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Our Prime Minister got in front of the media this week to talk about unauthorised access to a Medicare system. So naturally we opened the articles and started asking questions. What actually happened here? Was anything really hacked, and how secure was it? How secure should it have been? And how w…

This one starts as a correction and doesn’t stay one. Last episode, talking about auth, Matt said that after the IdentityServer licence change Microsoft “closed ranks” and stopped taking third-party dependencies in their templates. A re-listen flagged it as something worth revisi…

Matt has spent the better part of a year circling a side project to build his own identity provider. Then, one afternoon this week, he realised he was solving the wrong problem, and that the solution he actually needed is one we all used to reach for without thinking. This episode is the story of …

This week Liam takes the mic — and the segue of a lifetime — to tell the story of a framework he unapologetically loves: WPF. It’s part personal history, part technology retrospective, and part quiet argument that the ideas WPF introduced never really went away. They just changed frameworks.…

Matt stumbled across a famous John Carmack email from 2007 — the one where he asks his team to start thinking about inlining their functions — and couldn’t stop thinking about it. So this week we sat down to pull it apart. On the surface it reads like a hot take on code style: stop breaking …

This one starts with Matt eating his words from It’s time to let JavaScript go, but the admission is just the door in. What’s on the other side is a longer, harder look at security fatalism: why the entire software world runs on code nobody can fully check, why even careful people keep …

First things first: an apology. After three-plus years and 73 episodes without missing a drop, we finally missed one. Turns out even the Beer Driven Devs need a break sometimes. Refreshed and back at the mics, Matt goes full tech historian this week. While researching a long-form essay for his blo…

Matt’s back from /NEW Conference in Newcastle and has a lot to unpack. Liam missed out this year, so this episode is a whistle-stop debrief of the highlights: talks, panels, stickers, and a few recurring themes that kept surfacing across the two days. The conference theme was Human in the Lo…

Last week we talked about bespoke software and whether it has to be out of reach for smaller businesses. This week we pick up the thread we deliberately put a pin in: what even is enterprise — and do you actually need it? Spoiler: probably not as much of it as you’ve been quoted for. The co…