Best Dev Friend Podcasts (2025)

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Jenni AI & Smithery Co-founders | Henry Mao & Anirudh Kamath | Building AI-native services with MCP, developer distribution challenges & the future of agent tooling 31:56

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In this episode of Request Response, I sit down with Henry and Anirudh, co-founders of Smithery, the easiest place to build, deploy, and discover MCP servers. We dive into how Henry and Anirudh went from building custom chatbots for specific use cases to creating infrastructure that makes MCP development accessible to any developer. We explore the …

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Minecraft Getting Sued, Android Blocking Indie Devs and Social Media Child Stars 51:10

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Mojang are being sued for breaking the laws of the European Union by changing their terms of service to ban gun mods. Spearheaded by a mod developer, this lawsuit is adjacent to Stop Killing Games but not quite part of it. Google has announced a plan to block indie developers from publishing apps for Android without giving away their personal detai…

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Adam Frankl on why 2025 is the best year ever to build a developer tool startup 35:04

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Join us for an incredible conversation with Adam Frankl - author, advisor, investor, and the final boss of development marketing. In this episode, we dive deep into the biggest challenges facing developer tool startups in 2025 and how to overcome them. On the AI boom opportunity: 2025 has gotta be the best year ever for starting a developer tool st…

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XO Ruby is hitting the road (Interview) 1:32:03

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Jim Remsik has lived on the bleeding edge (but also the heart’s center) of the Ruby world for decades. This fall, he’s organizing six (yes, SIX) XO Ruby confs all around the United States. On this episode, Jim joins us to reminisce about the early days of Ruby and Rails, share what he’s learned from so many years of organizing events, and invite al…

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Breaking Changes in TS 6, a Calm Migration to Type Stripping, and Deno's #FreeJavaScript Campaign | News | Ep 33 56:07

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News of the week of August 25, 2025: the two fools unpack the expected breaking changes to TSConfig in the upcoming 6.0 release, explain Node's latest LTS notable changes, and cover the latest in the JS trademark case from Deno. Plus, a PSA if you use Nx! From the community: making the case to migrate to Node's type stripping, a peek at Vitest 4, Z…

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Next.js is infuriating (News) 8:14

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Dominik Meca is infuriated by Next.js, Josh Bressers explains why open source is just one person, Huon Wilson describes the usefulness of “Copy as cURL”, Herman Martinus re-licenses Bear, and Nawaz Dhandala unpacks why dependency bloat is such a pervasive problem. View the newsletter Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get clo…

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Beyond Denuvo: What's REALLY Killing Gaming's Past? 1:10:13

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Send us a text 🎮 STOP KILLING GAMES! Game Preservation, Emulation Wars & Ubisoft's Digital Guillotine 🔥 From dusty cartridges to disappearing digital libraries—this video dives deep into the chaotic state of game preservation and the corporate crusade against it. Are games art? Should they be treated like films, books, and music? We say yes—and we’…

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Episode 476: How much help is too much help and guarding against slop 37:36

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In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions: Two junior engineers recently joined my team, and I’ve been tasked with onboarding them. This is the first time I’ve been responsible for junior devs, and I’m struggling with how to coach them up. For context, we’re a small engineering team where self-sufficiency is highly valued; processes/…

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Action absorbs anxiety (Friends) 1:22:54

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Arun Gupta, now a “free agent” after his surprise exit from Intel, joins us to discuss how he’s dealing with his first job hunt since the 1990s. Along the way, we talk about agentic coding strategies, what GPT-5’s release implies about the future, and more. (US buys 10% of Intel)++ Join the discussion Changelog++ members get a bonus 12 minutes at t…

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In Person!!! Topic of Agent Payments, Friendly Acquisitions, GPT-5, Endless Model Name and Many Free Ideas 1:10:45

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Chapters 00:00 Introduction and Context of the Podcast 07:23 Updates on SimplePoll and AI Integration 18:14 Telemetry and Continuous Improvement in Development 24:30 Acquisitions and Industry Insights 32:37 Discussion on GPT-5 and Future of AI Models 39:13 Consumer Experience with AI Models 48:29 The Future of AI Content Verification 58:17 The Impa…

