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05/20/24 • 59 min
Today, we bring back a dear guest and friend of the podcast, ThePrimeagen! Now Ex-Netflix engineer who turned his full focus to content creation surrounding software engineering and tech.
In today's episode, we talk about his new Git course on boot.dev, where he shares motivations on why he decided to write a course on Git, how he incorporates it into his workflow and shares some hot takes regarding today's tech education landscape, his opinion on bootcamps, colleges, and what his ideal way of teaching computer science is.
To finish off, he shares some of his exciting new ventures, namely a coffee shop and a Doom game which you can play through twitch chat!
Learn back-end development - https://boot.dev
Listen on your favorite podcast player:
https://www.backendbanter.fm
ThePrimeagen's Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/c/theprimeagen
ThePrimeagen's other Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/@ThePrimeTimeagen
ThePrimeagen's Twitter: https://x.com/ThePrimeagen
Terminal Coffee Shop: https://www.terminal.shop/
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
00:27 Why teach about Git?
02:55 Was Prime taught Git?
04:50 add files individually or git add .
07:22 Hot take about git in school
10:27 What should you learn in school in the first place?
11:34 Where did school come from?
16:42 You can't become a software engineer in 3 months
19:45 Contents of Part 1 and what will Part 2 of the Git course be about
22:58 Rebase vs Merge and Prime's current workflow
24:22 Why you shouldn't merge
29:10 A lot of the times, people just don't know the tools
32:29 The advantage of rebase
34:03 Rewriting history criticism
36:30 Prime's terminal coffee shop
44:22 Doom in the terminal?
54:08 Is the bandwidth the problem with the Doom game?
55:27 Ideas for the controls for Doom
58:57 Where to find Prime
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#063 - I was fired for using HTMX
Backend Banter
07/22/24 • 63 min
In today’s episode, we bring Spiro Floropoulos, a senior developer and architect with over 20 years of experience. This episode is an unusual one, as Spiro recently got laid off due to a bizarre chain of events that involved HTMX, overworking, and technical debt.
But we’ll learn from this story, as we want to shed some light on how situations that Spiro described could be avoided, namely how the tech industry is obsessing over developer experience and why that’s detrimental, why abstractions should be teaching you the technology as opposed to just doing the work for you, why you should be able to train your junior devs and much more!
Learn back-end development - https://boot.dev
Listen on your favorite podcast player: https://www.backendbanter.fm
Spiro's X/Twitter: https://x.com/spirodonfl
Spiro's Website: https://spirofloropoulos.com/
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:35 Why are we having this conversation
01:33 How was HTMX involved in this?
03:38 Spiro's background
05:58 Why are we focusing so much on developer experience?
13:38 The Tech Industry as a whole is headed down the wrong path
16:17 Abstractions teaching you about the underlying technology rather than hiding it
18:47 What are the long-term consequences of unresolved technical debt?
26:46 There's things you can't blame frameworks for
28:27 We have to slow down
30:46 What happened after the introduction of HTMX into the project?
40:26 Hiring juniors is great, but you should have the resources to train them
47:00 The Technical Debt
50:32 The more complex the feature became, the bigger the struggle with HTMX
53:42 The reasons why Spiro was let go
57:10 Instead of Agile we should treat our programmers like adults
57:31 HTMX was instant and testing ability was better
01:01:21 Is Spiro looking for work?
01:02:00 Where to find Spiro
10/02/23 • 65 min
Theo Browne is a notorious tech YouTuber and streamer, CEO of Ping.gg, TypeScript advocate and creator of the t3 stack. In this episode Theo sheds some light on his background in Elixir, a functional programming language that runs on the Erlang VM, and why he made the switch to TypeScript while working at Twitch.
#029 - Write Laravel, not PHP (feat. Aaron Francis)
Backend Banter
11/27/23 • 58 min
Lane and Aaron Francis sit down to talk about Laravel and PHP, and why everyone who uses them tends to make a lot of money. There seems to be something to avoiding the technical hype cycle and just shipping web apps that people want to use.
