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Tobias

Kristoffer

Fredrik

Kodsnack in English

Fredrik chats with James Smith about forking Rails for the greater good. The name of the project is Mosscap. (During recording, it still used the temporary name Amiko.) James explains why the forking project has been started, and why many people have been calling for change within the Rails world for a long time.

James talks about what has been done so far, the importance of getting more people involved, quickly, technical solutions, and of getting the governance model right. Technology and development in itself isn’t really the important focus. Mosscap is place to keep maintaining existing Rails apps, but not necessarily the way to start completely new ones. There may not even be a second major version of Mosscap. There are other projects for that situation.

We also discuss James' project Manyfold and how it works to apply for and build software funded by NLNet (EU, essentially) grants.

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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 info@kodsnack.se if you want to write longer. We read everything we receive.

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Links

James
Manyfold • - James own project

NGI zero
Ruby on rails
Mosscap • - the permanent name

Rails needs new governance • - blog post with plenty of background on why change is needed

Rails is done • - blog post about Mosscap, background, and supporting something stable

Open letter to the Rails core team last year
DHH • - David Heinemeier Hansson - you can find his blog posts if you really want to

Rubygems • - the package manager and system

ARPANET
Join the Matrix space
Gem aliasing
Monkey patching
Follow Mosscap project on Mastodon
Repos for the fork • - known as Amiko at the time of recording, now Mosscap

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Amiko • - friend in 
Esperanto
Electromagnetic field festival
CVE
Fediverse
Hanakai • - another base on which to build Ruby apps

Hanami • - app framework which is part of Hanakai

LTS • - long-term support

Mosscap’s governance documents
Fedipub
nlnet.nl

Titles

 • Tech for good

 • All of our collective intelligence together

 • Some dubious lifestyle decisions

 • Trying really hard to not know why

 • Not taking anything away from anyone

 • Me with a fork

 • Reasons why things won’t work

 • I thought it was Japanese

 • Stomping around, being angry in a field

 • You’re somebody

 • Somebody should do something

 • A proper security process

 • Many weird technical decisions because of philosophical stances

 • No funding for maintenance

 • We’ll be looking after the core

 • Detailed for the likes of me

 • Here’s a donation

 • Donation unlocked

 • Grantdown

 • A slightly less tech bro-y future

Kodsnack 716 - Dubious lifestyle decisions, with James Smith

Fredrik chats to Harald Achitz about freelancing, C++ 26, and ten years of running the Swedencpp meetup.

Harald discusses the various oddities of the Swedish consultant and software market, both before but especially in the current environment. Consultants don’t cost what you expect them to when compared to employees, and a strange previous focus on headcount has not helped either.

We then talk about the standardization process for C++ and about new things in C++ 26. Harald discusses the issues of adding new things which are good in themselves, but perhaps don’t fit into a bigger picture, take a lot of focus and energy which in turn means many other things do not get considered which may be smaller and more widely and immediately useful.

Also: once something is in the standard library, it’s eternal. And there is still no real ecosystem around C++. Infrastructure is a hard thing. And Rust is out there.

Finally, we talk about Harald’s experience of running the Swedencpp meetup for ten years. What does it mean to run something for so long? Technology, talks, locations, providing a space for presentations, and trying to keep things evolving are all discussed.

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Links

Harald
Previous episodes • with Harald

Support us on Ko-fi!
C++ 26
ISO
SC22 WG21 • - the standardization group for C++

The Swedish local mirror for SG22 • , affectionately known as SIS/TK 611/AG 09

SIS • - Swedish institute of standards

Swedencpp
Remember the Vasa! • - 
Bjarne • ’s paper

Modules • - from C++ 20

“The irony is that since this issue was opened, I have not only learned rust, I also switched to it fully."
Coroutines
Compile-time reflection
Templates
Orthodox C++ • - talk by Harald

C++ quiz compilation
Contracts in C++
Eiffel
Undefined behavior in C++
Swift package manager
Ripgrep
Sender and receiver
Profiles in C++
Cppcheck • - by 
Daniel Marjamäki
Concepts
Swedencpp on Youtube
Swedencpp pro

Titles

 • To take communication with Skatteverket

 • What is a consultant?

