Episodes 159
Avg. Duration 6m
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Since May 2020
Latest Episode Apr 2026

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Episode 159 - Google Gemma 4 and using it for your personal AI assistant

Apr 03, 2026 29m

Hey, this is a free podcast. However, if you feel you want to support me then check out Patreon. I will have some more detailed deep dives for Patreon members as well as one-to-one sessions.Or just…

Episode 158 - Your Own Development Team in your Coding Editor

Mar 27, 2026 8m

Hey, this is a free podcast. However, if you feel you want to support me, then check out Patreon. I will have some more detailed deep dives for Patreon members as well as one-to-one sessions. Or just…

Episode 157 - Skills Skills and more Skills Weekend Edition

Mar 22, 2026 15m

Hey, this is a free podcast. However, if you feel you want to support me, then check out Patreon. I will have some more detailed deep dives for Patreon members as well as one-to-one sessions. Or just…

Episode 156 - Designers are stitched up

Mar 20, 2026 6m

Hey, this is a free podcast. However, if you feel you want to support me, then check out Patreon. I will have some more detailed deep dives for Patreon members as well as one-to-one sessions. Or just…

Episode 155 - Impeccable Frontend UI

Mar 14, 2026 10m

Hey, this is a free podcast. However, if you feel you want to support me, then check out Patreon. I will have some more detailed deep dives for Patreon members as well as one-to-one sessions. Or just…

Episode 154 - PromptFoo taking care of your AI prompts

Mar 14, 2026 9m

Hey, this is a free podcast. However, if you feel you want to support me, then check out Patreon. I will have some more detailed deep dives for Patreon members as well as one-to-one sessions. Or just…

Episode 153 - VS Code Integrated Browser

Mar 06, 2026 6m

Okay, so this is a little niche perhaps, but if you are a coder or even a bit of a coder (vibing!), then this new feature is pretty cool and at first look: you might miss it or think, “Well it’s just…

Episode 152 - Dont use your keyboard

Mar 01, 2026 9m

So, we are all inherently lazy I guess, so why keep typing on the keyboard? I guess it is ingrained a bit however, what about actually putting AI to work to help with this?Some links from the…

Episode 151 - My Little (Pony) AI Agent

Feb 19, 2026 19m

So, OpenClaw made a splash and hyped up things to frenzy level about AI agent assistants. n8n is still an amazing platform - free open source too, and you can do pretty much everything with n8n as I…

Episode 150 - OpenClaw or n8n (or even Claude Agents!)

Feb 15, 2026 12m

Well, if you haven’t heard of “ClaudeBot”, “MoltBot” or now “OpenClaw”, then shame on you! You have once again missed the hype train ;)(probably not a bad thing, I think people out there have a real…

Episode 149 - Get Yo Skills

Feb 12, 2026 6m

You need skills… from making coffee (decent coffee at least!) to whatever you do in your day job. Skills for AI has been introduced by the claude folks Anthropic. Skills are really useful and…

Episode 148 - Moar AI Coding

Feb 07, 2026 18m

It has been a little while… but I am back! and as ever, the subject is AI - of course it is!This one became (unintentionally!) a bit of a weekend ramble…Some links from the podcast:GitHub Copilot -…

Episode 147 - Javascript Frameworks vs Web Components

Jan 11, 2026 11m

The ebb and flow… “this is great”… “this is bad…” the neverending movement. Well, there isn’t anything wrong with Javascript frameworks… use what you need and what you love. However, given the…

Episode 146 - Christmas Day 2025 Edition

Dec 25, 2025 24m

Okay, it might sound a bit sad recording a JFM on Christmas day, but there we go :)Hey, this is a free podcast. However, if you feel you want to support me, then check out Patreon. I will have some…

Episode 145 - Vibe Coding and then what?

Nov 23, 2025 10m

So, where is all of this vibe coding taking us? Serious question, and I am not knocking the whole vibe coding thing - it does really does help anyone build apps, but what kind of apps? and how are…

Episode 144 - MCPs using all of those tokens!!

Nov 10, 2025 7m

Here is the link from Anthropic about the topic being discussed.Hey, this is a free podcast. However, if you feel you want to support me then check out Patreon. I will have some more detailed deep…

Episode 143 - Weekend Ramble #6

Oct 12, 2025 28m

Well, it is one of those rambling weekends again!Link to the research paper here about TRM (Tiny Recursive Model)Hey, this is a free podcast. However, if you feel you want to support me then check…

Episode 142 - Agents Agents MCP and A2A

Oct 07, 2025 8m

Well, more agent stuff then! but what are you all doing with these AI agents?Open AI just released agent builder. If you believe their documentation, codex (their coding AI offering) wrote 80% of…

Episode 141 - JetBrains free DataGrip

Oct 03, 2025 8m

Who doesn’t like FREE ?Well, JetBrains (the folks who created WebStorm, PyCharm and Rider etc.) have now released one of my favourite database management tools free; DataGrip.Free for non-commercial…

Episode 140 - LLMs Vectors Search and Quantization Explained

Aug 23, 2025 13m

Okay, a little experiment. Okay, I have been researching how LLMs work with vectors and how AI search works for a while now. But rather than me warble on for a while (and more than 5 mins!), I have…

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