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Kristoffer, Fredrik, Tobias

All the English episodes of Kodsnack - a podcast by developers, about anything interesting to developers

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August 18 · 1 hr 2 min
Kodsnack 716 - Dubious lifestyle decisions, with James Smith
Fredrik chats with James Smith about forking Rails for the greater good. The name of the project is Mosscap. (During recording, it still used the temporary name Amiko.) James explains why the forking project has been started, and why many people have been calling for change within the Rails world for a long time. James talks about what has been done so far, the importance of getting more people involved, quickly, technical solutions, and of getting the governance model right. Technology and development in itself isn’t really the important focus. Mosscap is place to keep maintaining existing Rails apps, but not necessarily the way to start completely new ones. There may not even be a second major version of Mosscap. There are other projects for that situation. We also discuss James' project Manyfold and how it works to apply for and build software funded by NLNet (EU, essentially) grants. Thank you Cloudnet for sponsoring our VPS! Comments, questions or tips? We a re @kodsnack, @tobiashieta, @oferlund and @bjoreman on Twitter, have a page on Facebook and can be emailed at info@kodsnack.se if you want to write longer. We read everything we receive. If you enjoy Kodsnack we would love a review in iTunes! You can also support the podcast by buying us a coffee (or two!) through Ko-fi. Links James Manyfold - James own project NGI zero Ruby on rails Mosscap - the permanent name Rails needs new governance - blog post with plenty of background on why change is needed Rails is done - blog post about Mosscap, background, and supporting something stable Open letter to the Rails core team last year DHH - David Heinemeier Hansson - you can find his blog posts if you really want to Rubygems - the package manager and system ARPANET Join the Matrix space Gem aliasing Monkey patching Follow Mosscap project on Mastodon Repos for the fork - known as Amiko at the time of recording, now Mosscap Support us on Ko-fi! Amiko - friend in Esperanto Electromagnetic field festival CVE Fediverse Hanakai - another base on which to build Ruby apps Hanami - app framework which is part of Hanakai LTS - long-term support Mosscap’s governance documents Fedipub nlnet.nl Titles Tech for good All of our collective intelligence together Some dubious lifestyle decisions Trying really hard to not know why Not taking anything away from anyone Me with a fork Reasons why things won’t work I thought it was Japanese Stomping around, being angry in a field You’re somebody Somebody should do something A proper security process Many weird technical decisions because of philosophical stances No funding for maintenance We’ll be looking after the core Detailed for the likes of me Here’s a donation Donation unlocked Grantdown A slightly less tech bro-y future
May 19 · 1 hr 28 min
Kodsnack 703 - The subset needs to fit you, with Harald Achitz
Fredrik chats to Harald Achitz about freelancing, C++ 26, and ten years of running the Swedencpp meetup. Harald discusses the various oddities of the Swedish consultant and software market, both before but especially in the current environment. Consultants don’t cost what you expect them to when compared to employees, and a strange previous focus on headcount has not helped either. We then talk about the standardization process for C++ and about new things in C++ 26. Harald discusses the issues of adding new things which are good in themselves, but perhaps don’t fit into a bigger picture, take a lot of focus and energy which in turn means many other things do not get considered which may be smaller and more widely and immediately useful. Also: once something is in the standard library, it’s eternal. And there is still no real ecosystem around C++. Infrastructure is a hard thing. And Rust is out there. Finally, we talk about Harald’s experience of running the Swedencpp meetup for ten years. What does it mean to run something for so long? Technology, talks, locations, providing a space for presentations, and trying to keep things evolving are all discussed. Thank you Cloudnet for sponsoring our VPS! Comments, questions or tips? We a re @kodsnack, @tobiashieta, @oferlund and @bjoreman on Twitter, have a page on Facebook and can be emailed at info@kodsnack.se if you want to write longer. We read everything we receive. If you enjoy Kodsnack we would love a review in iTunes! You can also support the podcast by buying us a coffee (or two!) through Ko-fi. Links Harald Previous episodes with Harald Support us on Ko-fi! C++ 26 ISO SC22 WG21 - the standardization group for C++ The Swedish local mirror for SG22, affectionately known as SIS/TK 611/AG 09 SIS - Swedish institute of standards Swedencpp Remember the Vasa! - Bjarne’s paper Modules - from C++ 20 “The irony is that since this issue was opened, I have not only learned rust, I also switched to it fully." Coroutines Compile-time reflection Templates Orthodox C++ - talk by Harald C++ quiz compilation Contracts in C++ Eiffel Undefined behavior in C++ Swift package manager Ripgrep Sender and receiver Profiles in C++ Cppcheck - by Daniel Marjamäki Concepts Swedencpp on Youtube Swedencpp pro Titles To take communication with Skatteverket