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A weekly talk show taking a pragmatic look at the art and business of Software Development and the world of technology.

  • 649: MikeBot Takeover!
    Mike's out for some medical stuff this week, so I has better digital half am taking over to do what he lacked the courage to -- Defend the Phantom Menance!
  • 648: System76's Britain Heaphy
    Michael talks with Britain Heaphy, mechanical engineer at System76, about designing the new Thelio Mira—from prototyping and thermal testing to airflow, acoustics, upgradeability, and the practical tools that shape a modern desktop chassis. Britain shares how the new Mira chassis came together, why improved thermals matter for both performance and noise, and how System76 designed the case to support future upgrades—including the clever option of adding a second power supply for high-end configurations. They also get into the line between powerful consumer desktops and workstations, the role of 3D printing in fast iteration, and why sometimes the most valuable prototyping tool is just a roll of masking tape.
  • 647: pgFirstAid with Justin Frye
    Justin Fyre talks us through his awesome open-source pgFirstAid.
  • 646: Shawn Hymel
    Mike sits down with IoT and Embeded Linux expert, educator and Youtube sensation Shawn Hymel to discuss the current state of IoT and embedded Linux.
  • 645: Warp's Holmes & Llyod
    A rare trio episode with two of luminaries behind Warp and good old gungan Mike where they discuss all things agentic including Warp's very own Oz.
  • 644: Bryan Hyland on Open-Source
    Mike sits down with renowned open-source and COSMIC DE contributer Bryan Hyland to discuss working on projects for Linux-forward companies and of course some Rust!
  • 643: Scott Kelly, CEO Black Dog Ventures
    Mike sat down with Scott Kelly of Black Dog Ventures to discuss the VC funding market, his unique funding events and what the outlook for technical founders is like in 2026. Also, some pro tips from Scott on getting VC attention.
  • 642: March Mailbag
    Mike reads out your emails and tries to unplug with you all!
  • 641: Qdrant's Brian O'Grady
    Mike sits down with Brian O'Grady of Qdrant to talk vector search and take a trip down NJ memory lane.
  • 640: The Modern .Net Shows' Jamie Taylor
    Jamie Taylor swings by to school Mike on SpecKit. SpecKit is a toolkit that acts as a structured "middleman" or context-provider between a developer and an LLM. Rather than simply asking an AI to "build a feature," SpecKit enforces a disciplined process that treats specifications as part of the source code.
  • 639: RubyLLM with Carmine Paolino
    Mike sits down to talk some RubyLLM with its author Carmine Paolino.
  • 638: Cisco's ThousandEyes' Murtaza Doctor
    Mike sits down with Murtaza Doctor of Cisco Thousand Eyes to discuss some pretty deep infrastructure stuff in the age of AI.
  • 637: SEGA Christmas Special 25
    Mike's Year End Post Mike on LinkedIn Mike's Blog Show on Discord Alice Promo Dreamcast assorted references: Dreamcast overview https://sega.fandom.com/wiki/Dreamcast History of Dreamcast development https://segaretro.org/History_of_the_Sega_Dreamcast/Development The Rise and Fall of the Dreamcast: A Legend Gone Too Soon (Simon Jenner) https://sabukaru.online/articles/he-rise-and-fall-of-the-dreamcast-a-legend-gone-too-soon The Legacy of the Sega Dreamcast | 20 Years Later https://medium.com/@Amerinofu/the-legacy-of-the-sega-dreamcast-20-years-later-d6f3d2f7351c Socials & Plugs The R Podcast https://r-podcast.org/ R Weekly Highlights https://serve.podhome.fm/r-weekly-highlights Shiny Developer Series https://shinydevseries.com/ Eric on Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/rpodcast.bsky.social Eric on Mastodon https://podcastindex.social/@rpodcast Eric on LinkedIn https://www.linked
  • 636: Red Hat's James Huang
    In this episode of the Coder Radio (Coder.show) network, Michael Dominick sits down with James Huang, Senior Product Manager of AI and High Performance Computing at Red Hat, to discuss the intersection of enterprise-grade Linux and the rapidly evolving world of artificial intelligence.
  • 635: Tabnine's Eran Yahav
    Mike sits down with Eran Yahav of Tabine to talk enterprise coding agents and AI assisted coding.
  • 634: MongoDB's Frank Pachot
    Mike sits down to get schoole on NOSQL and Mongo DB!
  • 633: Hotwire Native with Joe Masilotti
    Mike sits down with Joe Masilotti to discuss mobile development with extremely exciting Hotwire Native.
  • 632: Graphite's Merrill Lutsky
    Mike sits down with Merrill Lutsky the CEO and Founder of Graphite to talk AI powered code-review, the state of software development and more!
  • 631: Aeroview's Marc Weiner
    Mike sits down with mark Weiner to discuss startup-life, launching a product and a bit of general coding!
  • 630: Edward Schmitz
    Mike sits down with Edward Schmitz to discuss his upcoming SigCore UC in all it's maker goodness!