1.31 A Wild Kevlin Henney Has Appeared! Tech, Bugs & Rock & Roll podcast

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In which our esteemed hosts talk about authentication, visualising algorithms, building C++ apps on Windows, folding guitars, Apple HomePod Mini, and more!

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2.15 Chaos 1:02:37

11 days ago1:02:37

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Everything is chaos and any attempts to predict more than a split second into the future are doomed to fail hilariously

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2.14 Support Slackers 1:04:45

13 weeks ago1:04:45

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Let's chat about making videos, companies that offer support via Slack, .NET Open Source Drama Season 12 Episode 5, and more!

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2.13 The Last One Before The Clocks Change 1:01:58

13 weeks ago1:01:58

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For the first time in several weeks, neither of us is in the Netherlands. Let's talk about Adrian Tchaikovsky, Brandon Sanderson, modern web standards, train wifi, vibe coding, and more!

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2.12 Apocalypse When? 1:04:44

13 weeks ago1:04:44

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Today, due to foreseen circumstances, the part of Dylan Beattie will be played by Eli Holderness. What we shall talk about is anybody's guess.

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2.11 The IDEs of March 1:04:55

13 weeks ago1:04:55

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Rendle's in Utrecht, so stunt Rendle this week is Eli Holderness! Let's talk about rewriting things in Go, making slides, running meetups and... you know the drill. Ramblecast gonna ramble.

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2.09 Upgrade All The Things! 1:04:13

21 weeks ago1:04:13

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Rendle's upgraded to Windows 11. Dylan's having fun with hard drives and thinking it's probably upgrade time too. But we know you're really just here for the tangents. Us too.

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2.09 Simplicity is Complicated, OK? 1:03:23

22 weeks ago1:03:23

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This week: Framework's new product announcement, why resource-based authentication is a MOOD, cameras (and why they're complicated), simplicity (and why it's also complicated), wires (and why there are wires) and, oh, y'know... stuff.

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2.08 Buffer Overflow 1:03:59

22 weeks ago1:03:59

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After two weeks with two fantastic stunt ramblers, Dylan and Rendle both show up and the Trello backlog of stuff to talk about is looooong, so we're gonna have to talk fast.

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2.07 Woody's Round-Up 1:04:37

24 weeks ago1:04:37

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Dylan is recovering from a xenomorph infestation so the delightful Chris "Woody" Woodruff is Rendle's guest partner for today's show. We talked about simplicity in software design and development, and performance in .NET, and some other stuff, and a splendid time was had by all. Enjoy.

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2.06 Tech, Bugs and Systems Thinking with Diana Montalion 1:05:21

24 weeks ago1:05:21

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Rendle's on an aeroplane so Dylan's going to be ramblecasting with architect, author and speaker Diana Montalion! Let's talk about systems thinking, explaining complicated things to simple people and simple things to complicated people, and that one time we randomly went to Castle Dracula. No, really.…

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2.05 We're At NDC London And You're Not 59:45

24 weeks ago59:45

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Dylan and Rendle are LIVE from NDC London! And the WiFi or something was not very good so the audio is not very good. I've done the best I can but it's still not great so please forgive us. It's still worth listening though, this was a fun show.

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2.04 We Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside 1:00:04

24 weeks ago1:00:04

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We're at Linebreakers Band Camp! In a very posh house on the Kent coast, coming to you live from the Library. In the house!

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2.03 FluentAssertions, Conferences and Rendle's Hat 1:05:12

28 weeks ago1:05:12

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This week Dylan and Rendle are talking about DDD South West, the FluentAssertions license change🍿, some new stuff Dylan's doing with Rockstar, community events (and what it's like speaking at a meetup that starts at 07:30am), what's happening at NDC London later this month, and anything else that pops into their heads.…

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2.02 True Names and Other Dangers 1:02:59

28 weeks ago1:02:59

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People's names are difficult for computers. Speaking of names, Dylan and Rendle talk about splitting full names into first and last, Skulduggery Pleasant, Nvidia graphics cards that have given up on rendering polygons and just guess what the screen should look like instead, and a new DOOM mod that... well, listen to the episode.…

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2.01 Oh No, Not Again 1:09:34

29 weeks ago1:09:34

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Yay, 2025! What exciting things are Dylan and Mark looking forward to this year? What did they like about last year? What were the chat looking forward to? Which singer has the greatest vocal range? All these questions and more are answered in the first episode of season 2.