What is a consultant? Horrendous prices for Powerpoint presentations Somebody needs an excuse Every hour counts Flavors of consultant I cost so much money Why we have time to talk Too much gatekeeping Still just collecting profiles Special in the terms of ISO Why does Sweden not have a voice I represent this type It’s still ISO A lot of big features again They are also awesome A lot of things to do, and to know All these things deserve their own book You can do a lot of magic (I became) Too old for liking magic There was magic everywhere That’s really useful Infinite ways of doing something Define your subset The subset needs to fit you Awesome, to some extent Paperwork is expensive Everything is already being re-written A step in the right direction Where efficiency is a priority Based on personal experience If you go there, you can’t work Let’s make something accessible At least it’s not nothing anymore Conference over space and time What’s the next level? Still an option
May 5 · 38 min
Kodsnack 701 - The chicken would explode, with Holly Cummins
Fredrik chats to Holly Cummins about using Minecraft for observability, other amazing Quarkus tricks, and the value of joy at work. Recorded during Øredev 2025. Thank you Cloudnet for sponsoring our VPS! Comments, questions or tips? We a re @kodsnack, @tobiashieta, @oferlund and @bjoreman on Twitter, have a page on Facebook and can be emailed at info@kodsnack.se if you want to write longer. We read everything we receive. If you enjoy Kodsnack we would love a review in iTunes! You can also support the podcast by buying us a coffee (or two!) through Ko-fi. Links Holly Holly’s presentation - Five (and a half) things you can do with Quarkus Quarkus Graalvm Picocli AWT WASM Chicory - WASM runtime for the JVM Microcks - contract testing framework in Java APICurio Dev services SQLite in WASM Hibernate Reasteasy Vert.x - “reactive applications on the JVM” Holly’s Minecraft extension for Quarkus Support us on Ko-fi! Langchain4j Grafana William Gibson Backpressure Simon Wardley and his keynote on mapping Minecraft demo to explain Kubernetes concepts, by Sebastien Blanc Holly’s talk about developer joy The fun topic on hollycummins.com Titles All in one room When you say Quarkus Really amazing throughput The way that conferences work Other people have done all the work It unlocks a whole lot of possibilities Slightly more tortured Javascripv via WASM on the JVM The absence of configuration Unless you work for a bank That zero friction All of that dynamism The reading of the configuration Deep introspection of the application Six demos in 40 minutes The useful extensions had been written The chicken would explode Novel way of understanding the application Manually implement the backpressure Zoo of types The containers were chickens Joy and productivity The happy piglets You are a profitalbe piglet The mandatory fun officer I now have the language On team cloud
April 21 · 42 min
Kodsnack 699 - A two-IDE person, with Shawn Wildermuth
Fredrik chats to Shawn Wildermuth about evolving in the world of software development, small changes adding up, developer hiring, not chasing the new thing, and quite a bit more. Fredrik is still hoping for the last episode of Shawn’s old podcast. Making sure you use your time in a way that’s right for you. Whether it’s spending lots of time learning new stuff or getting deep into the tech you really enjoy. Recorded during Øredev 2025. Thank you Cloudnet for sponsoring our VPS! Comments, questions or tips? We a re @kodsnack, @tobiashieta, @oferlund and @bjoreman on Twitter, have a page on Facebook and can be emailed at info@kodsnack.se if you want to write longer. We read everything we receive. If you enjoy Kodsnack we would love a review in iTunes! You can also support the podcast by buying us a coffee (or two!) through Ko-fi. Links Shawn Shawn on Github Shawn’s old podcast Hello world Richard Campbell and Carl Franklin, of the .NET rocks podcast Science Friday, from PBS What’s new in C# 14 and .NET 10 - Shawn’s presentation at Øredev 2025 .NET core Blazor ASP.NET Null forgiveness .NET conf Nullable reference types Objective-c Tell the C# compiler to act like older versions Generics Nullable value types Pluralsight Windows phone Foxpro Impostor syndrome Shawn’s film Hello world - confronting bias in software development Support us on Ko-fi! Oslo Winfs Practical file system design with the Be file system - The Beos file system book by Dominic Giampaolo Beos GEOS Silverlight Open sourced Webassembly-based Silverlight version Kotlin CLR Fortran COBOL MUMPS Vue Cosmos DB Azure foundry Eleventy Titles I feel like I never did a podcast Edit the last one What’s your focus? There’s not enough to talk about here Null forgiveness Talk about nullability The next fifteen years Where I’m best used Paid to learn the new stuff I’m just happy to be around Those quiet voices Win the design meeting Wrong about Webassembly Actual system languages Five years from being useful A two-IDE person
March 17 · 31 min
Kodsnack 694 - Dark patterns … to rule them all, with Sergès Goma
