Tejas KumarConTejas Code
98 episodes / weekly
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What is ConTejas Code?
ConTejas Code is a long form podcast about software engineering. I'm Tejas Kumar, the host, an AI Engineer at IBM based in Berlin. It publishes weekly and has 98 episodes, most of them between one and two hours, with guests including Guillermo Rauch of Vercel, Kent C. Dodds, Chris Coyier, Matt Pocock, Mark Erikson and Rachel Nabors, plus solo deep dives on AI engineering, the Model Context Protocol, event sourced architecture, and how computers actually work. Every episode is transcribed and searchable from this page.
Latest episodes
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How to Build an Effective Tech Stack: Balancing User and Developer Experience
1h 31mPaul Aragones: How to Engineer a Great Marriage
1h 49mWhat is AI engineering and what do AI engineers even do?
1h 56mMikhail Korolev: How to Hack the Job Market & Get Into VIP Rooms
1h 30mHow to communicate well: interpersonally, in teams, and on stage
1h 50mDiazno: How to Unlock Creativity, Taste, and Effective Leadership
1h 40mIsaac Akinsete: How to Optimize Health & Longevity as a Desk Worker
1h 36mFaris Aziz: How to Get Promoted, Build Resilience, and Lead with Empathy
1h 48mPasskeys: A Deep Dive into Authentication
1h 36mHow to Engineer Your Way to Quality Health
1h 52mPratim Bhosale: How to get into AI from Backend Engineering
1h 32mShivay Lamba: How to run secure AI anywhere with WebAssembly
1h 33m
What listeners say about ConTejas Code
This was one of the most fun conversations I’ve had in a long time!
@tejaskumar_ is a great podcast host and an even better conversation partner!! ❤️
Mar 15, 2024View onJust finished listening to @tejaskumar_'s new podcast.
The first one is jam packed with tons of knowledge and great insights on what's going on in the web and software in general.
Awesome to hear him taking time to talk about @QwikDev especially 🙂
Highly recommend a listen 👌🏾
Mar 5, 2024View onhighly recommend watching this video, if you haven’t, definitely needs more views!
youtu.be/G-Js3CcD000?si=ufrOBE58U9q3ISSh
@tejaskumar_ has the ability to break things down calmly, and explain how computers work - from subatomic particles, electricity, hardware, software, firmware to servers and more.
Mar 13, 2024View onHad a great podcast with @tejaskumar_ on:
◆ the physics of networks
◆ why move away from edge rendering
◆ fast vs slow global data transfer
◆ latency numbers every engineer (@jeffdean) and web engineer (@cramforce) should know
◆ RSC, PPR & StreamingDropping soon!
Apr 27, 2024View onI love the long format Tejas. It kind of reminds me of the Lex Friedman of web dev focused podcasts. The thoughtful questions and depth of answers was awesome to experience.
Mar 4, 2024View onThere have been too many people on ConTejas recently I really really want to hear from: @ladyleet, @alexnmoldovan, @MichelleBakels, @gabe_g2i... ugh.
