Linux Dev Time

Linux Dev Time – Episode 160 Oct 4, 2026 25:04 Dogfooding: is it useful? Is it necessary? Can you build an application that people like to use without dogfooding? What are the differences between dogfooding and mere testing?                 Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed

Linux Dev Time – Episode 159 Sep 20, 2026 25:56 Our fantasy programming language features.               Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed

Linux Dev Time – Episode 158 Sep 6, 2026 26:57 Andy recently wrote that product quality is proportional to attention and code quality is inversely proportional to pressure. Is he right?               Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed

Linux Dev Time – Episode 157 Aug 23, 2026 26:52 Macros: are they a superpower, a necessary evil, or a mistake?                   Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed

Linux Dev Time – Episode 156 Aug 9, 2026 25:31 How deep should you go with your understanding of systems?                 Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed

Linux Dev Time – Episode 155 Jul 26, 2026 26:20 Does language choice actually matter?               Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed

Linux Dev Time – Episode 154 Jul 12, 2026 23:28 With an increase in the number of security bugs being disclosed irresponsibly, we dig into how the process should work, the differences between normal bugs and security bugs, the complexities of coordinating patches, the human issues involved, and more.           Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   See our contact page for

Linux Dev Time – Episode 153 Jun 28, 2026 7:07 The bit of code we admire most and why. This is a short episode because Joe is having a summer break.             Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed

Linux Dev Time – Episode 152 Jun 14, 2026 25:04 We get into the process of working on and with formal protocol specifications, something Andy is familiar with from his work on Matrix.               Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed

Linux Dev Time – Episode 151 May 31, 2026 28:18 What makes a good library?               Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed

Linux Dev Time – Episode 150 May 17, 2026 28:45 Andy has been taking the One Billion Row Challenge, and has been thinking about the broader question of what makes software fast.   Andy’s videos on Peertube and YouTube.             Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed

Linux Dev Time – Episode 149 May 3, 2026 21:58 It’s yet another hot questions episode. Colour schemes, syntax highlighting, code patterns, fonts, and keyboards.             Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed

Linux Dev Time – Episode 148 Apr 19, 2026 26:59 We get into dependency management. The pros and cons of tools like Dependabot, the varying approaches with different languages and standard library sizes, the times when pinning dependencies makes sense, and more.   Turn Dependabot Off             Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   See our contact page for ways

Linux Dev Time – Episode 147 Apr 5, 2026 23:31 It’s another hot questions episode. Whether we think better on our own or with other people, our non-standard debugging habits, favourite interview questions, coding at night, character encoding, and abolishing time zones.             Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   See our contact page for ways to get in to

Linux Dev Time – Episode 146 Mar 22, 2026 25:10 In the wake of Discord’s recent announcement about age verification, Matrix recently came in for a lot of criticism by a lot of people who said it’s not a viable replacement. Andy works on Matrix for a living and Amolith is invested in the XMPP world so we get into secure messaging, trade-offs between security and user experience, federation, and more.   Piss up at The Shipwrights

Linux Dev Time – Episode 145 Mar 8, 2026 23:54 The importance of having and sticking to correct development processes, what can go wrong when you don’t, and how to fix the problems you might end up with.               Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed

Linux Dev Time – Episode 144 Feb 22, 2026 22:44 People often like to talk down Electron, but it is really that bad? There may be better ways to use Web technologies to make desktop apps, but isn’t having Linux versions of apps a good thing no matter how they are made?   We mentioned Tauri and Wails.               Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes  

Linux Dev Time – Episode 143 Feb 8, 2026 25:42 The career progression options you have as a software engineer, moving from junior to senior dev, other paths you can go down like architecture or tech lead, and why management isn’t for everyone.               Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to

Linux Dev Time – Episode 142 Jan 25, 2026 22:46 Software complexity is a complex topic, so we dig into it.             Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed

Linux Dev Time – Episode 141 Jan 11, 2026 23:53 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.             Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed

Linux Dev Time – Episode 140 Dec 28, 2025 5:42 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.         Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed

Linux Dev Time – Episode 139 Dec 14, 2025 27:42 How far you can go with eliminating global variables, forcing everything you ever need to be passed in as arguments.         Tailscale Tailscale is an easy to deploy, zero-config, no-fuss VPN that allows you to build simple networks across complex infrastructure. Go to tailscale.com/ldt and try Tailscale out for free for up to 100 devices and 3 users, with no credit card requir

