From the workbench.

I have a silly dream. I just want my company to be advertised on the NYC subway system at some point. I don't know why, but to me this is my definition of success.

I've created a Product Hunt Launch for tonight at Midnight PDT (3am ET tomorrow).

There are many reasons people give for why you should have children. Most didn't move me but I have a new one.

I like this game, it scratches the Zelda itch. Plus I've always wondered what a 16-bit game would look like if it was fully ray-traced

Your commute just got a lot more enjoyable.

Recently I've been trying to codify some of the things I've been doing with AI to be a little more rigorous. That's when things got weird.

On of the critical workflows for Castria is doing the ad detection on the client. It needs to be done on the client for copyright reasons. Castria never modifies any files, clients each download their own copy allowing podcasters to collect their download for CPM as well as do dynamic ad insertion…

Wow, it's been a long time since I've hit my weekly limit on Claude Code Thanks Mythos!

The wealth pump, as it exists in the United States, is when you accumulate wealth and use it to buy political influence, which lets you change the rules to accumulate even more wealth. Rinse and repeat.

Prediction: Over the next couple years Apps will stop being Mobile first and will return to Web and desktop as Agents become the primary user.

After many years on WordPress, this site is being rebuilt as a custom ASP.NET Core + Vue 3 + vite-ssg app. SEO-first, single domain, hub-style home page. More to come.

The future is less frustrating! I spent about 6 hours the other day trying to create a bootable USB drive so I could re-install Windows 11 on my Alienware Aurora R15 AMD box. I wanted to play Star Craft 2 again and it was crashing on my Bazzite install.

One of the best uses of agentic AI, specifically Claude CoWork, I’ve had recently is morning briefings. I’ve created morning briefings to check on my calendar and stuff. But the real unlock is asking it to keep up on the latest of local LLM developments. Every day it checks for new hardware…

Think Gasbuddy for Everything. OpenPriceMap is a community-driven price map that helps you find the cheapest groceries near you — and every price you report makes the map better for everyone.

Bitcoin has been called many things — digital gold, the future of money, a hedge against inflation. But let’s cut through the marketing haze and call it what it actually is: the greatest money laundering tool ever invented, hiding in plain sight as an “investment.” The crypto industry has spent…

I’m shutting down the advertising I was running for Taskleef. While I love the thing I built, and had wanted it my entire career – I kinda knew that task management was going away. I couldn’t get any of the younger devs at Meta to do it at all, even to help themselves.

Across the industry software engineers have finally banded together and formed the first software guild. They’re asking for royalties because like a book or TV show, their code once written is sold an unlimited number of times.

Today I want to ask something of the technologists who have been affected by the most recent waves of layoffs at tech companies. Were those companies struggling? Were they losing money?

I’ve heard multiple times now from legacy media that AI companies in Silicon Valley are trying to build God.

Honestly? Yes. Picard ruined a lot of us.

Holy crap, the movement to get huge models working well on local hardware has kicked off and the results are impressive.

I have no idea what I’m doing when it comes to marketing. However, over the past week I’ve begun ads for Taskleef and today I overhauled the landing page.

Maxxing is the thief of joy

That’s how I always read this anyway

That’s how I always read this anyway

Just like the Guilded Age robber barons. Only academics who study this time in history will know the name.

There are several debates happening in the tech industry right now amongst software engineers. One of them goes along the lines of “If you don’t read the code the AI is producing, then how do you know what it does?!”

Looks like Oil prices are going to remain higher for longer than everyone would like.

Turns out the blockading of a trade route is a big deal and worthy of the Jedi’s attention

NGL, feeling pretty smug about driving an electric car right now

I just got my new MacBook Pro M5 Pro and I wonder if I made the wrong choice not buying the highest end laptop I could get.

Just canceled my 1Password subscription. I too received the email that the price was going up by 40% for the family plan.

It really grinds my gears to order something online. Have no idea when it’s actually coming, only to find out that it shipped and REQUIRES A SIGNATURE.

I normally don’t do this because I don’t have much advise for how to get through the technical interviews in big tech.

What the literati get wrong in their outrage over AI writing is that 50% of people are writing BELOW AVERAGE by definition. So for half the population, average is a marked improvement over what they are capable of/interested in.

SPRING! In NYC

What I’ve learned about social media over the years is that people really are just trying their worst

I’m not sure how my retirement account feels about being labeled a Trad IRA

Should I start GLP-1 when I know that the release of GLP-2 is likely right around the corner?

