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AI & Software Quality with Shawn Wang (aka swyx)
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 5/9/26 | ![]() AI & Software Quality with Shawn Wang (aka swyx)✨ | AIsoftware quality+4 | Shawn Wang | Latent Space PodcastAI Engineer Conference Series+2 | — | AIsoftware quality+4 | mailtrap.io | 1h 28m 43s | |
| 4/1/26 | ![]() HTMX Creator Carson Gross on Comp Sci's Evolution✨ | HTMXComputer Science education+4 | Carson Gross | Montana State UniversityHTMX+4 | — | HTMXComputer Science+5 | mailtrap.io | 1h 27m 43s | |
| 2/17/26 | ![]() How Mitchell Hashimoto Builds Ghostty✨ | terminal emulatornative GUI development+4 | Mitchell Hashimoto | HashicorpGhostty+5 | — | GhosttyMitchell Hashimoto+5 | mailtrap.io | 1h 03m 49s | |
| 1/10/26 | ![]() Gleam's Design and Compiler - with creator Louis Pilfold✨ | Gleam programming languagecompiler design+5 | Louis Pilfold | Gleam LanguageErlang Language+5 | — | Gleamcompiler+6 | — | 1h 11m 13s | |
| 12/21/25 | ![]() Metaprogramming Your IDE in Lean 4 with Harry Goldstein✨ | metaprogrammingLean 4+4 | Harry Goldstein | Software UnscriptedHypothesis Property-Based Testing+4 | — | Lean 4metaprogramming+4 | — | 41m 18s | |
| 11/15/25 | ![]() Jonathan Blow on Programming Language Design✨ | programming language designgame development+4 | Jonathan Blow | BraidThe Witness+7 | — | programming languagesgame development+6 | — | 1h 41m 42s | |
| 10/9/25 | ![]() Zig Creator Andrew Kelley✨ | Zig programming languagesoftware development+3 | Andrew Kelley | Zig"What Color is Your Function?"+2 | — | ZigAndrew Kelley+4 | — | 1h 49m 14s | |
| 9/20/25 | ![]() Securing Evolving Software with Noah Hall✨ | software securityvulnerabilities+3 | Noah Hall | XZ UtilsGitHub+3 | — | securityvulnerabilities+5 | — | 59m 50s | |
| 9/1/25 | ![]() Andreas Kling on Ladybird Browser, SerenityOS, and Powerlifting✨ | web browsersoperating systems+3 | Andreas Kling | Ladybird BrowserSerenityOS+2 | — | Ladybird BrowserSerenityOS+3 | — | 1h 20m 08s | |
| 7/25/25 | ![]() GPU Programming and Language Design with Chris Lattner✨ | GPU programminglanguage design+5 | Chris Lattner | SwiftLLVM+7 | — | GPU programminglanguage design+8 | — | 1h 18m 49s | |
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| 7/4/25 | ![]() Broken AI Discourse with Steve Klabnik✨ | AI discourseRust programming+3 | Steve Klabnik | Y CombinatorPingCAP+1 | — | AI discourseRust+3 | — | 1h 19m 43s | |
| 6/1/25 | ![]() Language Design Deep Dive with Elixir Creator José Valim | Elixir creator José Valim goes into a very deep dive on language design with Richard, centered around some upcoming major design changes to the Roc programming language.- https://elixir-lang.org- https://roc-lang.org- Unison's algebraic effects: https://www.unison-lang.org/docs/fundamentals/abilities/- Koka's algebraic effects: https://koka-lang.github.io/koka/doc/book.html#why-effects- OCaml's algebraic effects: https://ocaml.org/manual/5.3/effects.html Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 1/27/25 | ![]() From Scala to Roc with Monica McGuigan | Monica McGuigan, a Scala programmer at JP Morgan, talks with Richard about her experiences learning Roc with a Scala background. They get into topics like how language design affects beginners and experts, what parts of functional programming are easier and harder to learn than others, and how language designers inform their design decisions.Support Software Unscripted on Patreon: https://patreon.com/SoftwareUnscriptedMonica's chapter on JSON decoders: https://github.com/roc-lang/book-of-examples/pull/68Grapheme clusters: https://unicode.org/glossary/#extended_grapheme_clusterRoc's string operations: https://www.roc-lang.org/builtins/StrTalk: The Functional Purity Inference Plan: https://youtu.be/42TUAKhzlRI?si=TwxYoqMgh0UXQLfn Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 1/5/25 | ![]() Testing in Production with Mike Bryzek | Mike Bryzek has been a technical cofounder of two very successful companies using some very unorthodox technical strategies that have worked out very well for him and his teams! These include testing in production, spending the first few months of a brand-new company's life investing in automation and tooling before shipping a product, and microservices - but not done in the way I've usually heard them described.Support Software Unscripted on Patreon: https://patreon.com/SoftwareUnscripted Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 12/16/24 | ![]() Building Video Editing Software with Andrew Lisowski | Richard talks with Andrew Lisowski, a Senior Engineer at Descript - which makes audio and video editing software that has been used to edit this very podcast! They talk about some of the surprising challenges of dealing with video editing compared to audio alone, the economics of niche podcasts and programming conferences, and the evolution of Web browsers!Support Software Unscripted on Patreon: https://patreon.com/SoftwareUnscriptedDescript: https://www.descript.comAndrew Lisowski: https://www.hipstersmoothie.comdevtools.fm episode that was on HN frontpage: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41301639Zencastr: https://zencastr.com/?via=richard-feldmanForced Aligners: https://github.com/MahmoudAshraf97/ctc-forced-alignerGentle Aligner: https://github.com/lowerquality/gentle Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 11/17/24 | ![]() The EYG Language with Peter Saxton | Richard talks with Peter Saxton, creator of the EYG programming language, about the problems Peter aims to solve with EYG, and some of the unique design decisions he's made with it. A type-safe eval() operation even comes up in the discussion!Support Software Unscripted on Patreon: https://patreon.com/SoftwareUnscriptedEYG: https://eyg.runUnison: https://unison-lang.orgRoc: https://roc-lang.org Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 10/16/24 | ![]() AI in Programming Education with Will Sentance | Richard talks with Will Sentance, the teacher of the Hard Parts series and the founder and CEO of