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Fredrik chats to Harald Achitz about freelancing, C++ 26, and ten years of running the Swedencpp meetup.
Harald discusses the various oddities of the Swedish consultant and software market, both before but especially in the current environment. Consultants don't cost what you expect them to when compared to employees, and a strange previous focus on headcount has not helped either.
We then talk about the standardization process for C++ and about new things in C++ 26. Harald discusses the issues of adding new things which are good in themselves, but perhaps don't fit into a bigger picture, take a lot of focus and energy which in turn means many other things do not get considered which may be smaller and more widely and immediately useful.
Also: once something is in the standard library, it's eternal. And there is still no real ecosystem around C++. Infrastructure is a hard thing. And Rust is out there.
Finally, we talk about Harald's experience of running the Swedencpp meetup for ten years. What does it mean to run something for so long? Technology, talks, locations, providing a space for presentations, and trying to keep things evolving are all discussed.
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C++ 26
ISO
SC22 WG21 - the standardization group for C++
The Swedish local mirror for SG22, affectionately known as SIS/TK 611/AG 09
SIS - Swedish institute of standards
Swedencpp
Remember the Vasa! - Bjarne's paper
Modules - from C++ 20
Coroutines
Compile-time reflection
Templates
Orthodox C++ - talk by Harald
C++ quiz compilation
Contracts in C++
Eiffel
Undefined behavior in C++
Swift package manager
Ripgrep
Sender and receiver
Profiles in C++
Cppcheck - by Daniel Marjamäki
Concepts
Swedencpp on Youtube
Swedencpp pro
Titles
To take communication with Skatteverket
What is a consultant?
Horrendous prices for Powerpoint presentations
Somebody needs an excuse
Every hour counts
Flavors of consultant
I cost so much money
Why we have time to talk
Too much gatekeeping
Still just collecting profiles
Special in the terms of ISO
Why does Sweden not have a voice
I represent this type
It's still ISO
A lot of big features again
They are also awesome
A lot of things to do, and to know
All these things deserve their own book
You can do a lot of magic
(I became) Too old for liking magic
There was magic everywhere
That's really useful
Infinite ways of doing something
Define your subset
The subset needs to fit you
Awesome, to some extent
Paperwork is expensive
Everything is already being re-written
A step in the right direction
Where efficiency is a priority
Based on personal experience
If you go there, you can't work
Let's make something accessible
At least it's not nothing anymore
Conference over space and time
What's the next level?
Still an option

Fredrik och Tobias snackar om Eurollvm 2026, och lite om kaffe.
Tobias åkte till Dublin på LLVM-konferens, och råkade hålla i en presentation, en paneldiskussion, och två rundabordssamtal. Det gick hyfsat lätt att somna efter att ha avverkat allt det.
Tobias berättar också lite om de övriga presentationer han hann se, och vår gamla vän(?) fast-math dyker upp igen.
Plus lite gott kaffe.
Som bonus efter outrot: hur Tobias upplevde Plex numera och oväntat omskrivna företagsresa till Honduras.
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Länkar
James Hoffmann
Hoffmanns americano-video
Americano
V60
Eurollvm 2026
LLVM dev meet i USA
Kodsnack om Eurollvm 2023
Chris Bieneman från Micrsoft
LLVM foundation
DXIL - formatet för HLSL
HLSL
Felix Klinge från Intel
Nicolai Hähnle från AMD
Länkar till inspelade videos kommer när de har släppts.
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CHERI - Capability hardware enhanced RISC instructions - säkerhet i hårdvara
Alias analysis
Alias i C++
Clang-tidy
fast-math
fast-math i Kodsnack 296
Brew lab - finkaffe i Dublin
Paragon-metoden för att brygga kaffe med iskall … kula av något slag
En recension av Paragon
Developers!
Developersavsnittet om Plex konferensresa
Honduras
Artikeln om Plex konferensresa
Sumpsnacket om Plex konferensresa
Titlar
En keynote av det
En del av LLVM-communityt
En bra sak i det hela
Göra någonting runt gaming
Stort och brett användningsområde
Spelrelaterade CPU-optimerar-snubbar
I stort sett en LLVM-kompilator
Hur LLVM används i gaming
Moderator i en panel
Gömma en typ
Matte i en kompilator
Vara lite mindre precis
Gör det bara snabbt
En flagga som jag har haft mycket slagsmål med

