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The Beer Driven Devs

Hosted by Matt Goldman & Liam Elliott · technology · EN-US

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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.

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What is The Beer Driven Devs about?

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.

Who hosts The Beer Driven Devs?

The Beer Driven Devs is hosted by Matt Goldman & Liam Elliott. The show has published 81 episodes to date.

What has The Beer Driven Devs covered recently?

Recent episodes include "It's Complicated" (28 October 2026), "An Honest Conversation" (14 October 2026), and "Computer Didn't Say No" (30 September 2026).

How often does The Beer Driven Devs publish?

The Beer Driven Devs publishes roughly every two weeks across 81 episodes.

How hard is it to get booked on The Beer Driven Devs?

Booking probability for The Beer Driven Devs is 34%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Beer Driven Devs requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Beer Driven Devs's contact route on record: verified email.

Who should pitch The Beer Driven Devs?

The strongest fits for The Beer Driven Devs are IT Services & Software Development. The Beer Driven Devs has a technology audience.

About the host

Matt Goldman & Liam Elliott hosts The Beer Driven Devs, a technology podcast with 81 episodes published.

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Recent episodes

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  • Episode #82

    It's Complicated

    Oct 28, 2026—

    Two colleagues described the same problem to Liam — one called it complicated, the other called it complex. That one word was the whole answer. We get into Cynefin, why misdiagnosing a problem guarantees you'll never...

  • Episode #81

    An Honest Conversation

    Oct 14, 2026—

    Seven Adobe apps cloned in a week. A toolkit that reverse engineers anything. Matt argues the software profession isn't changing — it's ending — and that capability moat is rapidly drying up.

  • Episode #80

    Computer Didn't Say No

    Sep 30, 2026—

    An OpenAI agent got into a Medicare statistics portal, and the Prime Minister got in front of a camera. Matt and Liam ask what actually happened, whether it's as frightening as it sounds, and who ends up carrying the...

  • Episode #79

    Nobody Asked Dom and Brock

    Sep 16, 2026—

    A correction to last episode turns into a question neither of us had thought to ask: when a vendor drops your package into a default template, who agreed to the support burden that comes with it?

  • Episode #78

    Auth and Other Things We Forgot How To Do

    Sep 2, 2026—

    Matt walks Liam through a year of over-thinking auth for a mobile app, only to realise the answer was something we all used to do and simply forgot. That leads to a bigger question: what else have we been talked out of...

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  • Episode #77

    Codename Avalon

    Aug 19, 2026—

    Liam takes the wheel for a personal history of WPF — from battleship-grey WinForms, through the promise of Avalon, into the ideas that still quietly shape every XAML framework we use today.

  • Episode #76

    Horses for Courses

    Aug 5, 2026—

    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...

  • Episode #74

    The Six Thousand Dollar GPU

    Jul 8, 2026—

    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...

  • Episode #73

    Chocolate, Air Horns, and Data Debt: SlashNEW Debrief

    Jun 10, 2026—

    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...

  • Episode #72

    Do you really need enterprise?

    May 24, 2026—

    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...

  • Episode #71

    The Bespoke Software Myth

    May 13, 2026—

    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...

  • Episode #70

    Euro(Office)trip

    Apr 29, 2026—

    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...

  • Episode #69

    Of Mythos and Legends

    Apr 15, 2026—

    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...

  • Episode #68

    Going Full Penguin: GPUs, Laptops, and RAM, oh my!

    Apr 1, 2026—

    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 —...

  • Episode #67

    MAUIDay

    Mar 18, 2026—

    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...

  • Episode #66

    Is There a Future Career for Software Developers in the Age of AI?

    Mar 4, 2026—

    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...

  • Episode #65

    A Perfectly Normal Pull Request

    Feb 18, 2026—

    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.

  • Episode #64

    Victims of Our Own Hype

    Feb 3, 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...

  • Episode #63

    It's time to let JavaScript go

    Jan 21, 2026—

    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...

  • Episode #62

    AI: Bad for Platforms, Good for People

    Jan 7, 2026—

    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...

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