Best UNIX Podcasts (2025)

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An episode as short as the name of a unix command 21:46

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Go 1.25.3 and 1.24.9 released 🪲 Blog: How we found a bug in Go's arm64 compiler by Thea Heinen zsh support progress for sh 🇺🇸 Go meetup & live episode @ San Francisco 🌩️ Lightning round qjs, a CGO-Free, modern, secure JavaScript runtime for Go applications 📺 Kaizen, watch anime from the terminal ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★…

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Going Linux #473 · Listener Feedback 1:00:32

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Bill and Larry both break things. Questions for the listener: In addition to MP3, should we have a second feed? If so, should it be OGG, FLAC, OPUS, or something else? Suggestions for Solitaire, website upgrades, community comments, episode topics, printers, running Linux Mint, and computers for running Linux. Episode Time Stamps 00:00 Going Linux …

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Can Claude Code fix your subtle bugs? 🐞 33:13

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🐞 Go 1.25.4 and 1.24.10 are released The Geomys Standard of Care 🛡️ Claude Code Can Debug Low-level Cryptography 🫚 go podcast() episode 64: Podman, the root-less alternative to Docker ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★By Jonathan Hall & Shay Nehmad

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14: You are NOT Google 56:08

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Wolf surfaces five fundamentals to becoming a better developer (that you probably didn’t even know you didn’t know)! This is a fiery one! Jim asks questions, and also questions Wolf's choices. Takeaways The problem comes first—ask more questions Start with the simplest thing that could reasonably work Measure before you optimize (but don’t be stupi…

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👻 Spooky integer printing and 🧛🏻 scary fast ring buffers 29:00

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New proposal: go vet check for using %q with integer types Blog: I'm Independently Verifying Go's Reproducible Builds by Andrew Ayer JetBrains' language promise index Reddit: Why I built a ~39M op/s, zero-allocation ring buffer for file watching Blog: A modern approach to preventing CSRF in Go ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★…

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Sponsored by Forge, live from San Francisco, it's Cup o' Go! 16:25

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Thanks to Forge for sponsoring this episode! Find Forge at https://withforge.com/. They are HIRING! Find Forge's jobs page here: https://in-the-forge.notion.site/hiring-roles DRAFT RELEASE NOTES — Go 1.26 Coding Challenge #100 - BitTorrent Client The Evolution of Caching Libraries in Go This episode was recorded in front of a live studio audience, …

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Tech Bubbles 1:09:08

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Tonight on GeekNights, we discuss tech bubbles like the Dot-com bubble. Unrelatedly here's a video by Hank Green titled The State of the AI Industry is Freaking Me Out, and a video by Adam Conover titled Sora Proves the AI Bubble Is Going to Burst So Hard. In the news, nearly 7 million Americans marched in defense of democracy, Amazon AWS went down…

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13: Terminals: Talking to the machine 1:11:49

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Jim takes us on a walk down memory lane! Terminals have been around for a long time, probably much longer than you'd ever guess. Join us as we talk about the history of computer terminals and get a bit into how they work and how they've evolved into the amazing applications that we have today. Links https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleprinter https:/…

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🍪 No more all-you-can-eat Cookies 30:29

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Security releases 🍪 Go 1.25.2 and 1.24.8 with 10 security fixes 🌐 golang.org/x/net v0.45.0 with 2 security fixes Meetups @ Conferences 🇺🇸 San Fransisco, CA, USA — Oct 23 @ Forge 🇮🇱 Tel Aviv, Israel — Dec 10 @ Cato Networks 🇺🇸 GoWest @ Lehi, Utah USA — Oct 24 🧦 New swag in the Cup o' Go store! Proposals 👷🏿‍♀️ Accepted: go fix to apply fixes from mod…

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12: GPUs - Can I, Should I, and How? 1:01:42

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It's Wolf's turn this episode, and this one required research! GPUs obviously do tons of work. You see it every time you play a graphics intensive game. You know how crypto-miners are using them. You’ve heard AI companies using them for model building. You’ve got this hardware in your machine! Can you use it? Should you use it? Where even to start?…

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🪿 Goose noose? 🤘 Excellent! 🎸 31:46