Fredrik chats to Holly Cummins about using Minecraft for observability, other amazing Quarkus tricks, and the value of joy at work.
Recorded during Øredev 2025.
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Holly
Holly's presentation - Five (and a half) things you can do with Quarkus
Quarkus
Graalvm
Picocli
AWT
WASM
Chicory - WASM runtime for the JVM
Microcks - contract testing framework in Java
APICurio
Dev services
SQLite in WASM
Hibernate
Reasteasy
Vert.x - "reactive applications on the JVM"
Holly's Minecraft extension for Quarkus
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Langchain4j
Grafana
William Gibson
Backpressure
Simon Wardley and his keynote on mapping
Minecraft demo to explain Kubernetes concepts, by Sebastien Blanc
Holly's talk about developer joy
The fun topic on hollycummins.com
Titles
All in one room
When you say Quarkus
Really amazing throughput
The way that conferences work
Other people have done all the work
It unlocks a whole lot of possibilities
Slightly more tortured
Javascripv via WASM on the JVM
The absence of configuration
Unless you work for a bank
That zero friction
All of that dynamism
The reading of the configuration
Deep introspection of the application
Six demos in 40 minutes
The useful extensions had been written
The chicken would explode
Novel way of understanding the application
Manually implement the backpressure
Zoo of types
The containers were chickens
Joy and productivity
The happy piglets
You are a profitalbe piglet
The mandatory fun officer
I now have the language
On team cloud

Fredrik snackar med Benny Andrén och Markus Borg om AI-drivet återupptäckande av sunda arbetssätt.
Benny har börjat fundera över vilka problem AI egentligen löser, och om våra försök att tämja modellerna leder oss till att återupptäcka goda vanor från förr.
Och varför, varför, tror vi att vi har så bråttom hela tiden?
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Länkar
Benny
Building fast, learning slow - Bennys tankar om AI-stödd utveckling som ledde fram till avsnittet
Markus
Codescene
Codehealth as a prerequisite and compass for coding agents - sammanfattning Markus skrev, och bakgrund för en del av det han diskuterade i avsnittet
Echoes of AI: Investigating the downstream effects of AI assistants on software maintainability - Markus: "Vår omfattande randomiserade kontrollstudie med 'förra generationens' AI-assistenter. Exempel på rigorös forskning och hur snabbt det blir daterat."
Speed at the cost of quality - en studie som visar att agentstöd ökar hastigheten på kort sikt, men också komplexiteten på lång sikt
Offshoring
RISE
Datastudion
Datastudion om AI-assisterad utveckling
Requirements engineering
Spårbarhetsmatriser
Spec-driven development
The design of everyday things
Githubs Spec-kit
Morrowind
Kravingenjör
IEEE software
Agila manifestet
Toyota production system
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Claude codes källkod läckte
Trial, error and the god complex - TED-snack av Tim Harford
Kodsnack 698 - Man ställer frågan noll - Avsnittet Fredrik refererar till
Resisting AI
Workslop sabbar produktivitet - Harvard business review
Where's the shovelware? Why AI coding claims don't add up
Produktivitet vid kodande med språkmodeller upplevs högre, men är lägre
Titlar
Min sweet spot
Jag kan snacka med professorer
Som klassisk utvecklare
Mitt jobb hamnade i Bangalore
Lite mer industriell
Delvis under protest
Friktionspunkt i vardagen
Mer relevant i mitt liv än någonsin
Uppsnabbning av en process som inte var flaskhalsen innan
Hundvalpgrejen
Den springer alltid mycket längre än vad jag vill
När min mamma lagar mat
Det smakar korv stroganoff
Allt som jag tycker är kul
Dra i kopplet
Skärpa i språket
Varför har vi så bråttom?
En upplevelse av att vi förstår saker
Inte det enda som är svårt att mäta

Fredrik chats to Shawn Wildermuth about evolving in the world of software development, small changes adding up, developer hiring, not chasing the new thing, and quite a bit more.
Fredrik is still hoping for the last episode of Shawn's old podcast.
Making sure you use your time in a way that's right for you. Whether it's spending lots of time learning new stuff or getting deep into the tech you really enjoy.
Recorded during Øredev 2025.
Thank you Cloudnet for sponsoring our VPS!
Comments, questions or tips? We a re @kodsnack, @tobiashieta, @oferlundand @bjoreman on Twitter, have a page on Facebook and can be emailed at [email protected] if you want to write longer. We read everything we receive.
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Links
Shawn
Shawn on Github
Shawn's old podcast Hello world
Richard Campbell and Carl Franklin, of the .NET rocks podcast
Science Friday, from PBS
What's new in C# 14 and .NET 10 - Shawn's presentation at Øredev 2025
.NET core
Blazor
ASP.NET
Null forgiveness
.NET conf
Nullable reference types
Objective-c
Tell the C# compiler to act like older versions
Generics
Nullable value types
Pluralsight
Windows phone
Foxpro
Impostor syndrome
Shawn's film Hello world - confronting bias in software development
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Oslo
Winfs
Practical file system design with the Be file system - The Beos file system book by Dominic Giampaolo
Beos
GEOS
Silverlight
Open sourced Webassembly-based Silverlight version
Kotlin
CLR
Fortran
COBOL
MUMPS
Vue
Cosmos DB
Azure foundry
Eleventy
Titles
I feel like I never did a podcast
Edit the last one
What's your focus?
There's not enough to talk about here
Null forgiveness
Talk about nullability
The next fifteen years
Where I'm best used
Paid to learn the new stuff
I'm just happy to be around
Those quiet voices
Win the design meeting
Wrong about Webassembly
Actual system languages
Five years from being useful
A two-IDE person