Kodsnack in English
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All the English episodes of Kodsnack - a podcast by developers, about anything interesting to developers
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- Kodsnack 703 - The subset needs to fit you, with Harald Achitz
Fredrik chats to Harald Achitz about freelancing, C++ 26, and ten years of running the Swedencpp meetup . Harald discusses the various oddities of the Swedish consultant and software market, both before but especially in the current enviro…
- Kodsnack 701 - The chicken would explode, with Holly Cummins
Fredrik chats to Holly Cummins about using Minecraft for observability, other amazing Quarkus tricks, and the value of joy at work. Recorded during Øredev 2025 . Thank you Cloudnet for sponsoring our VPS ! Comments, questions or tips? We a…
- Kodsnack 699 - A two-IDE person, with Shawn Wildermuth
Fredrik chats to Shawn Wildermuth about evolving in the world of software development, small changes adding up, developer hiring, not chasing the new thing, and quite a bit more. Fredrik is still hoping for the last episode of Shawn’…
- Kodsnack 694 - Dark patterns … to rule them all, with Sergès Goma
Fredrik chats to Sergès Goma about dark patterns and her Øredev presentation on them . We start off by talking about giving presentations and the background to the dark patterns talk. All the great versions of a talk - you never know what&…
- Kodsnack 681 - German ortography, with Dylan Beattie
Fredrik chats to Dylan Beattie about Rockstar, esoteric programming languages (Perl in latin, anyone?), and what might happen after the AI bubble. AI will ruin jokes, they can’t do things just right. But some things hiding under the…
- Kodsnack 679 - Educational electronics, with David J. Cuartielles Ruiz
Recorded on-stage at Øredev 2025, Fredrik talks to David J. Cuartielles Ruiz about the birth and growth of Arduino . It’s fantastic when an idea comes alive and starts growing. We talk about how Arduino began, how it started to grow,…
- Kodsnack 678 - The intent of a human, with Justyna Zander
Recorded on-stage at Øredev 2025, Fredrik talks to Justyna Zander about AI for self-driving cars, the noise of the present, and more. Don’t let the noise of today demolish the positive signal of the future! Many thanks to Øredev for…
- Kodsnack 677 - It's all quantum, with Natalia Chepiga
Recorded on-stage at Øredev 2025, Fredrik talks to Natalia Chepiga about quantum computing and where you, personally, might see it first. We need classical computers to make quantum computers better. Natalia also tells us of the very natur…
- Kodsnack 676 - Maps will get you fired, with Simon Wardley
Recorded on-stage at Øredev 2025, Fredrik talks to Simon Wardley about maps ( not the same as charts!), stories, commodotization, digital sovereignty, getting labeled a heretic by all sides, and a lot more. Among other things, Simon discus…
- Kodsnack 675 - Curate the world, with Nicklas Hermansson
Recorded on-stage at Øredev 2025, Fredrik talks to Sweden’s foremost trend spotter Nicklas Hermansson about how you become a futurist. From how Nicklas got there, what his days look like, and how he choses what to read and what to fi…
- Kodsnack 674 - Make the visions louder, with Tiera Fletcher
Recorded on-stage at Øredev 2025, Fredrik talks to Tiera Fletcher about her lightning tour of going to Mars and what might happen on the way. And also about - for example - finding visions to guide your daily work. In 60 years, life on Mar…
- Kodsnack 662 - A super-super-app, with Teresa Wu
Fredrik talks to Teresa Wu about devops for frontend and AI. Why does frontend feel so complex? Does it have to be? We also discuss the value of open language models, smaller and more specific language models and their benefits. Is “…
- Kodsnack 658 - Failure of ergonomics, with Taylor Troesh
Fredrik talks to Taylor Troesh about packaging things, generating code, and database evolution. Why is it so hard to package and build things? Is it a failure of ergonomics? Is there hope for a change? We also discuss generating code using…
- Kodsnack 656 - People want native controls, with Maddy Montaquila
Fredrik talks to Maddy Montaquila about building user interfaces, and how .net has come a much longer way than people may think. We talk about the various .net-related options for building user interfaces, mixing and matching MAUI stuff, B…
- Kodsnack 654 - German-style strings, with Matt Topol
Fredrik talks to Matt Topol about Arrow and how the Arrow ecosystem is evolving. Arrow is an open source, columnar in-memory data format designed for efficient data processing and analytics - which means passing data between things without…
- Kodsnack 652 - The best of nature, with Grace Jansen
Fredrik talks to Grace Jansen about cloud tools, and bringing them to your local machine in a better way. Opentelemetry is a great tool, but it’s not the whole story for observability. Gathering the data is just the first step. In th…
- Kodsnack 648 - Difficult skills, with Gitte Klitgaard