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Conference videos 🇬🇧 GopherCon UK FyneConf Proposals 💧 Accepted: add new goroutine leak profile as a GOEXPERIMENT Full discussion of this feature in Episode 127 🪿 Added to minutes: add GOOS=noos bare metal support 🫣 Added to minutes: Add bytes.Buffer.Peek 👍 Added to minutes: Add must.Do Blog posts ✈️ Go blog: Flight Recorder in Go 1.25 by Carlos Am…

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💧 A leaky goroutine certainly does suck! 30:16

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Meetups and Conferences 🇺🇸 Go Meetup in San Francisco, Oct 23 @ Forge 🇺🇸 GoWest, Oct 24 @ Lehi, Utah USA 🇳🇬 GopherCon Africa, Oct 24 & 25 @ Lagos, Nigeria 🇷🇺 LetsGoConf followup post on Telegram Proposals ⚠️ Accepted: errors.AsType (As with type parameters) 💧 runtime/pprof,runtime: new goroutine leak profile New: direct reference to embedded fields…

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Fitness Tech 1:02:23

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Tonight on GeekNights, we discuss fitness tech like heart rate monitors and Strava and Dance Dance Revolution. In the news, Tik Tok has a dubious deal to keep operating in the US and the regime has plans for the algorithm. Also go see Perfect Blue remastered while you can. And read The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. Related Links Forum Thre…

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11: IPv6 - Size really does matter 1:07:41

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Jim demonstrates more of his networking knowledge, though this episode still required a lot research. Wolf, of course, has questions. The internet has been around for more than 40 years in some form. It's outgrown its ability to handle all of the hosts but fortunately, there's a solution. IPv6 is mature and wide-spread and not only does it increase…

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🪖 Gab's Notes on this week's Go news and an interview with Matt Boyle of Ona and ByteSizeGo 1:01:28

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Thanks Gabriel Augendre for guest co-hosting this episode! Visit cupogo.dev for all the links. 🔬 A new experimental Go API for JSON 🧾 2025 Go Developer Survey 🥸 Test state, not interactions by Redowan 😴 Go team quiet week Sep 22–Sep 26 ⛓️‍💥 The Day the Linter Broke My Code Interview with Matt Boyle Find Matt on X Ona ByteSizeGo Functional options f…

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Going Linux #472 · New Users Guide to Github 33:19

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Welcome to the world of version control with Git and GitHub! We will walk you through the essential steps to get you started, from creating an account to making your first contribution to a project. This powerful combination of tools is fundamental for software development, but it's also incredibly useful for tracking changes in any set of files, f…

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E32: Lightning Strikes Twice: How Eldad Farkash Built Two Data Unicorns Back-to-Back 35:41

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On this episode of the Zero Prime podcast, tune in to our conversation with Eldad Farkash, Co-founder and Chairman of Firebolt. With over two decades in data architecture, Eldad spent 14 years as CTO of Sisense before building Firebolt into a next-generation data warehouse. Get a glimpse into Eldad’s approach as a rare founder who's built not just …

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👕 Clothe your naked gophers and returns, with this one weird episode THEY don't want you to know about! 40:53

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Go 1.25.1 and Go 1.24.7 are released 🇩🇪 GopherCon Europe: Berlin 2025 videos online ⏱️ Blog: Testing Time (and other asynchronicities) by Damien Neil Video: Testing Time (and other asynchronous code) 👖 gofumpt v0.9.0 released Video: Go's Naked Returns: Be afraid! 🗳️ Blog: Building Bulletproof Leader Election in Kubernetes Operators: A Deep Dive by …

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Specific Mice 1:02:25

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Tonight on GeekNights, we talk about specific mice. Mice we've used over the years, since the days of balls. In the news, Google dodges consequences in the US but not in the EU, Google is sued yet again for their advertising monopoly, and Google is looking to flood the phone lines of tiny businesses. Related Links Forum Thread Specific Mice Discord…

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Going Linux #471 · Listener Feedback