They had decided to abort the facts before they could grow into the truth

I ordered a new Macbook Pro M5 Pro and am so excited to be able to run local LLMs.

I just saved 50% on my car insurance by asking Claude CoWork to shop around for me.

The AIs yearn for the code

MCP is the XML of AI

Can you imagine if restaurants were like “no more deliveries, we have a return to restaurant policy”

Around the world the fallout from the Epstine file disclosure in the US continues to ripple through out the world. At the time of writing the World Economic Forum CEO Borge Brende has stepped down as a result.

On a whim I decided to go to the theatre this afternoon. Had no idea what was playing but OMG am I happy I found Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die.

Unpopular opinion: I don’t think LinedIn needed a vertical videos product

The city of New York dropped a ton of new openings today

Social Media algorithms use many signals to choose winners (going viral) and losers (most of us). Every now and then you stumble upon one which really matters. I just found out that when a big account blocks you it’s a HUGE signal to the algo not to show your stuff.

In the 1970s a researcher named Bruce Alexander was researching addiction using rats.

Special thanks to all the brands who sent me birthday wishes 💕 ❤️ 💞 🥰 💙 ♥️ 😍♥️❤️💙🥰

I could stop the bitcoin sell off simply by taking a short position… but I won’t.

Using only economic theory, explain why the best economists in the world are not all billionaires

What would you do with AI that was 2x as capable as it is today?

What’s up with companies of a certain size thinking that it’s totally fine to expect customers to learn about their internal departmental structure?

Did you know the New York State bird is the Eastern Bluebird?

One of the most powerful AI prompting tips is mixing languages.

I’m excited to announce that Paste Anyway, our browser extension that restores your ability to paste text on any website, is now officially available for Firefox!

One thing I’ve found surprising about having more resources is the huge gap between the upper middle class and the truely rich.

Every time my dog barks because somebody is in the hallway he looks at me like: “Well, are you going to do anything or do I need to defend this house by myself?”

I have a confession: for most of my life I’ve thought open source was stupid.

I’m excited to announce the release of Taskleef CLI – a command-line interface for managing todos with Taskleef.

Finally! Google has approved Paste Anyway’s web store entry. Now you can easily download and use it without dealing with the source code.

Watching the videos coming out of Minnesota its clear how unprepared I was to hear the mom from Bobby’s World to say “fuck ICE”

And the jobs people typically do in cities are the exact kind of work AI will be able to automate first

Fox news is reporting that DHS says that assaults on ICE personel are up 1300%.

Maybe Claude Code could finally fix Android 🤔

Over the holiday our babysitter decided to teach our 3yr old how to play board games. She created one just for him with just a piece of paper and colorful markers. It included spaces with rules and a 6 sided paper die, folded into a cube and taped at the corners.

Just like the rest of the software world, I find myself reading a lot more from the Terminal than writing as AI agents are doing most of my work.

Dear friends,

I don’t pay for subscription services anymore. Instead I pay $200/mo for Claude Max subscription and just ask it to build whatever tools I need.

We got a test post ova hear!

Walking home, just casually over heard someone getting a medical diagnosis from ChatGPT on speakerphone on the streets of New York

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Memorial

Is my ansolute favorite insult I just read

East Stroudsburg, PA

Bat boy NYC

I told someone who had a sign up offering 3-5% cash discount that it was more than my savings account rate. He told me he never thought of it that way

Ok

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Except people have the right to defend themselves and use whatever tools they like in preparing that defense. So even if AI is not allowed to represent you, it can through representing yourself.

Hear me out: H1B visas but only for ICE agents

How much money and how often do you have to find it in your clothes to be considered rich?

This week’s episode of “The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart” is absolutely positively hands down the best conversation about AI for non-technical people

Seems to me there’s a lot of people preaching but not a lot practicing

Truely unpopular opinion: There is no such thing as being cut off in a car. People in front of you have the right of way and you need to be paying attention to what’s going on around you just like downhill skiing/snowboarding. People wait for your to pass when pulling out as a courtesy. If everyone…

I’ve just added a fun new feature to readmebio.com – working style assessments. Think: Myers-briggs but for working style.

One day I’m just gonna show those to AI and ask it to make them

Today in I love AI,

GitHub is not for muggles

People are saying AI will be the end of human thinking but the existence of calculators doesn’t stop humans from attempting and failing to do math in their heads

No respect for the 🦃🍂🍁

Life in your 40s is me passing my portable SAD lamp glasses to my wife and asking “You wanna hit?”