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Xmas Special 1:02:42

29 weeks ago1:02:42

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It's Boxing Day in the UK which means every TV channel will be showing some super boring film at 4pm, so why not join us for a chat instead? (It's probably not Boxing Day now but you can listen to the recording anyway)

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NDC Bursting Bubbles 1:07:12

29 weeks ago1:07:12

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Dylan is once more adrift in the luminiferous aether so Eli once more steps into the breach to talk to Rendle about AI bubbles, gaming nostalgia and other matters of great pitch and moment

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Two Score and Six: Them 1:01:42

29 weeks ago1:01:42

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Dylan is on an intergalactic cruise in his office, so Rendle is joined by the wonderful Eli Holderness to talk about whatever they've found interesting this week.

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1.45 Bluesky All The Tweets 58:57

33 weeks ago58:57

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Mark is going to use Kotlin, Dylan is handling errors in Rockstar, and Bluesky is properly taking off at last.

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Forty Four 1:05:02

33 weeks ago1:05:02

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Mark is in Malmö for Øredev, Dylan isn’t, stuff shall be discussed…

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1.43 Berlin Blogs and Bluesky 1:01:45

33 weeks ago1:01:45

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We both just got back from KanDDDinsky in Berlin and at least one of us is already checked in for their next flight... but hey, that's not until tomorrow, so let's do a podcast!

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00101010 Prime Nonsense 1:08:13

33 weeks ago1:08:13

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No idea what we're talking about in this one but I expect it will be the usual stream-of-bobbins that you know and love.

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1.40 The Games Geekout 1:05:18

33 weeks ago1:05:18

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Mark and Dylan are both busy this week so here's one we made earlier, geeking out about games we like and stuff.

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I.XXXIX Mercurial Cores 1:04:07

43 weeks ago1:04:07

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Dylan and Mark talk about the ongoing WP Engine vs WordPress saga; a variant on the Y2K bug; more unethical AI; and the mystery of the "mercurial cores".

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0x26 WinAmp is Open Source... Kinda 1:03:48

43 weeks ago1:03:48

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WinAmp have released the source code for the legacy player but it's not exactly... open. Dylan and Mark about using AI to generate podcasts, and how AI coding assistants will be better when you can actually talk to them, the current fracas in the WordPress community, and how those "Star Wars in 1950s Panavision" videos you keep seeing on YouTube are made. Dylan uses a naughty word in this one.…

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1.37 Code Reviews and other news with Hannes Lowette 1:05:17

43 weeks ago1:05:17

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Dylan's on another aeroplane so fellow Linebreaker Hannes joins Mark to talk about positive code reviews and the conversation just kind of rambles on from there really

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1.36 CHIPS IN SPAAAAACE 1:03:34

44 weeks ago1:03:34

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NASA have decided that the transistors in the Europa Clipper are hardcore enough to survive Jupiter's radiation, plus whatever else we talked about, Spotify lost the upload originally and I can't remember.

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1.35 Fun with Program Committees 1:07:37

44 weeks ago1:07:37

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Mark's just finished 2 days of selecting and curating talks for NDC London 2025 and shares some tips for persuading committee members to pick you. Dylan's been making courses and trying to juggle 14 other balls at the same time.

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1.34 Live from the Copenhagen Developers Festival 1:00:08

47 weeks ago1:00:08

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CPH DevFest gave us a stage and an audience to record this week's podcast, so we repaid them by doing one of our usual random, meandering conversations.

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1.33 Dylan's Getting Older 1:05:33

49 weeks ago1:05:33

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It's Dylan's birthday and he's spending it doing homework for the Copenhagen Developers' Festival next week. Meanwhile Mark wants to know why developing for Apple hardware is so difficult.

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1.32 That's 2^5! Powers of two are cool. 1:03:22

49 weeks ago1:03:22

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32 episodes! Such a lovely round number that Mark slept through it and Dylan had to fill an hour of airtime on his own, which he does magnificently.

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1.31 A Wild Kevlin Henney Has Appeared! 1:08:38

51 weeks ago1:08:38

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Dylan's on a train this week so the excellent Kevlin Henney joins Mark to talk about legacy code, bitrot, and the inevitable displacement of big, old companies by fast-moving start-ups.

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1.30 Parsers and Beta Testers and Deadpool and Wolverine 1:02:13

51 weeks ago1:02:13

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WARNING: SPOILERS FOR DEADPOOL AND WOLVERINE Dylan's getting ready to ship Rockstar 2, Mark's built a sort of electric cloud-based space clipboard, and we've both seen Deadpool and Wolverine and intend to SPOILER THE HECK out of it so if you haven't seen it maybe watch this one later.

