Welcome back to Break, a Fallthrough aftershow! Kris and Matt continue the Go repository structure conversation by zooming in on the details. The pair discuss what they dislike about database libraries in Go, with a particular distaste for mocking. Then they have an extended discussion of Bryan Cantrill's "Complexity of Simplicity" quadrant framework from TalosCon. They argue Go was rebellious, but modules have been slid it into the accreted quadrant. Enjoying the aftershow? Let us know on socia...
Feb 28, 2026•40 min•Ep. 29
Welcome back to Break, a Fallthrough aftershow! Kris and Matt continue the hardware and AI conversation by zooming in on the tooling. Matt calls out the AI hype cycle of "this is the new thing" followed a week later by "I got my identity stolen" and they dig into why AI agents can't pair program. The centerpiece is an extended analogy comparing the chat interface to piano keyboards on early synthesizers: it was the obvious first interface, but we need to evolve toward drum pads, Kanban boards, a...
Feb 14, 2026•40 min•Ep. 28
Welcome back to Break, a Fallthrough aftershow! Kris, Matt, and Steve pick up where the main episode left off, asking whether copyright actually matters to working developers. Kris draws parallels to the U.S. tax system as an example of messy-but-functional policy, Matt vents about the frantic pace of AI "standards" like MCP and agents.md, and Kris argues that ossification is worse than chaos by pointing to TCP and Von Neumann architecture as cautionary tales of things that got locked in and nev...
Feb 07, 2026•20 min•Ep. 27
Welcome back to Break, a Fallthrough aftershow! It's just Kris and Steve for this one! After brief reflections on the Gastown discussion, the episode pivots into a deep dive on semantic versioning, breaking changes, and the history of package management. Kris shares research showing most Go modules change far less code between major versions than people assume. They trace the history from CPAN and dpkg through NPM/Yarn to Go's GOPATH era, discuss supply chain security implications of MVS, and Kr...
Jan 31, 2026•23 min•Ep. 26
Welcome back to Break, a Fallthrough aftershow! In this episode, Annie and Michael Hedgepeth stick around for Break. The panel kicks off with Michael's anxiety about his "distinguished engineer" rant, which shifts into a discussion about broken career ladders and why companies need to hire librarians. Michael adds wisdom on context management being the key to getting value from AI, while the group explores why staff engineers who only know code might be in trouble. Matthew shares how Oxide onboa...
Jan 24, 2026•48 min•Ep. 25
Welcome back to Break, a Fallthrough aftershow! In this episode, Nick Gerace sticks around for Break. The panel compare audio engineering backgrounds, discuss AI-powered podcast workflows, and Nick shares his journey from IC to engineering manager, including using AI for management tasks. Things take a hardware turn with Nick's dual 3090 Ti NVLink setup, Matthew's case for water cooling, and the reveal of Kris's home lab. The episode wraps with Framework Desktop dreams and Mac Studio temptation....
Jan 16, 2026•44 min•Ep. 24
Welcome back to Break, a Fallthrough aftershow! In this episode, Matt gets real about how AI doomerism on social media got to him over the holidays and the mental reset that pulled him out of it. Kris offers some historical perspective: the "kids these days" argument is thousands of years old, and things aren't actually worse than before, we're just living through it now. They riff on why people think in absolutes (e.g. BEVs vs. cars, capitalism vs. socialism), and land on a thesis: most of soci...
Jan 10, 2026•32 min•Ep. 23
Welcome back to Break, a Fallthrough aftershow! In this episode, the panel continues their conversation from Fallthrough #52. Enjoying the aftershow? Let us know on social media! If you prefer to watch instead of just listen, head over to YouTube where you watch this episode of Break! Thanks for tuning in and happy listening! Chapters: Prologue (00:00:00) Chapter 1: Modern AI and Modern Hardware (00:01:52) Chapter 2: How AI Is Changing Things (00:10:08) Chapter 3: Better Definitions for Software...
