All Episodes
Working Code — 269 episodes
267: Prove You Are Human
266: Strugglemaxing
265: Knowing When to Stop
264: Look Busy, Claude's Working
263: Intimacy with the Code
262: Zen and the Art of AI-Driven Maintenance
261: The Ben Turing Test
260: Reinventing the Wiki
259: Walling Off Your Mental Garden
258: On the AI of It All
257: We Solved Everything
256: The Productivity Trap: How Optimizing Everything Broke Us
255: AI in the Streets
254: Claudependent
253: The Adversarial Agents Are Arguing Again
252: Meet Showbot
251: Ben vs. Tests
250: Stuff, Things, WIP: Commit Messages
249: 10 Years of Tech Debt
248: AI All the Way Down
247: Trust Me Bro - LLM Security
246: Ben's Feeling the Vibe
245: Browser Passwords? You're Doing It Wrong
244: Ben vs 2026
243: Oops, All Aftershow
242: All I Want for Christmas Is Faster Builds
241: Welcoming Our New Robot Overlords
240: Memento Mori with Shawn Oden
239: Welcome to the Feature Factory
238: This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things
237: The Internet Is Eating Itself and We're Just Watching
236: Trunk or Treat
235: When Romance Becomes a Database Problem with Sean Corfield
234: The Multitasking Mind
233: Cheating on Work with Work
232: Are we Idiots or Maniacs?
231: Good Friction
230: The Myth of Common Sense
229: Our Correct Opinions, Subjectivity in Coding
228: Soft Deletes and Other Crimes
227: Stop, Commensurate, and Listen
226: To Sync or Not To Sync?
225: The Value of Open Source in the Age of AI
224: Skin in the Game
223: The Six Month Autonomy Rule
222: Gemini CLI Test Drive
221: Life in the Trenches of Replatforming
220: Embracing AI with Dan Wilson
219: Potluck: AI Ego, Feature Flags, Customer Feedback
218: Rethinking Values in the Age of AI
217: More Svelte Than You Can Shake a Stick At
216: Ben's New Job
215: New Endeavours, New Challenges
214: Is Tech the Bad Guy Now?
213: Staying Motivated Through Long Projects
212: You Are Not a Coder
211: Roast My Desk, Rate My Clean-up
210: Free as in Speech, not as in Beer
209: MVP Therapy
208: Real or Fake? Esoteric Programming Languages
207: Potluck and Fun Facts
206: The Most Impactful Books
205: Lessons Learned Along the Way
204: Relaying Requirements
203: The Hard Problem of Naming Things
202: Um, Actually!
201: LLMs vs StackOverflow
200: The Power of Pause - We're Taking a Break
199: Is .io Out?
198: Battling Build Complexity
197: AI, The Innovation Dilemma, Promotions and More
196: Building Better, Developer Experience
195: When the Juice Isn't Worth the Squeeze
194: Manifesting a New App
193: Bonds Built in the Foxholes
192: The Best of Code and The Worst of Code
191: Processing Processes
190: Career Advice For Our Younger Selves - Ben & Carol Edition
189: Career Advice For Our Younger Selves
188: Yeeting Changes to Production - Code Reviews
187: Is it Possible to be a Solo Developer in 2024?
186: Warm Blankies For Your Work Insecurities
185: Adam's A/B Testing MVP
184: Solving World Peace with Code Comments
183: Who's Got the Beans? Carol's New Project
182: Coffee Talk and Catching Up
181: More Laws of Software
180: The Laws of Software
179: AI Sells You on AI
178: Upgrading From Node 0.10
177: Infinite Invisibility Timeout
176: Triumph and Fail Safe Space
175: Build Times, Overcompensating, Mentoring and More
174: When Your Software Has a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
173: Shopping for Solutions - Payments and Compliance Auditing
172: Building Your Own Standard Library
171: From Tactics to Strategy
170: Thinking in UX with Thelma Van
169: Buffer Overflow, Tabs vs Spaces
168: Memory Safety Mandate
167: Everyone Likes Their Own Brand
166: What's "Onboarded" to You?
165: Agile Methodology with Brian Sadler
164: Solo Programming, Chrome Monoculture and More - Potluck
163: Exposing Yourself, to New Tech
162: A Question of Time
161: 2024 Goals
160: Design Systems and Coding Philosophy
159: No Effort December Returns
158: The Premortem Premortem
157: Dead Man's Snitch Deep Dive with Adam Cameron
156: JSON, StackOverflow, Testing - Hot Takes
155: Software We're Thankful For
154: What Could Go Wrong? Pre-Mortems and Log Levels
153: Our Biggest Failures
152: Cron Heatmaps, Harvard AI, and Ben's Book - What's On Your Workbench
151: Async Human Solutions
150: What's on Your Workbench #3
149: Margin For Error
148: The Day The Code Stood Still
147: Potluck #9
146: Resiliency is Hard
145: Shiny New Things - Bun, Svelte, Skeleton
144: The Power of One
143: Moving On, Rewriting, Replatforming
142: Tangents All the Way Down
141: Building Stuff So You Can Build Stuff
140: Fraud, What is it Good For?
