Software Misadventures Podcast

A podcast about not just the technologies, but the people and the stories behind them. Hosted by @RonakNathani and @guangy20.

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pov: startup fundraising as a hardware founder (feat. @bcantrill)

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Don't miss the full-circle moment on their "meet cute" story from last time, shared at the end of the conversation :)

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@oxidecomputer co-founders @bcantrill and @sdtuck are back on the show to give an impromptu peek at the Oxide server rack and to chat about writing their own manufacturing software, overcoming false summits before shipping the first rack, the #1 reason startups fail and more.

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Known for co-creating Django and Datasette, as well as his thoughtful writing on LLMs, @simonw joins the show to chat about blogging as an accountability mechanism, how to build intuition with LLMs, life as an independent dev and more.

check it out :D https://t.co/tHU9eNoJ9x

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@Steve_Yegge @SourcegraphCody thanks so much for the fun convo
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A Silicon Valley veteran and known for his writings like "The Death of the Junior Developer", @Steve_Yegge joins the show to chat about his "AI Midlife Crisis", his unique writing process, and building the future of coding assistants.

check it out :D https://t.co/ymKsgIFbKw

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A veteran of early Twitter's fail whale wars, @squarecog joins the show to chat about the time when 70% of the Hadoop cluster got accidentally deleted, the financial reality of writing a book, and how to navigate acquisitions.

check it out :D https://t.co/bXvFsgLX4x

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@premium bump ^^

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@premium The country for our account is configured to be US, however, when we try to renew the Premium membership, it shows us currency in Vietnamese Dong. Additionally, when we try to pay, our credit cards keep getting declined.

Can you help fix this?

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Today, the tables have turned, and @ronaknathani and Guang from the Software Misadventures podcast (@SWMisadventures ) interviewing me about podcasting, my history as a software developer, and, story telling.

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As the original architect and API design lead of #Kubernetes, @bgrant0607 joins the show to chat about why "APIs are forever", the keys to evangelizing impactful projects, and being an Uber Tech at Google, and more.

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"the N+1 shithead problem" (feat. @bcantrill)

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From building a new kind of server to building a new kind of company, co-founders @bcantrill and @sdtuck join the show to chat about their "meet cute" and the origin story of @oxidecomputer, transparent and uniform salaries, and their solution to the "N+1 shithead problem".

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From building the data platform and Parquet at Twitter to using AI to make biology easier to engineer at Ginkgo Bioworks, @squarecog joins the show to chat about the early days of big data, the conversation that made him jump into SynBio, LLMs for proteins and more.

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@deliberatecoder on the top misconception about indie hacking

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Having quit Google in 2018 to bootstrap indie businesses and recently selling it for $600k, @deliberatecoder returns to the show to chat about misconceptions about running an indie business, the hardest part of selling it, and why “hardware is definitely out” in the future 😂

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Well-known for his insightful and meticulous write-ups on testing distributed systems, @aphyr joins the show to chat about the origins of Jepsen, how he built a business around testing distributed systems, his writing process, favorite databases, and more.

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From creating one of the Python’s most influential libraries to co-founding Voltron Data, @wesmckinn joins the show to chat about why the book cover of the pandas book doesn’t feature a panda, open source pitfalls to avoid and more.

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From creating @EnvoyProxy to co-founding @bitdriftio, @mattklein123 joins the show to chat about being told to simply “write some proxy in Python” in the early days of building Envoy, early influences from building “shrink wrap” software at Microsoft and much more.

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From being a Distinguished Engineer at Sun to co-founding @oxidecomputer to build a new kind of server, @bcantrill joins the show to chat about being told that he’s on a suicide mission when starting Oxide, the moment he felt “I’m actually living HBO Silicon Valley”, and more.