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Chris Coyier: The Long Game of Maintaining CodePen
Jun 16, 2026
Unknown duration
Sally Lait: Confidence Is the Real Metric
May 5, 2026
55m 34s
Rein Henrichs: The Real Work of Maintenance Happens Before You Touch the Code
Apr 14, 2026
55m 26s
Russ Olsen: The Hidden Cost of Forgetting Why the Code Looks Like That
Mar 31, 2026
54m 40s
Joel Oliveira: Predictability Is a Maintainability Feature
Mar 17, 2026
1h 01m 04s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6/16/26 |  Chris Coyier: The Long Game of Maintaining CodePen | Chris Coyier, co-founder of CodePen, joins Robby to reflect on what it takes to maintain software over the long haul. Drawing from CodePen’s 15-plus-year journey, Chris shares lessons about balancing stability with innovation, navigating technical debt, and gradually evolving a product without losing sight of the people who depend on it. They discuss CodePen’s origins, the team’s ongoing migration from Rails to Go, the realities of building with a small engineering team, and why maintainability is often more about people than code. | — | ||||||
| 5/5/26 |  Sally Lait: Confidence Is the Real Metric✨ | software maintainabilityconfidence+3 | Sally Lait | — | — | confidencesoftware maintainability+3 | — | 55m 34s | |
| 4/14/26 |  Rein Henrichs: The Real Work of Maintenance Happens Before You Touch the Code✨ | maintenancecoding+3 | Rein Henrichs | — | — | maintenancecoding problems+3 | — | 55m 26s | |
| 3/31/26 |  Russ Olsen: The Hidden Cost of Forgetting Why the Code Looks Like That✨ | maintainabilitytrade-offs+4 | Russ Olsen | — | — | maintainabilitydocumentation+4 | — | 54m 40s | |
| 3/17/26 |  Joel Oliveira: Predictability Is a Maintainability Feature✨ | maintainabilitysoftware development+3 | Joel Oliveira | — | — | predictabilitymaintainable software+3 | — | 1h 01m 04s | |
| 2/3/26 |  Lucas Roesler: The Fast Feedback Loop Advantage✨ | feedback loopsmaintainability+3 | Lucas Roesler | — | — | maintainabilityfeedback loops+3 | — | 54m 21s | |
| 1/21/26 |  Brittany Ellich: Using AI to Maintain Software, Not Rewrite It✨ | AIsoftware maintenance+3 | Brittany Ellich | — | — | AIsoftware maintenance+3 | — | 1h 00m 36s | |
| 12/9/25 |  Kent L Beck: You’re Ignoring Optionality… and Paying for It✨ | optionalitydecision making+3 | Kent Beck | — | — | optional decisionsfeature saw+3 | — | 49m 31s | |
| 12/2/25 |  Don MacKinnon: Why Simplicity Beats Cleverness in Software Design✨ | software designsimplicity+3 | Don MacKinnon | Searchcraft | — | software designsimplicity+3 | — | 50m 31s | |
| 11/18/25 |  Chris Zetter: Building a Database to Better Understand Maintainability✨ | maintainabilitytechnical debt+4 | Chris Zetter | — | — | maintainabilitytechnical debt+5 | — | 49m 41s | |
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| 10/28/25 |  Denis Rechkunov: When Consistency Becomes a Culture✨ | code consistencyautomation+4 | Denis Rechkunov | Elastic | — | code consistencycultural practice+4 | — | 1h 06m 58s | |
| 10/14/25 |  Nathan Ladd: Relentless Improvement and the Cost of Neglect✨ | software sustainabilitymaintenance practices+3 | Nathan Ladd | Brightworks Digital | — | software maintenancesustainable software+3 | — | 54m 31s | |
| 8/26/25 |  Taylor Otwell: What 14 Years of Laravel Taught Me About Maintainability | Taylor Otwell looks back on 14 years of building and maintaining Laravel. From four stars on GitHub to a full-fledged ecosystem, he shares what it takes to design software that lasts—and why simple often wins. | — | ||||||
| 7/22/25 |  Sara Jackson: Why Resilience Is a Team Sport | What happens when you treat resilience as a shared responsibility across your team, not just an infrastructure concern? Sara Jackson unpacks the value of documentation, application-layer chaos experiments, and test suites you can actually trust. | — | ||||||