Dec 31, 2025•36 min•Ep. 22
Welcome back to Break, a Fallthrough aftershow! In this episode, the panel continues their conversation from Fallthrough #51. Enjoying the aftershow? Let us know on social media! If you prefer to watch instead of just listen, head over to YouTube where you watch this episode of Break! Thanks for tuning in and happy listening! Chapters: Prologue (00:00:00) Chapter 1: Shifting With The Times (00:00:49) Chapter 2: Thinking In The Long Term (00:09:09) Chapter 3: We Need New Fundamentals (00:14:35) C...
Dec 25, 2025•27 min•Ep. 21
Welcome back to Break, a Fallthrough aftershow! In this episode, the panel continues their conversation from Fallthrough #50. Enjoying the aftershow? Let us know on social media! If you prefer to watch instead of just listen, head over to YouTube where you watch this episode of Break! Thanks for tuning in and happy listening! Chapters: Prologue (00:00:00) Chapter 1: Is Matt Getting Canceled? (00:02:37) Chapter 2: An Interlude Into Special Forces (00:14:27) Chapter 3: Stay Lean, Avoid Being Mid (...
Dec 20, 2025•30 min•Ep. 20
Welcome back to Break, a Fallthrough aftershow! In this episode, the panel continues their conversation from Fallthrough #49. Enjoying the aftershow? Let us know on social media! If you prefer to watch instead of just listen, head over to YouTube where you watch this episode of Break! Thanks for tuning in and happy listening! Chapters: Prologue (00:00:00) Chapter 1: Nearly A Year (00:02:15) Chapter 2: Standardizing On Interfaces (00:14:13) Chapter 3: The Power Of Coding Agents (00:27:58) Epilogu...
Dec 13, 2025•41 min•Ep. 19
Welcome back to Break, a Fallthrough aftershow! In this episode, the panel continues their conversation from Fallthrough #48. Enjoying the aftershow? Let us know on social media! If you prefer to watch instead of just listen, head over to YouTube where you watch this episode of Break! Thanks for tuning in and happy listening! Chapters: Prologue (00:00:00) Chapter 1: Fewer New Names, More Fixing Problems (00:02:11) Chapter 2: Oversimplifying Project Management (00:10:56) Chapter 3: We Are All Bec...
Dec 05, 2025•38 min•Ep. 18
Welcome back to Break, a Fallthrough aftershow! In this episode, the panel continues their conversation from Fallthrough #47. Enjoying the aftershow? Let us know on social media! If you prefer to watch instead of just listen, head over to YouTube where you watch this episode of Break! Thanks for tuning in and happy listening! Chapters: Prologue (00:00:00) Chapter 1: Not All Ecosystems Are Exclusive (00:01:25) Chapter 2: Humans Are Not Deities (00:07:20) Chapter 3: Rent vs Own (00:13:26) Chapter ...
Nov 25, 2025•31 min•Ep. 17
Welcome back to Break, a Fallthrough aftershow! In this episode, the panel continues their conversation from Fallthrough #46. Enjoying the aftershow? Let us know on social media! If you prefer to watch instead of just listen, head over to YouTube where you watch this episode of Break! Thanks for tuning in and happy listening! Chapters: Prologue (00:00:00) Chapter 1: Pivots, Glue, and Revenue (00:02:44) Chapter 2: Constraints & Leadership (00:19:19) Epilogue (00:35:55) Hosts Kris Brandow - Ho...
Nov 20, 2025•38 min•Ep. 16
Welcome back to Break, a Fallthrough aftershow! Sometimes we record an episode and don't ship it for a while. This is the case for this episode, which we recorded all the way back on July 30th! In it Kris and Matt discuss their, at the time, yet to be recorded episode with Mitchell Hashimoto, Oxide's Series B announcement, and their view around programming artisans. Enjoying the aftershow? Let us know on social media! If you prefer to watch instead of just listen, head over to YouTube where you ...
