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SED News: Meta’s AI Gambit, Windsurf Shake‑Up, and the UK VPN Surge - Software Engineering Daily SED News is a monthly podcast from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer unpack the biggest stories shaping software engineering, Silicon Valley, and the broader tech in...

In this episode Gregor Vand and @seanfalconer.bsky.social discuss Meta’s AI gambit, the @windsurfai.bsky.social shake up, the UK VPN surge and highlights from Hacker News.

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Electron and Desktop App Engineering with Shelley Vohr - Software Engineering Daily Electron is a framework for building cross-platform desktop applications using web technologies like JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. It allows developers to package web apps with a native-like experience b...

Shelley Vohr is a Principal Software Engineer at @microsoft.com where she works on @electronjs.org. She joins the podcast with @joshuakgoldberg.com to talk about her work on the Electron project.

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Modal and Scaling AI Inference with Erik Bernhardsson - Software Engineering Daily Modal is a serverless compute platform that’s specifically focused on AI workloads. The company’s goal is to enable AI teams to quickly spin up GPU-enabled containers, and rapidly iterate and autoscal...

Erik Bernhardsson is the founder of @modal-labs.bsky.social. In this episode, he joins @seanfalconer.bsky.social to talk about scaling AI inference, fixing ML tooling gaps, cold start optimization, and building for AI teams.

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RxJS with Ben Lesh - Software Engineering Daily RxJS is an open-source library for composing asynchronous and event-based programs. It provides powerful operators for transforming, filtering, combining, and managing streams of data, from user input...

Ben Lesh is the creator of RxJS which is a popular JavaScript library for managing async data streams. He joins @joshuakgoldberg.com to talk about his path into engineering and the RxJS library.

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Small AI Models with Yoeven Khemlani - Software Engineering Daily JigsawStack is a startup that develops a suite of custom small models for tasks such as scraping, forecasting, vOCR, and translation. The platform is designed to support collaborative knowledge work, ...

Yoeven Khemlani is the Founder of JigsawStack. He joins the podcast with Gregor Vand to talk about making use of small models for diverse applications.

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Streamlining Cloud Infrastructure Deployments with Jake Cooper - Software Engineering Daily Railway is a software company that provides a popular platform for deploying and managing applications in the cloud. It automates tasks such as infrastructure provisioning, scaling, and deployment and...

Jake Cooper is the Founder and CEO at @railway.com. He joins the podcast with @seanfalconer.bsky.social to talk about the company and its platform.

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Building Open Infrastructure for AI with Illia Polosukhin - Software Engineering Daily Illia Polosukhin is a veteran AI researcher and one of the original authors of the landmark Transformer paper, Attention is All You Need, which he co-authored during his time at Google Research. He ha...

Illia Polosukhin is a veteran AI researcher and his current venture is called @nearprotocol.bsky.social. He joins the show with @kball.llc to discuss his career, the origins of the Transformer model, and open AI infrastructure.

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TypeScript with Jake Bailey - Software Engineering Daily TypeScript is a statically typed superset of JavaScript that adds optional type annotations and modern language features to improve developer productivity and code safety. The TypeScript compiler perf...

Jake Bailey is a Senior Software Engineer at @microsoft.com where he works on @typescriptlang.org. Jake joins the podcast with @joshuakgoldberg.com to talk about TypeScript and his work.

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MCP Security at Wiz with Rami McCarthy - Software Engineering Daily Wiz is a cloud security platform that helps organizations identify and remediate risks across their cloud environments. The company’s platform scans layers of the cloud stack, including virtual machin...

Rami McCarthy is a Principal Security Researcher at Wiz. He joins the podcast with Gregor Vand to talk about security research, AI and secrets leakage, MCP security, supply chain attacks, career advice, and more.

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SED News: Data Land Grabs, Copyright Fights, and the Great AI Talent War - Software Engineering Daily Welcome back to SED News, a podcast series from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer break down the latest stories in software engineering, Silicon Valley, and the wide...

In this episode, Gregor Vand and @seanfalconer.bsky.social dive into Meta’s legal battle over AI training data, its $14B bet on Scale AI, intense competition in the AI space, and highlights from Hacker News.

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AI at Anaconda with Greg Jennings - Software Engineering Daily Anaconda is a software company that’s well-known for its solutions for managing packages, environments, and security in large-scale data workflows. The company has played a major role in making Python...

