Results for "Kris Brandow"
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StandardSummaries onlyHe Who Controls the Source
Fallthrough· Kris Brandow· May 16, 2026
This week we've got Kris and Jamie! They open with the Shai-Hulud worm chewing through the npm supply chain and close on the messy economics of who actually pays for open source labor. And there's plenty of great stuff i…
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Forging Ahead
Fallthrough· Kris Brandow· May 9, 2026
Steve is back to talk JJ (Jujutsu version control) and the related product, ChangeSet, that he works on at East River Source Control. Kris and Steve trace why the GitHub monoculture is finally cracking, what JJ does that…
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Regression to the Mean
Fallthrough· Kris Brandow· May 2, 2026
Kris and Ian dig into the slow collapse of GitHub, starting with Ghostty off the platform after years of reliability problems. From there they trace Gary Bernhardt's old observation that we took a decentralized source co…
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No Country for Old Maintainers
Fallthrough· Kris Brandow· Apr 25, 2026
Jamie returns, co-hosting with Kris for quite an eventful episode. They start with the Vercel breach, the Axios attack, nvim-treesitter, and Gorilla Mux. Kris draws parallels between the current AI hype cycle to everythi…
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Supply Chain Reaction
Fallthrough· Kris Brandow· Apr 18, 2026
After last week's "Another Spectre In The Shell" episode, we felt we needed a follow up! This week Kris is joined by returning co-host Jamie Tanna, with Ian arriving fashionably late. They pick apart the post-Mythos anno…
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Another Spectre In The Shell
Fallthrough· Kris Brandow· Apr 11, 2026
It's Kris, Matt, and Steve this week. It's also Matt's last episode before becoming a father. The conversation opens with Claude Mythos, Anthropic's unreleased model that found 147 zero-days in Firefox's JavaScript engin…
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Snake Oil Has an Expiration Date
Fallthrough· Kris Brandow· Apr 4, 2026
It's Kris and Matt this week, and the conversation goes places. It starts with Matt going all-in on Apple and a leaked Claude Code source dump, then pivots into AI companies repeating social media's diversity-of-thought …
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Who's Afraid of Superintelligence?
Fallthrough· Kris Brandow· Mar 29, 2026
We've got a full panel! In this episode, Kris, Matt, Steve, and Ian have a deep dive into superintelligence, AGI, and why the fear around them might say more about us than about AI. Steve draws a line from colonialism an…
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The Joy of Building
Fallthrough· Kris Brandow· Mar 21, 2026
This week Kris and Matt go full homelab. The conversation starts with Kris refreshing his dev setup: migrating NeoVim to 100% Lua, switching from ZSH to NuShell, and rethinking Tmux, all with the help of an LLM. The disc…
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The Least Contentious Proposal in the History of Go
Fallthrough· Kris Brandow· Mar 14, 2026
Dylan's back this week joining Kris and Matt to tackle Go's UUID proposal (#62026). What Dylan thinksshould have been the least contentious proposal in the history of Go. The panel digs into the proposed API's shortcomin…
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Deprecate the Error Interface
Fallthrough· Kris Brandow· Mar 7, 2026
Another week, another Kris & Matt duo episode! This week, they're picking up where Bryan Cantrill's "Complexity of Simplicity" framework left off and asking what it means for Go's future. Kris argues Go is squarely rebel…
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Is Go Simple Anymore?
Fallthrough· Kris Brandow· Feb 21, 2026
Another week, another Kris & Matt duo episode! This week, they're talking about Go. They cover the recent generic methods proposal by Robert Griesemer, results from the 2025 Go Developer Survey, some highlights of the 1.…
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Lava Layers
Fallthrough· Kris Brandow· Feb 14, 2026
This week it's Kris and Matt diving into the state of hardware, security, and what local AI actually needs to work. The conversation starts with AI agent social networks and why prompt injection is the unsolved SQL injec…
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The Vibes-Based Legal System
Fallthrough· Kris Brandow· Feb 7, 2026
This week Steve's back to tackle the big question: is AI-generated output copyrightable? The conversation includes discussions of the Copyright Act of 1976, the philosophy of why copyright exists at all, whether LLM trai…
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The AI Factory Floor
Fallthrough· Kris Brandow· Jan 31, 2026
This week we're talking about Gastown! Dylan and Steve join Kris to break down the viral project that spins up hundreds of Claude Code instances to build a software factory. Steve makes the case for why this is an inevit…
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New Year, New Nuance
Fallthrough· Kris Brandow· Jan 10, 2026
New Year, New Nuance! In this episode, Kris and Matt discuss what they're looking forward to in 2026—Matt shares the exciting news that he's becoming a dad, and the duo explore the value of growth, changing your opinions…
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Why Is Tech So Mid?
Fallthrough· Kris Brandow· Dec 20, 2025
In the tech industry, we talk about how exceptional and innovative we are. But are we really? In this episode, Kris and Matt explore why they see the industry as pretty mid and how things should be better.If you prefer t…
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Project Management 2 Shell
Fallthrough· Kris Brandow· Dec 12, 2025
Another Cloudflare outage. A CVSS 10.0 React RCE vulnerability. We've been dealing with quite a lot these last few weeks. In this week's episode, Kris and Matt discuss the outage and vulnerability and have a deeper discu…
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Ghostting Is Better Than Shelling
Fallthrough· Kris Brandow· Dec 5, 2025
We've had Mitchell Hashimoto on a couple episodes, and each time we've discussed his vision for libghostty. In this episode, Kris and Matt talk about what the vision for libghostty actually means for the industry as a wh…
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Magic Numbers Take Down The Internet
Fallthrough· Kris Brandow· Nov 25, 2025
This cannot keep happening. Another day, another outage. On this week's episode Kris and Matt talk about the recent Cloudflare outage. And boy do they have thoughts, we really hope you enjoy this exchange of monologues.I…
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The AI Marketing Problem
Fallthrough· Kris Brandow· Nov 20, 2025
The tech industry is terrible at marketing things. From AI to Blockchain to Git, we constantly miss the actual innovation by looking too closely at the surface level. In this episode, Kris is joined by the full panel of …
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Artisanal Software Engineering
Fallthrough· Kris Brandow· Nov 12, 2025
Software engineering has an identity problem. Some software engineers want to be craftspeople and artisans, while others want to be more like the traditional engineers, while others just want to write some code. In this …
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The Fault In Our Clouds
Fallthrough· Kris Brandow· Nov 4, 2025
First it was GCP in June. Then it was AWS in October. Then it was Azure a week later. It seems that our cloud providers are having outages far more often, and for far longer, than any of us would like. In this episode, K…
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JJ and How to Evolve an Open Source Ecosystem
Fallthrough· Kris Brandow· Oct 28, 2025
Jujutsu is a new version control system that's gaining in popularity. Its swappable backends allow users to continue using version control systems like Git without other users even noticing. Steve Klabnik aims to be a bi…
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The Failure of Open Source Leadership
Fallthrough· Kris Brandow· Oct 7, 2025
Open source project leaders have faced heavy challenges over the last decade and a half. It seems every language community has had conflicts with its leadership: Python with the struggles of the Python 2 to 3 migration; …
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PHP Was Never Dead
Fallthrough· Kris Brandow· Sep 30, 2025
This week we've got a grab bag episode! Kris and Matt discuss a variety of topics, including a GopherCon debrief (featuring some RustConf comparisons!), why people can't be mad all the time, the need for better abstracti…