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**Fragmented – AI Developer Podcast**

Fragmented is an AI developer podcast for engineers who want to go beyond vibe coding and ship real software.

We cover AI-assisted development the way working engineers actually use it: prompting strategies, code review, testing, debugging, workflows, and building production-grade software with AI tools. No hype. No “I shipped a SaaS in a weekend” stories. Just tactics that work.

Hosted by Kaushik Gopal and Iury Souza — software engineers using AI daily to build and ship real products.

From vibe coding to software engineering — one episode at a time. Our goal: help you use AI to become a better engineer, not be replaced by one.

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190: The Privacy of *********** Feb 24, 2020

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In this episode, Donn and KG talk about the post Tim Bray recently wrote - Why Google did Android. They then touch on Chrome becoming a monopoly and tips on what folks can do to be a little more privacy conscious on the web.

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Google Chromium and Ad-blocking

Misc

New Microsoft Edge is based on Chromium
Download Firefox
Firefox Multi-Account Containers add-on + Temporary Containers for the privacy conscious.

Follow up from a previous episode:

Svelte : framework that spawned from New York Times. Thanks Midhun.

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@donnfelker and donnfelker (on Instagram)
@kaushikgopal or blog.kaush.co

189: The 2038 Problem Feb 17, 2020

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We've all heard of the Y2K problem, but there's also a similar coming up this 2038 for us programmers. In this episode we dive into the 2038 problem (... after of course talking about our opinions on new year resolutions).

Get 1% better every day folks... Listen here:

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@donnfelker and donnfelker (on Instagram)
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188: Containerized applications with Docker Feb 03, 2020

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In this episode KG and Donn talk about KG's recent jaunt with Docker. In the attempt to setup continuous deployment for his blog, KG explains his simple requirement and how it lands up requiring some basic Docker. Donn then closes it out with some interesting in-depth knowledge on how to use Docker

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187: Coroutines with Manuel Vivo & Sean McQuillan Jan 21, 2020

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It finally happens! KG and Donn talk about Coroutines with two experts at Google Manuel & Sean. We've waited quite sometime on Fragmented to discuss this topic. We wanted to make sure Coroutines was mature enough to be compared with the contenders. Listen to find out more!

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Manuel Vivo @objcode
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186: Announcement 2020 Jan 06, 2020

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In this episode, Donn and Kaushik talk about some changes coming down the pipe for the podcast and what it means in the long run.

Want to know what the changes are? Well, you're going to have to listen to the show... click play and listen away.

Once again, thank you all for joining us on this journey, it's been a fun and wild one.

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@kaushikgopal and kaushikgopal (on Instagram)

185: Year End Decompress Dec 16, 2019

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In this decompress episode, Donn and KG talk about how their 2019 went. It goes from Dagger talk to Kotlin talk to Kotlin Conf talk. Give it a listen and enjoy!

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184: Should I use a BaseActivity in my Android apps? Dec 02, 2019

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In this episode, Kaushik tries to talk through this question.

Thanks to friends of the show Jeroen, Yigit and a bunch of others who ran through some ideas on this one.

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183: The Testing Paradox Nov 25, 2019

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How do you know what to test when you don't even know how to write the code that you need to test? This is a paradox that many developers find themselves in daily.

In this episode Donn talks about his strategy for dealing with unknowns in programming, namely around testing and how to figure out how to write tests for new code that might be difficult, unfamiliar or even legacy code.

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182: Where do I put DB objects in a modularized Android app? Nov 18, 2019

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App Modularization has plenty of benefits and a lot of Android devs today are starting to modularize their android app.

A common problem though that most folks will start to run into is - how do you manage your database objects in these modules? do you create a single module with all your database dependencies (modularize by layer), do you do the right thing and modularize by feature so each module has it's own database file etc.?

In this episode Kaushik grapples with that question and tries to come up with an answer.

Shownotes

Modularization (KG's favorite resources)

Google IO 19 : Build a modular Android app architecture
Jeroen Mols's posts : Modularization - Why you should care
Joe Birch's posts : Modularizing Android Appications
Ep 117 : Multi Module Builds in Gradle
Karan Trehan's post : Writing a modular project on Android

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181: In Functional Programming how to do IO and database operations Nov 13, 2019

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In the world of Functional programming where pure functions don't encourage side-effects, how does on actually do any IO?

So in this brave new world where everyone is adopting more FP principles, do we just stop doing database operations? Listen to this episode to find out.

Functional Programming basics

Ep 83 : Learning the basics of functional programing with Anup Cowkur
Ep 120 : Functional Programming with Kotlin Arrow team
Ep 121 : Functional Programming with Kotlin Arrow team (Part 2)

Unidirectional State Flow

Ep 148 and Ep 151
KG's speakerdeck slide
KG's Movie search apps Android app + iOS app

Resources for FP/IO contention

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