Nov 12, 2025•50 min•Ep. 15
Welcome back to Break, a Fallthrough aftershow! In this episode, Kris, Ian, and Matt extend their discussion from Fallthrough episode #44 . Enjoying the aftershow? Let us know on social media! If you prefer to watch instead of just listen, head over to YouTube where you watch this episode of Break! Thanks for tuning in and happy listening! Chapters: Prologue (00:00:00) Chapter 1: Is FAANG worth it anymore? (00:02:45) Chapter 2: There's so much opportunity to build software (00:05:15) Chapter 3: ...
Nov 04, 2025•29 min•Ep. 14
Welcome back to Break, a Fallthrough aftershow! In this episode, Kris, Matt, and Steve talk extend their discussion from Fallthrough episode #43 . Enjoying the aftershow? Let us know on social media! If you prefer to watch instead of just listen, head over to YouTube where you watch this episode of Break! Thanks for tuning in and happy listening! Chapters: Prologue (00:00:00) Chapter 1: Steve is joining ERSC, but Oxide is still great! (00:01:44) Chapter 2: Work Should Be Balanced (00:06:41) Chap...
Oct 28, 2025•24 min•Ep. 13
Welcome back to Break, a Fallthrough aftershow! In this episode, Kris, Matt, Angelica, and Cory O'Daniel talk extend their discussion from Fallthrough episode #42 . Enjoying the aftershow? Let us know on social media! If you prefer to watch instead of just listen, head over to YouTube where you watch this episode of Break! Thanks for tuning in and happy listening! Chapters: Prologue (00:00:00) Chapter 1: Communication Matters (00:01:09) Chapter 2: You Can't Make Things Too Good (00:08:48) Chapte...
Oct 27, 2025•40 min•Ep. 12
Welcome back to Break, a Fallthrough aftershow! In this episode, Kris, Matt, and Mitchell talk extend their discussion from Fallthrough episode #41 . Enjoying the aftershow? Let us know on social media! If you prefer to watch instead of just listen, head over to YouTube where you watch this episode of Break! Thanks for tuning in and happy listening! Chapters: Prologue (00:00:00) Chapter 1: GitHub Projects vs Discussions (00:01:43) Chapter 2: Nu Shell (00:05:06) Chapter 3: Python vs Nu Shell (00:...
Oct 13, 2025•23 min•Ep. 11
Welcome back to Break, a Fallthrough aftershow! In this episode, Kris, Matt, and Steve talk extend their discussion from Fallthrough episode #40 . Enjoying the aftershow? Let us know on social media! If you prefer to watch instead of just listen, head over to YouTube where you watch this episode of Break! Thanks for tuning in and happy listening! Chapters: Prologue (00:00:00) More Discourse! (00:00:55) A Wild Unpopular Opinion Appears! (00:26:08) Hosts Kris Brandow - Host Matthew Sanabria - Host...
Oct 12, 2025•38 min•Ep. 10
Welcome back to Break, a Fallthrough aftershow! In this episode, Kris and Matt talk extend their discussion from Fallthrough episode #39 . Enjoying the aftershow? Let us know on social media! If you prefer to watch instead of just listen, head over to YouTube where you watch this episode of Break! Thanks for tuning in and happy listening! Chapters: Prologue (00:00:00) Chapter 1: Small Tools, Not Big Solutions (00:00:50) Chapter 2: The Plight of Streaming (00:09:36) Chapter 3: Making A Living Sol...
Sep 30, 2025•38 min•Ep. 9
Welcome back to Break, a Fallthrough aftershow! In this episode, Kris and Matt are joined by Ron Evans talk about Fallthrough episode #38 . Enjoying the aftershow? Let us know on social media! If you prefer to watch instead of just listen, head over to YouTube where you watch this episode of Break! Thanks for tuning in and happy listening! Chapters: Prologue (00:00:00) Chapter 1: Virtual Chocolate (00:00:42) Chapter 2: There Are No Useless Degrees (00:08:11) Chapter 3: The Trouble With Packages ...