Fredrik chats to Sergès Goma about dark patterns and her Øredev presentation on them. We start off by talking about giving presentations and the background to the dark patterns talk. All the great versions of a talk - you never know what’s going to happen. Dark patterns and ethics in software development are topics people like to share their experiences of. And it’s easy to get caught in the pull between protecting your user and finishing your tickets. We as developers do have a lot of power, but we also have a job to do. Making (good) ethical decisions business decisions instead can suddenly get them budget and priority. Laws are good at creating such pressures sometimes. Toward the end, we discuss falling behind in tech, and Sergès gets Fredrik to make some predictions about the AI bubble before wrapping up on a positive note. Recorded during Øredev 2025. Thank you Cloudnet for sponsoring our VPS! Comments, questions or tips? We a re @kodsnack, @tobiashieta, @oferlund and @bjoreman on Twitter, have a page on Facebook and can be emailed at info@kodsnack.se if you want to write longer. We read everything we receive. If you enjoy Kodsnack we would love a review in iTunes! You can also support the podcast by buying us a coffee (or two!) through Ko-fi. Links Sergès Sergès' presentation Dark patterns - also known as deceptive design patterns Evil tech - Sergès' previous talk Support us on Ko-fi! The EU accessibility act GDPR /r/assholedesign on Reddit Confirm shaming The big short The good place The uncanny valley Titles It was everything Very future-forward They nailed the theme Dark patterns … to rule them all You judge a talk by its name The name is more important Why not do a spinoff? It was made for questions It’s never the same talk for me I just did whatever I wanted to do They’re crazier than me Be in character Evil laugh competition (I got to show) My true talent If you are for everyone, you are for no-one Focus more on the topic Spotify’s dark pattern Do I protect my user? The baby koalas are going to die The train is already gone The train travels in a circle The train from hell The story of our job Better jobs for humans This is the bad place You actually want humans The pain in my existence Write my own emails
Dec 16, 2025 · length unknown
Kodsnack 681 - German ortography, with Dylan Beattie
Fredrik chats to Dylan Beattie about Rockstar, esoteric programming languages (Perl in latin, anyone?), and what might happen after the AI bubble. AI will ruin jokes, they can’t do things just right. But some things hiding under the label are actually useful as well. Have we been in any similarly strange bubbles before, and what might be left that’s useful after it? Also evolution, revolution, and strange Scrabble facts. Recorded during Øredev 2025. The episode is sponsored by Ellipsis - let us edit your podcast and make it sound just as good as Kodsnack! With more than ten years and 1200 episodes of experience, Ellipsis gets your podcast edited, chapterized, and described with all related links in a prompt and professional manner. Thank you Cloudnet for sponsoring our VPS! Comments, questions or tips? We a re @kodsnack, @tobiashieta, @oferlund and @bjoreman on Twitter, have a page on Facebook and can be emailed at info@kodsnack.se if you want to write longer. We read everything we receive. If you enjoy Kodsnack we would love a review in iTunes! You can also support the podcast by buying us a coffee (or two!) through Ko-fi. Links Dylan Dylan also has a podcast - Tech, bugs & rock’n’roll Dylan’s presentation at Øredev 2025: Rockstar 2.0: building an esoteric language interpreter in .NET Rockstar Formal grammar Esoteric programming languages Damian Conway Perl Perl in Latin - the paper and the module Latin Inflectional grammar Domain-specific languages Lilypond - Scheme dialect for sheet music Context-free grammar Engraving - the art of creating sheet music codewithrockstar.com Support us on Ko-fi! Scrabble Metal umlaut Piet - the language which should have been called Mondrian Piet Mondrian Mondrian - the undeserving tool Turing completeness The Buster Keaton house scene The dot-com bubble The subprime mortgage crisis Enron Douglas Adams Three mile island Windows Vista Tim Berners-Lee Solid - Tim’s project of holding your data locally Ellipsis - sponsor of the week: we edit Kodsnack, and we can edit your podcast too! The emperor’s new mind Quantum computing Hadamard gate The linebreakers - Dylan’s band of conference speakers ASML Titles Always good fun that one The version of the story that I tell in the talk Enough clichés Resident mad scientist of the Perl community Felis commidet piscem Always the cat that is eating Lexical flexibility Fundamentally, programming is programming A big win for everyone Linguistic conventions and extended alphabets That’s a different letter Regional assumptions German ortography A piece of impressionist art Hang it on the wall Something hidden in something else Physical comedy at its greatest Money people believe exists The amount of pretend money It has to come from reality Fortunately, I do not have a trillion dollars Quietly siphoned off Emotionally flat What can I steal from? A little LLM that works for you A spectacular collapse A billion lines of crap Pruning the decision tree Fix the next milestone in the public consciousness Five years of excitement, five years of disappointment Overdue for a little disappointment Reliant on Dutch technology
Dec 4, 2025 · 19 min
Kodsnack 674 - Make the visions louder, with Tiera Fletcher
