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📅 July 7, 2026

Rust Developer Mindset: Why Modern Engineers Are Looking Beyond Programming Languages

In this episode of Building Better Developers, Jim Hodapp and Bob Belderbos discuss why Rust continues to gain momentum among experienced developers. The conversation explores software craftsmanship, memory safety, AI-assisted development, and why language choice is becoming less important than…

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📅 July 3, 2026

Startup Protection Audit: The Weekly Challenge Every Founder Should Complete

Every entrepreneur loves building. Developers build software. Founders build products. Business owners build relationships with customers. What often gets overlooked is building protection around those efforts. That was one of the biggest takeaways from this week’s discussion with Phil Crowley…

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📅 July 2, 2026

Legal Risk Systems: Creating Business Processes That Protect Technology Startups

The most successful startups do not rely on luck. They build repeatable Legal Risk Systems that help prevent small mistakes from becoming expensive disasters. During Part 2 of our conversation with Phil Crowley, the discussion moved beyond business formation and…

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📅 June 30, 2026

Startup Legal Foundation: Building a Technology Business That Can Survive Success

Most technology entrepreneurs spend months refining code, building products, and solving technical challenges. Yet a strong Startup Legal Foundation is often the difference between building a sustainable company and creating a future legal problem. In this conversation with attorney and…

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📅 June 26, 2026

Stop Celebrating Heroes: Build Systems That Don’t Need Saving

Every software team has one — the developer everyone calls when production goes down, the engineer who somehow rescues failing deployments, the architect who always knows where the hidden problem is. They stay late, work weekends, and keep everything running.…

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📅 June 25, 2026

AI Team Systems: Building Agile Organizations That Scale Beyond Automation

As AI becomes embedded in software development workflows, many leaders assume the biggest changes will happen in coding. The reality may be very different. The future belongs to AI Team Systems—the structures, feedback loops, and operational practices that transform rapid…

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