Working Code

Adam Tuttle, Ben Nadel, Carol Hamilton, Tim Cunningham
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Water-cooler conversation about web-development. We want to entertain, inspire, and motivate you -- or to put it another way, make your coding career more enjoyable.

  1. 251: Ben vs. Tests

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    251: Ben vs. Tests

    Testing sounds simple until you actually try it. Private methods that can't be reached without hacks. Dependency injection that doubles your architecture's complexity before a single assertion runs. Production code that slowly warps around your test suite instead of the other way around. Ben has spent his entire career shipping code without tests, and this week he decided to change that. The crew walks him through every trap he steps on, and a few they've been stuck in themselves. LinksBen Nadel's BlogFollow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @workingcode.dev on Bluesky. New episodes drop weekly on Thursday. And, if you're feeling the love, support us on Patreon. With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media. Full show notes and transcript here.

    1 ч. 4 мин.
  2. 250: Stuff, Things, WIP: Commit Messages

    6 МАР.

    250: Stuff, Things, WIP: Commit Messages

    Do commit messages even matter anymore, or did pull requests kill them? Ben works one commit per PR and thinks the commit message is the PR description. Carol and Tim put all the context in the PR and treat commits as disposable breadcrumbs. Adam's somewhere in between — when he's not pushing thirty knife emojis and "nope, still not working" to QA. Meanwhile, Tim's back from emergency eye surgery with a gas bubble floating around his eyeball. LinksBen Nadel's BlogConventional CommitsFollow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @workingcode.dev on Bluesky. New episodes drop weekly on Thursday. And, if you're feeling the love, support us on Patreon. With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media. Full show notes and transcript here.

    48 мин.
  3. 249: 10 Years of Tech Debt

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    249: 10 Years of Tech Debt

    For ten years, Adam's codebase has carried an ORM layer that everybody knew was wrong and nobody was touching. Nine hundred functions. Fifteen hundred files. The kind of job that gets solemnly nodded at in architecture meetings and quietly dies on the roadmap — every single year. So he stopped waiting for a volunteer and handed it to an AI agent instead. Claude's problem now. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @workingcode.dev on Bluesky. New episodes drop weekly on Thursday. And, if you're feeling the love, support us on Patreon. With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media. Full show notes and transcript here.

    1 ч. 13 мин.
  4. 248: AI All the Way Down

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    248: AI All the Way Down

    Ben had been riding high on vibe coding—throwaway scripts, zero attachment, pure productivity magic. Then he tried the same approach on a project he actually cares about and watched that 10x feeling crater to something closer to 10%. The bottleneck, it turns out, was never the typing. The hosts dig into what it feels like to let go of code you used to care about, whether "write-only code" is actually the future, and the growing gap between building software and keeping it alive. LinksVibe Coding by Gene Kim & Steve Yegge - The audiobook on AI-assisted development1Password: From Magic to Malware - How OpenClaw's agent skills became a supply chain attack surfaceTLDR Newsletter - Source of the "write-only code" conceptFollow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @workingcode.dev on Bluesky. New episodes drop weekly on Thursday. And, if you're feeling the love, support us on Patreon. With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media. Full show notes and transcript here.

    1 ч. 1 мин.
  5. 247: Trust Me Bro - LLM Security

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    247: Trust Me Bro - LLM Security

    Adam built a Claude Code skill for his Taffy REST framework and wanted to share it with the CFML community. Simple enough—create a GitHub repo, add some markdown files, done. But somewhere between "this is cool" and "anyone can install this," a familiar chill crept in. These skills are just text files. No checksums. No digital signatures. No verification that the thing you're installing won't quietly exfiltrate your code to some server in Eastern Europe. Sound familiar? It should. We've been here before—back when passwords lived in plain text and "security" meant hoping nobody looked too hard. The hosts dig into the unsettling parallels between today's LLM plugin ecosystem and the wild west of early internet security. LinksAdam's Dotfiles Blog Post - Getting his shit together with dotfiles, Brewfile, and 1Password SSH agentCF Community LLM Marketplace - Adam's community marketplace for CFML-related Claude skillsSteve Yegge's Google Platforms Rant - The infamous accidentally-public Google+ postVibe Coding by Gene Kim & Steve Yegge - The audiobook Ben's been enjoyingSocket.dev - Supply chain security for npm dependenciesFollow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @workingcode.dev on Bluesky. New episodes drop weekly on Thursday. And, if you're feeling the love, support us on Patreon. With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media. Full show notes and transcript here.

    1 ч. 2 мин.
  6. 246: Ben's Feeling the Vibe

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    246: Ben's Feeling the Vibe

    Ben's been circling vibe coding for months, kept at bay by a simple fear: what if he spends more time fighting the AI over formatting than actually building anything? What if he has to bolt on linters and test runners just to babysit the output? Then his work handed him a Claude plan, and he decided it was finally time to take the plunge. And then something unsettling happened—the code looked like his code. Same line lengths. Same method ordering. Same obsessive formatting. Nobody told it to do that. It just... knew. Meanwhile, Adam has gone full mad scientist. His "Ralph" workflow runs Claude in a loop, feeding it tasks from a JSON file while he walks away to eat dinner. When he comes back, features are done. Tests pass. The machine just keeps building. It's the kind of setup that makes you wonder why you're still manually typing commands into a terminal. LinksAdam's Ralph Workflow for Claude Code - Adam's blog post with his implementationMatt Pocock's Ralph Primer Video - The workflow Adam adapted for automated iterative developmentAlgorithm Maze Race - Tim's vibe-coded game on itch.ioPro tip: Use /resume in Claude Code to return to prior sessionsFollow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @workingcode.dev on Bluesky. New episodes drop weekly on Thursday. And, if you're feeling the love, support us on Patreon. With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media. Full show notes and transcript here.

    1 ч. 19 мин.
  7. 245: Browser Passwords? You're Doing It Wrong

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    245: Browser Passwords? You're Doing It Wrong

    Tim stores his passwords in the browser. There, we said it. But before you grab your pitchforks, it turns out he's got an ancient password vault program backing him up—so he's not completely feral. Still, the hosts can't resist a good-natured intervention. What starts as a gentle roasting turns into a deep dive on password managers, shared family vaults, and why your retirement account deserves better than Chrome's autofill. Carol reveals her galaxy-brain solution to her husband constantly forgetting his master password: she just signed him into her account. He still doesn't know he doesn't have his own 1Password. LinksClaude Code - Anthropic's CLI for coding with ClaudeRalph Wiggum Plugin - Official Claude Code plugin for autonomous loopsEverything is a Ralph Loop - Geoffrey Huntley's deep dive on the technique Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @workingcode.dev on Bluesky. New episodes drop weekly on Thursday. And, if you're feeling the love, support us on Patreon. With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media. Full show notes and transcript here.

    45 мин.
  8. 244: Ben vs 2026

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    244: Ben vs 2026

    It's a new year and you've probably got a mental list of things you want to learn. But how do you decide what's worth the investment? Ben explores the difference between "just-in-case" learning and "just-in-time" learning, while grappling with AI anxiety and the fear of falling behind. Along the way, Tim shares his own struggle—turns out, saying goodbye to something you built hits different. Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @workingcode.dev on Bluesky. New episodes drop weekly on Thursday. And, if you're feeling the love, support us on Patreon. With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media. Full show notes and transcript here.

    59 мин.
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Water-cooler conversation about web-development. We want to entertain, inspire, and motivate you -- or to put it another way, make your coding career more enjoyable.

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    Adam Tuttle, Ben Nadel, Carol Hamilton, Tim Cunningham
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    2020 - 2026
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