Best Behind The Specs Podcasts (2025)

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S3 E12 | How This Indie Couple Turned a Web Series Into a Feature Film (Without a Studio) 49:17

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In this episode of Truly Independent, Garrett Batty and Darren Smith sit down with Andrew and J. Huff — the filmmaking duo behind Doc Connor. They break down how they transformed a small, bootstrapped web series into a full-length feature film, secured theatrical release, and navigated the indie distribution maze without waiting for studio approval…

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Why is Zig so cool? (News) 9:07

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Nilo Stolte explains why Zig is “a totally new way to write programs”, George Mack gives twelve actionable ways to be more creative, Mario Zechner shares his findings on using MCP vs Bash tools, Josh Collinsworth compares creating AI art to medieval alchemy, LibrePods unlocks AirPods features for Android, and our first ever Changelog News Classifie…

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How 48% of Non-Engineers Are Shipping Production Software (with Retool CEO David Hsu) 50:57

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Retool CEO David Hsu reveals that 48% of non-engineers are now shipping software. We explore how AI is democratizing software development, why engineers might stop coding internal apps within 18-24 months, and what this means for the future of work. David shares insights from Retool's survey of 10,000+ companies, Retool’s new AppGen program, and ho…

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We Don't Need to talk about Gabecube, COD 7, Metroid Prime 4, but we will! | Best Gaming Podcast 554 3:36:36

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Join us as we dive into the biggest stories shaping the gaming world right now. This episode breaks down Valve’s latest hardware announcements, Metroid Prime 4 impressions, explore the shifting landscape of the video game business, and digs into early reactions, reviews, and ratings surrounding Call of Duty 7. substack https://substack.com/@acgrevi…

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Retreat to attack (Friends) 1:44:16

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Do you like director’s commentaries and extended cuts? This episode is like that, but for this week’s News. We go deep on the alive internet theory, Meshtastic mesh networks, Zstandard compression, the FDE job explosion, React’s seemingly perpetual dominance, and more. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 8 minutes on this episode because t…

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Inside the Mission of Mil-Spec Formulas with Adora Winquist 48:29

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In this moving episode of the VET’ed Podcast, host Jen M. Wagman speaks with Adora Winquist, founder of Opus Gaia and creator of Mil-Spec Formulas, about the groundbreaking work being done to bring science-based sensory healing to Veterans. Born from the loss of an Air Force nurse named Holly, the Healing Hut was created by Lt. Col. Dr. Stephanie S…

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Kolchak: The Night Stalker - S1E2 1:03:39

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This week, Travis brings up us a show that most of us had no idea existed, or at least weren't aware of how big of a thing it was. Kolchak: The Night Stalker brings us tales of the paranormal when reporter Carl Kolchak investigates the weird stuff going on in the world hoping to shed light on the mysteries around the city. This show had a lot going…

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DO repeat yourself! (Interview) 1:19:58

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Prolific software blogger, Sean Goedecke, joins us to discuss why he believes software engineers need to be involved in the politics of their organization, how to avoid worry driven development, what is “good taste” in software engineering, where agentic coding will take our industry, why getting the main thing right is so important, and how to get…

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What Developers Can Build Next With AI 1:09:54

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In this compilation, Simon Maple brings together Baruch Sadogursky (TuxCare), Liran Tal (Snyk), Alex Gavrilescu (Greentube), and Josh Long (Broadcom) to break down where AI-assisted development fails, and what teams must do to keep it reliable. On the docket: • why spec-compiled tests must come before letting AI generate code • the uncertainty arou…

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The Eurogamer Arc Raiders Review discussion, how games are made, and more The Best Gaming Podcast 553 1:10:10

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A discussion of reviews, how things work, AI, questions from fans, Rue Valley and more> https://amzn.to/43LY1Gv Amazon Affiliate Link Join this channel to get access to perks:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5zKbGokI0oI6SeZrHTfJjA/joinEach Friday ACG and some pals Silver, Rej, Abssi, and Jonny from https://www.twitch.tv/jonnyplayslive get together…

