Software Engineering Daily

Mobile App Security with Ryan Lloyd

09 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Mobile apps have become a primary interface for critical services, including banking, payments, and healthcare. Unlike web applications, much of the l...

FastMCP with Adam Azzam and Jeremiah Lowin

07 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The Model Context Protocol, or MCP, gives developers a common way to expose tools, data, and capabilities to large language models, and it has quickly...

SED News: OpenCode, AI Code vs. Shipped Code, and the LiteLLM Breach

02 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

SED News is a monthly podcast from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer unpack the biggest stories shaping software en...

FreeBSD with John Baldwin

31 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

FreeBSD is one of the longest-running and most influential open-source operating systems in the world. It was born from the Berkeley Software Distribu...

Cilium, eBPF, and Modern Kubernetes Networking with Bill Mulligan

26 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Modern cloud-native systems are built on highly dynamic, distributed infrastructure where containers spin up and down constantly, services communicate...

Games That Push Back with Bennett Foddy

24 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Bennett Foddy is a legendary game designer known for creating wholly distinctive games such as QWOP, Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy, and the recen...

Prettier and Opinionated Code Formatting with James Long

19 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Developer tooling shapes how software gets written day to day, but the best tools often disappear into the background once they succeed. Formatting, l...

Skate Story with Sam Eng

17 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Skateboarding games have long balanced technical precision with a sense of flow and expression, but Skate Story takes the genre in a radically differe...

DeepMind’s RAG System with Animesh Chatterji and Ivan Solovyev

12 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Retrieval-augmented generation, or RAG, has become a foundational approach to building production AI systems. However, deploying RAG in practice can b...

Reinventing the Python Notebook with Akshay Agrawal

10 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Interactive notebooks were popularized by the Jupyter project and have since become a core tool for data science, research, and data exploration. Howe...

Organizational Context for AI Coding Agents with Dennis Pilarinos

05 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

AI agents have taken on a growing share of software development work, so much so that the hardest problems are shifting away from code generation towa...

SED News: OpenClaw Goes Viral, Mistral’s Compute Play, and the Agent Arms Race

03 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

SED News is a monthly podcast from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer unpack the biggest stories shaping software en...

Amazon’s IDE for Spec-Driven Development with David Yanacek

26 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

AI-assisted coding tools have made it easier than ever to spin up prototypes, but turning those prototypes into reliable, production-grade systems rem...

Engineering AI Systems for Autonomy and Resilience with Krishna Sai

24 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Enterprise IT systems have grown into sprawling, highly distributed environments spanning cloud infrastructure, applications, data platforms, and incr...

Inside China’s Great Firewall with Jackson Sippe

19 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

China’s Great Firewall is often spoken about but is rarely understood. It is one of the most sophisticated and opaque censorship systems on the plan...

Optimizing Agent Behavior in Production with Gideon Mendels

17 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

LLM -powered systems continue to move steadily into production, but this process is presenting teams with challenges that traditional software practic...

Gas Town, Beads, and the Rise of Agentic Development with Steve Yegge

12 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

AI-assisted programming has moved far beyond autocomplete. Large language models are now capable of editing entire codebases, coordinating long-runnin...

Python 3.14 with Łukasz Langa

10 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Python 3.14 is here and continues Python’s evolution toward greater performance, scalability, and usability. The new release formally supports free-...

Airbnb’s Open-Source GraphQL Framework with Adam Miskiewicz

05 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Engineering teams often build microservices as their systems grow, but over time this can lead to a fragmented ecosystem with scattered data access pa...

SED News: Apple Bets on Gemini, Google’s AI Advantage, and the Talent Arms Race

03 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

SED News is a monthly podcast from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer unpack the biggest stories shaping software en...

OpenAI and Codex with Thibault Sottiaux and Ed Bayes

29 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

AI coding agents are rapidly reshaping how software is built, reviewed, and maintained. As large language model capabilities continue to increase, the...

Production-Grade AI Systems with Fred Roma

27 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Engineering teams around the world are building AI-focused applications or integrating AI features into existing products. The AI development ecosyste...

Next-Gen JavaScript Package Management with Ruy Adorno and Darcy Clarke

22 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Package management sits at the foundation of modern software development, quietly powering nearly every software project in the world. Tools like npm ...

WebAssembly 3.0 with Andreas Rossberg

20 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

WebAssembly, or WASM, has grown from a low-level compilation target for C and C++ into one of the most influential technologies in modern computing. I...

America Under Surveillance with Michael Soyfer

15 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Surveillance technology is advancing faster than the laws meant to govern it. Across the United States, police departments are deploying automated lic...