Recorded on-stage at Øredev 2025, Fredrik talks to Tiera Fletcher about her lightning tour of going to Mars and what might happen on the way. And also about - for example - finding visions to guide your daily work. In 60 years, life on Mars could start to be comfortable. Many thanks to Øredev for inviting Kodsnack again, they paid for the trip and the editing time of these keynote recordings, but have no say about the content of these or any other episodes. Thank you Cloudnet for sponsoring our VPS! Comments, questions or tips? We a re @kodsnack, @tobiashieta, @oferlund and @bjoreman on Twitter, have a page on Facebook and can be emailed at info@kodsnack.se if you want to write longer. We read everything we receive. If you enjoy Kodsnack we would love a review in iTunes! You can also support the podcast by buying us a coffee (or two!) through Ko-fi. Links Øredev All the presentation videos from Øredev 2025 Tiera Fletcher Innovating the journey to Mars - Tiera’s keynote MOXIE Memory foam GPS Gateway - the modular space station which is meant to orbit the moon Myron Fletcher Rocket with the Fletchers Titles MOXIE+ liquefy For another planet A way to do it better MOXIE is a big one Small dogs and breathing I have a small dog at home My magic number Right at the point of comfort Checking on MOXIE Your daily MOXIE Make the visions louder
Dec 4, 2025 · 14 min
Kodsnack 675 - Curate the world, with Nicklas Hermansson
Recorded on-stage at Øredev 2025, Fredrik talks to Sweden’s foremost trend spotter Nicklas Hermansson about how you become a futurist. From how Nicklas got there, what his days look like, and how he choses what to read and what to filter out. Many thanks to Øredev for inviting Kodsnack again, they paid for the trip and the editing time of these keynote recordings, but have no say about the content of these or any other episodes. Thank you Cloudnet for sponsoring our VPS! Comments, questions or tips? We a re @kodsnack, @tobiashieta, @oferlund and @bjoreman on Twitter, have a page on Facebook and can be emailed at info@kodsnack.se if you want to write longer. We read everything we receive. If you enjoy Kodsnack we would love a review in iTunes! You can also support the podcast by buying us a coffee (or two!) through Ko-fi. Links Øredev All the presentation videos from Øredev 2025 Nicklas Hermansson Welcome to 2049: are you ready? - Nicklas' keynote Arlanda Albania’s AI minister Diella Text-TV - or Teletext Kanal 5 Emotional intelligence Nicklas' newsletter Titles The audience is craving for your face I thought I was becoming a rock star My way into exploration Clickmonster Stuff people want for real We destroyed our own business model Fill it I discovered journalism Curate the world Åhfanism Automation proof
Dec 4, 2025 · 26 min
Kodsnack 676 - Maps will get you fired, with Simon Wardley
Recorded on-stage at Øredev 2025, Fredrik talks to Simon Wardley about maps (not the same as charts!), stories, commodotization, digital sovereignty, getting labeled a heretic by all sides, and a lot more. Among other things, Simon discusses how you can map things out and thereby find new ways to present and challenge the current state within and organization. Not that it will necessarily be very popular, hence the bit about being called a heretic. Many thanks to Øredev for inviting Kodsnack again, they paid for the trip and the editing time of these keynote recordings, but have no say about the content of these or any other episodes. Thank you Cloudnet for sponsoring our VPS! Comments, questions or tips? We a re @kodsnack, @tobiashieta, @oferlund and @bjoreman on Twitter, have a page on Facebook and can be emailed at info@kodsnack.se if you want to write longer. We read everything we receive. If you enjoy Kodsnack we would love a review in iTunes! You can also support the podcast by buying us a coffee (or two!) through Ko-fi. Links Øredev All the presentation videos from Øredev 2025 Simon Wardley From here to there and back again - Simon’s keynote Rewilding software engineering - AI, tools and human decisions - Simon’s other talk at Øredev Wardley mapping Simon’s writings on Medium Innovate-leverage-commoditize model Reaching cloud velocity - AWS book EC2 Mapreduce Extreme programming Six sigma Lean Titles We only had 50 minutes A map, not a graph The map is wrong Maps will get you fired As long as everyone else is just as bad Look at the entire map The size of Malmö Sick-care systems Shocks to the system Wardleyconf
Dec 4, 2025 · 11 min
Kodsnack 677 - It's all quantum, with Natalia Chepiga
Recorded on-stage at Øredev 2025, Fredrik talks to Natalia Chepiga about quantum computing and where you, personally, might see it first. We need classical computers to make quantum computers better. Natalia also tells us of the very natural way she got into quantum research, and encourages us to help make the future we want! Many thanks to Øredev for inviting Kodsnack again, they paid for the trip and the editing time of these keynote recordings, but have no say about the content of these or any other episodes. Thank you Cloudnet for sponsoring our VPS! Comments, questions or tips? We a re @kodsnack, @tobiashieta, @oferlund and @bjoreman on Twitter, have a page on Facebook and can be emailed at info@kodsnack.se if you want to write longer. We read everything we receive. If you enjoy Kodsnack we would love a review in iTunes! You can also support the podcast by buying us a coffee (or two!) through Ko-fi. Links Øredev All the presentation videos from Øredev 2025 Natalia Chepiga Networking for quantum: how simulations help us to design the future - Natalia’s keynote Quantum phase transitions Quantum problems Google quantum work Titles So natural It’s all quantum Nature is quantum I’m not selling anything Using a microscope to nail down the nails Building blocks
