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   E255 · 18 Feb 2025 · 32 min

   255 - Data Oriented Programming

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   E254 · 24 Dec 2024 · 49 min

   254 - 8× faster 5× memory savings with Dan Rusu’s Immutable Arrays

   In this episode, discover how Dan Rusu’s pods4k Immutable Arrays library can deliver 2–8× speed boosts and 5× lower memory usage in Kotlin/Android apps. We first revisit the fundamentals of autoboxing/unboxing and immutability to understand their impact on performance. Then we hear from Dan himself on his library, motiviations for building it, how the benchmarks were calculated and much much more. Our grand finale episode for 2024. Hope you enjoy it! Full Shownotes at https://fragmentedpodcast.com/episodes/254.

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   E253 · 10 Dec 2024 · 41 min

   253 - logcat - a new look at logging with Piwai from Square

   Kaushik looks at a new logging library from Square called logcat. He starts by seeing how the popular Timber library does it along with the benefits. He then interviews Pierre-Yves Ricau (Piwai) of Square, the creator of logcat, to explore its origins and advantages. Shownotes: https://fragmentedpodcast.com/episodes/253

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   E251 · 12 Nov 2024 · 18 min

   251- There's a new king in DI town

   In this episode, Kaushik explores the evolution of dependency injection (DI) in Android development. Dagger has been the de-facto solution for DI in Android but there might be a new king in DI-town. He also chats with friend of the show and dependency injection expert Ralf Wondratschek for a final gut check. Shownotes: https://fragmentedpodcast.com/episodes/251

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   E250 · 29 Oct 2024 · 34 min

   250 - Bittersweet beginnings

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   E249 · 10 Jul 2023 · 55 min

   249 - Java and the JDK: Powering the Android Landscape with Michael Bailey

   In this episode, Michael Bailey helps us explore the complexities of Java versions in the Android ecosystem, discussing JDK, JRE, Android Studio settings, Android app settings like compileSdk vs minSdk vs targetSdk, and concludes by providing resources for further learning.

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   E311 · 6 Sep 2026 · 13 min

   311 - Self learning harnesses are here

   Claude Code and Codex have been the mainstay. OpenCode and Pi showed what open-source harnesses could be. But two new entries just moved the goalposts: DeepSeek's Cordis kernel treats everything — even the agent loop itself — as a hot-swappable plugin, and Prime Agent runs the whole harness inside a live REPL where sub-agents are just function calls. Self-learning harnesses are here, and they're open source.

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   E310 · 14 Apr 2026 · 1 hr

   310 - Mitchell Hashimoto on Ghostty & His Agentic Coding Workflow

   Mitchell Hashimoto co-founded HashiCorp, built some of the most impressive DevOps tools like Vagrant and Terraform, sold the company to IBM — and then built a terminal. Ghostty is now where a huge chunk of agentic coding actually happens. Mitchell was an AI skeptic. We walk through his six-step adoption framework and the workflows he uses day to day — warm-start research, Hail Mary prompts across twenty GitHub issues, and knowing when to let the agent slam dunk it. Full shownotes at https://fragmentedpodcast.com/episodes/310/

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   E309 · 1 Apr 2026 · 26 min

   309 - Background Agents

   Andrej Karpathy says the goal is to maximize how long an agent runs without your intervention. But there's a false summit most teams hit first: individual speed goes up while system speed stalls, your laptop roars under four parallel Gradle builds, and review queues back up. Kaushik and Iury trace the full arc — from local multitasking to cloud-hosted async work to fully autonomous agents that fire on repo events and put PRs in your inbox. Full shownotes at https://fragmentedpodcast.com/episodes/309

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    E308 · 24 Mar 2026 · 25 min

    308 - How Image Diffusion Models Work - the 20 minute explainer

    You already know how LLMs work from our popular 20-minute explainer. Now we take it to images. What does Michelangelo have to do with stable diffusion? More than you'd think. Walk away knowing how image generation actually works — and what it has in common with the text models you already understand. Full shownotes at https://fragmentedpodcast.com/episodes/308/

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