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19/11/2025 • SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

The AI Marketing Problem

The tech industry is terrible at marketing things. From AI to Blockchain to Git, we constantly miss the actual innovation by looking too closely at the surface level. In this episode, Kris is joined by the full panel of Ian, Matthew, and Dylan to discuss the marketing problem AI seems to have and its wider implications. This week's episode of break continues the conversation, with a deeper discussion around the marketing point and a whole bunch more. Watch it on YouTube or listen with your favorite podcasting app! Learn more by going to https://break.show/16 ( https://break.show/ep/16 ). And we've got bonus content for our supporters, where you'll hear how the panel is currently using AI and the importance of embracing being human. Not a supporter yet? Fix that today by heading over to https://fallthrough.fm/subscribe ( https://fallthrough.fm/subscribe ) where you'll get not only extra content but also higher quality audio. Sign up today! Thanks for tuning in and happy listening! Table of Contents: * Prologue (00:00:00) * Chapter 1: The AI Marketing Problem (00:06:15) * Chapter 2: What Does It Mean To Adopt AI? [Extended] (00:09:53) * Chapter 3: SciFi Computer or Reference System? (00:16:24) * Chapter 4: Embrace Being Human [Extended] (00:42:22) * Chapter 5: Context Is Important (00:53:39) * Appendix UNPOP: Unpopular Opinions and Panic & Recover (01:06:25) * Epilogue (01:19:59) Host: Kris Brandow Co-Hosts: Ian Wester-Lopshire, Matthew Sanabria, and Dylan Bourque Beats: Breakmaster Cylinder Fallthrough is produced by Kris Brandow and Angelica Hill. Socials: * Website ( https://fallthrough.fm/ ) * Bluesky ( https://bsky.app/profile/fallthrough.fm ) * Threads ( https://www.threads.net/@fallthroughfm ) * X/Twitter ( https://x.com/fallthroughfm ) * LinkedIn ( https://linkedin.com/company/fallthrough ) * Instagram ( https://www.instagram.com/fallthroughfm/ )

19/11/2025

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1h 22m
07/07/2025

What Even Is A [Programming|Natural] Language?

Whether you're talking to another person, talking to a computer, or just talking to yourself, we use languages every day. For a long time now, there's been a debate about whether natural languages and programming languages are distinct from each other. The creation of large language models and their ability to produce code from natural language has blurred these lines even further. In this episode, Kris is joined by Angelica, Matt, and guest co-host Steve Klabnik, to discuss language, what it means to know something, what it means to mean, and so much more. This conversation went so long that we accidentally recorded an entire extra episode! That episode is available as a bonus release in our feed. Supporters get even more conversation and higher quality audio! Get access by signing up at https://fallthrough.fm/subscribe. Thanks for tuning in and happy listening! Notes: Changelog Zulip discussion about overflowsLanguage MachinesAre We Smart Enough To Know How Smart Animals Are?Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together In The Cafeteria?How language shapes the way we think - Lera Boroditsky Table of Contents: Prologue (02:04)Chapter 1: Natural vs Programming (04:48)Chapter 2: What does it mean to know something? (20:15)Chapter 3: Language != Intelligence (37:32)Chapter 4: What if Kafka wrote America for the PowerPC? [Supporter Only] (43:43)Chapter 5: Spoken Language Is Different From Written Language [Supporter Only] (44:30)Chapter 6: Misinterpretation In Programming Language (47:44)Chapter 7: Is It Harder To Learn Natural or Programming Languages? [Supporter Only] (01:01:45)Epilogue (01:02:31) Hosts Kris Brandow - Host Matthew Sanabria - Host Angelica Hill - Producer Steve Klabnik - Host Socials:WebsiteBlueskyThreadsX/TwitterLinkedInInstagram (02:04) - Prologue (04:48) - Chapter 1: Natural vs Programming (20:15) - Chapter 2: What does it mean to know something? (37:32) - Chapter 3: Language != Intelligence (43:43) - Chapter 4: What if Kafka wrote America for the PowerPC? [Supporter Only] (44:30) - Chapter 5: Spoken Language Is Different From Written Language [Supporter Only] (47:44) - Chapter 6: Misinterpretation In Programming Language (01:01:45) - Chapter 7: Is It Harder To Learn Natural or Programming Languages? [Supporter Only] (01:02:31) - Epilogue

