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2017/09/13
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2025/12/16
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Kodsnack 681 - German ortography, with Dylan Beattie
2025/12/16
Fredrik chats to Dylan Beattie about Rockstar, esoteric programming languages (Perl in latin, anyone?), and what might happen after the AI bubble.
AI will ruin jokes, they can’t do things just right. But some things hiding under the label are actually useful as well. Have we been in any similarly strange bubbles before, and what might be left that’s useful after it?
Also evolution, revolution, and strange Scrabble facts.
Recorded during Øredev 2025.
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Dylan
Dylan also has a podcast - Tech, bugs & rock’n’roll
Dylan’s presentation at Øredev 2025: Rockstar 2.0: building an esoteric language interpreter in .NET
Rockstar
Formal grammar
Esoteric programming languages
Damian Conway
Perl
Perl in Latin - the paper and the module
Latin
Inflectional grammar
Domain-specific languages
Lilypond - Scheme dialect for sheet music
Context-free grammar
Engraving - the art of creating sheet music
codewithrockstar.com
Support us on Ko-fi!
Scrabble
Metal umlaut
Piet - the language which should have been called Mondrian
Piet Mondrian
Mondrian - the undeserving tool
Turing completeness
The Buster Keaton house scene
The dot-com bubble
The subprime mortgage crisis
Enron
Douglas Adams
Three mile island
Windows Vista
Tim Berners-Lee
Solid - Tim’s project of holding your data locally
Ellipsis - sponsor of the week: we edit Kodsnack, and we can edit your podcast too!
The emperor’s new mind
Quantum computing
Hadamard gate
The linebreakers - Dylan’s band of conference speakers
ASML
Titles
Always good fun that one
The version of the story that I tell in the talk
Enough clichés
Resident mad scientist of the Perl community
Felis commidet piscem
Always the cat that is eating
Lexical flexibility
Fundamentally, programming is programming
A big win for everyone
Linguistic conventions and extended alphabets
That’s a different letter
Regional assumptions
German ortography
A piece of impressionist art
Hang it on the wall
Something hidden in something else
Physical comedy at its greatest
Money people believe exists
The amount of pretend money
It has to come from reality
Fortunately, I do not have a trillion dollars
Quietly siphoned off
Emotionally flat
What can I steal from?
A little LLM that works for you
A spectacular collapse
A billion lines of crap
Pruning the decision tree
Fix the next milestone in the public consciousness
Five years of excitement, five years of disappointment
Overdue for a little disappointment
Reliant on Dutch technology
Kodsnack 674 - Make the visions louder, with Tiera Fletcher
2025/12/04
Recorded on-stage at Øredev 2025, Fredrik talks to Tiera Fletcher about her lightning tour of going to Mars and what might happen on the way. And also about - for example - finding visions to guide your daily work.
In 60 years, life on Mars could start to be comfortable.
Many thanks to Øredev for inviting Kodsnack again, they paid for the trip and the editing time of these keynote recordings, but have no say about the content of these or any other episodes.
Thank you Cloudnet for sponsoring our VPS!
Comments, questions or tips? We a re @kodsnack, @tobiashieta, @oferlund and @bjoreman on Twitter, have a page on Facebook and can be emailed at [email protected] if you want to write longer. We read everything we receive.
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Links
Øredev
All the presentation videos from Øredev 2025
Tiera Fletcher
Innovating the journey to Mars - Tiera’s keynote
MOXIE
Memory foam
GPS
Gateway - the modular space station which is meant to orbit the moon
Myron Fletcher
Rocket with the Fletchers
Titles
MOXIE+ liquefy
For another planet
A way to do it better
MOXIE is a big one
Small dogs and breathing
I have a small dog at home
My magic number
Right at the point of comfort
Checking on MOXIE
Your daily MOXIE
Make the visions louder
Kodsnack 675 - Curate the world, with Nicklas Hermansson
2025/12/04
Recorded on-stage at Øredev 2025, Fredrik talks to Sweden’s foremost trend spotter Nicklas Hermansson about how you become a futurist. From how Nicklas got there, what his days look like, and how he choses what to read and what to filter out.
Many thanks to Øredev for inviting Kodsnack again, they paid for the trip and the editing time of these keynote recordings, but have no say about the content of these or any other episodes.
Thank you Cloudnet for sponsoring our VPS!
Comments, questions or tips? We a re @kodsnack, @tobiashieta, @oferlund and @bjoreman on Twitter, have a page on Facebook and can be emailed at [email protected] if you want to write longer. We read everything we receive.
