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Does language choice actually matter?

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With an increase in the number of security bugs being disclosed irresponsibly, we dig into how the process should work, the differences between normal bugs and security bugs, the complexities of coordinating patches, the human issues involved, and more.

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The bit of code we admire most and why. This is a short episode because Joe is having a summer break.

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We get into the process of working on and with formal protocol specifications, something Andy is familiar with from his work on Matrix.

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What makes a good library?

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Andy has been taking the One Billion Row Challenge, and has been thinking about the broader question of what makes software fast.

Andy’s videos on Peertube and YouTube.

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It’s yet another hot questions episode. Colour schemes, syntax highlighting, code patterns, fonts, and keyboards.

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We get into dependency management. The pros and cons of tools like Dependabot, the varying approaches with different languages and standard library sizes, the times when pinning dependencies makes sense, and more.

Turn Dependabot Off

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It’s another hot questions episode. Whether we think better on our own or with other people, our non-standard debugging habits, favourite interview questions, coding at night, character encoding, and abolishing time zones.

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In the wake of Discord’s recent announcement about age verification, Matrix recently came in for a lot of criticism by a lot of people who said it’s not a viable replacement. Andy works on Matrix for a living and Amolith is invested in the XMPP world so we get into secure messaging, trade-offs between security and user experience, federation, and more.

Piss up at The Shipwrights Arms (just next to London Bridge station) on Saturday 27th June from 6pm until late

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