Kodsnack in English

Oct 21 2024 73 ep. 51 mins 41

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

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Kodsnack 607 - Emberisms, with Balint Erdi

Oct 21 2024 55 mins

Fredrik talks to Balint Erdi about the web framework Ember. Where did Ember come from, what stands out about it today, how do new features get into the framework, and how is development being made more sustainable? Plus: Balint’s experiences organizing Emberfest, and quite a bit of appreciation for the Ruby and Ember communities in general. The episode is sponsored by Cursed

Kodsnack 604 - Farmer's disposition, with Evan Czaplicki

Sep 30 2024 59 mins

Fredrik talks to Evan Czaplicki, creator of Elm about figuring out a good path for yourself. What do you do when you have a job which seems like it would be your dream job, but it turns out to be the wrong thing for you? And how do you escape from that? You can’t put the success of something you build before your own personal and mental health, no matter how right the decisio

Kodsnack 600 - Just use +, with Christian Clausen

Sep 02 2024 57 mins

Fredrik talks to Christian Clausen about the many facets of simplicity. The cloud and serverless was supposed to be simpler than running your own hardware, but you easily get stuck trying to select the right message bus, needing to know the intricacies of your chosen cloud provider infrastructure, and the like. You end up building your software around the infrastructure you’v

Kodsnack 598 - Tiny dopamine hit, with Jack Cheng

Aug 19 2024 60 mins

Fredrik talks to Jack Cheng - author and creator of the iPhone note capture app Bebop. Jack describes where Bebop came from and how he built it, and how and why Copilot and other AI tools became integral parts of the workflow. Being aware of the maintenance cost of each decision, keeping things focused, avoiding building yourself into a bloated corner - sometimes even deciding cert

Kodsnack 595 - Maintain curiosity, with Woody Zuill and Martin Lassbo

Jul 29 2024 37 mins

Fredrik paid a visit to Hogia and got the opportunity to talk to Woody Zuill and Martin Lassbo about mob programming, innovation, and keeping an open and curious mind. Mob programming is still new. Every time you say “that can’t work”, you tend to be proven wrong eventually. Try it, for a year or two. You can’t evaluate things after trying it for just an hou

Kodsnack 593 - Into the view hierarchy, with Malin Sundberg and Kai Dombrowski

Jul 15 2024 115 mins

Fredrik is again joined by Malin Sundberg and Kai Dombrowski for a review of attending this year’s WWDC, working with “AI”, and more. The experience of attending - a lot about the great community. News from the conference - a Snow leopard year, in a good way. Lots of nice fixes and additions - Swiftui, fun widgets, and of course lots of question marks around whate

Kodsnack 584 - A free deadline in September, with Malin Sundberg and Kai Dombrowski

May 13 2024 107 mins

Fredrik is joined by Malin Sundberg and Kai Dombrowski for a quick chat about the Deep dish Swift conference, the past and present of Mercury weather, their next app project, and what might happen at Apple’s WWDC in June. The first big topic is the developer conference Deep dish Swift. Malin and Kai not only participated in the conference itself, but also created the Slices p

Kodsnack 573 - This is not a toy project, with Leandro Ostera and Emil Privér

Mar 11 2024 64 mins

Fredrik is joined by Emil Privér and Leandro Ostera for a discussion of the OCaml ecosystem, and making it Saas-ready by building Riot. First of all: OCaml. What is the thing with the language, and how you might get into it coming from other languages? The OCaml community is nice, interested in getting new people in, and pragmatic. And it has a nice mix of research and industry as

Kodsnack 570 - Debug your ideas, with Eric Normand

Feb 19 2024 40 mins

Fredrik is joined by Eric Normand for a discussion of debugging your ideas through domain modeling, using Eric’s concept of lenses to find more good questions to ask. Eric is writing a book about domain modeling and has developed the concept of lenses - ways to look at various aspects of your domain, model, and code in order to better consider various solutions and questions.

Kodsnack 567 - Arrow straight through, with Matt Topol and Lars Wikman

Jan 29 2024 83 mins

Fredrik has Matt Topol and Lars Wikman over for a deep and wide chat about Apache Arrow and many, many topics in the orbit of the language-independent columnar memory format for flat and hierarchical data. What does that even mean? What is the point? And why does Arrow only feel more and more interesting and useful the more you think about deeply integrating it into your systems? F