Linux Dev Time – Episode 138 Nov 30, 2025 25:00 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.           Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed

Linux Dev Time – Episode 137 Nov 16, 2025 23:12 What object-oriented programming is, why it went out of fashion, and how more modern approaches to development incorporate some of its aspects.         Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed

Linux Dev Time – Episode 136 Nov 2, 2025 27:06 Some of the languages that we love and why we love them. It’s not just Rust, honest!         Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed

Linux Dev Time – Episode 135 Oct 19, 2025 26:02 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.         Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed

Linux Dev Time – Episode 134 Oct 5, 2025 24:56 What makes a good commit, the tools we use to help us produce good commits, and why we care about this.           Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed

Linux Dev Time – Episode 133 Sep 21, 2025 23:24 Some of the alternatives to GitHub that we use, why we use them, and how they differ in terms of features and workflows.           Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed

Linux Dev Time – Episode 132 Sep 7, 2025 25:02 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.             Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   See our contact page for ways

Linux Dev Time – Episode 131 Aug 24, 2025 26:03 We explore the differences between terms like coder, software developer, engineer, and architect. They are often used interchangeably, but there can be real differences between them. Or at least once upon a time there were differences.       Vibe coders are in for a shock. Writing code was never that hard. Don’t Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You         &nbsp

Linux Dev Time – Episode 130 Aug 10, 2025 21:11 Not invented here syndrome is very common in open source. We get into why that is, when it makes sense to start your own project from scratch, and how contributing to existing software can sometimes be better for everyone.             Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   See our contact page for ways to get in touch.

Linux Dev Time – Episode 129 Jul 27, 2025 30:01 With the recent news of Bcachefs (probably) being removed from the Linux kernel, we are joined by Allan Jude from 2.5 Admins and Klara to discuss some of what we think went wrong, how to manage and maintain multiple releases of a project at once, and why release engineering is an important concept.         Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes so

Linux Dev Time – Episode 128 Jul 13, 2025 22:32 What it takes to sustain a medium-to-large-sized open source project.           Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed

Linux Dev Time – Episode 127 Jun 29, 2025 29:55 When and how to use benchmarking in your project, why it’s hard, and why optimising your code can be even harder.   Blog post about the speed of ripgrep hyperfine: A command-line benchmarking tool Profile-guided optimization Andy benchmarking IndexedDb             Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   See o

Linux Dev Time – Episode 126 Jun 15, 2025 25:25 How we deal with complex projects involving non-technical people as well as developers. How to manage expectations about timing, how to deal with issues, why documenting conversations is important, and more.           Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS f

Linux Dev Time – Episode 125 Jun 1, 2025 26:49 What are the fundamental ideas and components of development and programming?         Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed

Linux Dev Time – Episode 124 May 18, 2025 20:51 It’s another hot questions episode. Tabs vs spaces, whether we have imposter syndrome, why software keeps getting heavier, the correct length of functions and files, and what every programmer should know.   Some things we mentioned: Interesting Characters (UTF-16, utf-8, Unicode, encodings) Software Design is Knowledge Building The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Must Know Ab

Linux Dev Time – Episode 123 May 4, 2025 25:51 Andy is convinced that functional programming isn’t boring. Listen to find out if he’s right!   Functional Programming & Haskell Beautiful Racket Functional Programming & Haskell – Computerphile         Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe t

Linux Dev Time – Episode 122 Apr 20, 2025 22:28 We’ve done hot takes episodes in the past but this is different, it’s hot questions. Would we rather have bad managers who can code or good managers who can’t? Too many comments or none? 80 columns or as long as you like? What editor do we use and why?   Vim for Fun or PeerTube version       Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes

Linux Dev Time – Episode 121 Apr 6, 2025 24:00 Joe accidentally tried vibe coding and it was as much of a disaster as you’d imagine. Amolith has also tried it, and does his best to defend the use of LLMs with development. Kevin and Andy are mostly bemused. We all have concerns about the ethics and environmental issues. This episode has a bit more bad language than usual.         Support us on Patreon and get an ad-fre

