Open Source Ready
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Exploring the evolution of open source software and its impact on the Tech landscape.
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- Ep. #45, When Agents Outrun Human Review with Dotta of Paperclip · 48 minOn episode 45 of Open Source Ready, Brian Douglas and John McBride speak with Dotta about Paperclip, an open-source platform for managing teams of AI agents. They explore what…
- Ep. #44, Beyond the Model: Observing AI Agents with Mikyo King · 50 minOn episode 44 of Open Source Ready, Brian Douglas and John McBride sit down with Mikyo King to explore why an agent can fail even when its model gets things right. They discuss…
- Ep. #43, You Can't Fork a Protocol with Madelyn Olson · 37 minOn episode 43 of Open Source Ready, Brian Douglas and John McBride speak with Madelyn Olson. The Valkey maintainer and AWS principal engineer explains how AI is changing open…
- Ep. #42, When Forking Becomes a Feature with Will Cory · 54 minOn episode 42 of Open Source Ready, Brian Douglas and John McBride sit down with Will Cory, creator of Smithers. Will explains how workflows can simplify agent orchestration and…
- Ep. #41, Containers at the Edge of AI with Phil Estes · 45 minOn episode 41 of Open Source Ready, Brian Douglas and John McBride sit down with Phil Estes. They explore why the definition of a container remains surprisingly fuzzy, how…
- Ep. #40, Terminal Innovation in the AI Era with Orhun Parmaksiz · 43 minOn episode 40 of Open Source Ready, Brian Douglas and John McBride sit down with Orhun Parmaksiz to explore Ratty, his experimental GPU-rendered terminal emulator that combines…
- Ep. #39, Agents Take the Wheel with Zach Smith · 44 minOn episode 39 of Open Source Ready, Brian Douglas and John McBride speak with Zach Smith, creator of Kplane, about rethinking Kubernetes for an AI-driven future. Zach explains…
- Ep. #38, Reproducible Infrastructure with Graham Christensen · 43 minOn episode 38 of Open Source Ready, Brian Douglas and John McBride speak with Graham Christensen, CEO of Determinate Systems, about the evolution of the Nix ecosystem and why…
- Ep. #37, Is AI Killing Open Source Software? with Stormy Peters · 27 minOn episode 37 of Open Source Ready, Brian and John speak with Stormy Peters about the evolving relationship between AI and open source software. Together, they unpack the growing…
- Ep. #36, Managing AI Coding Agents with Jesse Vincent · 50 minOn episode 36 of Open Source Ready, Brian Douglas and John McBride sit down with Jesse Vincent. They explore how Jesse’s Superpowers project turns AI coding tools into…
- Ep. #35, The Evolution of MCP with Den Delimarsky of Anthropic · 49 minOn episode 35 of Open Source Ready, Brian Douglas and John McBride sit down with Den Delimarsky. They explore the rapid evolution of the Model Context Protocol (MCP), from its…
- Ep. #34, Technical Founders in the AI Era with Sunil Dhaliwal · 54 minOn episode 34 of Open Source Ready, Brian Douglas and John McBride sit down with Sunil Dhaliwal to explore how AI is reshaping open source and startup building. They discuss why…
- Ep. #33, Retiring Ingress NGINX with James Strong & Marco Ebert · 39 minOn episode 33 of Open Source Ready, Brian Douglas and John McBride sit down with James Strong and Marco Ebert. They discuss the retirement of Ingress NGINX, one of the most…
- Ep. #32, Rewriting SQLite for the AI Era with Glauber Costa · 56 minOn episode 32 of Open Source Ready, Brian Douglas and John McBride sit down with Glauber Costa to explore Turso, a Rust-based rewrite of SQLite built for the AI era. They discuss…
- Ep. #31, Developer-First Data Engineering with dltHub · 41 minIn episode 31 of Open Source Ready, Brian and John sit down with Matthaus Krzykowski, Thierry Jean, and Elvis Kahoro to explore how dlt and dltHub are changing the way developers…
- Ep. #30, Inside Unikraft and Unikernels with Felipe Huici · 44 minOn episode 30 of Open Source Ready, Brian Douglas and John McBride sit down with Felipe Huici to explore Unikraft and the growing role of unikernels in modern cloud…
- Ep. #29, Building ASCII Motion with Cameron Foxly · 44 minOn episode 29 of Open Source Ready, Brian Douglas and John McBride sit down with Cameron Foxly to talk about ASCII Motion, an open source tool for creating animated ASCII art…
- Ep. #28, 2025: Year In Review · 33 minOn episode 28 of Open Source Ready, Brian Douglas and John McBride reflect on the biggest themes that shaped open source and AI in 2025. From sustainability and security to MCPs…
- Ep. #27, Rethinking AI Evals with Adam Hevenor · 40 minOn episode 27 of Open Source Ready, Brian Douglas and John McBride speak with Adam Hevenor, creator of Vibecheck. Together they explore the fundamentals of evals, how teams can…
- Ep. #26, The Economics of AI Coding with Quinn Slack · 47 minIn episode 26 of Open Source Ready, Brian Douglas and John McBride sit down with Quinn Slack. They explore how Sourcegraph built Amp, why unconstrained coding agents represent a…







