Best Your Friend Frosty Podcasts (2025)

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Episode 146: Why Nature Is Bad and Camping Is Evil, By Your Friend Frosty 43:38

21d ago43:38

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Send us a text WARNING: this episode was recorded before the terrible events of July 4th, 2025, wherein a devastating flashflood swept across Central Texas and has left many, including children at a summer camp, missing or dead. Our deepest sympathies to all those affected by this tragedy, and our simple plea to not be offended as we make light of …

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Solving the AI energy crisis (Interview) 2:02:37

5h ago2:02:37

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Greg Osuri, Founder and CEO of Akash Network joins us to share the backstory in his testimony before congress on the energy crisis and what it’s going to take to power the future of AI. From powering datacenters, to solar, decentralized AI compute, to zombies in SF. Join the discussion Changelog++ members get a bonus 2 minutes at the end of this ep…

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It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA (News) 7:48

3d ago7:48

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Jono Alderson takes aim at SPAs thanks to modern CSS, copyparty turns almost any device into a file server, Ernie Smith honors the Game Genie’s 35th anniversary, Anthropic shares how their teams use Claude Code, and Drew Lyton tells why he believes the future is NOT self-hosted. View the newsletter Join the discussion Changelog++ members support ou…

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Is Having a Nightmare on Elm Street Even That Bad? (Revisited) 1:15:50

5d ago1:15:50

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Happy 600-3! That sounds like some sort of terminator name or something. Anyways, this one is somehow mostly about drugs and boners but if that's not what you expect at this point then idk what to tell you. Buy Tickets to see Plumbing The Death Star & Thumb Cramps here https://cheerfulearful.podlifeevents.com/ Links to everything at https://linktr.…

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#define: props to astronomer (Friends) 1:06:10

6d ago1:06:10

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Welcome back to #define, our game of obscure jargon, fake definitions, and expert tomfoolery. This time we’re joined by three Changelog++ members, to see who has the best vocabulary and who can trick everyone else into thinking that they do. Join the discussion Changelog++ members get a bonus 14 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join…

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Episode 148: They're Dead, But Still Collectible 45:55

7d ago45:55

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Send us a text As we draw closer and closer to the nuptials of your bartender Mike Whiskey and his beloved fiancé, the summer is about to get weirder and more anime-related. Your Friend Frosty is taking us all on a tour of a certain travelling museum exhibit with lots of bones and cuddly non-existent anime creatures. Collectible ones, too. That's r…

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Bringing Vitess to Postgres (Interview) 1:15:14

8d ago1:15:14

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Sugu Sougoumarane, creator of Vitess, comes off sabbatical to bring Vitess to Postgres. We discuss what motivated Sugu to come off sabbatical, why now is the time, the technical challenges of doing so, the implementation details of Multigres (Vitess for Postgres). We also discuss the state of Postgres at scale. Join the discussion Changelog++ membe…

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Humanity has prevailed (for now!) (News) 6:47

10d ago6:47

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Przemysław Dębiak beat an advanced AI model from OpenAI in a 10-hour head-to-head coding marathon, Linux breaks 5% desktop share in U.S., Stefano Marinelli is writing a series on making your own backup system, César Soto Valero switched to Python (and is liking it), and Charlie Graham thinks it’s rude to show AI output to people. View the newslette…

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What's The Best Use of Time Travel? (Revisited) 1:06:56

12d ago1:06:56

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Time travel has infinite possibilities, so of course these 3 immediately took it to suck job machines... Happy 600 again! Buy Tickets to see Plumbing The Death Star & Thumb Cramps here https://cheerfulearful.podlifeevents.com/ Links to everything at https://linktr.ee/plumbingthedeathstar including our terrible merch, social media garbage and where …

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Try harder. Ultrathink! (Friends) 1:31:46