CodeSmith, which is a Software Engineering and AI immersive education program. They talk about how AI is intersecting with modern programming education, what's considered "fundamentals" these days, and how Will thinks about teaching object-oriented and functional programming.Support Software Unscripted on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SoftwareUnscriptedJavaScript: The Hard Parts: https://frontendmasters.com/courses/javascript-hard-parts-v2/AI for Software Engineers: https://frontendmasters.com/workshops/engineering-and-ai/CodeSmith: https://www.codesmith.io/Richard's courses: https://frontendmasters.com/teachers/richard-feldman/#courses Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 9/26/24 | ![]() Software for Elite Athletes with Kyle Boddy | Richard talks with Kyle Boddy about the biomechanical and data analysis software Kyle wrote—and continues to write—as the founder and CTO of Driveline Baseball, a data-driven player development company that has landed numerous players in Major League Baseball, including multiple Most Valuable Players and 2024's number one draft pick. They talk about Kyle's background in PHP and the C++ he wrote to coordinate budget high-speed cameras back when Driveline was a one-programmer garage shop, up through today where large language models have become an integral part of the development team's daily work.Driveline Baseball: https://www.drivelinebaseball.com/Washington Post article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/10/op-moneyballai/Documentary about Driveline: https://youtu.be/K5Dnshu7atUPhind AI: https://www.phind.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 8/30/24 | ![]() Mojo with Chris Lattner | For the 100th episode of Software Unscripted, Richard talks with Chris Lattner, creator of Swift, the Clang C++ compiler, LLVM, and now the Mojo programming language, about Mojo, Roc, API design, compiler optimizations, and language design!"Swift for C++ Practitioners" by Doug Gregor - https://www.douggregor.net/posts/swift-for-cxx-practitioners-value-types/Mojo - https://www.modular.com/mojoModular Computing - https://www.modular.comRoc - https://roc-lang.orgLLVM - https://llvm.orgClang - https://clang.llvm.orgSwift - https://www.swift.orgCUDA - https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-zoneSIMD - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_instructionmultipledatacmov instruction - https://github.com/marcin-osowski/cmov Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 8/21/24 | ![]() Tooling-Aware Language Design with Eli Dowling | Richard talks with Eli Dowling about his contributions to the Roc programming language, as well as the intersection of language design and editor tooling, parsers that recover from errors, tree-sitter, going beyond the language server protocol, and the downsides of macros.Perceus paper - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2020/11/perceus-tr-v1.pdfThe Koka Programming Language - https://koka-lang.github.io"The Quicksort Talk" (Outperforming Imperative with Pure Functional Languages) - https://youtu.be/vzfy4EKwG_YTree-Sitter - https://tree-sitter.github.ioNeovim Editor - https://neovim.ioHelix Editor - https://helix-editor.comZed Editor - https://zed.devLanguage Server Protocol (LSP) - https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocolHygienic Macros - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygienic_macroRust Macros - https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch19-06-macros.html Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 8/11/24 | ![]() The CrowdStrike Incident with Kelly Shortridge | Richard talks with Kelly Shortridge about the CrowdStrike Incident that caused many computers worldwide to get stuck in a boot loop on July 19, 2024.A video version of this episode is available on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzjaZssBEiI or ad-free to our wonderful Patreon supporters! https://www.patreon.com/posts/109888395The incident: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_CrowdStrike_incidentKelly Shortridge: https://www.kellyshortridge.comKelly's book: https://securitychaoseng.comHillel Wayne's interviews with traditional engineers who have also been software engineers: https://www.hillelwayne.com/talks/crossover-projectGell-Mann amnesia effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 7/18/24 | ![]() Distributed Functions with Jonathan Magen | Richard talks with distributed systems scientist Jonathen Magen about functional programming in distributed systems, including languages like Gleam, Elixir, Ballerina, and Jolie. They also talk about type inference, big data, and a few other topics.Jonathan Magen: https://yonkeltron.com or https://jawns.club/@yonkeltronProgramming languages mentioned:https://ballerina.iohttps://www.jolie-lang.orghttps://gleam.runhttps://elixir-lang.orgRichard's talk: Why Static Typing Came Back - https://youtu.be/Tml94je2edk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 7/12/24 | ![]() Undo-Redo and Persistent State with Tom Ballinger | Richard talks with Tom Ballinger about undo and redo in the context of REPLs and running effects, stateful systems in general, hot code loading, and database query planning. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 6/24/24 | ![]() Smalltalk's Past, Present, and Future with Juan Vuletich | Richard talks with Juan Vuletich, creator of Cuis Smalltalk, about the past, present and future of Smalltalk - including quite a bit of interesting history and programming philosophy! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
| 6/16/24 | ![]() From Game Dev to Web Dev | Richard talks with Wolfgang Schuster about his experiences first as a professional game developer, and then later as a professional Web developer. Theytalk about the differences in programming practices he's seen between the two, including things like automated testing, dependency management, and releases. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | — | ||||||
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