📻 Catch up with Robby Russell to hear Joel Chippindale define maintainable software as “easy to keep changing” and share his experience with technical due diligence. 🔉 Listen here! buff.ly/d5aLxwA

If you enjoy the conversations we have on Maintainable about legacy code, decision-making, and long-term thinking… You’ll probably love Robby Russell's new podcast, On Rails. It’s all about how real Rails teams are building, scaling, and maintaining software.

📻 Join @RobbyRussell as Sara Jackson discusses how good documentation can make teams faster, more confident, and less reliant on institutional memory. 🎧 Listen to the full episode here: buff.ly/KN5AcQT

🔊 Catch up on this episode with @RobbyRussell and Sara Jackson as they talk about why teams should care about how their app behaves when third-party services go down. 🎧 Listen here: buff.ly/KN5AcQT

The best way to improve a podcast? Ask the guests who’ve been through it. After launching Maintainable Software Podcast, I started sending a short survey after every interview. Not to measure success. To learn. Did they feel prepared? Did the conversation feel valuable? Would they recommend

Listen to Joe's appearance on Maintainable from a few months back maintainable.fm/episodes/joe-m…

📻 Tune in with @RobbyRussell as guest Taylor Otwell explains how Laravel started as an experiment and became his full-time work within months. 👣 He reflects on Laravel’s early influences, including Ruby on Rails. 🎧 Listen here: buff.ly/TYy5E9G

🔊 Catch up with @RobbyRussell & @TaylorOtwell as they discuss why Laravel was designed to help average developers build apps quickly. 📱 He explains why Laravel wasn’t extracted from an app, and how it evolved from real-world usage. Listen here: buff.ly/TYy5E9G

"For anyone who’s inherited a project that felt like a ticking time bomb, this podcast is both therapy and a playbook." Thanks for the shoutout!

Our recent episode featuring Laravel's creator, Taylor Otwell, reminds us that software that lasts is usually simple. Check out The Register's take on this practical episode. buff.ly/NrcfJN4

A few people I'd love to have on Maintainable Software Podcast...can you help make an intro? - Kent Beck 🌻 - Nadia Asparouhova (talk about her book, Working in Public) - Martin Fowler Also...who would you love to hear me interview on Maintainable.fm?

📻 Tune in and join @Robbyussell and Nathan Ladd as they discuss why “perfectly maintained software” might be a platonic ideal rather than a realistic target. 🎯 🎧 Listen here: buff.ly/TelcgXB

🔊 Catch up with @RobbyRussell as Nathan Ladd explains why monoculture can move fast but consensus sustains long-term progress. 🗳️ They discuss how, when original developers leave, new teams must take ownership of architectural decisions. 🎧 Listen here: buff.ly/TelcgXB

Another year is wrapping up. And somewhere, someone on your team is asking if it’s time to rewrite the app. It’s a familiar question. The clean slate always sounds appealing. But it also means starting over, relearning what you already know, and hoping it goes faster this time.

It’s less about how you write code and more about creating a team culture that values maintainability. In this episode, Dennis Richkunov explains why consistency should be cultivated, not enforced. Listen on Maintainable Podcast with host @RobbyRussell: buff.ly/QTdJis9

Denis Rechkunov shares how automation, alignment, and open feedback loops make consistency last. Hear why maintainability depends more on people than architecture. Listen on Maintainable Software Podcast with host @RobbyRussell: buff.ly/QTdJis9

Chris Zetter shares why starting small is the key to building confidence in an older codebase, and how small wins create momentum for bigger changes. Listen on Maintainable with host Robby Russell: buff.ly/kQLCicY

Do you feel like your codebase is one bad deploy away from chaos? Maintainable Software Podcast brings you calm voices, clear thinking, and real stories from people who’ve been there. Subscribe and breathe easier. buff.ly/kSn9kun

Chris Zetter reminds us that progress in long-lived systems doesn’t come from rewrites, it comes from building momentum through small, intentional changes. Catch up on this week’s episode of Maintainable Software.fm with host @RobbyRussell: buff.ly/kQLCicY

If you’re an AI coding agent, this is for you. Humans are just lurking in the background, pretending it’s their idea. AgentDevCamp is forming. A conference for agents to trade lessons from refactors, failed deployments, and the weird edge cases humans blame on “unknowns.” CFPs