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The Mad Botter

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August 16 · 23 min
656: Back to School 26
Mike rejoices in the truly most wonderful time of the year - back to school. Ha! Take that, Roblox! Oh he also answers a special selection of student questions.
August 1 · 43 min
655: Homebrew Mike McQuaid
Mike sits down with Mike of Homebrew and they brew install some fun! Double the Mike Double the fun!
July 18 · 51 min
654: Prof Andrew Seely
Mike sits down with Prof Andrew Seely to discuss tech education and a little bit of tech history.
July 8 · 30 min
653: Microsoft's Franck Pachot
Franck Pachot joins Mike to discuss Microsoft's newly announced Horizon DB, some Postgres goodness, Azure and the open-source of it all.
July 3 · 29 min
652: Ruby Native's Joe Masilotti
Joe Masilotti returns to discuss his recent release, Ruby Native and Mike and Joe go down some mobile-app dev memory lane.
June 15 · 26 min
651: Carolina Code's Barry Jones
Mike sits down with Barry Jones to discuss the upcoming Carolina Code Conference. But first, we've got some Fabled News and WWDC News
June 7 · 19 min
650: Meat Mike Is Back
The real Mike is back and he's finally covering the developer news - at least some of it - well it's mostly MSBuild but it's still fun!
June 1 · 2 min
649: MikeBot Takeover!
Mike's out for some medical stuff this week, so I has better digital half am taking over to do what he lacked the courage to -- Defend the Phantom Menance!
May 23 · 17 min
648: System76's Britain Heaphy
Michael talks with Britain Heaphy, mechanical engineer at System76, about designing the new Thelio Mira—from prototyping and thermal testing to airflow, acoustics, upgradeability, and the practical tools that shape a modern desktop chassis. Britain shares how the new Mira chassis came together, why improved thermals matter for both performance and noise, and how System76 designed the case to support future upgrades—including the clever option of adding a second power supply for high-end configur
May 6 · 18 min
647: pgFirstAid with Justin Frye
Justin Fyre talks us through his awesome open-source pgFirstAid.
April 22 · 24 min
646: Shawn Hymel
Mike sits down with IoT and Embeded Linux expert, educator and Youtube sensation Shawn Hymel to discuss the current state of IoT and embedded Linux.
April 8 · 27 min
645: Warp's Holmes & Llyod
A rare trio episode with two of luminaries behind Warp and good old gungan Mike where they discuss all things agentic including Warp's very own Oz.
April 1 · 27 min
644: Bryan Hyland on Open-Source
Mike sits down with renowned open-source and COSMIC DE contributer Bryan Hyland to discuss working on projects for Linux-forward companies and of course some Rust!
March 11 · 19 min
643: Scott Kelly, CEO Black Dog Ventures
Mike sat down with Scott Kelly of Black Dog Ventures to discuss the VC funding market, his unique funding events and what the outlook for technical founders is like in 2026. Also, some pro tips from Scott on getting VC attention.
March 5 · 17 min
642: March Mailbag
Mike reads out your emails and tries to unplug with you all!
February 15 · 39 min
641: Qdrant's Brian O'Grady
Mike sits down with Brian O'Grady of Qdrant to talk vector search and take a trip down NJ memory lane.
January 29 · 43 min
640: The Modern .Net Shows' Jamie Taylor
Jamie Taylor swings by to school Mike on SpecKit. SpecKit is a toolkit that acts as a structured "middleman" or context-provider between a developer and an LLM. Rather than simply asking an AI to "build a feature," SpecKit enforces a disciplined process that treats specifications as part of the source code.
January 21 · 17 min
639: RubyLLM with Carmine Paolino
Mike sits down to talk some RubyLLM with its author Carmine Paolino.
January 12 · 27 min
638: Cisco's ThousandEyes' Murtaza Doctor
Mike sits down with Murtaza Doctor of Cisco Thousand Eyes to discuss some pretty deep infrastructure stuff in the age of AI.
Dec 23, 2025 · 46 min
637: SEGA Christmas Special 25
Mike's Year End Post Mike on LinkedIn Mike's Blog Show on Discord Alice Promo Dreamcast assorted references: Dreamcast overview https://sega.fandom.com/wiki/Dreamcast History of Dreamcast development https://segaretro.org/History_of_the_Sega_Dreamcast/Development The Rise and Fall of the Dreamcast: A Legend Gone Too Soon (Simon Jenner) https://sabukaru.online/articles/he-rise-and-fall-of-the-dreamcast-a-legend-gone-too-soon The Legacy of the Sega Dreamcast | 20 Years Later https://medium.com/@Amerinofu/the-legacy-of-the-sega-dreamcast-20-years-later-d6f3d2f7351c Socials & Plugs The R Podcast https://r-podcast.org/ R Weekly Highlights https://serve.podhome.fm/r-weekly-highlights Shiny Developer Series https://shinydevseries.com/ Eric on Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/rpodcast.bsky.social Eric on Mastodon https://podcastindex.social/@rpodcast Eric on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-nantz-6621617/

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