Kodsnack in English

Recorded on-stage at Øredev 2024, Fredrik talks to Corin Ism about the power of developers to change the world for the better. Much of what we do is building virtual worlds - virtual nations if you will - and creating and enforcing their rules and power structures. We should take that power and responsibility seriously and think about what we build. If you think about the interfaces you build as e...

Fredrik talks to Pedro Abreu about the magical world of type theory. What is it, and why is it useful to know about and be inspired by? Pedro gives us some background on type theory, and then we talk about how type theory can provide new ways of reasoning about programs, and tools beyond tests to verify program correctness. This doesn’t mean that all languages should strive for the nirvana o...

Fredrik talks to Balint Erdi about the web framework Ember . Where did Ember come from, what stands out about it today, how do new features get into the framework, and how is development being made more sustainable? Plus: Balint’s experiences organizing Emberfest , and quite a bit of appreciation for the Ruby and Ember communities in general. The episode is sponsored by Cursed code - a half-...

Fredrik talks to Evan Czaplicki , creator of Elm about figuring out a good path for yourself. What do you do when you have a job which seems like it would be your dream job, but it turns out to be the wrong thing for you? And how do you escape from that? You can’t put the success of something you build before your own personal and mental health, no matter how right the decision may be for th...

Fredrik talks to Christian Clausen about the many facets of simplicity. The cloud and serverless was supposed to be simpler than running your own hardware, but you easily get stuck trying to select the right message bus, needing to know the intricacies of your chosen cloud provider infrastructure, and the like. You end up building your software around the infrastructure you’ve ended up with...

Fredrik talks to Jack Cheng - author and creator of the iPhone note capture app Bebop . Jack describes where Bebop came from and how he built it, and how and why Copilot and other AI tools became integral parts of the workflow. Being aware of the maintenance cost of each decision, keeping things focused, avoiding building yourself into a bloated corner - sometimes even deciding certain things don&...

Fredrik paid a visit to Hogia and got the opportunity to talk to Woody Zuill and Martin Lassbo about mob programming, innovation, and keeping an open and curious mind. Mob programming is still new. Every time you say “that can’t work”, you tend to be proven wrong eventually. Try it, for a year or two. You can’t evaluate things after trying it for just an hour or two, some t...

Fredrik is again joined by Malin Sundberg and Kai Dombrowski for a review of attending this year’s WWDC, working with “AI”, and more. The experience of attending - a lot about the great community. News from the conference - a Snow leopard year, in a good way. Lots of nice fixes and additions - Swiftui, fun widgets, and of course lots of question marks around whatever Apple intell...

Fredrik is joined by Malin Sundberg and Kai Dombrowski for a quick chat about the Deep dish Swift conference, the past and present of Mercury weather , their next app project, and what might happen at Apple’s WWDC in June. The first big topic is the developer conference Deep dish Swift . Malin and Kai not only participated in the conference itself, but also created the Slices podcast , inter...

Fredrik is joined by Emil Privér and Leandro Ostera for a discussion of the OCaml ecosystem, and making it Saas-ready by building Riot . First of all: OCaml. What is the thing with the language, and how you might get into it coming from other languages? The OCaml community is nice, interested in getting new people in, and pragmatic. And it has a nice mix of research and industry as well. Then, Lea...

Fredrik is joined by Eric Normand for a discussion of debugging your ideas through domain modeling, using Eric’s concept of lenses to find more good questions to ask. Eric is writing a book about domain modeling and has developed the concept of lenses - ways to look at various aspects of your domain, model, and code in order to better consider various solutions and questions. Why? Because de...

Fredrik has Matt Topol and Lars Wikman over for a deep and wide chat about Apache Arrow and many, many topics in the orbit of the language-independent columnar memory format for flat and hierarchical data. What does that even mean? What is the point? And why does Arrow only feel more and more interesting and useful the more you think about deeply integrating it into your systems? Feeding data to s...

Recorded on-stage at Øredev 2023 just after her keynote , Fredrik chats to Diana Larsen about leadership and building good teams. How to get into leaderhip? Often it’s more about picking up expectations than getting a formal onboarding Learning to not do things yourself when you start leading - everything you do is one less thing the team learns to do for itself Leadership roles are on diffe...