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Grand Theft Auto 6 Delayed, Developers Yacking At Each other, The Best Gaming Podcast 552 3:25:17

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Grand Theft Auto 6 Delayed, Developers Yacking At Each other, The Best Gaming Podcast 552My lord Grand Theft Auto 6 is delayed! Developers telling each other how to make games, and more The Best Gaming Podcast 552 Join this channel to get access to perks:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5zKbGokI0oI6SeZrHTfJjA/joinEach Friday ACG and some pals Silv…

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S3 E11 | The Announcement: Brotherhood Is Greenlit 51:26

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This season of Truly Independent is supported by the Help Them See Foundation — a nonprofit dedicated to championing films that inspire faith, hope, and human connection. Learn more or get involved at HelpThemSeeFoundation.org. In this episode, Garrett and Darren welcome filmmaker Ross Booth to officially announce Brotherhood — a new cinematic musi…

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How spec-driven development is changing the rules | AWS’ Amit Patel 50:30

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What is "spec-driven development," and why is this structured approach the key to unlocking complex AI projects? We're joined by Amit Patel, Director of Software Development for Kiro at AWS, to explore this methodology. He explains why "vibe coding" in a chat window fails on multi-day initiatives: the AI (and the developer) loses context. Kiro solv…

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This new AI role is exploding (News) 8:43

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A new AI-led tech role has emerged with a massive increase of job postings, Corey Quinn explains why younger devs won’t tolerate pain in the AWS, Thomas Ptacek makes the case that you should write an agent, Paul Kinlan goes deeper on his dead framework theory, and Andrew Gallagher says to stop vibe coding your unit tests. View the newsletter Join t…

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#define: sheer resistance (Friends) 1:42:41

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On this seventh iteration of our award-worthy game show filled with obscure jargon, fake definitions, and expert tomfoolery: past winners battle to determine the champion of champions. (Also, Adam.) Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 6 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Tiger Data – Postgres…

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Alfred Hitchcock Presents - S3E1 - The Glass Eye 49:10

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Good evening. Tonight, we're heading into one of the spookiest of spooky season shows with Alfred Hitchcock Presents! This show was a staple of television for years, not unlike it's cousin The Twilight Zone. There's something charming about really old black & white TV and our hosts are happy to discuss this classic episode tonight. Next week! It's …

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The world of open source metadata (Interview) 1:43:59

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Andrew Nesbitt builds tools and open datasets to support, sustain, and secure critical digital infrastructure. He’s been exploring the world of open source metadata for over a decade. First with libraries.io and now with ecosyste.ms, which tracks over 12 million packages, 287 million repos, 24.5 billion dependencies, and 1.9 million maintainers. Wh…

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Ep.2 - Pioneer DJ & AlphaTheta: The Story and the Future of DJing 37:02

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We celebrate the evolution of Pioneer DJ and AlphaTheta and explore how the CDJ-3000X is redefining the booth with streaming, caching, and seamless login features. Same trusted design — now smarter, faster, and built for the future of performance.By Vincent

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Arc Raiders and Dispatch Rise, Subtweets, I Hate some companies The Best Gaming Podcast 551.5 57:53

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https://www.patreon.com/c/AngryCentaurGaming https://substack.com/@acgreview? Arc Raiders blasts onto Steam but Dispatch is the true hero. Sit down with Karak for a side podcast from memories, to gaming news GTA creators to twitter haters LETS DO IT Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5zKbGokI0oI6SeZrHTfJjA/j…

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The CTO must now think like the CFO to survive | Sancus Ventures’ Lake Dai 56:23

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AI is forcing engineering leaders to become part-CFO, part-governance expert, and part-business strategist. Are you ready for the shift? We're joined by Lake Dai, a globally recognized AI expert, professor at Carnegie Mellon, and founder of Sancus Ventures, to explore the new operating strategies required in an AI-first era. She explains why AI has…

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The overlooked power of URLs (News) 7:30

