Software Engineering Daily

C++ Safety with Herb Sutter

The U.S. government recently released a report calling on the technical community to proactively reduce the attack surface area of software infrastructure. The report emphasized memory safety vulnerab...

Jun 06, 2024

Figma Engineering with Abhi Mathur

Figma is a cloud-based design and product development platform that is widely used in UI and UX work. It allows users to collaborate in real-time, a key feature that has helped drive its popularity. F...

Jun 05, 2024

Unstructured Data and LLMs with Crag Wolfe and Matt Robinson

The majority of enterprise data exists in heterogenous formats such as HTML, PDF, PNG, and PowerPoint. However, large language models do best when trained with clean, curated data. This presents a maj...

Jun 04, 2024

The Changing Enterprise Linux Ecosystem with Wim Coekaerts

Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a Linux distribution developed by Red Hat for the commercial market. The company recently announced changes to the availability of its source code. In response, CIQ, Oracle...

May 30, 2024

LLM Community Development with Antonio Velasco Fernández and Jose Pablo Cabeza García

LLMs have become one of the most important technologies to emerge in recent years. Many of the most prominent LLM tools are closed source, which has led to great interest in developing open-source too...

May 29, 2024

Detecting Deepfakes with Ryan Ofman

A deepfake is a synthetic media technique that uses deep learning to create or manipulate video, audio, or images to present something that didn’t actually occur. Deepfakes have gained attention in pa...

May 28, 2024

Bonus Episode: The N64 Decompilation Scene with Ethan Roseman and Mark Street

Decompilation is the process of translating a compiled program’s bytecode back into a higher-level programming language, like C. There’s a vibrant and growing scene of engineers working to decompile c...

May 24, 2024

The State of CSS with Rachel Andrews

CSS, or Cascading Style Sheets, is a fundamental technology in web development that defines the presentation and layout of HTML documents. It serves as a styling language that allows developers to con...

May 23, 2024

Modern SecOps with Maxime Lamothe-Brassard

Security Operations, or SecOps, refers to the collaboration between security and operations teams to secure an organization’s systems, applications, and data. Maxime Lamothe-Brassard is a Co-Founder o...

May 22, 2024

Microsoft Copilot with Justin Harris

Microsoft Copilot is a chatbot developed by Microsoft that launched in 2023 and is based on a large language model. Justin Harris is a Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft and has an extensive bac...

May 21, 2024

Pinata and the Interplanetary File System with Matt Ober

The interplanetary filesystem, or IPFS, is a peer-to-peer network that uses a distributed and decentralized model. Functionally, IPFS allows users to store and share files without having to rely on a...

May 16, 2024

Animal Well with Billy Basso

Animal Well is a Metroidvania game developed as a solo project by Billy Basso over the course of seven years. It’s the first game released by publisher Bigmode, which was founded by Jason “Dunkey” Gas...

May 15, 2024

LLMs for Data Queries with Sarah Nagy

One of the most promising applications of large language models is giving non-experts the ability to easily query their own data. A potential positive side effect is reducing ad-hoc data analysis requ...

May 14, 2024

Implementing KYC and User Verification with Alex Grinman

Almost every application or system involves some sort of user onboarding. Increasingly, companies must implement know-your-customer and know-your-business compliance, or KYC and KYB, as part of that p...

May 09, 2024

Nuxt JS with Anthony Fu

Vue is a popular JavaScript frontend framework, and Nuxt is an open source meta-framework on top of Vue. Anthony Fu is a Framework Developer on the Nuxt team. He joins the show to talk about Vue, Nuxt...

May 08, 2024