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  • 1 hour 50 minutes
    Selling SDKs in the era of many Claudes (Interview)

    Steve Ruiz joins us for a deep-dive on tldraw (a very good free whiteboard) and the business he’s built selling SDKs that help others build very good whiteboards (and more) with tldraw’s high-performance web canvas.

    Along the way, we discuss the excitement/fear we share about keeping our agents busy, how SDK and infra companies are affected differently by agentic software than SaaS companies, how Steve is approaching the coming era of internal tooling, what will happen when we equip LLMs with an infinite canvas, and more.

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    19 February 2026, 3:30 pm
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    All the Claw things (News)

    Peter Steinberger joins OpenAI, ZeroClaw is “claw done right”, MimiClaw runs on a $5 chip, Steve Yegge on managing the AI Vampire, and the day the telnet died.

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    16 February 2026, 7:30 pm
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    Han shot first (Friends)

    Our ol’ friend, Brett Cannon, is back to talk all things Python. But first! Star Wars, Machete Order, Lost, Babylon 5, Game of Thrones, Murderbot, Ted Lasso, Project Hail Mary, David Attenborough, perpetual voice rights, and the AI uncanny valley.

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    13 February 2026, 9:00 pm
  • 1 hour 36 minutes
    Building the machine that builds the machine (Interview)

    Paul Dix joins us to discuss the InfluxDB co-founder’s journey adapting to an agentic world. Paul sent his AI coding agents on various real-world side quests and shares all his findings: what’s going to prod, what’s not, and why he’s (at least for a bit) back to coding by hand.

    Update: He’s back to letting the AIs write code, but with a lot more oversight. For now…

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    11 February 2026, 8:30 pm
  • 7 minutes 35 seconds
    Vouch for an open source web of trust (News)

    Mitchell Hashimoto’s trust management system for open source, Nicholas Carlini has a team of Claudes build a C compiler, Stephan Schwab recounts the history of attempted developer replacement, NanClaw is an alternative to OpenClaw, and Sophie Koonin can’t wrap her head around so many people going so hard on LLM-generated code.

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    9 February 2026, 7:00 pm
  • 1 hour 43 minutes
    It's a renaissance woman's world (Friends)

    Amal Hussein returns to tell us all about her new role at Istari, what life is like outside the web browser, how she’s helping ambitious orgs in aerospace, what the SDLC looks like in 2026, and a whole lot more. Wait, moon vacuums?!

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    6 February 2026, 9:30 pm
  • 1 hour 16 minutes
    Setting Docker Hardened Images free (Interview)

    In May of 2025, Docker launched Hardened Images, a secure, minimal, production-ready set of images. In December, they made DHI freely available and open source to everyone who builds software. On this episode, we’re joined by Tushar Jain, EVP of Engineering at Docker to learn all about it.

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    4 February 2026, 8:00 pm
  • 8 minutes 46 seconds
    The tech monoculture is finally breaking (News)

    Jason Willems believes the tech monoculture is finally breaking, Don Ho shares some bad Notepad++ news, Tailscale’s Avery Pennarun pens a great downtime apology, Milan Milanović explains why you can only code 4 hours per day, and Addy Osmani on managing comprehension debt when leaning on AI to code.

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    2 February 2026, 8:30 pm
  • 1 hour 13 minutes
    Natural born SaaS killers (Friends)

    We discuss the buzz around Clawdbot / MoltBot / OpenClaw, how app subscriptions are turning into weekend hacking projects, why SaaS stocks are crashing on Wall Street, and what it all means.

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    30 January 2026, 9:00 pm
  • 1 hour 21 minutes
    Securing npm is table stakes (Interview)

    As the creator and long-time maintainer of ESLint, Nicholas Zakas is well-positioned to criticize GitHub’s recent response to npm’s insecurity. He found the response insufficient, and has other ideas on how GitHub could secure npm better. On this episode, Nicholas details these ideas, paints a bleak picture of npm alternatives like JSR, and shares our frustration that such a critical piece of internet infrastructure feels neglected.

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    29 January 2026, 3:00 pm
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    Clawdbot triggers a run on Mac Minis (News)

    Clawdbot drives Mac Mini sales, Swizec Teller on the future of software engineering being SRE, Daniel Stenberg decided to end curl’s bug bounty program, zerobrew takes some of the best ideas from uv and applies them to Homebrew, and Phil Eaton on LLMs and your career.

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    26 January 2026, 8:00 pm
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