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Latest Episodes

SimpleWebAuthn with Matthew Miller
February 14, 2024

SimpleWebAuthn is an open source TypeScript-centric pair of libraries frontend and backend that make it easier for devs to implement WebAuthn on the web. Matthew Miller started the project in 2019

Biotech Special: a16z and the Biotech Revolution with Vijay Pande
February 13, 2024

There is a revolution unfolding in biotech. The confluence of new biological methods like CRISPR, virtually unlimited computational capacity, and machine learning has fundamentally transformed our abi

Building a Unified Hardware API at Intel with James Reinders
February 08, 2024

oneAPI is an open standard for a unified API to be used across different computing accelerator architectures. This including GPUs, AI accelerators, and FPGAs. The goal of oneAPI is to eliminate the ne

The Godot Game Engine with Emilio Coppola
February 07, 2024

A game engine is a system used to build and run games. Game engines let the programmer work at a high level of abstraction by providing interfaces for graphics, physics, and scripting. Godot is an ope

Building a Data Lake with Adam Ferrari
February 06, 2024

Starburst is a data lake analytics platform. Its designed to help users work with structured data at scale, and is built on the open source platform, Trino. Adam Ferrari is the SVP of Engineering at

Building Chess.com with Jay Severson
February 01, 2024

Chess.com started in 2007 and grew steadily in the years following. The platform exploded in popularity during the pandemic, to the point that their servers struggled with the traffic. It was a great

Mastodon with Eugen Rochko
January 31, 2024

Mastodon is an open source, decentralized social network. Eugen Rochko started building Mastodon in response to his dissatisfaction with centralized social networks like Facebook and Twitter. In the M

Vercel AI with Lee Robinson
January 30, 2024

Vercel provides a cloud platform to rapidly deploy web projects, and they develop the highly successful Next.js framework. The company recently made headlines when they announced v0 which is a generat

Blender with Sybren Stüvel
January 25, 2024

Blender is a free and open-source 3D graphics tool that was initially released in 1994 and just hit version 4.0. Its one of the triumphs of open-source software development and is used for creating a

Netflix UIs at Scale with Shaundai Person
January 24, 2024

Netflix needs no introduction and is renowned for its engineering talent. Shaundai Person is a Senior Software Engineer at Netflix, blogger, and conference speaker. She joins the show today to talk ab