I'm getting FOMO from the last 2 weeks of just one podcast. You did this to me @tejaskumar_ :(
Sep 26, 2024View on
Every episode
98 episodes / 2024 to 2026
- How to Build an Effective Tech Stack: Balancing User and Developer Experience1h 31m
- Paul Aragones: How to Engineer a Great Marriage1h 49m
- What is AI engineering and what do AI engineers even do?1h 56m
- Mikhail Korolev: How to Hack the Job Market & Get Into VIP Rooms1h 30m
- How to communicate well: interpersonally, in teams, and on stage1h 50m
- Diazno: How to Unlock Creativity, Taste, and Effective Leadership1h 40m
- Isaac Akinsete: How to Optimize Health & Longevity as a Desk Worker1h 36m
- Faris Aziz: How to Get Promoted, Build Resilience, and Lead with Empathy1h 48m
- Passkeys: A Deep Dive into Authentication1h 36m
- How to Engineer Your Way to Quality Health1h 52m
- Pratim Bhosale: How to get into AI from Backend Engineering1h 32m
- Shivay Lamba: How to run secure AI anywhere with WebAssembly1h 33m
- DevRel deep dive: what it is, how to do it, how to measure it2h 06m
- Dev Agrawal: How to be notable, event sourcing, and SolidJS1h 46m
- Lu Wilson: How to Build an AI-Native Whiteboard for Everyone1h 09m
- Sean Roberts: How to create better UX with AI Agent Experience (AX)1h 51m
- Santosh Yadav: How to level up your career, health, and life1h 47m
- Sacha Greif: How to Understand Developers through Surveys1h 57m
- Alexander Lichter: The State of Modern Web Tooling1h 37m
- Kent C. Dodds: Model Context Protocol (MCP) and how it changes UX2h 01m
- Kendo UI Team: How to build quality design systems, Kendo UI, collaboration1h 47m
- Event Sourced Architecture: A Deep Dive1h 29m
- Get up to date with AI in 2025: Agents, Model Context Protocol (MCP), Hybrid Search, RAG, and more...1h 35m
- Shuhao Zhang, founder Tiny Fish: How to Turn Any Website into an API for AI Agents1h 36m
- Liran Tal: How to Secure Your Apps and AI Agents1h 33m
- Jack Herrington: Model Context Protocol (MCP), Growing a YouTube Audience, Getting into Open Source1h 39m
- Chinar Movsisyan: How to Deliver End-to-End AI Solutions1h 30m
- Daniel Lockyer: How to deploy and scale anything1h 40m
- Eddy Vinck: How to Solve Your Own Problems with AI1h 27m
- Dan Bochman: How to Create AI Image Generation Models1h 49m
- Marisa Morby: How to Design Products with Nature in Mind1h 40m
- Corbin Crutchley: How UI frameworks work in detail, thriving with mental health1h 34m
- Taylor Desseyn: How to Build a Genuine, High-Quality Network1h 27m
- Chris Ferdinandi: How to Thrive as a Developer with ADHD1h 40m
- Donny Wals: How to Build Effective iOS Applications from a Web Perspective1h 35m
- Richard Rodger: How to Build and Scale World-Class Consultancies (and DevRel)1h 39m
- Ivan Burazin, co-founder Daytona: How to Accelerate Developer Onboarding by 56%1h 42m
- Julia Flament-Wallin: How to Build Maps of the World with AI1h 30m
- Max Stoiber: How to build startups that get acquired (and cache GraphQL well)1h 41m
- Alexander Lichter: How to Get the Most out of Vue.js and Nuxt1h 49m
- Aymen Ben Amor: How to Organize Developer Conferences1h 28m
- Matt Pocock: How to Maximize Success with TypeScript and Career1h 42m
- TC39: How signals work, adding signals to the JavaScript programming language1h 48m
- Paul Klein IV: How to Build Browsers for AI Agents1h 33m
- Kelly Vaughn: How to Navigate Career Transitions and Build Meaningful Relationships1h 38m
- Aya Bochman, co-founder Fashn.ai: How to build a lean AI startup (that makes money)1h 32m
- Peer Richelsen, founder Cal.com: How to build an open startup1h 35m
- Harper Carroll: How Machine Learning Works, What AI Engineering is, the Future of AI1h 42m
- ChatGPT: How to Train an LLM, Ethics, and the future of AI1h 49m
- Tracy Lee, CEO This Dot: How to be successful in DevRel with AI1h 49m
- Alex Moldovan, founder JS Heroes: How to Organize a Community-first JavaScript Conference1h 37m