 • Horrendous prices for Powerpoint presentations

 • Somebody needs an excuse

 • Every hour counts

 • Flavors of consultant

 • I cost so much money

 • Why we have time to talk

 • Too much gatekeeping

 • Still just collecting profiles

 • Special in the terms of ISO

 • Why does Sweden not have a voice

 • I represent this type

 • It’s still ISO

 • A lot of big features again

 • They are also awesome

 • A lot of things to do, and to know

 • All these things deserve their own book

 • You can do a lot of magic

 • (I became) Too old for liking magic

 • There was magic everywhere

 • That’s really useful

 • Infinite ways of doing something

 • Define your subset

 • The subset needs to fit you

 • Awesome, to some extent

 • Paperwork is expensive

 • Everything is already being re-written

 • A step in the right direction

 • Where efficiency is a priority

 • Based on personal experience

 • If you go there, you can’t work

 • Let’s make something accessible

 • At least it’s not nothing anymore

 • Conference over space and time

 • What’s the next level?

 • Still an option

Kodsnack 703 - The subset needs to fit you, with Harald Achitz

Fredrik chats to Holly Cummins about using Minecraft for observability, other amazing Quarkus tricks, and the value of joy at work.

Recorded during Øredev 2025.

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 info@kodsnack.se if you want to write longer. We read everything we receive.

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Links

Holly
Holly’s presentation • - Five (and a half) things you can do with Quarkus

Quarkus
Graalvm
Picocli
AWT
WASM
Chicory • - WASM runtime for the JVM

Microcks • - contract testing framework in Java

APICurio
Dev services
SQLite in WASM
Hibernate
Reasteasy
Vert.x • - “reactive applications on the JVM”

Holly’s Minecraft extension for Quarkus
Support us on Ko-fi!
Langchain4j
Grafana
William Gibson
Backpressure
Simon Wardley • and 
his keynote on mapping
Minecraft demo to explain Kubernetes concepts • , by Sebastien Blanc

Holly’s talk about developer joy
The fun topic on hollycummins.com

Titles

 • All in one room

 • When you say Quarkus

 • Really amazing throughput

 • The way that conferences work

 • Other people have done all the work

 • It unlocks a whole lot of possibilities

 • Slightly more tortured

 • Javascripv via WASM on the JVM

 • The absence of configuration

 • Unless you work for a bank

 • That zero friction

 • All of that dynamism

 • The reading of the configuration

 • Deep introspection of the application

 • Six demos in 40 minutes

 • The useful extensions had been written

 • The chicken would explode

 • Novel way of understanding the application

 • Manually implement the backpressure

 • Zoo of types

 • The containers were chickens

 • Joy and productivity

 • The happy piglets

 • You are a profitalbe piglet

 • The mandatory fun officer

 • I now have the language

 • On team cloud

Kodsnack 701 - The chicken would explode, with Holly Cummins

Fredrik chats to Shawn Wildermuth about evolving in the world of software development, small changes adding up, developer hiring, not chasing the new thing, and quite a bit more.

Fredrik is still hoping for the last episode of Shawn’s old podcast.

Making sure you use your time in a way that’s right for you. Whether it’s spending lots of time learning new stuff or getting deep into the tech you really enjoy.

Recorded during Øredev 2025.

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 info@kodsnack.se 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

Shawn
Shawn on Github
 • Shawn’s old podcast 
Hello world
Richard Campbell and Carl Franklin • , of the 
.NET rocks • podcast

Science Friday • , from PBS

What’s new in C# 14 and .NET 10 • - Shawn’s presentation at Øredev 2025

.NET core
Blazor
ASP.NET
Null forgiveness
.NET conf
Nullable reference types
Objective-c
Tell the C# compiler to act like older versions
Generics
Nullable value types
Pluralsight
Windows phone
Foxpro
Impostor syndrome
 • Shawn’s film 
Hello world • - confronting bias in software development

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Oslo
Winfs
Practical file system design with the Be file system • - The Beos file system book by 
Dominic Giampaolo
Beos
GEOS
Silverlight
 • Open sourced 
Webassembly • -based Silverlight version

Kotlin
CLR
Fortran
COBOL
MUMPS
Vue
Cosmos DB
Azure foundry
Eleventy

Titles

 • I feel like I never did a podcast

 • Edit the last one

 • What’s your focus?