Developer Experience at Capital One with Catherine McGarvey

13 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Modern software development is evolving rapidly. New tools, processes, and AI-powered systems are reshaping how teams collaborate and how engineers fi...

Flox, Nix, and Reproducible Software Systems with Michael Stahnke

08 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Modern software development is more complex than ever. Teams work across different operating systems, chip architectures, and cloud environments, each...

VS Code and Agentic Development with Kai Maetzel

06 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Visual Studio Code has become one of the most influential tools in modern software development. The open-source code editor has evolved into a platfor...

Blender and Godot in Game Development with Simon Thommes

25 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Blender Studio is the creative arm of the Blender Foundation and it’s dedicated to producing films, games, and other projects that showcase the full...

Node.js in 2026 with Rafael Gonzaga

23 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

JavaScript has grown far beyond the browser. It now powers millions of backend systems, APIs, and cloud services through Node.js, which is one of the ...

Building Games at Zachtronics with Zach Barth

18 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Zachtronics is a legendary independent game studio known for creating intricate, engineering-focused puzzle games that merge logic, creativity, and co...

Rivals of Aether with Dan Fornace

16 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Rivals of Aether and Rivals of Aether II are indie fighting games that combine fast-paced platform combat with elemental-themed characters. The game t...

Aviation Cybersecurity with Serge Christiaans

11 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Aviation cybersecurity is becoming an urgent priority as modern aircraft increasingly rely on complex digital systems for navigation, communication, a...

Blocking Software Supply Chain Attacks with Feross Aboukhadijeh

09 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Modern software relies heavily on open source dependencies, often pulling in thousands of packages maintained by developers all over the world. This a...

Pydantic AI with Samuel Colvin

04 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Python’s popularity in data science and backend engineering has made it the default language for building AI infrastructure. However, with the rapid...

SED News: Bezos Returns to Building, AI’s Reality Check, and Europe’s Cloud Ambitions

02 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

SED News is a monthly podcast from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer unpack the biggest stories shaping software en...

Game Development on the PICO-8 with Johan Peitz

27 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

PICO-8 is a software-based gaming console for making, sharing, and playing small games with a retro aesthetic. It emulates the look and feel of 8-bit ...

Running Doom in TypeScript with Dimitri Mitropoulos

25 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Doom has seemingly been ported to every electronic device imaginable, including picture frames, lamps, and coffee machines. The meme of “it runs Doo...

Drone Warfare in Ukraine with Simon Shuster

20 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Simon Shuster is a journalist who has reported on Russia and Ukraine for over 15 years, most of that time as a staff correspondent for TIME Magazine. ...

Radix UI with Chance Strickland

18 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Radix UI is an open-source library of React components. Its “headless” primitives handle the complex logic and accessibility concerns—like dialo...

The 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey with Jody Bailey and Erin Yepis

13 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Stack Overflow Developer Survey is an annual survey conducted by Stack Overflow that gathers comprehensive insights from developers around the wor...

Building an Open-Source Laptop with Byran Huang

11 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Byran Huang is a full stack developer who recently made headlines in the hacker space when he created the anyon_e, which is a highly integrated, open ...

The Architecture of the Internet with Erik Seidel

06 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The modern internet is a vast web of independent networks bound together by billions of routing decisions made every second. It’s an architecture so...

SED News: AMD’s Big OpenAI Deal, Intel’s Struggles, and Apple’s AI Long Game

04 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

SED News is a monthly podcast from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer unpack the biggest stories shaping software en...

Building AI Agents on the Frontend with Sam Bhagwat and Abhi Aiyer

30 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Most AI agent frameworks are backend-focused and written in Python, which introduces complexity when building full-stack AI applications with JavaScri...

The X-Plane Flight Simulator with Ben Supnik

28 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

X-Plane is a popular flight simulator developed by Laminar Research. It features a first-principles physics engine, realistic aircraft systems, and a ...

Turning Agent Autonomy into Productivity with Chris Weichel

23 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A common challenge in software development is creating and maintaining robust development environments. The rise of AI agents has amplified this compl...

Homebrew and macOS Package Management with Mike McQuaid

21 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Homebrew is a widely used package manager that simplifies the installation of open-source software on macOS. It was created in response to the growing...

Engineering in the Age of Agents with Yechezkel Rabinovich

16 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Modern software platforms are increasingly composed of diverse microservices, third-party APIs, and cloud resources. The distributed nature of these s...

Static Analysis for Ruby with Jake Zimmerman

14 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Dynamic languages like Ruby, Python, and JavaScript determine the types of variables at runtime rather than at compile time. This flexibility allows f...

