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Making React 70% faster with Aiden Bai of Million.js

05 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

React is an immensely popular JavaScript library that is used to build website user interfaces. A key feature of React is that it uses a virtual Docum...

Cross-functional Incident Management with Ashley Sawatsky and Niall Murphy

17 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Incident management is the process of managing and resolving unexpected disruptions or issues in software systems, especially those that are customer-...

SDKs for your API with Sagar Batchu

01 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

APIs are ubiquitous and critical to building modern software, and developers must frequently develop custom APIs to streamline user access to their se...

Shipping Features with Ben Rometsch

15 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Feature flags also known as feature toggles, release toggles or feature flippers are a way to enable or disable a particular feature from your app wit...

Modern Robotics Platform with Eliot Horowitz

06 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Programming robotics software has traditionally been a specialized field. The software industry has seen rapid progress, the operating system that pro...

Bug Reporting is Broken and how Jam is Fixing that with Dani Grant & Mohd Irtefa

01 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Bug reporting hasn’t changed since the 1990’s. Despite all the technological advancements we’ve made in the rest of software develop...

Meme.com with Johan Unger

19 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Whether you love them or hate them, share them or ignore them, you encounter memes all over the internet.  Those that are popular can often take off ...

Roblox Engineering with Claus Moberg

18 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Roblox is a gaming platform with a large ecosystem of players, creators, game designers, and entrepreneurs. The world of Roblox is a three-dimensional...

Indie Hackers with Courtland Allen Holiday Repeat

25 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Originally published November 4, 2016 Indie Hackers is a website that profiles independent developers who have made profitable software projects, usua...

Indie Hack or Venture Back with Lynne Tye

20 Nov 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Key Values is a platform where companies are profiled with descriptions of their company values. These profiles describe features such as work-life ba...

FindCollabs Hackathon Winners: Kitspace and Rivaly

29 Jun 2019

Contributed by Lukas

FindCollabs is a platform for finding collaborators and building projects. Three months ago we had our first hackathon, with lots of projects being cr...

Gaming with Eli Brown

23 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Gaming is becoming mainstream. Popular multiplayer games such as Fortnite and Minecraft present players with a massive virtual world to explore, build...

Emerging Markets: Kenya with Nelly Cheboi

20 May 2019

Contributed by Lukas

Africa is rapidly adopting the same software and hardware technologies that have transformed the western world over the last few decades. But access t...

SPIFFE: Zero Trust Workload Identification with Evan Gilman

14 Nov 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Modern software consists of sprawling international networks of servers. Users contact these servers to access applications. Microservices talk to eac...

Jailbreaking Apple Watch with Max Bazaliy

31 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Apple operating systems are closed source. This closed source nature gives Apple an extremely successful business model–and a very different sof...

Counting People with Andrew Farah

16 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

If you operate a restaurant, you want to know how many people are inside your restaurant at any given time. You also want to be able to know your occu...

Kademlia: P2P Distributed Hash Table with Petar Maymounkov

02 Jul 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Napster, Kazaa, and Bittorrent are peer-to-peer file sharing systems. In these P2P systems, nodes need to find each other. Users need to be able to se...

Browser Building with Osine Ikhianosime

23 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Crocodile Browser is a fast browser built by Osine and Anesi Ikhianosime, a pair of brothers from Nigeria. I interviewed them 3 years ago, and in this...

Necto: Build an ISP with Adam Montgomery

12 Jun 2018

Contributed by Lukas

In the tech industry, we have all grown to fear “lock-in.” Lock-in is a situation in which you have no choice but to pay a certain provider for so...

Pi Hole: Ad Blocker Hardware with Jacob Salmela

29 May 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Ad blockers in the browser protect us from the most annoying marketing messages that the Internet tries to serve to us. But we still pay a price for t...

Design Principles From Functional Programming with Runar Bjarnason

30 Jan 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Functional programming can improve the overall design of application architecture. Runar Bjarnason has been exploring how writing in a functional styl...

Language Design with Brian Kernighan Holiday Repeat

28 Dec 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Originally published January 6, 2016 “The best computer science is the kind where the theory is inspired by some practical problem, you develop a be...

Health Wearables with Haiyan Zhang

31 Jul 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Wearables are everywhere. In the medical field they are transforming lives. Haiyan Zhang, Innovation Director at Microsoft Research, created a wearabl...

Hackathons with Lizette Chapman

22 Jun 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Professional hackathon programmers travel around the hackathon circuit, winning merchandise and small cash prizes. There are enough hackathons that so...

Off-Grid Social Network with Andre Staltz

26 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Social networks like Facebook and Twitter facilitate interactions between individuals. Every message I send to you on Facebook goes through Facebook’...