When we were kids they told us the slime was non-toxic but it sure didn’t smell like it

When I was a kid, I watched 2D cartoon shows. There was maybe 1 or 2 shows that had just started to do 3D by the time I grew out of cartoons and I refused to watch them. To be fair the 3D in the 90s was more Lawnmower Man than Final Fantasy.

We’ve shipped some exciting new features:

I am glad to see this kind of discussion and these ideas getting more and more adoption by serious people.

I’m always shocked by what people sue over in the United States. Their complaint is that less traffic is coming to them because of AI overviews. It seems clear to me here that Google is a private company and doesn’t owe anyone anything.

“While we understand that not everyone will agree with our decisions about programming, it is simply inconsistent to champion free speech while demanding that broadcasters air specific content.”

This time I took a picture and Claude did all of that for me just from the photo and asking it to setup calendar and reminders. It parsed everything created the events. 🤯

He kinda dodged giving a prediction but did say this: “We are already seeing clients coming in with here’s what the AI says, what do you got?”

New York, NY — 9/26/2025 — Readmebio.com, the workplace social networking platform where professionals share their “how I work” profiles, today announced the launch of LinkedIn Single Sign-On (SSO).

One unexpected benefit of this Trumpflation is that a small is actually a small again at Burger King

Civil War? Ha! Not with this many anti-anxiety meds!

I love smart home tech, but I hate having a billion different apps of various quality from each and every manufacturer or a smart device. Normally I use Homebridge to bring devices which don’t natively support HomeKit into the Apple HomeKit ecosystem so I can use the Home app to control everything…

Dear Claude, I’ve heard that LLMs are really good at predicting the next value in the sequence. Could you please use your amazing powers of prediction to tell me the next Mega Millions winning lotto numbers?

I want extra credit because I have a 3 year old who has moved on to more sophisticated Nickelodeon based programming

This era of social media feels like the ads era when buying a television made the algos think I was starting a collection, and proceeded to show me the exact television I just bought on every website

I was worried I was addicted. I’m finding myself working late, and on weekends on these things.

Why not my car loan?

Does that change how you tip?

Nobody knows what they’re doing

I’m glad it was these two having this conversation but damn Ben, not everything is Envy. The grievances are about injustice, not envy. Where’s the justice in inheriting a billion dollars?

I never want to open in the Google app. Everytime you put an intrusive unethical pop up that requires me to close it before I can do the thing I actually came to do – it makes me hate you more. Every. Time.

As far back as 2006 I saw people doing some strange things for attention on these platforms. Things like collecting “friends” on Facebook like they were Pokémon just to see number go up.

My wife is wicked smaht. She has degrees from some of the best schools in the world, but my favorite alumni community is Stanford.

Today I’m launching readmebio.com – a site and social network dedicated to professional READMEs.

AI generated art causes artists of the past to roll in their graves. Attach dynamo to said artists to power AI data centers which generate more AI art with the power!

For the first time in human history we can run real experiments on software engineering processes where we have the same project, implemented by the same team of agents, where only the process differs to see which software engineering techniques actually work 🤯

https://ground.news/article/ai-poses-greater-threat-to-entry-level-jobs-new-study-finds\8224d5?utm\source=mobile-app&utm\_medium=article-share

The amount of sleep I actually need has been completely rejected by society writ large 😭

Sometimes I think I hate people. At least, that’s the knee-jerk reaction when I’m tired and the world feels impossible. But if I step back, I realize it’s not people I hate. It’s complexity.

I know this sounds like the setup to an off color joke but I’m not joking. This really happened. I was worried for her and how cowed her posture got when he was blowing up at her for no reason. She hadn’t done anything but stand there. She was used to this

Over the weekend I pushed a new branch to a project on GitHub. It asked me if I wanted copilot to do a code review. Sure! Why not?

My heart, on canvas

My wife just called my Switch 2 a Game Boy. I’d request that everyone please respect my privacy during this difficult time

People always ask me what it’s like to be right all the time and I always tell them: single.

A great thing about being on the East Coast is that you get to use Claude before the West Coast wakes up and crushes the capacity

It’s amazing how our brains can just compute jacobians, am I right?

