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The Bug Hunters Café

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A caffeinated podcast about making and fixing mistakes in code.

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Farewell

February 22nd, 2024

0:39

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The Bug Hunters Café: Trailer

February 10th, 2021

0:47


Beginning March 2021, Bojan Miletic and Jason C. McDonald bring you a brand new podcast about bugs and software development. Grab your favorite hot beverage and join us for conversations with developers from all …

Episode 1: The Closet, the Nerds, and the Unicorn

March 8th, 2021

50:46


In the series premiere of The Bug Hunters Café, software developers Bojan Miletic and Jason C. McDonald chat about their bug hunting experiences across various languages, and some of their biggest coding mistakes.

Episode 2: A Glitch In Time (M. Scott Ford)

March 22nd, 2021

1:07:06


Things are a bit timey-wimey at the café as M. Scott Ford chats with Bojan and Jason about legacy code, test refactoring, and what it means to be a "mender".

Episode 3: To Boldly Debug (Moshe Zadka)

April 5th, 2021

54:48


Guest Moshe Zadka joins Jason and Bojan to unpack the mystery surrounding what DevOps and site reliability engineering actually are.

Episode 4: Attack of the Fresh Fruit (Cheuk Ting Ho)

April 19th, 2021

52:54


Amidst a unicorn-caused fall of fruit, guest Cheuk Ting Ho discusses what developer advocates (avocados?) really do, and the role they play in …

Episode 5: Bojan Reads the Documentation (Anastasiia Tymoshchuk)

May 3rd, 2021

55:03


Anastasiia Tymoshchuk joins Bojan and Jason to discuss all things team management: blame vs. accountability, debugging the cause of a problem, zombies, timers and...planking? Maybe SHE can figure out why the …

Episode 6: Mentorship with Cheese Sauce (Vaidehi Joshi)

May 31st, 2021

1:02:16


Vaidehi Joshi stops into the café to help fix the temporal stabilizer, and stays to chat with Jason and Bojan about teaching, teams, and where bugs come from in the first place.

Episode 7: Brain Scans and Networking (Joshua Jacobs)

June 14th, 2021

1:08:28


What do MRI scans, wood turning, and interpersonal networking have in common? They're all topics that Joshua Jacobs knows a thing or five about. Join him, Bojan, and Jason as they discuss everything from …

Episode 8: More Power To You (Amber Vanderburg and Lais Carvalho)

June 28th, 2021

1:01:03


Amber Vanderburg and Laís Carvalho stop into the café to discuss debugging teams, promoting diversity, and creating safe spaces. Turns out, that
can have a big impact on code, too! Meanwhile, Marta tries to keep …

Episode 9: Sneeze Decor (Naomi Ceder)

July 12th, 2021

1:11:07


Amidst magically changing decor, Naomi Ceder chats with Bojan and Jason about old school hacking and how to give great
conference talks. And …

Episode 10: The Squirrel Blockade (April Wensel)

July 26th, 2021

55:54


April Wensel talks compassion and empathy in coding, while Marta negotiates with an army of enraged squirrels.

Episode 11: Wool and Language Standards (JeanHeyd Meneide)

August 9th, 2021

1:12:43


As sheep flock to the café, JeanHeyd Meneide stops in to talk about the C and C++ Language Standards, programming history, and spooky bugs.

Episode 12: The Café Within (Ned Batchelder)

August 23rd, 2021

1:07:52


Somewhere in the midst of an infinitely recursing café, Ned Batchelder joins Bojan and Jason to talk about the wiles of testing
and code coverage, and how to answer questions online without scaring off the new …

Season 2, Episode 1: Sedat Kapanoglu

February 22nd, 2022

59:55


Sedat Kapanoglu swings by the café to talk about "street coding," while the café's new barista, Jess, arbitrates a wager between
Bojan and Alan Turing. Listen in to learn more about the realities of changing …

Season 2, Episode 2: Felienne Hermans

March 8th, 2022

1:04:41


Programmers learn by doing, right? Felienne Hermans chats with Bojan and Jason about how READING code may actually be even
more important. So why it's so hard to understand someone else's code? The answer may be …

