Linux Dev Time

Linux Dev Time

The Late Night Linux Family

English Technology Explicit
Episodes 151
Avg. Duration 22m
Activity Highly Active
Apple Rating 4.8 (22)
Since May 2018
Latest Episode May 2026

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Publishing Details

Schedule
Every 2 Weeks
Format
Episodic
Consistency
100%
Hosting
latenightlinux.com

About This Podcast

Professional software developers Amolith and Kevin join Joe and guests to discuss developing with, and for Linux.

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Recent Episodes

Linux Dev Time – Episode 151

May 31, 2026 28m

What makes a good library?               Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   See our contact page for ways to get in touch. Subscribe to the RSS feed

Linux Dev Time – Episode 150

May 17, 2026 28m

Andy has been taking the One Billion Row Challenge, and has been thinking about the broader question of what makes software fast.   Andy’s videos on Peertube and YouTube.             Support us on…

Linux Dev Time – Episode 149

May 03, 2026 21m

It’s yet another hot questions episode. Colour schemes, syntax highlighting, code patterns, fonts, and keyboards.             Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes…

Linux Dev Time – Episode 148

Apr 19, 2026 26m

We get into dependency management. The pros and cons of tools like Dependabot, the varying approaches with different languages and standard library sizes, the times when pinning dependencies makes…

Linux Dev Time – Episode 147

Apr 05, 2026 23m

It’s another hot questions episode. Whether we think better on our own or with other people, our non-standard debugging habits, favourite interview questions, coding at night, character encoding, and…

Linux Dev Time – Episode 146

Mar 22, 2026 25m

In the wake of Discord’s recent announcement about age verification, Matrix recently came in for a lot of criticism by a lot of people who said it’s not a viable replacement. Andy works on Matrix for…

Linux Dev Time – Episode 145

Mar 08, 2026 23m

The importance of having and sticking to correct development processes, what can go wrong when you don’t, and how to fix the problems you might end up with.               Support us on Patreon and…

Linux Dev Time – Episode 144

Feb 22, 2026 22m

People often like to talk down Electron, but it is really that bad? There may be better ways to use Web technologies to make desktop apps, but isn’t having Linux versions of apps a good thing no…

Linux Dev Time – Episode 143

Feb 08, 2026 25m

The career progression options you have as a software engineer, moving from junior to senior dev, other paths you can go down like architecture or tech lead, and why management isn’t for…

Linux Dev Time – Episode 142

Jan 25, 2026 22m

Software complexity is a complex topic, so we dig into it.             Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   See our contact page for ways to get in…

Linux Dev Time – Episode 141

Jan 11, 2026 23m

Dealing with a crisis as a developer, how to keep everyone in the loop while you fix systems and code, why pointing the blame isn’t useful, some of our horror stories, and more.             Support…

Linux Dev Time – Episode 140

Dec 28, 2025 5m

What we are likely to be doing when you hear this, and why it’s unlikely to involve much in the way of development. This is a short episode because Joe is having a break for the Christmas…

Linux Dev Time – Episode 139

Dec 14, 2025 27m

How far you can go with eliminating global variables, forcing everything you ever need to be passed in as arguments.         Tailscale Tailscale is an easy to deploy, zero-config, no-fuss VPN that…

Linux Dev Time – Episode 138

Nov 30, 2025 25m

When the right time to make a big change to your software is, how you get users to test pre-release versions, how long you keep old features around, when that’s not possible, and…

Linux Dev Time – Episode 137

Nov 16, 2025 23m

What object-oriented programming is, why it went out of fashion, and how more modern approaches to development incorporate some of its aspects.         Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS…

Linux Dev Time – Episode 136

Nov 02, 2025 27m

Some of the languages that we love and why we love them. It’s not just Rust, honest!         Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   See our contact page for…

Linux Dev Time – Episode 135

Oct 19, 2025 26m

With constant news stories about security issues with developer-published software in package managers like npm, we weigh up the pros and cons of this approach to distributing open source…

Linux Dev Time – Episode 134

Oct 05, 2025 24m

What makes a good commit, the tools we use to help us produce good commits, and why we care about this.           Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   See…

Linux Dev Time – Episode 133

Sep 21, 2025 23m

Some of the alternatives to GitHub that we use, why we use them, and how they differ in terms of features and workflows.           Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early…

Linux Dev Time – Episode 132

Sep 07, 2025 25m

A lot of key open source software is paid for by large companies. That has some advantages, but it can also cause some issues. Maybe it would be better if more FOSS development was paid for by…

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Linux Dev Time has published 151 episodes since May 2018, covering topics in Technology.

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