Kodsnack in English

Fredrik chats with James Smith about forking Rails for the greater good. The name of the project is Mosscap. (During recording, it still used the temporary name Amiko.) James explains why the forking project has been started, and why many people have been calling for change within the Rails world for a long time. James talks about what has been done so far, the importance of getting more people involved, quickly, technical solutions, and of getting the governance model right. Technology and development in itself isn’t really the important focus. Mosscap is place to keep maintaining existing Rails apps, but not necessarily the way to start completely new ones. There may not even be a second major version of Mosscap. There are other projects for that situation. We also discuss James' project Manyfold and how it works to apply for and build software funded by NLNet (EU, essentially) grants. Thank you Cloudnet for sponsoring our VPS! Comments, questions or tips? We a re @kodsnack, @tobiashieta, @oferlund and @bjoreman on Twitter, have a page on Facebook and can be emailed at [email protected] if you want to write longer. We read everything we receive. If you enjoy Kodsnack we would love a review in iTunes! You can also support the podcast by buying us a coffee (or two!) through Ko-fi. Links James Manyfold - James own project NGI zero Ruby on rails Mosscap - the permanent name Rails needs new governance - blog post with plenty of background on why change is needed Rails is done - blog post about Mosscap, background, and supporting something stable Open letter to the Rails core team last year DHH - David Heinemeier Hansson - you can find his blog posts if you really want to Rubygems - the package manager and system ARPANET Join the Matrix space Gem aliasing Monkey patching Follow Mosscap project on Mastodon Repos for the fork - known as Amiko at the time of recording, now Mosscap Support us on Ko-fi! Amiko - friend in Esperanto Electromagnetic field festival CVE Fediverse Hanakai - another base on which to build Ruby apps Hanami - app framework which is part of Hanakai LTS - long-term support Mosscap’s governance documents Fedipub nlnet.nl Titles Tech for good All of our collective intelligence together Some dubious lifestyle decisions Trying really hard to not know why Not taking anything away from anyone Me with a fork Reasons why things won’t work I thought it was Japanese Stomping around, being angry in a field You’re somebody Somebody should do something A proper security process Many weird technical decisions because of philosophical stances No funding for maintenance We’ll be looking after the core Detailed for the likes of me Here’s a donation Donation unlocked Grantdown A slightly less tech bro-y future

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 environment. Consultants don’t cost what you expect them to when compared to employees, and a strange previous focus on headcount has not helped either. We then talk about the standardization process for C++ and about new things in C++ 26. Harald discusses the issues of adding new things which are good in themselves, but perhaps don’t fit into a bigger picture, take a lot of focus and energy which in turn means many other things do not get considered which may be smaller and more widely and immediately useful. Also: once something is in the standard library, it’s eternal. And there is still no real ecosystem around C++. Infrastructure is a hard thing. And Rust is out there. Finally, we talk about Harald’s experience of running the Swedencpp meetup for ten years. What does it mean to run something for so long? Technology, talks, locations, providing a space for presentations, and trying to keep things evolving are all discussed. Thank you Cloudnet for sponsoring our VPS! Comments, questions or tips? We a re @kodsnack, @tobiashieta, @oferlund and @bjoreman on Twitter, have a page on Facebook and can be emailed at [email protected] if you want to write longer. We read everything we receive. If you enjoy Kodsnack we would love a review in iTunes! You can also support the podcast by buying us a coffee (or two!) through Ko-fi. Links Harald Previous episodes with Harald Support us on Ko-fi! C++ 26 ISO SC22 WG21 - the standardization group for C++ The Swedish local mirror for SG22, affectionately known as SIS/TK 611/AG 09 SIS - Swedish institute of standards Swedencpp Remember the Vasa! - Bjarne’s paper Modules - from C++ 20 “The irony is that since this issue was opened, I have not only learned rust, I also switched to it fully." Coroutines Compile-time reflection Templates Orthodox C++ - talk by Harald C++ quiz compilation Contracts in C++ Eiffel Undefined behavior in C++ Swift package manager Ripgrep Sender and receiver Profiles in C++ Cppcheck - by Daniel Marjamäki Concepts Swedencpp on Youtube Swedencpp pro Titles To take communication with Skatteverket What is a consultant? Horrendous prices for Powerpoint presentations Somebody needs an excuse Every hour counts Flavors of consultant I cost so much money Why we have time to talk Too much gatekeeping Still just collecting profiles Special in the terms of ISO Why does Sweden not have a voice I represent this type It’s still ISO A lot of big features again They are also awesome A lot of things to do, and to know All these things deserve their own book You can do a lot of magic (I became) Too old for liking magic There was magic everywhere That’s really useful Infinite ways of doing something Define your subset The subset needs to fit you Awesome, to some extent Paperwork is expensive Everything is already being re-written A step in the right direction Where efficiency is a priority Based on personal experience If you go there, you can’t work Let’s make something accessible At least it’s not nothing anymore Conference over space and time What’s the next level? Still an option

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 re @kodsnack, @tobiashieta, @oferlund and @bjoreman on Twitter, have a page on Facebook and can be emailed at [email protected] if you want to write longer. We read everything we receive. If you enjoy Kodsnack we would love a review in iTunes! You can also support the podcast by buying us a coffee (or two!) through Ko-fi. Links Holly Holly’s presentation - Five (and a half) things you can do with Quarkus Quarkus Graalvm Picocli AWT WASM Chicory - WASM runtime for the JVM Microcks - contract testing framework in Java APICurio Dev services SQLite in WASM Hibernate Reasteasy Vert.x - “reactive applications on the JVM” Holly’s Minecraft extension for Quarkus Support us on Ko-fi! Langchain4j Grafana William Gibson Backpressure Simon Wardley and his keynote on mapping Minecraft demo to explain Kubernetes concepts, by Sebastien Blanc Holly’s talk about developer joy The fun topic on hollycummins.com Titles All in one room When you say Quarkus Really amazing throughput The way that conferences work Other people have done all the work It unlocks a whole lot of possibilities Slightly more tortured Javascripv via WASM on the JVM The absence of configuration Unless you work for a bank That zero friction All of that dynamism The reading of the configuration Deep introspection of the application Six demos in 40 minutes The useful extensions had been written The chicken would explode Novel way of understanding the application Manually implement the backpressure Zoo of types The containers were chickens Joy and productivity The happy piglets You are a profitalbe piglet The mandatory fun officer I now have the language On team cloud