Adam Gordon Bell April 2nd Hey! I have a new podcast episode out about this graph: I know that doesn't sound exciting, but it actually is! https://corecursive.com/briffa-sep98-e/ That is a famous climate change graph that caused a lot of controversy, with newspapers and news shows accusing scientists of fraud and deception. While scientists claimed they were victims of a targeted attack. I got a little obsessed with what actually happened. It happened 15 years ago, but the code is still out...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
Adam Gordon Bell Oct 2nd Hey! I have a new podcast episode is out: https://corecursive.com/one-million-checkboxes-with-nolen-royalty/ It's at the intersection of coding, game building, art and online trolls. That is to say it's a super fun episode about building something and having it become really really huge and all the unexpected things that follow. But it's also about how the internet used to be more fun, and how Nolen Royalty is trying to bring us back to the era of Boaty McBoatface I...
4 months ago • 1 min read
Adam Gordon Bell Oct 2nd Hey! It's October, and new podcast episode is out: https://corecursive.com/from-everest-to-startups-with-yoshio-goto/ This episode is about your life. It's about accepting that life is short and using that to structure how you live. Yoshio Goto shares his story of finding what matters by throwing himself at challenges like climbing Everest and joining early-stage start-ups in Silicon Valley. Then, where he finds meaning is totally somewhere else. It feels like I’m...
8 months ago • 1 min read
Adam Gordon Bell July 4th Hey! It's July, and happy July 4th to my American readers. A new podcast episode is out: https://corecursive.com/building-powershell-with-jeffrey-snover/ It's a detailed peek into the internals of Microsoft and the development of Powershell. My guest is Jeffrey Snover and he has a story to share. It's about one man's vision for a better way to manage Windows Servers and the battles that were fought to bring that vision to completion. Overcoming Microsoft's GUI bias —...
11 months ago • 1 min read
Adam Gordon Bell June 4th Hey, It's June now, and I have a new episode out here: Hedy https://corecursive.com/hedy-with-felienne-hermans/ I've been telling friends and colleagues about this episode for several weeks. Whenever someone asks me how the podcast is going, I jump into it: Ok, Imagine this: A burned-out academic seeks renewal by teaching underprivileged 12-year-olds to program. In doing so, she risks her career and builds a programming language that spreads around the world and...
12 months ago • 1 min read
Adam Gordon Bell May 3rd One Hundred Episodes Hello, CoRecursive newsletter subscriber, It’s May now, and I have a new episode out. But it’s just not just any episode 100, and it’s something special. : 100! https://corecursive.com/coding-machines-with-don-and-krystal/ It's a story about debugging code, and I don't want to spoil it, but it blew my mind. It's about questioning the trust we put in our tools when building software. Also, Don and Krystal are back and sharing reflections on the...
about 1 year ago • 1 min read
Adam Gordon Bell April 2nd Skateboarding Meets Software Welcome to April and a new CoRecursive episode: Code, Kickflips and Crunch Time: Mick West's Neversoft Journey How do you build one of the most successful video games? The one that tops the charts, leads to a franchise and becomes a cultural phenomenon? Today, Mick West shares the story behind his incredible career and behind creating The Tony Hawk Pro Skater game. Find it in your podcast player or on the website. Repetition And Fluency...
about 1 year ago • 1 min read
Adam Gordon Bell March 4th Leaving LinkedIn Welcome to March and a new CoRecursive episode: Leaving LinkedIn - Choosing Engineering Excellence Over Expediency Can sustainable software development and tech giant fast-paced cultures truly coexist? Imagine having to choose between your career at a tech giant and your deepest values. This is Chris Krycho's story, an engineer whose drive for sustainable coding clashed with some at LinkedIn. What would you do in Chris's shoes? Let me know what you...
about 1 year ago • 1 min read
Adam Gordon Bell Feb 2nd Beautiful Code Welcome to February and a new CoRecursive episode: Beautiful Code - Inside Greg Wilson's Vision for Software Design Greg Wilson has been on a decades-long quest to transform how we teach and talk about software design. From getting rejections for using the term "beautiful code," to empowering scientists through workshops on Python and Unix, Greg has pushed to bridge the gap between theory and practice. In this episode, Greg shares his failures and...
over 1 year ago • 3 min read