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1.29 CROWDSTRUCK BY THE CYBER! 1:08:24

1 year ago1:08:24

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Well, gosh, we have absolutely NO IDEA what we might talk about this week in a weekly podcast about the week's events in the world of technology. Not a clue. Nope. Oh, and also a fun bit about the NSA having a tape of Grace Hopper they won't release 'cos they don't have a tape deck to watch it on that we were going to talk about last week but we ran out of time. And Mark and Dylan compare their workstations and monitor arrangements and stuff.…

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1.28 Terminate Batch Job (Y/N)? 1:08:49

1 year ago1:08:49

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Dylan's been having huge amounts of fun with C#, WASM, Ruby and JavaScript - all at the same time! Mark's been building a new thing, playing with the Meta Quest 3 and finally watching the latest Indiana Jones movie, although not at the same time.

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1.27 Drumless Daft Punk, Smart Rings and the electric Ford Capri 1:03:36

1 year ago1:03:36

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Dylan's been at home working on Rockstar 2 and enjoying Tidal's musical recommendations. Mark's been trying to work with an AMQP API using the wrong PDF document, wondering what a smart ring is, and Ford's turned the Capri into an electric SUV. And folding phones and AR headsets are like super-conducting hoverboards.…

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1.26 Lezer Grammars and Democracy Sausages 1:01:23

1 year ago1:01:23

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Oh no, I completely forgot to upload this episode last week. Sorry. Also the title is what we used on YouTube for the recording but I don't remember talking about Lezer Grammars or Democracy Sausages, although we definitely did talk about quantum crosswords, Arduinos and that scouse baby.

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1.25 There's a Kevlin Henney On The Show! 1:00:58

1 year ago1:00:58

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Mark's in Utrecht at Azure Lowlands so Stunt Mark for this episode is author, developer, consultant, thought provoker and occasional Linebreaker Kevlin Henney. Join Kevlin and Dylan as they pick apart what's been happening this week in the weird and wonderful world of technology... and hopefully Human Kevlin will be the ONLY Kevlin on this show, but you never know...…

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1.24 WinAmp, LinAmp and OpenAPIs 1:08:14

1 year ago1:08:14

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Dylan's been geeking out over a physical music player based on WinAmp, we made some music videos, and the internet's asking what "next Monday" means, which is always good for a laugh. Also we're both taking longer to recover from conferences, is that normal?

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1.23 Live from NDC Oslo 57:04

1 year ago57:04

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The lovely folks at NDC Oslo gave us a whole room and an audience to record this episode. We talk about Apple AI, Elon, and elephants, answer questions from the audience, and Mark reveals a previously unsuspected talent for dog impressions.

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1.22 We're Too Busy To Think Of A Title 1:07:21

1 year ago1:07:21

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This week Dylan and Mark are swamped with getting workshops, talks and music stuff ready for NDC Oslo, but they find time to talk about Agile software development and whether it's good or not, as well as spaceships, GitHub and various other things.

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1.21 macOS Sonoma is better than Windows 95. Fact. 1:02:47

1 year ago1:02:47

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Dylan found his new favourite thing in the entire world, Mark got ratio'd so hard on Twitter that the arithmetic overflowed, and the Windows 10 wallpaper? That's a real photograph! Also introducing a new regular feature (if we ever do it again) and news about Rockstar 2.0!

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1.20 Why See Sharp When You Could Be Flat 1:08:02

1 year ago1:08:02

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Mark's playing with GarageBand, Dylan's running Corel Linux, Google Cloud's deleting pension funds, Sam Altman's stealing ScarJo's voice (or is he), and Copilot's probably put AGPL code in every codebase on earth but can anybody prove it? Also there's a new C# compiler called Bflat but C# is Dflat so what's all that about?…

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1.19 Geek-out: SciFi Books 1:10:11

1 year ago1:10:11

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A pre-recorded show this week as Dylan and Mark are both off doing exciting things. We talk about our favourite (and not-so-favourite) sci-fi books and authors and add a few to each other's to-read list.

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1.18 Crushing Apples 1:03:24

1 year ago1:03:24

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Dylan's on a plane so Eli Holderness joins Mark to talk about tone-deaf Apple ads, functional Fortnite, privilege and neurodivergence.

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1.17 Mark's in Zurich so Eli is Stunt Mark 1:06:23

1 year ago1:06:23

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Mark had to go to Zurich for work so Eli Holderness stepped up and talked to Dylan about whatever they talked about. I don't know, I was in Zurich.

