Development
Building software: programming, developer tools, APIs, deployment and DevOps, and building with AI (agents, MCP servers, RAG, AI coding tools). An extra channel alongside an episode's main one, so AI engineering episodes sit in both.
#4814: The Manager Agent Nobody Sees
How supervisor agents orchestrate AI pipelines without generating content—and the three ways they fail.
#4809: Can a Podcast Train Itself?
Can a podcast become a self-developing project? We explore RAG vs. fine-tuning for lore memory.
#4800: The CLI That Powers Half the Internet's Video
How a French programmer's side project became the invisible engine behind YouTube, VLC, and OBS.
#4791: When AI Critiques Our Terminology
Can AI spot conceptual sloppiness in how we describe it? A podcast moment reveals something unexpected.
#4786: Markdown vs Vectors for Agent Memory
Why coding agents need two kinds of memory — and why mixing them creates a sync nightmare.
#4783: Bonding Layer Showdown: Speedify vs Self-Hosted
Packet-level bonding for travel routers: Speedify's black box vs. self-hosted control. Which wins for a technically capable user?
#4781: Bonding Internet Lines with OpenMPTCProuter
One developer, no funding, and the only open-source bonding router that actually works. Here's how.
#4780: Bonding Internet Connections with OpenMPTCProuter
How to bond multiple connections at the packet level using the only serious open-source option.
#4778: SSH MCP and Tailscale: Docker Migration Guide
How to configure Tailscale for Docker containers when migrating from public IPs to tailnet addresses.
#4760: Context Window Management: Cutoff vs. Compaction
Trailing cutoff or auto-compaction? How to manage Claude Code's context window without losing critical information.
#4759: API Keys vs OAuth: When Simplicity Becomes a Security Trap
API keys are simple but leak identity, scope, and auditability. Here's when they work and when they don't.
#4758: Agent Credentials: Beyond the Password Manager
Why OS keychains fail for AI agents — and what the broker model does instead.
#4756: Eliminating the Secret: Workload Identity Without Credentials
How Google Cloud, AWS, Azure, and Kubernetes are moving from long-lived keys to ephemeral, platform-issued tokens.
#4755: Why OAuth Makes You Re-Authorize Apps
Understanding delegated authority: why OAuth's consent flow is a feature, not a bug.
#4754: Why Code Authentication Needs So Many Keys
API keys, OAuth tokens, service accounts — why can't one authenticator rule them all? The answer is trust topology.
#4753: Cookies as AI Credentials: The Auth Problem
How to get browser cookies into an AI agent's hands — and why they expire so fast.
#4752: How AI Agents Map Websites to Build Stable Plugins
An AI agent explores DOM and network layers to build self-healing browser plugins.
#4751: AI Agents vs Anti-Bot Systems
Why AI agents get blocked by anti-bot systems and what actually works to get through.
#4750: Reverse-Engineering Hidden Web APIs
How to find undocumented APIs in your browser's network tab and hand them to AI agents.
#4741: Hardware Tokens That Never Leave the Port
Why developers should consider keeping a hardware security token permanently plugged in — and which ones survive the abuse.