Dec 4, 2025 · 25 min
Kodsnack 678 - The intent of a human, with Justyna Zander
Recorded on-stage at Øredev 2025, Fredrik talks to Justyna Zander about AI for self-driving cars, the noise of the present, and more. Don’t let the noise of today demolish the positive signal of the future! Many thanks to Øredev for inviting Kodsnack again, they paid for the trip and the editing time of these keynote recordings, but have no say about the content of these or any other episodes. Thank you Cloudnet for sponsoring our VPS! Comments, questions or tips? We a re @kodsnack, @tobiashieta, @oferlund and @bjoreman on Twitter, have a page on Facebook and can be emailed at info@kodsnack.se if you want to write longer. We read everything we receive. If you enjoy Kodsnack we would love a review in iTunes! You can also support the podcast by buying us a coffee (or two!) through Ko-fi. Links Øredev All the presentation videos from Øredev 2025 Justyna Zander Physical AI: crafting resilient systems with emotional intelligence- Justyna’s keynote Emotional intelligence Empathy Hyperscalars Snowflake Demis Hassabis Titles You learn something new We have it in the spatial sense The policy of the machine What did the human tell me to do? How do you teach the machine empathy? The first to be disrupted The intent of a human Engineering with purpose Statistics on steroids
Dec 4, 2025 · 14 min
Kodsnack 679 - Educational electronics, with David J. Cuartielles Ruiz
Recorded on-stage at Øredev 2025, Fredrik talks to David J. Cuartielles Ruiz about the birth and growth of Arduino. It’s fantastic when an idea comes alive and starts growing. We talk about how Arduino began, how it started to grow, how you find parts and get things manufactured in northern Italy, and of course a bit about the magical logistics king. Many thanks to Øredev for inviting Kodsnack again, they paid for the trip and the editing time of these keynote recordings, but have no say about the content of these or any other episodes. Thank you Cloudnet for sponsoring our VPS! Comments, questions or tips? We a re @kodsnack, @tobiashieta, @oferlund and @bjoreman on Twitter, have a page on Facebook and can be emailed at info@kodsnack.se if you want to write longer. We read everything we receive. If you enjoy Kodsnack we would love a review in iTunes! You can also support the podcast by buying us a coffee (or two!) through Ko-fi. Links Øredev All the presentation videos from Øredev 2025 David J. Cuartielles Ruiz Open bio-compatible electronics - David’s keynote Arduino The school of arts and communication at Malmö university Interaction design institute Ivrea Ivrea Autodesk Piedmont Olivetti Flextronics Titles Algorithms for communication Educational electronics Making boards, not being paid Old factories Buy them by weight The bootstrapping dilemma Our logistics king
Sep 16, 2025 · 27 min
Kodsnack 662 - A super-super-app, with Teresa Wu
Fredrik talks to Teresa Wu about devops for frontend and AI. Why does frontend feel so complex? Does it have to be? We also discuss the value of open language models, smaller and more specific language models and their benefits. Is “AI” even a useful label anymore? Teresa thinks we’ll split into more specific terms over time. Recorded during Øredev 2024. The episode is sponsored by Ellipsis - let us edit your podcast and make it sound just as good as Kodsnack! With more than ten years and 1200 episodes of experience, Ellipsis gets your podcast edited, chapterized, and described with all related links in a prompt and professional manner. Thank you Cloudnet for sponsoring our VPS! Comments, questions or tips? We a re @kodsnack, @tobiashieta, @oferlund and @bjoreman on Twitter, have a page on Facebook and can be emailed at info@kodsnack.se if you want to write longer. We read everything we receive. If you enjoy Kodsnack we would love a review in iTunes! You can also support the podcast by buying us a coffee (or two!) through Ko-fi. Links Teresa Teresas' Øredev 2024 talks: Devops for frontend and Building amazing front-end project with Gemma: A state-of-the-art open model Ellipsis - sponsor of the week: we edit Kodsnack, and we can edit your podcast too! Super-apps Wechat Support us on Ko-fi Gemma Titles This was actually made to happen The same fun and the same pain The lucky ones My own experience I don’t have a word for it A super-super-app Explosion of complexity A whole sea of new questions They only do one thing
Sep 2, 2025 · 46 min
Kodsnack 658 - Failure of ergonomics, with Taylor Troesh
Fredrik talks to Taylor Troesh about packaging things, generating code, and database evolution. Why is it so hard to package and build things? Is it a failure of ergonomics? Is there hope for a change? We also discuss generating code using LLMs, and Taylor presents the workflow of using them to generate projects from scratch, starting over if more fundamental changes are needed. After that, we dig into databases and SQL, and Taylor has many thoughts and opinions about how they can be used and might evolve. Finally, we discuss other interesting projects, keeping track of ideas, what the OPTC is, and why should you cut down a palm tree? Recorded during Øredev 2024. The episode is sponsored by Ellipsis - let us edit your podcast and make it sound just as good as Kodsnack! With more than ten years and 1200 episodes of experience, Ellipsis gets your podcast edited, chapterized, and