PODCAST / A 2021 EXPERIMENT
Software Engineers.
Conversations with the people behind the software.
In 2021, I invited six engineers to talk about their work, their decisions and what they learned along the way.
Key facts
- Status
- Experimenton pause since October 2021
- Years
- 2021
- Role
- Host
- Highlight
- 6 episodes, from April to October 2021
The conversations.
06 EPISODES / 2021Six guests, six perspectives on making software. Guest roles and references reflect the time of recording.
Episode 01Sebastiano Mandalà
CTO at Freejam · Creator of Svelto.ECS
Why treat ECS as a programming paradigm rather than an optimization trick? Sebastiano shares the experience that shaped his approach and the trade-offs of using ECS in games.
Episode 02Sean Austin
VP of Engineering at Super Evil Megacorp
What makes a good home for engineering talent? Sean talks about leading people, working remotely and why his studio builds its own E.V.I.L. game engine.
Episode 03Maximiliano Contieri
Software engineer, educator & Code Smells author
A conversation about the problems at the heart of software engineering, teaching and writing—with detours into AI, the singularity and the Fermi paradox.
Episode 04Adam Martin
CTO at plural.ai · ECS practitioner
A second perspective on Entity Component Systems. Adam looks back on his career and his journey with ECS, offering a different view from the first episode with Sebastiano.
Episode 05Woody Zuill
Software development consultant · Mob programming pioneer
From building software for his own shop to helping teams work together. Woody introduces mob programming, shares practical advice and discusses pitfalls to avoid.
Episode 06Mathias Buus
Hypercore Protocol lead · Node.js & P2P developer
What does it take to build peer-to-peer software? Mathias discusses his background in Node.js and his contributions to Hypercore, Dazaar and Beaker Browser.
Why I started it
I thought we, software engineers, were lacking podcasts discussing our journeys, challenges and quests. There are tons of blogs but very few podcasts.
Why it stopped
I stopped after six episodes. The editing was costing me a lot, and it was difficult to find guests and to fit the recording in their schedule.
I would like to resume it eventually, if I can find a more or less automatic way to do the editing with AI.