Tech, Bugs & Rock & Roll

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...

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?

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.

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.

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!

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?

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.

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

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.

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?