"Maintainable software is software that you don’t really notice." José Valim joined Robby to talk about designing Elixir for decades of evolution and why keeping things understandable matters even more as AI accelerates development. 🎧 buff.ly/VsTpBnH

Recently, I had the chance to interview @josevalim for @_maintainable about designing a language we can maintain for decades. maintainable.fm/episodes/jos…

What changes when the software you maintain is a programming language used by thousands of applications? José Valim joins Robby to talk about designing Elixir for long-term evolution, restraint, extensibility, and what AI is changing for maintainers. 🎧 buff.ly/VsTpBnH

Before you remove the weird thing, find out why it’s there. @JohnAthayde joins Maintainable to discuss understanding real user workflows before cleaning up or rewriting long-lived software. Listen here: buff.ly/c7kMvPj

Software maintenance isn't just about the code. @JohnAthayde joins @robbyrussell on Maintainable to discuss front-end sprawl, design systems, AI-assisted software archaeology, and when to rewrite vs. refactor. Listen here: buff.ly/c7kMvPj

AIシステムの保守は従来の保守とどう違うのかを議論されてそうなPodcast ep。 maintainable\.fm は初めて知ったので、ちょっといくつか探ってみよう。 maintainable.fm/episodes/dia…

How do you make the case for technical debt? Kristin Isaac argues that the strongest case connects maintenance work to customer impact, revenue, reliability, and risk. Sometimes it takes a better story, not just a technical argument. buff.ly/T7iUEcb

Customers don't call it “technical debt.” They say your product is slow, unreliable, or broken. Kristin Isaac joins @RobbyRussell to talk about connecting maintenance work to customer experience, revenue, reliability, and trust. Listen here: buff.ly/T7iUEcb

Missed this week’s Maintainable? David Hayes joins @Robbyrussell to explore why stable, predictable software matters — and what naval history can teach us about building reliable teams. ⚓ Listen here: buff.ly/OEEKqmV

New on Maintainable 🎙️ David Hayes of FusionAuth joins @RobbyRussell to talk about long-lived software, technical debt, self-hosted products, and why “boring” software can be a good thing. Listen here: buff.ly/OEEKqmV

Today I'm recording an episode of @_maintainable with @robbyrussell (you might know him as the Oh My Zsh creator) I'll tell the story of how my brother and I spent 5 years and $5M inventing a new language for web dev, admitted it was a mistake, and tore it out for TypeScript. The plot twist: the high-level spec we were left with is exactly what makes @WaspLang the most AI-legible framework in JS.

Missed this week’s Maintainable? @dianam joined @Robbyrussell to talk evals, input drift, human review, and the maintenance work behind AI systems — plus why simpler is often the better place to start. 🎧 Listen here: buff.ly/fi1sLmt

What happens when software changes without the code changing? @dianam joins @RobbyRussell on Maintainable to explore evals, input drift, production monitoring, and the maintenance cost behind AI systems. 🎧 Listen here: buff.ly/fi1sLmt

AI lets your teams ship more code than ever, but that doesn't fix the things that were actually slowing them down. Slow feedback loops, fragile deploys, dependency sprawl, and years of overlapping architecture don't disappear just because a model wrote the patch. In his #RailsWorld keynote, @robbyrussell of @planetargon, and host of 'On Rails', the official Rails Foundation podcast, makes the case that the most valuable engineers right now are the ones improving the environment the code lives in, not just adding to it. You'll leave with a sharper sense of where your team's real leverage is hiding. rubyonrails.org/world/2026/s…

Austin in September… sounds like a good excuse to get a room full of Rails devs talking about how we build software that gets better over time. Looking forward to seeing you all at #RailsWorld.

Worth a listen if you've ever inherited a "creative" codebase. 🎧 buff.ly/JKWrCMm