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Python documentary companion pod (Interview) 1:54:19

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Our friends at Cult.Repo launched their epic Python documentary on August 28th, 2025! To celebrate, we sat down with Travis Oliphant –creator of NumPy, SciPy, and more– to get his perspective on how Python took over the software world. Stick around for the twist ending! We set aside Python and dissect Travis’ big idea to make open source projects f…

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TypeScript Go Nightly Improvements, Rslint Announced, and Big Bun Updates | News | Ep 32 51:09

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News of the week of August 18, 2025: one of the biggest nightly updates for TS Go, Rspack team announces a new linter, the new minor Bun release is pretty major, and Next.js 15.5 features typed routing . From the community: more learning web dev resources, an exhaustive switch utility for JSX, --strict on by default?, and whether you can really pro…

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Omarchy 2.0: Best Linux setup ever? (News) 7:41

11d ago7:41

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Elon Musk and xAI take on Microsoft, DHH ships version 2 of Omarchy (his love letter to Linux), Glyn Normington on managing developer’s block, Mitchell Hashimoto declares that all Ghostty contributions must disclose AI tooling, the United States government takes a 10% stake in Intel, and Adam Derewecki thinks we should do things that don’t scale, t…

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Gamescom Bombshells: Crimson Desert, Resident Evil Requiem, Dying Light 55:28

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Send us a text 🔥 Gamescom 2025 just dropped a tidal wave of reveals — and we’re diving deep into the biggest shocks, secrets, and surprises across the gaming universe. From Nintendo’s hypocritical moves to the haunting beauty of Little Nightmares 3, this roundup covers it all. 🎮 Featured Topics: - Nintendo’s Hypocritical Secret finally exposed — wh…

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Episode 475: Am I too loyal to my big tech job and politely preserving time 33:26

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In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions: Hi! I’m currently working for a big tech company and I’ve just accepted an internal transfer to another team. At the same time, an external company reached out, offering me a job for a role I’m interested in and twice my current compensation. I’m not sure what to do. The offer from the new c…

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Git with your friends (remastered) (Friends) 1:47:23

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Our Changelog & Friends proof-of-concept with Mat Ryer has been remastered! Now with full-length video on YouTube. Originally recorded: 2023-02-08 Mat joins us for some good conversation about some Git tooling that’s been on our radar. We speculate, we discuss, we laugh, and Mat even breaks into song a few times. It’s good fun. Join the discussion …

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From Chef to System Initiative (remastered) (Interview) 2:22:30

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The epic show with Adam Jacob has been remastered! Now with full-length video on YouTube. Adam goes solo with Adam Jacob for an epic pod into his journey to get to System Initiative. From SysAdmin at 8 years old, to discovering Linux and working for Mom-and-pop ISPs, to open source changing his life and starting Opscode and building Chef. Buckle up…

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Jason Bosco on building a profitable search engine serving 10 billion searches without VC funding 37:16

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Jason Bosco, CEO and co-founder of TypeSense, shares how he and his co-founder built a profitable search engine serving 10 billion searches monthly without taking VC funding. From Dollar Shave Club VP of Engineering to bootstrapped founder, Jason reveals the unconventional path to building sustainable developer tools. Key insights from this episode…

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Astro DB Gets Enum Support, Type-safe Data Flow in Next.js, and a Moose-y ORM | News | Ep 31 17:42

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News of the week of August 11, 2025: there ain't much! Astro 5.13 minor release brings enums to Astro DB and improved meta environment variables. From the community: learning web dev, Result-typing Next.js server actions, and Clickhouse built an ORM. Chapters (00:00) - Welcome to the Show (05:07) - News: Astro 5.13 Adds import.meta.env and Astro DB…

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Cursor’s problem isn't just Cursor's problem (News) 7:37

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Cursor has a big problem, Alireza Bashiri thinks plaintext beats todo apps, Manish built an offline AI workspace, OverType is a WYSIWYG markdown editor that’s just a textarea, and sshrc lets you bring your config with you to remote machines. View the newsletter Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and m…

