Category: podcast

How do past disasters look with the benefit of experience? Once upon a time I worked with a software company that made a strategic decision to extend the Objective-C compiler, ultimately leading to its downfall. In this episode, Isaac and I discuss the situation and the potential avenues I would persue if I encountered the situation today.

If you've ever reminisced about past disasters, this is the episode for you!

Watch on YouTube or listen to it at Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favorite podcast app, and let us know if you have ever been involved in a rewrite. We would love to have you on the show to discuss your experience!

Philosophical questions like "what is time" are different for developers. For developers, it is a critical engineering question around time zones and representation. A question with many right answers! A question that can cause unlimited pain if you have multiple right answers in your system.

What is time? What is money? If you've ever wondered how expensive these questions can be to answer, this is the episode for you!

Watch on YouTube or listen to it at Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favorite podcast app, and let us know if you have ever been involved in a rewrite. We would love to have you on the show to discuss your experience!

Isaac and I argue that Rewrites aren't an alternative because they almost never succeed. But if you follow our advice on Iterative Replacement, will you be trapped in legacy frameworks? Will you be stuck facing the future with one hand tied behind your back?

If you've ever wanted to do a rewrite so that you can leapfrog technology, this is the episode for you!

Watch on YouTube or listen to it at Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favorite podcast app, and let us know if you have ever been involved in a rewrite. We would love to have you on the show to discuss your experience!

As a consultant, how do you handle a potential client's risky software setup? In this episode we detangle red flags from opportunities; and work through the legal and ethical need to do more than just do what the client asks. We cover the questions and discussions consultants need to protect themselves, their business, and their customers.

If you've ever wondered if you can, or should, help a client with a risky setup, this is the episode for you!

Watch on YouTube or listen to it at Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favorite podcast app, and let us know if you have ever been involved in a rewrite. We would love to have you on the show to discuss your experience!

Are communication gaps tech debt? Do they cause tech debt? Can they be worse than tech debt? Austen Tucker joins us this week to ponder communication's role in building software.

If you've ever wasted weeks writing great code that never got used, this is the episode for you!

Watch on YouTube or listen to it at Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favorite podcast app, and let us know if you have ever been involved in a rewrite. We would love to have you on the show to discuss your experience!

Can changing jobs be a rewrite on your career? In this episode we work through the similarities and differences and see if changing jobs is a Rewrite, and if our mantra of Never Rewrite still holds.

If you've ever thought about getting a new job because you hate your current one, this is the episode for you!

Watch on YouTube or listen to it at Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favorite podcast app, and let us know if you have ever been involved in a rewrite. We would love to have you on the show to discuss your experience!

Giving constructive feedback on software is difficult. You need to approach it with empathy for past developers, context on the problem, and separation between the code and the developers who wrote it.

If you've ever given feedback that was not only ignored, but made the developers mad, this is the episode for you!

Watch on YouTube or listen to it at Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favorite podcast app, and let us know if you have ever been involved in a rewrite. We would love to have you on the show to discuss your experience!

Tech debt is a nebulous concept to anyone who hasn't worked as a developer. Yes, tech debt makes things harder and slower, but why? What is it like? In this episode Isaac and I offer a useful analogy: Tech Debt is like construction on an old house.

If you've ever struggled to explain why tech debt is so difficult and unpredictable, this is the episode for you!

Watch on YouTube or listen to it at Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favorite podcast app, and let us know if you have ever been involved in a rewrite. We would love to have you on the show to discuss your experience!

Are bad practices around testing and releasing cultural or technical? "Bad" changes as a company grows and matures, and what was bad for a startup may not be bad for more established companies. Similarly, holding on to startup practices to long can have a devistating impact on accountability.

If you've ever wondered why your company can't kick bad habits, this is the episode for you!

Watch on YouTube or listen to it at Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favorite podcast app, and let us know if you have ever been involved in a rewrite. We would love to have you on the show to discuss your experience!

Start small, get feedback, and keep going! This week, Day Martin, founder of Swayday, shares her company's iterative journey. Swayday began with motion games aimed at causal gamers and has iterated to their current mission of using motion games to improve educational outcomes for children with ADHD.

If you've ever wondered what it is like to iterate as an entreprenuer, this is the episode for you!

Show Notes
Swayday: https://swayday.com/
Times Tables: AR Space Game: https://apps.apple.com/az/app/times-tables-ar-space-game/id6743813232

Watch on YouTube or listen to it at Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or your favorite podcast app, and let us know if you have ever been involved in a rewrite. We would love to have you on the show to discuss your experience!