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Do you feel like you're hitting a wall with your existing software projects? Are you curious to hear how other people are navigating this? You're not alone. On the Maintainable Software Podcast, Robby speaks with seasoned practitioners who have overcome the technical and cultural problems often associated with software development. Our guests will share stories in each episode and outline tangible, real-world approaches to software challenges. In turn, you'll uncover new ways of thinking about how to improve your software project's maintainability.

Paula Paul - Getting People To Understand Is a Challenge

44 mins; April 25, 2022

Ben Halpern - Adventures In Open Sourcing Your Existing Application

47 mins; April 18, 2022

Avdi Grimm - Don't Be Too Clingy To Your Tests

44 mins; April 11, 2022

Aran Khanna - De-risk Your Cloud Resources

43 mins; April 04, 2022

Jerod Santo - Having to Maintain Your Own Cleverness

54 mins; March 28, 2022

Idit Levine - Production is the Real Test

42 mins; March 21, 2022

Emily Giurleo - Maintaining Open Source vs Proprietary Software

47 mins; February 07, 2022

Jean Yang - Not All Software is Meant to be Maintained

48 mins; December 13, 2021

Shaundai Person: Work on Having a Short-term Memory

51 mins; November 29, 2021

Chris Birchall: Re-Engineering Legacy Software

39 mins; November 22, 2021

Swizec Teller: What is a Senior (Engineer) Mindset?

42 mins; November 08, 2021

Heidi Waterhouse: Documentation: The Best Diff is a Red Diff

46 mins; November 01, 2021

DHH: Celebrating Legacy Software as a Victory and the Story of How Humans Can't Estimate

53 mins; October 04, 2021

Matt Wynne: Cucumber and Why Is TDD Such a Challenge?

41 mins; August 02, 2021

Tom Granot: Finding Your Style When Explaining Things to Technical Audiences

45 mins; July 19, 2021

Andrew Watkins: How To Test What You're Trying to Build

47 mins; June 28, 2021

Rodney Cobb: Repeatable. Testable. Scalable.

44 mins; June 21, 2021

Dr. Michaela Greiler: Getting Awesome at Code Reviews

41 mins; June 14, 2021

Mark Kilby: Overcoming Challenges that Remote Technical Teams Experience

52 mins; May 24, 2021

Kevin Stewart: Short-term Decisions That Need To Be Revisited

51 mins; May 19, 2021

Ken Fogel: What Are You Leaving Behind?

47 mins; May 10, 2021

Murray Steele: Maintainable Code Is Easy to Turn Off and Delete

59 mins; April 26, 2021

Dr. Felienne Hermans: Looking Inside The Programmer's Brain

49 mins; April 19, 2021

Bertold Kolics: Are You Carrying the Weight of Dead Code?

51 mins; April 12, 2021

Kent C. Dodds: AHA Programming and Testing JavaScript

47 mins; April 07, 2021

Mark Adams: HOWTO Prepare (Your Nails) for Burning Man

15 mins; April 01, 2021

Amy Sorensen: Nail Baths vs Nail Soaks

16 mins; April 01, 2021

Logan Luke Tyler Tanner: Overcoming Nail Biting During a Pandemic

19 mins; April 01, 2021

Erica Tafavoti: Adding Density to Extend Their Life

20 mins; April 01, 2021

Duncan Thorpe: Disrupting the Mammalian Industrial Nail Complex

22 mins; April 01, 2021

Shannon Jackson: Oh, Wait, Nope...Those Aren't My Gutter Nails

19 mins; April 01, 2021

Brian Scanlan: Improving Oncall Support with Meaningful Alarms

53 mins; March 29, 2021

Alexandre Omeyer: Removing the Barriers to Track Technical Debt

51 mins; March 22, 2021

Roopak Venkatakrishnan: The Importance of Optimizing For Local Development and Build Systems

48 mins; March 15, 2021

Benjamin Wood: Rescuing Ruby on Rails Projects

42 mins; March 08, 2021

Johanna Rothman: No, Great Developers Aren't Destined to Be Great Managers

54 mins; March 02, 2021

Helen Scott: Strategies For Measuring Developer Experience (DX)