Fredrik talks to Gitte Klitgaard about managers, diversity, and communication. We discuss how and why management has almost become a bad word. But we need management, and good management. What do you need out of managers when you have auto…
- Kodsnack 631 - Comfortable in uncertainty, with Barry O'Reilly
Fredrik talks to Barry O’Reilly about software architecture. Barry has spent a lot of time and energy connecting software architecture to actual code and development work, and finding good ways of actually training new generations of…
- Kodsnack 626 - The great flattening of everything, with Jon Sterling
Fredrik talks to Jon Sterling about user interfaces old and new. Jon has created Aquaui - a Mac user interface library which is a small love letter to the Aqua user interface style for Mac OS X. Based on that, we discuss understandable and…
- Kodsnack 620 - Encapsulation of knowledge, with Dejan Milicic
Fredrik talks to Dejan Milicic about software development - understanding, methods, and stories. We start by talking about encapsulation of knowledge and the essential software in organizations. Almost every organization should - it can be…
- Kodsnack 618 - This chaos element, with Ingrid af Sandeberg
Recorded on-stage at Øredev 2024, Fredrik talks to Ingrid af Sandeberg about AI and people’s perception of it. While it’s very powerful to be able to interact with models through natural language, that interface in itself hides…
- Kodsnack 617 - Craving for the human touch, with Laura Herman
Recorded on-stage at Øredev 2024, Fredrik talks to Laura Herman about creativity, creation, and AI. Among other things, we discuss: How the perspectives of different groups differ, and Laura talks about the many factors which inform how pe…
- Kodsnack 616 - Computers outside of computers, with Violet Whitney and William Martin
Recorded on-stage at Øredev 2024, Fredrik talks to Violet Whitney and William Martin about the research they do into how we can interact with computers outside of the bounds of … well, a regular computer or phone. Many thanks to Øredev for…
- Kodsnack 615 - All I had to do was break the build, with Kent Beck and Beth Andres-Beck
Recorded on-stage at Øredev 2024, Fredrik talks to Kent Beck and Beth Andres-Beck about development practices, code reviews, and more. Unfortunately, sound quality is a lot worse than it should be. We apologize, and invite any sound proces…
- Kodsnack 614 - Somehow cheat the system, with David Jacoby
Recorded on-stage at Øredev 2024, Fredrik talks to IT security expert David Jacoby about his way into IT security. What was it like to get interested in computer security early on, and to try start working with it before there really was a…
- Kodsnack 613 - Opt-in nations, with Corin Ism
Recorded on-stage at Øredev 2024, Fredrik talks to Corin Ism about the power of developers to change the world for the better. Much of what we do is building virtual worlds - virtual nations if you will - and creating and enforcing their r…
- Kodsnack 612 - Where types first come in, with Pedro Abreu
Fredrik talks to Pedro Abreu about the magical world of type theory. What is it, and why is it useful to know about and be inspired by? Pedro gives us some background on type theory, and then we talk about how type theory can provide new w…
- Kodsnack 607 - Emberisms, with Balint Erdi
Fredrik talks to Balint Erdi about the web framework Ember . Where did Ember come from, what stands out about it today, how do new features get into the framework, and how is development being made more sustainable? Plus: Balint’s ex…
- Kodsnack 604 - Farmer's disposition, with Evan Czaplicki
Fredrik talks to Evan Czaplicki , creator of Elm about figuring out a good path for yourself. What do you do when you have a job which seems like it would be your dream job, but it turns out to be the wrong thing for you? And how do you es…
- Kodsnack 600 - Just use +, with Christian Clausen
Fredrik talks to Christian Clausen about the many facets of simplicity. The cloud and serverless was supposed to be simpler than running your own hardware, but you easily get stuck trying to select the right message bus, needing to know th…
- Kodsnack 598 - Tiny dopamine hit, with Jack Cheng
Fredrik talks to Jack Cheng - author and creator of the iPhone note capture app Bebop . Jack describes where Bebop came from and how he built it, and how and why Copilot and other AI tools became integral parts of the workflow. Being aware…
- Kodsnack 595 - Maintain curiosity, with Woody Zuill and Martin Lassbo
Fredrik paid a visit to Hogia and got the opportunity to talk to Woody Zuill and Martin Lassbo about mob programming, innovation, and keeping an open and curious mind. Mob programming is still new. Every time you say “that can’…
- Kodsnack 593 - Into the view hierarchy, with Malin Sundberg and Kai Dombrowski
Fredrik is again joined by Malin Sundberg and Kai Dombrowski for a review of attending this year’s WWDC, working with “AI”, and more. The experience of attending - a lot about the great community. News from the conference…
- Kodsnack 584 - A free deadline in September, with Malin Sundberg and Kai Dombrowski
