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- Software Engineering Daily
FreeBSD with John Baldwin
FreeBSD is one of the longest-running and most influential open-source operating systems in the world. It was born from the Berkeley Software Distribution in…
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Cilium, eBPF, and Modern Kubernetes Networking with Bill Mulligan
Modern cloud-native systems are built on highly dynamic, distributed infrastructure where containers spin up and down constantly, services communicate across…
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Games That Push Back with Bennett Foddy
Bennett Foddy is a legendary game designer known for creating wholly distinctive games such as QWOP, Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy, and the recently…
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Prettier and Opinionated Code Formatting with James Long
Developer tooling shapes how software gets written day to day, but the best tools often disappear into the background once they succeed. Formatting, linting…
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Skate Story with Sam Eng
Skateboarding games have long balanced technical precision with a sense of flow and expression, but Skate Story takes the genre in a radically different…
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DeepMind’s RAG System with Animesh Chatterji and Ivan Solovyev
Retrieval-augmented generation, or RAG, has become a foundational approach to building production AI systems. However, deploying RAG in practice can be complex…
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Reinventing the Python Notebook with Akshay Agrawal
Interactive notebooks were popularized by the Jupyter project and have since become a core tool for data science, research, and data exploration. However…
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Organizational Context for AI Coding Agents with Dennis Pilarinos
AI agents have taken on a growing share of software development work, so much so that the hardest problems are shifting away from code generation towards…
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SED News: OpenClaw Goes Viral, Mistral’s Compute Play, and the Agent Arms Race
SED News is a monthly podcast from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer unpack the biggest stories shaping software…
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Amazon’s IDE for Spec-Driven Development with David Yanacek
AI-assisted coding tools have made it easier than ever to spin up prototypes, but turning those prototypes into reliable, production-grade systems remains a…
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Engineering AI Systems for Autonomy and Resilience with Krishna Sai
Enterprise IT systems have grown into sprawling, highly distributed environments spanning cloud infrastructure, applications, data platforms, and increasingly…
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Inside China’s Great Firewall with Jackson Sippe
China’s Great Firewall is often spoken about but is rarely understood. It is one of the most sophisticated and opaque censorship systems on the planet…
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Optimizing Agent Behavior in Production with Gideon Mendels
LLM -powered systems continue to move steadily into production, but this process is presenting teams with challenges that traditional software practices…
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Gas Town, Beads, and the Rise of Agentic Development with Steve Yegge
AI-assisted programming has moved far beyond autocomplete. Large language models are now capable of editing entire codebases, coordinating long-running tasks…
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Python 3.14 with Łukasz Langa
Python 3.14 is here and continues Python’s evolution toward greater performance, scalability, and usability. The new release formally supports free-threaded…
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Airbnb’s Open-Source GraphQL Framework with Adam Miskiewicz
Engineering teams often build microservices as their systems grow, but over time this can lead to a fragmented ecosystem with scattered data access patterns…
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SED News: Apple Bets on Gemini, Google’s AI Advantage, and the Talent Arms Race
SED News is a monthly podcast from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer unpack the biggest stories shaping software…
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OpenAI and Codex with Thibault Sottiaux and Ed Bayes
AI coding agents are rapidly reshaping how software is built, reviewed, and maintained. As large language model capabilities continue to increase, the…
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Production-Grade AI Systems with Fred Roma
Engineering teams around the world are building AI-focused applications or integrating AI features into existing products. The AI development ecosystem is…
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Next-Gen JavaScript Package Management with Ruy Adorno and Darcy Clarke
Package management sits at the foundation of modern software development, quietly powering nearly every software project in the world. Tools like npm and Yarn…
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WebAssembly 3.0 with Andreas Rossberg
WebAssembly, or WASM, has grown from a low-level compilation target for C and C++ into one of the most influential technologies in modern computing. It now…
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America Under Surveillance with Michael Soyfer
Surveillance technology is advancing faster than the laws meant to govern it. Across the United States, police departments are deploying automated license…
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Developer Experience at Capital One with Catherine McGarvey
Modern software development is evolving rapidly. New tools, processes, and AI-powered systems are reshaping how teams collaborate and how engineers find…
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Flox, Nix, and Reproducible Software Systems with Michael Stahnke
Modern software development is more complex than ever. Teams work across different operating systems, chip architectures, and cloud environments, each with its…
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VS Code and Agentic Development with Kai Maetzel
Visual Studio Code has become one of the most influential tools in modern software development. The open-source code editor has evolved into a platform used by…
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Blender and Godot in Game Development with Simon Thommes
Blender Studio is the creative arm of the Blender Foundation and it’s dedicated to producing films, games, and other projects that showcase the full potential…
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Node.js in 2026 with Rafael Gonzaga
JavaScript has grown far beyond the browser. It now powers millions of backend systems, APIs, and cloud services through Node.js, which is one of the most…
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Designing Innovative Puzzle Games with Zach Barth
Zachtronics is a legendary independent game studio known for creating intricate, engineering-focused puzzle games that merge logic, creativity, and code. The…
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Rivals of Aether with Dan Fornace
Rivals of Aether and Rivals of Aether II are indie fighting games that combine fast-paced platform combat with elemental-themed characters. The game takes…
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Aviation Cybersecurity with Serge Christiaans
Aviation cybersecurity is becoming an urgent priority as modern aircraft increasingly rely on complex digital systems for navigation, communication, and engine…
