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• 09.05.2023

  Making React 70% faster with Aiden Bai of Million.js

  React is an immensely popular JavaScript library that is used to build website user interfaces. A key feature of React is that it uses a virtual Document Object Model, or DOM, to selectively update the desired regions of the web...

  
• 08.17.2023

  Cross-functional Incident Management with Ashley Sawatsky and Niall Murphy

  Incident management is the process of managing and resolving unexpected disruptions or issues in software systems, especially those that are customer-facing or critical to business operations. Implementing a robust incident management system is often a key challenge in technical environments....

  
• 08.01.2023

  SDKs for your API with Sagar Batchu

  APIs are ubiquitous and critical to building modern software, and developers must frequently develop custom APIs to streamline user access to their services. However, making an API that provides a great developer experience can be a time-consuming endeavor. As a...

  
• 06.15.2023

  Shipping Features with Ben Rometsch

  Feature flags also known as feature toggles, release toggles or feature flippers are a way to enable or disable a particular feature from your app without making any changes to the source code. You can turn on or off a...

  
• 06.06.2023

  Modern Robotics Platform with Eliot Horowitz

  Programming robotics software has traditionally been a specialized field. The software industry has seen rapid progress, the operating system that provides the foundation for our software applications is taken care of by companies like Google, Microsoft, and other players like...

  
• 05.01.2023

  Bug Reporting is Broken and how Jam is Fixing that with Dani Grant & Mohd Irtefa

  Bug reporting hasn’t changed since the 1990’s. Despite all the technological advancements we’ve made in the rest of software development, the way we handle bugs has stayed the same. It is common practice for non technical teams to provide bug...

  
• 11.10.2021

  #FREEZUCK | ?masked…?… !(DOCTORS)!!

  Software Engineering Daily invites Owen Frank Davis, Paul Davis, Kyle Davis, and Robbie Davis for a joint interview on the subject of reproduction and teething, as well as Lisch fascitis. Aledade and Kubernetes are both inconsiderate ideas for navigation. They...

  
• 11.09.2021

  Where is Edaena Salinas?

  My ex-girlfriend is missing and I am hoping to reach her. This song is a message to her potential enemies. See other recent episodes.

  
• 10.19.2021

  Meme.com with Johan Unger

  Whether you love them or hate them, share them or ignore them, you encounter memes all over the internet.  Those that are popular can often take off and spawn a long history of remixes, variants, derivatives, and inspired works. In...

  
• 12.18.2019

  Roblox Engineering with Claus Moberg

  Roblox is a gaming platform with a large ecosystem of players, creators, game designers, and entrepreneurs. The world of Roblox is a three-dimensional environment where characters and objects interact through a physics engine. Roblox is multiplayer, and users can interact...

  
• 11.25.2019

  Indie Hackers with Courtland Allen Holiday Repeat

  Originally published November 4, 2016 Indie Hackers is a website that profiles independent developers who have made profitable software projects, usually without raising any money. These projects make anywhere from a few hundred dollars a month to more than $100,000...

  
• 11.20.2019

  Indie Hack or Venture Back with Lynne Tye

  Key Values is a platform where companies are profiled with descriptions of their company values. These profiles describe features such as work-life balance, company culture, daily routines, and strategy. Lynne Tye created Key Values with the goal of building a...

  
• 06.29.2019

  FindCollabs Hackathon Winners: Kitspace and Rivaly

  FindCollabs is a platform for finding collaborators and building projects. Three months ago we had our first hackathon, with lots of projects being created and collaborated on. In an earlier episode, we showcased the first place winner ARhythm.  Today’s show...

  
• 05.23.2019

  Gaming with Eli Brown

  Gaming is becoming mainstream. Popular multiplayer games such as Fortnite and Minecraft present players with a massive virtual world to explore, build, and compete within. Turn-based games such as Hearthstone and Magic are breeding a new generation of board game...

  
• 05.20.2019

  Emerging Markets: Kenya with Nelly Cheboi

  Africa is rapidly adopting the same software and hardware technologies that have transformed the western world over the last few decades. But access to computers and technology education is still uneven. Where there is access to computers, smartphone adoption often...

  
• 11.14.2018

  SPIFFE: Zero Trust Workload Identification with Evan Gilman

  Modern software consists of sprawling international networks of servers. Users contact these servers to access applications. Microservices talk to each other to fulfill complicated requests. Databases and machine learning frameworks crunch terabytes of information to provide complicated answers. Across this...