Scaling AI in Enterprise Codebases with Guy Gur-Ari

09 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The rise of language-model coding assistants has led to the creation of the vibe coding paradigm. In this mode of software development, AI agents take...

SED News: NVIDIA Bets on Intel, Meta’s Demo Crash, and Anthropic’s Explosive Growth

07 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

SED News is a monthly podcast from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer unpack the biggest stories shaping software en...

Orkes and Agentic Workflow Orchestration with Viren Baraiya

02 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Modern software systems are composed of many independent microservices spanning frontends, backends, APIs, and AI models, and coordinating and scaling...

Turbopuffer with Simon Hørup Eskildsen

30 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Vector search has become a foundational technology for AI applications, enabling everything from semantic code search to contextual retrieval for larg...

Building an Indie Hit in Godot with Jay Baylis and Tom Coxon

25 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Cassette Beasts is a turn-based monster-battling RPG that lets players record creatures onto cassette tapes and transform into them during battle. The...

Rethinking GraphQL Frontends with Robert Balicki

23 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A challenge in modern frontend application design is efficiently fetching and managing GraphQL data while keeping UI components responsive and maintai...

pnpm with Zoltan Kochan

18 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Traditional package management systems for JavaScript have faced several inefficiencies related to dependency storage, resolution, and project perform...

SurrealDB 3.0 and Building Event-Driven AI Applications with Tobie Morgan Hitchcock

16 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Modern application development often involves juggling multiple types of databases to handle diverse data models. The lack of unification can lead to ...

Angular with Jessica Janiuk

11 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Modern web development faces several challenges, particularly when building scalable, maintainable, and high-performance applications. As applications...

SED News: Perplexity’s Chrome Play, Meta’s AI Freeze, and Intel Becomes Too Big to Fail

09 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

SED News is a monthly podcast from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer unpack the biggest stories shaping software en...

Context-Aware SQL and Metadata with Shinji Kim

04 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A common challenge in data-rich organizations is that critical context about the data is often hard to capture and even harder to keep up to date. As ...

Modern Data Visualization with Robert Kosara

02 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Data visualization is increasingly important as organizations prioritize data-driven decision-making. Tools that transform complex datasets into intui...

A Conversation with Amazon CTO Werner Vogels

28 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Werner Vogels is the Chief Technology Officer at Amazon, where he has played a pivotal role in shaping the company’s technology vision for over two ...

Redis and AI Agent Memory with Andrew Brookins

26 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A key challenge with designing AI agents is that large language models are stateless and have limited context windows. This requires careful engineeri...

Complex Workload Deployment with Will Stewart

21 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Deploying and managing cloud workloads is a complex task that requires developers to handle infrastructure, scaling, CI/CD pipelines, and database hos...

Empowering Cross-Functional Product Teams with Tobias Dunn-Krahn and Doug Peete

19 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Modern software teams typically rely on a patchwork of tools to manage planning, development, feature rollout, and post-release analysis. This fragmen...

Carbon and Modernizing C++ with Chandler Carruth

14 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Carbon is a programming language developed by Google as a successor to C++, and it aims to provide modern safety features while maintaining high perfo...

Podman with Brent Baude

12 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Podman is an open-source container management tool that allows developers to build, run, and manage containers. Unlike Docker, it supports rootless co...

SED News: Meta’s AI Gambit, Windsurf Shake‑Up, and the UK VPN Surge

07 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

SED News is a monthly podcast from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer unpack the biggest stories shaping software en...

Electron and Desktop App Engineering with Shelley Vohr

05 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Electron is a framework for building cross-platform desktop applications using web technologies like JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. It allows developers t...

Modal and Scaling AI Inference with Erik Bernhardsson

31 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Modal is a serverless compute platform that’s specifically focused on AI workloads. The company’s goal is to enable AI teams to quickly spin up GP...

RxJS with Ben Lesh

29 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

RxJS is an open-source library for composing asynchronous and event-based programs. It provides powerful operators for transforming, filtering, combin...

Small AI Models with Yoeven Khemlani

24 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

JigsawStack is a startup that develops a suite of custom small models for tasks such as scraping, forecasting, vOCR, and translation. The platform is ...

Streamlining Cloud Infrastructure Deployments with Jake Cooper

22 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Railway is a software company that provides a popular platform for deploying and managing applications in the cloud. It automates tasks such as infras...

Building Open Infrastructure for AI with Illia Polosukhin

17 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Illia Polosukhin is a veteran AI researcher and one of the original authors of the landmark Transformer paper, Attention is All You Need, which he co-...

