All Episodes

Courtney Wilburn - Maintainable Software Has Good Community Around It

Nelida Velazquez - We Have to Express Our Opinions

Casey Watts! - Culturesmithing

Marc Cornellà - Maintaining Open Source Projects

Shanea Leven - How To Bring Visibility To Your Codebase

Greg Foster - A Pattern for Smaller, Faster, and Frequent Code Reviews

Urban Hafner - Management Isn't For Everyone

Amy Isikoff Newell - Code Shouldn't Drive Us To Drink

Podcast Panel at RailsConf 2022

Chelsea Troy - All Code Has Maintenance Load

Paula Paul - Getting People To Understand Is a Challenge

Ben Halpern - Adventures In Open Sourcing Your Existing Application

Avdi Grimm - Don't Be Too Clingy To Your Tests

Aran Khanna - De-risk Your Cloud Resources

Jerod Santo - Having to Maintain Your Own Cleverness

Idit Levine - Production is the Real Test

Emily Giurleo - Maintaining Open Source vs Proprietary Software

Jean Yang - Not All Software is Meant to be Maintained

Shaundai Person: Work on Having a Short-term Memory

Chris Birchall: Re-Engineering Legacy Software

Swizec Teller: What is a Senior (Engineer) Mindset?

Heidi Waterhouse: Documentation: The Best Diff is a Red Diff

DHH: Celebrating Legacy Software as a Victory and the Story of How Humans Can't Estimate

Matt Wynne: Cucumber and Why Is TDD Such a Challenge?

Tom Granot: Finding Your Style When Explaining Things to Technical Audiences

Andrew Watkins: How To Test What You're Trying to Build

Rodney Cobb: Repeatable. Testable. Scalable.

Dr. Michaela Greiler: Getting Awesome at Code Reviews

Mark Kilby: Overcoming Challenges that Remote Technical Teams Experience

Kevin Stewart: Short-term Decisions That Need To Be Revisited

Ken Fogel: What Are You Leaving Behind?

Murray Steele: Maintainable Code Is Easy to Turn Off and Delete

Dr. Felienne Hermans: Looking Inside The Programmer's Brain

Bertold Kolics: Are You Carrying the Weight of Dead Code?

Kent C. Dodds: AHA Programming and Testing JavaScript

Mark Adams: HOWTO Prepare (Your Nails) for Burning Man

Amy Sorensen: Nail Baths vs Nail Soaks

Logan Luke Tyler Tanner: Overcoming Nail Biting During a Pandemic

Erica Tafavoti: Adding Density to Extend Their Life

Duncan Thorpe: Disrupting the Mammalian Industrial Nail Complex

Shannon Jackson: Oh, Wait, Nope...Those Aren't My Gutter Nails

Brian Scanlan: Improving Oncall Support with Meaningful Alarms

Alexandre Omeyer: Removing the Barriers to Track Technical Debt

Roopak Venkatakrishnan: The Importance of Optimizing For Local Development and Build Systems

Benjamin Wood: Rescuing Ruby on Rails Projects

Johanna Rothman: No, Great Developers Aren't Destined to Be Great Managers

Helen Scott: Strategies For Measuring Developer Experience (DX)

Robert Kaufman: Running a Consultancy and a Coding School

Heidi Helfand: The Art and Wisdom of Changing Teams

Jutta Eckstein: How Software Impacts Our Planet

John Cech: How To Mentor Interns On Software Projects

Theresa Neate: Testing != Quality

Michael Springer: Vetting External Dependencies

Jason Swett: Refactoring Is Necessary to Keep Your Blade Sharp

Sudhir Reddy: Don't Be Afraid to Slash and Burn

Monica Lent: Progress Is More Important Than Perfection

Trae Robrock: Understanding Your Risk Tolerance As An Engineer

Mark Erikson: Accidentally Becoming an Open Source Maintainer

Bonnie Brennan: Building Community

Khaled Souf: Track Down Dead Code and Delete it

Adrianna Chang: Using the Strangler Fig Pattern at Shopify

Mark Downie: Balancing The Promises That Open Source Projects Make

Glenn Vanderburg: Don't Ask For Small Things

Suzan Bond: Embracing Discomfort and Navigating Transitions

Nicolas Carlo: Changing Messy Software Without Breaking It

Brittany Martin: How to Quit Your Job and Leave Your Code in Good Hands

Luke Redpath: User Stories Should Prompt Conversations

Hampton Lintorn Catlin: Only Add Complexity When Necessary

Pat Kua: The Challenges that Come with Becoming a Tech Lead

Aaron Blohowiak: The Myth of the Sufficiently Smart Engineer

Magda Miu: Building a Technical Leadership Career Around Teaching

Gant Laborde: Technical Debt — Trading Risk for an Advantage

Karen Lee Rigg: Where Are the Bad Habits Coming From?

Gianluca Arbezzano: Technical Debt Beyond Code & Your First Contributions to Open Source

Ali Spittel: Junior Developers and Helping Unlock Their Potential

Robby Russell: Turning the Mic Around with Kayla Reopelle

Ryan Cromwell: Is the Juice Worth the Squeeze?

Camille Fournier: How Does a Developer Become a Manager?

Gonçalo Silva: How A Fully-Remote Team Builds and Maintains Software

Tudor Girba: Moldable Development and Software Environmentalism

Jeff Haynie: How Can We Make Software Development Better for Dev Teams?

Vladimir Khorikov: 100% Test Coverage is an Artificial Metric

Bryan Helmkamp: Don't Let Perfect Be The Enemy of Good

Dr. Aino Vonge Corry: Why Do We Have Retrospectives, Again?

Trisha Gee: Developers Should Invest More Time Into Learning Their Tools

Sandi Metz: Making is Easy, Mending is a Challenge

Clare Sudbery: Refactoring Should Be Part of Your Daily Work

Kelly Sutton: Custodians of the Monolith

Jonathan Abourbih: Creating a Culture Where It's Okay To Take Risks

Jessica Kerr: Software Is Not A Craft (or an Art)

Jon Thornton: Technical Debt is a Good Thing (Sometimes)

Ben Orenstein: "Someday We'll Go Clean That Up" Doesn't Work

Ernesto Tagwerker: Tracking Technical Debt With Metrics (aka Stink Score)

Marit van Dijk: How Are We Going to Test This?

Mike Perham: How Developers Underestimate Long-Term Costs of External Dependencies

Ev Haus: Good Code Can Be Easily Deleted

Adam Tornhill: Prioritizing Technical Debt With Behavioral Code Analysis

M. Scott Ford: Menders In Hiding and the Joy of Legacy Code

Gitte Klitgaard: Making Space For Psychological Safety in Software Teams

Nathaniel Bibler: Communication Strategies Between Developers and Clients