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3 DGN GELEDEN • ALLEEN VOOR ABONNEES

Package Hell

Another week, another Kris & Matt duo episode! This week, we're digging into Go codebase structure, package design, and why the community keeps struggling with the same problems. The conversation starts with a Gopher Slack discussion about how to arrange Go code, moves through package hell and dependency cycles, and ends with a look at community health. As always, we've got supporter content! This week that includes Go's missing project boundary and why internal is a blunt instrument, real world package design patterns, and how modules broke the elegant simplicity of Go's database/sql driver pattern. 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. Kris and Matt dissect the magic underscore imports in database/sql, argue you should just test against a real database, and then spend the back half debating where Go lands in Bryan Cantrill's "Complexity of Simplicity" quadrant framework. Watch it on YouTube or listen with your favorite podcasting app! Learn more by going to https://break.show/ep/29 ( https://break.show/ep/29 ). Thanks for tuning in and happy listening! Table of Contents: * Prologue (00:00:00) * Chapter 1: Catching Up: Snow, Life, and Episode 60 (00:00:57) * Chapter 2: The Go Repository Structure Problem (00:05:50) * Chapter 3: Package Hell and Dependency Cycles (00:10:19) * Chapter 4: Go's Missing Project Boundary [Extended] (00:16:51) * Chapter 5: Real-World Package Design Patterns [Extended] (00:22:33) * Chapter 6: The Go 1 Compatibility Promise (00:26:58) * Chapter 7: Plugin Design Patterns [Extended] (00:35:06) * Chapter 8: The database/sql Side-Effect Problem [Extended] (00:42:30) * Chapter 9: The Community Must Lead (00:48:17) * Chapter 10: The Dying Gopher Slack and Community Fragmentation (00:59:56) * Chapter 11: "You're Holding It Wrong" (01:07:23) * Chapter 12: GopherCon vs. RustConf: The Energy Gap (01:15:36) * Epilogue (01:21:43) Host: Kris Brandow Co-Host: Matthew Sanabria Beats: Breakmaster Cylinder Fallthrough is produced by Kris Brandow. 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/ )

1u 23m
21 FEB • ALLEEN VOOR ABONNEES

Is Go Simple Anymore?

Another week, another Kris & Matt duo episode! This week, they're talking about Go. They cover the recent generic methods proposal by Robert Griesemer, results from the 2025 Go Developer Survey, some highlights of the 1.26 release, and more! As always, we've got supporter content! This week that includes the survey's tooling data, a deep dive into GOPATH nostalgia and why Go Workspaces can't save the AWS SDK's 70,000+ tags, Kris's research into the entire Go module proxy, and a structural argument for why the module system's base premises don't hold. Not a supporter yet? Fix that today by heading over to 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. No episode of Break this week. We'll have more aftershow episodes soon! In the meantime, catch up on previous episodes at https://break.show. Thanks for tuning in and happy listening! Table of Contents: * Prologue (00:00:00) * Chapter 1: Go Generic Methods Proposal (00:00:46) * Chapter 2: Go 1.26 Release Highlights (00:17:07) * Chapter 3: Go Developer Survey: Trust & Leadership (00:25:42) * Chapter 4: Survey Challenges: Idioms, Features & Error Handling (00:36:22) * Chapter 5: Go Tooling Complexity & GOPATH Nostalgia [Extended] (01:08:47) * Chapter 6: Finding Trustworthy Go Modules [Extended] (01:25:22) * Chapter 7: Module Proxy Research & Breaking Changes [Extended] (01:44:46) * Chapter 8: Module Design Flaws & The Path Forward [Extended] (01:58:20) * Epilogue (02:17:24) Host: Kris Brandow Co-Host: Matthew Sanabria Beats: Breakmaster Cylinder Fallthrough is produced by Kris Brandow. 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/ )