Linux Dev Time – Episode 120 Mar 23, 2025 28:50 Our advice on how to move into a career in software development including making and contributing to projects, advocating for your work, collaborating, avoiding exploitation, learning Git, and loads more.           Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed

Linux Dev Time – Episode 119 Mar 9, 2025 28:11 Andy is only publishing his games on F-Droid and not the Google Play Store from now on, and he tells us why.   Rabbit Escape Box Stacker Smolpxl Games Adresilo Sepia Search             Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed

Linux Dev Time – Episode 118 Feb 23, 2025 27:45 We dig into the technical details of the Linux Kernel Rust drama.       Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed

Linux Dev Time – Episode 117 Feb 9, 2025 24:35 Mark from Linux Matters who’s a web developer joins us to talk about working in PHP – a language that’s mature and well established, and how that compares with working with newer “cooler” languages like Rust and Go.   Moodle Mark’s Bash text adventure Bash associative array examples       Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with

Linux Dev Time – Episode 116 Jan 26, 2025 20:30 Where is the balance between efficiency and openness when it comes to saved file formats? If everything was based on plain text it would make the files readable for years to come, but at what cost?         Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed

Linux Dev Time – Episode 115 Jan 12, 2025 22:18 We dig into SQLite – an interesting and unusual project that is widely used but has an uncommon licence, a proprietary test suite, and doesn’t take external contributions. Plus printf() vs “proper” debugging.           Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   See our contact page for ways to get in touch

Linux Dev Time – Episode 114 Dec 29, 2024 23:21 We explore the line between developer and sysadmin and come to the conclusion that despite the clear difference between the roles, there is a lot of crossover when it comes to skills and character traits.   The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security       Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   See our contact page for ways to get

Linux Dev Time – Episode 113 Dec 15, 2024 28:33 We are joined by popey from Linux Matters to talk about how software packaging has changed over the years. The tooling has improved massively, containerisation has made a huge impact, but Andy still prefers the old distro repo model.     Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the

Linux Dev Time – Episode 112 Dec 1, 2024 25:07 More of our development hot takes including excessive energy use, optimising your code, the importance of licences, Matrix and Jabber being on the same side, the myth of secure code, and why self-hosting is hard. watt-wiser         1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device. Support the show and check it out at 1password.com/linuxde

Linux Dev Time – Episode 111 Nov 17, 2024 21:18 Some of the work-adjacent things that we do including writing code that we shouldn’t like writing Rust in Rust, fun projects that turned into paid work, and career progression. Plus some of our go to resources for learning about development.   Some resources we mentioned Andy’s videos – Rust, General Lobsters Amolith’s RSS feeds Computer inside Terraria Fasterthanlime Self-Directe

Linux Dev Time – Episode 110 Nov 3, 2024 24:30 Our development hot takes including “rewrite it in Rust”, lack of documentation, single vs multiple monitors, dependency numbers, light vs dark mode, and distro package repos.     Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed

Linux Dev Time – Episode 109 Oct 20, 2024 25:33 You need to be able to write good code to be a successful developer, but how important are other “soft” skills like communication, relating to and motivating others, and time management? Kevin mentioned a blog post about burnout in the Rust project         1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device. Support the show and

Linux Dev Time – Episode 108 Oct 6, 2024 26:15 Campbell Barton joins us to talk about porting Blender, the hugely popular professional 3D software, to Wayland.   Wayland support in blender task Wayland Support on Linux         Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed

Linux Dev Time – Episode 107 Sep 22, 2024 26:27 What is it about Linux that draws us to it as a development platform? Plus why we choose the specific distros that we use.           1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device. Support the show and check it out at 1password.com/linuxdevtime     Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes some

Linux Dev Time – Episode 106 Sep 8, 2024 24:42 Following on from our episode about dealing with a horrible codebase, Andy argues that completely rewriting a project is almost always a bad idea. Things You Should Never Do, Part I         Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed

Linux Dev Time – Episode 105 Aug 25, 2024 24:54 Kevin and Andy talk about their project extremes: the oldest and newest projects they’ve worked on, the biggest and smallest codebases, the ugliest hack, the most elegant, the most popular, the most trivial, and the most important.   Andy’s links git-what IGCC Box Stacker Rightwaves Eat Apples Quick! Smolpxl Games Rabbit Escape Android Game element-web matrix-rust-sdk FreeGuide i-dunno

