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About the Least Powerful Abstraction
Imagine Andreas going around making annoying electronic sounds all the time.Strike that. Andreas and Lars discuss using less power - less fancy abstractions - to make ...
About Licenses
How do people learn about licenses?If you entered into software in a certain way, it's easy to assume that everyone is a part-time license attorney. But how do other p...
About Learning New Languages
Everyone's favorite idempotent podcast returns to discuss learning new languages and concepts. Can mixing and matching new concepts and syntax help or hinder language ...
About C
Wherein the wonders of C are explored.But first, let Andreas tell you what's so great about Chalmers' approach to teaching computer engineering. Spoiler: starting with...
About Defining Functional Programming
What is functional programming?Andreas grabs his whiteboard and his Turing machine, and starts from laziness, while Lars thinks of immutability, functions, and data.Is...
About Giving Talks
Lars wants a less demanding way to prepare for giving talks, but he doesn't have the time right now.Andreas knows a cheat code for public speaking. Lars uses slides li...
About Developer Experience
What are people talking about when they talk about developer experience? Pretty colors in the terminal?What is worth improving, what is not? Lars has thoughts about al...
About Endings and Beginnings
Andreas' place of work ceased to exist.It was mostly a relief.The main worry is about resting and recovering enough before whatever comes next begins. All the learning...
About Non-CRUD
CRUD - a classic term among supposedly simple web apps. But, not always the right move? Not always all that mappable to the actual problem?Discussed: picking spicy arc...
About Embedded
Embedded is a weird thing. Lars is all Nerves and tries to explain and report from a world where people know part numbers off the top of their heads. The physical devi...
About Interviewing
Andreas is a man of many hobbies. Interviewing for example. But sometimes, you get strange questions from strange people, end up feeling scared, or start lying just a ...
About Ranting at Ecto
Stories about Ecto quickly redeeming itself, and of what it takes to introduce foreign keys.Some of us are super comfortable referencing the ID. Lars dislikes that Ect...
About Long-Lived Code
Fredrik wants to think about long-lived code. Lars is offended, Andreas only a little bit so.Are there other good software development practices out there? Other than ...
About Fat Tuesday Buns
The Saint Valentine's peak passed without issue. Andreas had time for semlor.Lars has opinions on semlor, and can imagine many possible improvements. Like having an ap...
About things you built long ago that start doing weird things
Andreas tells the story of a old system which suddenly exhibited a new and frightening bug. Lars shares similar experiences of things going wrong in new and novel ways...
About Data Pipelines
Lars dove into data pipelines, and emerged bearing arrows and wishing for a lot fewer copies.What is there to think about regarding data pipelines, what is interesting...
About Fun With GenServers
GenServers are fun! Andreas gives all the context. Things were learned, knowledge was aquired. You can do so much with GenServers, but make sure you have a good reason...
About What Every Web App Needs But Your Developer Does Not Want You To Know About
Every web app starts out fine, the tabula rasa of an unwritten BODY. But sooner or later you need users. And a million other things which live in trees.Also: email.And...
About Code Nerds
The software development industry is very much built for code nerds. It shouldn’t be.Many of us know many people who are really into coding. Not every working develope...
About Databases
Data has moved to a real database. Next, there may be brave attempts to add actual structure. Working with a real database is nice, as is not losing data, and being ab...
About Mingling
It seems a mingle is a thing, and not just in Swedish! But what do we want to get out of them, how do we go into them, and how do we create good ones?Do you want reson...
About Performance
Performance: we wish the incentives were there to focus on it more often.Lars would like more opportunities and incentives to focus on making things fast, rather than ...
About Developing Speed
CTOs want the ability to get prototypes built and out into production fast. Others preach the gospel of building things properly. How fast can you be? How much can you...
About System Design
Did they do design, or did they just do a system?Distributed systems are hard in many ways. Andreas describes a system communicating between backends and mobile phones...
About Conferences
Lars went to ElixirConf EU. Going to a conference can be a credibly incredible experience. Elixir has more clarity than Erlang.Lars also gave a talk, a fact he was com...
About Text Editors
Text editors - which ones do we enjoy, which ones have we used, and what do we actually want and need in them?Andreas has read about vim, sed and awk. Lars is quite co...
About Remote Work
How do we feel about working remotely? Pretty good, on the whole.Chairs and other basics are of course important, as is making your way of remote work a nice way of do...
About Distributed Systems
Lars is thinking about distributed systems, and Andreas kind of fears them. The best thing to do for most cases might be to avoid distributing things at all. But if yo...
About Hackers
About Hackers Thinking about the term "hacker". Time to take it back to mean something rather down to earth, rather than a pedistal requiring years of C and a black ho...
About Being Wrong
About Being WrongWherein polite gentlemen at gaming conventions explain how people didn't have their variables separate enough with regard to the Dunning-Kruger effect...