Greg Jennings is the VP of Engineering and AI at @anacondainc.bsky.social. He joins the podcast with @kball.llc to talk about the tooling ecosystem around AI app development, the Anaconda Toolbox, the rapidly evolving role of AI in engineering, and more.

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ByteDance’s Container Networking Stack with Chen Tang - Software Engineering Daily ByteDance is a global technology company operating a wide range of content platforms around the world, and is best known for creating TikTok. The company operates at a massive scale, which naturally p...

Chen Tang is an engineer at @bytedance.bsky.social. In this episode, Chen joins the show with @kball.llc to talk about eBPF, the problems it solves, and how it was used at ByteDance.

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WayForward Games with Tomm Hulett and Voldi Way - Software Engineering Daily WayForward is a renowned video game studio that was founded in 1990. The company has developed games for publishers such as Capcom, Konami, and Nintendo and has released their games across major hardw...

Voldi Way is the founder and CEO of @wayforward.bsky.social games and Tomm Hulett is a Director at the company. They join the show Joe Nash to talk about the history of their studio and developing Contra: Operation Galuga.

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CodeRabbit and RAG for Code Review with Harjot Gill - Software Engineering Daily One of the most immediate and high-impact applications of LLMs has been in software development. The models can significantly accelerate code writing, but with that increased velocity comes a greater ...

Harjot Gill is the founder and CEO of @coderabbitai.bsky.social and he joins @kbal11 to talk about bringing generative AI into the code review process, CodeRabbit’s architecture, its multi-model LLM strategy, and more.

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Emulating Retro Games on Modern Consoles with Robin Lavallée and Bill Litshauer - Software Engineering Daily Emulating retro games on modern consoles is a growing trend, and allows players to experience classic titles with improved performance, enhanced resolution, and added features like save states and rew...

Robin Lavallée is the CEO and Bill Litshauer is the COO at @implicitconversions.com. They join the show with @kball.llc to talk about emulating and enhancing retro PlayStation games on modern consoles.

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SED News: Corporate Spies, Postgres, and the Weird Life of Devs Right Now - Software Engineering Daily Welcome back to SED News, a podcast series from Software Engineering Daily where hosts Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer break down the latest stories in software engineering, Silicon Valley, and wider te...

In this episode, Gregor Vand and @seanfalconer.bsky.social dive into the Deel and Rippling saga, Postgres bets by Databricks and Snowflake, this weird time for devs, and highlights from Hacker News.

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TanStack and the Future of Frontend with Tanner Linsley - Software Engineering Daily TanStack is an open-source collection of high-performance libraries for JavaScript and TypeScript applications, primarily focused on state management, data fetching, and table utilities. It includes p...

Tanner Linsley is the creator of @tanstack.com, the wildly popular open-source webdev tool ecosystem. He joins the podcast with @nicknisi.com to talk about the project, SSG, type safety, the TanStack Start full-stack React framework, and more.

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The Challenge of AI Model Evaluations with Ankur Goyal - Software Engineering Daily Evaluations are critical for assessing the quality, performance, and effectiveness of software during development. Common evaluation methods include code reviews and automated testing, and can help id...

Ankur Goyal is the CEO and Founder of Braintrust. He joins the show with @seanfalconer.bsky.social to talk about Braintrust and the unique challenges of developing evaluations in a non-deterministic context.

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Modern Distributed Applications with Stephan Ewen - Software Engineering Daily A major challenge with creating distributed applications is achieving resilience, reliability, and fault tolerance. It can take considerable engineering time to address non-functional concerns like re...

Stephan Ewen is the Founder at @restate.dev which aims to simplify modern distributed applications. Stephan joins the show with ‪Sean Falconer to talk about distributed applications and his work with Restate.

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Crew AI with João Moura - Software Engineering Daily Agentic AI is seen as a key frontier in artificial intelligence, enabling systems to autonomously act, adapt in real-time, and solve complex, multi-step problems based on objectives and context. Unlik...

João Moura is the founder of CrewAI which is a platform for building and deploying automated workflows. He joins @seanfalconer.bsky.social to talk about the company’s rise in the agentic AI space and the future of automation.

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Chip Design in the AI Era with Thomas Andersen - Software Engineering Daily Synopsys is a leading electronic design automation company specializing in silicon design and verification, as well as software integrity and security. Their tools are foundational to the creation of ...

