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@kball.llc

Host on Software Engineering Daily. VP Eng at Mento. Coach for kids (soccer) and adults (leadership, professional growth). Coffee addict.

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Software Engineering Daily@softwaredaily.bsky.social · last yr.

Werner Vogels is the Chief Technology Officer at Amazon and he joins @kball.llc to discuss his more than 20-year career at Amazon, the birth of AWS, the principles of the Frugal Architect, and much more. softwareengineeringdaily.com/2025/08/28/a...

A Conversation with Amazon CTO Werner Vogels - Software Engineering Daily

Werner Vogels is the Chief Technology Officer at Amazon, where he has played a pivotal role in shaping the company’s technology vision for over two decades. Before joining Amazon in 2004, Werner was a...

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Software Engineering Daily@softwaredaily.bsky.social · last yr.

Chandler Carruth is the creator of Carbon, and he leads the C++, C Lang, and LLVM teams at Google. In this episode, he joins @kball.llc to talk about Carbon and the future of the language. @chandlerc.blog softwareengineeringdaily.com/2025/08/14/c...

Carbon and Modernizing C++ with Chandler Carruth - Software Engineering Daily

Carbon is a programming language developed by Google as a successor to C++, and it aims to provide modern safety features while maintaining high performance. It’s designed to offer seamless interopera...

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tierney cyren@bnb.im · last yr.

fun news! I was laid off from Twilio. going to take this weekend to chill out, and will start looking for roles next week. if you or someone you know is looking for staff/principal level Developer Advocacy, OSPO, dev infra, or similar roles pass them along! reposts from tech folks appreciated <3

Tim Banks: VibeRel Advocate@elchefe.me · last yr.

Okay y’all, in honor of my 50th birthday in a few weeks, I’m crowdsourcing a “celebration fund” - $50 for 50 years - to help me get some things out of pawn and pay a few bills. I’d love it if you can, but if you can’t, if you could amplify this message I’d really appreciate it.

Venmo | Tim Banks

Venmo is a digital wallet that lets you make and share payments with friends. You can easily split the bill, cab fare, or much more. Download the iOS or Android app or sign up on Venmo.com today.

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Software Engineering Daily@softwaredaily.bsky.social · last yr.

Chen Tang is an engineer at @bytedance.bsky.social. In this episode, Chen joins the show with @kball.llc to talk about eBPF, the problems it solves, and how it was used at ByteDance. softwareengineeringdaily.com/2025/07/01/b...

ByteDance’s Container Networking Stack with Chen Tang - Software Engineering Daily

ByteDance is a global technology company operating a wide range of content platforms around the world, and is best known for creating TikTok. The company operates at a massive scale, which naturally p...

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Software Engineering Daily@softwaredaily.bsky.social · last yr.

Greg Jennings is the VP of Engineering and AI at @anacondainc.bsky.social. He joins the podcast with @kball.llc to talk about the tooling ecosystem around AI app development, the Anaconda Toolbox, the rapidly evolving role of AI in engineering, and more. @gregjennings.bsky.social bit.ly/3GpDv5T

AI at Anaconda with Greg Jennings - Software Engineering Daily

Anaconda is a software company that’s well-known for its solutions for managing packages, environments, and security in large-scale data workflows. The company has played a major role in making Python...

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Software Engineering Daily@softwaredaily.bsky.social · last yr.

Robin Lavallée is the CEO and Bill Litshauer is the COO at @implicitconversions.com. They join the show with @kball.llc to talk about emulating and enhancing retro PlayStation games on modern consoles. @robinlavallee.bsky.social softwareengineeringdaily.com/2025/06/19/e...

Emulating Retro Games on Modern Consoles with Robin Lavallée and Bill Litshauer - Software Engineering Daily

Emulating retro games on modern consoles is a growing trend, and allows players to experience classic titles with improved performance, enhanced resolution, and added features like save states and rew...

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Software Engineering Daily@softwaredaily.bsky.social · last yr.

Thomas Andersen is the VP of AI and Machine Learning at Synopsys. He joins @kball.llc to discuss how AI is reshaping hardware design, the challenge of modeling tacit engineering knowledge, domain-specific LLMs, and what’s coming next. softwareengineeringdaily.com/2025/05/29/c...

Chip Design in the AI Era with Thomas Andersen - Software Engineering Daily

Synopsys is a leading electronic design automation company specializing in silicon design and verification, as well as software integrity and security. Their tools are foundational to the creation of ...

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Software Engineering Daily@softwaredaily.bsky.social · last yr.

Heikki Linnakangas is a leading developer for PostgreSQL and the co-founder of @neon.tech. In this episode, he joins @kball.llc to discuss PostgreSQL’s rise in popularity, why he started Neon, pgvector for AI, and more. softwareengineeringdaily.com/2025/05/20/b...

