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...

Jake Zimmerman is a software engineer at Stripe and he leads development on Sorbet. Jake joins the podcast with @joshuakgoldberg.com to discuss his background, the challenges of typing in Ruby, the motivation behind Sorbet, its architecture, performance optimizations, and more. bit.ly/474HrSJ

Guy Gur-Ari is a Co-Founder at @augmentcode.com and he joins the podcast with @kball.llc to talk about the company, full context for enterprise codebases, code review as the new bottleneck in AI-driven dev, and more. softwareengineeringdaily.com/2025/10/09/s...

In this episode Gregor Vand and @seanfalconer.bsky.social cover nvidia's $5B Intel deal, Meta's AR stumble, Electronic Art’s $50B acquisition, AnthropicAI's record Series F, Google's Genie 3, and more. softwareengineeringdaily.com/2025/10/07/s...

Viren Baraiya is the Founder and CTO at Orkes and he’s the creator of Netflix Conductor. Viren joins Gregor Vand to discuss microservice orchestration, rule-based vs programmatic workflows, agentic orchestration, MCP, and more. softwareengineeringdaily.com/2025/10/02/o...

Turbopuffer is a vector database startup that's steadily gaining popularity for AI applications. The company’s founder, @sirupsen.bsky.social, joins Gregor Vand to discuss @turbopuffer.bsky.social's origin, design, the economics of vector storage, and more. bit.ly/4nV5BG6

Jay Baylis and Tom Coxon are the creators of Cassette Beasts at @byttenstudio.bsky.social. They join the show with Joe Nash to talk about the development of their game. @jaybaylis.bsky.social softwareengineeringdaily.com/2025/09/25/b...

Robert Balicki is a Staff Engineer at Pinterest and creator of the open-source project Isograph. He joins Gregor Vand to discuss challenges and solutions for managing data in frontend apps. @statisticsftw.bsky.social softwareengineeringdaily.com/2025/09/23/i...

Zoltan Kochan is a full stack web developer and the creator of @pnpm.io. He joins the show with @joshuakgoldberg.com to talk about the state of package management for web dev. @kochan.io softwareengineeringdaily.com/2025/09/18/p...

Tobie Morgan Hitchcock is the CEO and co-founder of @surrealdb.com com He joins @kball.llc to talk about handling multi-model and unstructured data, building event-driven AI apps, and coupling databases with AI models. @tobiemh.bsky.social softwareengineeringdaily.com/2025/09/16/s...

Jessica Janiuk is a Staff Software Engineer at Google where she works on @angular.dev, which recently hit version 19. In this episode, Jessica joins the show with @joshuakgoldberg.com to talk about the Angular project. softwareengineeringdaily.com/2025/09/11/a...

In this episode Gregor Vand and @seanfalconer.bsky.social discuss Perplexity’s bid for Chrome, the US stake in Intel, Meta’s AI hiring pause, what agentic AI can really do, and highlights from Hacker News. softwareengineeringdaily.com/2025/09/09/s...

Shinji Kim is the founder and CEO of Select Star. She joins @seanfalconer.bsky.social to discuss solving metadata curation challenges, managing data context at scale, using LLMs for SQL generation, emerging trends in metadata management, and more. softwareengineeringdaily.com/2025/09/04/c...

Robert Kosara is a Data Visualization Developer at Observable. He joins the show with @seanfalconer.bsky.social to talk about modern data visualization and his work at Observable. softwareengineeringdaily.com/2025/09/02/m...

Werner Vogels is the Chief Technology Officer at Amazon and he joins @kball.llc to discuss his more than 20-year career at Amazon, the birth of AWS, the principles of the Frugal Architect, and much more. softwareengineeringdaily.com/2025/08/28/a...

Andrew Brookins is a Principal Applied AI Engineer at Redis. He joins the show with Sean Falconer to discuss the challenges of building AI agents, the role of memory in agents, hybrid search versus vector-only search, and more. @abrookins.bsky.social softwareengineeringdaily.com/2025/08/26/r...

Will Stewart is the co-founder and CEO of Northflank. In this episode, he joins @seanfalconer.bsky.social to talk about the contemporary challenges and solutions around workload deployment. softwareengineeringdaily.com/2025/08/21/c...

Tobias Dunn-Krahn is the CTO and Doug Peete is the Chief Product Officer of Atono. They join the podcast with @kball.llc to talk about the challenges of modern product development, the importance of low-friction UX, and the role of AI in product tooling. softwareengineeringdaily.com/2025/08/19/e...

Chandler Carruth is the creator of Carbon, and he leads the C++, C Lang, and LLVM teams at Google. In this episode, he joins @kball.llc to talk about Carbon and the future of the language. @chandlerc.blog softwareengineeringdaily.com/2025/08/14/c...

Brent Baude is a Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat where he works on @podmanio.bsky.social, which is an open source container engine. In this episode, Brent joins the show with Jordi Mon Companys to talk about the project. softwareengineeringdaily.com/2025/08/12/p...

In this episode Gregor Vand and @seanfalconer.bsky.social discuss Meta’s AI gambit, the @windsurfai.bsky.social shake up, the UK VPN surge and highlights from Hacker News. softwareengineeringdaily.com/2025/08/07/s...

Shelley Vohr is a Principal Software Engineer at @microsoft.com where she works on @electronjs.org. She joins the podcast with @joshuakgoldberg.com to talk about her work on the Electron project. @codebyte.re softwareengineeringdaily.com/2025/08/05/e...

Erik Bernhardsson is the founder of @modal-labs.bsky.social. In this episode, he joins @seanfalconer.bsky.social to talk about scaling AI inference, fixing ML tooling gaps, cold start optimization, and building for AI teams. softwareengineeringdaily.com/2025/07/31/m...

Ben Lesh is the creator of RxJS which is a popular JavaScript library for managing async data streams. He joins @joshuakgoldberg.com to talk about his path into engineering and the RxJS library. @benlesh.bsky.social softwareengineeringdaily.com/2025/07/29/r...

Yoeven Khemlani is the Founder of JigsawStack. He joins the podcast with Gregor Vand to talk about making use of small models for diverse applications. @yoeven.bsky.social softwareengineeringdaily.com/2025/07/24/s...

Jake Cooper is the Founder and CEO at @railway.com. He joins the podcast with @seanfalconer.bsky.social to talk about the company and its platform. softwareengineeringdaily.com/2025/07/22/s...

Illia Polosukhin is a veteran AI researcher and his current venture is called @nearprotocol.bsky.social. He joins the show with @kball.llc to discuss his career, the origins of the Transformer model, and open AI infrastructure. softwareengineeringdaily.com/2025/07/17/b...

Jake Bailey is a Senior Software Engineer at @microsoft.com where he works on @typescriptlang.org. Jake joins the podcast with @joshuakgoldberg.com to talk about TypeScript and his work. @jakebailey.dev softwareengineeringdaily.com/2025/07/15/t...

Rami McCarthy is a Principal Security Researcher at Wiz. He joins the podcast with Gregor Vand to talk about security research, AI and secrets leakage, MCP security, supply chain attacks, career advice, and more. softwareengineeringdaily.com/2025/07/10/m...