The Tuple Podcast

Jun 10 2024 9 ep. 62 mins 25
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Ben Orenstein interviews great programmers about their craft.

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Adam Wathan, Creator of Tailwind CSS

Jun 10 2024 60 mins  
Ben and Adam Wathan cover the development and reimagining of Tailwind CSS, focusing on the release of Tailwind 4.0. They delve into the motivation behind the rewrite, the challenges faced, and the approach to maintaining backward compatibility. The conversation covers topics related to software versioning, open-source maintenance, backward compatibility, the use of Rust in Tailwind

Matt Swanson, CTO at Arrows

May 27 2024 45 mins  
Ben and Matt discuss the role of a product engineer and Matt's journey as a content creator. Matt shares his experience working at a consulting agency and how it shaped his perspective on engineering. They also discuss the benefits of working in-person and the importance of the quality of coworkers. Matt reflects on his motivation for content creation and how it ties into his compe

Derrick Reimer, Founder of SavvyCal

May 13 2024 45 mins  
In this conversation, Ben and Derrick discuss the challenges of growing a business and the decision to target specific market segments. They explore the trade-offs between serving a broad audience and focusing on a niche market. They also discuss the technical choices and architectural decisions in building a product, with Derrick sharing his positive experience with Elixir and the

Thorsten Ball, Software Engineer at Zed

Apr 22 2024 72 mins  
In this episode, Ben chats with Thorsten Ball. This conversation fits neatly into two halves - in the first, Ben and Thorsten go deep on how to differentiate yourself, work in public, and make it easy for people to hire you. In the second part of the conversation, they talk more specifically about Zed, why it matters, and how it’s being built. LinksTuple.app (https://tuple.app) -

Andreas Kling, Creator of SerenityOS and the Ladybird Browser

Apr 01 2024 71 mins  
Ben interviews Andreas Kling, creator of SerenityOS and the Ladybird browser. They talk about the concept of lifestyle software and how it relates to the development of SerenityOS, Andreas’ vision of creating a Zen garden for developers, and the benefits of using a mono repo and a unified language in the development process. They also touch on the use of AI and language models fo

Fable Tales, Staff Engineer at Stripe

Mar 18 2024 65 mins  
In this conversation, Fable and Ben dig deep on building a technical career that balances programming and company leadership. Fable shares their experience working at Stripe and the different roles they have held, including being a technical advisor to the CTO. They also discuss Fable's career move from being a hands-on programmer to role where less hands-on coding is required, Fab

Josh Pigford, Creator of Maybe.co

Feb 23 2024 51 mins  
In this episode, Ben interviews Josh Pigford, founder of Maybe.co, about the company’s journey from VC-backed startup -> closed startup -> open source project -> funded open source project. They discuss JavaScript and Rails trade-offs, the challenges of building a personal finance software, and the operational difficulties of building a business based on open source soft

Caleb Porzio, Creator of AlpineJS and Laravel Livewire

Feb 06 2024 84 mins  
In this conversation, Ben interviews Caleb Porzio, the creator of AlpineJS and Laravel Livewire. The discussion ranges from discussions about life in general to specific testing practices and which notebook Caleb uses.LinksTuple.app - The best app for pair programmingAlpineJS Laravel Livewire Caleb's VSCode Course TakeawaysApply core truths to life outside of programming.Find ways

Taylor Otwell, Creator of Laravel

Jan 24 2024 64 mins  
In this conversation, Ben interviews Taylor Otwell, the creator of Laravel. They discuss everything from the age-old argument of tabs vs. spaces to the origins of Laravel and how Taylor has turned it into a thriving, sustainable business.Links:Laravel, the framework Taylor createdTuple, used by the Laravel team to collaboratesTakeawaysCoding preferences and philosophies can vary am