139: New Tables vs New Columns
138: Ben Goes Streaking
137: The Grug Brained Developer
136: Words, Do They Matter?
135: Note To Self v0.3.0
134: Ben Goes to a Conference
133: The Final Stretch
132: Virtual Reality
131: Starting From Scratch
130: Book Club - The Phoenix Project
129: New Features vs Maintenance
128: Potluck #8
127: How Tech Interviewing is Broken with Sean Corfield
126: Documenting Decisions
125: What's on Your Workbench? #2
124: We Are Juniors For Life
123: Negative 10x Developers
122: Coding Hot Takes
121: Ben's Testing Tribulations
120: Freelancing with Nolan Erck
119: Potluck #7
118: Things We Should Be Doing But, You Know... Reasons
117: Champions of Truth
116: The State of Developer Conferences with Brian Rinaldi
115: Self-Care For Developers
114: Carol Got Laid-Off
113: Surviving A Layoff
112: Listener Questions
111: How To Learn Stuff Good
110: Measuring Impact At Work
109: Best of 2022
108: 2022 Year In Review
107: Through The Wormhole
106: A Cascading Cataclysmic Christmas
105: No Effort December
104: Alexa Make A Podcast About AI
103: Birdsite Go Boom
102: Upgrading MySQL For Poop Emojis
101: Error - Error Message Not Helpful!
100: The Spicetacular!
099: Technical Debt Isn’t Always A Choice. Or Is It?
098: In Defense Of Working On The Legacy Platform
097: Expectations Of Professional Software Engineers
096: Why Do You Write?
095: Potluck #6 - Unpopular Opinions Edition
094: Disagree And Commit
093: Sounds Easy! Sure Isn't
092: The Power of No
091: Side Project Therapy
090: Passion Projects and Beer Money - Side Hustles
089: What Makes a Good Roadmap?
088: //todo: documentation
087: Note To Self v0.2.0
086: The Working Code Test
085: Shipping Complexity
084: The Architectural Support Team with Jason Henriksen
083: Alternate Timelines
082: GitHub Copilot - Is It Worth It?
081: Total Randos
080: Other Duties As Assigned
079: Potluck #5
078: UX - Pushing Users Into The Pit of Success
077: Mid-Manager Blues
076: Ben Needs A Minute
075: What Problem Does This Solve?
074: What's On Your Workbench?
073: Our Golden Parachute
072: Too Many Hats
071: Potluck #4
070: Self Reflections
069: Now I'm Catching Events
068: Hire Women, Inspire Women
067: We Have Feelings On Logging
066: Make Meetings Suck Less
065: TDD In the Trenches with Scott Stroz
064: Should I Stay Or Should I Go?
063: Nobody Makes It Out Alive!
062: Note To Self
061: Software Is For People
060: Technical Debt
059: Everything Old Is New Again
058: Do 10x Developers Exist?
057: Goals for 2022
056: Best of 2021
055: Sales Fails
054: We're So Quacked
053: Product Management with Adam Lehman
052: Starting Your Own Business, with Steve Rittler
051: You Are Replaceable
050: Where Do You See Yourself in 5 Years?
049: Revisiting Replatforming - There Is No Correct Answer
048: // TODO: Microwave ToDo List
047: Email Ruins Everything
046: Secrets Management vs. Premature Optimization
045B: The Aftershow
045: Join Our Discord
044: Facebook's No Good Very Bad Week
043: Relay Race Programming
042: Potluck #3
041: The Third Age of JavaScript, with Shawn @Swyx Wang
040: Automaticity Is a Weird Word
039: Ben's Future at InVision
038: Holding Developers Accountable
037: Brian Klaas Talks Cloud
036: Blogs and Digital Gardens
035: Being a Swamp Guide
034: Some of My Best Friends Are React Developers!
033: Software Patents
032: What Comes After Senior Developer?
031: To The Cloud! But Why?
030: Carol's Consult Catch-Up Conversation
029: Potluck #2
028: Buy vs. DIY
027: Giving Technical Presentations
026: Passwords
025: Breaking Up With Your Stack
024: The Archetype of an Effective Developer
023: Book Club #1 Clean Code by "Uncle Bob" Martin (pt2)
022: Book Club #1 Clean Code by "Uncle Bob" Martin (pt1)
021: Listener Questions #2
020: Carol Needs a Consult
019: Makefiles
018: Feature Flags (Finally!)
017: Premature Optimization
016: Interviewing
015: Potluck #1
014: Zen and the Art of Pull Requests
013: Do What You Love And You'll Never Work A Day In Your Life
012: Idiomatic Code
011: Listener Questions #1
010: Scaling
009: Testing
008: Origin Stories Pt 2
007: Origin Stories Pt 1
006: Hopes for 2021
005: Monolith vs. Microservices
004: Impostor Syndrome
003: Burnout, Mental Exhaustion, and Productivity
002: Working from home
001: Adam's Secret Shame
000: Hello, World!