# Joel Spolsky

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587: German Pizza

The Mac mini is gonna be made in Amurica, we talk about our levels of comfort letting AI Jesus take the wheel and some people have snow while others do not. A bug in Copilot caused it to summarize confidential emails. The Meta director of AI safety let an AI agent delete her inbox. An AI agent supp…

#209 The ultimate dev skill is Integration Testing – Interview with Internet of Bugs

Today Quincy Larson interviews Carl Brown, who runs the Internet of Bugs YouTube channel and has worked as a dev at Amazon, IBM, Sun Microsystems, and startups for over 37 years. We talk about: - The hype versus the utility in LLMs and agent code generation tools - Why you might want to target dev…

175: Dance Palace

Marco trying to parallelize the LAME MP3 encoder macOS Sierra and John's comically old Mac Pro /System/Library/CoreServices/PlatformSupport.plist The Talk Show Live Marco's Pictures Deleting system apps on iOS 10 Search ads using names of other apps Apple Photos and controller search…

DevNews 85 – We record ourselves in front of a large ETE audience and news ensues

Live from ETE 2014 – April 22, 2014 Show Notes Talk with Tracey Welson-Rossman, co-chair of Philly Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise First there was Screech on Saved by the Bell, now Greach * A recent Spanish Groovy/Grails conference Groovy 2.3 introduces traits watch out there, Scala…

529: The Narwhal Looked Amazing

Chris Svec returns to the show to discuss the messy, non-linear realities of engineering management and onboarding new college graduates. We explore why companies should bother hiring fresh grads in the first place, how to prevent junior developers from going dark when they get stuck, and why admit…

Why Is DeepSeek Free? China's Plan to Break the AI Business Model

Four of China's top AI labs — DeepSeek, GLM, Kimi, and Qwen — are giving away frontier-class models for free. Not a free trial. The actual model, yours to download, run on your own machine, and build a business on. No bill, no permission. Giving the model away isn't generosity. It's a decades-old …

Never don’t rewrite

Last week, Observable launched a total rewrite of notebooks. Contra Joel Spolsky’s advice, Mike Bostock has done many rewrites, from TiVo to Protovis to D3, and itches to do many more. Why?

Herding Code 201: Kenji Obata on Spoon, application virtualization, containers, and flying little airplanes

Episode 201 Jon meets Kenji and Trevor at a small airfield in San Diego to talk about Spoon, an application containierization and streaming platform for Windows. They discuss different virtual machine approaches, Spoon's features, the container movement, and flying airplanes. Download / Listen: …

Herding Code 53: SubSonic 3.0 Release Party with Rob Conery

Episode 53 What? You thought SubSonic was dead! Well, crack open a beer and join the party - the SubSonic 3.0 Release Party!  That's right. It is finally here and Rob Conery (Herding Code's first repeat guest) gets a little rowdy announcing the new features.  Listen in as Rob speaks of SubSonic, t…

244: How Anthropic thinks about build vs buy in the AI era, with Alexey Komissarouk

What's up everyone, today we have the pleasure of sitting down with Alexey Komissarouk, Member of the Technical Staff at Anthropic. (00:00) - Intro (01:22) - In This Episode (04:44) - How Engineers Actually End Up Specializing in Martech (08:47) - Security Approval Is the Real Bottleneck at An…