Thomas Andersen is the VP of AI and Machine Learning at Synopsys. He joins @kball.llc to discuss how AI is reshaping hardware design, the challenge of modeling tacit engineering knowledge, domain-specific LLMs, and what’s coming next.

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OpenTofu with Cory O’Daniel and Malcolm Matalka - Software Engineering Daily OpenTofu is an open-source alternative to Terraform, designed for managing infrastructure as code. It enables users to define, provision, and manage their cloud and on-premises resources using a decla...

Cory O’Daniel is the CEO of @massdriver.cloud and Malcolm Matalka is a Co-Founder at ‪Terrateam‬, and both are founding members of OpenTofu which is a fork of Terraform. They join @seanfalconer.bsky.social to talk about OpenTofu.

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Mojo and Building a CUDA Replacement with Chris Lattner - Software Engineering Daily Python is the dominant language for AI and data science applications, but it lacks the performance and low-level control needed to fully leverage GPU hardware. As a result, developers often rely on NV...

Chris Lattner is the CEO and Co-Founder of Modular, the company behind the Mojo language. In this episode, he joins @kball.llc to discuss his engineering journey and his current work on AI infrastructure and Mojo.

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Building PostgreSQL for the Future with Heikki Linnakangas - Software Engineering Daily PostgreSQL is an open-source database known for its robustness, extensibility, and compliance with SQL standards. Its ability to handle complex queries and maintain high data integrity has made it a t...

Heikki Linnakangas is a leading developer for PostgreSQL and the co-founder of @neon.tech. In this episode, he joins @kball.llc to discuss PostgreSQL’s rise in popularity, why he started Neon, pgvector for AI, and more.

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Security at Coinbase with Philip Martin - Software Engineering Daily Cryptocurrency exchanges face unique security challenges that require specialized threat assessments and planning. Coinbase is a cryptocurrency exchange based in the United States. It was founded in 2...

Philip Martin is the Chief Security Officer at Coinbase. In this episode, he joins Gregor Vand on the podcast to talk about his career and the security landscape at Coinbase.

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Grand Theft Auto III on the Dreamcast with Falco Girgis and Stef Kornilios Mitsis Poiitidis - Software Engineering Daily Grand Theft Auto III is a 2001 an open-world action-adventure game developed by Rockstar Games and it had a profound impact on both gaming and popular culture. Its success cemented video games as a do...

Falco Girgis and Stef Kornilios Mitsis Poiitidis are developers on the GTA3 Dreamcast port. They join @kball.llc to talk about the Dreamcast hardware and the heroic task of porting GTA3 to the console.

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Polypane with Kilian Valkhof - Software Engineering Daily Polypane is a specialized web development browser that simplifies creating and testing modern websites. A key feature is that it provides multiple screen sizes at once, with synchronized scrolling and...

Kilian Valkhof is the Founder of @polypane.app which develops a specialized browser for developers. In this episode he speaks with @joshuakgoldberg.com about his career and developing the Polypane browser.

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LiveKit and OpenAI with Russ d’Sa - Software Engineering Daily LiveKit is a platform that provides developers with tools to build real-time audio and video applications at scale. It offers an open-source WebRTC stack for creation of live, interactive experiences ...

LiveKit provides tools to build real-time audio and video apps at scale with WebRTC. Founder Russ d’Sa joins Sean Falconer to talk about LiveKit, its OpenAI partnership, voice and vision as future paradigms, and more.

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SED News: CoreWeave IPO, Anthropic’s MCP, and Microsoft Turns 50 - Software Engineering Daily Welcome to the pilot episode of SED News, a new podcast series from Software Engineering Daily. Join hosts Gregor Van and Sean Falconer as they break down the week’s most important stories in software...

Check out the pilot episode of SED News! In this kickoff episode Gregor Vand and Sean Falconer talk about CoreWeave's IPO, @anthropic.com MCP, @microsoft.com at 50, and more. Let us know what you think!

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Vibe Coding at Heroku with Vish Abrams - Software Engineering Daily AI tools are transforming how developers write code, and although it’s difficult to pinpoint how much code is now AI-generated code, estimates suggest it’s between 20% and 40%, and this figure is pois...

Vish Abrams is Chief Architect at Heroku and he joins @kball.llc for a wide-ranging conversation about AI tools, vibe coding, the Model Context Protocol, Heroku’s managed inference service, and more.

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