I've left Twitter/X. The feed quality has just got worse & worse and it's long since gone past my threshold. Please find me over on Mastodon or Bluesky. 👋

@timsbim Thanks!

We're more than coders - we're system builders. And to be good at building systems means getting good at a lot more than code... This week I'm joined by the author of Learning Systems Thinking to consider the big picture around making software that works.

Developer Voices is back for 2025 with a look at Fyrox, a huge project to build an entire game engine in #Rust. In figuring out what makes it tick, we look at everything from rendering to hot-reloading of Rust code and runtime introspection macros...

You'd expect #Erlang and #Elixir to be a perfect fit for distributed testing of unreliable systems - this week's podcast is a perfect example. This week we're diving into the world of software for TVs, and to build a #BEAM cluster to try to test it all.

Sam Aaron might have the most interesting programming career I know of: he's an international live-coding DJ, travelling the world making music with little more than a programming language he designed. Here's how it happened:

(One last message to clarify - there will probably still be new posts announcing podcast episodes, because of automatic cross-posting. But I'm pinning this ⬆️ and waving a sad goodbye.)

Programming is filled with fascinating thinkers; this week we look at some fascinating brains as Chris Ferdinandi joins me to talk about Coding with ADHD. The highs, the lows, how to do your best work with it and how to work best with people who have it.

What have we learned from more than a decade of deploying microservices? And are we any better at breaking large systems down into the optimum slices? Ian Cooper and James Lewis join me to thrash it out, in this live episode recorded at GOTO Copenhagen…

RT @owickstrom: I'll be looking for work soon! Starting early next year, remote from SE. Autonomous testing, distsyst, web, data eng, PL, a…

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However bad you think Twitter has got in the past couple of years, if you open a brand new account and look at the default timeline, it's infinitely worse. 😞

It's that traditional time of year when everything is slightly more expensive so that they can pretend it's been deeply discounted for Black Friday. 💸

For reasons we'll go into, it's hard to do actors in a memory-safe way, at C-like levels of performance. Ponylang's solution to that is fascinating - a technique called Reference Capabilities...

@louispilfold Was it `tail -f`?

@shrirambalaji Yeah, we're having a bit of a run of Rust-based episodes. I'm not sure if that's coincidence or subconscious bias. 😅

RT @adam_chal: How do you build a new programming language? Why use Rust for it? Why are we combining code with 3D design/manufacturing at…

@louispilfold @giacomo_cava @CodeBEAMio And a thoroughly nice guy to boot. 😎