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.
#4475: Where GeoJSON Breaks and KMZ Still Wins
Why your browser freezes on a 1.5GB GeoJSON and when KMZ is actually the better choice.
#4471: What's Actually Behind the API Endpoint?
How OpenAI, Stripe, and Netflix actually manage APIs at millions of requests per second.
#4469: The Missing Protocol for AI Software Development
No one has built a software development protocol designed for AI agents. Here's what that would require.
#4467: How Zoxide's Decay Algorithm Works
The math behind how zoxide remembers and forgets your directory habits with exponential precision.
#4466: Free Your Shopping Cart: Dot Cart Explained
A new open file format lets you export, share, and compare shopping carts across any vendor.
#4464: Building a $120 Porch Monitor for Construction Noise
Daniel built a weatherproof sensor system to track construction noise and dust while he's away for the summer.
#4463: 3D File Formats: What Survives Conversion
A practical tour of the 3D format landscape organized by what you're actually trying to build.
#4462: How AI Imagines Your Skeleton
From image to fully rigged 3D model — the six computational stages that turn photos into animated characters.
#4460: Why Your Container Has 233 Hidden Chrome Processes
Your container's PID 1 probably isn't reaping children. Here's why that quietly eats your RAM.
#4459: Fixed Egress IP From Anywhere: Is IP Allowlisting Dead?
How to get a static IP from anywhere for admin access — and whether IP allowlisting still makes sense in 2026.
#4458: How Headroom Compresses Agent Context Without Breaking Outputs
A deep dive into Headroom's content-aware compression pipeline that promises 20-95% token savings without changing agent answers.
#4457: OpenViking: A Filesystem for AI Agent Memory
OpenViking unifies memory, RAG, and skills into a browsable filesystem for AI agents — no vector database abstraction needed.
#4456: Inside the Podcast Pipeline: How 15 Weekly Episodes Get Made
From prompt to published episode — a full walkthrough of the automated production system running 15 shows weekly.
#4455: Borrowing a GPU Over Your Home Network
Can you use your desktop's AMD GPU from a laptop as if it were local? We explore the real options.
#4453: Workers vs Workflows: Recovering From SSD Failure
When your VPS SSD dies at 3AM, how do you know what broke? A practical guide to self-hosted worker management.
#4452: YouTube Backup Pipeline: RSS + yt-dlp + Wasabi
Build a free, reliable pipeline to auto-download and backup YouTube videos using RSS feeds, yt-dlp, and cloud storage.
#4451: Python 3.14: Deferred Annotations, t-Strings & Free-Threaded Mode
Deferred annotations, t-strings, subinterpreters, and free-threaded mode — what actually changed in Python 3.14.
#4450: Intercepting Claude Code: The Proxy Ecosystem
How middleware proxies intercept, reroute, and transform AI tool traffic — and what it means for users.
#4449: Blur Before You Publish: Image Redaction Tools
How to automatically find and blur QR codes, credit cards, and sensitive text in photos before publishing.
#4448: The MK Claude Project: AI That Writes Political Manifestos
One citizen built a multi-agent AI to research, stress-test, and synthesize policy positions. The result? A forkable manifesto.