Episodes

  • Creating tech tools for humans – Interview with Hazel Weakly

    Creating tech tools for humans – Interview with Hazel Weakly
    Sep 21 2024
    This interview discusses erosion of human connection in tech and the importance of designing tools that empower individuals and communities. Hear how programming languages like Rust and Haskell are shaping a more hopeful, and perhaps even more wholesome, future.
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  • Learn Rust, train doctors – Interview with Caroline Morton

    Learn Rust, train doctors – Interview with Caroline Morton
    Aug 29 2024
    Dr Caroline Morton has created software that exposes trainee doctors to the cognitive overload of the emergency room. Learn about the technical challenges and why her team turned to the Rust programming language. The episode touches on her personal story. She’s been writing software for 9 years, including 4 years full time, and is still […]
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  • Systems Software for Linux with Rust – Interview with Zeeshan Ali Khan

    Systems Software for Linux with Rust – Interview with Zeeshan Ali Khan
    Aug 14 2024
    Zeeshan Ali Khan is the maintainer of the zbus crate, a pure Rust implementation of the D-Bus protocol. Zeeshan has been around Linux and embedded/mobile Linux for a long time – even moving to Finland to work for Nokia before the company moved to Windows Phone. The interview starts with creation of zbus—a pure Rust […]
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  • Supercharging Python Tooling – An Interview with Charlie Marsh

    Supercharging Python Tooling – An Interview with Charlie Marsh
    Aug 7 2024
    Charlie Marsh is the founder of Astral, the company behind Python’s fastest code formatter: ruff. Astral is also the home of the open source uv and rye projects, which make installing Python packages much faster than they have been with pip. In the interview, Charlie discusses many things, including his own career, building an open […]
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  • Rob Ede – Actix Web, Life as an Open Source Maintainer, Supply-chain Security

    Rob Ede – Actix Web, Life as an Open Source Maintainer, Supply-chain Security
    Jul 29 2024
    Summary The episode explores Rob‘s views on open source maintenance, along with many interesting side quests relating to modern software development. We start the discussion by talking about Rob’s journey to becoming a maintainer of Actix Web, a web framework written in Rust. This moves into a discussion about the project’s adoption by companies like […]
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