Tech, Bugs & Rock & Roll
Episodes
2.29 Shamblecast
18 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Golly, it's August. That was quick. Let's ramble about stuff.Recorded August 7th, 2025 with no safety net.
2.28 Not Knowing Me Not Knowing You
18 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week we might talk about the things that we were going to talk about last week but we didn't because we talked about other stuff instead. Or ...
2.27 Vibe Eroding
17 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Let's talk about vibe coding, the Azure Dev Summit, writing workshops, and anything else that wanders across our minds, like a confused marmot on ...
2.26 Fundamental Electricity
16 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"This podcast is fundamental infrastructure, like electricity". Let's talk about how memory speed got hella confusing, the state of AI, ...
2.25 X-Clacks-Overhead
16 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Another week, another assortment of disjointed ramblings, tangents and digressions that will leave you feeling at peace with the world and a strange t...
2.24 Sharks
15 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Also Poland, the actual talking about the thing that was not talked about the previous week but which still got used as the title on Spotify, and Agen...
2.23 The One Billionth Rude Word
15 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Eli and Dylan are in Denmark. Rendle isn't. Let's talk about VS color schemes, native AOT compilation, trains, bad conference wifi, and the fa...
2.22 DevSum and Download
12 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dylan and Eli are at DevSum in Sweden, and Rendle is off to Download in Derbyshire, so we've got the Tech and the Rock'n'Roll covered this...
2.21 Assassin's Crossing
28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Nintendo Switch 2 has arrived and Rendle has one but they can't open it until Smol Rendle gets home. Also the week in AI, events, stupidity an...
2.20 Probably
28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Rendle's had a day but they don't wanna talk about it; Dylan might be joining from a railway shed somewhere; Eli is bored.
2.19 This Is Fine
20 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Eli joins the regular cast, Rendle is going to be a CTO, and that's as much as I can infer from scanning the YouTube chat of an episode we recorde...
2.18 May the First Be With You
31 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
That title made sense when we recorded this. I'm trying to catch up, honest, I'm just very, very, very busy.Anyway, let's talk about load ...
2.17 Auth, Algos, Apple and Apps
17 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In which our esteemed hosts talk about authentication, visualising algorithms, building C++ apps on Windows, folding guitars, Apple HomePod Mini, and ...
2.15 Chaos
17 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Everything is chaos and any attempts to predict more than a split second into the future are doomed to fail hilariously
2.14 Support Slackers
26 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Let's chat about making videos, companies that offer support via Slack, .NET Open Source Drama Season 12 Episode 5, and more!
2.13 The Last One Before The Clocks Change
25 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For the first time in several weeks, neither of us is in the Netherlands. Let's talk about Adrian Tchaikovsky, Brandon Sanderson, modern web stand...
2.12 Apocalypse When?
25 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today, due to foreseen circumstances, the part of Dylan Beattie will be played by Eli Holderness. What we shall talk about is anybody's guess.
2.11 The IDEs of March
25 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Rendle's in Utrecht, so stunt Rendle this week is Eli Holderness! Let's talk about rewriting things in Go, making slides, running meetups and... you k...
2.09 Upgrade All The Things!
07 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Rendle's upgraded to Windows 11. Dylan's having fun with hard drives and thinking it's probably upgrade time too. But we know you're r...
2.09 Simplicity is Complicated, OK?
28 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week: Framework's new product announcement, why resource-based authentication is a MOOD, cameras (and why they're complicated), simplicit...
2.08 Buffer Overflow
21 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
After two weeks with two fantastic stunt ramblers, Dylan and Rendle both show up and the Trello backlog of stuff to talk about is looooong, so we'...
2.07 Woody's Round-Up
14 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dylan is recovering from a xenomorph infestation so the delightful Chris "Woody" Woodruff is Rendle's guest partner for today's show...
2.06 Tech, Bugs and Systems Thinking with Diana Montalion
13 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Rendle's on an aeroplane so Dylan's going to be ramblecasting with architect, author and speaker Diana Montalion! Let's talk about systems...
2.05 We're At NDC London And You're Not
13 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dylan and Rendle are LIVE from NDC London! And the WiFi or something was not very good so the audio is not very good. I've done the best I can but it'...
2.04 We Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside
13 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We're at Linebreakers Band Camp! In a very posh house on the Kent coast, coming to you live from the Library. In the house!
2.03 FluentAssertions, Conferences and Rendle's Hat
17 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week Dylan and Rendle are talking about DDD South West, the FluentAssertions license change🍿, some new stuff Dylan's doing with Rockstar, ...
