Favorite Episodes Showdown: Listener Insights and Community Love

Our 7th annual year-end wrap-up is here! We’re featuring 12 listener voicemails, dope Breakmaster Cylinder remixes & our favorite episodes of the year. Thanks for listening! 💚

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Featuring:

• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

Many episodes were favorited more than once! We only list the first mention here…

AJ Kerrigan’s favs:

• We have a right to repair! with Kyle Wiens (Interviews #582)
• Building customizable ergonomic keyboards with Erez Zukerman (Interviews #608)
• Open source threaded team chat?! with Alya Abbott (Interviews #607)

Erno Voutilainen’s favs:

• Retirement is for suckers with Cameron Seay (Friends #36)
• #define: legendary with Thomas Eckert, Nick Nisi & Mat Ryer (Friends #47)
• Two tickets for Departure, please with Helena Zhang & Tobias Fried (Interviews #618)

Don Mackinnon’s favs:

• From Chef to System Initiative featuring Adam Jacob (Friends #55)
• Rails is having a moment (again) with DHH (Interviews #615)

Brett Cannon’s favs:

• From Sun to Oxide with Bryan Cantrill (Interviews #592)
• Free-threaded Python with Pablo & Łukasz (Interviews #611)
• Gradually gradually typing Elixir featuring José Valim (Friends #28)
• Linux distros with Jorge Castro (Ship It! #122)
• Let’s talk FreeBSD (finally) with Allan Jude (Interviews #574)
• The Oban Pros with Shannon & Parker Selbert (Friends #35)
• Why we need Ladybird with Andreas Kling & Chris Wanstrath (Interviews #604)
• Retired, not tired. with Kelsey Hightower (Interviews #595)

Nabeel Sulieman’s favs:

• The Moneyball approach with John Nunemaker (Interviews #612)
• Into the Bobiverse featuring Dennis E. Taylor (Interviews #603)

Rusty Nail’s favs:

• Lessons from 10k hours of programming (Remastered) with Matt Rickard (Interviews #613)
• “Founder Mode” at work when you’re not a founder (Go Time #332)
• The best, worst codebase with Jimmy Miller (Changelog Interviews #609)
• Bus factors & conspiracy theories (Friends #70)

Jamie Tanna’s favs:

• Yeeting stuff into public with Jamie Tanna (Friends #31)
• OpenAPI & API design with Jamie Tanna (Go Time #328)
• 1999: A Film Odyssey (Changelog++ 🔐) (Friends ++)
• Hack Club takes to the High Seas featuring Acon (Interviews #620)
• Gotta give to get back with Danny Thompson @ THAT (Interviews #617)

Jerod’s favs:

• We ain’t afraid of no Ghostty! with Mitchell Hashimoto (Interviews #622)
• Kaizen! NOT a pipe dream with Gerhard Lazu (Friends #50)
• You have how many open tabs?! featuring the hallway track at THAT (Friends #29)
• Future of [energy, content, food] featuring the hallway track at THAT (Friends #30)
• The man behind the Sandwich featuring Adam Lisagor (Interviews #601)
• Starbucks DVD peddlers with Emily Freeman & Justin Garrison (Friends #60)

Adam’s favs:

• In the beginning (of generative AI) with Joe Reis (Interviews #576)
• Shift left, seriously. with Deepak Prabhakara & Schalk Neethling (Interviews #575)

Also mentioned:

• Prime Digital Academy
• Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) - IMDb
• The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) - IMDb
• Jump Around - Wikipedia
• FreeBSD At 30: The History And Future Of The Most Popular BSD-Based OS

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