Learn back-end development - https://boot.dev
Listen on your favorite podcast player: https://www.backendbanter.com
Aaron Francis' Twitter: https://twitter.com/aarondfrancis
Aaron Francis' YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@UCbixkBITOOa2XNviJLxMh2w
Aaron Francis' SQL Course: https://planetscale.com/learn/courses/mysql-for-developers/introduction/course-introduction
Learn to make Screencasts: Screencasting.com
#039 - Get promoted by being lazy feat. Dax Raad
Backend Banter
02/05/24 • 65 min
In this episode, Lane talks to Dax Raad, a well rounded engineer that is currently a developer for SST, a framework that helps people build Full-Stack applications on AWS with ease. Today, they talk about personal opinions on industry practices, scale, financial decisions, infrastructure mistakes, reflections on long-term company commitments and many more!
Learn back-end development - https://boot.dev
Listen on your favorite podcast player: https://www.backendbanter.fm
Dax's Twitter: https://twitter.com/thdxr
- (00:00) - Introduction
- (00:51) - Dax's Tweets and Personal Branding
- (01:31) - You have to learn to be yourself
- (02:56) - Intrusive thoughts
- (03:33) - When did Dax become active in the Tech Twitter scene
- (06:30) - What was the Zero Interest Rate Phenomenon (ZIRP) in the tech scene
- (09:33) - Should people choose fun early in their career?
- (12:22) - Lane's take on the expertise when abstracting
- (14:15) - SST's Philosophy in regards to abstractions
- (16:35) - Merging roles
- (19:28) - People don't want to care about the cloud
- (21:31) - Less stressed about work = better results
- (24:10) - Managers vs leaders
- (25:20) - Dax shares stories about managing vs leading
- (29:36) - Did Dax ever have users?
- (31:24) - Most Startups Fail
- (32:09) - Dax's reason for joining startups
- (33:25) - Staying at a company for decades
- (35:53) - Main downside of staying at an established company for a long time
- (36:34) - The World changes, so don't look at how already established companies do things
- (37:57) - Scale has a different meaning for different companies
- (40:07) - So much goes away when you have less people at the company
- (41:51) - Sometimes not saving money is a better option
- (43:35) - Moving off Stripe
- (46:54) - Rolling your own payment processor
- (49:05) - Which debate on Tech Twitter annoys Dax the most
- (50:52) - Stored Procedure debate
- (53:31) - What's a BIG mistake in the infrastructure space?
- (57:31) - Kubernetes
- (01:02:58) - What Dax misses from Google Cloud
- (01:03:19) - Is Sundar Pichai a bad CEO?
- (01:04:51) - Where to find Dax
08/26/24 • 72 min
Today we welcome Chuck Carpenter aka Charles The 3rd, co-host at Whiskey Web and Whatnot.
As two content creators in the tech scene, we discuss if and how celebrity developers and tech influencers are a good thing for the community, how we should be careful when choosing technologies based on influencers’ opinions, why so many people nowadays want to speedrun their whole career and how that could be self-sabotage, and a lot more!
Learn back-end development - https://boot.dev
Listen on your favorite podcast player: https://www.backendbanter.fm
Whiskey Web and Whatnot: https://whiskey.fm/
Charles' X/Twitter: https://x.com/charleswthe3rd
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:27 Does Charles listen to his own podcast episodes?
03:33 Are celebrity developers a good thing?
09:11 Podcasts are usually centered around a business
10:06 We are essentially entertainers
14:04 Tech choices being influenced by creators
17:37 Why ThePrimeagen stood out from other tech influencers
20:26 Career speedrunning
23:44 The biggest miss when starting something
24:51 What is wrong with Full-Stack application frameworks?
29:03 How Frankenstein is the Boot.dev web application stack
37:41 Rolling your own stuff vs using a provider
46:01 It's easy to screw up your architecture
50:53 What is Charles building with in 2024 and what is his preferred stack
56:39 Does it seem like people don't talk about security anymore?