Relay Modern with Lee Byron and Joe Savona

24 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Relay is a JavaScript framework for building data-driven React applications. Facebook open sourced Relay around the same time they open sourced GraphQ...

Zencastr with Josh Nielsen

03 May 2017

Contributed by Lukas

There are certain experiences when a product solves a problem so thoroughly and elegantly that it lifts a weight off of your shoulders that you didn’...

Robot Assistant with Abhishek Singh

28 Apr 2017

Contributed by Lukas

We view our iPhones as inanimate objects. But when we see robots such as the Boston Dynamics machines that move with a motion that seems like an anima...

Making Money Online for Software Engineers with Courtland Allen

30 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Engineers today have a variety of career options. You could go work for a large corporation, you could raise money and start a startup, you could free...

Robots for the Elderly with Itai Mendelsohn

27 Jan 2017

Contributed by Lukas

Many elderly people live with unhealthy levels of isolation. Social isolation is a problem for anybody, but younger people can use technology to allev...

Robot Cloud Lab with Max Hodak

28 Dec 2016

Contributed by Lukas

A biologist wants to study the genetic makeup of an organism. A pharmaceutical researcher wants to test the effects of an experimental drug. These typ...

Sampling with Daniel Trostli

22 Dec 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Every song you hear on the radio is written with a computer. Computer musicians mostly use synthesizers and samples to compose these songs. A sample i...

Bots with Jon Bruner

15 Dec 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Over the next few years, bots will pervade our lives more and more. These smart, conversational text interfaces provide a new way of engaging with the...

How Software Engineering Daily Works

08 Dec 2016

Contributed by Lukas

  Software Engineering Daily was started a year and a half ago, based on what I learned from my podcasting experience on Software Engineering Rad...

Bot Memorial with Eugenia Kuyda

06 Dec 2016

Contributed by Lukas

When a human passes away, we create a tombstone as a memorial. Friends and family visit a grave to remember the times they had with that person while ...

Adforprize

03 Dec 2016

Contributed by Lukas

There are multiple paths to constructing a piece of software from start to finish. An individual programmer can build an entire product from scratch i...

Robot Lawyer with Joshua Browder

02 Dec 2016

Contributed by Lukas

You have probably received a parking ticket that you felt was unfair,   but instead of fighting it, you paid the expensive price to get rid of it qu...

Software Podcasting with Robert Blumen

30 Nov 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Four years ago, I started volunteering for a popular podcast about software–Software Engineering Radio. For the next two years, I learned about ...

Biological Computation with Colin Gravill

28 Nov 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Biology research at Microsoft is focused on three main areas: molecular programming, synthetic biology, and stem cell biology. At the intersection of ...

Debugging Stories with Haseeb Qureshi

19 Nov 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Everyone has debugging stories. We have all had the experience of wrestling with a seemingly impossible bug for days until we finally come to a soluti...

Bot Day

12 Nov 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Bot Day was an O’Reilly conference featuring talks from some of the leading figures in the bot industry. Before I attended Bot Day, I knew there wer...

Indie Hackers with Courtland Allen

04 Nov 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Indie Hackers is a website that profiles independent developers who have made profitable software projects, usually without raising any money. These p...

Musicians’ GitHub with Alan Grow

31 Oct 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Music collaboration software that works over the Internet is a software challenge that has not been fully tackled. On today’s Internet, users collab...

Simpsons Data Science with Todd Schneider

18 Oct 2016

Contributed by Lukas

The Simpsons is a classic, beloved television show. The scripts of The Simpsons have been made publicly available, and include dialogue, location, and...

Zuckerberg Files with Michael Zimmer and Nick Proferes

28 Sep 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Mark Zuckerberg may be the most powerful person in the world. At no other time in history has a single human had such fine-grained control over the mo...

Facebook Relationship Algorithms with Jon Kleinberg

06 Sep 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Facebook users provide lots of information about the structure of their relationship graph. Facebook uses that information to provide content and serv...

Drones with Buddy Michini

05 Sep 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Drones will become a central part of our lives. Drones are delivering packages, surveying cell phone towers, providing wi-fi, or fertilizing crops. Dr...

Mobycraft with Aditya Gupta

02 Aug 2016

Contributed by Lukas

MobyCraft is a client-side Minecraft mod to manage and visualize Docker containers. MobyCraft was created by Aditya Gupta. I met him at DockerCon, whe...

Pixar in a Box with Kitt Hirasaki

26 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Pixar has made some of the most successful movies of all time: Toy Story, WALL-E, Monsters Inc, and many others.   These movies are made with cut...

Android on iPhone with Nick Lee

22 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Finally–the Android operating system has been put on an iPhone, and today’s guest is Nick Lee, who accomplished that feat. Nick works at Tendi...