2u 19m
13 FEB • ALLEEN VOOR ABONNEES

Lava Layers

This week it's Kris and Matt diving into the state of hardware, security, and what local AI actually needs to work. The conversation starts with AI agent social networks and why prompt injection is the unsolved SQL injection of our era, then shifts into why memory bandwidth is the real bottleneck for running models locally. Matt compiles Rust on a Mac Studio at the Apple Store, and the two debate whether the traditional PC build is even worth it anymore. As always, we've got supporter content! This week that includes the security primitives nobody uses, Kris's local AI research pipeline, the myth that you'll actually upgrade your components, Matt's DaVinci Resolve nightmare on Arch Linux, and why the Mac Pro doesn't know what it is anymore. 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. Kris and Matt dig into why the chat interface is just the piano keyboard moment for AI, the pair programming gap where agents can't notice your manual edits, and the Codex personality controversy. They close with a teaser for next week's Go generic methods discussion. Watch it on YouTube or listen with your favorite podcasting app! Learn more by going to https://break.show/28 ( https://break.show/28 ). Thanks for tuning in and happy listening! Table of Contents: * Prologue (00:00:00) * Chapter 1: Welcome and Catching Up (00:00:45) * Chapter 2: OpenClaw and AI Social Networks (00:12:18) * Chapter 3: Prompt Injection Is the New SQL Injection (00:17:01) * Chapter 4: Sandboxing and Defense in Depth (00:19:56) * Chapter 5: The Primitives We Never Use [Extended] (00:22:02) * Chapter 6: Lava Layers of Abstraction (00:25:06) * Chapter 7: Building a Local AI Research Pipeline [Extended] (00:27:44) * Chapter 8: Memory Bandwidth Is the Real Bottleneck (00:29:02) * Chapter 9: Consumer Hardware is at an Inflection Point (00:32:04) * Chapter 10: The RAM Shortage and Supply Chain Crisis (00:36:32) * Chapter 11: The Upgrade Myth [Extended] (00:38:55) * Chapter 12: Nobody Actually Upgrades (00:42:45) * Chapter 13: Compiling Rust at the Apple Store (00:44:39) * Chapter 14: Do You Still Need a Big Desktop? [Extended] (00:49:35) * Chapter 15: Linux vs macOS for Content Creation [Extended] (00:54:30) * Chapter 16: The Future of Local AI (01:06:17) * Chapter 17: The Mac Pro's Identity Crisis [Extended] (01:14:59) * Chapter 18: Two Terabytes of RAM and What We'd Do With It (01:19:31) * Chapter 19: Reimagining the PC for Massive Parallelism (01:22:10) * Epilogue (01:24:22) Host: Kris Brandow Co-Host: Matthew Sanabria Beats: Breakmaster Cylinder Fallthrough is produced by Kris Brandow. 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/ )

1u 26m
7 FEB • ALLEEN VOOR ABONNEES

The Vibes-Based Legal System

This week Steve's back to tackle the big question: is AI-generated output copyrightable? The conversation includes discussions of the Copyright Act of 1976, the philosophy of why copyright exists at all, whether LLM training is learning, and why owning a style would destroy culture. As always, we've got supporter content! This week that includes the Coca-Cola DEA deal and why trade secrets beat patents, what happens when copyright expires on open source code, turning software into giant prime numbers, the JSON "for good and not evil" licensing saga, and a deep dive into why open source licensing is an honor code system that's quietly falling apart. 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. Kris, Matt, and Steve pick up the copyright thread and ask whether it even matters to working developers, draw parallels to the U.S. tax system, and debate whether the frantic pace of AI standards is chaos or just what innovation looks like. Watch it on YouTube or listen with your favorite podcasting app! Learn more by going to https://break.show/27 ( https://break.show/27 ). Thanks for tuning in and happy listening! Table of Contents: * Prologue (00:00:00) * Chapter 1: Snow, Ice, and Frozen Pipes (00:01:26) * Chapter 2: Is AI Output Copyrightable? (00:04:24) * Chapter 3: Training vs Output: Two Separate Questions (00:07:28) * Chapter 4: The 1976 Copyright Act and Software (00:11:12) * Chapter 5: Copyright Duration and Trade Secrets [Extended] (00:15:57) * Chapter 6: Open Source and the Expiration Problem [Extended] (00:18:35) * Chapter 7: Copyleft vs Permissive in the LLM Era (00:22:00) * Chapter 8: Copyright as a Weapon, Not a Shield (00:27:10) * Chapter 9: LLM Training Is Just Learning (00:29:24) * Chapter 10: Owning a Style Would Destroy Culture (00:33:17) * Chapter 11: The Real Problem Is Bigger Than Copyright (00:39:00) * Chapter 12: AI Acceptance and What Is Thinking? (00:43:01) * Chapter 13: Our Definition of Thinking Is Just Vibes (00:48:18) * Chapter 14: The Open Source Licensing Crisis [Extended] (00:53:51) * Chapter 15: Copyright Was Made Up [Extended] (00:57:09) * Chapter 16: Software as Numbers [Extended] (01:00:05) * Chapter 17: The Open Source Licensing Crisis [Extended] (01:03:32) * Chapter 18: The Whole System Is Vibes (01:15:15) * Epilogue (01:16:29) Host: Kris Brandow Co-Host: Matthew Sanabria Guest Co-Host: Steve Klabnik Beats: Breakmaster Cylinder Fallthrough is produced by Kris Brandow. 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/ )