Season 2, Episode 3: Marco Faella

April 5th, 2022

56:51


Despite the crimes against pizza being committed by the unicorn, Marco Faella comes by the café to discuss seven
principles for making code …

Season 2, Episode 4: Max Guernsey III

April 19th, 2022

1:01:28


Max Guernsey III stops in to discuss requirement writing, motion over progress, and how to prevent bugs, rather than fix
them. How is that …

Season 2, Episode 5: Lily Mara

May 3rd, 2022

1:05:27


Lily Mara pops into a slightly-more-chaotic-than-usual café to talk about Rust, and it's a far cry from the usual
"let's rewrite everything" you may be expecting. While she chats with Bojan and Jason about …

Season 2, Episode 6: Mikolaj Pawlikowski

May 17th, 2022

50:18


A little chaos is a wonderful thing. Miko Pawlikowski chats about chaos engineering, and how breaking things
deliberately can actually make …

Season 2, Episode 7: Andrea Goulet and Naomi Ceder

July 4th, 2022

1:03:49


A portal outage won't stop Andrea Goulet and Naomi Ceder from coming into the café for coffee and conversation.
Listen in as they discuss …

Season 2, Episode 8: Tomasz Lelek

September 27th, 2022

45:37


Tomasz teaches Jason and Bojan how to navigate tradeoffs in code, while Annie struggles to manage the
temporary unicorn horn she's been stuck with.

Season 2, Episode 9: Reuven Lerner

October 18th, 2022

1:03:04


Jason and a particularly floral Bojan chat with Reuven Lerner about teaching Python,
and the worst bugs they've seen (and caused). Meanwhile, …

Season 2, Episode 10: Itamar Turner-Trauring

November 15th, 2022

1:00:43


Logs, anyone? Bojan and Jason chat with Itamar Turner-Trauring, the creator of the eliot
logging library in Python.

Season 2, Episode 11: Cecelia Martinez

November 30th, 2022

59:35


Time traveller Cecelia Martinez discusses frontend development and debugging with Bojan and Jason.
Even so, the question remains: is that programming book from the future that Bojan bought from the
rummage …

Season 2, Episode 12: Alex Booker

December 13th, 2022

53:35


Jason broke reality...but on the upside, Alex Booker has spontaneously appeared. While he sticks
around to discuss common mistakes junior developers make, Annie grapples with whether an
eggplant macchiato was …

Season 3, Episode 1: Edaqa Mortoray

April 11th, 2023

58:45


What makes a good puzzle? Software engineer and escape room enthusiast Edaqa Mortoray chats
with Jason and Bojan about the joys and sorrows of independent projects, why debugging makes
a terrible game, and how …

Season 3, Episode 2: Pat Viafore and Jess Jang

May 2nd, 2023

1:05:53


A quiet evening in the café provides the perfect opportunity for Jess to join in the conversation,
this time with Pat Viafore, author of "Robust Python". Join the group as they discuss the challenges
and …

Season 3, Episode 3: Aliénor Latour, Donia Chaiehloudj, and Pascal Bertrand

June 6th, 2023

58:47


A crowd of blue gophers has descended on the café, perhaps on account of the visit from the co-authors
of "Learn Go with Pocket-Sized Projects": Aliénor Latour, Donia Chaiehloudj, and Pascal Bertrand.
Listen …

Season 3, Episode 4: Jocelyne Morin-Nurse

July 5th, 2023

1:02:09


A rogue vine is taking over the café, but that's not enough to stop Jocelyne Morin-Nurse
from enjoying her coffee. Listen as she discusses leadership with Bojan and Jason, including
how to handle the …

Season 3, Episode 5: Sam Taggart

August 7th, 2023

1:06:30


It's an afternoon of new perspectives in the café, both from climbing the rock candy wall and
chatting about LabVIEW. Climbing enthusiast and LabVIEW trainer Sam Taggart belays in to chat about
both, and how …

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