Code and the Coding Coders who Code it

About Code and the Coding Coders who Code it

We talk about Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, and everything in between. From tiny tips to bigger challenges we take on 3 questions a show; What are you working on? What's blocking you? What's something cool you want to share?

Publisher

Drew Bragg

Category

news · technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

1 Feb 2022

Latest episode

6 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

73 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   6 Oct 2026

   Episode 66 - Live (at the time) At Rails World 2026

   That RailsWorld keynote didn’t just start a debate, it forced a reset on how we talk about Ruby on Rails in the age of AI. We’re live from the Buzzsprout podcast booth with Joël Quenneville (principal developer at thoughtbot and Bike Shed co-host) and Tom Rossi (Buzzsprout co-founder) to unpack what’s changing when many of us barely write code by hand anymore and instead “coach” an LLM agent. We dig into the practical side of AI-driven development: why Rails conventions still matter, why gen...

2. 

   21 Apr 2026

   Episode 65 - Mike Coutermarsh

   Your database is slow, your Sentry is screaming, and the backlog is full of “we’ll fix it later.” What if an AI agent handled the boring but high-impact work while you slept and just opened a clean pull request for review the next morning? We’re joined by Mike Coutermarsh, a software engineer who helped build GitHub Actions and later left GitHub for PlanetScale. We talk candidly about the trade-offs: walking away from big-company comfort, choosing impact over feeling like a cog, and learning...

3. 

   7 Apr 2026

   Episode 64 - Delaney Gillilan

   React made a lot of us feel powerful, then maintenance made a lot of us feel tired. Drew Bragg sits down with Delaney Gillilan, creator of Datastar, to argue for a different kind of “modern web” one that keeps the browser’s strengths front and center and keeps your app logic where it belongs: on the server. If you’ve ever looked at your dependency graph and wondered how you got here, this conversation is a reset. We get concrete about what Datastar is and how it works: a tiny reactive framew...

Who has been a guest on Code and the Coding Coders who Code it

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Joel Hawksley
• Vladimir Dementyev
• Chris Oliver

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

5 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

4 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 56 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

82

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

76

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