August 19, 2026Episode 77
Codename Avalon
Liam takes the wheel for a personal history of WPF — from battleship-grey WinForms, through the promise of Avalon, into the ideas that still quietly shape every XAML framework we use today.
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August 5, 2026Episode 76
Horses for Courses
One email from 2007, John Carmack telling his team to think about inlining their functions, turns out to be about far more than code style. We follow the thread from pure functions and consistent state through the state of the games industry to the quiet power dynamics that turn a suggestion into an order, and barely scratch the surface.
July 22, 2026Episode 75
The Read-the-Script Fallacy
Matt admits the prognosis in our earlier JavaScript episode was wrong, but the real subject here is deeper: security fatalism, blind trust, and the psychology of why smart people keep running code nobody can fully check. We dig into how we got here, why the prevailing behaviour is rational rather than reckless, and whether the modern browser offers a way out.
July 8, 2026Episode 74
The Six Thousand Dollar GPU
Matt takes Liam on a tour through the history of CPUs and GPUs — from the Amiga and Doom to shaders, CUDA, and $6,000 graphics cards. Along the way: why constraints drive innovation, how gaming hardware accidentally built the AI era, and why today's silicon kings might not hold their thrones forever.
June 10, 2026Episode 73
Chocolate, Air Horns, and Data Debt: SlashNEW Debrief
Matt recaps SlashNEW Conference 2026, from his first scripted talk to standout sessions on automation, communication, change management, and the uncomfortable truth that AI isn't new problems, it's old ones on a new substrate.
May 24, 2026Episode 72
Do you really need enterprise?
Picking up the thread from last week, Matt and Liam try to pin down what 'enterprise' actually means — and unpack why so much of the perceived cost of bespoke software is really the cost of enterprise overhead that most small businesses don't need.
May 13, 2026Episode 71
The Bespoke Software Myth
Matt and Liam pick apart the persistent myth that custom software is only for big enterprises. From SMB access to risk, lock-in, and the manufacturing roots of enterprise software, they argue that bespoke isn't the dangerous option — homogenising your business to fit someone else's product is.
April 29, 2026Episode 70
Euro(Office)trip
Matt and Liam unpack the EuroOffice scramble, the US CLOUD Act, and what data sovereignty actually means in 2026. It's a tour through Sun, Oracle, LibreOffice, the Microsoft Ireland case, and the uncomfortable questions every consultant should be asking about where their clients' data really lives.
April 15, 2026Episode 69
Of Mythos and Legends
Matt and Liam dig into Anthropic's unreleased Mythos model and the security implications everyone's talking about — then pull back the lens on AI hype cycles, data de-anonymisation, and whether we're sleepwalking through the biggest privacy breach in history.
April 1, 2026Episode 68
Going Full Penguin: GPUs, Laptops, and RAM, oh my!
Matt finally snaps. After a faulty GPU, a laptop that keeps rebooting itself, and a pre-installed audio driver that hides in System32 and reinstalls itself after every Windows Update, the only sensible move is nuclear — wipe the drive and switch to Linux. A deeply personal saga of hardware woes, vendor frustration, and one very stubborn rootkit.
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