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:

Don Mackinnon’s favs:

Brett Cannon’s favs:

Nabeel Sulieman’s favs:

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:

Adam’s favs:

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