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Ahmad Alfy explains how URLs are state containers, Shrivu Shankar shares how he uses every Claude Code feature, Yusuf Aytas laments how AI broke technical interviews, Wu Xiaoyun tells how he saved TikTok $300k during his internship, and TOON is a new serialization format to save us some LLM tokens. View the newsletter Join the discussion Changelog+…

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The Humans Behind AI: How Invisible Technologies Trains 80% of the World's Top Models 1:02:09

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Ever wondered who's actually teaching ChatGPT and Claude how to think? Meet Caspar Eliot from Invisible Technologies - the company behind 80% of the world's top AI model training. In this eye-opening conversation, we uncover the massive human workforce behind "artificial" intelligence, why your League of Legends skills might land you an AI job, and…

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How We’re Finding Investors (Without Pitching) + The Real Indie Bottleneck 47:13

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Season 3 of Truly Independent is here—supported by the Help Them See Foundation, a nonprofit backing feature films that inspire faith, hope, and connection. Learn more or get involved: https://helpthemseefoundation.org In this episode, Garrett Batty and co-host Darren Smith catch up after a festival road trip (Newport Beach, AFI, Austin) and break …

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Claude, TypingMind, AMP & MCP Servers: The Future Dev 53:24

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How do you give an agent the same visibility a human developer has, without giving it full control? Alan Pope, Senior Developer Advocate at Tessl, explains how Model Context Protocols (MCPs) give AI agents structured access to dev environments, enabling tools like Claude Code and TypingMind to read, build, and execute safely under human oversight. …

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Arc Raiders Surges, Nintendo Patent Purges, Outer Worlds 2, Escape From Duckov, The best gaming podcast #551 3:07:58

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Live Now! Arc Raiders Surges, Nintendo Patent Purges, Outer Worlds 2, Escape From Duckov, The best gaming podcast #551 https://youtube.com/live/wfUpNRHCmQcArc Raiders blasts onto Steam with breakout numbers while Nintendo catches some heat over a head-scratching week. We unpack The Outer Worlds 2’s launch vibes—Game Pass buzz, early impressions, an…

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Inside Adobe's AI Strategy with CTO Ely Greenfield 32:24

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From Adobe Max 2025 in Los Angeles, Corey and Grant sit down with Ely Greenfield, Adobe's Chief Technology Officer, to explore the philosophy behind Adobe's practical AI strategy. Discover why the crowd went wild over AI renaming layers, how Adobe thinks about "additive not subtractive" AI, and where creative tools are heading next. Ely shares Adob…

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We see dead projects (Friends) 1:18:33

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It’s a FRIGHT…when your record a podcast with dead projects all around. Tech debt, poor choices, timing, market shift, and optimizing for the wrong things are all lurking around waiting to pop out at you! Just don’t forget to push record. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 6 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Joi…

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Happy Days - S2E6 57:23

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We're headed all the way back to the 1950s by way of the 1970s with Happy Days! This classic is one of those that its hard to not know about even if you've never seen it before. In this episode, we follow the story of Richie Cunningham as he tries to overcome his fears and enjoy a party at an abandoned house. You know. Normal kid stuff. It's a good…

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Agentic infra changes everything (Interview) 2:03:40

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Adam Jacob joins us to discuss how agentic systems for building and managing infrastructure have fundamentally altered how he thinks about everything, including the last six years of his life. Along the way, he opines on the recent AWS outage, debates whether we’re in an AI-induced bubble, quells any concerns of AGI and a robot uprising, eats some …

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From layoffs to payoffs, from Tech Specs to PR wrecks | The Best Gaming Podcast — Episode 550.5 59:06

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From layoffs to payoffs, from Tech Specs to PR wrecks | The Best Gaming Podcast — Episode 550.5 Game news this week has been all over the place lets dive in and talk gaming. Amazon layoffs, Avalanche new companies and how games get invested in, how games are made and why Halo has made the changes it made. We break down the biggest industry stories …

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AI Agents Beyond Context Limits | Maksim Shaposhnikov 58:26

