Nic Benders is the Chief Technology Strategist at New Relic. He joins Lee Atchison to discuss the frontier of AI driven observability and observing AI systems. softwareengineeringdaily.com/2026/04/14/n...

Ryan Lloyd is the Chief Product Officer at @guardsquare.com. In this episode, he joins Gregor Vand to discuss mobile security, reverse engineering tools, compiler based obfuscation, runtime protections, app vulnerabilities, and more. softwareengineeringdaily.com/2026/04/09/m...

Jeremiah Lowin is the founder and CEO of @prefect.io, and Adam Azzam is the VP of Product. They join Gregor Vand to discuss fastmcp, its origin story, core framework pillars, and FastMCP 3.0 architecture. @jlowin.dev @aaazzam.bsky.social softwareengineeringdaily.com/2026/04/07/f...

In this episode, Gregor Vand and @seanfalconer.bsky.social cover ARM's resurgence for local AI agents, the @Lite_LLM supply chain attack, @opencode.bsky.social, @anthropic.com vs OpenAI on the Pentagon deal, and more. softwareengineeringdaily.com/2026/04/02/s...

John Baldwin has spent more than 25 years working on FreeBSD as a developer, contributor, and consultant. He joins Gregor Vand to discuss FreeBSD's origins, its governance, and maintaining a 30 year old codebase. softwareengineeringdaily.com/2026/03/31/f...

Bill Mulligan is a maintainer in the Cilium ecosystem and a member of the team at @isovalent.bsky.social. He joins Gregor Vand to discuss eBPF, Cilium’s rise in Kubernetes networking, and programmable kernels in cloud native infrastructure. @breakawaybilly.bsky.social bit.ly/3NFLFe6

Bennett Foddy is a legendary game designer behind games like QWOP, Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy, and Baby Steps. He joins Joe Nash to discuss game design and why his games stand out. @foddy.net softwareengineeringdaily.com/2026/03/24/g...

James Long is the creator of Prettier Code and was formerly at Mozilla and Stripe. He joins @joshuakgoldberg.com to discuss Prettier’s origins, formatter design, open source maintenance, and the evolution of JavaScript tooling. @jlongster.bsky.social softwareengineeringdaily.com/2026/03/19/p...

Sam Eng is an indie developer and the creator of @skatestory.com which is one of the most critically acclaimed games of 2025. He joins Joe Nash to discuss developing Skate Story, its distinct style, and its fluid skate mechanics. @bysameng.com softwareengineeringdaily.com/2026/03/17/s...

Animesh Chatterji and Ivan Solovyev work on the File Search Tool RAG system at Google DeepMind. They join @seanfalconer.bsky.social to discuss RAG engineering, managed RAG in Gemini, retrieval quality, multimodal retrieval, and more. softwareengineeringdaily.com/2026/03/12/d...

Akshay Agrawal is the creator of the next-gen Python notebook @marimo.io. He joins @kball.llc to discuss Python notebooks, the limits of traditional notebooks, bridging research and production, and AI assisted development. @akshaykagrawal.bsky.social softwareengineeringdaily.com/2026/03/10/r...

Dennis Pilarinos is the Founder and CEO of Unblocked. He joins @kball.llc to discuss context engineering, sources of truth, permissioned AI systems, shifting bottlenecks, and being a software engineer in an agentic world. softwareengineeringdaily.com/2026/03/05/o...

In this episode, Gregor Vand and @seanfalconer.bsky.social cover @openclaw-x.bsky.social's rise, OpenAI exploring ads in ChatGPT, Alibaba's agent commerce push, Mistral acquiring Koyeb, AI competition, agentic engineering, and highlights from Hacker News. bit.ly/4rGT63n

David Yanacek is a Senior Principal Engineer and a lead advisor on the Agentic AI team at @awscloud. he joins @kball.llc to discuss Kiro, Bedrock AgentCore, spec driven development, frontier agents, and the future of agentic software development. @dyanacek.bsky.social bit.ly/4kRGSCg

Krishna Sai is the Chief Technology Officer at @solarwindsinc.bsky.social. He joins @seanfalconer.bsky.social to discuss observability in the age of AI, designing agentic systems for mission critical environments, AI assisted programming, and humans working with autonomous agents. bit.ly/4aTtoBH

Jackson Sippe is a specialist in systems and network privacy and security. In this episode he joins Gregor Vand to discuss how China’s Great Firewall works, censorship detection methods, and the future of the open internet. softwareengineeringdaily.com/2026/02/19/h...

