In this episode, Conor chats with Kevlin Henney about the past, present and future of programming languages and with Damian Maclennan about YOW! 2025!

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About the Guests:

Kevlin Henney is an independent consultant, speaker, writer and trainer. His software development interests are in programming, practice and people. He has been a columnist for various magazines and websites. He is the co-author of A Pattern Language for Distributed Computing and On Patterns and Pattern Languages, two volumes in the Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture series, and editor of 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know and co-editor of 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know.

Damian Maclennan is a technologist, software architect, trainer, developer, cyclist, and musician in Brisbane, Australia. With over twenty five years experience building software and leading teams across many industries he has worked as a developer, software architect, consultant, troubleshooter, trainer and educator, and senior leader. Damian is the Technical Director of YOW! Conferences. Full bio here.

Show Notes

Date Recorded: 2025-12-11
Date Released: 2025-12-19

• YOW Conferences!
• ADSP Episode 190: C++, Python and More with Kevlin Henney
• 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know
• The Past, Present and Future of Programming Languages - Kevlin Henney - ACCU 2025
• The Past, Present & Future of Programming Languages • Kevlin Henney • GOTO 2024
• TIOBE Language Rankings
• RedMonk Language Rankings
• Programming Language Rankings
• Context Free YouTube
• YOW! 2025 - Beyond Sonic Pi: Tau5 and the Art of Coding with AI - Sam Aaron
• YOW! 2025 - Conceptualisation - Michael Feathers

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In this episode, Conor interviews Kevlin Henney about aphantasia, anendophasia, synesthesia, future and more!

• Link to Episode 264 on Website
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Socials

• ADSP: The Podcast: Twitter
• Conor Hoekstra: LinkTree / Bio

About the Guest:

Kevlin Henney is an independent consultant, speaker, writer and trainer. His software development interests are in programming, practice and people. He has been a columnist for various magazines and websites. He is the co-author of A Pattern Language for Distributed Computing and On Patterns and Pattern Languages, two volumes in the Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture series, and editor of 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know and co-editor of 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know.

Show Notes

Date Recorded: 2025-12-11
Date Released: 2025-12-12

• YOW Conferences!
• ADSP Episode 190: C++, Python and More with Kevlin Henney
• 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know
• Declarative thinking, declarative practice - Kevlin Henney - Meeting C++ 2017
• Aphantasia
• Anendophasia
• Synesthesia
• Rutherford & Fry: The Case of the Blind Mind's Eye
• What Do You Mean? - Kevlin Henney [ACCU 2019]
• The Way the Future Was • Kevlin Henney & James Lewis • GOTO 2025
• Overton Window
• Darth Jar Jar - Star Wars Theory

Intro Song Info

Miss You by Sarah Jansen https://soundcloud.com/sarahjansenmusic
Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0
Free Download / Stream: http://bit.ly/l-miss-you
Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/iYYxnasvfx8

In this episode, Conor and Bryce interview Sean Parent about the origin story of his career in software engineering!

• Link to Episode 263 on Website
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• Bryce Adelstein Lelbach: Twitter

About the Guest:

Sean Parent is a senior principal scientist and software architect managing Adobe's Software Technology Lab. Sean first joined Adobe in 1993 working on Photoshop and is one of the creators of Photoshop Mobile, Lightroom Mobile, and Lightroom Web. In 2009 Sean spent a year at Google working on Chrome OS before returning to Adobe. From 1988 through 1993 Sean worked at Apple, where he was part of the system software team that developed the technologies allowing Apple’s successful transition to PowerPC.

Show Notes

Date Recorded: 2025-10-10
Date Released: 2025-12-05

• Source Code
• TRS80
• Ohio Scientific Challenger
• Exidy Sorcerer

Intro Song Info

Miss You by Sarah Jansen https://soundcloud.com/sarahjansenmusic
Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0
Free Download / Stream: http://bit.ly/l-miss-you
Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/iYYxnasvfx8