Kodsnack in English

Jan 20 2025 82 ep. 49 mins 43

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

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Kodsnack 626 - The great flattening of everything, with Jon Sterling

Jan 20 2025 54 mins

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 di

Kodsnack 620 - Encapsulation of knowledge, with Dejan Milicic

Dec 16 2024 61 mins

Fredrik talks to Dejan Milicic about software development - understanding, methods, and stories. We start by talking about encapsulation of knowledge and the essential software in organizations. Almost every organization should - it can be argued - be developing software that solves their unique problems, and yet so many outsource so much of their knowledge encapsulation. Oh, and w

Kodsnack 618 - This chaos element, with Ingrid af Sandeberg

Dec 05 2024 15 mins

Recorded on-stage at Øredev 2024, Fredrik talks to Ingrid af Sandeberg about AI and people’s perception of it. While it’s very powerful to be able to interact with models through natural language, that interface in itself hides a lot of what’s actually going on. Many thanks to Øredev for inviting Kodsnack again, they paid for the trip and the editing time of the

Kodsnack 617 - Craving for the human touch, with Laura Herman

Dec 04 2024 28 mins

Recorded on-stage at Øredev 2024, Fredrik talks to Laura Herman about creativity, creation, and AI. Among other things, we discuss: How the perspectives of different groups differ, and Laura talks about the many factors which inform how people feel about generative AI. Generative AI as curation. How and where in our work processes we want AI assistance. Dataset curation and speci

Kodsnack 616 - Computers outside of computers, with Violet Whitney and William Martin

Dec 03 2024 16 mins

Recorded on-stage at Øredev 2024, Fredrik talks to Violet Whitney and William Martin about the research they do into how we can interact with computers outside of the bounds of … well, a regular computer or phone. 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

Kodsnack 615 - All I had to do was break the build, with Kent Beck and Beth Andres-Beck

Dec 02 2024 17 mins

Recorded on-stage at Øredev 2024, Fredrik talks to Kent Beck and Beth Andres-Beck about development practices, code reviews, and more. Unfortunately, sound quality is a lot worse than it should be. We apologize, and invite any sound processing wizards out there to get in touch if they have solid ways of improving it. Has there actually been a backlash - a move toward more rigid pr

Kodsnack 614 - Somehow cheat the system, with David Jacoby

Dec 02 2024 14 mins

Recorded on-stage at Øredev 2024, Fredrik talks to IT security expert David Jacoby about his way into IT security. What was it like to get interested in computer security early on, and to try start working with it before there really was an awareness of even the need for more security information? And when did the switch happen from annoying but harmless viruses and malware to the

Kodsnack 613 - Opt-in nations, with Corin Ism

Dec 01 2024 29 mins

Recorded on-stage at Øredev 2024, Fredrik talks to Corin Ism about the power of developers to change the world for the better. Much of what we do is building virtual worlds - virtual nations if you will - and creating and enforcing their rules and power structures. We should take that power and responsibility seriously and think about what we build. If you think about the interfac

Kodsnack 612 - Where types first come in, with Pedro Abreu

Nov 25 2024 55 mins

Fredrik talks to Pedro Abreu about the magical world of type theory. What is it, and why is it useful to know about and be inspired by? Pedro gives us some background on type theory, and then we talk about how type theory can provide new ways of reasoning about programs, and tools beyond tests to verify program correctness. This doesn’t mean that all languages should strive f

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