07/07/2025

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1h 11m
30/09/2025

Solve The Small Problems

Welcome back to Break, a Fallthrough aftershow! In this episode, Kris and Matt talk extend their discussion from Fallthrough episode #39. Enjoying the aftershow? Let us know on social media! If you prefer to watch instead of just listen, head over to YouTube where you watch this episode of Break! Thanks for tuning in and happy listening! Chapters: Prologue (00:00:00)Chapter 1: Small Tools, Not Big Solutions (00:00:50)Chapter 2: The Plight of Streaming (00:09:36)Chapter 3: Making A Living Solving Small Problems (00:31:25)Epilogue (00:36:47) Hosts Kris Brandow - Host Matthew Sanabria - Host Socials:WebsiteBlueskyThreadsX/TwitterLinkedInInstagram

30/09/2025

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38 min
25/11/2025 • SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

Magic Numbers Take Down The Internet

This cannot keep happening. Another day, another outage. On this week's episode Kris and Matt talk about the recent Cloudflare outage. And boy do they have thoughts, we really hope you enjoy this exchange of monologues. If you prefer to watch this episode, you can view it on YouTube: https://youtu.be/4nGG8Mv4L88 ( https://youtu.be/4nGG8Mv4L88 ) This week's episode of break continues the conversation, with a few more monologues and some thinking about the state of things. Watch it on YouTube or listen with your favorite podcasting app! Learn more by going to https://break.show/17 ( https://break.show/ep/17 ). And we've got bonus content for our supporters, where you'll hear about the Cloudflare outage in a bit more depth and hear the duos take on being a generalist versus a specialist. Not a supporter yet? Fix that today by heading over to https://fallthrough.fm/subscribe ( https://fallthrough.fm/subscribe ) where you'll get not only extra content but also higher quality audio. Sign up today! Thanks for tuning in and happy listening! Table of Contents: * Prologue (00:00:00) * Chapter 1: The Cloudflare Outage (00:02:17) * Chapter 2: Too Much Centralization? (00:20:24) * Chapter 3: Communication Matters (00:26:22) * Chapter 4: Magic Numbers Take Down The Internet [Extended] (00:29:50) * Chapter 5: Programming Language Hate and AI versus Tools (00:30:19) * Chapter 6: The Generalist and The Specialist [Extended] (00:49:29) * Epilogue (00:50:03) Host: Kris Brandow Co-Hosts: Matthew Sanabria Beats: Breakmaster Cylinder Fallthrough is produced by Kris Brandow and Angelica Hill. Socials: * Website ( https://fallthrough.fm/ ) * Bluesky ( https://bsky.app/profile/fallthrough.fm ) * Threads ( https://www.threads.net/@fallthroughfm ) * X/Twitter ( https://x.com/fallthroughfm ) * LinkedIn ( https://linkedin.com/company/fallthrough ) * Instagram ( https://www.instagram.com/fallthroughfm/ )

25/11/2025

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1h 10m
25/12/2025 • SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

Worse Is Better

There's a famous joke essay called Worse Is Better, which compares the New Jersey and the MIT ideologies. In this episode, Kris and Matt discuss these two different ideologies and how they show up in technology, from Go, to dependency management, to electric vehicles. If you prefer to watch this episode, you can view it on YouTube. This week's episode of break continues the conversation. Watch it on YouTube or listen with your favorite podcasting app! Learn more by going to https://break.show/21 ( https://break.show/ep/21 ). In this week's bonus content, the duo discusses how idealistic thinking has slowed down the adoption of electric vehicles and what a better path forward might have looked like. Not a supporter yet? Fix that today by heading over to https://fallthrough.fm/subscribe ( https://fallthrough.fm/subscribe ) where you'll get not only extra content but also higher quality audio. Sign up today! Thanks for tuning in and happy listening! Show Notes: * Worse Is Better ( https://www.dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html ) * Simple Made Easy ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxdOUGdseq4 ) * Less Is Exponentially More ( https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2012/06/less-is-exponentially-more.html ) * Go += Package Versioning ( https://research.swtch.com/vgo-intro ) * govulncheck ( https://pkg.go.dev/golang.org/x/vuln/cmd/govulncheck ) * The Bizarre Logic of the F-150 Lightning ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7OvA__3Dzk ) Table of Contents: * Prologue (00:00:00) * Chapter 1: Worse Is Better? (00:02:58) * Chapter 2: Go Got Stranded In The Middle (00:10:39) * Chapter 3: SemVer Is Fundamentally Broken (00:33:32) * Chapter 4: We Don't Live In The Ideal World (00:47:19) * Chapter 5: BEVs vs EREVs [Extended] (00:56:26) * Chapter 6: Holistic vs Deep (01:13:06) * Epilogue (01:17:46) Host: Kris Brandow Co-Host: Matthew Sanabria Beats: Breakmaster Cylinder Fallthrough is produced by Kris Brandow and Angelica Hill. Socials: * Website ( https://fallthrough.fm/ ) * Bluesky ( https://bsky.app/profile/fallthrough.fm ) * Threads ( https://www.threads.net/@fallthroughfm ) * X/Twitter ( https://x.com/fallthroughfm ) * LinkedIn ( https://linkedin.com/company/fallthrough ) * Instagram ( https://www.instagram.com/fallthroughfm/ )