If you enjoy Kodsnack we would love a review in iTunes! You can also support the podcast by buying us a coffee (or two!) through Ko-fi.
Links
Øredev
All the presentation videos from Øredev 2025
Nicklas Hermansson
Welcome to 2049: are you ready? - Nicklas' keynote
Arlanda
Albania’s AI minister Diella
Text-TV - or Teletext
Kanal 5
Emotional intelligence
Nicklas' newsletter
Titles
The audience is craving for your face
I thought I was becoming a rock star
My way into exploration
Clickmonster
Stuff people want for real
We destroyed our own business model
Fill it
I discovered journalism
Curate the world
Åhfanism
Automation proof
Kodsnack 676 - Maps will get you fired, with Simon Wardley
2025/12/04
Recorded on-stage at Øredev 2025, Fredrik talks to Simon Wardley about maps (not the same as charts!), stories, commodotization, digital sovereignty, getting labeled a heretic by all sides, and a lot more.
Among other things, Simon discusses how you can map things out and thereby find new ways to present and challenge the current state within and organization.
Not that it will necessarily be very popular, hence the bit about being called a heretic.
Many thanks to Øredev for inviting Kodsnack again, they paid for the trip and the editing time of these keynote recordings, but have no say about the content of these or any other episodes.
Thank you Cloudnet for sponsoring our VPS!
Comments, questions or tips? We a re @kodsnack, @tobiashieta, @oferlund and @bjoreman on Twitter, have a page on Facebook and can be emailed at [email protected] if you want to write longer. We read everything we receive.
If you enjoy Kodsnack we would love a review in iTunes! You can also support the podcast by buying us a coffee (or two!) through Ko-fi.
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Øredev
All the presentation videos from Øredev 2025
Simon Wardley
From here to there and back again - Simon’s keynote
Rewilding software engineering - AI, tools and human decisions - Simon’s other talk at Øredev
Wardley mapping
Simon’s writings on Medium
Innovate-leverage-commoditize model
Reaching cloud velocity - AWS book
EC2
Mapreduce
Extreme programming
Six sigma
Lean
Titles
We only had 50 minutes
A map, not a graph
The map is wrong
Maps will get you fired
As long as everyone else is just as bad
Look at the entire map
The size of Malmö
Sick-care systems
Shocks to the system
Wardleyconf
Kodsnack 677 - It's all quantum, with Natalia Chepiga
2025/12/04
Recorded on-stage at Øredev 2025, Fredrik talks to Natalia Chepiga about quantum computing and where you, personally, might see it first. We need classical computers to make quantum computers better. Natalia also tells us of the very natural way she got into quantum research, and encourages us to help make the future we want!
Many thanks to Øredev for inviting Kodsnack again, they paid for the trip and the editing time of these keynote recordings, but have no say about the content of these or any other episodes.
Thank you Cloudnet for sponsoring our VPS!
Comments, questions or tips? We a re @kodsnack, @tobiashieta, @oferlund and @bjoreman on Twitter, have a page on Facebook and can be emailed at [email protected] if you want to write longer. We read everything we receive.
If you enjoy Kodsnack we would love a review in iTunes! You can also support the podcast by buying us a coffee (or two!) through Ko-fi.
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Øredev
All the presentation videos from Øredev 2025
Natalia Chepiga
Networking for quantum: how simulations help us to design the future - Natalia’s keynote
Quantum phase transitions
Quantum problems
Google quantum work
Titles
So natural
It’s all quantum
Nature is quantum
I’m not selling anything
Using a microscope to nail down the nails
Building blocks
Kodsnack 678 - The intent of a human, with Justyna Zander
2025/12/04
Recorded on-stage at Øredev 2025, Fredrik talks to Justyna Zander about AI for self-driving cars, the noise of the present, and more.
Don’t let the noise of today demolish the positive signal of the future!
Many thanks to Øredev for inviting Kodsnack again, they paid for the trip and the editing time of these keynote recordings, but have no say about the content of these or any other episodes.
Thank you Cloudnet for sponsoring our VPS!
Comments, questions or tips? We a re @kodsnack, @tobiashieta, @oferlund and @bjoreman on Twitter, have a page on Facebook and can be emailed at [email protected] if you want to write longer. We read everything we receive.