1u 17m
31 JAN • ALLEEN VOOR ABONNEES

The AI Factory Floor

This week we're talking about Gastown! Dylan and Steve join Kris to break down the viral project that spins up hundreds of Claude Code instances to build a software factory. Steve makes the case for why this is an inevitable evolution and the conversation digs into what it actually means to treat software development as a factory floor. The panel traces the cycle from mainframes to PCs to cloud to AI, debates whether data centers are really the environmental villain, and gets into the real economics of AI pricing. As always, we've got supporter content! This week that includes the crypto rug pull scheme targeting open source maintainers, why conEdison is actually good at their job, whether AI subscriptions are just Uber-style subsidization all over again, the gambling psychology of usage-based costs, and Steve's secret project Docket. 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. Kris and Steve dive deep into semantic versioning, the real cost of "breaking changes" in Go, and a whirlwind history of package managers from CPAN to NPM to Go modules. Watch it on YouTube or listen with your favorite podcasting app! Learn more by going to https://break.show/26 ( https://break.show/26 ). Thanks for tuning in and happy listening! Table of Contents: * Prologue (00:00:00) * Chapter 1: Welcome Back, Dylan (00:00:46) * Chapter 2: What is Gastown? (00:06:02) * Chapter 3: Where Are the AI Factory Floor Managers? (00:07:53) * Chapter 4: The Industry is Cyclical (00:19:43) * Chapter 5: Rug Pull as a Service [Extended] (00:23:20) * Chapter 6: Data Centers Aren't the Villain (00:28:49) * Chapter 7: Energy, Grids & Con Edison [Extended] (00:35:10) * Chapter 8: The Case for Local AI (00:39:43) * Chapter 9: Mainframes Are Still Holding It Together [Extended] (00:44:36) * Chapter 10: Claude Code Usage & Hitting the Limits (00:49:02) * Chapter 11: API Pricing & the Race to the Bottom [Extended] (00:54:33) * Chapter 12: Is AI Pricing Just Uber All Over Again? [Extended] (00:58:50) * Chapter 13: The Gambling Psychology of API Costs [Extended] (01:04:38) * Chapter 14: The Upgrade Treadmill (01:08:52) * Chapter 15: Beads & AI Dev Tools [Extended] (01:18:02) * Chapter 16: Steve's Secret Project [Extended] (01:21:07) * Chapter 17: Claude Debugging War Stories (01:24:34) * Epilogue (01:29:31) Host: Kris Brandow Co-Host: Dylan Bourque and Steve Klabnik Beats: Breakmaster Cylinder Fallthrough is produced by Kris Brandow. 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/ )

