Software Misadventures Podcast

Podcast update and news!

Some reflections on running the podcast and Ronak has some eggciting news to share :)

Oct 8, 2024 • 

Ronak Nathani

 and 

Guang Yang

September 2024

Uncrating the Oxide Rack | Bryan Cantrill, Steve Tuck (Oxide)

False summits before shipping the first server, actionable bad news , and the "Third VP of Sales" Problem

Sep 24, 2024 • 

Ronak Nathani

 and 

Guang Yang

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LLMs are like your weird, over-confident intern | Simon Willison (Datasette)

"vibes-based evaluation", "conference-driven development", and being an independent developer.

Sep 10, 2024 • 

Ronak Nathani

 and 

Guang Yang

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August 2024

From "AI mid-life crisis" to the "time of my life" | Steve Yegge (Sourcegraph)

Writing "The Death of the Junior Developer", "AI Midlife Crisis", and building Cody at Sourcegraph

Aug 27, 2024 • 

Ronak Nathani

 and 

Guang Yang

1

Early Twitter's fail-whale wars | Dmitriy Ryaboy

When 70% of the Hadoop cluster got accidentally deleted, the financial reality of writing a book, and how to navigate acquisitions.

Aug 13, 2024 • 

Ronak Nathani

 and 

Guang Yang

Discovering the power of story-telling in engineering | Adam Gordon Bell (CoRecursive)

Building one of the best story-telling engineering podcasts

Aug 6, 2024

July 2024

Behind designing Kubernetes' APIs | Brian Grant (Google)

"APIs are forever", the keys to evangelizing impactful projects, and being an Uber Tech at Google

Jul 30, 2024 • 

Ronak Nathani

 and 

Guang Yang

Ditching the rules to build a team that lasts | Bryan Cantrill, Steve Tuck (Oxide)

Transparent and uniform salaries, solution to the "N+1 shithead problem", and origin story of the Oxide Computer Company.

Jul 23, 2024 • 

Ronak Nathani

 and 

Guang Yang

Grokking Synthetic Biology | Dmitriy Ryaboy (Twitter, Ginkgo Bioworks)

Doing data engineering before it was cool, transitioning into biotech, and the "AlexNet" moment for biology

Jul 16, 2024 • 

Ronak Nathani

 and 

Guang Yang

Growing and selling an indie business | Michael Lynch (TinyPilot)

Michael returns to the show to chat about growing TinyPilot to $1M ARR and recently selling it for $600,000

Jul 9, 2024 • 

Ronak Nathani

 and 

Guang Yang

1

Breaking distributed systems for fun and profit | Kyle Kingsbury (Jepsen)

Kyle (Aphyr) is the creator of Jepsen

Jul 2, 2024

June 2024

The 3 traps of open source funding models | Wes McKinney (pandas, Voltron Data, Posit)

Wes is the creator of the pandas library, co-founder of Voltron Data and now the principal architect at Posit.

Jun 25, 2024

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