described with all related links in a prompt and professional manner. Thank you Cloudnet for sponsoring our VPS! Comments, questions or tips? We a re @kodsnack, @tobiashieta, @oferlund and @bjoreman on Twitter, have a page on Facebook and can be emailed at info@kodsnack.se if you want to write longer. We read everything we receive. If you enjoy Kodsnack we would love a review in iTunes! You can also support the podcast by buying us a coffee (or two!) through Ko-fi. Links Taylor Taylor’s keyboard-rich desk setup Taylor’s Øredev 2024 talk: How to flatpack programs The IKEA hacking community (or one of them) James Mickens Redux The flux architecture Jquery Toki pona APL Zig SNOBOL Actor model Jq Lisp Scrapscript - Taylor’s own language HTMX CRUD Elm Support us on Ko-fi Cursor Neovim Avante - a Cursor alternative for Neovim Sam Altman Sam Colt Sam Morse Postgresql Connecting directly to the database - Svante Richter’s talk Supabase SQL Some of Taylor’s writings about SQL PRQL - Pipelined relational query language FQL Regex Foundationdb Ellipsis - sponsor of the week: we edit Kodsnack, and we can edit your podcast too! Offensive horticulture A history of microwave ovens Scrapsheets Game of life Trailer buses Follow-up links, thanks to unvisual: Bruck - “a type of bus or coach built to combine goods and passenger transport” Skvader - a Swedish bruck The timeless way of software - Taylor talks about Christopher Alexander, just like we did in episode 657! Titles Nothing besides IKEA I did not besmirch the reputation How strange we package things I don’t think I have any advice Failure of ergonomics I do have hope Drinking from the well Brainless CRUD-stuff (I have) No qualms with Elm During the binges Fifteen math professors Tilting against palmtrees OPTC
Aug 19, 2025 · 36 min
Kodsnack 656 - People want native controls, with Maddy Montaquila
Fredrik talks to Maddy Montaquila about building user interfaces, and how .net has come a much longer way than people may think. We talk about the various .net-related options for building user interfaces, mixing and matching MAUI stuff, Blazor stuff, and straight up web stuff. We discuss the way to go for Windows desktop apps among all these options. The perception of .net - a challenge and something being actively worked on. We also touch on actually useful AI, plus some unexpectedly fond memories of the touch bar. Recorded during Øredev 2024. The episode is sponsored by Ellipsis - let us edit your podcast and make it sound just as good as Kodsnack! With more than ten years and 1200 episodes of experience, Ellipsis gets your podcast edited, chapterized, and described with all related links in a prompt and professional manner. Thank you Cloudnet for sponsoring our VPS! Comments, questions or tips? We a re @kodsnack, @tobiashieta, @oferlund and @bjoreman on Twitter, have a page on Facebook and can be emailed at info@kodsnack.se if you want to write longer. We read everything we receive. If you enjoy Kodsnack we would love a review in iTunes! You can also support the podcast by buying us a coffee (or two!) through Ko-fi. Links Maddy Maddy’s Øredev 2024 talks: Hybrid web and desktop apps with .net MAUI and Blazor and .net all the things - cloud, mobile, web, and more! .net Aspire Blazor hybrid MAUI .net conf 2024 .net 9 Syncfusion Syncfusion controls for MAUI apps Blazor render modes Hybrid web view Electron Techbash Xamarin Flutter React Blackboard Timeedit Redis Opentelemetry Rabbitmq Ollama Support us on Ko-fi Ellipsis - sponsor of the week: we edit Kodsnack, and we can edit your podcast too! Winforms WPF Winui Touch bar .net ahead of time compilation Performance improvements in .net 9 - the 300 pages blog post Microsoft extensions AI Amazon go stores Spring boot The minimal API structure Titles Two of my fun things Trust me, I can ramble I can ramble for eternity The shimmer control A bunch of wasted space in my brain If you have a Javascript frontend A lot with the hybrid stuff Nice step up from Electron MAUI doesn’t need me People want native controls Web is reach If this guy’s on vacation The only .net you ever have to see Java with more The polyglot world A deeply native Windows experience It was a nice volume slider The .net perception Three less indents Purists of architecture Blended experiences
Aug 5, 2025 · 53 min
Kodsnack 654 - German-style strings, with Matt Topol
Fredrik talks to Matt Topol about Arrow and how the Arrow ecosystem is evolving. Arrow is an open source, columnar in-memory data format designed for efficient data processing and analytics - which means passing data between things without needing to transform it, and ideally even without needing to copy it. What makes the ecosystem grow, and why is it very cool to have Arrow on the GPU? What is the connection between Arrow, machine learning, and Hugging face? Matt emphasizes the value of open standards, even as they work with or within more closed systems they can help open things up, and help bring about more modular solutions so that developers can focus on doing their core area really well. This episode can be seen as a follow-up to episode 567, where Matt first joined to discuss everything Arrow. Recorded during Øredev 2024. Thank you Cloudnet for sponsoring our VPS! Comments, questions or tips? We a re @kodsnack, @tobiashieta, @oferlund and @bjoreman on Twitter, have a page on Facebook and can be emailed at info@kodsnack.se if you want to write longer. We read