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- Oct 6, 202651 min
Kodsnack 723 - Bach and Beethoven and the dots and the lines, with Sam Aaron
Fredrik talks to Sam Aaron about Sonic pi - the tool for learning, coding, and performing music. Whe discuss where it stated but more importantly how it has evolved during the past year - coming to the web and gaining lots of performance and features in the process. Sam also discusses how to build reliable things when working on an indisde-out bottle ship, blindfolded and with a gaslighting agent as your help. Recorded during the excellent Goatmire Elixir 2026 conference. Thank you Cloudnet for sponsoring our VPS! Comments, questions or tips? We are @kodsnack, @tobiashieta, @oferlund and @bjoreman on Twitter, have a page on Facebook and can be emailed at info@kodsnack.se if you want to write longer. We read everything we receive. If you enjoy Kodsnack we would love a review in iTunes! You can also support the podcast by buying us a coffee (or two!) through Ko-fi. Links Sam Support Sam on Patreon! Goatmire Sonic pi Kristoffer Tau5 Sam’s talk last year Elixir Lua Guy Brown at University of Sheffield Bleep - the synth Sam built with Guy Supercollider James MaCartney Audio worklet Cmake Web audio Gaslighting Open sound control Ring buffer The Supersonic demo with lots of observability Sam’s PhD - A domain specific language for dynamic interest management within virtual environments Western musical notation Bach Beethoven Aphex twin Juce - open framework for audio stuff DSP Supersonic Hard real time Rust OTP - essentially Erlang’s standard library University of Cambridge Cambridge festival Alan Blackwell - Sam’s PhD supervisor Support Kodsnack on Ko-fi QT Live loops in Sonic pi Overtone Clojure Jeff Rose <a href="https://www.techqbd.
- Sep 29, 202646 min
Kodsnack 722 - Not here for the syntax, with Koushik Dasika
Fredrik talks to Koushik Dasika about working with Elixir. From discovery to first deployments. Via appreciation of a big mess that gets the job done just keeps on working. And on to teaching Elixir to others. Since we met at Goatmire last year, and Goatmire is running when this episode is released, we of course talk about some conference highlights, and about meetups and conferences able to ignite that exciting feeling that there is a lot to discover and learn in the world. Oh, and what was that thing about seals? Thank you Cloudnet for sponsoring our VPS! Comments, questions or tips? We are @kodsnack, @tobiashieta, @oferlund and @bjoreman on Twitter, have a page on Facebook and can be emailed at info@kodsnack.se if you want to write longer. We read everything we receive. If you enjoy Kodsnack we would love a review in iTunes! You can also support the podcast by buying us a coffee (or two!) through Ko-fi. Links Goatmire Koushik Automatiq Automattic - the Wordpress company Ottomatic does not seem to be the name of any software company Elixir Polyglot Elixirconf US Elixirconf EU Global interpreter lock Go Sabre NYC Elixir meetup Chris Bell - runs Knock Websockets Phoenix Phoenix presence CRUD BEAM DSL Mix - build tool for Elixir Express REPL IEX - Elixir’s interactive shell V8 Kubernetes Adding typing to Elixir Digitalocean Support the podcast on Ko-fi! Dan Janowski Erlang ecosystem foundation Liveview Bittorrent Scheme The little schemer Prolog Erlang Valgrind GDB CSP - “a formal language for describing patterns of int
- Sep 22, 202655 min
Kodsnack 721 - We need those apps, with Mark Washeim
Fredrik chats with Mark Washeim about building apps for Sailfish OS and Jolla phones. What’s it like to develop apps for a Jolla phone? Fredrik asked for experts on Mastodon. A whole list was quickly provided, with Mark both being at the top and very happy to say yes to coming on an episode. Maintaining over 50 apps and packages, and running Jolla phones for ten years, Mark really knows his stuff. We discuss his path to Jolla, how one gets started, which languages and tools are available, and why some of them aren’t quite the latest versions. Thank you Cloudnet for sponsoring our VPS! Comments, questions or tips? We are @kodsnack, @tobiashieta, @oferlund and @bjoreman on Twitter, have a page on Facebook and can be emailed at info@kodsnack.se if you want to write longer. We read everything we receive. If you enjoy Kodsnack we would love a review in iTunes! You can also support the podcast by buying us a coffee (or two!) through Ko-fi. Links Mark Sailfish - the operating system powering, among others, Jolla phones Northern telecom FM radio The gang of four book - Design patterns Christopher Alexander’s design patterns Abstract algebra Erlang Nokia N9 Nokia N900 Netbsd BSD Atari Bebox Haiku Maemo Apps and other repos Mark maintain The Sailfish forum Shaders Rinigus - developer Adam Pigg Opensuse OBS - Open build service Nephros RPN Exprtk - C++ single header math library Tooter - the Mastodon app Mark maintains Fahrplan Support Kodsnack on Ko-fi! Virtualbox Linux mint The Sailfish SDK QT QML QML live Xcode Ecmascript 5 Macromedia director Jquery Chum KDE SDL
- Aug 18, 20261h 2m
Kodsnack 716 - Dubious lifestyle decisions, with James Smith