Gideon Mendels is the co-founder and CEO of Comet. He joins @kball.llc to discuss agent development in software engineering and ML, why evals are key for AI teams, prompt optimization, and improving agents in production. softwareengineeringdaily.com/2026/02/17/o...

Steve Yegge is a legendary software engineer, writer, and industry veteran. He joins @kball.llc for a wide-reaching discussion about AI coding, multi agent coordination, task graphs, and the future of software work. softwareengineeringdaily.com/2026/02/12/g...

Łukasz Langa is the CPython Developer in Residence at the Python Software Foundation. He joins @seanfalconer.bsky.social to discuss the 3.14 release, free threading, type improvements, Python’s role in AI, and maintaining backward compatibility. @lukasz.langa.pl bit.ly/45TTSkP

Adam Miskiewicz is a Principal Software Engineer at Airbnb where he works on Viaduct. He joins Gregor Vand to discuss Viaduct’s origins, scaling GraphQL, open-sourcing the platform, and the future of backend systems in an AI world. softwareengineeringdaily.com/2026/02/05/a...

In this episode, Gregor Vand and @seanfalconer.bsky.social cover Starlink free in-flight internet, Tesla deprecating Autopilot, Apple using Google Gemini for Siri, the Meta and Manus deal, AI hardware competition, layoffs, and highlights from Hacker News. bit.ly/4aa0tIY

Here's our conversation with Thibault Sottiaux and Ed Bayes who helped build Codex at OpenAI. They spoke to @kball.llc about models and harnesses, multi-agent futures, model specialization, latency and performance considerations, and more. softwareengineeringdaily.com/2026/01/29/o...

Fred Roma is the SVP of Product and Engineering at @mongodb.bsky.social. He joins @kball.llc to talk about AI application development, vector search and reranking, schema evolution in the LLM era, the Voyage AI acquisition, and how data platforms must evolve. bit.ly/4t2Pw4I

Darcy Clarke and Ruy Adorno are longtime npm CLI maintainers and Node.js contributors. They join @joshuakgoldberg.com to discuss vlt, a new package manager and registry designed to improve performance, security, and developer experience. @darcyclarke.me @ruyadorno.com bit.ly/3YNGniF

Andreas Rossberg is a programming languages researcher and former V8 team member at Google. He joins @kball.llc to discuss WebAssembly’s history, key design milestones, WASM 1.0 to 3.0, and what’s next. softwareengineeringdaily.com/2026/01/20/w...

Michael Soyfer is an attorney at the Institute for Justice, a nonprofit public interest law firm defending individual rights. He joins @kball.llc to discuss Flock Safety cameras, state data collection, and how citizens push back. softwareengineeringdaily.com/2026/01/15/a...

Catherine McGarvey is SVP of Developer Experience at Capital One. She joins @seanfalconer.bsky.social to talk about developer enablement at scale, measuring productivity, agility in regulated environments, AI in enterprise development, and much more. softwareengineeringdaily.com/2026/01/13/d...

Michael Stahnke is the VP of Engineering at @flox.dev. He joins @kball.llc to talk about Flox, building on top of Nix, software security, and much more. softwareengineeringdaily.com/2026/01/08/f...

Kai Maetzel is the Engineering Manager leading the VS Code team at @microsoft.com. He joins @kball.llc to discuss the origins of VS Code, how AI reshaped its design philosophy, the rise of agentic programming, and the future of development. softwareengineeringdaily.com/2026/01/06/v...

Simon Thommes is a Lead Technical Artist at @studio.blender.org. He joins the podcast with Joe Nash to talk about how to build games using Blender and @godotengine.org. @simonthommes.bsky.social softwareengineeringdaily.com/2025/12/25/b...

Rafael Gonzaga is a Principal Open Source Engineer at @nodesource.bsky.social. He joins @joshuakgoldberg.com to discuss @nodejs.org performance, benchmarking, balancing speed and stability, and contributing to a major open source project. softwareengineeringdaily.com/2025/12/23/n...

Zach Barth is the founder of Zachtronics and creator of iconic engineering style games like SpaceChem, Infinifactory, TIS-100, and Shenzhen I/O. He joins Joe Nash to talk about the games he makes. softwareengineeringdaily.com/2025/12/18/b...

Dan Fornace is a game director and designer at Aether Game Studios, the developer of @rivals2.com. He joins the show with Joe Nash to talk about developing platform fighting games. @danfornace.bsky.social softwareengineeringdaily.com/2025/12/16/r...