01:00:30 Accessibility
01:02:02 The amount of people that are "kinda" interested in cybersecurity
01:11:03 Have some patience
01:11:37 Where to find Charles
KRAZAM Unfiltered feat. Ben Burke | S2 E05
Backend Banter
02/10/25 • 66 min
Today, we bring a very special guest, one whose face you might recognise, one that appears on your homepages with a sporadic video and seemingly disappears. His name is Benjamin Burke, or simply Ben, he’s the co-creator of KRAZAM, a channel that consists of sketches that combine grotesque and absurdist humor with technological anxiety, satirizing the tech industry and the modern alienation of the corporate life in general.
In this episode, which admittedly is a bit different from the usual, we’ll focus on KRAZAM and its origins, creative process, and what future plans and ambitions the duo has. Both Ben and Shiva started in software engineering, met in college and started doing sketches just for fun, not expecting this project to explode in popularity in the way it did. Ben will also share their unique approach to content and why KRAZAM prioritizes loyal viewers over virality, comedic inspirations. Stay tuned!
Learn back-end development - https://www.boot.dev
Listen on your favorite podcast player: https://www.backendbanter.fm
KRAZAM'S Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@KRAZAM/videos
KRAZAM's X/Twitter: https://x.com/krazamtv
KRAZAM'S Website: https://www.krazam.tv/
Krazam's Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/KRAZAM
Ben's X/Twitter: https://x.com/bb_fresh
Ben's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bnjmnbrk/
Shiva's X/Twitter: https://x.com/shivakilaru
Shiva's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shivakilaru/
Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
01:58 - KRAZAM Origin Story
03:59 - How Much More Footage Is Left After the Recordings?
05:12 - Are Both Ben and Shiva Programmers?
06:46 - Inspiration Behind "The Hustle"
08:47 - Has Ben Read Marcus Aurelius' "Meditations"?
09:25 - The Actual Introduction to KRAZAM
10:49 - Microservices
14:04 - Sending Birthday Messages Is HARD
19:06 - On Shiva Not Being in the Microservices Video
20:48 - Favorite KRAZAM Videos
22:22 - Most Underrated KRAZAM Video
32:00 - KRAZAM's Viewers Are Very Loyal
36:03 - Ambitions for the KRAZAM Channel
39:04 - How Did You Know KRAZAM Had Product-Market Fit?
40:59 - Ben's Comedic Inspirations
43:08 - KRAZAM Does Not Aim for Virality
46:47 - Was It Stressful to Do a Live Talk?
49:40 - KRAZAM's Video Release Frequency
51:46 - Competitive Excel
55:34 - Site Reliability Engineer Video
57:50 - AI Bots on Spotify
01:00:27 - Self-Hosting and The Good Old Days
01:02:31 - What's the Churn in the Industry?
01:05:21 - Where to Find Ben and KRAZAM
11/20/23 • 52 min
01/08/24 • 62 min
Lane chats with Richard Feldman, creator of the Roc programming language, about why he decided to create it. They discuss object oriented programming and whether it did irreparable damage to the industry - or not. Follow along as they talk about all of that and functional programming too!
Learn back-end development - https://boot.dev
Listen on your favorite podcast player: https://www.backendbanter.com
Richard Feldmans Twitter: twitter.com/rtfeldman
Roc Programming Language: https://www.roc-lang.org/
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#010 - Distributed Web Apps with Kyle Simpson
Backend Banter
07/17/23 • 59 min
Lane chats with Kyle Simpson, principal software engineer at Socket Supply. They talk about a new wrapper around mobile apps that allows developers to distribute the backend data required for their apps to run directly on various client's devices.
Learn back-end development - https://boot.dev
Listen on your favorite podcast player: https://www.backendbanter.com
Kyle on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/getify/
Socket Supply: https://socketsupply.co/
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How many episodes does Backend Banter have?
Backend Banter currently has 82 episodes available.
What topics does Backend Banter cover?
The podcast is about Podcasts and Technology.
What is the most popular episode on Backend Banter?
The episode title '#054 - CS Programs Should NOT Teach Git feat. ThePrimeagen' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Backend Banter?
The average episode length on Backend Banter is 61 minutes.
How often are episodes of Backend Banter released?
Episodes of Backend Banter are typically released every 7 days.
When was the first episode of Backend Banter?
The first episode of Backend Banter was released on May 16, 2023.
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