Fredrik chats with James Smith about forking Rails for the greater good. The name of the project is Mosscap. (During recording, it still used the temporary name Amiko.) James explains why the forking project has been started, and why many people have been calling for change within the Rails world for a long time. James talks about what has been done so far, the importance of getting more people involved, quickly, technical solutions, and of getting the governance model right. Technology and development in itself isn’t really the important focus. Mosscap is place to keep maintaining existing Rails apps, but not necessarily the way to start completely new ones. There may not even be a second major version of Mosscap. There are other projects for that situation. We also discuss James' project Manyfold and how it works to apply for and build software funded by NLNet (EU, essentially) grants. Thank you Cloudnet for sponsoring our VPS! Comments, questions or tips? We a re @kodsnack, @tobiashieta, @oferlund and @bjoreman on Twitter, have a page on Facebook and can be emailed at info@kodsnack.se if you want to write longer. We read everything we receive. If you enjoy Kodsnack we would love a review in iTunes! You can also support the podcast by buying us a coffee (or two!) through Ko-fi. Links James Manyfold - James own project NGI zero Ruby on rails Mosscap - the permanent name Rails needs new governance - blog post with plenty of background on why change is needed Rails is done - blog post about Mosscap, background, and supporting something stable Open letter to the Rails core team last year DHH - David Heinemeier Hansson - you can find his blog posts if you really want to Rubygems - the package manager and system ARPANET Join the Matrix space Gem aliasing Monkey patching Follow Mosscap project on Mastodon Repos for the fork - known as Amiko at the time of recording, now Mosscap Support us on Ko-fi! Amiko - friend in Esperanto Electromagnetic field festival CVE Fediverse Hanakai - another base on which to build Ruby apps Hanami - app framework which is part of Hanakai LTS - long-term support Mosscap’s governance documents Fedipub nlnet.nl Titles Tech for good All of our collective intelligence together Some dubious lifestyle decisions Trying really hard to not know why Not taking anything away from anyone Me with a fork Reasons why things won’t work I thought it was Japanese Stomping around, being angry in a field You’re
- May 19, 20261h 28m
Kodsnack 703 - The subset needs to fit you, with Harald Achitz
Fredrik chats to Harald Achitz about freelancing, C++ 26, and ten years of running the Swedencpp meetup. Harald discusses the various oddities of the Swedish consultant and software market, both before but especially in the current environment. Consultants don’t cost what you expect them to when compared to employees, and a strange previous focus on headcount has not helped either. We then talk about the standardization process for C++ and about new things in C++ 26. Harald discusses the issues of adding new things which are good in themselves, but perhaps don’t fit into a bigger picture, take a lot of focus and energy which in turn means many other things do not get considered which may be smaller and more widely and immediately useful. Also: once something is in the standard library, it’s eternal. And there is still no real ecosystem around C++. Infrastructure is a hard thing. And Rust is out there. Finally, we talk about Harald’s experience of running the Swedencpp meetup for ten years. What does it mean to run something for so long? Technology, talks, locations, providing a space for presentations, and trying to keep things evolving are all discussed. Thank you Cloudnet for sponsoring our VPS! Comments, questions or tips? We a re @kodsnack, @tobiashieta, @oferlund and @bjoreman on Twitter, have a page on Facebook and can be emailed at info@kodsnack.se if you want to write longer. We read everything we receive. If you enjoy Kodsnack we would love a review in iTunes! You can also support the podcast by buying us a coffee (or two!) through Ko-fi. Links Harald Previous episodes with Harald Support us on Ko-fi! C++ 26 ISO SC22 WG21 - the standardization group for C++ The Swedish local mirror for SG22, affectionately known as SIS/TK 611/AG 09 SIS - Swedish institute of standards Swedencpp Remember the Vasa! - Bjarne’s paper Modules - from C++ 20 “The irony is that since this issue was opened, I have not only learned rust, I also switched to it fully." Coroutines Compile-time reflection Templates Orthodox C++ - talk by Harald C++ quiz compilation Contracts in C++ Eiffel Undefined behavior in C++ Swift package manager Ripgrep Sender and receiver Profiles in C++ Cppcheck - by Daniel Marjamäki Concepts Swedencpp on Youtube<
- May 5, 202638 min
Kodsnack 701 - The chicken would explode, with Holly Cummins