KubeCloud: Tangible Cloud Computing with Kasper Nissen and Martin Jensen

04 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

At most universities, there is not a course titled “cloud computing”. Most students leave college without an understanding of distributed systems,...

Apache Guacamole and Remote Desktop with Mike Jumper

28 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

In order to use a remote desktop experience, software engineers have a limited number of options, and most of them are proprietary, like VMWare or Ora...

Cloud.gov with Aidan Feldman

26 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

18F is an organization that is building the 21st century digital government. In order to build online government services that have the high quality o...

Algorithm Marketplace with Diego Oppenheimer of Algorithmia

20 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Algorithmia is marketplace for algorithms. A software engineer who writes an algorithm for image processing or spam detection or TF-IDF can turn that ...

Internet of Things with Azure’s Steve Busby

17 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

The Internet of Things is becoming a reality. Factories are being outfitted with sensors, temperature monitors, and other data gathering devices. In a...

Music

11 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Most episodes of Software Engineering Daily are interviews with an expert about a technical software concept. Over the past year I have done a few e...

Software Editorialism with Practical Dev’s Ben Halpern

03 Jun 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Most programmers spend lots of their time reading content about software. Since our field changes so rapidly, engineers consume news and editorials vo...

Boot Camps, Mesosphere, and Open-Source with Kenny Tran

31 May 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Coding boot camps are a subject of controversy. Critics of boot camps defend the conventional university system, and argue that boot camp graduates do...

Minecraft Programming with Gabriel Simmer

26 May 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Minecraft is a sandbox video game in which players build constructions out of 3-D cubes in a procedurally generated world. Minecraft is the best-selli...

The Changelog with Adam Stacoviak and Jerod Santo

06 May 2016

Contributed by Lukas

The Changelog is one of the most popular Software Engineering Podcasts in existence. Open source software moves fast, and The Changelog helps develope...

Virtual Reality Best Practices with Andreia Gaita

05 May 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Virtual reality is a new platform for software engineers to work with. Best practices for VR development have not become widespread throughout the dev...

Open Source Pancreas with Dana Lewis

04 May 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Patients with Type-1 diabetes need to frequently pump insulin into their bodies. In order to know when to pump insulin, these patients have a continuo...

Scale Your Code with Christophe Limpalair

28 Apr 2016

Contributed by Lukas

As software engineering gets more popular, the resources that we use to read and understand software are growing and improving. Scale Your Code is an ...

Reverse Engineering Facebook with Alex Hogue

22 Apr 2016

Contributed by Lukas

“Graphing when your Facebook Friends are awake” was trending at the top of Hacker News when Alex Hogue first posted it. Alex wrote a blog post...

Creating the Wiki with Ward Cunningham

13 Apr 2016

Contributed by Lukas

“I believe that there’s something deeply personal, natural, and human going on as we construct these abstract devices called computers.” Wiki te...

Robots in the Warehouse with Akash Gupta

27 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

“Our major teams are lead by two people which include one person who’s very strong in their own field, and then there’s a person who has a very ...

CodeNewbie with Saron Yitbarek

24 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

“There are advantages in the newness of coding.” CodeNewbie is a community of programmers and people learning to code. There are so many p...

Using Software to Discover Rare Diseases with Matt Might

17 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

“In many ways, nature is still the fastest computer we have when it comes to studying disease.” Software engineering is a deterministic field. We ...

Software Journalism at GeekWire with Todd Bishop

05 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

“Our justice system in general – even if you look at things like our regulatory system, our patent system – I think it has a very hard time keep...

Bridge Foundry with Sarah Allen

03 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

“If we don’t have all of the people represented in the creation activities, I don’t believe we’re going to end up with the solutions that we n...

Applying Software Research to Industry with Amy Ko

25 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

“It’s not just about tools, it’s also a lot about how you structure a team, how you structure the communication between engineers, how y...

Design for Non-designers with Tracy Osborn

19 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

“Just paying attention to clutter in general, makes things a lot better.” Design is more important than ever. There are so many websites being cre...

JavaScript and the Internet of Things with Andrew Chalkley

18 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

“The lessons that we’re learning on the front-end and on the server side are applicable to hardware. I don’t think that anything’s gonna arise...

Designing for Drunk Users with Austin Knight

09 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

“Your product or your website should be so simple and so well designed that even a drunk person could use it.” Continue reading… The post Design...

Developer Tea with Jonathan Cutrell

02 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

“Our field moves so quickly that learning is kind of a fundamental skill – not every field is that way.” Continue reading… The post Developer ...

OpenGov with Andrew Clark

28 Jan 2016

Contributed by Lukas

“By the time I joined, people were already starting to have this microservice fatigue.” Continue reading… The post OpenGov with Andrew Clark app...