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Bill is hopping to a different distro (big surprise, right?)Non-Windows computer does not track is the best? Tuxedo, System76, Framework, Dell XPS Series, some Lenovo Thinkpads, Linux Certified, Entroware More emails on Accessibility, Problems with Linux Mint,a printer odyssey, pivot tables, Mint XFCE on an Acer Chromebook C720 ZHN, an unintended r…

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10: Command-Line Superpowers: Connecting Simple Tools for Complex Solutions 1:36:17

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Wolf hands you the keys to the old-world kingdom, which turn out to still be valuable, just much less used! Most programmers are comfortable in their IDE but still click through file managers and manually handle repetitive tasks outside of it. You might know basic command line navigation, maybe even write the occasional script, but you're missing t…

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🇲🇽 Café con Go, 🇨🇦 GopherCon, eh?, or 🌉 Goroutines on the Golden Gate? 29:06

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This episode is sponsored by Boldly Go! Need fractional Gophering work? Visit boldlygo.tech. For everything Cup o' Go, incl. swag, Patreon, past episodes, and more, please visit our website. GopherCon 2026 location poll GopherCon India GOMAXPROCS Course: "Introducing Command Line Applications in Go" SQLite benchmarks ★ Support this podcast on Patre…

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Video Chat and Teleconferencing 1:01:54

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Tonight on GeekNights, we talk about the modern marvel that is video chat. In the news, Perplexity is using undeclared crawlers to scrape content, Samsung has a crazy Micro LED TV, real life ad block is possible, and Trump is forming the American SS. The next GeekNights Book Club book will be The Running Man, by Richard Backman, who you may know be…

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9: Looking at Data Types From Both Sides 1:26:41

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We talk about data types and their importance in software development. Modern dynamic languages hide type information from you but it's still there, under the hood. Statically-typed languages, on the other hand, bring types right out in front of you. What are the fundamental types and why are they important? What about user defined types and aggreg…

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🐐 The Greatest Episode of All Time 🐐 26:33

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🥩 Meatspace 🇺🇸 Going to GopherCon in NYC? Meet other Cup'o'Gophers there! 🇺🇸 Interested in a SF meetup? Fill out the poll 🇷🇺 Let's GoConf, Sept 12 @ Moscow, Russia GopherJS 1.19 with generics released Interview with Grant Nelson, Episode 53 Proposals Accepted: x/tools/go/analysis/structtag: stricter JSON tag checking Previous mention: Episode 117 N…

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Going Linux #470 · How to try Linux without affecting your current system Pt. 2 38:00

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Of course you could install Linux on a spare computer if you have one. OK, to many people the prospect of installing a new operating system can be daunting. You could also try running from a live USB drive. But fortunately, there are straightforward methods to explore what Linux has to offer directly from your Windows environment without altering y…

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The X/Tools Files 21:50

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Go 1.25 is released 🛠️ x/tools contains public packages that fail to build with Go 1.25.0 🧱 Building blocks for idiomatic Go pipelines by Anton Zhiyanov GopherCon USA, Aug 26-28 in New York 🌩️ Lightning Round outrig ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★By Jonathan Hall & Shay Nehmad

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Computer Audio Interfaces 1:09:44

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Tonight on GeekNights, we discuss audio interfaces. Rym uses a PreSonus Studio 1810c to record GeekNights, and as his general purpose "sound card" in the studio. In the news, the CEO of GitHub steps down, you can consider Forgejo if that worries you, Reddit will block the Internet Archive, and Trump illegally forces the National Guard to deploy to …

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8: I’ve Been Using AI to Code for a Year. Here’s What I Learned 1:19:12

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Wolf has a lot to say about AI and coding! If you’re expecting AI to write entire programs for you while you sit back and watch, we're going to disappoint you right up front—that’s not what these tools do well, and chasing that fantasy will waste your time. But what if we told you there’s a tool that could help you interpret cryptic error messages,…

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The s in "golang" stands for security and an interview with George Adams from Microsoft 52:51

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Visit https://cupogo.dev/ for all things Cup o' Go! [security] Go 1.24.6 and Go 1.23.12 are released Microsoft build of Go Telemetry – Helping Us Build Better Tools Go Assembly Mutation Testing GitLab catches MongoDB Go module supply chain attack Break: Jonathan's streaming again on Twitch George Adams interview Microsoft devblogs ★ Support this po…

