On this week's episode, Kris and Matthew have a topic: tension. Not the bad kind you learn to avoid, but the productive kind that, like a code smell, is worth stopping to examine. They discuss the challenges of APIs and stability, whether SDKs are actually necessary, and as always a little bit of life advice for our wonderful viewers/listeners.

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Table of Contents:

Prologue (00:00:00)
Chapter 1: Heat, the World Cup, and America Through European Eyes (00:00:52)
Chapter 3: Fable Returns and the One Person Agent Operation System (00:05:35)
Chapter 4: Issue Trackers Aren't Dead: Linear, plan.md, and Keeping Context (00:10:47)
Chapter 7: Solutions Versus Tools and the Meta Repo Problem (00:14:40)
Chapter 9: Bending to the Tool: Forks, Filesystems, and the git flow Confession (00:18:34)
Chapter 10: Code Smells and the Oxide API Versioning Tension (00:31:11)
Chapter 11: Stopping the World: Backward Compatibility and the Summer of Hell (00:38:08)
Chapter 12: Do We Still Need SDKs? (00:48:44)
Epilogue (00:57:36)

Hosts

Matthew Sanabria - Host
Kris Brandow - Host

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(00:00) - Prologue
(00:52) - Chapter 1: Heat, the World Cup, and America Through European Eyes
(05:35) - Chapter 3: Fable Returns and the One Person Agent Operation System
(10:47) - Chapter 4: Issue Trackers Aren't Dead: Linear, plan.md, and Keeping Context
(14:40) - Chapter 7: Solutions Versus Tools and the Meta Repo Problem
(18:34) - Chapter 9: Bending to the Tool: Forks, Filesystems, and the git flow Confession
(31:11) - Chapter 10: Code Smells and the Oxide API Versioning Tension
(38:08) - Chapter 11: Stopping the World: Backward Compatibility and the Summer of Hell
(48:44) - Chapter 12: Do We Still Need SDKs?
(57:36) - Epilogue