everything we receive. If you enjoy Kodsnack we would love a review in iTunes! You can also support the podcast by buying us a coffee (or two!) through Ko-fi. Links Matt Matt’s Øredev 2023 talks: State of the Apache Arrow ecosystem: How your project can leverage Arrow! and Leveraging Apache Arrow for ML workflows Previous episodes with Matt Øredev 2024 Matt’s Øredev 2024 talks - on Arrow ADBC and Composable and modular data systems ADBC - Arrow database connectivity Arrow Snowflake Snowflake drivers for ADBC Bigquery The Bigquery driver Microsoft Fabric Duckdb Postgres SQLite Arrow flight - RPC framework for services based on Arrow data Arrow flight SQL Microsoft Power BI Velox Apache datafusion Query planning Substrait - query IR Polaris Libcudf Nvidia RAPIDS Pytorch Tensorflow Arrow device interface DLPack - in-memory tensor structure Tensors Nanoarrow Voltron data - where Matt used to work. He’s now at Columnar Theseus GPU compute engine The composable data management system manifesto Support us on Ko-fi! Matt’s book - In-memory analytics with Apache Arrow Spark Spark connect RPC UDFs Photon Datafusion Apache Cassandra ODBC JDBC R - programming language for statistical computing Hugging face Ray Stringview - “German-style strings” Scaling up with R and Arrow - the book on using Arrow with R Titles It’s gotten a lot bigger The bones of it are in the repo (Powered by ADBC) Individual compute components Feed it substrate Where the ecosystem is going Arrow on the GPU The data stays on the GPU A forced copy Leverage that device interface Without forcing the copy Shy of that last mile Turtles all the way down The guy who said yes German-style strings
Jul 22, 2025 · 36 min
Kodsnack 652 - The best of nature, with Grace Jansen
Fredrik talks to Grace Jansen about cloud tools, and bringing them to your local machine in a better way. Opentelemetry is a great tool, but it’s not the whole story for observability. Gathering the data is just the first step. In the second half, we leave telemetry and talk about realizing you have things to share and sharing them with other people. Find out what makes you tick, and share experiences around that. Grace also shares some concrete presentation-building tips at the end. Ask the question, and be more you! Recorded during Øredev 2024. Thank you Cloudnet for sponsoring our VPS! Comments, questions or tips? We a re @kodsnack, @tobiashieta, @oferlund and @bjoreman on Twitter, have a page on Facebook and can be emailed at info@kodsnack.se if you want to write longer. We read everything we receive. If you enjoy Kodsnack we would love a review in iTunes! You can also support the podcast by buying us a coffee (or two!) through Ko-fi. Links Grace Øredev 2024 Grace’s Øredev 2024 presentations: Cloud-native dev tools: bringing the cloud back to earth, and Becoming a cloud-native doctor Opentelemetry Distributed tracing Microprofile - open source specification for distributed tracing Jakarta - the artist previously known as Java EE Reactive messaging Openapi Telemetry Openliberty Quarkus Payara Jboss Prometheus Grafana Kibana Fluid Jaeger - tracing platform Torill Kornfeldt talked about resurrecting mammoths at Øredev 2015 Sven Jungmann - can we teach machines to smell? Support us on Ko-fi! Ants and AI models Holly Cummins Less waste, more joy, and a lot more green: How Quarkus makes Java better - Holly’s Øredev 2024 presentation Titles After-lunch lull So polyglot Ready for microservices (You need) Many minds Now I have a pile (Take) The best of nature The path was being them Something I bring to the table Ask the question A unique presentation
Jun 24, 2025 · 47 min
Kodsnack 648 - Difficult skills, with Gitte Klitgaard
Fredrik talks to Gitte Klitgaard about managers, diversity, and communication. We discuss how and why management has almost become a bad word. But we need management, and good management. What do you need out of managers when you have autonomous teams? Conflict handling - we need small conflicts, and learn to handle them so they don’t become big conflicts. Psychological safety and how to build it within and between your teams. Building diverse teams, which kinds of managers we need, making good things visible, communicating and building psychological safety, diversity in thinking … … and of course: a quick note on the evolution of LEGO instructions. Recorded during Øredev 2024. Thank you Cloudnet for sponsoring our VPS! Comments, questions or tips? We a re @kodsnack, @tobiashieta, @oferlund and @bjoreman on Twitter, have a page on Facebook and can be emailed at info@kodsnack.se if you want to write longer. We read everything we receive. If you enjoy Kodsnack we would love a review in iTunes! You can also support the podcast by buying us a coffee (or two!) through Ko-fi. Links Gitte Øredev 2024 Autonomous teams need great managers - Gitte’s presentation with Jakob Wolman Jakob’s blog post - What use is a manager? Gallup´s report State of the global workplace - people are feeling more disengaged Agila Sverige - We need more managers Devlin 2024 - conference in Linköping Copenhagen dev festival Reteaming Support us on Ko-fi! The power of the pen Microsoft Access Microsoft Publisher Kent Beck Titles Autonomous teams need great managers A lot of things we agreed on The catalyst The multiplier Taking care of humans A manager who cares about me Invisible people A lot of the leader part Difficult skills Not everyone communicates well We need the small conflicts A thousand conflicts a day The Xerox effect The power of the pen Hints here and there
