YAGNI

Retiring from programming w/ Justin Searls

Matt just got back from Rails World, where DHH's keynote left a lot of people thinking Rails was over. Justin Searls of Breaking Change, who gave his own retirement talk

Irrefutable proof w/ Thorsten Ball

Thorsten Ball, who works on Amp, doesn't like the term "software factory." He'd rather be in a workshop, a garden or a "primordial soup" of throwaway tools. He and Matt t

Camping chair development w/ John Nunemaker

John Nunemaker runs Fireside, Flipper and Box Out. He used to think of himself as a craftsman, until last December, when he found out that what he really loves is shippin

LLM junk food w/ Justin Duke

Justin Duke, who runs Buttondown, calls himself a "radical LLM centrist." About two-thirds of Buttondown's merged code comes from LLMs, but he still pushes back on the mo

Infinite plausible PRs w/ Nate Berkopec

Back in February, Nate said that coding workflows built around adding more human-in-the-loop steps were a dead end, and that the end state is the "dark factory," where hu

What would you say...you do here?

Software used to be something you sat down and wrote. Line by line.  Decision by decision. The work lived in the hands of the person at the keyboard. That world doesn’t

Programming Books w/ Aaron Francis

Matt and Aaron talk about programming books and try to answer the question "do we need them?" This season of YAGNI was made possible by our friends at Flipper Cloud - Ar

Redis w/ Nate Berkopec

Matt and Nate talk about Redis and try to answer the question "do we need it?" This season of YAGNI was made possible by our friends at Flipper Cloud - Are big launches

Service Objects w/ Jason Swett

Matt and Jason talk about Service Objects and try to answer the question "do we need them?" This season of YAGNI was made possible by our friends at Flipper Cloud - Are

Testing w/ Josh Pigford

Matt and Josh talk about automated testing and try to answer the question "do we need them?" This season of YAGNI was made possible by our friends at Flipper Cloud - Are

GraphQL w/ Trevor Turk (Bonus: VCR)

Matt and Trevor talk about GraphQL and try to answer the question "do we need it?" (Bonus hot takes on VCR snapshot testing) This season of YAGNI was made possible by ou

Friday Deploys w/ Charity Majors

Matt and Charity talk about Friday Deploys and try to answer the question "do we need them?" This season of YAGNI was made possible by our friends at Flipper Cloud - Are

Do we still need this podcast?

RSpec w/ Justin Searls

Justin Searls on Twitter Matt Swanson on Twitter Arrows Test Double Justin's "What do you like about RSpec" thread (2016) Dan North BDD Nate Berkopec "Reading rspec doc

Small user stories w/ Dave Copeland

Dave Copeland on Twitter Matt Swanson on Twitter Arrows Mood Health Taylorism / Scientific management Google DORA Report "Agile" on TikTok The Joel Test “Think of how s

Staging servers w/ Justin Duke

Justin Duke on Twitter Matt Swanson on Twitter Arrows Buttondown Accidental AirBnB "test" notification The Pragmatic Programmer "SICP" book "We dont use a staging serve

Detailed commit messages w/ Chris Toomey

Chris Toomey on Twitter Matt Swanson on Twitter Arrows Sagewell Financial Write Good Commit Messages by Blaming Others The seven rules of a good git commit message Davi

WTF is YAGNI?

Everything has to start somewhere. Why not here?