1u 31m
23 JAN • ALLEEN VOOR ABONNEES

Systems Thinking for Humans

Annie and Michael Hedgpeth, founders of People Work, join Kris and Matt to unpack the junior hiring crisis and what's really broken about how we grow engineers. Annie's viral blog post sparked debate about whether senior engineers have abandoned their responsibility to mentor and whether our obsession with career ladders created the problem. The conversation moves from systemic dysfunction to solutions: People Work, their local-first app that helps engineers manage professional relationships with a systems thinking approach. As always, we've got supporter content! This week that includes Kris's unconventional career path, a rant about why we have too many engineering titles, deep dives into relational intelligence and privacy concerns around workplace surveillance, and the technical architecture behind People Work: Swift frontend, Rust backend, and a custom DSL inspired by HCL. 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. Annie and Michael stick around as the panel digs into why early career engineers rush to prove themselves, the trap of becoming "the glue person" instead of building technical depth, and why your strength as a junior is that you don't know anything yet. The panel also discusses some spicy topics like why software engineers spew logical fallacies, and the future of computing as hardware gains slow down. They round out the episode with some Unpopular Opinions. Watch it on YouTube or listen with your favorite podcasting app! Learn more by going to https://break.show/25 ( https://break.show/25 ). Thanks for tuning in and happy listening! Table of Contents: * Prologue (00:00:00) * Chapter 1: Meet Annie & Michael Hedgpeth (00:00:49) * Chapter 2: The Junior Hiring Crisis (00:01:15) * Chapter 3: AI as an Amplifier (00:10:37) * Chapter 4: The Broken Apprenticeship Model (00:12:05) * Chapter 5: Scaling Yourself Through Others (00:20:00) * Chapter 6: Kris Never Had a Mentor [Extended] (00:24:55) * Chapter 7: Too Many Titles [Extended] (00:29:35) * Chapter 8: Networking That Actually Works (00:34:59) * Chapter 9: What is People Work? (00:39:48) * Chapter 10: Relational Intelligence [Extended] (00:49:33) * Chapter 11: The Onboarding Use Case (00:54:48) * Chapter 12: Why Engineers? [Extended] (00:59:55) * Chapter 13: Privacy & Safe Spaces [Extended] (01:04:46) * Chapter 14: AI Strategy & On-Device [Extended] (01:09:33) * Chapter 15: Swift + Rust + Crux [Extended] (01:14:55) * Chapter 16: Data Ownership & The DSL (01:24:48) * Epilogue (01:28:46) Host: Matthew Sanabria Co-Host: Kris Brandow Guests: Annie Hedgpeth and Michael Hedgpeth Beats: Breakmaster Cylinder Fallthrough is produced by Kris Brandow. 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/ )

1u 30m
15 JAN • ALLEEN VOOR ABONNEES

When Reality Drifts

Nick Gerace, Engineering Manager at System Initiative, joins Kris and Matt to explore what infrastructure management looks like beyond Terraform. Nick walks us through how System Initiative differs from traditional IaC, why git isn't really your source of truth, and how the company pivoted to AI-first tooling. The conversation turns to Claude Code and MCP tools before landing on a nuanced discussion about distributed systems, and how the messy, eventual consistency of real life mirrors the systems we build. As always, we've got supporter content! This week that includes deep dives into System Initiative's architecture evolution from Postgres to a custom graph database, Nick's passionate defense of domain-driven design in Rust monorepos ("if I see a util directory, I go a little nuts"), why AI won't replace musicians (or you), and a spicy take on AI, capitalism, and power structures. 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. Nick sticks around as the hosts compare audio engineering backgrounds, discuss the IC to manager journey, and take a hard turn into hardware—dual 3090 TIs with NVLink, the case for water cooling, Kris's absurd home lab, and everyone's temptation toward Framework Desktops and Mac Studios. Watch it on YouTube or listen with your favorite podcasting app! Learn more by going to https://break.show/24 ( https://break.show/24 ). Thanks for tuning in and happy listening! Table of Contents: * Prologue (00:00:00) * Chapter 1: Meet Nick Gerace (00:01:21) * Chapter 2: The Power of Networking (00:05:38) * Chapter 3: What is System Initiative? (00:14:42) * Chapter 4: Terraform vs System Initiative (00:19:58) * Chapter 5: Git Isn't Your Source of Truth (00:25:47) * Chapter 6: SI Architecture: From Postgres to Graph [Extended] (00:34:02) * Chapter 7: Rust Monorepos & Domain-Driven Design [Extended] (00:46:44) * Chapter 8: The AI Pivot at System Initiative (00:54:22) * Chapter 9: Claude Code & MCP Tools (01:04:22) * Chapter 10: AI Won't Replace Musicians (or You) [Extended] (01:11:20) * Chapter 11: Distributed Systems Are Just Real Life (01:20:22) * Chapter 12: AI, Capitalism & Power Structures [Extended] (01:25:47) * Chapter 13: Data Centers, Water & Nuance (01:32:07) * Epilogue (01:39:50) Host: Matthew Sanabria Co-Host: Kris Brandow Guest: Nick Gerace 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/ )

1u 41m
10 JAN • ALLEEN VOOR ABONNEES

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/ )

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