The Code Kitchen: Recent Episodes
Divan Visagie
Every Episode, Software Professionals Divan Visagie and Simon Hornby chat about the latest developments and issues in the software industry. From hot new technologies and best practices to interviews with businesses in the software world, we bring you the world of software untainted by the kind of sponsor revenue that causes people to forget that Digital Ocean existed and pretend it was Linode the whole time.
We chat to Egil and Ivar Østhus about Feature Flags, how Unleash (https://www.getunleash.io/) became a product, and how they are enabling developer efficiency.
In this episode we interview Darren Whitfield (https://twitter.com/thegeekzn) from Outdev (http://outdev.io/) and talk about his journey stepping outside his comfort zone and setting out with a partner to start their own business.
In this episode, Simon has questions for Divan as he discusses his experiences with TypeScript. Simon's Recipe of the Day: https://www.nigella.com/recipes/sweet-potatoes-with-marshmallows
In this episode we chat about Simon's experiences writing Rust for the first time in production and how that compares to the work he's done in other languages in the past. Links: * https://docs.rs/hyper/0.13.7/hyper/ * https://docs.rs/diesel/1.4.5/diesel/ * https://docs.rs/tokio/0.2.22/tokio/
Hosts Divan Visagie and Simon Hornby chat about JavaScript, how it runs everywhere and the way it is perceived in the industry. Links: Installing C libraries with NPM: https://github.com/substack/dotc
In this episode we discuss the phenomenon of overcomplicated software design and how in most cases its unecessary.