2.02 True Names and Other Dangers
10 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
People's names are difficult for computers. Speaking of names, Dylan and Rendle talk about splitting full names into first and last, Skulduggery Pleas...
2.01 Oh No, Not Again
03 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Yay, 2025! What exciting things are Dylan and Mark looking forward to this year? What did they like about last year? What were the chat looking forwar...
Xmas Special
03 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It's Boxing Day in the UK which means every TV channel will be showing some super boring film at 4pm, so why not join us for a chat instead? (It's pro...
NDC Bursting Bubbles
03 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dylan is once more adrift in the luminiferous aether so Eli once more steps into the breach to talk to Rendle about AI bubbles, gaming nostalgia and o...
Two Score and Six: Them
03 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dylan is on an intergalactic cruise in his office, so Rendle is joined by the wonderful Eli Holderness to talk about whatever they've found interestin...
1.45 Bluesky All The Tweets
11 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mark is going to use Kotlin, Dylan is handling errors in Rockstar, and Bluesky is properly taking off at last.
Forty Four
11 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mark is in Malmö for Øredev, Dylan isn’t, stuff shall be discussed…
1.43 Berlin Blogs and Bluesky
11 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We both just got back from KanDDDinsky in Berlin and at least one of us is already checked in for their next flight... but hey, that's not until tomor...
00101010 Prime Nonsense
11 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
No idea what we're talking about in this one but I expect it will be the usual stream-of-bobbins that you know and love.
1.40 The Games Geekout
11 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mark and Dylan are both busy this week so here's one we made earlier, geeking out about games we like and stuff.
I.XXXIX Mercurial Cores
04 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dylan and Mark talk about the ongoing WP Engine vs WordPress saga; a variant on the Y2K bug; more unethical AI; and the mystery of the "mercurial core...
0x26 WinAmp is Open Source... Kinda
30 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
WinAmp have released the source code for the legacy player but it's not exactly... open. Dylan and Mark about using AI to generate podcasts, and how A...
1.37 Code Reviews and other news with Hannes Lowette
27 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dylan's on another aeroplane so fellow Linebreaker Hannes joins Mark to talk about positive code reviews and the conversation just kind of rambles...
1.36 CHIPS IN SPAAAAACE
27 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
NASA have decided that the transistors in the Europa Clipper are hardcore enough to survive Jupiter's radiation, plus whatever else we talked abou...
1.35 Fun with Program Committees
27 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mark's just finished 2 days of selecting and curating talks for NDC London 2025 and shares some tips for persuading committee members to pick you....
1.34 Live from the Copenhagen Developers Festival
02 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
CPH DevFest gave us a stage and an audience to record this week's podcast, so we repaid them by doing one of our usual random, meandering conversa...
1.33 Dylan's Getting Older
23 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It's Dylan's birthday and he's spending it doing homework for the Copenhagen Developers' Festival next week. Meanwhile Mark wants to k...
1.32 That's 2^5! Powers of two are cool.
22 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
32 episodes! Such a lovely round number that Mark slept through it and Dylan had to fill an hour of airtime on his own, which he does magnificently.
1.31 A Wild Kevlin Henney Has Appeared!
09 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dylan's on a train this week so the excellent Kevlin Henney joins Mark to talk about legacy code, bitrot, and the inevitable displacement of big, ...
1.30 Parsers and Beta Testers and Deadpool and Wolverine
08 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
WARNING: SPOILERS FOR DEADPOOL AND WOLVERINE Dylan's getting ready to ship Rockstar 2, Mark's built a sort of electric cloud-based space clip...
1.29 CROWDSTRUCK BY THE CYBER!
26 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Well, gosh, we have absolutely NO IDEA what we might talk about this week in a weekly podcast about the week's events in the world of technology. ...
1.28 Terminate Batch Job (Y/N)?
19 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dylan's been having huge amounts of fun with C#, WASM, Ruby and JavaScript - all at the same time! Mark's been building a new thing, playing w...
1.27 Drumless Daft Punk, Smart Rings and the electric Ford Capri
12 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dylan's been at home working on Rockstar 2 and enjoying Tidal's musical recommendations. Mark's been trying to work with an AMQP API using...
1.26 Lezer Grammars and Democracy Sausages
11 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Oh no, I completely forgot to upload this episode last week. Sorry. Also the title is what we used on YouTube for the recording but I don't rememb...