Fredrik chats to Holly Cummins about using Minecraft for observability, other amazing Quarkus tricks, and the value of joy at work. Recorded during Øredev 2025. Thank you Cloudnet for sponsoring our VPS! Comments, questions or tips? We a re @kodsnack, @tobiashieta, @oferlund and @bjoreman on Twitter, have a page on Facebook and can be emailed at info@kodsnack.se if you want to write longer. We read everything we receive. If you enjoy Kodsnack we would love a review in iTunes! You can also support the podcast by buying us a coffee (or two!) through Ko-fi. Links Holly Holly’s presentation - Five (and a half) things you can do with Quarkus Quarkus Graalvm Picocli AWT WASM Chicory - WASM runtime for the JVM Microcks - contract testing framework in Java APICurio Dev services SQLite in WASM Hibernate Reasteasy Vert.x - “reactive applications on the JVM” Holly’s Minecraft extension for Quarkus Support us on Ko-fi! Langchain4j Grafana William Gibson Backpressure Simon Wardley and his keynote on mapping Minecraft demo to explain Kubernetes concepts, by Sebastien Blanc Holly’s talk about developer joy The fun topic on hollycummins.com Titles All in one room When you say Quarkus Really amazing throughput The way that conferences work Other people have done all the work It unlocks a whole lot of possibilities Slightly more tortured Javascripv via WASM on the JVM The absence of configuration Unless you work for a bank That zero friction All of that dynamism The reading of the configuration Deep introspection of the application Six demos in 40 minutes The useful extensions had been written The chicken would explode Novel way of understanding the application Manually implement the backpressure Zoo of types The containers were chickens Joy and productivity The happy piglets You are a profitalbe piglet The mandatory fun officer I now have the language On team cloud
- Apr 21, 202642 min
Kodsnack 699 - A two-IDE person, with Shawn Wildermuth
Fredrik chats to Shawn Wildermuth about evolving in the world of software development, small changes adding up, developer hiring, not chasing the new thing, and quite a bit more. Fredrik is still hoping for the last episode of Shawn’s old podcast. Making sure you use your time in a way that’s right for you. Whether it’s spending lots of time learning new stuff or getting deep into the tech you really enjoy. Recorded during Øredev 2025. Thank you Cloudnet for sponsoring our VPS! Comments, questions or tips? We a re @kodsnack, @tobiashieta, @oferlund and @bjoreman on Twitter, have a page on Facebook and can be emailed at info@kodsnack.se if you want to write longer. We read everything we receive. If you enjoy Kodsnack we would love a review in iTunes! You can also support the podcast by buying us a coffee (or two!) through Ko-fi. Links Shawn Shawn on Github Shawn’s old podcast Hello world Richard Campbell and Carl Franklin, of the .NET rocks podcast Science Friday, from PBS What’s new in C# 14 and .NET 10 - Shawn’s presentation at Øredev 2025 .NET core Blazor ASP.NET Null forgiveness .NET conf Nullable reference types Objective-c Tell the C# compiler to act like older versions Generics Nullable value types Pluralsight Windows phone Foxpro Impostor syndrome Shawn’s film Hello world - confronting bias in software development Support us on Ko-fi! Oslo Winfs Practical file system design with the Be file system - The Beos file system book by Dominic Giampaolo Beos GEOS Silverlight Open sourced Webassembly-based Silverlight version Kotlin CLR Fortran COBOL MUMPS Vue <a href
- Mar 17, 202631 min
Kodsnack 694 - Dark patterns … to rule them all, with Sergès Goma
Fredrik chats to Sergès Goma about dark patterns and her Øredev presentation on them. We start off by talking about giving presentations and the background to the dark patterns talk. All the great versions of a talk - you never know what’s going to happen. Dark patterns and ethics in software development are topics people like to share their experiences of. And it’s easy to get caught in the pull between protecting your user and finishing your tickets. We as developers do have a lot of power, but we also have a job to do. Making (good) ethical decisions business decisions instead can suddenly get them budget and priority. Laws are good at creating such pressures sometimes. Toward the end, we discuss falling behind in tech, and Sergès gets Fredrik to make some predictions about the AI bubble before wrapping up on a positive note. Recorded during Øredev 2025. Thank you Cloudnet for sponsoring our VPS! Comments, questions or tips? We a re @kodsnack, @tobiashieta, @oferlund and @bjoreman on Twitter, have a page on Facebook and can be emailed at info@kodsnack.se if you want to write longer. We read everything we receive. If you enjoy Kodsnack we would love a review in iTunes! You can also support the podcast by buying us a coffee (or two!) through Ko-fi. Links Sergès Sergès' presentation Dark patterns - also known as deceptive design patterns Evil tech - Sergès' previous talk Support us on Ko-fi! The EU accessibility act GDPR /r/assholedesign on Reddit Confirm shaming The big short The good place The uncanny valley Titles It was everything Very future-forward They nailed the theme Dark patterns … to rule them all You judge a talk by its name The name is more important Why not do a spinoff? It was made for questions It’s never the same talk for me I just did whatever I wanted to do They’re crazier than me Be in character Evil laugh competition (I got to show) My true talent If you are for everyone, you are for no-one Focus more on the topic Spotify’s dark pattern Do I protect my user? The baby koalas are going to die The train is already gone The train travels in a circle The train from hell The story of our job Better jobs for humans This is the bad place You actually want humans The pain in my existence Write my own emails
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