13d ago1:31:46

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Nick Nisi joins us to discuss all the Windsurf drama, his new agentic lifestyle, whether or not he’s actually more productive, the new paper that says he maybe isn’t more productive, the reckoning he sees coming, and why we might be the last generation of code monkeys. Join the discussion Changelog++ members get a bonus 13 minutes at the end of thi…

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Episode 147: The Sentimental World of Philip J. Fry 40:00

14d ago40:00

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Send us a text Bring forth the tissues, the tubs of ice cream, and the plasma rifles. Okay, maybe not that last one. But prepare thyselves for a very sad episode all about....sad episodes. For years, the cartoon show Futurama has refused to die and has delighted, amused, and devastated us all with its hilarious and soul-touching content. And four o…

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Pivoting to Retool (Interview) 1:21:57

14d ago1:21:57

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David Hsu from Retool joins Adam to discuss how he built Retool. From the pivot in YC, to building the most widely used internal tools platform, to now being the platform for AI agents in the enterprise—on this episode we cover David journey from YC to building agents for the enterprise. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 5 minutes on thi…

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An app can be a home-cooked meal (News) 8:45

17d ago8:45

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Researchers in Japan achieve a world record in data transmission speeds, Robin Sloan explains how an app can be a home-cooked meal, Windsurf founders Varun Mohan & Douglas Chen are headed to Google, new Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan says it’s too late for the incumbent, Anton Zaides says stop forcing AI tools on your engineers, and Adrien Friggeri visualize…

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What If Batman Was Man-Bat? (Revisited) 1:04:19

19d ago1:04:19

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an all timer episode if you love terrible impressions... Happy 600! Buy Tickets to see Plumbing The Death Star & Thumb Cramps here https://cheerfulearful.podlifeevents.com/ Links to everything at https://linktr.ee/plumbingthedeathstar including our terrible merch, social media garbage and where to become a subscriber to Bad Brain Boys+ Hosted on Ac…

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Measuring the actual impact of AI coding (Friends) 1:03:39

20d ago1:03:39

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Abi Noda from DX is back to share some cold, hard data on just how productive AI coding tools are actually making developers. Teaser: the productivity increase isn’t as high as we expected. We also discuss Jevons paradox, AI agents as extensions of humans, which tools are winning in the enterprise, how development budgets are changing, and more. Jo…

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Lightspeed search built for devs (Interview) 1:38:30

22d ago1:38:30

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We talk with Don MacKinnon, Co-founder and CTO of Searchcraft—a lightspeed search engine built in Rust. We dig into the future of search, how it blends vector embeddings with classic ranking, and what it takes to build developer-friendly, production-grade search from the ground up. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 6 minutes on this epis…

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Full-breadth developers for the win (News) 8:54

24d ago8:54

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Justin Searls describes the “full-breadth developer” and why they’ll win because AI, Cloudflare comes up with a way publishers can charge crawlers for access, Hugo Bowne-Anderson explains why building AI agents fails so often, the Job Worth Calculator tells you if your job is worth the grind, and Sam Lambert announces PlanetScale for Postgres. View…

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What's The Worst Super Power Your Best Man Could Have? With Matt Stewart 1:08:45

26d ago1:08:45

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Imagine a wedding, but literally everyone was shitting themselves constantly... Or one where the best man had a fresh pair of... "beeth"? Buy Tickets to see Plumbing The Death Star & Thumb Cramps here https://cheerfulearful.podlifeevents.com/ Check out Matt Stewart https://linktr.ee/MattStewart https://www.mattstewartcomedy.com/ Hosted on Acast. Se…

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Selling mountain bikes all over the planet (Friends) 2:08:08

28d ago2:08:08

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Jeff Cayley joins Adam to talk about selling mountain bikes all over the planet and making some of the best outdoor and mountain bike gear, parts, and accessories you can buy. They have a killer YouTube channel as well. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 62 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors:…

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Episode 145: 30 Years Worth of Board Game-Related PTSD - Jumanji! 49:05