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Battlefield 6 Beta Drops — But Roblox Faces Major Backlash Over Child Safety 1:15:55

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Send us a text Battlefield 6 Beta Is Live… and Already on Fire 🔥 (Not in a Good Way) So Battlefield 6 finally dropped its beta — and guess what? Cheaters showed up faster than the loading screen. Rush mode? Ruined. Bugs? Everywhere. Refresh rate? More like refresh rage. Even with a shiny new anti-cheat, it’s starting to feel like EA just duct-taped…

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Episode 474: I hate the idea of firing a low performer and cheaper context switching 38:04

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In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions: Hi Dave & Jamison, Long time listener, first time google-form filler outer! I work in a hybrid role as a lead developer and manager of a small team (less than 5). I’m new to management and most of ny experience so far has been with smart, motivated engineers. . . UNTIL! My new recruit is dri…

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Oxide is crossing the chasm (Friends) 1:39:58

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Bryan Cantrill returns in the wake of Oxide Computer Company’s $100M Series B. Bryan tells us how he’s avoiding an appearance on Silicon Valley (ding), why their uniform compensation is working, where Oxide fits in the AI datacenter, what scaling to 50+ rack orders looks like, and more. (GitHub has no CEO and saving Intel)++ Join the discussion Cha…

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Biocomputing on human neurons (Interview) 57:21

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Dr. Ewelina Kurtys is leading the way in biocomputing at FinalSpark where she is working on the next evolutionary leap for AI and neuron-powered computing. It’s a brave new world, just 10 years in the making. We discuss lab-grown human brain organoids connected to electrodes, the possibility to solve AI’s massive energy consumption challenge, post-…

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WebStorm Supports TS Go, V8 Stringifies JSON 2X Faster, and a TypeScript AI Conference | News | Ep 30 48:52

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News of the week of August 4, 2025: WebStorm 2025.2 adds support for TypeScript Go language server (preview), V8 made JSON.stringify supa-supa-fast, and there's a new TypeScript AI conference on the block. From the community: recommended tools and libraries for TS developers, how to prevent ReDOS attacks, and an interview discussing how the JavaScr…

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Uncut with Danilo Leal, Design Engineer at Zed, Prototyping in React and Built in Rust, Designing for an AI Assisted UX 1:00:42

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TDLR: 10 episodes in and we are going full uncut conversation with Danilo Leal. One of the magician Design Engineers working on the Zed code editor. “I'll be making a jingle” “We prototype everything in React before Rust” Danilo Leal represents a new breed of designer and engineer. The role of design is becoming more approachable with technology. A…

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An Interview with Isaac Fox from Astral Ticket Comics – Adult Comic Creator of Ecchi Series: The Manti-Corp 1:10:13

24d ago1:10:13

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This week we interviewed Isaac Fox, creator of popular comics like SuccuBUSTED and Cremisi about his new project, The Manti-Corps. We enjoyed a nice drink of rez which you can get a 10% discount when you type NERDS at the checkout from the Rez website at www.drinkrez.com Astral Tickets Comics Website - https://www.foxxycomics.com/ Youtube - Astral …

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Open source regrets (News) 9:29

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Open source maintainers share their regrets, Thomas Dohmke steps down as GitHub CEO, James Kettle breaks down HTTP/2 from a security perspective, PHP is getting the pipe operator this November, and a class action copyright suit threatens Anthropic and the rest of the AI industry. View the newsletter Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 1 mi…

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Episode 473: Mental health support and overcoming FOMO of taking a break from work 35:59

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In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions: Hi Jamison and Dave! I am not a developer, but my question is hopefully transferable. I sit in between lawyers and developers. I advise on technology that can be applied to legal processes and I support our teams in using a range of platforms and AI tools to be more efficient across their wo…

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Kaizen! Pipely is LIVE (Friends) 1:11:35

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Gerhard calls Kaizen 20, ‘The One Where We Meet’. Rightfully so. It’s also the one where we eat, hike, chat, and launch Pipely live on stage with friends. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 7 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Auth0 – The identity infrastructure for the age of AI. Built by d…