Serge Christiaans is a former Dutch Air Force pilot. He joins Gregor Vand to talk about aviation and cybersecurity, the aircraft as a digital attack surface, hybrid warfare, and the urgent need for aviation cyber resilience. softwareengineeringdaily.com/2025/12/11/a...

Feross Aboukhadijeh is the founder and CEO of @socket.dev. He joins @joshuakgoldberg.com to talk about his career, open source supply chain attacks, practical security lessons, the expanding attack surface in software development, and more. @feross.bsky.social bit.ly/4iMDU14

Samuel Colvin is the creator of @pydantic.dev and Pydantic AI. He joins Gregor Vand to talk about Pydantic origin, type safe AI applications, Pydantic AI’s evolution, LogFire observability, and the future of sustainable open-source AI tooling. @sa.muelcolvin.com bit.ly/3Mj4SkE

In this episode Gregor Vand and @seanfalconer.bsky.social cover Jeff Bezos's return with Project Prometheus, the debate on AI investment sustainability, Europe’s cloud push, Nordic startup growth, tech tipping points, and standout Hacker News threads. softwareengineeringdaily.com/2025/12/02/s...

Johan Peitz is a games industry veteran and developer extraordinaire, having created dozens of games across many platforms. He's an expert in PICO 8 development, and he joins Joe Nash to talk about creating games for the console. @johanpeitz.com softwareengineeringdaily.com/2025/11/27/g...

Dimitri Mitropoulos recently ported Doom to TypeScript, a monumental, year-long effort. He joins @joshuakgoldberg.com to talk all about the project. softwareengineeringdaily.com/2025/11/25/r...

Simon Shuster is a staff correspondent for TIME and he’s covered Russia and Ukraine for over 15 years . He joins @kball.llc to discuss drone warfare, AI-assisted targeting, gamified combat, and how drones are reshaping global security. softwareengineeringdaily.com/2025/11/20/d...

Chance Strickland is a software engineer at @workos.bsky.social and a maintainer of @radix-ui.com. He joins @nicknisi.com to discuss Radix, its primitives, its connection with shadcn/ui, the evolution of web primitives, and more. @chance.dev softwareengineeringdaily.com/2025/11/18/r...

The @stackoverflow.com.web.brid.gy team recently released the results of their legendary annual developer survey. Jody Bailey and Erin Yepis worked on this year’s survey and they join @seanfalconer.bsky.social to talk about the results. softwareengineeringdaily.com/2025/11/13/t...

Byran Huang is a full stack developer who made headlines by creating anyon_e, a highly integrated open-source laptop showcasing impressive design, hardware, and software. He joins Gregor Vand to talk about building it and the journey behind the project. softwareengineeringdaily.com/2025/11/11/b...

Erik Seidel is a Network Engineer at @cloudflare.social. He joins Gregor Vand to discuss his journey into tech, how the modern internet works, networking in China, and more. @eseidel.com softwareengineeringdaily.com/2025/11/06/t...

In this episode Gregor Vand and @seanfalconer.bsky.social cover the $1.7B Security AI acquisition, @langchain.bsky.social’s valuation, Periodic Labs’s $300M funding, the @awscloud.bsky.social outage, the trillion-dollar AI infrastructure deal, and more. softwareengineeringdaily.com/2025/11/04/s...

Sam Bhagwat and Abhi Aiyer are co-founders at Mastra. They join the podcast with @nicknisi.com to talk about t about the state of frontend tooling for AI agents, AI agent primitives, MCP integration, and more. @calcsam.bsky.social softwareengineeringdaily.com/2025/10/30/b...

Ben Supnik is a Software Engineer at Laminar Research and has spent 20 years building @xplaneofficial.bsky.social flight simulator. He joins the podcast with @kball.llc to talk about X-Plane and the engineering behind flight simulation. softwareengineeringdaily.com/2025/10/28/t...

Chris Weichel is the CTO at Ona (formerly Gitpod). He joins @kball.llc to talk about Ona, the impact of coding with parallel agents, the future of IDEs, agent-friendly languages, and code review as a new bottleneck in development. softwareengineeringdaily.com/2025/10/23/t...

Homebrew is a package manager for macOS and it has become an essential developer tool. In this episode, @mikemcquaid.com talks with @kball.llc about how it all started, the project’s architecture, automation, CI/CD, and what keeps Homebrew sustainable today. bit.ly/4nO04Sh

Yechezkel Rabinovich, or Chez, is the CTO and Co-founder of groundcover. He joins the podcast with @kball.llc to discuss his journey from kernel engineering to building an eBPF-powered observability company. softwareengineeringdaily.com/2025/10/16/e...