What is debugging? How should you approach it? Strategies for different types of bugs and common pitfalls. Jaffee brings the knowledge, and Jason has the management perspective. What does your manager want to hear when you're working on a bug?

Jason delves into the minutiae of Agile, Scrum, and Kanban while Jaffee vents his frustration with the myopic focus on process details.

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In this episode, Jason longs for the old days when these darn kids weren't ruining software. Jaffee pushes him to look for the deeper cause.

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Special guest David Kagan joins the show to talk about how, and why he made the transition from accomplished ER nurse to junior software engineer and how those first months have gone.

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Jason hits Jaffee with a surprise topic: a discussion of a recent migration from BoltDB to Postgres. Pros/cons, lessons learned, spicy opinions, and lame jokes... it's all here.

In this episode, Jaffee is obnoxiously excited about LLMs while Jason plays the curmudgeonly luddite. They both agree though that this technology is incredibly powerful and will shape our future for better or worse.

As a leader my experience is 1:1’s are the easiest and most important time spent by managers.  This podcast will detail my 4 simple questions which can be used to facilitate productive and actionable conversation with your direct reports.

In this episode, Jason and Jaffee discuss software estimates, why they're important and why they SUCK—er sorry, why they're difficult and nuanced. Give it a listen :)

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In this episode, Jason demonstrates his approach to senior engineering interviews... by interviewing Jaffee! If you've ever wondered what it's like to be interviewed for a senior engineering position or are looking for ideas for your own interviews, this is for you.

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There once were Engineers from Umbel.  

But at times their product would stumble. 

They went to square one, made a database for fun. 

And now their customers don’t grumble.

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