Teaching Inmates to Code with Wes Bailey

26 Jan 2016

Contributed by Lukas

“This is a group of people who largely have been told their entire life that they’re failures - we’re going in and we’re saying ‘Hey this is...

Digital Transformation of Government with Sarah Allen

25 Jan 2016

Contributed by Lukas

“When we say a ‘21st century government’, what we're seeing is that people are using their smartphones, they’re online, and we have the potent...

WebTorrent with Feross Aboukhadijeh

15 Jan 2016

Contributed by Lukas

“The BitTorrent DHT is an amazing engineering feat and one of the coolest ideas in computer science, I think, because it works without any central c...

Soylent Engineering with John Coogan

08 Jan 2016

Contributed by Lukas

“We saw a really great opportunity to build a food company that takes technology seriously from the ground up, and have that be our competitive adva...

Language Design with Brian Kernighan

06 Jan 2016

Contributed by Lukas

“The best computer science is the kind where the theory is inspired by some practical problem, you develop a better theoretical understanding of wha...

Internet Future with Vint Cerf

31 Dec 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Vint Cerf is Chief Internet Evangelist at Google. He contributes to global policy development and continued spread of the Internet. This episode is re...

Founding Digital Ocean with Moisey Uretsky

25 Dec 2015

Contributed by Lukas

“It’s a classic case where you have to be contrarian. It seems like the worst idea in the world to start a cloud hosting business. We didn’t kno...

Digital Nomadism with Michael Rosenthal

24 Dec 2015

Contributed by Lukas

“The main motivation for me was to gain more perspective on the world and my place in it.” Michael Rosenthal is a traveling programmer who...

Hanselminutes with Scott Hanselman

16 Dec 2015

Contributed by Lukas

“You’ve listened to podcasts where you gotta fast forward 8-9 minutes in before the actual meat happens.” Continue reading… The post Hanselmin...

Teaching Kids to Code with Rebecca Garcia

14 Dec 2015

Contributed by Lukas

“Software engineering projects don’t fail because of a lack of technical ability, they fail because of a lack of communication.” Continue readin...

GeekWire Podcast with Software Engineering Daily

12 Dec 2015

Contributed by Lukas

“I would say that the vast majority of people see programming more as a science. But to get the best work out of yourself, you have to be thinking f...

Episode 100 with Pranay Mohan

01 Dec 2015

Contributed by Lukas

"Software is this really unique field that is growing so rapidly that people are almost forced to specialize into one subdomain – and that kind of s...

Popcorn Time with Niv Sardi

23 Nov 2015

Contributed by Lukas

“We are at this moment where states and corporations are trying to restrict so much of what we can do on the internet because we have centralized th...

CodeCombat with Nick Winter

19 Nov 2015

Contributed by Lukas

“It’s not obvious why programming is awesome – you can’t build anything at first, everything is really hard at first – what’s the point? A...

MotherCoders with Tina Lee

16 Nov 2015

Contributed by Lukas

"There was a need to create a space where mothers felt welcome, because our challenges - they're very different from people who are learning who don't...

Automated Trading and OCaml with Yaron Minsky

09 Nov 2015

Contributed by Lukas

"Anyone who is really concerned about correctness should think twice about programming in a kind of free-thread model where everyone has to be very di...

Free Code Camp with Quincy Larson

28 Oct 2015

Contributed by Lukas

“Free Code Camp is my effort to correct the extremely inefficient and circuitous way I learned to code. I’m committing my career and the rest of m...

Turing School with Steve Kinney

26 Oct 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Turing School of Software and Design is a seven-month program that teaches software development in Denver. Steve Kinney is the co-director of academ...

Dwarf Fortress with Tarn Adams

22 Oct 2015

Contributed by Lukas

“The official motto that we have in our help manual is ‘Losing is fun!’ ” Dwarf Fortress is a construction and management simulation computer ...

Accessibility Engineering with Léonie Watson

16 Oct 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Designing software and toolkits with accessibility in mind is important to ensure that everyone has equal access to the internet. Léonie Watson is an...

Creativity and Engineering with Derek Sivers

14 Oct 2015

Contributed by Lukas

“Creativity never comes to you – she will only meet you halfway.” Derek Sivers is a programmer, musician, and writer. He has created several com...

Responsive Government with Santiago Siri

09 Oct 2015

Contributed by Lukas

“Everything has changed around our lives -- the way we connect with each other, the way we communicate, the way we work, even the way we fall in lov...

Rethinking Documentation with Greg Koberger

08 Oct 2015

Contributed by Lukas

"If you focus on improving the developer experience, it will naturally translate into good documentation." ReadMe is simplifying the process of writin...

Robot-Human Interaction with Stefanie Tellex

29 Sep 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Robots sometimes need help from humans when solving complex problems. Successfully solving a problem often demands a strong model for communication an...