  
• 10.09.2018

  Digital Privacy with Aran Khanna

  When Aran Khanna was a college student, he accepted an internship to work at Facebook. Even before his internship started, he started playing around with Facebook’s APIs and applications. Aran built a Chrome extension called Marauder’s Map, which used Facebook...

  
• 07.31.2018

  Jailbreaking Apple Watch with Max Bazaliy

  Apple operating systems are closed source. This closed source nature gives Apple an extremely successful business model–and a very different software developer ecosystem than Linux-based systems. Since Linux is open source, the information on how to manipulate the system at...

  
• 07.16.2018

  Counting People with Andrew Farah

  If you operate a restaurant, you want to know how many people are inside your restaurant at any given time. You also want to be able to know your occupancy if you operate a movie theater, coffee shop, or apparel...

  
• 07.02.2018

  Kademlia: P2P Distributed Hash Table with Petar Maymounkov

  Napster, Kazaa, and Bittorrent are peer-to-peer file sharing systems. In these P2P systems, nodes need to find each other. Users need to be able to search for files that exist across the system. P2P systems are decentralized, so these routing...

  
• 06.23.2018

  Browser Building with Osine Ikhianosime

  Crocodile Browser is a fast browser built by Osine and Anesi Ikhianosime, a pair of brothers from Nigeria. I interviewed them 3 years ago, and in this episode I caught up with Osine to learn what he and his brother...

  
• 06.12.2018

  Necto: Build an ISP with Adam Montgomery

  In the tech industry, we have all grown to fear “lock-in.” Lock-in is a situation in which you have no choice but to pay a certain provider for some aspect of your computer services. Since computers are so fundamental to...

  
• 06.05.2018

  Profilers with Julia Evans

  When software is performing suboptimally, the programmer can use a variety of tools to diagnose problems and improve the quality of the code. A profiler is a tool for examining where a program is spending time. Every program consists of...

  
• 05.29.2018

  Pi Hole: Ad Blocker Hardware with Jacob Salmela

  Ad blockers in the browser protect us from the most annoying marketing messages that the Internet tries to serve to us. But we still pay a price for these ads. We pay the bandwidth costs of requesting these pages. Our...

  
• 01.30.2018

  Design Principles From Functional Programming with Runar Bjarnason

  Functional programming can improve the overall design of application architecture. Runar Bjarnason has been exploring how writing in a functional style increases the modularity and compositionality of software for many years. He is co-author of Functional Programming in Scala, a...

  
• 12.29.2017

  Dwarf Fortress with Tarn Adams Holiday Repeat

  Originally published October 22, 2015 “The official motto that we have in our help manual is ‘Losing is fun!’ ” Dwarf Fortress is a construction and management simulation computer game set in a procedurally generated fantasy world in which the...

  
• 12.28.2017

  Language Design with Brian Kernighan Holiday Repeat

  Originally published January 6, 2016 “The best computer science is the kind where the theory is inspired by some practical problem, you develop a better theoretical understanding of what you want to do, and that feeds back into better practice.”...

  
• 07.31.2017

  Health Wearables with Haiyan Zhang

  Wearables are everywhere. In the medical field they are transforming lives. Haiyan Zhang, Innovation Director at Microsoft Research, created a wearable for a young graphic designer that developed Parkinson’s. Parkinson’s is a condition that inhibits movement, and this wearable allows...

  
• 06.22.2017

  Hackathons with Lizette Chapman

  Professional hackathon programmers travel around the hackathon circuit, winning merchandise and small cash prizes. There are enough hackathons that some programmers actually do this as a full-time job. For example, Peter Ma, a programmer who describes himself as a “rapid...

  
• 06.02.2017

  GitLab with Pablo Carranza

  On January 31st 2017, GitLab experienced a major outage of their online repository hosting service. The primary database server experienced data loss due to a combination of malicious spam attacks and engineering mistakes that occurred while trying to respond to...

  
• 05.26.2017

  Off-Grid Social Network with Andre Staltz

  Social networks like Facebook and Twitter facilitate interactions between individuals. Every message I send to you on Facebook goes through Facebook’s servers before reaching you. This is known as the client-server model. Since the early days of the internet, engineers...

  
• 05.24.2017

  Relay Modern with Lee Byron and Joe Savona

  Relay is a JavaScript framework for building data-driven React applications. Facebook open sourced Relay around the same time they open sourced GraphQL, and Facebook expected Relay to be the more popular of the two projects. However, the reality was reversed....

  
• 05.03.2017

  Zencastr with Josh Nielsen

  There are certain experiences when a product solves a problem so thoroughly and elegantly that it lifts a weight off of your shoulders that you didn’t even know was there. Dropbox did this with file storage. Slack did this with...