28d ago49:05

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Send us a text So, yeah, Happy 4th of July and all that. While it's the USA's birthday, your podcast hosts are celebrating a unique anniversary, one thirty years in the making. And just like on the 4th of July when dogs all run and hide under blankets from fireworks, so does Your Friend Frosty from the terror that is 1995's film blockbuster Jumanji…

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Agent, take the wheel (Interview) 1:53:58

29d ago1:53:58

1:53:58

Thorsten Ball returned to Sourcegraph to work on Amp because he believes being able to talk to an alien intelligence that edits your code changes everything. On this episode, Thorsten joins us to discuss exactly how coding agents work, recent advancements in AI tooling, Amp’s uniqueness in a sea of competitors, the divide between believers and skep…

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Coding agents have crossed a chasm (News) 6:25

1M ago6:25

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David Singleton says coding agents have crossed a chasm, Anton Zaides explains how SWEs should approach the “squeeze”, Mat Duggan has ideas for Kubernetes 2.0, Sean Goedecke does a nice job elucidating the coding agent commoditization, and one more good reason to write, even though it’s hard. View the newsletter Join the discussion Changelog++ memb…

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How Would You Use The Thing Ring For Financial Gain or Personal Profit? 1:05:11

1M ago1:05:11

1:05:11

SANTA'S NOT REAL, hit listem in your car Links to everything at https://linktr.ee/plumbingthedeathstar including our terrible merch, social media garbage and where to become a subscriber to Bad Brain Boys+ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Let's build something phoenix.new (Friends) 1:35:31

1M ago1:35:31

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Our old friend Chris McCord, creator of Elixir’s Phoenix framework, tells us all about his new remote AI runtime for building Phoenix apps. Along the way, we vibe code one of my silly app ideas, calculate all the money we’re going to spend on these tools, and get existential about what it all means. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 4 mi…

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When vibe coding goes viral (Interview) 1:11:06

1M ago1:11:06

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Chris Anderson joins the show. You may recognize Chris from the early days of CouchDB and Couchbase. Back when the world was just waking up to NoSQL, Chris was at the center of it all, shaping how developers think about data distribution and offline-first architecture. These days, Chris is working on Vibes.diy and Fireproof — tools that make one-sh…

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Episode 144: From Holy Ground to Holy Mess 44:57

1M ago44:57

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Send us a text Ever been driving by a church in your neighborhood, looked at it long and hard, and thought, "Wow, that would make an amazing laser tag arena?" No? Well, you definitely aren't alone. Wouldn't you know it, there are some people out there that did, however. From restaurants to apartment buildings, the lives of de-consecrated churches o…

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How Would You Pitch Jurassic World to Investors? 1:10:03

1M ago1:10:03

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For clarity's sake, Jackson is pitching a cult this episode. It's a weird cult with seemingly no purpose, but the vibes are fucked. Links to everything at https://linktr.ee/plumbingthedeathstar including our terrible merch, social media garbage and where to become a subscriber to Bad Brain Boys+ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more infor…

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Just on the rocks (Friends) 1:29:41

1M ago1:29:41

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Jerod tells Adam about how bad he hates the taste of Gin, sips on some Generative A Rye (on the rocks), they open the comments section for a bit, and then land the plane talking about being alone, naked, and afraid. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 6 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Reto…

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Episode 143: Imminent Lawless Action 41:33

1M ago41:33

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Send us a text Warning, listeners: This episode is not going to be a light one. Thought provoking? Inspired by actual events? Full of swears? Oh yeah. Kicking us all the way back to the 1960s, Your Friend Frosty is about to flex his legalese muscles and introduce you all to the infamous 1969 Brandenburg V. Ohio ruling, one which shaped the very wor…

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The CEO of htmx likes codin' dirty (Interview) 1:23:09