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Blocking Software Supply Chain Attacks with Feross Aboukhadijeh
Modern software relies heavily on open source dependencies, often pulling in thousands of packages maintained by developers all over the world. This…
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Pydantic AI with Samuel Colvin
Python’s popularity in data science and backend engineering has made it the default language for building AI infrastructure. However, with the rapid growth of…
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SED News: Bezos Returns to Building, AI’s Reality Check, and Europe’s Cloud Ambitions
SED News is a monthly podcast from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer unpack the biggest stories shaping software…
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Game Development on the PICO-8 with Johan Peitz
PICO-8 is a software-based gaming console for making, sharing, and playing small games with a retro aesthetic. It emulates the look and feel of 8-bit consoles…
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Running Doom in TypeScript with Dimitri Mitropoulos
Doom has seemingly been ported to every electronic device imaginable, including picture frames, lamps, and coffee machines. The meme of “it runs Doom” has…
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Drone Warfare in Ukraine with Simon Shuster
Simon Shuster is a journalist who has reported on Russia and Ukraine for over 15 years, most of that time as a staff correspondent for TIME Magazine. He was…
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Radix UI with Chance Strickland
Radix UI is an open-source library of React components. Its “headless” primitives handle the complex logic and accessibility concerns—like dialogs, dropdowns…
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The 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey with Jody Bailey and Erin Yepis
The Stack Overflow Developer Survey is an annual survey conducted by Stack Overflow that gathers comprehensive insights from developers around the world. It…
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Building an Open-Source Laptop with Byran Huang
Byran Huang is a full stack developer who recently made headlines in the hacker space when he created the anyon_e, which is a highly integrated, open source…
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The Architecture of the Internet with Erik Seidel
The modern internet is a vast web of independent networks bound together by billions of routing decisions made every second. It’s an architecture so reliable…
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SED News: AMD’s Big OpenAI Deal, Intel’s Struggles, and Apple’s AI Long Game
SED News is a monthly podcast from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer unpack the biggest stories shaping software…
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Building AI Agents on the Frontend with Sam Bhagwat and Abhi Aiyer
Most AI agent frameworks are backend-focused and written in Python, which introduces complexity when building full-stack AI applications with JavaScript or…
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The X-Plane Flight Simulator with Ben Supnik
X-Plane is a popular flight simulator developed by Laminar Research. It features a first-principles physics engine, realistic aircraft systems, and a wide…
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Turning Agent Autonomy into Productivity with Chris Weichel
A common challenge in software development is creating and maintaining robust development environments. The rise of AI agents has amplified this complexity by…
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Homebrew and macOS Package Management with Mike McQuaid
Homebrew is a widely used package manager that simplifies the installation of open-source software on macOS. It was created in response to the growing demand…
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Engineering in the Age of Agents with Yechezkel Rabinovich
Modern software platforms are increasingly composed of diverse microservices, third-party APIs, and cloud resources. The distributed nature of these systems…
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Static Analysis for Ruby with Jake Zimmerman
Dynamic languages like Ruby, Python, and JavaScript determine the types of variables at runtime rather than at compile time. This flexibility allows for rapid…
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Scaling AI in Enterprise Codebases with Guy Gur-Ari
The rise of language-model coding assistants has led to the creation of the vibe coding paradigm. In this mode of software development, AI agents take a plain…
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SED News: NVIDIA Bets on Intel, Meta’s Demo Crash, and Anthropic’s Explosive Growth
SED News is a monthly podcast from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer unpack the biggest stories shaping software…
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Orkes and Agentic Workflow Orchestration with Viren Baraiya
Modern software systems are composed of many independent microservices spanning frontends, backends, APIs, and AI models, and coordinating and scaling them…
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Turbopuffer with Simon Hørup Eskildsen
Vector search has become a foundational technology for AI applications, enabling everything from semantic code search to contextual retrieval for large…
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Building an Indie Hit in Godot with Jay Baylis and Tom Coxon
Cassette Beasts is a turn-based monster-battling RPG that lets players record creatures onto cassette tapes and transform into them during battle. The game was…
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Rethinking GraphQL Frontends with Robert Balicki
A challenge in modern frontend application design is efficiently fetching and managing GraphQL data while keeping UI components responsive and maintainable…
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pnpm with Zoltan Kochan
Traditional package management systems for JavaScript have faced several inefficiencies related to dependency storage, resolution, and project performance…
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SurrealDB 3.0 and Building Event-Driven AI Applications with Tobie Morgan Hitchcock
Modern application development often involves juggling multiple types of databases to handle diverse data models. The lack of unification can lead to complex…
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Angular with Jessica Janiuk
Modern web development faces several challenges, particularly when building scalable, maintainable, and high-performance applications. As applications grow…
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SED News: Perplexity’s Chrome Play, Meta’s AI Freeze, and Intel Becomes Too Big to Fail
SED News is a monthly podcast from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer unpack the biggest stories shaping software…
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Context-Aware SQL and Metadata with Shinji Kim
A common challenge in data-rich organizations is that critical context about the data is often hard to capture and even harder to keep up to date. As more…
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Modern Data Visualization with Robert Kosara
Data visualization is increasingly important as organizations prioritize data-driven decision-making. Tools that transform complex datasets into intuitive…
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A Conversation with Amazon CTO Werner Vogels
Werner Vogels is the Chief Technology Officer at Amazon, where he has played a pivotal role in shaping the company’s technology vision for over two decades…