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.

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

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!