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1.16 The Ballmer Peak Is Real 1:04:30

1 year ago1:04:30

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That's right, folks - the right amount of booze makes you a better programmer, according to Science. Also Google has improved JPEG, NASA is talking to Voyager 1 again, and (checks notes) you can now buy a robot dog with a flamethrower attached for less than $10,000 including shipping. What a time to be alive, eh?…

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1.15 The Music Geek-Out 1:26:37

1 year ago1:26:37

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A pre-recorded episode because Dylan & Mark are both away this Thursday. We talk about the music we remember from our (very different) formative years, and pick our favourite albums from each decade we've been alive. Mark cheats.

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1.14 Have We Reached Peak Delve? 1:00:41

1 year ago1:00:41

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Mark's Framework Laptop 16 is finally mostly working, Dylan's been in Copenhagen reviewing conference abstracts, and everybody else is delving into dynamic landscape... or are they?

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1.13 Mark's Solved the Fermi Paradox 1:01:16

1 year ago1:01:16

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This week Mark's solved the Fermi paradox, Dylan's built a teleprompter in JavaScript (twice!), somebody (not us) nearly backdoored every Linux system on the planet, and we just found out laser pointers are illegal in Switzerland.

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1.12 We Have a Theme Song! 1:03:32

1 year ago1:03:32

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We said when we got to 100 subscribers we'd have a theme song... well, here it is. Plus we're talking about the Redis license change, Microsoft's new Garnet project, green clouds, racing spreadsheets, and Bad Software Stockholm Syndrome.

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1.11 npm install space-chimps 1:00:28

1 year ago1:00:28

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Mark's been watching the rocket people launch new rockets, Dylan's been reading about rocket people launching old rockets, and we're talking about the npm ecosystem, building VS Code extensions, and what Disney movies have to do with Iain M. Banks. (Dylan's house fell off the internet during recording and I implied that I would edit the audio before publishing. I did not edit the audio - M) (I was going to put a picture of a space chimp on the video thumbnail but then I thought somebody might try to buy it for $25,000, so I didn't - D)…

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A Billion Rows of Code Colf 1:11:01

1 year ago1:11:01

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Dylan's been watching people play code golf with Rockstar, and pushing the key on his keyboard that tells him Cortana doesn't exist any more, Mark's been processing a billion rows of data and running FretBadger from a Raspberry Pi in his house, and Google Gemini won't show C++ code to people under 18 because apparently pointer arithmetic isn't safe for kids. What a time to be alive, eh?…

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Good and Evil 1:13:34

1 year ago1:13:34

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Mark & Dylan talk about online advertising (evil), in-ear monitors (good), Beauty in Code in Malmö (good), NCrunch version 5 and JetBrains Rider (great), and Apple deciding they're not going to kill progressive web apps after all, maybe (still a bit evil though).

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Leap Day 1:10:19

1 year ago1:10:19

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It's Leap Day! Mark & Dylan talk about leap years, Dylan's proposal for a new calendar system, why you shouldn't use AI to design your Willy Wonka experience, a tool for making your code look terrible, Mark's ongoing adventures with the Framework 16 Laptop, and more.

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Building, Hard and Soft 1:07:53

1 year ago1:07:53

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This week, Mark's been building the Framework 16 laptop, and Dylan's been building Entity Framework Core from source. Neither of them has had much success, but only one of them is now afraid of screwdrivers.

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We are old and software is fat 1:04:23

1 year ago1:04:23

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Dylan and Mark talk about the good old days where programs were so small you typed them in every time you needed them, and go off on tangents four or five levels deep. Again.

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Oh Nope'n Source! 1:02:18

1 year ago1:02:18

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This week we're talking timezones, post-conference blues - and what if the best way to support sustainable open source is to SHOCK HORROR get a job at Microsoft?

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Live from NDC London 59:38

1 year ago59:38

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This week Dylan and Mark are at NDC London showing off and geeking out. They are joined by fellow Linebreakers Eli Holderness and Hannes Lowette. Apologies for the audio quality on this one, it wasn't the ideal recording environment.

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Complicated 1:12:27

2 years ago1:12:27

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Dylan and Mark talk about running coding workshops, mechanical keyboards, estimating, Canon, complicated multi-effect pedals, tabs vs spaces and anything else that comes up.

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YAML WTFs and Invincible Snails 1:13:08

2 years ago1:13:08

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Dylan and Mark talk about YAML, bugs, contracting and an Invincible Snail that's coming after them.

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Tech, Bugs & Rock & Roll 2024-01-11 1:21:00

2 years ago1:21:00