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Epistemic Extinction (with Mond) | Dead Code A podcast about how the software industry got this way

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Even with the best intentions, big companies drift toward standardization.

Mond reflects on why the algorithmic interview is so hard to escape and what it costs.

Epistemic Extinction (with Mond) | Dead Code A podcast about how the software industry got this way

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Just because you can track something doesn’t mean it’s useful.

Mond warns how aggregated data becomes dangerous when decisions rely on it.

Epistemic Extinction (with Mond) | Dead Code A podcast about how the software industry got this way

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Even if you’ve built a better tech interview, can it scale?

Mond explores what’s lost when we prioritize consistency over context.

Epistemic Extinction (with Mond) | Dead Code A podcast about how the software industry got this way

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What if the real skills of a senior engineer can’t be captured in a whiteboard problem?

Mond spells out what gets missed in most technical interviews and why.

Epistemic Extinction (with Mond) | Dead Code A podcast about how the software industry got this way

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Why do so many companies think standardization equals fairness?

Mond uses cooking and James C. Scott to break down how legibility affects hiring in tech.

Naked and Semantic (with Fabien Basmaison and Jens Oliver Meiert) | Dead Code A podcast about how the software industry got this way

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This audiogram features Jens Oliver Meiert, web standards advocate and author of Frontend Dogma, sharing his take on the industry’s growing move away from separation of concerns.

Are we sacrificing craftsmanship for convenience?

Naked and Semantic (with Fabien Basmaison and Jens Oliver Meiert) | Dead Code A podcast about how the software industry got this way

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In this clip, Jens Oliver Meiert reflects on how experienced developers influence the next generation—intentionally or not.

Are we showing that craft and quality still matter?

Naked and Semantic (with Fabien Basmaison and Jens Oliver Meiert) | Dead Code A podcast about how the software industry got this way

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Fabien Basmaison reminds us: participating in CSS Naked Day doesn’t mean you have to break your site.

Small steps still matter, and they’re often more sustainable.

Why keep CSS Naked Day going after nearly 20 years?

Fabien Basmaison shares the deeper reasons he continues to support it…and what it says about openness, access, and responsibility.

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In this clip, Fabien Basmaison, French UI developer and co-maintainer of CSS Naked Day, talks about what developers can learn when they view their sites without CSS.

It’s not just a design experiment. It’s an accessibility check.

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Ruby doesn’t have to be slow.

We’ve just started believing it was—and stopped trying to fix it.

Now? People like Ivo are proving that’s changing.

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Profiling in production isn’t just a technical challenge—it’s a balancing act.

Too much overhead and it’s useless. Too little insight and it’s pointless.

Ivo shares how the Datadog Ruby Profiler walks that tightrope, and what makes it different from local tools.

Ivo Anjo puts words to the shift on this week’s episode: shows.acast.com/dead-code/e...

There’s something happening in the Ruby world right now.

It’s not just performance. It’s not just JITs.

It’s a growing movement of people who are rolling up their sleeves and making the language better, at every layer of the stack.

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What if a dead-simple visualization tool could uncover bugs even in Ruby itself?

Ivo built gvl-tracing thinking it’d be helpful—he didn’t expect it to become a bug-hunting machine.

And what it’s revealed? 🤯

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Most people trying to reduce Ruby latency are asking the wrong question.

It’s not how long a thread should run—it’s when it should stop.

Ivo Anjo explains why Ruby needs a real scheduler that acts more like an OS and less like a timer.