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Øredev
All the presentation videos from Øredev 2025
Justyna Zander
Physical AI: crafting resilient systems with emotional intelligence- Justyna’s keynote
Emotional intelligence
Empathy
Hyperscalars
Snowflake
Demis Hassabis
Titles
You learn something new
We have it in the spatial sense
The policy of the machine
What did the human tell me to do?
How do you teach the machine empathy?
The first to be disrupted
The intent of a human
Engineering with purpose
Statistics on steroids
Kodsnack 679 - Educational electronics, with David J. Cuartielles Ruiz
2025/12/04
Recorded on-stage at Øredev 2025, Fredrik talks to David J. Cuartielles Ruiz about the birth and growth of Arduino. It’s fantastic when an idea comes alive and starts growing. We talk about how Arduino began, how it started to grow, how you find parts and get things manufactured in northern Italy, and of course a bit about the magical logistics king.
Many thanks to Øredev for inviting Kodsnack again, they paid for the trip and the editing time of these keynote recordings, but have no say about the content of these or any other episodes.
Thank you Cloudnet for sponsoring our VPS!
Comments, questions or tips? We a re @kodsnack, @tobiashieta, @oferlund and @bjoreman on Twitter, have a page on Facebook and can be emailed at [email protected] if you want to write longer. We read everything we receive.
If you enjoy Kodsnack we would love a review in iTunes! You can also support the podcast by buying us a coffee (or two!) through Ko-fi.
Links
Øredev
All the presentation videos from Øredev 2025
David J. Cuartielles Ruiz
Open bio-compatible electronics - David’s keynote
Arduino
The school of arts and communication at Malmö university
Interaction design institute Ivrea
Ivrea
Autodesk
Piedmont
Olivetti
Flextronics
Titles
Algorithms for communication
Educational electronics
Making boards, not being paid
Old factories
Buy them by weight
The bootstrapping dilemma
Our logistics king
Kodsnack 662 - A super-super-app, with Teresa Wu
2025/09/16
Fredrik talks to Teresa Wu about devops for frontend and AI.
Why does frontend feel so complex? Does it have to be?
We also discuss the value of open language models, smaller and more specific language models and their benefits.
Is “AI” even a useful label anymore? Teresa thinks we’ll split into more specific terms over time.
Recorded during Øredev 2024.
The episode is sponsored by Ellipsis - let us edit your podcast and make it sound just as good as Kodsnack! With more than ten years and 1200 episodes of experience, Ellipsis gets your podcast edited, chapterized, and described with all related links in a prompt and professional manner.
Thank you Cloudnet for sponsoring our VPS!
Comments, questions or tips? We a re @kodsnack, @tobiashieta, @oferlund and @bjoreman on Twitter, have a page on Facebook and can be emailed at [email protected] if you want to write longer. We read everything we receive.
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Teresa
Teresas' Øredev 2024 talks: Devops for frontend and Building amazing front-end project with Gemma: A state-of-the-art open model
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Super-apps
Wechat
Support us on Ko-fi
Gemma
Titles
This was actually made to happen
The same fun and the same pain
The lucky ones
My own experience
I don’t have a word for it
A super-super-app
Explosion of complexity
A whole sea of new questions
They only do one thing
Kodsnack 658 - Failure of ergonomics, with Taylor Troesh
2025/09/02
Fredrik talks to Taylor Troesh about packaging things, generating code, and database evolution.
Why is it so hard to package and build things? Is it a failure of ergonomics? Is there hope for a change?
We also discuss generating code using LLMs, and Taylor presents the workflow of using them to generate projects from scratch, starting over if more fundamental changes are needed.
After that, we dig into databases and SQL, and Taylor has many thoughts and opinions about how they can be used and might evolve.
Finally, we discuss other interesting projects, keeping track of ideas, what the OPTC is, and why should you cut down a palm tree?
Recorded during Øredev 2024.
The episode is sponsored by Ellipsis - let us edit your podcast and make it sound just as good as Kodsnack! With more than ten years and 1200 episodes of experience, Ellipsis gets your podcast edited, chapterized, and described with all related links in a prompt and professional manner.
Thank you Cloudnet for sponsoring our VPS!
Comments, questions or tips? We a re @kodsnack, @tobiashieta, @oferlund and @bjoreman on Twitter, have a page on Facebook and can be emailed at [email protected] if you want to write longer. We read everything we receive.
