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The Greatest Software Engineers of All Time Feb 10, 2025

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timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
01:20 - History Of Programming
04:08 - Charles Babbage
15:51 - Ada Lovelace
26:45 - John von Neumann
36:52 - Alan Turing
46:58 - Grace Hopper
1:00:21 - Q&A

Creator of Ghostty talks Zig over Go Jan 12, 2025

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Thanks to the sponsor for today's video - Graphite!
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0:00 - Intro
0:52 - CTO to Open Source
7:00 - Graphite Ad
8:10 - Future Of Ghostty
21:30 - How It Started
25:29 - Zig vs Rust
29:53 - Go’s Place In The Stack
34:28 - Managing Open Source
42:42 - Motivation
45:49 - AI
52:21 - Live Q&A
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Jose Valim: Creator of Elixir Dec 17, 2024

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Ryan Dahl: Creator of Node & Deno talks Deno 2.0 Nov 12, 2024

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Today we had Ryan Dahl on the podcast and talk about the history of Node, Deno and so much more. Really hope you enjoy this talk with him! Thanks everyone.

Big thanks to the sponsor of today's episode: Code Rabbit https://coderabbit.ai/.

Yacine: How a Rejected Side Project Turned into a Job At X Oct 30, 2024

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We talk about how to psyop yourself into loving work, working out and respecting your users. I hope you enjoy the episode!

The Yapper Himself: https://x.com/yacineMTB

Taylor Otwell: Laravel, PHP, OSS & VC Oct 17, 2024

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Today we talk with Taylor Otwell, the creator of Laravel. We start at Laravel's humble beginnings and move all the way to the exciting new Series A raise with Accel and all that it is enabling Laravel to do today!

Sponsor for the Show: Infinite Red

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Taylor's X: https://x.com/taylorotwell

Laravel: https://laravel.com/

DHH: On Competency, Coding and Children Sep 17, 2024

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DHH is the Creator of Ruby on Rails, Co-owner & CTO of 37signals (Basecamp & HEY), NYT best-selling author, and Le Mans 24h class-winner.

X: https://x.com/dhh

Personal Site: https://dhh.dk/

Ginger Bill: Creator of Odin (a better C) Sep 17, 2024

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Ginger Bill, Creator of the Odin Language. I (TJ) think it's a better C in a lot of ways. Very fun language to write. You should check it out!

X: https://x.com/TheGingerBill

YouTube: https://youtube.com/gingergames

Chris Lattner: Creator of LLVM, Swift, and Mojo Sep 17, 2024

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Chris Lattner gives history on creating LLVM, Swift and Mojo. As well as lessons learned along the way. You'll definitely learn a few things about how crazy PhD projects can accidentally change the world in this one!

X: https://x.com/clattner_llvm

Mojo: https://www.modular.com

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