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State of TypeScript Linting 2025 | Joshua Goldberg | Ep 29B 41:53

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Joshua Goldberg (JoshuaKGoldberg.com), creator of typescript-eslint, joins us to discuss the state of linting TypeScript projects in 2025. Which linters should we pay attention to? Why are there so many? What's unique about TypeScript? Josh shares his perspective and covers what to look for in a linter and how best to utilize them in your projects.…

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LIVE from Denver with Nora Jones! (Interview) 1:15:26

30d ago1:15:26

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We’re LIVE at the historic Oriental Theater in Denver, CO with Nora Jones. Nora is the founder of Jeli.io, recently acquired by PagerDuty and she’s been shaping the way we think about reliability, incident response, and human-centered engineering for years. We get into the real story behind the deal. Not just the headline, but what it’s like sellin…

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Sub Agent or Super Agent, MCP UI Over Lunch, Bitter Lesson Learnings, Locking in on Prompts and Trying to Live in the Future 57:46

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TLDR Matt caught whitebait for dinner during his outdoor adventures. Wing foiling is a new sport gaining popularity. Sub agents are necessary for exploring context windows in AI. A2A and MCP servers are the future of AI integration. AI-assisted code review can streamline the development process. Prompting techniques are evolving and require careful…

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Node 22.18 LTS Green Lights TypeScript for Orgs | News | Ep 29 42:20

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News of the week of July 28, 2025: TS 5.9 released, Node 22.18 is the first LTS to support TypeScript, a Rust-based alternative to Next.js, plus why Laravel ain't your pappy's PHP. From the community: eslint-max-depth-ts plugin, Zod vs. Valibot battle, Better Auth is so good, a deal with the TypeScript devil, and did you know you can render motion …

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The smell of vibe coding (News) 7:33

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Alex Kondov knows when you’ve been vibe coding. (He can smell it.) our friends at Charm release a Go-based AI coding agent as a TUI, Jan Kammerath disassembled the “hacked’ Tea service’s Android app, Alex Ellman made a website that provides up-to-date pricing info for major LLM APIs, and Steph Ango suggests remote teams have “ramblings” channels. V…

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Battlefield 6, Censorship & Payment Chaos?! UK Safety Act’s Impact on Gaming Industry EXPOSED 1:21:31

1M ago1:21:31

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Send us a text 🚨 Is Battlefield 6 EA's Redemption or AAA’s Last Breath? UK Safety Act, Censorship & Indie Fallout EXPLAINED The UK’s Online Safety Act is shaking up the gaming world — from censorship debates to platform instability, Steam and Itch.io face pressure from payment providers like Visa & Mastercard. Are they really lying to gamers? 🤔 Mea…

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Episode 472: Should my junior dev use AI and thrown in to ETL 26:59

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In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions: I’m the CTO of a small startup. We’re 3 devs including me and one of them is a junior developer. My current policy is to discourage the use of AI tools for the junior dev to make sure they build actual skills and don’t just prompt their way through tasks. However I’m more and more questionin…

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SO much to dig into (Friends) 1:23:48

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Adam & Jerod (plus zero other randos) dig into Stack Overflow’s 2025 developer survey results. We discuss SO’s decline, the desire for younger devs to have real chats with real people, the rise of uv and more Python winning, why people are frustrated with AI, and more. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 4 minutes on this episode because t…

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Scott Dietzen (CEO, Augment Code) | Context engineering & enterprise-scale AI coding 25:34

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In this episode of Request Response, I sit down with Scott Dietzen, CEO of Augment Code and former CEO of Pure Storage. We dive into why context selection has become more critical than prompt engineering, and how his team solved the fundamental challenge of giving AI agents just the right amount of codebase context to be effective without being ove…

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Anna Veronika Dorogush on why having high-density talent on the team is crucial for Recraft 39:38

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Anna Veronika Dorogush, founder and CEO of Recraft, reveals how she built one of the world's leading AI image generation platforms by solving real professional design problems instead of chasing AI hype. Some key insights: "My whole back-end team is medalists and finalists of World Championship in programming." Strong people attract strong people, …

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Solving the AI energy crisis (Interview) 2:02:37