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Bots follow scripts. Assistants wait for your commands. Agents act autonomously. Maksim Shaposhnikov, AI Research Engineer at Tessl, joins Simon Maple to unpack the capabilities of AI coding agents, including how developers can test and trust the code they generate. On the docket: • how sub-agents operate independently, maintaining their own contex…

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How leaders win over their team’s biggest AI skeptics | Superhuman’s Loic Houssier 46:18

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Forget top-down mandates. How do you foster organic AI adoption on a skeptical, high-performing engineering team? Loic Houssier, Head of Engineering at Superhuman, joins us to share how he did just that. He explains his strategy for overcoming cynicism, which involved leveraging a highly respected internal champion, the Chief Architect, to re-evalu…

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Code like a surgeon (News) 8:24

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The Dead Internet Theory dies, Geoffrey Litt tries to code like a surgeon, Matt Sephton thinks spreadsheets are great for UI design, Nate Meyvis advocates for front-end maximalism, Hemant Pandey thinks 9-5 employment is a great option for most, David Miranda compares React to Backbone in 2025. View the newsletter Join the discussion Changelog++ mem…

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S3 E09 | How Screenwriters Survive Hollywood and Indie Film | Truly Independent Podcast 46:32

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This episode of Truly Independent dives deep into the journey of screenwriter David Plyler, known for Outlaw Trail and Forever Strong. Hosts Garrett Batty and Daren Smith talk with David about his path from LA Film School to working in the indie world, his experiences writing faith-driven and character-centered stories, and what it really takes to …

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Outer World 2 Reviews, New Halo Remake Drops, and more on The Best Gaming Podcast — Episode 550! 3:50:18

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Welcome to The Best Gaming Podcast — Episode 550! Today we dive into all things gaming:More news about Halo Incoming updates and what they mean for the franchiseOuter Worlds 2 early reviews and first impressionsThe latest gaming news you need to knowit’s an Ask Me Anything episode, so drop your questions in the comments! We break down the biggest i…

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Kaizen! Mop-up job (Friends) 1:47:36

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It’s our first Kaizen after the big Pipely launch in Denver and we have some serious mopping to do. Along the way, we brainstorm the next get-together, check out our new cache hit/miss ratio, give Pipely a deep speed test, discuss open video standards, and more! Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 5 minutes on this episode because they mad…

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AI PC Buyer’s Guide: Specs That Actually Matter (ft. Dell’s Logan Lawler) 1:22:40

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AI is changing what we need from our computers—but does that mean you need an "AI PC"? Corey and Grant sit down with Logan Lawler from Dell Technologies who leads Dell Pro Max AI solutions to decode what matters (and what doesn't) when buying or upgrading your next computer. From CPUs and GPUs to memory, NPUs, and traps to avoid, this episode is yo…

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Bringing Atuin to the desktop (Interview) 56:39

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Ellie Huxtable’s magical shell tool, Atuin, won developers’ hearts by syncing, searching, and backing up our shell history with ease. Now Ellie is tackling the desktop with a GUI built to help teams make their workflows repeatable, shareable, and reliable. Join the discussion Changelog++ members get a bonus 2 minutes at the end of this episode and …

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People Outrank Everything: Erin Cardinal & Leslie Janaros on Inaugural Total Force+ Conference 10.27 & 10.28.25 24:19

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In this episode of VET’ed., Jen sits down with Erin Cardinal and Leslie Janaros of the Military Officers Association of America (MOAA) to discuss the vision, mission, and people-first purpose behind its groundbreaking Total Force+ Conference taking place at the Gaylord National Harbor Resort & Conference Center, October 27-28, 2025. Leslie and Erin…

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Instant PR Feedback Without leaving GitHub | Merrill Lutsky on Graphite 47:00

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As AI outpaces human review, latency compounds. On AI Native Dev, Graphite co-founder and CEO, Merrill Lutsky joins Guy Podjarny to explore how stack aware reviews remove friction and accelerate AI-native development. They also get into: • how Graphite’s architecture ensures traceability across AI generated commits • what engineering velocity means…

