I interview interesting programmers to surface insights and powerful ideas. I aim to respect the reader and massage spoken transcripts into a better flow, with links etc.
Michal Wallace on Narrative Programming: Why Learn J when LLMs Code? - Oct 2026
What’s left to teach when AI codes? Building a system model in your head is the slowest part of programming, what’s still worth understanding?
Peter Bex on CHICKEN Scheme - Sep 2026
Chicken Scheme maintainer, optimizer and Postgres fan
Oofoe on REBOL, Forth, Decker, Janet and the VFx Industry - Aug 2026
Oofoe talks about a career in VFx, using REBOL, Forth, Lisps and many games!
Matheus Moreira on Lone Lisp - Jul 2026
A medical doctor implemented a Lisp on the Linux kernel with direct system calls without even a C stdlib dependency.
Interview With Mitchell Hashimoto - Jul 2026
Ghostty and Terraform maker and Hashicorp founder talks about open source, terminals and Zig.
Interview With Claude Roux - Jun 2026
Through LispE, Claude Roux researches neuro-symbolic AI incorporating elements of Haskell and APL
Interview With John Earnest - Mar 2026
John Earnest (Internet_Janitor) empowers creativity with Decker, WigglyPaint, Lil, oK!
Interview With Nathan Goldbaum - Mar 2026
Nathan Goldbaum helped make Python multithreaded! He shared his fine thoughts and insights on many topics like Mercurial and Jujutsuwith me.
Interview With Steve Klabnik - Feb 2026
Steve Klabnik wrote the Rust Book, Jujutsu for Everyone and worked at Oxide
Interview With Akseli Lahtinen - Dec 2025
KDE Plasma developer and game builder
Interview With Bakpakin - Dec 2025
Calvin Rose (Bakpakin) made Janet. I asked him about the project and community.
Interview With ZDSmith - Nov 2025
ZDSmith lives notation as a tool of thought, making shorthands, a requirement gathering language, porting J to Janet and…
Interview With Susam Pal - Oct 2025
Susam builds tiny, lightweight, minimalist tools for programmers and scholars.
Interview With Matklad - Aug 2025
Matklad built a lot of Rust tooling and now works at Tigerbeetle.
Interview With Hillel Wayne - Aug 2025
Hillel Wayne breathes formal methods.
Interview With Icefox - Aug 2025
Icefox is building Garnet, a small Rust
Interview With Technomancy - Jul 2025
Technomancy made Leinigen, leads the Fennel project and makes beautiful games!