Building PostgreSQL for the Future with Heikki Linnakangas - Software Engineering Daily

PostgreSQL is an open-source database known for its robustness, extensibility, and compliance with SQL standards. Its ability to handle complex queries and maintain high data integrity has made it a t...

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Software Engineering Daily@softwaredaily.bsky.social · last yr.

Chris Lattner is the CEO and Co-Founder of Modular, the company behind the Mojo language. In this episode, he joins @kball.llc to discuss his engineering journey and his current work on AI infrastructure and Mojo. softwareengineeringdaily.com/2025/05/22/m...

Mojo and Building a CUDA Replacement with Chris Lattner - Software Engineering Daily

Python is the dominant language for AI and data science applications, but it lacks the performance and low-level control needed to fully leverage GPU hardware. As a result, developers often rely on NV...

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Software Engineering Daily@softwaredaily.bsky.social · last yr.

Falco Girgis and Stef Kornilios Mitsis Poiitidis are developers on the GTA3 Dreamcast port. They join @kball.llc to talk about the Dreamcast hardware and the heroic task of porting GTA3 to the console. @falcogirgis.bsky.social softwareengineeringdaily.com/2025/05/08/g...

Grand Theft Auto III on the Dreamcast with Falco Girgis and Stef Kornilios Mitsis Poiitidis - Software Engineering Daily

Grand Theft Auto III is a 2001 an open-world action-adventure game developed by Rockstar Games and it had a profound impact on both gaming and popular culture. Its success cemented video games as a do...

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The Dysfunctional Developer@dysfunctional.fm · last yr.

🎙️ The new era of developer workflows @kball.llc and @nicknisi.com unpack how AI coding tools are transforming their dev work in 2025—productivity gains mixed with the anxiety of watching their craft evolve into something where directing AI might replace coding. dysfunctional.fm/episodes/the...

The Dysfunctional Developer | The New Era of Developer Workflows

KBall and Nick dive into the chaotic world of AI-powered coding! They swap stories about how tools like Cursor and Neovim are completely changing their day-to-day work life and making them question...

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Vish Abrams@vishvananda.bsky.social · last yr.

I really enjoyed digging into this topic. The concept from @kball.llc of essentially unlimited demand for software really changes the way you think about the future of software engineering.

Software Engineering Daily@softwaredaily.bsky.social · last yr.

Vish Abrams is Chief Architect at Heroku and he joins @kball.llc for a wide-ranging conversation about AI tools, vibe coding, the Model Context Protocol, Heroku’s managed inference service, and more. @vishvananda.bsky.social softwareengineeringdaily.com/2025/04/24/v...

Software Engineering Daily@softwaredaily.bsky.social · last yr.

Vish Abrams is Chief Architect at Heroku and he joins @kball.llc for a wide-ranging conversation about AI tools, vibe coding, the Model Context Protocol, Heroku’s managed inference service, and more. @vishvananda.bsky.social softwareengineeringdaily.com/2025/04/24/v...

Vibe Coding at Heroku with Vish Abrams - Software Engineering Daily

AI tools are transforming how developers write code, and although it’s difficult to pinpoint how much code is now AI-generated code, estimates suggest it’s between 20% and 40%, and this figure is pois...

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Software Engineering Daily@softwaredaily.bsky.social · last yr.

David A. Patterson is a pioneering computer scientist, co-developer of the RISC architecture, and a Turing Award winner. He joins @kball.llc to talk about his life and career. @acm.org softwareengineeringdaily.com/2025/04/10/t...

Turing Award Special: A Conversation with David Patterson - Software Engineering Daily

David A. Patterson is a pioneering computer scientist known for his contributions to computer architecture, particularly as a co-developer of Reduced Instruction Set Computing, or RISC, which revoluti...

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Software Engineering Daily@softwaredaily.bsky.social · 2y ago

David Rivas is the CTO at Rigetti Computing. He joins the podcast with @kball.llc to talk about Rigetti, the fundamentals of quantum computing, the state of the technology, and where we’re headed. softwareengineeringdaily.com/2025/03/13/q...

Quantum Computing at Rigetti with David Rivas - Software Engineering Daily

Rigetti Computing is an American company specializing in quantum computing, founded in 2013. The company develops quantum processors and hybrid quantum-classical computing systems, and aims to make qu...

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Software Engineering Daily@softwaredaily.bsky.social · 2y ago

@ccheever.com and @ide.bsky.social are the Co-Founders of @expo.dev and they join the podcast with @kball.llc to talk about the framework and the problems it solves. softwareengineeringdaily.com/2025/01/01/s...

Streamlined React Native Development with Charlie Cheever and James Ide - Software Engineering Daily

Expo is a development framework that streamlines the process of building cross-platform mobile apps using React Native. It eliminates the need for complex native code setup by providing pre-built APIs...

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