25/12/2025

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1h 19m
10/02/2025

What's New In Go 1.24?

Go's steady cycle of releasing new versions every six months continues. On this episode, our "What's new in Go?" correspondent (a carry over from Go Time) joins special guest host Johnny Boursiquot to talk about the new features and changes coming in Go 1.24. As always, we've got some great unpopular opinions at the end. Thanks for tuning in and happy listening! Notes & Links: Carlana's WebsiteTime Is Not A Synchronization Primitive (from 19:04)sqlc (from 1:05:01)Chapters: (00:00) - Intro (02:20) - Introducing Carlana (03:29) - What's New In Go 1.24? (04:02) - package weak (10:17) - package runtime (16:55) - testing (27:37) - package os (32:28) - go tool (37:58) - generic type aliases (41:35) - minor changes (52:25) - Unpopular Opinions (52:35) - Carlana's Unpop (56:36) - Johnny's Unpop (01:05:43) - Outro Hosts Kris Brandow - Producer Johnny Boursiquot - Host Carlana Johnson - Guest Socials:WebsiteBlueskyThreadsX/TwitterLinkedInInstagram

10/02/2025

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1h 6m
10 JAN • SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

New Year, New Nuance

New Year, New Nuance! In this episode, Kris and Matt discuss what they're looking forward to in 2026—Matt shares the exciting news that he's becoming a dad, and the duo explore the value of growth, changing your opinions, and adding more nuance to how you see the world. They talk about what they're excited to build this year, from physical projects like woodworking and doors to the podcast platform they keep talking about. Kris shares how a conversation with Claude finally made electricity click, leading to a broader discussion about LLMs as "digital librarians" and what education should really be about: teaching you how to teach yourself. As always, we've got supporter content! This week that includes deep dives into local AI infrastructure, home networking with 10G and WireGuard, and a spicy rant about why centralized package management is fundamentally broken. Not a supporter yet? Fix that today by heading over to https://fallthrough.fm/subscribe ( https://fallthrough.fm/subscribe ) where you'll get not only extra content but also higher quality audio. Sign up today! If you prefer to watch this episode, you can view it on YouTube. This week's episode of break continues the conversation. Where the two reflect on AI doomerism's mental health toll, why things aren't worse than before, the logistics behind society's real problems, and turning waste into opportunity with BASF's Verbund principle. Watch it on YouTube or listen with your favorite podcasting app! Learn more by going to https://break.show/23 ( https://break.show/ep/23 ). Thanks for tuning in and happy listening! Table of Contents: * Prologue (00:00:00) * Chapter 1: Matt's Becoming a Dad (00:03:06) * Chapter 2: Growth & Changing Your Opinions (00:06:39) * Chapter 3: Adding More Nuance in 2026 (00:15:44) * Chapter 4: What We're Excited to Build (00:24:57) * Chapter 5: Learning How Things Work: Electricity (00:30:21) * Chapter 6: LLMs as Digital Librarians (00:39:05) * Chapter 7: The Real Purpose of Education (00:51:44) * Chapter 8: Local AI Infrastructure & Home Networking [Extended] (00:58:38) * Chapter 9: The Centralization Problem in Package Management [Extended] (01:23:59) * Epilogue (01:39:31) Host: Kris Brandow Co-Host: Matthew Sanabria Beats: Breakmaster Cylinder Fallthrough is produced by Kris Brandow and Angelica Hill. Socials: * Website ( https://fallthrough.fm/ ) * Bluesky ( https://bsky.app/profile/fallthrough.fm ) * Threads ( https://www.threads.net/@fallthroughfm ) * X/Twitter ( https://x.com/fallthroughfm ) * LinkedIn ( https://linkedin.com/company/fallthrough ) * Instagram ( https://www.instagram.com/fallthroughfm/ )

10 Jan

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1h 41m
07/04/2025 • SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

