Our experiences are what make us the software people we are today. In this episode, Kris is joined by the hosting panel of Ian, Matt, and Dylan and they're talking war stories. You'll hear tales of coworker frustrations, our own hubris, and plenty of weird software bugs. To close the episode out, Dylan, Ian, and Kris provide some unpopular opinions! Let us know on social media if you think their opinions are unpopular as they seem to think they are!
Thank you so much for listening to our first episode. Happy listening!
(00:00) - Introduction
(00:43) - Talkin' Bout The Rain
(01:39) - Dates, Times, and "Helpful" Platforms
(14:17) - Y2K Flashback
(16:20) - Non-Refreshing Refresh Tokens
(21:53) - TCP, Locks, and Load Balancers
(34:16) - tar != tar
(39:52) - Bonus Story: Too Many Modules
(43:58) - pprof to the rescue!
(47:18) - netcat: the ultimate database backup tool
Welcome to Fallthrough! In our first episode, properly numbered 0, we're discussing what this podcast is and many of the things we hope to discuss on future episodes of the podcast. If you loved Go Time, we hope that you'll love Fallthrough. Happy listening!
(00:00) - Welcome to Fallthrough!
(00:29) - What's in a name?
(01:55) - A New Perspective
(03:33) - Introduction: Ian Wester-Lopshire
(04:02) - Introduction: Matthew Sanabria
(05:43) - Introduction: Dylan Bourque
(06:19) - From the prospective of Go
(06:34) - Prospective Podcast Content: Dylan
(07:46) - Prospective Topic: Other languages from the Go perspective
(13:39) - Prospective Topic: The missing bits from the standard library
(15:17) - Prospective Topic: The "Don't touch that!" parts of Go
(19:04) - Prospective Topic: The No Build movement
(23:21) - Prospective Topic: Removing old Go habits
(23:47) - Prospective Topic: Union, Sum, or Option types
We're hard at work preparing the first episode of Fallthrough, but in the meantime we put together a short trailer to tease some of that episode's content. Make sure to subscribe so you'll be notified when the first episode ships. Happy listening!
Gems are the things we love, and warts are the things we don't. On today's episode, Kris is joined by the hosting panel of Ian, Matt, and Dylan and they are talking about the gems and warts of Go. From defer, to net/http, to vanity URLs, to modules, we cover around 30 topics! To prevent our listeners/viewers from returning an E_TOO_MANY_UNPOPS error, we didn't include the Unpopular Opinions segment (there are plenty throughout the episode). We hope you enjoy this tangent filled episode. Have a gem or wart you agree/disagree with or think we missed a few? Let us know on social media or in the comments!
Modern software development feels so complex. In this episode, Ian Wester-Lopshire is joined by Kris Brandow, Matthew Sanabria, and Angelica Hill to discuss complexity. They propose hypotheses for the root cause of complexity, explore the ways complexity affects our technology and organizations, and ponder if artificial intelligence can aid us in reducing complexity. As always, we've got some great unpopular opinions at the end.
As always thanks for tuning in and happy listening!
This episode is a pilot for a planned mini-series on complexity. We'd like to explore complexity deeper by having conversations with and interviewing a diverse set of people. Do you have thoughts about complexity, know someone who thinks deeply about this topic, or have something you'd like to add? Reach out to us on social media and let us know!
(32:03) - Human Organizations & Trading Complexities
(37:46) - Documenting Decisions
(38:20) - Hypoethsis: Bad information organization is the root of complexity
(49:01) - Can AI be our librarian?
(54:39) - Search is not a text box
(55:57) - Machine learning for indexing
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Do We Think You Should Learn To Code?
Episode 3
Monday, January 20, 2025 • Duration 01:38:38
For years we've been told that everyone needs to learn to code. As career software people, what are our thoughts on this? Should you learn to code? Is coding the right career for you? In this first episode of a two part series, the panel discusses how they learned to code, whether they think everyone should learn to code, and of course they offer up some unpopular opinions.
And if you're thinking, "I already know how to code", don't worry, this episode contains valuable advice for you as well.
As always thanks for tuning in and happy listening!
(17:36) - Should you focus on a specific language?
(22:45) - Do you want to solve problems?
(24:53) - Coding & Woodworking
(27:09) - Curiosity & Itches that need scratching
(31:07) - What do we mean when we say "code"?
(32:34) - You should learn Excel
(39:35) - Coding Is Configuring Computers
(43:32) - Discrete Math, Not Binary
(47:03) - Learn the low level stuff... eventually
(53:42) - The desire to learn
Socials:
Blown Glass Half-Full of WebAssembly & SQLite
Episode 20
Monday, May 19, 2025 • Duration 01:14:01
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-hosting power duo of Matt and Angelica are joined by Danielle Lancashire, a Principal Engineer at Fermyon, to navigate this discussion filled with insights and advice.
This episode's extended content includes two chapters: one about the groups thoughts on artificial intelligence and another on the local tech scenes across the world. Get access by signing up at https://fallthrough.fm/subscribe.
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 & Angelica sit down with Evan to discuss his journey, from his early days writing basic on his TI calculator, to writing an alternative implementation of Ruby, being GitHub user #7, becoming a Principal Engineer at Hashicorp, starting his own company (with his wife!), and so much more. This episode is packed with life lessons and advice helpful for everyone, from the most junior of engineers to the most seasoned VPs.
A few of the chapters of this week's episode are supporter only content, including long conversations about Evan's involvement with Ruby and a deep discussion of his interesting habit of being an early adopter. Get access by signing up at https://fallthrough.fm/subscribe.
There are Web APIs everywhere, from the classic REST/HTTP, to GraphQL, to gRPC, we rely on them to get things done each and every day. But how much do we think about the design of these APIs? How do you document an API once you've created it? What even is versioning? Do we really understand HTTP? In this episode, Kris and the panel are joined by Jamie Tanna to discuss APIs, their design, how to document them, and more.
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We all have tools that make our lives better. Software tools, hardware tools, and everything in between. In this episode, Matt is joined by Kris, Ian, and Dylan to discuss some of their favorite tools, what they use them for, and why they chose them.
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