The Quake Fan who built the map editor everybody uses

func_arena interviews Kristian Duske, creator of the TrenchBroom Quake level editor, about starting it in 2010 as a Mac user, rewrites from Objective-C to C++, the move from wxWidgets to Qt, a stubborn CSG algorithm, and how he maintains a widely used open-source project alongside a full-time job - despite never making another map.

Interview · Open Source · Programming

Deepthi Sigireddi from Supabase

Phil Eaton interviews Deepthi Sigireddi, Head of Databases at Supabase and former Vitess project lead at PlanetScale, about 25 years of database scaling work, leading Vitess, sharding Postgres with Multigres, incidents she learned from, and what agents creating many tiny databases mean next.

Interview · Databases · Infrastructure · Career · Open Source

This Digital Radio Gets Messages to the World's Remotest LocationsIt sends encrypted signals with no satellites or relay towers required

IEEE Spectrum interviews Rhizomatica’s Peter Bloom on HERMES, an open-source HF data radio that pushes files and optional encryption over the ionosphere for remote and emergency communities.

Interview · Hardware · Open Source · Security · Engineering

Peter Bex on CHICKEN Scheme

Alex Alejandre interviews CHICKEN Scheme maintainer Peter Bex on the 6.0.0 release, Scheme standardization, Postgres versus MySQL/SQLite, and working in Clojure.

Interview · Programming · Open Source · Databases · Culture