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Taylor
Taylor’s keyboard-rich desk setup
Taylor’s Øredev 2024 talk: How to flatpack programs
The IKEA hacking community (or one of them)
James Mickens
Redux
The flux architecture
Jquery
Toki pona
APL
Zig
SNOBOL
Actor model
Jq
Lisp
Scrapscript - Taylor’s own language
HTMX
CRUD
Elm
Support us on Ko-fi
Cursor
Neovim
Avante - a Cursor alternative for Neovim
Sam Altman
Sam Colt
Sam Morse
Postgresql
Connecting directly to the database - Svante Richter’s talk
Supabase
SQL
Some of Taylor’s writings about SQL
PRQL - Pipelined relational query language
FQL
Regex
Foundationdb
Ellipsis - sponsor of the week: we edit Kodsnack, and we can edit your podcast too!
Offensive horticulture
A history of microwave ovens
Scrapsheets
Game of life
Trailer buses
Follow-up links, thanks to unvisual:
Bruck - “a type of bus or coach built to combine goods and passenger transport”
Skvader - a Swedish bruck
The timeless way of software - Taylor talks about Christopher Alexander, just like we did in episode 657!
Titles
Nothing besides IKEA
I did not besmirch the reputation
How strange we package things
I don’t think I have any advice
Failure of ergonomics
I do have hope
Drinking from the well
Brainless CRUD-stuff
(I have) No qualms with Elm
During the binges
Fifteen math professors
Tilting against palmtrees
OPTC
Kodsnack 656 - People want native controls, with Maddy Montaquila
2025/08/19
Fredrik talks to Maddy Montaquila about building user interfaces, and how .net has come a much longer way than people may think.
We talk about the various .net-related options for building user interfaces, mixing and matching MAUI stuff, Blazor stuff, and straight up web stuff. We discuss the way to go for Windows desktop apps among all these options.
The perception of .net - a challenge and something being actively worked on.
We also touch on actually useful AI, plus some unexpectedly fond memories of the touch bar.
Recorded during Øredev 2024.
The episode is sponsored by Ellipsis - let us edit your podcast and make it sound just as good as Kodsnack! With more than ten years and 1200 episodes of experience, Ellipsis gets your podcast edited, chapterized, and described with all related links in a prompt and professional manner.
Thank you Cloudnet for sponsoring our VPS!
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Maddy
Maddy’s Øredev 2024 talks: Hybrid web and desktop apps with .net MAUI and Blazor and .net all the things - cloud, mobile, web, and more!
.net Aspire
Blazor hybrid
MAUI
.net conf 2024
.net 9
Syncfusion
Syncfusion controls for MAUI apps
Blazor render modes
Hybrid web view
Electron
Techbash
Xamarin
Flutter
React
Blackboard
Timeedit
Redis
Opentelemetry
Rabbitmq
Ollama
Support us on Ko-fi
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Winforms
WPF
Winui
Touch bar
.net ahead of time compilation
Performance improvements in .net 9 - the 300 pages blog post
Microsoft extensions AI
Amazon go stores
Spring boot
The minimal API structure
Titles
Two of my fun things
Trust me, I can ramble
I can ramble for eternity
The shimmer control
A bunch of wasted space in my brain
If you have a Javascript frontend
A lot with the hybrid stuff
Nice step up from Electron
MAUI doesn’t need me
People want native controls
Web is reach
If this guy’s on vacation
The only .net you ever have to see
Java with more
The polyglot world
A deeply native Windows experience
It was a nice volume slider
The .net perception
Three less indents
Purists of architecture
Blended experiences
Kodsnack 654 - German-style strings, with Matt Topol
2025/08/05
Fredrik talks to Matt Topol about Arrow and how the Arrow ecosystem is evolving. Arrow is an open source, columnar in-memory data format designed for efficient data processing and analytics - which means passing data between things without needing to transform it, and ideally even without needing to copy it.
What makes the ecosystem grow, and why is it very cool to have Arrow on the GPU? What is the connection between Arrow, machine learning, and Hugging face? Matt emphasizes the value of open standards, even as they work with or within more closed systems they can help open things up, and help bring about more modular solutions so that developers can focus on doing their core area really well.
This episode can be seen as a follow-up to episode 567, where Matt first joined to discuss everything Arrow.
Recorded during Øredev 2024.
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Comments, questions or tips? We a re @kodsnack, @tobiashieta, @oferlund and @bjoreman on Twitter, have a page on Facebook and can be emailed at [email protected] if you want to write longer. We read everything we receive.