- Michelle Bakels: How to Optimize Developer Health1h 29m
- Gabe Greenberg, CEO G2i: How to Bootstrap a Healthy Tech Business1h 35m
- Josh Goldberg: How to Maximize Success with TypeScript and ESLint1h 34m
- Kyle Corbitt, CEO OpenPipe: How to Fine-Tune Your Own Language Model (LLM)1h 36m
- Shruti Balasa: How to Maximize Success with Tailwind CSS1h 31m
- Jeff Cross, CEO Nx: How to Build and Scale Developer Tools1h 33m
- Jatin Ramanathan: How Google.com is Rendered with Wiz (Fastest UI Framework)1h 30m
- Kilian Valkhof, founder Polypane: How to Build and Sell a Developer-first Browser1h 39m
- Chad Whitacre: How to Fix Open Source Sustainability1h 46m
- David Cramer, Founder Sentry: How my Open Source Side Project became a Successful Business1h 44m
- Santosh Yadav: How Open Source Changes Lives, Angular Deep Dive1h 53m
- Jay V, CEO SST.dev: How to rapidly go from Idea to IPO with Infrastructure-as-Code 1h 33m
- Rizèl Scarlett: How to Own Your Digital Identity, DevRel and Skepticism, GitHub Copilot1h 27m
- Glauber Costa, CEO Turso: How to Build Horizontally Scaled SQLite1h 46m
- John McBride: How to Build Your Own AI Infrastucture with Kubernetes1h 40m
- Brian Douglas, CEO OpenSauced: How to Make Open Source Measurable, GitHub, Founder-Led Growth1h 41m
- Erik Rasmussen: How to Build a Career on Open Source, Solid.js, Form Libraries1h 25m
- Monica Sarbu, CEO Xata: Building a Postgres Platform, an All-Female Board, and ~50% Gender Diversity1h 37m
- Rachel Nabors: How to Navigate Big Tech, the Future of DevRel, Documentation1h 32m
- Brandon Bayer, CEO Flightcontrol: How to unlock peak velocity on AWS1h 31m
- Anjana Vakil: How to Get into Tech and be Successful1h 35m
- Clark Sell, Founder THAT Conference: How to Organize a Large Multidisciplinary Tech Conference1h 40m
- Steven Fabre, CEO Liveblocks: How We're Building Realtime Collaboration, Design Engineering1h 33m
- David Khourshid, CEO Stately.ai: How State Machines Create Robust Software1h 33m
- Mark Erikson: How Replay.io is Built, Maintaining Redux1h 56m
- Zack Chapple, CEO Zephyr Cloud: How Module Federation Works, Micro-Frontend Architecture1h 36m
- Svenja Schäfer: Mastering Regular Expressions and Automated Testing1h 44m
- Chris Coyier, CEO CodePen: How We're Building CodePen 2.0, CSS-Tricks1h 34m
- Dan Shappir: How to Maximize Web Performance1h 56m
- Sanket Sahu, CEO GeekyAnts: How to Build and Scale a Company to 400+ with Open Source1h 33m
- Shruti Kapoor: How Slack is Built and Tested, How Patents are Filed1h 38m
- Bobak Tavangar, CEO Brilliant Labs: How to build open-source AI-enabled smart glasses with AR1h 38m
- Daniel Afonso: How to Speak at Tech Conferences, Passion, Pain, Evangelism1h 42m
- Guillermo Rauch, CEO Vercel: Open Source, Next.js, Edge Computing, Partial Pre-rendering1h 23m
- Jeff Escalante: How to Build and Run Effective Engineering Teams1h 41m
- Matt Biilmann, CEO Netlify: How we built Netlify, Jamstack, DDoS Protection, and Future Direction1h 39m
- Artem Zakharchenko: How to Write Epic Automated Tests, Mock ServiceWorker, Open Source1h 37m
- Francesco Ciulla: How to Reach 100k+ People with Code and Content1h 37m
- Ujjwal Sharma: How JavaScript is Made, Building the Web, Bias, Inclusion, and Equality1h 50m
- Yoav Ganbar: How to Create the Fastest Web Experiences with Qwik1h 31m
- Lazar Nikolov: How to Maximize Application Monitoring and Performance1h 27m
- Kyle Simpson: How to Write a JavaScript Book, Degrees and Gatekeeping in Tech, New Startup Vella.ai1h 44m
- Atila Fassina: Build your ecosystem, SolidJS, Tauri, Rust, and Developer Experience1h 48m
- How do computers actually work? From electrons to the web.1h 32m
- Kent C. Dodds: Create Epic Web Experiences with Remix1h 46m
- Catch Up on Today's Web: AI, CSS, JavaScript and HTML1h 47m
- Welcome to ConTejas Code6m
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