks about being a year into the startup and his deeper understanding of how AI technologies can augment skilled operators to produce better quality products in less time, including…

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Audio-Video in .NET with Elias Puurunen 1:08:00

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Can you integrate performant audio-video into your .NET application? Carl and Richard talk to Elias Puurunen about his work at Tractus Events, where he uses the NDI protocols to bring real-time audio and video streams into his C# application. Elias talks about the power of P/Invoke to access the underlying libraries for controlling video streams, i…

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4.4 The Tangle by Rae Mariz 32:56

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A storyteller in the distant future shows the reader different vantage points, in hopes they might "see" the web of connections between past and future, reader and story, responsibility and joy. Content warnings: Acknowledgement of genocide, animal harm Copyright khōréō magazine 2025. Story by Rae Mariz, edited by Zhui Ning Chang. Audio edition rea…

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Agentic AI in .NET with Spencer Schneidenbach 56:00

3M ago56:00

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Ready to build an agentic AI in .NET? Carl and Richard talk to Spencer Schneidenbach about his work using large language models to enhance customer interactions in healthcare. Spencer discusses using the LLMs to summarize customer conversations to identify topic areas, sentiment, and other concerns. He digs into how Microsoft's Semantic Kernel make…

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Measuring LLMs with Jodie Burchell 1:01:00

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How do you measure the quality of a large language model? Carl and Richard talk to Dr. Jodie Burchell about her work measuring large language models for accuracy, reliability, and consistency. Jodie talks about the variety of benchmarks that exist for LLMs and the problems they have. A broader conversation about quality digs into the idea that LLMs…

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4.4 AITA for telling my genetic double she cant be transgender? by Leon Tomova 22:54

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In New Hope City, an indentured clone comes out as trans. People have opinions about it. Content warnings: Transphobia (including misgendering), abuse, implied forced servitude, implied climate disaster Copyright khōréō magazine 2025. Story by Leon Tomova, edited by Kanika Agrawal. Audio edition read by Swann Grey and produced by Evalyn Broderick, …

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168: How to treat acne & eczema holistically | naturopathic doctor Bryant Esquejo, ND 41:49

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“While genetics do play a role in these conditions, there is also the environment we have to consider. It’s like a soda bottle. Our DNA and genetics puts soda into the bottle, but the environment shakes it up,” says naturopathic doctor Bryant Esquejo, N.D., who specializes in skin conditions like eczema and acne. In this episode of Clean Beauty Sch…

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Javascript Promises with Martine Dowden 55:00

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What are JavaScript promises, and why do you want to make them? Carl and Richard talk to Martine Dowden about all the various async options available in Javascript today, including Callbacks, Promises, Async/Await, and even ReactiveJS! Martine digs into some of the more remarkable features available, including grouping sync calls together so code i…

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.NET Aspire 9.1 with Rob Richardson 56:47

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What's the latest with .NET Aspire? Carl and Richard talk to Rob Richardson about his experiences with .NET Aspire to help build great .NET cloud apps. Rob talks about all the goodness that comes out of the box with Aspire, including OpenTelemetry, containerization, good security practices, and the excellent dashboard. The discussion turns to the c…

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Automapper V14 with Jimmy Bogard 58:00

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Seventeen years of Automapper! Carl and Richard talk to Jimmy Bogard about his latest version of Automapper - and the challenge of maintaining a long-lived and much-loved open-source library! Jimmy talks about the origins of Automapper as a tool he needed for working with clients and automating the mapping of objects. Initially, he moved to GitHub …

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React in 2025 with Aurora Scharff 50:47

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React version 19 has been released! Carl and Richard talk to Aurora Scharff about the long-awaited version of React that incorporates React Server Components and many other features. Aurora talks about the rethink involved in switching to a server-first implementation of a React website, which is best suited for greenfield implementations. For exis…

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4.4 The Doll's Boy by Kawai Shen 21:22

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A boy walks into an art exhibit and steals a sex doll on display. It doesn't go anywhere the doll expects. Content warnings: Body horror described in detail Copyright khōréō magazine 2025. Story by Kawai Shen, edited by Kanika Agrawal. Audio edition read by Vera Tan, with casting and production by Jenelle DeCosta. Visit khoreomag.com and follow us …

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167: A-listers’ clean makeup secrets | Celebrity makeup artists Jenna Anton 38:16

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“When I work with celebrities or models, I’ll state at the beginning, ‘I have all 100% clean beauty,’ and they’re all so thankful. They tell me, ‘Thank you for caring about me.’ They often share that they have sensitive skin but don’t feel they can stand up for themselves,” says clean beauty expert and celebrity makeup artist Jenna Anton. In this e…

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Vertical Slice Architecture with Jeremy Miller 54:09

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How can vertical architecture help you? Carl and Richard talk to Jeremy Miller about using vertical architecture to help build applications quickly and reliably. Jeremy talks about resisting the over-thinking of architecture leaving room for developers to build the app and get to results rapidly - by taking a vertical slice of the problem space, en…

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Uno Hot Design with Francois Tanguay and Sasha Krsmanovic 56:57

4M ago56:57

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Ready to speed up your cross-platform development? Carl and Richard chat with Francois Tanguay and Sasha Krsmanovic about Uno Hot Design. First shown at .NET Conf in 2024, Hot Design brings the Hot Reload experience to UX onto your various client devices. Francois talks about the evolution of the Uno Platform into a place where you can use a variet…

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4.4 The Trauma Tourist by Christos Callow Jr 19:52

4M ago19:52

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Hollywood actor Hendrick lives through a curated trauma experience to become Greek enough for a role. But how much will it cost him? Content warnings: Suicide, torture simulation, cultural appropriation Copyright khōréō magazine 2025. Story by Christos Callow Jr, edited by Danai Christopoulou. Audio edition read by Kat Kourbeti and produced by Lian…

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The Empowered Customer with Richard Reukema 56:23

5M ago56:23

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How do customers take control of their data from merchants? Carl and Richard chat with Richard Reukema about his book The Empowered Customer. Richard discusses building a data cooperative between customers and merchants using ethical data handling techniques and technology to create mutual benefit. The conversation dives into how to get merchants t…