 • There’s not enough to talk about here

 • Null forgiveness

 • Talk about nullability

 • The next fifteen years

 • Where I’m best used

 • Paid to learn the new stuff

 • I’m just happy to be around

 • Those quiet voices

 • Win the design meeting

 • Wrong about Webassembly

 • Actual system languages

 • Five years from being useful

 • A two-IDE person

Kodsnack 699 - A two-IDE person, with Shawn Wildermuth

Fredrik chats to Sergès Goma about dark patterns and her Øredev presentation on them.

We start off by talking about giving presentations and the background to the dark patterns talk. All the great versions of a talk - you never know what’s going to happen. Dark patterns and ethics in software development are topics people like to share their experiences of. And it’s easy to get caught in the pull between protecting your user and finishing your tickets. We as developers do have a lot of power, but we also have a job to do.

Making (good) ethical decisions business decisions instead can suddenly get them budget and priority. Laws are good at creating such pressures sometimes.

Toward the end, we discuss falling behind in tech, and Sergès gets Fredrik to make some predictions about the AI bubble before wrapping up on a positive note.

Recorded during Øredev 2025.

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 info@kodsnack.se 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

Sergès
Sergès' presentation
Dark patterns • - also known as deceptive design patterns

Evil tech • - Sergès' previous talk

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The EU accessibility act
GDPR
/r/assholedesign on Reddit
Confirm shaming
The big short
The good place
The uncanny valley

Titles

 • It was everything

 • Very future-forward

 • They nailed the theme

 • Dark patterns … to rule them all

 • You judge a talk by its name

 • The name is more important

 • Why not do a spinoff?

 • It was made for questions

 • It’s never the same talk for me

 • I just did whatever I wanted to do

 • They’re crazier than me

 • Be in character

 • Evil laugh competition

 • (I got to show) My true talent

 • If you are for everyone, you are for no-one

 • Focus more on the topic

 • Spotify’s dark pattern

 • Do I protect my user?

 • The baby koalas are going to die

 • The train is already gone

 • The train travels in a circle

 • The train from hell

 • The story of our job

 • Better jobs for humans

 • This is the bad place

 • You actually want humans

 • The pain in my existence

 • Write my own emails

Kodsnack 694 - Dark patterns … to rule them all, with Sergès Goma

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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Comments, questions or tips? We a re @kodsnack, @tobiashieta, @oferlund and @bjoreman on Twitter, have a page on Facebook and can be emailed at info@kodsnack.se 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

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 681 - German ortography, with Dylan Beattie

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 info@kodsnack.se 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 679 - Educational electronics, with David J. Cuartielles Ruiz

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 info@kodsnack.se 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
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 678 - The intent of a human, with Justyna Zander

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 info@kodsnack.se 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
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 677 - It's all quantum, with Natalia Chepiga

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 info@kodsnack.se 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
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 676 - Maps will get you fired, with Simon Wardley

Live on stage at Startup arena 2016 in Gothenburg, Fredrik talks to Bob Jelica, Johannes Tveitan and Magnus Gudmundsson and try to nail down just what a startup is and what working for one means.

Thank you Cloudnet for sponsoring our VPS!

Comments, questions or tips? We are @kodsnack, @tobiashieta, @oferlund och @bjoreman on Twitter, have a page on Facebook and can be emailed on info@kodsnack.se if you want to write something longer. We read everything you send.

If you like Kodsnack we would love a review in iTunes!

Länkar

Bob Jelica
Football addicts
Johannes Tveitan
Monocl
Gothenburg startup hack
Magnus Gudmundsson
Cyberdada
Startup • - on Wikipedia

TPS reports
Jamie Zawinski
Netscape
The Netscape dorm
E.T. • - the video game

Titlar

 • I don’t do coding anymore

 • I have no idea what a startup is

 • A small company trying to do something

 • Spending someone else’s money

 • Does everyone have to disrupt shit?

 • Pivot, come on, pivot

 • Infinite hours for minimum wage

 • You should have started by then

 • We need to burn some people

 • You have passion for this now

 • Real passion is contagious

 • Riding the unicorn

 • Watch out for the unicorn riders

 • The luxury of chasing the dream

 • Suddenly we did know shit

 • Stop disrupting shit

Kodsnack 157 - I have no idea what a startup is

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