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Greg Osuri, Founder and CEO of Akash Network joins us to share the backstory in his testimony before congress on the energy crisis and what it’s going to take to power the future of AI. From powering datacenters, to solar, decentralized AI compute, to zombies in SF. Join the discussion Changelog++ members get a bonus 2 minutes at the end of this ep…

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Building Secure TypeScript Applications | Liran Tal | Ep 28B 57:02

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Liran Tal (lirantal.com) from Snyk joins us to dive deep into writing secure TypeScript applications. What's different compared to vanilla JavaScript security? Will schema validators fix all our woes? Can't we let LLMs find and fix security vulnerabilities? Liran educates us about the pitfalls and risks with misplacing trust in TypeScript and LLMs …

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An Interview with Savas Savidis 55:11

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This week we interviewed Savas Savidis about his game Tales of Grimace and what it takes to be a an indie game developer in high school. We enjoyed a nice drink of rez which you can get a 10% discount when you type NERDS at the checkout from the Rez website at www.drinkrez.com Tales of Grimace The Game Website - https://www.talesofgrimace.com/ Stea…

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Deno Fresh 2.0 Alpha, a BigInt Trick, and Learn TS in One Hour | News | Ep 28 32:57

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News of the week of July 21, 2025: Deno Fresh 2.0 is in alpha, TS 5.9 RC has some small changes, and beware the latest eslint-config-prettier supply chain attack. From the community: learn TypeScript for free in an hour, master generics through Soduku, run TS in the browser without a build step, and a library for modern TS dependency injection. Cha…

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It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA (News) 7:48

1M ago7:48

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Jono Alderson takes aim at SPAs thanks to modern CSS, copyparty turns almost any device into a file server, Ernie Smith honors the Game Genie’s 35th anniversary, Anthropic shares how their teams use Claude Code, and Drew Lyton tells why he believes the future is NOT self-hosted. View the newsletter Join the discussion Changelog++ members support ou…

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UK Online Safety Act Explained: Gaming Impacts, Steam, Visa, & More 1:15:26

1M ago1:15:26

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Send us a text 🚨 Gaming Industry MELTDOWN?! UK Censorship, Steam Blocked, Microsoft Drama & More! 🎮 In this packed episode, we dive headfirst into the latest chaos shaking the gaming world: - 🇬🇧 The UK Online Safety Act—is this the beginning of government censorship in gaming? - 💳 Steam and Itch.io under fire as Visa and Mastercard allegedly mislea…

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Episode 471: Why does my junior engineer do so little and I fell asleep in a Zoom meeting 28:34

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In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions: I’m a senior developer on a small team, and I’m feeling frustrated with a junior developer I work with. They’re smart and perfectly capable, but they stick very strictly to the confines of their assigned work. They’ll finish their tickets, but unless they’re directly asked, they don’t offer …

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E122 teaser 0:35

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Send us a text E122 Preview: Tech company speaks. Someone translates: "Company reboots everything, throws AI at it, markets the mess as visionary genius." All according to plan? Maybe. Reality distortion field: engaged. #AIrevolution #corporatespeak #techhumor #artificialintelligence If you want to watch life feel free to join on Sundays on twitch!…

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When Grace Wins Over Ego - The Story of Sahoo Suhagan 52:13

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He was all ego, no truth - claiming divine connection while drowning in pride. When Guru Nanak Dev Ji Himself came to bless him, Sahoo Suhagan didn't even bow. Yet he was saved. Why would Waheguru save someone who wouldn't even surrender? Sri Nanak Prakash is a detailed historical account of the life of Guru Nanak Dev Ji. It was written by Mahakavi…

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DevBcn Report, Part 2 – Spanish Knowledge Sharing (#77) 14:41

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This is the first Foojay podcast in Spanish. It's also the shortest one and the final of season 4 ;-) Jonathan Vila "highjacked" the microphone from Geertjan Wielenga (See episode 76, https://foojay.io/today/foojay-podcast-76-devbcn-report-part-1-learn-from-the-community/) during the DevBcn conference in Barcelona and interviewed a few of the parti…