Feb 25, 2025 · 58 min
Kodsnack 631 - Comfortable in uncertainty, with Barry O'Reilly
Fredrik talks to Barry O’Reilly about software architecture. Barry has spent a lot of time and energy connecting software architecture to actual code and development work, and finding good ways of actually training new generations of software architects. Architecture is a level above programming, it is a different skill, and it needs to be properly taught so that more people can think and make active decisions about it. Oh, and architecture happens at a group level. You can’t really do it alone. Barry’s quest led him to complexity science, a PhD to actually prove his ideas hold up, and two books. The idea that you have to understand what goes on in the code in order to do good architecture is more controversial than one might think. Thank you Cloudnet for sponsoring our VPS! Comments, questions or tips? We a re @kodsnack, @tobiashieta, @oferlund and @bjoreman on Twitter, have a page on Facebook and can be emailed at info@kodsnack.se if you want to write longer. We read everything we receive. If you enjoy Kodsnack we would love a review in iTunes! You can also support the podcast by buying us a coffee (or two!) through Ko-fi. Links Barry Black tulip Complexity science IDE Antifragile Nassim Taleb Nassim guesting Econtalk talking about antifragility while the book was in progress Barry’s papers: No More Snake Oil: Architecting Agility through Antifragility (2019) An introduction to residuality theory: Software design heuristics for complex systems (2020) The Machine in the Ghost: Autonomy, Hyperconnectivity, and Residual Causality (2021) The Philosophy of Residuality Theory (2021) Residuality Theory, random simulation, and attractor networks (2022) Residuality and Representation: Toward a Coherent Philosophy of Software Architecture (2023) Domain driven design Europe Leanpub Residues - Barry’s first book Barry’s NDC talks - on process and on philosophy Support us on Ko-fi Our agile release train engineer stickers The architect’s paradox - Barry’s second book Accelerate Øredev Kodsnack 346 - Tomer Gabel about the golden age of tomfoolery Dataföreningen Dataföreningen kompetens Titles How we design and think about structure Climbed the greasy pole Keep close to the code Remove themselves from the code as a status symbol I would see a lot of grey There’s a generation missing A level of thinking above programming When you look up from your IDE We had to rescue architecture When they say “architect” Headed for that ivory tower A self-titling profession Comfortable in uncertainty Multiple books, and a PhD How does this thing break Everything will always break Patching those cracks Do you have any proof of this? The key to good software architecture is pessimism The mincing of academic criticism Typing furiously Hope for the future He’s from the real world!
Jan 21, 2025 · 54 min
Kodsnack 626 - The great flattening of everything, with Jon Sterling
Fredrik talks to Jon Sterling about user interfaces old and new. Jon has created Aquaui - a Mac user interface library which is a small love letter to the Aqua user interface style for Mac OS X. Based on that, we discuss understandable and consistent user interfaces, how there seems to be little evolution and improvement, wish for brave new ideas, and a lot more. Oh, and we also discuss living with old technology, like a seventh-generation Ipod. Plus liability laundering and the problems of building the whole house of out fire alarms. Thank you Cloudnet for sponsoring our VPS! Comments, questions or tips? We a re @kodsnack, @tobiashieta, @oferlund and @bjoreman on Twitter, have a page on Facebook and can be emailed at info@kodsnack.se if you want to write longer. We read everything we receive. If you enjoy Kodsnack we would love a review in iTunes! You can also support the podcast by buying us a coffee (or two!) through Ko-fi. Links Jon Cambridge Clare college Aquaui - Jon’s library Aqua - the user interface design language Steve Jobs introducing Aqua The dock Windows XP Windows 98 Iphone 4 IOS 6 IOS 7 - the great flattening of everything Apple’s old human interface guidelines Accidental tech podcast The purple button for single-window mode in the Mac OS X beta - scroll down or search for “purple” Stage manager Lion Infinite Mac - the website where you can run old Mac operating systems The spatial Finder - and why the modern Finder isn’t Support Kodsnack on Ko-fi Elementary OS - and their interface design guide GTK A post about the original dock Discussion about Mica - Apple internal design tool Core animation Webkit Blink WKWebview Appkit NSScrollview NSScroller 12-inch Powerbook Seventh-generation Ipod Itunes Intel Imac Tiger Tenfourfox - browser for old versions of Mac OS X Charles proxy jonmstirling.com Jon on Mastodon Titles A love letter A very different era Beautiful blue liquid The great flattening of everything Unbelievable user interface regression I feel powerless today when I’m using my computer They did mess up the photo app Like a pill A long-lasting Ibuprofen That upper-right corner Bigger than my wingspan Beautiful, unsullied whitespace During the decline of Mac OS Time to be a bit bold A passable gradient Start from a point of inspiration Too much for the old hardware The Aqua fire alarm SSL fire alarms

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