Recorded on-stage at Øredev 2023 just after his keynote , Fredrik chats to Cyrus Clarke about plants, imagining things, exploring, and building. And not presenting speculative things as possible here right now. Daring to not be useful right now. How to bridge the gap between theory and academia on one side and practice and industry wanting to build things right now? By example. Do our short time s...

Recorded on-stage at Øredev 2023 just after her keynote , Fredrik chats to Na’Tosha Bard about picking good building blocks, getting products done, and code outliving you. Software outlives you. How early is it meaningful to consider that fact? Will we get better at handling long-lived software? Make tradeoffs with open eyes. Na’Tosha has worked on many different levels of hardware and...

Recorded on-stage at Øredev 2023 just after her keynote , Fredrik chats to Galit Ariel about being inspired by the right science fiction, uninspired futures, and much more. It’s all thanks to Star Trek - a vision of the future which is actually positive and thoughtful What science fiction can teach us about what we think of as the other Uninspired future building - is it that things become s...

Recorded on-stage at Øredev 2023 just after her keynote , Fredrik chats to Monika Bielskyte about finding, building, and approaching better visions for the future. We discuss things such as: Disabilities for innovation and better design More inclusion in design for people on edges improves the world for precisely everyone Why does a concept like protopia feel so new? Why have we been stuck thinkin...

Recorded at Øredev 2022, Fredrik chats with Natalia Tepluhina about perhaps the most complicated part of frontend development: state management. Why is state management so tricky, and what can we do about it? Natalia tells a fascinating story of a beautiful abomination of state management libraries in a single application. Don’t be the bottleneck. Some people enjoy it, but it doesn’t d...

Fredrik chats with Daniel Eke about creative visual coding, learning through side projects, and a lot more. The discussion revolves around Daniel’s apps: the visualizer Ferromagnetic , polygon drawing tool Handstract , and photo polygonizer Centroid . Code lets you create art which is interactive and immersive in a way many other art forms can’t. Develop your side projects so that you...

Recorded at the Øredev 2022 developer conference, Fredrik chats with Michele Riva about writing a full-text search engine, maintaining 8% of all Node modules, going to one conference per week, refactoring, the value of a good algorithm, and a lot more. Michele highly recommends writing a full-text search engine. He created Lyra - later renamed Orama, and encourages writing your own in order to dem...

Recorded at the Øredev 2022 developer conference, Fredrik chats with Cliff Hazell about connecting the whole organization as it grows, priorities, and more. Don’t just sit around in your room and think about horses. Talking across silos and departments, all without overloading everyone with meetings? Learn to surf rather than trying to control the ocean. Make good changes and enable flexibil...

Recorded at the Øredev 2022 developer conference, Fredrik chats with Aino Vonge Corry about patterns and their effects on our lives. Aino works with both academia and industry, regularly switching between the two, and talks about what each can and wants to learn from the other. We also discuss Aino’s own research, and how programming languages and patterns influence each other. We talk about...

Recorded at the Øredev 2022 developer conference, Fredrik chats with Denis Radin about React , Webgpu , standards development, coding standards, and a lot more. We start way back, with early React development - while React was still in beta, on amazingly bad hardware. A project where focus was actually on optimization and education instead of throwing hardware at solving the performance problem. W...

Fredrik talks to Kai Dombrowski and Malin Sundberg of Triple glazed studios about their new weather app Mercury weather . Malin and Kai tell us how the app went from idea to release in a few short months, and why they will try not to pick the summer months the next time they start a new app. What was the release like, what was it like to be mentioned by John Gruber , and how did that change the bu...

Fredrik chats with Chris Ferdinandi about vanilla Javascript, the pros and cons of libraries, the state of web components, and a lot more. Chris tells us about how and why he became the vanilla Javascript guy, and why he dislikes vanilla-js.com. We talk about why we as web developers pick up so many libraries, and why we often seem to use really large tools on really small problems. We wonder if d...