TypeScript with Jake Bailey

15 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

TypeScript is a statically typed superset of JavaScript that adds optional type annotations and modern language features to improve developer producti...

MCP Security at Wiz with Rami McCarthy

10 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Wiz is a cloud security platform that helps organizations identify and remediate risks across their cloud environments. The company’s platform scans...

SED News: Data Land Grabs, Copyright Fights, and the Great AI Talent War

08 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to SED News, a podcast series from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer break down the latest stories in ...

AI at Anaconda with Greg Jennings

03 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Anaconda is a software company that’s well-known for its solutions for managing packages, environments, and security in large-scale data workflows. ...

ByteDance’s Container Networking Stack with Chen Tang

01 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

ByteDance is a global technology company operating a wide range of content platforms around the world, and is best known for creating TikTok. The comp...

WayForward Games with Tomm Hulett and Voldi Way

26 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

WayForward is a renowned video game studio that was founded in 1990. The company has developed games for publishers such as Capcom, Konami, and Ninten...

CodeRabbit and RAG for Code Review with Harjot Gill

24 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

One of the most immediate and high-impact applications of LLMs has been in software development. The models can significantly accelerate code writing,...

Emulating Retro Games on Modern Consoles with Robin Lavallée and Bill Litshauer

19 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Emulating retro games on modern consoles is a growing trend, and allows players to experience classic titles with improved performance, enhanced resol...

SED News: Corporate Spies, Postgres, and the Weird Life of Devs Right Now

17 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome back to SED News, a podcast series from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer break down the latest stories in ...

TanStack and the Future of Frontend with Tanner Linsley

12 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

TanStack is an open-source collection of high-performance libraries for JavaScript and TypeScript applications, primarily focused on state management,...

The Challenge of AI Model Evaluations with Ankur Goyal

10 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Evaluations are critical for assessing the quality, performance, and effectiveness of software during development. Common evaluation methods include c...

Modern Distributed Applications with Stephan Ewen

05 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A major challenge with creating distributed applications is achieving resilience, reliability, and fault tolerance. It can take considerable engineeri...

Crew AI with João Moura

03 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Agentic AI is seen as a key frontier in artificial intelligence, enabling systems to autonomously act, adapt in real-time, and solve complex, multi-st...

Chip Design in the AI Era with Thomas Andersen

29 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Synopsys is a leading electronic design automation company specializing in silicon design and verification, as well as software integrity and security...

OpenTofu with Cory O’Daniel and Malcolm Matalka

27 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

OpenTofu is an open-source alternative to Terraform, designed for managing infrastructure as code. It enables users to define, provision, and manage t...

Mojo and Building a CUDA Replacement with Chris Lattner

22 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Python is the dominant language for AI and data science applications, but it lacks the performance and low-level control needed to fully leverage GPU ...

Building PostgreSQL for the Future with Heikki Linnakangas

20 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

PostgreSQL is an open-source database known for its robustness, extensibility, and compliance with SQL standards. Its ability to handle complex querie...

Security at Coinbase with Philip Martin

15 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Cryptocurrency exchanges face unique security challenges that require specialized threat assessments and planning. Coinbase is a cryptocurrency exchan...

Anthropic and the Model Context Protocol with David Soria Parra

13 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Model Context Protocol, or MCP, is a new open standard that connects AI assistants to arbitrary data sources and tools, such as codebases, APIs, a...

Grand Theft Auto III on the Dreamcast with Falco Girgis and Stef Kornilios Mitsis Poiitidis

08 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Grand Theft Auto III is a 2001 an open-world action-adventure game developed by Rockstar Games and it had a profound impact on both gaming and popular...

Polypane with Kilian Valkhof

06 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Polypane is a specialized web development browser that simplifies creating and testing modern websites. A key feature is that it provides multiple scr...

LiveKit and OpenAI with Russ d’Sa

01 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

LiveKit is a platform that provides developers with tools to build real-time audio and video applications at scale. It offers an open-source WebRTC st...

SED News: CoreWeave IPO, Anthropic’s MCP, and Microsoft Turns 50

29 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to the pilot episode of SED News, a new podcast series from Software Engineering Daily. Join hosts Gregor Van and Sean Falconer as they break ...

Vibe Coding at Heroku with Vish Abrams

24 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

AI tools are transforming how developers write code, and although it’s difficult to pinpoint how much code is now AI-generated code, estimates sugge...

Agentic AI at Glean with Eddie Zhou

22 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Glean is a workplace search and knowledge discovery company that helps organizations find and access information across various internal tools and dat...