Dealing with a crisis as a developer, how to keep everyone in the loop while you fix systems and code, why pointing the blame isn’t useful, some of our horror stories, and more.

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What we are likely to be doing when you hear this, and why it’s unlikely to involve much in the way of development. This is a short episode because Joe is having a break for the Christmas period.

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How far you can go with eliminating global variables, forcing everything you ever need to be passed in as arguments.

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When the right time to make a big change to your software is, how you get users to test pre-release versions, how long you keep old features around, when that’s not possible, and more.

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What object-oriented programming is, why it went out of fashion, and how more modern approaches to development incorporate some of its aspects.

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Some of the languages that we love and why we love them. It’s not just Rust, honest!

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With constant news stories about security issues with developer-published software in package managers like npm, we weigh up the pros and cons of this approach to distributing open source software.

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What makes a good commit, the tools we use to help us produce good commits, and why we care about this.

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Some of the alternatives to GitHub that we use, why we use them, and how they differ in terms of features and workflows.

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A lot of key open source software is paid for by large companies. That has some advantages, but it can also cause some issues. Maybe it would be better if more FOSS development was paid for by smaller companies and contributions from users.

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