Tech, Bugs & Rock & Roll

Golly, it's August. That was quick. Let's ramble about stuff.Recorded August 7th, 2025 with no safety net.

This week we might talk about the things that we were going to talk about last week but we didn't because we talked about other stuff instead. Or we might talk about other stuff instead. Not knowing is the fun part.Recorded July 31st, 2025 somewhere, somewhere in a field in Hampshire.

Let's talk about vibe coding, the Azure Dev Summit, writing workshops, and anything else that wanders across our minds, like a confused marmot on an ice rink.Recorded July 24th, 2025. Your statutory rights are not affected.

"This podcast is fundamental infrastructure, like electricity". Let's talk about how memory speed got hella confusing, the state of AI, the astonishing revival of the Commodore 64, and more!Recorded July 17th, 2025 and preserved in amber.

Another week, another assortment of disjointed ramblings, tangents and digressions that will leave you feeling at peace with the world and a strange tingling sensation.Recorded July 3rd 2025, around teatime.

Also Poland, the actual talking about the thing that was not talked about the previous week but which still got used as the title on Spotify, and Agentic Misalignment and why chiropractors can't fix it.Recorded June 26th 2025, somewhere off the coast of Birmingham

Eli and Dylan are in Denmark. Rendle isn't. Let's talk about VS color schemes, native AOT compilation, trains, bad conference wifi, and the fact that the billionth GitHub repository ever created just contains a single quite rude word.Recorded June 19th, 2025

Dylan and Eli are at DevSum in Sweden, and Rendle is off to Download in Derbyshire, so we've got the Tech and the Rock'n'Roll covered this week at least.Recorded June 12th, 2025; uploaded to Spotify seven months later :(

The Nintendo Switch 2 has arrived and Rendle has one but they can't open it until Smol Rendle gets home. Also the week in AI, events, stupidity and joy.Note: Assassin's Crossing was originally suggested in episode 1.34 (Live from the Copenhagen Developers Festival) by Not-So-Smol Rendle.

Rendle's had a day but they don't wanna talk about it; Dylan might be joining from a railway shed somewhere; Eli is bored.

Eli joins the regular cast, Rendle is going to be a CTO, and that's as much as I can infer from scanning the YouTube chat of an episode we recorded six months ago.I'm sorry.

That title made sense when we recorded this. I'm trying to catch up, honest, I'm just very, very, very busy.Anyway, let's talk about load balancing humans, an aeroplane full of potatoes, why the Android calculator app is WAY smarter than you can possibly imagine, what's happening at Devoxx UK, and more!

In which our esteemed hosts talk about authentication, visualising algorithms, building C++ apps on Windows, folding guitars, Apple HomePod Mini, and more!

Everything is chaos and any attempts to predict more than a split second into the future are doomed to fail hilariously

Let's chat about making videos, companies that offer support via Slack, .NET Open Source Drama Season 12 Episode 5, and more!

For the first time in several weeks, neither of us is in the Netherlands. Let's talk about Adrian Tchaikovsky, Brandon Sanderson, modern web standards, train wifi, vibe coding, and more!

Today, due to foreseen circumstances, the part of Dylan Beattie will be played by Eli Holderness. What we shall talk about is anybody's guess.

Rendle's in Utrecht, so stunt Rendle this week is Eli Holderness! Let's talk about rewriting things in Go, making slides, running meetups and... you know the drill. Ramblecast gonna ramble.

Rendle's upgraded to Windows 11. Dylan's having fun with hard drives and thinking it's probably upgrade time too. But we know you're really just here for the tangents. Us too.

This week: Framework's new product announcement, why resource-based authentication is a MOOD, cameras (and why they're complicated), simplicity (and why it's also complicated), wires (and why there are wires) and, oh, y'know... stuff.

After two weeks with two fantastic stunt ramblers, Dylan and Rendle both show up and the Trello backlog of stuff to talk about is looooong, so we're gonna have to talk fast.

Dylan is recovering from a xenomorph infestation so the delightful Chris "Woody" Woodruff is Rendle's guest partner for today's show. We talked about simplicity in software design and development, and performance in .NET, and some other stuff, and a splendid time was had by all. Enjoy.

Rendle's on an aeroplane so Dylan's going to be ramblecasting with architect, author and speaker Diana Montalion! Let's talk about systems thinking, explaining complicated things to simple people and simple things to complicated people, and that one time we randomly went to Castle Dracula. No, really.

Dylan and Rendle are LIVE from NDC London! And the WiFi or something was not very good so the audio is not very good. I've done the best I can but it's still not great so please forgive us. It's still worth listening though, this was a fun show.

We're at Linebreakers Band Camp! In a very posh house on the Kent coast, coming to you live from the Library. In the house!

