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CoRecursive: Coding Stories

The stories and people behind the code. Hear stories of software development from interesting peopl

Episodes

Total: 105

How did Spotify scale from 10 engineers to 100s to 1000s ...without slowing down? Without becoming c

Lost treasure. Conspiracy theories. Impossible tech demos.  Jan Sloot claimed to have invented revol

Today, we go behind the scenes at Chef - the game changing infrastructure automation tool. Adam Jaco

Learning to code can feel impossible. Like facing a sheer rock wall with no ropes or harnesses. But

Story: A Dark Room

2023/7/3

 Have you ever been frustrated with your job? Maybe not burnt out, but getting close to there? You u

Today, we meet Ben Dumke-von der Ehe, one of the early developers on the Stack Overflow team.  He wa

How do you accomplish something massive over time? I've had the chance to meet with a number of exce

Story: JSON vs XML

2023/4/3

Today's guest is Douglas Crockford. He's sharing the story of JSON, his discovery of JavaScript's go

Shai Almog worked at Sun on Mobile JVMs just as phones started to turn from phones into something el

I've been on many projects that get canceled. We're building cool stuff. We're going above and beyon

Nothing good comes from being insecure about your worth, especially at your job. That's what today's

Story: DOOMed to Fail

2022/12/2

Today Rebecca Burger Becky Heineman shares the tale of porting Doom to the 3DO console under extreme

Today story is from Son Luong Ngoc who shares what’s it was like for him to work and live in many di

What could you accomplish if your teammates were all excited and determined to hit some project tim

 I believe that getting underrepresented groups into software development is a good thing. This is n

CPAN was the first open-source software module repository. And on this day, Aug 1st, in 1995, CPAN w

I recently got an email from Jeff Shrager, who said he'd been working hard to solve a mystery about

On June 1st, 2014, the following question showed up on hacker news:  "Why is 80 characters, the stan

Story: LISP in Space

2022/5/2

Have you ever had a unique approach to a problem and been excited to use it, but you're met with sk

On this day in 2014 "lame april fools' jokes" were banned from hacker news.    Today in our first Th