Never Rewrite

Never Rewrite

Hosted by Isaac Askew and Jeffrey Sherman and Isaac and Jeffrey · Isaac Askew and Jeffrey Sherman

5.0from 16 ratings

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74Podcast AuthorityScore out of 100 · How it is scored
177
Episodes
129
Transcribed
16
Ratings
Weekly
Cadence
2023
First episode
4K
YouTube views

About Never Rewrite

‘Never Rewrite’ is a mantra of ours in the programming realm. Often times when software developers encounter nightmare codebases, the thought crosses their mind to work towards a rewrite, a port to a new language, or despair that their code is unfixable. It’s not unfixable, and we explore how to get started along with an array of other software topics in our eponymous podcast.

Publisher
Isaac Askew and Jeffrey Sherman
Category
technology
Language
en
Explicit
No
First episode
16 Mar 2023
Latest episode
16 Oct 2026
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129 of 177 episodes have a transcript.

  1. 16 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

    The SaaSpocalypse Is Here (Ep. 177)

  2. 9 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

    Revisiting 'Out of the Crisis' (Ep. 176)

  3. 2 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

    Revisiting 'The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement' (Ep. 175)

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The SaaSpocalypse Is Here (Ep. 177)

Published 16 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Yeah, the traditional competition has always been open source software, which If you've ever used GIMP, that's a pleasant experience. I have. But if you're going online in the cloud and all those features, it becomes much harder. So there's this cloud lock-in. Yeah. So that being said, somebody reverse-engineered a lot of the tooling and people were criticizing it, but... If it's open source now, then people can just do pull requests against it and fix the features. And eventually, I imagine over time, the features will be there and it runs well. It may be even better. Who knows? In a more modern architecture. […]

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3,783
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5.0 / 5
6 ratings
Spotify
5.0 / 5
10 ratings

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Isaac Askew and Jeffrey Sherman and Isaac and Jeffrey host the show. Published by Isaac Askew and Jeffrey Sherman.

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