1M ago1:23:09

1:23:09

Jerod is joined by Carson Gross, the creator of htmx –a small, zero-dependency JavaScript library that he says, “completes HTML as a hypertext”. Carson built it because he’s big on hypermedia, he even wrote a book called Hypermedia Systems. Carson has a lot of strong opinions weakly held that we dive into in this conversation. Join the discussion C…

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Stop uploading your data to Google (News) 8:19

2M ago8:19

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Lukas Mathis tells us to stop uploading our data to Google, Robert Vitonsky wants web devs to not guess his language using his IP, Tom from GameTorch reminds us that software talent is gold right now, Austin Parker from Honeycomb describes how LLMs are upending the observability industry, and Vitess co-creator, Sugu Sougoumarane, joins Supabase to …

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How Would You Defeat Bowser as a Regular Man? 56:30

2M ago56:30

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DISCLAIMER, This episode is actually about what celebrities are most like 'the general vibe of a dad'. Links to everything at https://linktr.ee/plumbingthedeathstar including our terrible merch, social media garbage and where to become a subscriber to Bad Brain Boys+ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…

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Saltiness about frostiness (Friends) 2:07:01

2M ago2:07:01

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Justin Searls joins Jerod in Apple’s WWDC wake for hot takes about frosty UIs. We go (almost) point-by-point through the keynote, dissecting and reacting along the way. Concentricity! Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 5 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Retool – Assemble your elite AI team…

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Episode 142: In the Lair of Pure Evil (Well, Sorta) 45:14

2M ago45:14

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Send us a text Have you ever wanted to become a supervillain? Maybe a villainous overlord? Maybe a cruel and wicked dictator? Then this is the episode of Bourbon On Ice for you, as your favorite nerds are discussing the dos and don'ts for becoming just that evil and horrible. Avoid the pitfalls which have unseated many a humble tyrant by listening …

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The Roc programming language (Interview) 1:35:56

2M ago1:35:56

1:35:56

Jerod chats with Richard Feldman about Roc – his fast, friendly, functional language inspired by Richard’s love of Elm. Roc takes many of Elm’s ideas beyond the frontend and introduces some great ideas of its own. Get ready to learn about static dispatch, platforms vs applications, opportunistic mutation, purity inference, and a whole lot more. Joi…

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Never. Let. AI. Write. Your. Tests. (News) 10:09

2M ago10:09

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Diwank explains why you should never let AI writes your tests, Apple redesigns all of their software platforms, AI has brought about the rise of judgement over technical skills, Peter Steinberger says Claude Code is now his computer, and the curious case of Memvid. View the newsletter Join the discussion Changelog++ members support our work, get cl…

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How Would You Market Hulk Blood Soda? 51:03

2M ago51:03

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remember that hulk blood that got into stan lee's soda that one time from that movie we've all seen from the last 20 years or something? Well basically, how would you sell it? Links to everything at https://linktr.ee/plumbingthedeathstar including our terrible merch, social media garbage and where to become a subscriber to Bad Brain Boys+ Hosted on…

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Adventures in babysitting coding agents (Friends) 1:33:58

2M ago1:33:58

1:33:58

The ever-provocative Steve Yegge joins us fresh off a vibe coding bender so productive, he wrote a book on the topic alongside award-winning author Gene Kim. Steve tells us why he believes the IDE is dead, why babysitting AI agents is more fun than coding, when vibe coding might take over the enterprise, how software devs should approach coding age…

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Episode 141: Good To The Last Crumb 43:30

2M ago43:30

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Send us a text What is it about delicious food? Also death? Wait, can we combine the two? Yes! Inspired by Your Friend Frosty's newest podcast obsession, Mythical Kitchen's Last Meals, there's plenty of talk to go around concerning the simple question: what would be your last meal? While we sling liver and onions, chowder soup, and apps gone crazy,…

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We're all Builders now (Interview) 1:14:59

2M ago1:14:59

1:14:59

We’re on location at Microsoft Build 2025 with Amanda Silver, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft’s Developer Division. Amanda leads product, design, user research, and engineering systems for some of the tools you use every day. We discuss the latest AI announcements from Microsoft at Build 2025, how AI is reshaping development tools, what’s nex…