A complete guide for 4k HDR gaming, 3D audio, and Xbox controller support

https://ground.news/article/researchers-say-ai-designed-antibiotics-could-defeat-superbugs-gonorrhoea-and-mrsa?utm\source=mobile-app&utm\medium=article-share

Vampire Survivors is better than it has any right to be. Normally I’m not a huge fan of Roguelikes but this has to be the perfect handheld mobile game

Cya in like 2 months

“It’s not a race” said the loser of the race

My absolute favorite thing about AI right now is pointing it to compilation/install instructions for some Linux thing and saying “read this and make me a script that does it”

With today’s ChatGPT-5 release it feels like the time to say this. If you don’t think AI is going to take your software job, you haven’t been paying attention.

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The Dreaming Void by Peter F. Hamilton is super boring writing (to me, reasonable people can have different opinions) — which is a shame because I think the future described in the book with all the different techno factions of humanity is extremely likely in the medium term. More likely than The…

Now throw AI on top of that and college isn’t looking like the ladder to the middle class it once was (if you need to take loans)

I think this is better than the prior system which punished the unbanked with higher prices to cover these fees even if they were paying cash.

Source: https://github.com/kn1026/cc/blob/main/claudecode.md

https://github.com/kn1026/cc/blob/main/claudecode.md

A user u/ALES10 on Reddit’s r/LocalLLaMA discussion group has managed to jailbreak Meta AI

Everybody is reaching towards super intelligence. It’s an arms race just like Nukes in the 20th century. We all know that nukes absolutely can destroy the entire world after a certain number of warheads.

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Today I did something I never thought I’d seriously consider: I wiped Windows from my main gaming rig and installed Linux.

I don’t know what was unclear about the word “Friend” that everyone added randos and their bosses

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The constant prompts telling me to turn notifications back on are as annoying and disruptive as the notifications themselves

Nobody wants to work … for somebody else

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Haven’t heard much from the Qanon people recently. Wonder what they’re up to

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But only if you say “Allow app to track” in all of them

Today was so wonderful I’m actually having trouble getting to sleep because I don’t want to let it slip away

This is the best concert because every song is a hit

This is so clearly the future

After listening to today’s excellent episode of The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart, a conversation with the writer of Andor and a Historian who specializes in revolution —

First, I would never buy that toilet paper for my house. Especially if I was a multi-billionaire.

All of y’all are ignoring the advice of your parents and are using your phone during a thunderstorm

Science has gone too far

It’s raining TACOs! 🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮

Source: https://www.brandpointcontent.com/article/44491/32-of-americans-are-swapping-bbq-for-pizza-this-july-4th

Man I love 3D printing

4 yr old me: Ok

You think Tech CEOs will still be testifying in front of congress about the STEM shortage and the desperate need to increase H1B visas again this year?

Luke, I’m heading to Toshi Station. You want me to pick up some power converters?

Did you notice that doesn’t happen anymore? You’re not imagining it

\* Iron Man the God of Technology

Only later to realize it’s just a Burger King original chicken sandwich with deli ingredients and extra steps 😭😭😭

Unexpectedly

You can use VIM key bindings to browse threads on web.

source: https://www.marketplace.org/story/2025/06/30/why-college-grads-are-struggling-to-find-work

Announcing WordPress to Threads. A WordPress plugin that will publish your blog to Threads.

Selling your bath water is still better than pumping a crypto coin to capitalize on the attention creepy men give you

Kinks worked out!

https://hipcrime.substack.com/p/the-end-of-growth-and-the-zero-sum?utm\source=post-email-title&publication\id=115421&post\id=167074277&utm\campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=bl2i2&triedRedirect=true&utm\_medium=email

There are regular refreshes at the duck library. We exchanged a ninja duck for a Dino duck

That’s a big problem when US economic growth has gone from 3% to barely 2% over the last 10-15 years. Might not seem like much but it actually makes a huge difference in the psychology of markets

Still working out the kinks

New Rule: if I’m standing for the entire transaction, I’m not tipping

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Test using the mastodon app to post to my blogs which should then post to Threads

Testing token expiration and refresh by posting hours after last post

This was posted from my blog via the Threads API

The fact that other rich people don’t like to see their own suffering allows them to constantly fail up

There is a surprising amount of ignorance in this Information Age

Orchard Orbweaver in Pennsylvania

I absolutely love smart home tech. I got a degree in Computer Engineering because software alone doesn’t do it for me, but I love the edge where the physical world and software meet.