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AI isn't for cutting costs, it's for multiplying impact | Super.com's Matt Culver 47:49

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Is your company using AI to trim your budget, or to multiply your team's impact? We're joined by Matt Culver, a senior engineering leader at Super.com, to discuss why the common view of AI as a tool for cost-cutting is a misguided "accounting mindset" that ultimately destroys trust. He argues that leaders should instead see efficiency gains from AI…

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The science behind developer flow states (News) 6:47

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Csaba Okrona lays out exactly what Flow is (then shows you how to engineer your way back to it), a smart vacuum turned against an innocent hacker, Matz and the Ruby core team step up to steward RubyGems, Simon Willison things Claude Skills could be bigger than MCP, and Luke Plant looks at technical debt from a more positive perspective. View the ne…

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S3 E08 | Teenage Resistance, Timeless Courage: The Story Behind TRUTH & TREASON | Matt Whitaker 45:20

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Independent filmmaker Matt Whitaker joins Garrett Batty and co-host Daren Smith to unpack the two-decade journey behind TRUTH & TREASON—from a PBS documentary to a nationwide theatrical release. We dive into financing (crowdfunding + private equity), securing distribution, why strong legal counsel matters, casting in the UK, shooting in Lithuania w…

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Vampire Masquerade 2 sucks? Tower Stuns, and Tech Impresses The best gaming podcast 549 3:18:28

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Vampire Masquerade 2 sucks, Tower Stuns, and Tech Impresses The best gaming podcast 549. We break down the biggest industry stories of the week—price changes, restructures, cancellations, and layoffs—plus what it all means for players, devs, and the games in your backlog. No fluff, just facts and context you can use. Join this channel to get access…

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There will be bleeps (Friends) 1:41:45

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Mike McQuaid and Justin Searls join Jerod in the wake of the RubyGems debacle to discuss what happened, what it says about money in open source, what sustainability really means for our community, making a career out of open source (or not), and more. Bleep! Join the discussion Changelog++ members get a bonus 2 minutes at the end of this episode an…

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Healing Through Food & Community with Chef Larry Zilliox 34:18

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In this inspiring episode of the VET’ed Podcast, host Jen M. Wagman sits down with Chef Larry Zilliox, Air Force Veteran, host of Welcome Home Podcast, and Director of Culinary Services at Willing Warriors’ Warrior Retreat at Bull Run. Larry shares how his journey from military service to culinary leadership became a mission of healing—bringing gou…

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Duty to serve with Benjamin Pomerance 1:15:57

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Join me today as I continue my conversation with Benjamin Pomerance, Deputy Counsel for the New York State Department of Veterans’ Services, to explore the intersection of law, advocacy, and humanity in the fight for Veterans’ rights. Benjamin shares his insider’s perspective on reforming the VA benefits system, the moral and legal responsibility o…

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Are You Afraid of the Dark - S1E6 - The Tale of the Super Specs 1:00:04

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That's THOSE were the days. Accent on the "THOSE!" Maybe you know what we're talking about or maybe you don't and are about to go on a nostalgic journey back into kids television. Are You Afraid of the Dark was a staple of Nickelodeon's Saturday night SNICK lineup. It closed out the night with spooky tales told by The Midnight Society around a camp…

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GTA 6 100 Bucks? New Console Tech Breakdown, It could Happen, here's How The best gaming podcast #548 1:07:30

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GTA 100 Bucks? It could Happen, here's How The best gaming podcast #548 GTA 6 may be 100% bucks, but how, why, what would that do to the market? Lets discuss that and AMDs new tech for consoles. We break down the biggest industry stories of the week—price changes, restructures, cancellations, and layoffs—plus what it all means for players, devs, an…

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Spec-driven development with Kiro (Interview) 1:25:20

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We’re joined by Deepak Singh from the Kiro team. Kiro is AWS’s attempt at building an AI coding environment to take you from prototype to production. It does that by bringing structure to your agentic workflow with spec-driven development. Their aim: the flow of AI coding, leveled up with mature engineering practices. Join the discussion Changelog+…