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Hosted by Matt Goldman & Liam Elliott · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 76 episodes
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Indulge in the perfect blend of technology and beer as "The Beer Driven Devs" serves up a frothy fortnightly podcast experience! Hosted by two passionate software engineers who code with one hand and raise a beer with the other, this podcast is where tech enthusiasts and beer aficionados unite.
Matt Goldman & Liam Elliott hosts The Beer Driven Devs, a technology show with 76 episodes published.
One email from 2007, John Carmack telling his team to think about inlining their functions, turns out to be about far more than code style. We follow the thread from pure functions and consistent state through the state
Matt takes Liam on a tour through the history of CPUs and GPUs — from the Amiga and Doom to shaders, CUDA, and $6,000 graphics cards. Along the way: why constraints drive innovation, how gaming hardware accidentally buil
Matt recaps SlashNEW Conference 2026, from his first scripted talk to standout sessions on automation, communication, change management, and the uncomfortable truth that AI isn't new problems, it's old ones on a new subs
Picking up the thread from last week, Matt and Liam try to pin down what 'enterprise' actually means — and unpack why so much of the perceived cost of bespoke software is really the cost of enterprise overhead that most
Matt and Liam pick apart the persistent myth that custom software is only for big enterprises. From SMB access to risk, lock-in, and the manufacturing roots of enterprise software, they argue that bespoke isn't the dange
Matt and Liam unpack the EuroOffice scramble, the US CLOUD Act, and what data sovereignty actually means in 2026. It's a tour through Sun, Oracle, LibreOffice, the Microsoft Ireland case, and the uncomfortable questions
Matt and Liam dig into Anthropic's unreleased Mythos model and the security implications everyone's talking about — then pull back the lens on AI hype cycles, data de-anonymisation, and whether we're sleepwalking through
Matt finally snaps. After a faulty GPU, a laptop that keeps rebooting itself, and a pre-installed audio driver that hides in System32 and reinstalls itself after every Windows Update, the only sensible move is nuclear —
Matt finally gets to debrief on .NET MAUI Day London — meeting the team in person, the talks that blew the room away, and why .NET 10 has him genuinely excited about mobile again. Plus: Liam's fully agentic AI game studi
In our very first Beer Driven Devs Live , we brought the podcast off the mics and into the room — with pizza, beer, a live audience, three human panelists… and one AI. The question on the table: 💡 Is there a future care
An AI agent submits a pull request, gets rejected, and publishes a hit piece. We unpack what happened, what it means for open source, and whether software engineers still have a job in 2026.
In this episode, Matt and Liam talk about hype cycles in modern tooling, using AI and Aspire as examples of what happens when tools are used outside their intended context. They explore why frustration often comes from m
A deeper follow-up to our earlier JavaScript discussions, this episode digs into why the ecosystem keeps tripping over the same problems. We unpack supply-chain risk, package culture, governance gaps, and the uncomfortab
Matt and Liam debate whether AI is making software better or just faster, exploring how AI impacts developer workflows, platform quality, and the real value it brings to people versus companies. A candid discussion on te
A reflective end-of-year conversation about decency, responsibility, and the small choices that quietly shape our workplaces and communities.
The Beer Driven Devs attended ADAConf again, this time with Matt presenting. In this episode Liam and Matt reflect on what they learned about change at this year's conference.
Matt and Liam unpack the stubborn stereotype of the socially inept specialist, how it still shapes expectations today, and why great leadership has nothing to do with whether you can code — and everything to do with how
This week Matt introduces Cabinet — a lightweight, encrypted offline data store for .NET apps — and shares the story, design decisions, and trade-offs behind it.
Matt and Liam share how they actually use AI day-to-day—from code assistants to creative projects—and explore whether AI is really coming for our jobs, or just changing what those jobs look like.
Matt and Liam pull apart the reflex to start with tables and let an ORM shape your code. We talk aggregates, normalisation vs denormalisation, many-to-many pain, and when a document or relational store actually fits the
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