Fredrik is joined by Malin Sundberg and Kai Dombrowski for a quick chat about the Deep dish Swift conference, the past and present of Mercury weather , their next app project, and what might happen at Apple’s WWDC in June. The first…
- Kodsnack 573 - This is not a toy project, with Leandro Ostera and Emil Privér
Fredrik is joined by Emil Privér and Leandro Ostera for a discussion of the OCaml ecosystem, and making it Saas-ready by building Riot . First of all: OCaml. What is the thing with the language, and how you might get into it coming from ot…
- Kodsnack 570 - Debug your ideas, with Eric Normand
Fredrik is joined by Eric Normand for a discussion of debugging your ideas through domain modeling, using Eric’s concept of lenses to find more good questions to ask. Eric is writing a book about domain modeling and has developed the…
- Kodsnack 567 - Arrow straight through, with Matt Topol and Lars Wikman
Fredrik has Matt Topol and Lars Wikman over for a deep and wide chat about Apache Arrow and many, many topics in the orbit of the language-independent columnar memory format for flat and hierarchical data. What does that even mean? What is…
- Kodsnack 560 - Starting with courage, with Diana Larsen
Recorded on-stage at Øredev 2023 just after her keynote , Fredrik chats to Diana Larsen about leadership and building good teams. How to get into leaderhip? Often it’s more about picking up expectations than getting a formal onboardi…
- Kodsnack 559 - Non-fungible plants, with Cyrus Clarke
Recorded on-stage at Øredev 2023 just after his keynote , Fredrik chats to Cyrus Clarke about plants, imagining things, exploring, and building. And not presenting speculative things as possible here right now. Daring to not be useful righ…
- Kodsnack 558 - Software outlives you, with Na'Tosha Bard
Recorded on-stage at Øredev 2023 just after her keynote , Fredrik chats to Na’Tosha Bard about picking good building blocks, getting products done, and code outliving you. Software outlives you. How early is it meaningful to consider…
- Kodsnack 557 - All I had was science fiction, with Galit Ariel
Recorded on-stage at Øredev 2023 just after her keynote , Fredrik chats to Galit Ariel about being inspired by the right science fiction, uninspired futures, and much more. It’s all thanks to Star Trek - a vision of the future which…
- Kodsnack 556 - Informed hope, with Monika Bielskyte
Recorded on-stage at Øredev 2023 just after her keynote , Fredrik chats to Monika Bielskyte about finding, building, and approaching better visions for the future. We discuss things such as: Disabilities for innovation and better design Mo…
- Kodsnack 550 - This beautiful abomination, with Natalia Tepluhina
Recorded at Øredev 2022, Fredrik chats with Natalia Tepluhina about perhaps the most complicated part of frontend development: state management. Why is state management so tricky, and what can we do about it? Natalia tells a fascinating st…
- Kodsnack 542 - The whole software is in your hand, with Daniel Eke
Fredrik chats with Daniel Eke about creative visual coding, learning through side projects, and a lot more. The discussion revolves around Daniel’s apps: the visualizer Ferromagnetic , polygon drawing tool Handstract , and photo poly…
- Kodsnack 536 - I choose computer science, with Michele Riva
Recorded at the Øredev 2022 developer conference, Fredrik chats with Michele Riva about writing a full-text search engine, maintaining 8% of all Node modules, going to one conference per week, refactoring, the value of a good algorithm, an…
- Kodsnack 535 - Let's make something number one, with Cliff Hazell
Recorded at the Øredev 2022 developer conference, Fredrik chats with Cliff Hazell about connecting the whole organization as it grows, priorities, and more. Don’t just sit around in your room and think about horses. Talking across si…
- Kodsnack 525 - The double bottleneck, with Aino Vonge Corry
Recorded at the Øredev 2022 developer conference, Fredrik chats with Aino Vonge Corry about patterns and their effects on our lives. Aino works with both academia and industry, regularly switching between the two, and talks about what each…
- Kodsnack 512 - Enrich the graphics, with Denis Radin
Recorded at the Øredev 2022 developer conference, Fredrik chats with Denis Radin about React , Webgpu , standards development, coding standards, and a lot more. We start way back, with early React development - while React was still in bet…
- Kodsnack 493 - I really care about the weather, with Malin Sundberg and Kai Dombrowski
Fredrik talks to Kai Dombrowski and Malin Sundberg of Triple glazed studios about their new weather app Mercury weather . Malin and Kai tell us how the app went from idea to release in a few short months, and why they will try not to pick…
- Kodsnack 484 - Underneath your library, with Chris Ferdinandi
Fredrik chats with Chris Ferdinandi about vanilla Javascript, the pros and cons of libraries, the state of web components, and a lot more. Chris tells us about how and why he became the vanilla Javascript guy, and why he dislikes vanilla-j…