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Matt
Matt’s Øredev 2023 talks: State of the Apache Arrow ecosystem: How your project can leverage Arrow! and Leveraging Apache Arrow for ML workflows
Previous episodes with Matt
Øredev 2024
Matt’s Øredev 2024 talks - on Arrow ADBC and Composable and modular data systems
ADBC - Arrow database connectivity
Arrow
Snowflake
Snowflake drivers for ADBC
Bigquery
The Bigquery driver
Microsoft Fabric
Duckdb
Postgres
SQLite
Arrow flight - RPC framework for services based on Arrow data
Arrow flight SQL
Microsoft Power BI
Velox
Apache datafusion
Query planning
Substrait - query IR
Polaris
Libcudf
Nvidia RAPIDS
Pytorch
Tensorflow
Arrow device interface
DLPack - in-memory tensor structure
Tensors
Nanoarrow
Voltron data - where Matt used to work. He’s now at Columnar
Theseus GPU compute engine
The composable data management system manifesto
Support us on Ko-fi!
Matt’s book - In-memory analytics with Apache Arrow
Spark
Spark connect
RPC
UDFs
Photon
Datafusion
Apache Cassandra
ODBC
JDBC
R - programming language for statistical computing
Hugging face
Ray
Stringview - “German-style strings”
Scaling up with R and Arrow - the book on using Arrow with R
Titles
It’s gotten a lot bigger
The bones of it are in the repo
(Powered by ADBC)
Individual compute components
Feed it substrate
Where the ecosystem is going
Arrow on the GPU
The data stays on the GPU
A forced copy
Leverage that device interface
Without forcing the copy
Shy of that last mile
Turtles all the way down
The guy who said yes
German-style strings
Kodsnack 652 - The best of nature, with Grace Jansen
2025/07/22
Fredrik talks to Grace Jansen about cloud tools, and bringing them to your local machine in a better way. Opentelemetry is a great tool, but it’s not the whole story for observability. Gathering the data is just the first step.
In the second half, we leave telemetry and talk about realizing you have things to share and sharing them with other people. Find out what makes you tick, and share experiences around that. Grace also shares some concrete presentation-building tips at the end.
Ask the question, and be more you!
Recorded during Øredev 2024.
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Grace
Øredev 2024
Grace’s Øredev 2024 presentations: Cloud-native dev tools: bringing the cloud back to earth, and Becoming a cloud-native doctor
Opentelemetry
Distributed tracing
Microprofile - open source specification for distributed tracing
Jakarta - the artist previously known as Java EE
Reactive messaging
Openapi
Telemetry
Openliberty
Quarkus
Payara
Jboss
Prometheus
Grafana
Kibana
Fluid
Jaeger - tracing platform
Torill Kornfeldt talked about resurrecting mammoths at Øredev 2015
Sven Jungmann - can we teach machines to smell?
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Ants and AI models
Holly Cummins
Less waste, more joy, and a lot more green: How Quarkus makes Java better - Holly’s Øredev 2024 presentation
Titles
After-lunch lull
So polyglot
Ready for microservices
(You need) Many minds
Now I have a pile
(Take) The best of nature
The path was being them
Something I bring to the table
Ask the question
A unique presentation
Kodsnack 648 - Difficult skills, with Gitte Klitgaard
2025/06/24
Fredrik talks to Gitte Klitgaard about managers, diversity, and communication. We discuss how and why management has almost become a bad word. But we need management, and good management. What do you need out of managers when you have autonomous teams?
Conflict handling - we need small conflicts, and learn to handle them so they don’t become big conflicts.
Psychological safety and how to build it within and between your teams.
Building diverse teams, which kinds of managers we need, making good things visible, communicating and building psychological safety, diversity in thinking …
… and of course: a quick note on the evolution of LEGO instructions.
Recorded during Øredev 2024.
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Comments, questions or tips? We a re @kodsnack, @tobiashieta, @oferlund and @bjoreman on Twitter, have a page on Facebook and can be emailed at [email protected] if you want to write longer. We read everything we receive.
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Links
Gitte
Øredev 2024
Autonomous teams need great managers - Gitte’s presentation with Jakob Wolman
Jakob’s blog post - What use is a manager?
Gallup´s report State of the global workplace - people are feeling more disengaged
Agila Sverige - We need more managers
Devlin 2024 - conference in Linköping
Copenhagen dev festival
Reteaming
Support us on Ko-fi!
