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How To Have A Great Conference Experience
GopherCon is this week! Kris, Matt, Dylan, and Angelica are talking about conferences: their favorite experiences, how they approach them, and advice for first time co...
What's New in Go 1.25?
It's August, which means we've got a fresh new Go release! In this episode, Kris and Matt pick up the "What's New in Go?" series with an edition for the Go 1.25 releas...
Big Data Energy
In the years leading up to the current AI hype cycle we're currently all experiencing, there was another hype cycle: Big Data. In this episode, Kris is joined by Matt ...
Championing A Cause
How do you make change happen effectively? In this episode, Matt is joined by Alex Sims to discuss championing a cause and making change happen within your organizatio...
AI Booster? AI Doomer? You're Wrong Either Way
It's a rarity in recent years to have a conversation and not have the topic of AI brought up. There are those who think we're on the cusp of AI super-intelligence, tho...
Versioning: We Did It To Ourselves
Versioning! It's a topic that we all deal with on a daily basis, and yet it's a topic that many of us dread. Our ecosystems love semantic versioning, but many of us fi...
[Break] You're Now Less Wrong About REST
Welcome to Break, a Fallthrough aftershow! After months of spending time after each recording of Fallthrough chatting, Kris and Matt decided it's time to record some o...
[Break] You're Now Less Wrong About REST
Welcome to Break, a Fallthrough aftershow! After months of spending time after each recording of Fallthrough chatting, Kris and Matt decided it's time to record some o...
Why You're Wrong About REST
The web has been around for nearly 40 years, yet despite its massive success, the principles that made it a success still prove elusive to most software engineers toda...
Language and Codes of Misconduct
In episode 27, the panel discussed what languages are, what it means to know things, and what meaning is. In this bonus episode, we extend that conversation to discuss...
What Even Is A [Programming|Natural] Language?
Whether you're talking to another person, talking to a computer, or just talking to yourself, we use languages every day. For a long time now, there's been a debate ab...
SIMD & Go
Speed and software should go hand in hand, but with Moore's Law coming to an end and CPU clock speeds remaining steady over the last 20 years, software engineers need ...
The Three Ps: Understanding Product, Project, and Program Management
Building software is difficult and rarely can software engineers do it alone. In this episode, Kris is joined by Ian, Matthew, and Angelica to talk managing software p...
Go's Error Handling Is Handled
Error handling in Go is one of the language's most controversial topics. It ranks high in each Go Developer Survey and many different people have proposed many differe...
A Discourse On AI Discourse
AI is a divisive topic. Some people are AI boosters while others are AI doomers. And then there are those of us who sit in the middle, feeling both sides are not just ...
Building An Open Source Maintenance Company
We all use open source software on a daily basis. Even though the software is free to consume doesn't mean it's free to produce. Over the years, there have been many a...
Event Driven Architectures
When it comes to building distributed systems, RPC and REST style interfaces aren't the only options. Events provide an alternative way to build a distributed system t...
Blown Glass Half-Full of WebAssembly & SQLite
From deploying WebAssembly all over the world, to using SQLite to keep track of distributed data, to blowing glass, this episode is quite the adventure! Your co-hostin...
A Phoenix's Path to Principal
From implementing minesweeper on a TI calculator to becoming a prolific open source maintainer, Evan Phoenix has had quite the journey. In this week's episode, Matt & ...
The Language of Data Visualization
Little languages are powerful. From text processing with AWK to calculations with APL, domain specific languages help us do things more concisely and with more precisi...
