Runtime Rundown - JavaScript and Web Development

Mar 03 2025 95 ep. 52 mins 36
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Web development, JavaScript, careers. Each week starts with an article and and ends with good news.

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Everyday Coaching with Aaron Bieber

Mar 03 2025 63 mins  
In this special guest episode, we bring on the definitive best Bieber in the world. Aaron Bieber is a both seasoned technologist and excellent career coach. We talk about the art of listening, how we can apply coaching principles to every work life, and more. Also, Aaron does some live coaching magic and makes Evan break out in a cold sweat. If you want more of Aaron, or to book hi

Changing Our Minds On Software Development

Feb 23 2025 37 mins  
In this episode we cover "Software development topics I've changed my mind on after 10 years in the industry" by Chris Kiehl. This is a fun one where we riff on things we still believe to be true, things we've changed our mind on, and opinions we've picked up over the years.

Building Complex Software

Feb 03 2025 41 mins  
In this episode we cover "How To Write Complex Software" by Grant Slatton. If you've ever struggled wondering how to approach a big problem, this one's for you. We go over a mental framework of "top to bottom" engineering, how to maximize parallel efforts, and more. This is a spiritual successor to our "Speedrunning Projects" episode where we covered a much looser approach. Try th

The One About Performance Reviews

Jan 19 2025 47 mins  
We're back! After almost 3 months of paternity leave, Runtime Rundown is kicking off our 4th season with everyone's favorite topic - performance reviews. We're just getting back in the saddle, so this is a free-form episode without an article. We cover the pros and cons of peer reviews, tech incentive structures and more.

Should We Rewrite Our JavaScript Tooling?

Oct 26 2024 45 mins  
In this episode we cover "Why I'm skeptical of rewriting javascript tools in faster languages" by Nolan Lawson. This is an interesting intersection between tech problems and people problems. There's been a recent wave of venerable JS-based tools being re-written in Rust, Go, Zig, etc. They come out "faster", but are we better or worse off for it?

Pair Programming

Oct 12 2024 34 mins  
In this episode, we cover "Pair Programming" written by the inimitable Matt Hamlin. We talk about what pair programming is, why you might do it, and when you maybe shouldn't. In other news, Joe forgets how to intro the show and Evan drank too much coffee before recording.

You Don't Need to Be That Good

Sep 28 2024 48 mins  
In this episode we cover "The T Shaped Engineer" by Alex Kondov, and make a few references to Adam Savage's video How to Ask for a Job (Without Asking). As usual we go off on many tangents and eventually circle back around to the article. Have an idea for an article we should cover? Head on over to https://runtimerundown.com/suggestionshttps://runtimerundown.com/suggestions and dr

Using AI For Code Reviews

Sep 19 2024 52 mins  
In this episode we dive into another awesome article from Abi Noda, Using AI to encourage best practices in the code review process. This article covers a recent research paper released from Google outlining the performance, pitfalls, and process of their in-house AI code review bot. We talk about the role of AI in code reviews, our personal views on what code review is all about,

Dogfooding

Sep 07 2024 44 mins  
In this week's episode we cover "Using your own product is a superpower" on the PostHog engineering blog. Using your own software, AKA "dogfooding", is one of those topics thrown around by engineers all the way up to CEOS. We talk about what dogfooding looks like, why you would want to implement it (if you can), and some pitfalls of working it into your day-

We're Speed-running a Side Business

Aug 21 2024 44 mins  
In this follow-up to our Speed-running Projects episode, we talk about our ongoing effort to speed-run building a SaaS business from the ground up! We cover what we're building, how we approached it, and what we've learned along the way. We also dive into some of our technical choices and pivots.