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The 'developer replacement' hype cycle (News) 8:02

2M ago8:02

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We’re doing a live show in Denver this July, Danilo Alonso has seen the ‘developer replacement’ hype cycle many times, Dan Sinker says we’re in the Who Cares Era, Cap looks like a solid alternative to typical CAPTCHA solutions, Michael Flarup on the return of texture, depth, and expressiveness in UI & Kan is an open source alternative to Trello. Vi…

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How Would You Exploit The Powers of Bagpuss? 56:44

2M ago56:44

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fuck that cat man Links to everything at https://linktr.ee/plumbingthedeathstar including our terrible merch, social media garbage and where to become a subscriber to Bad Brain Boys+ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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wsl.exe -- cat hello.cs (Friends) 1:27:48

2M ago1:27:48

1:27:48

We bring you back to Microsoft Build 2025 to nerd out with Craig Loewen on Windows Subsystem for Linux and Mads Torgersen on leading the design of C#. Join the discussion Changelog++ members get a bonus 7 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today! Sponsors: Heroku – The Next Generation of Heroku “Fir” is coming soon — Fir is built…

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The Web Development Engine (Interview) 1:33:28

2M ago1:33:28

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We’re joined by Andreas Møller, Co-founder of Nordcraft — the team behind Nordcraft Engine, a powerful new platform designed to give web developers what gaming developers have had for years. Andreas shares what inspired them to build Nordcraft Engine, why they believe the web is overdue for a shift in how we approach designing and building for the …

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Episode 140: The Same To You, Good Sir! 40:07

2M ago40:07

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Send us a text Warning: there is going to be an excessive amount of cursing in this episode. Also, this is all Whiskey's fault. No, really, it is. Cleaning up his house in preparation for the arrival of his beloved fiancé, your bartender Mike Whiskey happened upon a book, and he has decided to thus inflict it upon Your Friend Frosty and you, our au…

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Entry-level tech jobs are getting wiped out (News) 9:57

2M ago9:57

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The San Fransisco Standard published some sobering news for new graduates, the Forge team decided to put an AI agent in your shell, Fernando Borretti says you can choose tools that make you happy, Jujutsu’s flexibility and safety changed Nathan Witmer’s approach to version control, Anil Dash is as excited about MCP as almost everyone else is & Alex…

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Which Superhero Could You Turn The Public Against? 1:02:05

2M ago1:02:05

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Daredevil is claiming false disability benefits, Superman is a pervert who should've helped us kill a neighbours dog. The Hulk is secretly harbouring a relationship with a Russian asset, and his son has that fucked trim. Links to everything at https://linktr.ee/plumbingthedeathstar including our terrible merch, social media garbage and where to bec…

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Dull, dirty or dangerous (Friends) 1:08:07

2M ago1:08:07

1:08:07

We sit down with Scott Hanselman at Microsoft Build 2025 to discuss open sourcing all the things, cool stuff Windows can do, where we want (and don’t want) AI to fit into our lives, building arcade cabinets, and so much more. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 7 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Spon…

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Refactored in prison (Interview) 1:42:14

2M ago1:42:14

1:42:14

Preston Thorpe joins us from inside prison, where he awaits a hopeful release within the next 12 months. His journey has been anything but easy—marked by hardship and uncertainty. But over the past few years, Preston has undergone a profound transformation. He’s refactored not just his skills, but his identity. Today, he proudly calls himself a sof…

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Episode 139: A Soggy Subject 45:24

2M ago45:24

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Send us a text Summer is almost here. As soon as we get through this annoying pollen season, that is. Anyway, with updates on Whiskey's new arrival, a terrifying blow to the Frosty Family, and a lot of harsh light and noise affecting us negatively, there's a question we'd like to ask: this summer, where will you be - pool, beach, or lakeside? It's …

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