  
• 04.28.2017

  Robot Assistant with Abhishek Singh

  We view our iPhones as inanimate objects. But when we see robots such as the Boston Dynamics machines that move with a motion that seems like an animal, the robot comes alive. We feel more sympathy and connection towards it....

  
• 01.30.2017

  Making Money Online for Software Engineers with Courtland Allen

  Engineers today have a variety of career options. You could go work for a large corporation, you could raise money and start a startup, you could freelance and move from job to job with freedom–or you could start a business...

  
• 01.27.2017

  Robots for the Elderly with Itai Mendelsohn

  Many elderly people live with unhealthy levels of isolation. Social isolation is a problem for anybody, but younger people can use technology to alleviate their isolation with tools like Skype and Facebook. How can we bridge the generational gap and...

  
• 12.28.2016

  Robot Cloud Lab with Max Hodak

  A biologist wants to study the genetic makeup of an organism. A pharmaceutical researcher wants to test the effects of an experimental drug. These types of experiments require a deep knowledge of the scientific domain as well as the lab...

  
• 12.22.2016

  Sampling with Daniel Trostli

  Every song you hear on the radio is written with a computer. Computer musicians mostly use synthesizers and samples to compose these songs. A sample is a snippet of recorded sound, sometimes taken from a songs, a movie, or another...

  
• 12.15.2016

  Bots with Jon Bruner

  Over the next few years, bots will pervade our lives more and more. These smart, conversational text interfaces provide a new way of engaging with the computer systems that we have been mostly interacting with through web and mobile app...

  
• 12.08.2016

  How Software Engineering Daily Works

  Software Engineering Daily was started a year and a half ago, based on what I learned from my podcasting experience on Software Engineering Radio. Last week, I interviewed Robert Blumen, the editor of Software Engineering Radio, about how that podcast...

  
• 12.06.2016

  Bot Memorial with Eugenia Kuyda

  When a human passes away, we create a tombstone as a memorial. Friends and family visit a grave to remember the times they had with that person while they were still alive. Memorial bots are another way to celebrate the...

  
• 12.03.2016

  Adforprize

  There are multiple paths to constructing a piece of software from start to finish. An individual programmer can build an entire product from scratch in a couple days. A giant corporation can commission a project and delegate responsibilities to hundreds...

  
• 12.02.2016

  Robot Lawyer with Joshua Browder

  You have probably received a parking ticket that you felt was unfair,   but instead of fighting it, you paid the expensive price to get rid of it quickly. Fighting a parking ticket sounds like it would be so time consuming...

  
• 11.30.2016

  Software Podcasting with Robert Blumen

  Four years ago, I started volunteering for a popular podcast about software–Software Engineering Radio. For the next two years, I learned about the process of making a quality podcast about engineering. With its emphasis on preparation, timeless engineering principles, and...

  
• 11.28.2016

  Biological Computation with Colin Gravill

  Biology research at Microsoft is focused on three main areas: molecular programming, synthetic biology, and stem cell biology. At the intersection of biology and computing there are implications for health, medicine, and efficient computing techniques. The field of Biological Computation...

  
• 11.19.2016

  Debugging Stories with Haseeb Qureshi

  Everyone has debugging stories. We have all had the experience of wrestling with a seemingly impossible bug for days until we finally come to a solution. In today’s episode, Haseeb Qureshi retells some of his favorite debugging stories: The case...

  
• 11.12.2016

  Bot Day

  Bot Day was an O’Reilly conference featuring talks from some of the leading figures in the bot industry. Before I attended Bot Day, I knew there were lots of applications for chatbots, but I didn’t realize how good the tooling...

  
• 11.04.2016

  Indie Hackers with Courtland Allen

  Indie Hackers is a website that profiles independent developers who have made profitable software projects, usually without raising any money. These projects make anywhere from a few hundred dollars a month to more than $100,000 as in the case with...

  
• 10.31.2016

  Musicians’ GitHub with Alan Grow

  Music collaboration software that works over the Internet is a software challenge that has not been fully tackled. On today’s Internet, users collaborate intensively on programming projects, journalism, and other projects, but the tools for collaborating on music online have...

  
• 10.18.2016

  Simpsons Data Science with Todd Schneider

  The Simpsons is a classic, beloved television show. The scripts of The Simpsons have been made publicly available, and include dialogue, location, and character information. Todd Schneider used these scripts and other information sources as a corpus to analyze The...