So much for Americans making Apple products here in America

Half the value of journalism was “something happened someplace you weren’t, so let me tell you about it”. But I AM on the internet along with everyone else. I often saw what happened and don’t need 100 of the same take on Tweets

I love NYC whimsy #DuckLibrary

Wow, the original Shake Shack at Madison Square park has added a dark pattern of automatic 10% tip to their self-serve order kiosk. I almost didn’t catch it 😡

As an elder millennial I’ve been waiting my entire life to write that headline 😉

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That was my password at Meta. It told the story of my time there. Amazingly though, this is not the first time this sequence of events has happened to me. Even more amazing is that the exact same players were involved this time as last time.

Puzzle #716

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After watching Google I/O I was inspired to give Gemini a try. Normally I’m a Claude guy. A couple times a year I need to manipulate PDF files. Its not so often that I want to pay for a tool to do it. I especially don’t want to pay a subscription to do it! I also don’t really want to upload all my…

I’ve been worried about AI for longer than is reasonable. My worry spiked when I watched theHumans Need Not Apply video by CGP Grey which lays out a very compelling case that this time it’s different, based on first principles.

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The existence of baby blue implies the existence of mommy and daddy blue

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Why does everything in home improvement take so long when Pupstruction can build anything in a day!

One of the best things I ever bought was this Espresso maker during the pandemic. I totally should have bought one way sooner.

I’ve added an ActivityPub plugin to my blog. I LOVE the idea of just using my own platform and having it published to followers wherever they are. Let’s see if I can get this to work

As a follow up to part 1 I’d like to take some time to talk about some of the devices I use to help me listen to audio books and get to sleep.

For most of my life I’ve had a problem. I have always had trouble getting to sleep, sometimes leading to being in bed, tired, but still quite awake way later than I’d like. Over the years I’ve worked hard to correct this. I’ve invested a bunch into having a healthy bedtime routine, consistent, less…

A week ago I did something I’ve always wanted to do. I launched my first iOS App.

https://twitter.com/cmuratori/status/1426299131270615040?s=20 Original Tweet Thread

One of the things I find the most difficult to teach is the discipline to solve exactly the problem that is in front of you, and only that problem. Solve it in the simplest way you can think of. Be confident that in the future if new requirements arise, such as improved performance, you’ll be able…

First you need to grab the ksdiff command line tool and install it

I’ve started a serious mindfulness practice and it’s been really great. I’ve been practicing on and off for years, but my wife has never really given it a go. She, like many, doesn’t really feel anything or understand what it is they’re supposed to feel. What does success look like?

Once upon a time in 2011, I serendipitously stumbled on to a question on a stack exchange site I had never been to, and would never visit again. The title was so click-baity I just had to click!

I can probably use this like Twitter and relieve myself of the last social media I am addicted to.

This is by far the topic I get the most push back from engineers about. Even more than Software Engineering is Writing. They always want to go slower, more carefully. The idea of doing what they’re doing now but faster seems crazy. It is crazy. You can’t go faster doing what you’re doing now…

Recently the Department of Justice announced they were going to start investigating the large tech companies for antitrust violations, potentially leading to breaking up big tech. It’s not surprising; large tech companies love to tell the story about how they are neutral platforms or common…

I think the people who liked the above tweet think I’m being funny by choosing a cake instead of a pie; that I’m suggesting that cake is superior to pie. But I’m actually being serious – Cheesecake is a pie not a cake.

I have searched high and low for a better way to use SSH key based authentication than what you learn in the default Linux tutorials. Those tutorials would have you generate one key per-machine/account and then on every box you SSH into add that to the authorized_keys file.

I like listening to Cortexbecause they are thoughtful about how they do work and they always give me something to consider. They recently had a discussion about how New Years Resolutions are terrible and instead you should have themes for the year.

A colleague of mine today sent me this link from Hackernews that explains options ownership. I think it’s great! More people need to understand this stuff, and I’m very happy this is out there. It does remind me however of how complicated everything has gotten and that always makes me ask why?

The following are a set of thoughts I’ve had watching a company grow from 60 people to 600 people – it’s not a complete thesis, but I wanted to put it out there to start getting feedback from people.

Paul Grahm has decided to take up the old torch of more H1B immigration because “there are not enough great programmers”. In the second paragraph he says that people who disagree with him are “anti-immigration” people who don’t understand the difference between good and great programmers.

I saw this tweet today

This winter in NYC was particularly long. I am SOOO happy that it’s finally summer. But season of polar vortex after polar vortex combined to make me really quite depressed, and I started wondering… why are we here? Specifically I mean, why are we coding physically in NYC?

