Tech, Bugs & Rock & Roll

Hosted by Dylan Beattie and Mark Rendle

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Software engineers and international tech speakers, Dylan Beattie and Mark Rendle, talk about what's been happening in their worlds.

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December 18, 2025Episode 291 hr 2 min

2.29 Shamblecast

Golly, it's August. That was quick. Let's ramble about stuff.Recorded August 7th, 2025 with no safety net.

December 18, 2025Episode 281 hr 1 min

2.28 Not Knowing Me Not Knowing You

This week we might talk about the things that we were going to talk about last week but we didn't because we talked about other stuff instead. Or we might talk about other stuff instead. Not knowing is the fun part.Recorded July 31st, 2025 somewhere, somewhere in a field in Hampshire.

December 17, 2025Episode 271 hr 4 min

2.27 Vibe Eroding

Let's talk about vibe coding, the Azure Dev Summit, writing workshops, and anything else that wanders across our minds, like a confused marmot on an ice rink.Recorded July 24th, 2025. Your statutory rights are not affected.

December 16, 2025Episode 261 hr 4 min

2.26 Fundamental Electricity

"This podcast is fundamental infrastructure, like electricity". Let's talk about how memory speed got hella confusing, the state of AI, the astonishing revival of the Commodore 64, and more!Recorded July 17th, 2025 and preserved in amber.

December 16, 2025Episode 251 hr 7 min

2.25 X-Clacks-Overhead

Another week, another assortment of disjointed ramblings, tangents and digressions that will leave you feeling at peace with the world and a strange tingling sensation.Recorded July 3rd 2025, around teatime.

December 15, 2025Episode 241 hr 0 min

2.24 Sharks

Also Poland, the actual talking about the thing that was not talked about the previous week but which still got used as the title on Spotify, and Agentic Misalignment and why chiropractors can't fix it.Recorded June 26th 2025, somewhere off the coast of Birmingham

December 15, 2025Episode 231 hr 3 min

2.23 The One Billionth Rude Word

Eli and Dylan are in Denmark. Rendle isn't. Let's talk about VS color schemes, native AOT compilation, trains, bad conference wifi, and the fact that the billionth GitHub repository ever created just contains a single quite rude word.Recorded June 19th, 2025

December 12, 2025Episode 221 hr 2 min

2.22 DevSum and Download

Dylan and Eli are at DevSum in Sweden, and Rendle is off to Download in Derbyshire, so we've got the Tech and the Rock'n'Roll covered this week at least.Recorded June 12th, 2025; uploaded to Spotify seven months later :(

November 28, 2025Episode 211 hr 4 min

2.21 Assassin's Crossing

The Nintendo Switch 2 has arrived and Rendle has one but they can't open it until Smol Rendle gets home. Also the week in AI, events, stupidity and joy.Note: Assassin's Crossing was originally suggested in episode 1.34 (Live from the Copenhagen Developers Festival) by Not-So-Smol Rendle.

November 28, 2025Episode 201 hr 6 min