I’m a huge Steve Yegge fan, so It was a great honor to have Steve Yegge on a recent Stack Overflow podcast. One thing I couldn’t have predicted, however, was one particular theme of Steve’s experience at Google and Amazon that kept coming up time and time
A copy (for posterity) of Steve Yegge's internal memo in Google about what platforms are and how Amazon learnt to build them
A copy (for posterity) of Steve Yegge's internal memo in Google about what platforms are and how Amazon learnt to build them · GitHub
Steve Jobs Insult Response - Highest Quality
Jermolene — learning to program since 1978
In April 2024 I gave the opening keynote at the software industry conference “QCon London” under the title "The Home Computer That Roared: How the BBC Micro Shaped Our World".
An Interview with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian About the Agentic Moment
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A New Computer
A podcast about the end of personal computers as we know them, and what comes next. Each episode we talk with people who are doing work at the frontier of computing, people who are challenging assumptions about what computers are and what our relationship to them should be.
Nature is Laughing at the AI Build Out -
I was catching up on Acquired episodes this week and listened to the spectacular “Google: The AI Company” episode that Ben and David put together. What the two of them have created with their podcast fascinates me in the inevitability of its success. I think Acquired proves that if you are smart and work your […]
Citizen Web3 Podcast Episode borismann: Storage, Web3 Marketing and Decentralized Identity with Boris Mann
This episode of the #citizenweb3 podcast features Boris Mann, Co founder at Fission codes. Building protocols for the future of the Internet and web3
The Evolution of Software
Last week Chris Paik published a Google Doc titled, The End of Software, where he articulates the lowering cost of software development and potential implications. He ends the piece with a provocative statement: "Majoring in computer science today will be like majoring in journalism in the late...
What I've Learned in 45 Years in the Software Industry
BTI360 teammate Joel Goldberg recently retired after working in the software industry for over four decades. When he left he shared with our team some of the lessons he learned over his career. With his...
Alex Komoroske (Common Tools)
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Looking back over the 2019 run of the Distributed podcast, one is struck by the wealth of insights our guests have shared in each and every episode. We’ve spoken to CEOs, activists, lawyers, author…
Maintainer spotlight: Siân Griffin
We’re sharing interviews from several open source contributors about their projects, challenges, and what a GitHub sponsorship means to them. This week, read about Sean Griffin.
The Hero Returns: Steve Jobs’ real genius
As the three-year anniversary of Steve Jobs’ passing approaches in October, complete lessons from his life and legacy are still far from…