1.25 There's a Kevlin Henney On The Show!
04 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mark's in Utrecht at Azure Lowlands so Stunt Mark for this episode is author, developer, consultant, thought provoker and occasional Linebreaker K...
1.24 WinAmp, LinAmp and OpenAPIs
21 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dylan's been geeking out over a physical music player based on WinAmp, we made some music videos, and the internet's asking what "next Mo...
1.23 Live from NDC Oslo
17 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The lovely folks at NDC Oslo gave us a whole room and an audience to record this episode. We talk about Apple AI, Elon, and elephants, answer question...
1.22 We're Too Busy To Think Of A Title
07 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week Dylan and Mark are swamped with getting workshops, talks and music stuff ready for NDC Oslo, but they find time to talk about Agile software...
1.21 macOS Sonoma is better than Windows 95. Fact.
31 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dylan found his new favourite thing in the entire world, Mark got ratio'd so hard on Twitter that the arithmetic overflowed, and the Windows 10 wa...
1.20 Why See Sharp When You Could Be Flat
24 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mark's playing with GarageBand, Dylan's running Corel Linux, Google Cloud's deleting pension funds, Sam Altman's stealing ScarJo's...
1.19 Geek-out: SciFi Books
17 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A pre-recorded show this week as Dylan and Mark are both off doing exciting things. We talk about our favourite (and not-so-favourite) sci-fi books an...
1.18 Crushing Apples
10 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dylan's on a plane so Eli Holderness joins Mark to talk about tone-deaf Apple ads, functional Fortnite, privilege and neurodivergence.
1.17 Mark's in Zurich so Eli is Stunt Mark
07 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mark had to go to Zurich for work so Eli Holderness stepped up and talked to Dylan about whatever they talked about. I don't know, I was in Zurich...
1.16 The Ballmer Peak Is Real
26 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
That's right, folks - the right amount of booze makes you a better programmer, according to Science. Also Google has improved JPEG, NASA is talkin...
1.15 The Music Geek-Out
19 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A pre-recorded episode because Dylan & Mark are both away this Thursday. We talk about the music we remember from our (very different) formative y...
1.14 Have We Reached Peak Delve?
11 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mark's Framework Laptop 16 is finally mostly working, Dylan's been in Copenhagen reviewing conference abstracts, and everybody else is delving...
1.13 Mark's Solved the Fermi Paradox
08 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week Mark's solved the Fermi paradox, Dylan's built a teleprompter in JavaScript (twice!), somebody (not us) nearly backdoored every Linu...
1.12 We Have a Theme Song!
03 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We said when we got to 100 subscribers we'd have a theme song... well, here it is. Plus we're talking about the Redis license change, Microsof...
1.11 npm install space-chimps
25 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mark's been watching the rocket people launch new rockets, Dylan's been reading about rocket people launching old rockets, and we're talk...
A Billion Rows of Code Colf
17 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dylan's been watching people play code golf with Rockstar, and pushing the key on his keyboard that tells him Cortana doesn't exist any more,...
Good and Evil
07 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Mark & Dylan talk about online advertising (evil), in-ear monitors (good), Beauty in Code in Malmö (good), NCrunch version 5 and JetBrains Rider ...
Leap Day
07 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It's Leap Day! Mark & Dylan talk about leap years, Dylan's proposal for a new calendar system, why you shouldn't use AI to design your...
Building, Hard and Soft
29 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Mark's been building the Framework 16 laptop, and Dylan's been building Entity Framework Core from source. Neither of them has had ...
We are old and software is fat
15 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dylan and Mark talk about the good old days where programs were so small you typed them in every time you needed them, and go off on tangents four or ...
Oh Nope'n Source!
15 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week we're talking timezones, post-conference blues - and what if the best way to support sustainable open source is to SHOCK HORROR get a jo...
Live from NDC London
08 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week Dylan and Mark are at NDC London showing off and geeking out. They are joined by fellow Linebreakers Eli Holderness and Hannes Lowette. Apol...
Complicated
25 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dylan and Mark talk about running coding workshops, mechanical keyboards, estimating, Canon, complicated multi-effect pedals, tabs vs spaces and anyth...
YAML WTFs and Invincible Snails
19 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dylan and Mark talk about YAML, bugs, contracting and an Invincible Snail that's coming after them.
Tech, Bugs & Rock & Roll 2024-01-11
11 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dylan and Mark talk about Dylan's new "yak waxing" phrase, being scared when .NET apps upgrade by two versions and just work, and the Ho...