This week Dylan and Rendle are talking about DDD South West, the FluentAssertions license change🍿, some new stuff Dylan's doing with Rockstar, community events (and what it's like speaking at a meetup that starts at 07:30am), what's happening at NDC London later this month, and anything else that pops into their heads.

People's names are difficult for computers. Speaking of names, Dylan and Rendle talk about splitting full names into first and last, Skulduggery Pleasant, Nvidia graphics cards that have given up on rendering polygons and just guess what the screen should look like instead, and a new DOOM mod that... well, listen to the episode.

Yay, 2025! What exciting things are Dylan and Mark looking forward to this year? What did they like about last year? What were the chat looking forward to? Which singer has the greatest vocal range? All these questions and more are answered in the first episode of season 2.

It's Boxing Day in the UK which means every TV channel will be showing some super boring film at 4pm, so why not join us for a chat instead? (It's probably not Boxing Day now but you can listen to the recording anyway)

Dylan is once more adrift in the luminiferous aether so Eli once more steps into the breach to talk to Rendle about AI bubbles, gaming nostalgia and other matters of great pitch and moment

Dylan is on an intergalactic cruise in his office, so Rendle is joined by the wonderful Eli Holderness to talk about whatever they've found interesting this week.

Mark is going to use Kotlin, Dylan is handling errors in Rockstar, and Bluesky is properly taking off at last.

Mark is in Malmö for Øredev, Dylan isn’t, stuff shall be discussed…

We both just got back from KanDDDinsky in Berlin and at least one of us is already checked in for their next flight... but hey, that's not until tomorrow, so let's do a podcast!

No idea what we're talking about in this one but I expect it will be the usual stream-of-bobbins that you know and love.

Mark and Dylan are both busy this week so here's one we made earlier, geeking out about games we like and stuff.

Dylan and Mark talk about the ongoing WP Engine vs WordPress saga; a variant on the Y2K bug; more unethical AI; and the mystery of the "mercurial cores".

WinAmp have released the source code for the legacy player but it's not exactly... open. Dylan and Mark about using AI to generate podcasts, and how AI coding assistants will be better when you can actually talk to them, the current fracas in the WordPress community, and how those "Star Wars in 1950s Panavision" videos you keep seeing on YouTube are made. Dylan uses a naughty word in this one.

Dylan's on another aeroplane so fellow Linebreaker Hannes joins Mark to talk about positive code reviews and the conversation just kind of rambles on from there really

NASA have decided that the transistors in the Europa Clipper are hardcore enough to survive Jupiter's radiation, plus whatever else we talked about, Spotify lost the upload originally and I can't remember.

Mark's just finished 2 days of selecting and curating talks for NDC London 2025 and shares some tips for persuading committee members to pick you. Dylan's been making courses and trying to juggle 14 other balls at the same time.

CPH DevFest gave us a stage and an audience to record this week's podcast, so we repaid them by doing one of our usual random, meandering conversations.

It's Dylan's birthday and he's spending it doing homework for the Copenhagen Developers' Festival next week. Meanwhile Mark wants to know why developing for Apple hardware is so difficult.

32 episodes! Such a lovely round number that Mark slept through it and Dylan had to fill an hour of airtime on his own, which he does magnificently.

Dylan's on a train this week so the excellent Kevlin Henney joins Mark to talk about legacy code, bitrot, and the inevitable displacement of big, old companies by fast-moving start-ups.

WARNING: SPOILERS FOR DEADPOOL AND WOLVERINE Dylan's getting ready to ship Rockstar 2, Mark's built a sort of electric cloud-based space clipboard, and we've both seen Deadpool and Wolverine and intend to SPOILER THE HECK out of it so if you haven't seen it maybe watch this one later.

Well, gosh, we have absolutely NO IDEA what we might talk about this week in a weekly podcast about the week's events in the world of technology. Not a clue. Nope. Oh, and also a fun bit about the NSA having a tape of Grace Hopper they won't release 'cos they don't have a tape deck to watch it on that we were going to talk about last week but we ran out of time. And Mark and Dylan compare their workstations and monitor arrangements and stuff.

Dylan's been having huge amounts of fun with C#, WASM, Ruby and JavaScript - all at the same time! Mark's been building a new thing, playing with the Meta Quest 3 and finally watching the latest Indiana Jones movie, although not at the same time.

Dylan's been at home working on Rockstar 2 and enjoying Tidal's musical recommendations. Mark's been trying to work with an AMQP API using the wrong PDF document, wondering what a smart ring is, and Ford's turned the Capri into an electric SUV. And folding phones and AR headsets are like super-conducting hoverboards.

Oh no, I completely forgot to upload this episode last week. Sorry. Also the title is what we used on YouTube for the recording but I don't remember talking about Lezer Grammars or Democracy Sausages, although we definitely did talk about quantum crosswords, Arduinos and that scouse baby.