Podcasting
The podcast and YouTube software development scene is very active. When I was growing up network TV had content like news, lifestyle, educational, parody, but only at the most generic national level. Today every niche can have a similar range of content. Some is serious, some is frivolous, and there’s a broad spectrum in between.
Software Engineering Radio
I’ve been a volunteer host on the “SE Radio” podcast since 2021. Each volunteer produces and records five shows per year. The show releases new episodes weekly, since there are around ten volunteer hosts at a time.
These are some of the shows I’ve hosted, for the full list see my page on the Software Engineering Radio Podcast site.
- 608 – Lane Wagner on Revisiting the Go Language
- 596 – Maxim Fateev on Durable Execution with Temporal
- 591 – Yechezkel Rabinovich on Kubernetes Observability
- 583 - Lucas Fittl on Postgres Performance
- 562 – Bastian Gruber on Rust Web Development
- 557 – Timothy Beamish on React and Next.js
- 549 – William Falcon on Optimizing Deep Learning Models
- 537 – Adam Warski on Scala and Tapir
- 497 – Richard L. Sites on Understanding Software Dynamics
- 493 – Ram Sriharsha on Vectors in Machine Learning
- 484 – Audrey Lawrence on Timeseries Databases
Backend Banter
In January 2024 I was a guest on Lane Wagner’s Boot.dev podcast called Backend Banter. My episode was focused on my 2020 article Brain Oriented Programming about a specific way OOP can go bad: your objects are not themselves object-oriented. I later interviewed Lane on SE Radio #608:
Whiskey Web and Whatnot
I recorded an episode of Whiskey Web and Whatnot in June. When it airs I will put a link here. The show contains a mix of whiskey tasting, casual chatting, and technical stuff.