Coder Radio

643: Scott Kelly, CEO Black Dog Ventures

March 11th, 2026  |  19 mins 3 secs

ai, bi, bigdata, co-pilot, coding, dotnet, funding, gamedev, gaming, linux, node, nosql, programming, ruby, rust, sega, startup, tabnine, vc, vibe coding

Mike sat down with Scott Kelly of Black Dog Ventures to discuss the VC funding market, his unique funding events and what the outlook for technical founders is like in 2026. Also, some pro tips from Scott on getting VC attention.

642: March Mailbag

March 5th, 2026  |  17 mins

bi, bigdata, dotnet, linux, mongodb, node, nosql, programming, ruby, rust

Mike reads out your emails and tries to unplug with you all!

641: Qdrant's Brian O'Grady

February 15th, 2026  |  39 mins 22 secs

ai, bi, big data, bigdata, cisco, co-pilot, data lake, dotnet, gamedev, gaming, linux, node, nosql, programming, ruby, rust, sega, thousandeyes coding, vibe coding

Mike sits down with Brian O'Grady of Qdrant to talk vector search and take a trip down NJ memory lane.

639: RubyLLM with Carmine Paolino

January 21st, 2026  |  17 mins 15 secs

ai, bi, bigdata, co-pilot, coding, dotnet, gamedev, gaming, linux, node, nosql, programming, ruby, rubyllm, rust, sega, tabnine, vibe coding

Mike sits down to talk some RubyLLM with its author Carmine Paolino.

638: Cisco's ThousandEyes' Murtaza Doctor

January 12th, 2026  |  27 mins 52 secs

ai, bi, big data, bigdata, cisco, co-pilot, data lake, dotnet, gamedev, gaming, linux, node, nosql, programming, ruby, rust, sega, thousandeyes coding, vibe coding

Mike sits down with Murtaza Doctor of Cisco Thousand Eyes to discuss some pretty deep infrastructure stuff in the age of AI.

637: SEGA Christmas Special 25

December 23rd, 2025  |  46 mins 30 secs

ai, bi, bigdata, co-pilot, coding, dotnet, gamedev, gaming, linux, node, nosql, programming, ruby, rust, sega, tabnine, vibe coding

635: Tabnine's Eran Yahav

December 12th, 2025  |  17 mins 35 secs

ai, bi, bigdata, co-pilot, coding, dotnet, linux, node, nosql, programming, ruby, rust, tabnine, vibe coding

Mike sits down with Eran Yahav of Tabine to talk enterprise coding agents and AI assisted coding.

634: MongoDB's Frank Pachot

December 5th, 2025  |  22 mins 32 secs

bi, bigdata, dotnet, linux, mongodb, node, nosql, programming, ruby, rust

Mike sits down to get schoole on NOSQL and Mongo DB!

445: Say No to Node

December 22nd, 2021  |  56 mins 52 secs

apple, async activerecord, coder radio, development podcast, mac apps on ipad, node, rails 7, return to offices, ruby on rails, swift playgrounds, the one person framework, webpack, xcode for ios

We're both impressed by Rails 7 and how an old foe got us down again.

347: Rusty Rubies

March 5th, 2019  |  47 mins 21 secs

apple, binaries, bitbucket, bucklescript, bundler, cargo, chrome, ci, clojure, clojurescript, coder radio, darter pro, deployment, developer podcast, dynamic programming languages, firefox, functional programming, gem, git, google, ios, javascript, jenkins, mac mini, macos, mozilla, node, npm, ocaml, opensuse, packaging, pika, pikapkg, pip, python, rbenv, reasonml, ruby, rust, suse, system76, testing, thelio, transpiling, virtualenv, wasm, web assembly

Mike breaks down what it takes to build a proper iOS build server, and leaves the familiar shallows of Debian for the open waters of openSUSE.