APIs: Design Imperfectly, Improve Relentlessly

APIs are built, not born, so how do we go about actually building them? Well, it starts with design. In this episode, Kris and Ian are joined by Jamie Tanna to talk about API design. From creating a theory of your API, through building its foundation, to actively prototyping as you design, the panel discusses what they've learned over the years to design high quality APIs. At the end we have unpopular opinions, but we also have a bonus behind the scenes look at howe we create episodes of this podcast. Make sure to stick around until the end of the episode for that content! Thank you for being a supporter! Thanks for tuning in and happy listening! Notes: Spotlight PrismCan I Use?Manual of MeTable of Contents: Prologue (01:14)Chapter 1: Designing APIs (02:56)You will make mistakes (03:53)Inventing things from whole cloth (06:56)There is no correct (13:01)Chapter 2: A Theory of Your API (21:02)Creating a foundation (34:40)Starting from your database schema (38:59)Chapter 3: Prior Art (50:48)Chapter 4: Design Requires Code (01:03:08)Chapter 5: The Happy Path (01:09:52)Chapter 6: Application Transactions (01:14:41)Chapter 7: What Is Forever? (01:18:39)Chapter 8: Separate Application & Transfer (01:38:09)Chapter 9: Stop Doing RESTful Nonsense (01:44:36)Ian's relationship with SOAP is complicated (01:52:12)Chapter 10: Concrete Challenges with Correctness (01:53:02)Appendix UNPOP: Unpopular Opinions (01:59:46)Jamie's Surprise Unpop (01:59:50)Jamie's Second Unpop (02:16:47)Epilogue (02:19:47) Hosts Kris Brandow - Host Ian Wester-Lopshire - Host Jamie Tanna - Host Socials:WebsiteBlueskyThreadsX/TwitterLinkedInInstagram

07/04/2025

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2h 22m
05/12/2025 • SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

Ghostting Is Better Than Shelling

We've had Mitchell Hashimoto on a couple episodes, and each time we've discussed his vision for libghostty. In this episode, Kris and Matt talk about what the vision for libghostty actually means for the industry as a whole and the power of platforms. The duo also covers the new models that have dropped and how they see using the various models that have become available. If you prefer to watch this episode, you can view it on YouTube: https://youtu.be/XbjmqlSWlKI ( https://youtu.be/XbjmqlSWlKI ). This week's episode of break continues the conversation, where they continue this conversation and talk about how we're all becoming writers. Watch it on YouTube or listen with your favorite podcasting app! Learn more by going to https://break.show/18 ( https://break.show/ep/18 ). We've got a new format for the bonus content snippets in this episode. All of them are together in the middle of the episode, with a small intro and outro around them. In this week's bonus content the duo discusses how AI might help save Stack Overflow, how it's making us write more specifications for software, and how it might lead to a much more viable funding model for the web. Not a supporter yet? Fix that today by heading over to https://fallthrough.fm/subscribe ( https://fallthrough.fm/subscribe ) where you'll get not only extra content but also higher quality audio. Sign up today! Thanks for tuning in and happy listening! Table of Contents: * Prologue (00:00:00) * Chapter 1: New Models & How We Use Them (00:02:28) * Chapter 2: AI Will Help StackOverflow [Extended] (00:34:23) * Chapter 3: Software Engineering Is About Writing Specifications [Extended] (00:38:48) * Chapter 4: A Better Funding Model For The Web [Extended] (00:45:46) * Chapter 5: SSH Out, libghostty In (00:58:55) * Chapter 6: New Segment Type? (01:22:21) * Epilogue (01:26:13) Host: Kris Brandow Co-Hosts: Matthew Sanabria Beats: Breakmaster Cylinder Fallthrough is produced by Kris Brandow and Angelica Hill. Socials: * Website ( https://fallthrough.fm/ ) * Bluesky ( https://bsky.app/profile/fallthrough.fm ) * Threads ( https://www.threads.net/@fallthroughfm ) * X/Twitter ( https://x.com/fallthroughfm ) * LinkedIn ( https://linkedin.com/company/fallthrough ) * Instagram ( https://www.instagram.com/fallthroughfm/ )

05/12/2025

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1h 32m
24/02/2025 · BONUS • SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

Mitchell Hashimoto's opinions of GitHub and AI

This is the subscriber exclusive bonus content from episode 8 Ghosttying Go. We asked Mitchell how he feels about GitHub for large projects like Ghostty, where there are subsystems and maintainers for each of those subsystems. We also got his insights into AI and how he uses it. Thanks for being a subscriber and happy listening!

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