The power of the pen
Microsoft Access
Microsoft Publisher
Kent Beck
Titles
Autonomous teams need great managers
A lot of things we agreed on
The catalyst
The multiplier
Taking care of humans
A manager who cares about me
Invisible people
A lot of the leader part
Difficult skills
Not everyone communicates well
We need the small conflicts
A thousand conflicts a day
The Xerox effect
The power of the pen
Hints here and there
Kodsnack 631 - Comfortable in uncertainty, with Barry O'Reilly
2025/02/25
Fredrik talks to Barry O’Reilly about software architecture.
Barry has spent a lot of time and energy connecting software architecture to actual code and development work, and finding good ways of actually training new generations of software architects.
Architecture is a level above programming, it is a different skill, and it needs to be properly taught so that more people can think and make active decisions about it. Oh, and architecture happens at a group level. You can’t really do it alone.
Barry’s quest led him to complexity science, a PhD to actually prove his ideas hold up, and two books. The idea that you have to understand what goes on in the code in order to do good architecture is more controversial than one might think.
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Barry
Black tulip
Complexity science
IDE
Antifragile
Nassim Taleb
Nassim guesting Econtalk talking about antifragility while the book was in progress
Barry’s papers:
No More Snake Oil: Architecting Agility through Antifragility (2019)
An introduction to residuality theory: Software design heuristics for complex systems (2020)
The Machine in the Ghost: Autonomy, Hyperconnectivity, and Residual Causality (2021)
The Philosophy of Residuality Theory (2021)
Residuality Theory, random simulation, and attractor networks (2022)
Residuality and Representation: Toward a Coherent Philosophy of Software Architecture (2023)
Domain driven design Europe
Leanpub
Residues - Barry’s first book
Barry’s NDC talks - on process and on philosophy
Support us on Ko-fi
Our agile release train engineer stickers
The architect’s paradox - Barry’s second book
Accelerate
Øredev
Kodsnack 346 - Tomer Gabel about the golden age of tomfoolery
Dataföreningen
Dataföreningen kompetens
Titles
How we design and think about structure
Climbed the greasy pole
Keep close to the code
Remove themselves from the code as a status symbol
I would see a lot of grey
There’s a generation missing
A level of thinking above programming
When you look up from your IDE
We had to rescue architecture
When they say “architect”
Headed for that ivory tower
A self-titling profession
Comfortable in uncertainty
Multiple books, and a PhD
How does this thing break
Everything will always break
Patching those cracks
Do you have any proof of this?
The key to good software architecture is pessimism
The mincing of academic criticism
Typing furiously
Hope for the future
He’s from the real world!
Kodsnack 626 - The great flattening of everything, with Jon Sterling
2025/01/21
Fredrik talks to Jon Sterling about user interfaces old and new. Jon has created Aquaui - a Mac user interface library which is a small love letter to the Aqua user interface style for Mac OS X. Based on that, we discuss understandable and consistent user interfaces, how there seems to be little evolution and improvement, wish for brave new ideas, and a lot more.
Oh, and we also discuss living with old technology, like a seventh-generation Ipod. Plus liability laundering and the problems of building the whole house of out fire alarms.
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Links
Jon
Cambridge
Clare college
Aquaui - Jon’s library
Aqua - the user interface design language
Steve Jobs introducing Aqua
The dock
Windows XP
Windows 98
Iphone 4
IOS 6
IOS 7 - the great flattening of everything
Apple’s old human interface guidelines
Accidental tech podcast
The purple button for single-window mode in the Mac OS X beta - scroll down or search for “purple”
Stage manager
Lion
Infinite Mac - the website where you can run old Mac operating systems
The spatial Finder - and why the modern Finder isn’t
Support Kodsnack on Ko-fi
Elementary OS - and their interface design guide
GTK
A post about the original dock
Discussion about Mica - Apple internal design tool
Core animation
Webkit
Blink
WKWebview
Appkit
NSScrollview
NSScroller
12-inch Powerbook
Seventh-generation Ipod
Itunes
Intel Imac
Tiger
Tenfourfox - browser for old versions of Mac OS X
Charles proxy
jonmstirling.com
Jon on Mastodon
Titles
A love letter
A very different era
Beautiful blue liquid
The great flattening of everything
Unbelievable user interface regression
I feel powerless today when I’m using my computer
They did mess up the photo app
Like a pill
A long-lasting Ibuprofen
That upper-right corner
Bigger than my wingspan
Beautiful, unsullied whitespace
During the decline of Mac OS
Time to be a bit bold
A passable gradient
Start from a point of inspiration
Too much for the old hardware
The Aqua fire alarm
SSL fire alarms
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