Cabinet: The Offline Store that Keeps Things Simple
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.
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How the Beer Driven Devs use AI
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.
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Data Driven Domains: We're all wrong about SQL
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 job.
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Inconceivable!
We keep using these words—agile, governance, risk, contracts—but do they mean what we think they mean? This episode digs into the trouble with shared language and mismatched definitions.
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Green Checks, Red Flags: Surviving Supply-Chain Attacks
The recent nx exploit grabbed a lot of attention for using a novel AI prompt injection attack. This episode unpacks what happened, the dangers of blind trust, and some ways to minimise risk.
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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