The most recent trend in interviewing developer candidates is the normal phone screen, but with a live window in which you can type and the interviewer can see what you’ve typed. Something as simple as Skype with a chat window open, or a more complex website like collabedit which gives nice syntax…

Every now and then I receive emails from various recruiters trying to find technology people for their company. I was surprised when I came to New York that there were head hunters, and that they were looking for tech people. I had heard of executive head hunters, but as far as I can tell there’s…

One of the most surprising things to me when moving to NYC was how often I would NEED CASH. It seems, anecdotally, that most restaurants and bars in the village are CASH ONLY (also most cabs prefer you pay in cash, and can be real dicks if you try to pay with a card even though legally required to…

I was super happy when this link was passed around the office and I had, in fact seen the majority of these talks. They are almost exactly the same list I would have created so definitely check it out

A crazy simple python web server and javascript chat client that enables group chat over the LAN via a browser. Intended for use when security policies or politics or whatever get in the way of using IRC or Hipchat and such. Also intended to only be used on a Local Area Network (LAN) due to the…

All my life I have heard about the incredible shortage of engineers in the United States. There’s just far too much demand for engineering talent, and our schools are simply not producing anywhere near the number of graduates we need to fill these positions.

This week Ben and I just chit chat about some goings on around NYC in technology. I kinda talk a lot this episode.

This week Ben and I talk with Thoughtworks developer Brian Guthrie about learning computer science, agile development and Test Driven Development.

This week Ben and I talk with Author, Entrepreneur and owner of careercup.com, former Google hiring committee member Gayle Laakmann McDowell about her two books: Cracking the Coding Interview and The Google Resume about how to get a job at the big tech companies

This week Ben and I talk with indy game developer 2TonStudios about their new iOS game: Ninjaboy

Ben and I chat quickly about what happened this week at Knight Capital. How a software bug took a profitable company to bankruptcy in 1 hour.

This week Ben and I get a chance to geek out with Chris Smith, author of Programming F#, about the recently completed second edition. Chris is a former SDET on the Microsoft F# team, and currently works for Google on developer tools.

Because this information is apparently not available anywhere on the internet I’m going to write it here:

This week Ben and I riff on some news stories along with friend and ZocDoc developer, Jeremy Kimball.

Today Ben and I interview former Microsoftie turned Googler, Santos Cordon about programming.

This week Ben and I slightly change the format of the podcast to talk about some more current events type things.

This week Ben and I talk with Director of Mobility Evangelism at SAP, located in our nations capitol, about mobile database technologies and software engineering.

This week, Ben and I discuss why we haven’t had shows recently. A new venture called MapItPrices, and the news that Xamarin Studios has ported Android to C#

This week Ben and I chat with former Microsoftie turned Standup Comic, Toby Muresianu about careers in Software.

This week Ben and I chat during a CityMaps party about what it takes to be a computer programmer. How do you get into this field, and most importantly can anybody do it?

In this Episode Ben and I talk about why there wasn’t a podcast last week. (hint: we shipped a ton of new software)

This week Ben and I talk with Basho developer Sean Cribbs about NoSQL and how they write software.

This week it’s just Ben and I riffing in the new CityMaps HQ with our new recording equipment.

This week we talk with Microsoft’s Rachel Appel, a developer evangelist for web technologies. An area where Microsoft has arguably had some challenges attracting developers to their stack.

This week we explore the world of graphics and web design with CityMaps own Megan Isaak. It’s late this week because we had some more audio issues during the recording and it took extra time to get it into its current state :-/

On this week’s episode Ben and I talk with Jared Parsons, a lead developer at Microsoft working in Developer Tools division (Visual Studio). Author of the very popular (and free) VsVim extension for Visual Studio 2010 and #10 on Stack Overflow in total rep.

On today’s show we discussion SOPA/PIPA protests in NYC, as well as Jenn Day joins us as a special guest with the business side (marketing) perspective on programmers and startups

Today while internet websites were going black, I attended the NY Tech Meetup emergency session located on the streets of New York. Right outside of Senator Schumer’s office!

This is the first episode of a new series Tech and the City Extroverted Developer hosted by Jim Wallace and Ben Gundersen.

I’ve wanted to do a podcast since the term was coined, but I’ve never managed to find someone else who was willing to co-host with me or I was never able to narrow in on a topic that had enough content and I was very passionate about. But that has all changed.