Dec 25, 20258 minS0
<p>Inspired by https://www.justfivemins.com/p/episode-146-christmas-day-2025-edition</p><p>happy xmas!</p><p>- https://github.com/timabell/disk-hog-backup<br>- https://github.com/timabell/gitopolis<br>...
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Tim Abell & (sometimes) David Sheardown look for ways to help you solve your problems with computer things.Send us a voice message: https://www.speakpipe.com/ssbf- https://0x5.uk/- https://twitter.com/davidsheardown
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Who hosts Software Should be Free?
Software Should be Free is hosted by Tim Abell. The show has published 32 episodes to date.
What has Software Should be Free covered recently?
Recent episodes include "Xmas 2025 - open source and client project updates" (25 December 2025, 8 minutes), "AI coding tool landscape in July 2025 with Tim + David" (29 July 2025, 61 minutes), and "Practical AI coding - lessons learned - Jim+Tim" (2 April 2025, 40 minutes).
How often does Software Should be Free publish?
Software Should be Free publishes roughly every few months, with episodes averaging 30 minutes across 32 episodes.
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Tim Abell hosts Software Should be Free, a technology podcast with 32 episodes published.
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- Jul 29, 20251h 1mS0
<p># Summary</p><p>In this conversation, Tim Abell and David Sheardown explore the challenges and innovations in productivity tools and AI coding assistants and the overwhelming landscape of AI tools available for...
- Apr 2, 202540 minS0
<p>Tim & Jim discuss what they've learned trying to use AI tools such as github, gpt, windsurf, claude etc to write code in small and large projects, open and closed source.</p>Jim: luxagen.comRotKrakenrkdVibe coding...
Episode #29
Why is reading bad code so painful?!
Mar 24, 202519 minS0<p>From the blog - https://0x5.uk/2025/01/31/why-is-reading-bad-code-so-painful/</p><p>David's just-five-mins podcast - https://www.justfivemins.com/</p><p>ps, when I said "Increased heart attack" I meant to say...
- Dec 14, 202433 minS0
<p>A piece on leadership and teams needed to create great software projects and overcome the organisational immune system, all without any fan noise, and an intro from Mark.</p>Unicorn project bookDevOps handbook (hint...
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Episode #27
Confident Contracting with Neil Millard
Jul 19, 20242h 58mS0<p>A flowing discussion with Neil about the life of a contractor, before during and after, with some important mental health lessons hard learned along the way. Neil shares advice for people at every stage in the...
- May 13, 202418 minS0
<p>David kindly had me on as a guest on his wonderful "just 5 mins" show to talk a bit more about outside-in-testing and answer some of his questions after my last episode on this show on the matter.</p><p>- Just Five...
- Apr 5, 202450 minS0
<p>A follow up to my blog post on test automation - with an angle that I think is missing in so much of the software industry - outside in fully automated tests from the perspective of the user is THE most important...
Episode #24
Writing the sln-items-sync dotnet tool
Jan 13, 202417 minS0timwise.co.uk/2024/01/13/new-tool-sln-items-sync-for-visual-studio-solution-folders/justfivemins.com (David's podcast)buttondown.emailtimwise.co.uk/subscribe
- Oct 25, 202330 minS0
https://timwise.co.uk/2023/10/20/use-kdiff3-for-merge-conflict-resolution/https://timwise.co.uk/2023/10/20/git-what-do-'base'-'local'-'remote'-mean/https://timwise.co.uk/2023/09/28/what-is-hexagonal-architecture/https://...
- Jun 30, 202317 minS0
<p>- beware fast talkers, as Ray Dalio says in Principles https://www.principles.com/ (as a tweet: https://twitter.com/RayDalio/status/1599056902637248514 )<br>- beware pattern obsessives (any pattern, architecture...
- Dec 8, 202117 minS0
Morning journalingSunsama daily planning appMaker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule by Paul GrahamRight to represent ideaAirtable for making forms and surveysSend me a voice message (may be included in the next show)<p>Let...
- Nov 24, 202116 minS0
<p>* Read "Working Identity" for career change https://www.amazon.co.uk/Working-Identity-Unconventional-Strategies-Reinventing-ebook/dp/B004OEIQ7C<br>* Maybe not an agency business...<br>* The contract market is...
- Nov 5, 202111 minS0
<p>Tim is going to do more digital delivery (contract), while defending time for building useful things for podcasters and being involved in that space, all while being good at email and being a great family...
Episode #17
Live stream - De-fusion of the mind
Oct 25, 202113 minS0companies house snafuDe-fusion of the mind with ACT (A liberated mind)Rich-dad cashflow game
Episode #16
Learning to code is hard
Oct 21, 20215 minS0Out at the lake with the dog. Empathy for coding being hard to learn.
Episode #15
Good morning
Oct 19, 20216 minS0<p>From yesterday's morning live stream experiment https://youtu.be/S4rHehuG3SE</p>
Episode #14
What even is systems integration?
Sep 6, 202130 minS0<p>David explains what systems integration really means when it comes down to getting things connected, and what things we are trying to connect in the first place.</p>
Episode #13
The death of custom software development
Sep 1, 202118 minS0Where has software been? Where is it going? Integration is the new hotness & problem to be solved.
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