Linux Dev Time – Episode 104 Aug 11, 2024 23:32 How to deal with a horrible codebase that you’ve inherited. Getting started, breaking the problem into smaller pieces, understanding what’s actually wrong, the importance of testing (as usual), and why technical debt isn’t necessarily the best name for the problem.   git-what Working Effectively with Legacy Code         Support us on Patreon and get an ad

Linux Dev Time – Episode 103 Jul 28, 2024 25:39 Developing as part of an in-person team vs working remotely, synchronous vs asynchronous development, how to make a hybrid team work effectively, and how code review fits into it all.         1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device. Support the show and check it out at 1password.com/linuxdevtime     Support us on Patreo

Linux Dev Time – Episode 102 Jul 14, 2024 22:13 What agile software development is exactly, why planning and being willing to adapt the plan are key, the pros and cons of all the process that’s involved, the role that scrum plays, and why it’s all about communication.   Study finds 268% higher failure rates for Agile software projects Amolith will be at Fossy in August.         Support us on Patreon and get

Linux Dev Time – Episode 101 Jun 30, 2024 24:19 Andy is annoyed that so much free and open source software is hosted on a proprietary platform that’s owned by Microsoft. There are plenty of alternatives to GitHub, but ultimately the network effect is why so many people host their code there. We dream of a proper federated solution. Maybe one day…         1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in

Linux Dev Time – Episode 100 Jun 16, 2024 If you want to be a good developer, how many different programming languages should you learn? Maybe becoming an expert in one specific language is the way to go. Maybe it’s more a case of learning different concepts and paradigms than languages.         1Password Extended Access Management: Secure every sign-in for every app on every device. Support the show and check it

Linux Dev Time – Episode 99 Jun 2, 2024 Forks are a fundamental aspect of open source software so we get into the different types of forks, when and why you might want to fork a project, the maintenance burden that comes with a hard fork, the importance of winning mindshare for your fork, what exactly counts as a fork, when it’s not always a great idea to fork, and more.     Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS f

Linux Dev Time – Episode 98 May 19, 2024 26:33 We are joined by Allan Jude to talk about what it’s like to run a company that develops and maintains open source software with a focus on upstreaming as much code as possible.   Klara November 2023 FreeBSD Vendor Summit – The Value of Upstream First How to upstream code to open source projects FiloSottile (Filippo Valsorda)           Support us on Patreon

Linux Dev Time – Episode 97 May 5, 2024 25:39 Andy is a huge proponent of test-driven development and explains why – including types of code testing including unit tests and integration tests, when you actually need to run tests, how long they should take, and more.   Emily Bache cyber‑dojo Test with Go         Kolide Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure it can’t access your apps. It’s Device Trust for

Linux Dev Time – Episode 96 Apr 21, 2024 28:10 Kevin and Andy answer Joe’s noob questions about development including the differences between compiled and interpreted languages, C vs C++, why the Linux kernel is written in C, Go vs Rust, and what memory safety means.       Kolide Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure it can’t access your apps. It’s Device Trust for Okta. Visit kolide.com/linuxdevtime to learn more.

Linux Dev Time – Episode 95 Apr 7, 2024 26:51 We are joined by Drew DeVault to discuss his programming language called Hare, which aims for 100 years of forwards compatibility. We mentioned Drew’s blog posts Can I be on your podcast? and It takes a village         Kolide Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure it can’t access your apps. It’s Device Trust for Okta. Visit kolide.com/linuxdevtime to learn more. &n

Linux Dev Time – Episode 94 Mar 24, 2024 21:24 How we first learned to code, and how we learn new technologies now. Snake in Terraform Snake in lots of languages Web server in Sinclair BASIC       Kolide Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure it can’t access your apps. It’s Device Trust for Okta. Visit kolide.com/linuxdevtime to learn more.   Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes somet

Linux Dev Time – Episode 93 Mar 10, 2024 21:26 What we’ve learned over the years about the interview process for software development jobs, both as the applicant and the interviewer.       Kolide Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure it can’t access your apps. It’s Device Trust for Okta. Visit kolide.com/linuxdevtime to learn more.   Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometim

Linux Dev Time – Episode 92 Feb 25, 2024 20:57 The automation tools we use in our development and why we use them. Plus how to engage with your project’s community – both in real time, and asynchronously.       Kolide Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure it can’t access your apps. It’s Device Trust for Okta. Visit kolide.com/linuxdevtime to learn more.   Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed

Linux Dev Time – Episode 91 Feb 11, 2024 20:13 Andy Balaam joins us to talk about accepting contributions from devs with varying levels of experience. When to invest the time to mentor them, why documentation is important, how automated tools fit in, being willing to decline some contributions, dealing with companies vs individuals, and more.         Kolide Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure it can’t access your a

Linux Dev Time – Episode 90 Jan 28, 2024 22:18 How we use AI coding assistants like GitHub Copilot, what they have done to the development industry, what might happen in the future, and the ethics of the whole thing. With guest host Linus.       Kolide Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure it can’t access your apps. It’s Device Trust for Okta. Visit kolide.com/linuxdevtime to learn more.   Support us on Patreon and

Linux Dev Time – Episode 89 Jan 14, 2024 20:25 We follow up on last episode with some clarifications from Amolith about code collaboration. Plus we get into development workflows in general, code review, the paradigms we couldn’t do without, and more. With guest host Linus.   Amolith mentioned a Low energy game jam.     Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes       See

Linux Dev Time – Episode 88 Dec 31, 2023 23:01 When it comes to collaboration workflows, Amolith dislikes the pull request model that GitHub made popular and much prefers the email/patch-based approach. Kevin does his best to get to the bottom of why, and Joe wonders if it might come down to disliking Microsoft.   Your GitHub pull request workflow is slowing everyone down Graphite git-branchless       See our contact page f

Linux Dev Time – Episode 87 Dec 17, 2023 17:39 Linux Downtime is now Linux Dev Time! In this first episode we talk about “sharpening our tools” – changing your dev tools, trying out new languages, using existing code vs writing something new, how to get over creative blocks, and more.   How Often Should We Sharpen Our Tools?       See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed

Linux Downtime – Episode 86 Dec 3, 2023 23:46 Kevin joins us to talk about the hype that surrounds some programming languages like Rust and Python, how some languages like Java went out of fashion, and why the likes of PHP never saw much hype at all. With guest host Jim from 2.5 Admins.   Kevin’s Twitter Kevin’s Mastodon Clap         Factor Factor’s fresh, never frozen, meals are ready in just 2 minutes, s

Linux Downtime – Episode 85 Nov 19, 2023 21:41 There’s a meme that software developers should be forced to use low end hardware to experience what it’s like to be a real user. So what hardware should devs actually use to test their software? How does this differ for GUI and CLI applications? With guest host Jim from 2.5 Admins.       HelloFresh With HelloFresh, you get farm-fresh, pre-portioned ingredients and season

Linux Downtime – Episode 84 Nov 5, 2023 21:16 We are joined by Roger Light to discuss what it’s like to work for a company that uses the open core model — maintaining an open source project and offering additional paid for proprietary features. With guest host Jim from 2.5 Admins.   Mosquitto Cedalo       Factor Factor’s fresh, never frozen, meals are ready in just 2 minutes, so all you have to do is heat them up and

Linux Downtime – Episode 83 Oct 22, 2023 22:47 We are joined by Marcin Kulik – the creator and maintainer of asciinema. We talk about the project itself, developing on Linux, IDEs, targetting a technical audience, the advantages of writing for a command line interface, why -R is always wrong for the recursive flag, and more. With guest host Jim from 2.5 Admins. Marcin on Mastodon asciinema on Mastodon asciinema on Matrix     &n

Linux Downtime – Episode 82 Oct 8, 2023 20:22 Jim Salter joins us to talk about getting the most out of your open source project. From designing and planning, to attracting contributors, considering the correct scope, building on top of existing software, and more.   Sanoid and Syncoid Perlpv Jim’s website Jim’s social media links 2.5 Admins podcast       Factor Factor’s fresh, never frozen, meals are ready in

Linux Downtime – Episode 81 Sep 24, 2023 20:57 How to get hired for your first development job, more on contributor license agreements, and our thoughts on different immutable OS approaches.   Fiduciary Licence Agreement (FLA) – FSFE Why the FSF Gets Copyright Assignments from Contributors         HelloFresh With HelloFresh, you get farm-fresh, pre-portioned ingredients and seasonal recipes delivered right to you

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