38 mins; February 24, 2021

Robert Kaufman: Running a Consultancy and a Coding School

71 hours 34 mins; February 16, 2021

Heidi Helfand: The Art and Wisdom of Changing Teams

61 hours 11 mins; February 08, 2021

Jutta Eckstein: How Software Impacts Our Planet

54 mins; February 01, 2021

John Cech: How To Mentor Interns On Software Projects

43 mins; January 25, 2021

Theresa Neate: Testing != Quality

48 mins; January 19, 2021

Michael Springer: Vetting External Dependencies

50 mins; January 11, 2021

Jason Swett: Refactoring Is Necessary to Keep Your Blade Sharp

44 mins; January 04, 2021

Sudhir Reddy: Don't Be Afraid to Slash and Burn

39 mins; December 28, 2020

Monica Lent: Progress Is More Important Than Perfection

50 mins; December 21, 2020

Trae Robrock: Understanding Your Risk Tolerance As An Engineer

50 mins; December 14, 2020

Mark Erikson: Accidentally Becoming an Open Source Maintainer

47 mins; December 07, 2020

Bonnie Brennan: Building Community

48 mins; November 30, 2020

Khaled Souf: Track Down Dead Code and Delete it

49 mins; November 23, 2020

Adrianna Chang: Using the Strangler Fig Pattern at Shopify

41 mins; November 16, 2020

Mark Downie: Balancing The Promises That Open Source Projects Make

41 mins; November 09, 2020

Glenn Vanderburg: Don't Ask For Small Things

42 mins; November 02, 2020

Suzan Bond: Embracing Discomfort and Navigating Transitions

43 mins; October 26, 2020

Nicolas Carlo: Changing Messy Software Without Breaking It

47 mins; October 19, 2020

Brittany Martin: How to Quit Your Job and Leave Your Code in Good Hands

47 mins; October 12, 2020

Luke Redpath: User Stories Should Prompt Conversations

52 mins; October 05, 2020

Hampton Lintorn Catlin: Only Add Complexity When Necessary

69 hours 24 mins; September 28, 2020

Pat Kua: The Challenges that Come with Becoming a Tech Lead

34 mins; September 21, 2020

Aaron Blohowiak: The Myth of the Sufficiently Smart Engineer

51 mins; September 14, 2020

Magda Miu: Building a Technical Leadership Career Around Teaching

58 mins; September 07, 2020

Gant Laborde: Technical Debt — Trading Risk for an Advantage

45 mins; August 31, 2020

Karen Lee Rigg: Where Are the Bad Habits Coming From?

48 mins; August 24, 2020

Gianluca Arbezzano: Technical Debt Beyond Code & Your First Contributions to Open Source

44 mins; July 13, 2020

Ali Spittel: Junior Developers and Helping Unlock Their Potential

47 mins; July 06, 2020

Robby Russell: Turning the Mic Around with Kayla Reopelle

71 hours 5 mins; June 29, 2020

Ryan Cromwell: Is the Juice Worth the Squeeze?

48 mins; June 22, 2020

Camille Fournier: How Does a Developer Become a Manager?

46 mins; June 15, 2020

Gonçalo Silva: How A Fully-Remote Team Builds and Maintains Software

44 mins; June 01, 2020

Tudor Girba: Moldable Development and Software Environmentalism

44 mins; May 25, 2020

Jeff Haynie: How Can We Make Software Development Better for Dev Teams?

52 mins; May 18, 2020

Vladimir Khorikov: 100% Test Coverage is an Artificial Metric

60 hours 49 mins; May 11, 2020

Bryan Helmkamp: Don't Let Perfect Be The Enemy of Good

36 mins; May 04, 2020

Dr. Aino Vonge Corry: Why Do We Have Retrospectives, Again?

45 mins; April 27, 2020

Trisha Gee: Developers Should Invest More Time Into Learning Their Tools

42 mins; April 20, 2020

Sandi Metz: Making is Easy, Mending is a Challenge

47 mins; April 13, 2020

Clare Sudbery: Refactoring Should Be Part of Your Daily Work

50 mins; April 06, 2020

Kelly Sutton: Custodians of the Monolith

37 mins; March 30, 2020

Jonathan Abourbih: Creating a Culture Where It's Okay To Take Risks

43 mins; March 23, 2020

Jessica Kerr: Software Is Not A Craft (or an Art)

40 mins; March 09, 2020

Jon Thornton: Technical Debt is a Good Thing (Sometimes)

39 mins; March 02, 2020

Ben Orenstein: "Someday We'll Go Clean That Up" Doesn't Work

30 mins; February 24, 2020

Ernesto Tagwerker: Tracking Technical Debt With Metrics (aka Stink Score)

46 mins; February 17, 2020

Marit van Dijk: How Are We Going to Test This?

37 mins; February 10, 2020

Mike Perham: How Developers Underestimate Long-Term Costs of External Dependencies

36 mins; February 03, 2020

Ev Haus: Good Code Can Be Easily Deleted

46 mins; January 27, 2020

Adam Tornhill: Prioritizing Technical Debt With Behavioral Code Analysis

42 mins; January 20, 2020

M. Scott Ford: Menders In Hiding and the Joy of Legacy Code

42 mins; January 13, 2020

Gitte Klitgaard: Making Space For Psychological Safety in Software Teams

39 mins; January 06, 2020

Nathaniel Bibler: Communication Strategies Between Developers and Clients

53 mins; December 23, 2019

Abby Bangser: Building Trust In Your Deployment Pipeline

30 mins; December 16, 2019

Viktor Klang: Condensing The Codebase Over Time

53 mins; December 09, 2019

Beth Long: Maintainable Code Prioritizes How Humans Interact With It

34 mins; December 02, 2019

Emily Bache: It's Always More Fun to Code with Others

35 mins; November 25, 2019

Zee Spencer: How Can We Reduce Carrying Costs?

38 mins; November 18, 2019

Ana Nelson: Writing Maintainable Code Documentation with Automated Tools and Transclusion

37 mins; November 04, 2019

Dave Aronson: Putting the M in ACRUMEN

44 mins; October 28, 2019

Michael Feathers: Be Curious & Chase The Rabbit Holes

32 mins; October 21, 2019

Justin Searls: Learn To Understand The Runtime

51 mins; October 14, 2019

Patricia Aas: Intersection of Programming & Security

33 mins; October 07, 2019

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