Sep 26, 2025•43 min•Ep. 8
Welcome back to Break, a Fallthrough aftershow! In this episode, Kris, Matt, Dylan, and Angelica talk about Fallthrough episode #34 . Enjoying the aftershow? Let us know on social media! If you prefer to watch instead of just listen, head over to YouTube where you watch this episode of Break! Thanks for tuning in and happy listening! Chapters: Speak To Me, Not At Me (00:00:00) Prologue (00:00:54) Chapter 1: New Speakers at Conferences (00:01:21) Chapter 2: What Are We Excited About For GopherCon...
Aug 26, 2025•37 min•Ep. 7
Welcome back to Break, a Fallthrough aftershow! In this episode, Kris and Matt talk about Fallthrough episode #33 . Enjoying the aftershow? Let us know on social media! If you prefer to watch instead of just listen, head over to YouTube where you watch this episode of Break! Thanks for tuning in and happy listening! Chapters: Chapter 1: We Want Feedback! (00:00:53) Chapter 2: Where is Go Going? (00:04:44) Chapter 3: Build Your Own Libraries (00:18:06) Hosts Kris Brandow - Host Matthew Sanabria -...
Aug 21, 2025•38 min•Ep. 6
Welcome back to Break, a Fallthrough aftershow! In this episode, Kris, Matt, and Steve talk about Fallthrough episode #32 , problems with software security, why privacy is important, and so much more. Enjoying the aftershow? Let us know on social media! If you prefer to watch instead of just listen, head over to YouTube where you watch this episode of Break! Thanks for tuning in and happy listening! Hosts Kris Brandow - Host Matthew Sanabria - Host Steve Klabnik - Guest Socials: Website Bluesky ...
Aug 11, 2025•35 min•Ep. 5
Welcome back to Break, a Fallthrough aftershow! In this second episode, Kris and Matt are joined by Alex Sims to talk about Fallthrough episode #3 1. They talk about the difficulties of change, why communication in companies sucks, Matt's interesting analogies, and more! We hope you enjoy this new show and let us know if you like this content and format! Thanks for tuning in and happy listening! Hosts Kris Brandow - Host Matthew Sanabria - Host Alex Sims - Guest Socials: Website Bluesky Threads ...
Aug 04, 2025•49 min•Ep. 4
Welcome back to Break, a Fallthrough aftershow! In this second episode, Kris and Matt are joined by Steve Klabnik to talk about Fallthrough episode #30 . They talk about marketplaces, extra long but completely captivating YouTube videos, the Streisand Effect, and more! We hope you enjoy this new show and let us know if you like this content and format! Thanks for tuning in and happy listening! Hosts Kris Brandow - Host Matthew Sanabria - Host Steve Klabnik - Guest Socials: Website Bluesky Thread...
Jul 28, 2025•33 min•Ep. 3
Welcome back to Break, a Fallthrough aftershow! In this second episode, Kris and Matt are joined by Jamie Tanna and Steve Klabnik to talk about Fallthrough episode #29 . They touch on topics they thought they'd discuss but didn't, Jamie's unusually high pain tolerance, why breaking changes seem to work in the real world but not in software, and a whole bunch more! We hope you enjoy this new show and let us know if you like this content and format! Thanks for tuning in and happy listening! Table ...
Jul 21, 2025•33 min•Ep. 2
Welcome to Break, a Fallthrough aftershow! After months of spending time after each recording of Fallthrough chatting, Kris and Matt decided it's time to record some of these chats and publish them to the world! In many ways the show's name is apropos: it's more like a watercooler break than a podcast recording and it's a break from the way we usually record podcast episodes. In this first episode, Kris, Matt, and Jamie discuss the recording of Fallthrough episode #28 . They talk more about Open...
Jul 15, 2025•40 min•Ep. 1