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E31: From Hype to ROI: How Dwarak Rajagopal of Snowflake Scales Enterprise AI 24:55

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In this episode we talk to Dwarak Rajagopal – VP of AI Engineering and AI Research at Snowflake. Hear from Dwarak as he traces his journey from optimizing AMD processors to building AI systems at Google and now revolutionizing enterprise AI at Snowflake – discussing the real-world challenges and opportunities for bringing AI to business application…

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🗳️ Surveys say... StackOverflow 2025 Developer Survey results The Pragmatic Engineer 2025 Survey Proposals 🆕 New: proposal: x/tools/go/analysis/structtag: stricter JSON tag checking Related discussion on Episode 117 Accepted: doc: mention "purego" build tag convention somewhere 🤡 Accepted: mime: expand on what is covered by builtinTypes Accepted: l…

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7: VPNs - Connecting Safely 51:31

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If you need to connect to remote networks, or if you are outside of your network and would like to connect into it, then almost certainly you need a VPN. Jim has lots of real-world experience connecting networks together. In this episode we talk about various ways to connect and list some of the issues that you might run into. Take-aways from the e…

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🎣 Conference roundup, http3, DataDog and Turso do optimizations 27:05

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Jon's gone fishing, Shay's gone camping, so the community took the time to optimize all the things :) https://cupogo.dev/ for all the links and details! This show is supported by you, and there are many ways to support the show (directly and indirectly). Thanks for listening! Meetup roundup Jamie Tanna - Hands on dependency workshop @ Fatsoma Fyne …

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Why there's no big tech news 54:48

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Tonight on GeekNights, we consider why there, broadly, aren't major consumer technology developments lately. In the news, Debian reduces support for i386 and Chrome OS is combining with Android. Also we'll be live at PAX West! Related Links Forum Thread Why there's no big tech news Discord Chat Why there's no big tech news Bluesky Post Why there's …

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6: Code Performance - Where does the money go? 1:02:07

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Wolf talks about making your programs better. There are lots of ways to make them better. It all starts with figuring out what matters and measuring it. Measuring it all the time. Measuring it more. This episode is about following that path. Show notes: Take-aways from the episode: Understand what you are optimizing for: (speed,memory,storage,devel…

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🤌 The Gopherfather: Go 1.25, slog multihandlers, and more, capisce? 35:49

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Go 1.24.5 and Go 1.23.11 are released Go 1.25 Release Candidate 2 is released 🇿🇦 GopherCon South Africa, Aug 6-7 Online Go Blog: Generic Interfaces by Axel Wagner Proposals 🪵 New: log/slog: add multiple handlers support for logger 👉 New: spec: expression to create pointer to simple types Video: 10 Things I Hate About Go urfave/cli: a declarative, s…

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Going Linux #469 · Listener Feedback

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Bill tries ZFS. Our topics: Microsoft's support for Windows 10 is about to end - to keep your computer running a fully supported OS switch to Linux, Linux on Chromebooks, CD ripping, Cosmic Desktop Environment, Pivot tables, Linux and AI, Accessibility on Linux. Episode Time Stamps 00:00 Going Linux #469 · Listener Feedback 01:35 Bill tries ZFS 03:…

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🛠️ Can we fix it? No we can't! 🧭 Plus, exclusive behind-the-scenes look at Go West Conf. 51:39

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vscode-go v0.48.0 released with golangci-lint v2 support golangci-lint v2 showcase and interview with Ldez, episode 104 LookPath bug: incorrect expansion of "" and "." in some PATH configurations 🛠️ Proposal: cmd/fix: remove all functionality Unexpected security footguns in Go's parsers by Vasco Franco 🌩️ Lightning Round Blog: Go: Don't name packag…

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Blinky Lights 59:09

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Tonight on GeekNights, we consider the blinky lights and LEDs the kids are putting on everything including their computers. In the news, Windows 10 has extended security support, Broadcom is desperate to monetize VMware, and the EU forced Apple to comply, at least in the EU. Related Links Forum Thread Blinky Lights Discord Chat Blinky Lights Bluesk…