| 7/1/25 |  Joel Chippindale: Why High-Quality Software Isn’t About Developer Skill Alone | Is high-quality code really just about developer skill? According to CTO coach Joel Chippindale, the key to maintainable software often lies in the conversations you have before writing a single line of code. In this episode, we explore how to reframe technical debt, build cross-team trust, and make legacy systems easier to change. | — | ||||||
| 6/10/25 |  Melanie Sumner: Why Continuous Accessibility Is a Strategic Advantage | What if accessibility wasn’t a checklist—but an integrated part of your development workflow? Melanie Sumner shares how her team at HashiCorp is building with purpose and why continuous accessibility gives them a lasting edge. | — | ||||||
| 5/20/25 |  Joe Masilotti: Simplify Your Stack, Ship Mobile Sooner | Consultant Joe Masilotti shares why most mobile apps don’t need to be fully native, how he helps Rails developers simplify their stack, and what it means to be a respectful guest in someone else’s codebase. | — | ||||||
| 4/22/25 |  Freedom Dumlao: What 70 Java Services Taught Me About Focus | Freedom Dumlao made the rare decision to rebuild a microservices platform as a monolith. In this episode, he shares why—and how it made his team more effective. Plus, we talk Java, Rails, AI, and how not to drown in decision-making. | — | ||||||
| 4/8/25 |  Mercedes Bernard: Friendly Code Welcomes Everyone In | Mercedes Bernard believes that friendly code is the truest measure of maintainability. She shares how teams can reduce friction, make small architectural wins, and advocate for technical debt investment without sounding the alarm. | — | ||||||
| 4/1/25 |  Evan Phoenix: The Why of the One Line | What if trying to “future-proof” your code is actually making it harder to maintain? Evan Phoenix shares how a well-intentioned monolith split went sideways—and why clarity and confidence matter more than cleverness. | — | ||||||
| 3/25/25 |  Chris Salvato: Building Developer Paradise by Sitting in the Problem Space | Senior Staff Engineer Chris Salvato believes that understanding real bottlenecks starts with focusing on the problem space. Instead of rushing in to fix legacy code, he listens—deeply—to the people behind it. By trimming bloat and clarifying the domain, Chris reveals how a few carefully chosen changes can transform a codebase. | — | ||||||
| 3/18/25 |  Heimir Thor Sverrisson: Architecture First, Tech Debt Second | Sustainable software starts with sustainable architecture. Heimir Thor Sverrisson joins Robby to discuss why poor architectural decisions make maintenance a losing battle, how technical debt should be managed, and why adding more CPUs won’t always fix your performance problems. | — | ||||||
| 3/11/25 |  Noémi Ványi: Only Fix Problems That Are Actually Problems | Not every messy piece of code needs a refactor. Noémi Ványi joins Robby to discuss how to decide when technical debt is worth paying down, why developer autonomy matters, and how intuition plays a key role in software sustainability. | — | ||||||
| 2/25/25 |  Julia López: Code Tells a Story—Even the White Spaces | What can legacy code tell us—beyond just functionality? Julia Lopez shares how even white spaces and variable names reveal a system’s history. She and Robby dive into mentoring, refactoring, and the realities of rewriting Harvest’s billing system. | — | ||||||
| 2/18/25 |  Marty Haught: Rethinking Technical Debt—Is It Really Just Drift? | Is "technical debt" really the best metaphor for aging software? Marty Haught suggests a better one—drift. He joins Robby to discuss how software naturally diverges from its original intent, the challenge of sustaining open-source projects, and what companies can do to support critical infrastructure like RubyGems. | — | ||||||
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