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2025 Year-End Reflection for Developers: AI Hype, Layoffs, and What’s Next

📅 December 30, 2025 • Holiday Specials • ⏱ 5 minutes read

It’s New Year’s Eve-Eve, and instead of recording from our usual virtual setups, we did something we’ve talked about for years: we hit record in the same room. If you’re watching on…

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Christmas 2025 Reflections: Rest, Recharge, and Wrap Up the Year

📅 December 25, 2025 • Holiday Specials • ⏱ 5 minutes read

Christmas Day episodes don’t have to be long to be meaningful. In this special holiday check-in, Building Better Developers keeps things simple: a quick “good thing / bad thing” recap of the…

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Year-End Reset for Developers: A Pre-Christmas Check-In to Finish Strong

📅 December 23, 2025 • Holiday Specials • ⏱ 6 minutes read

The week before Christmas has a way of exposing how the year really went. Deadlines either slow down or pile up, calendars get messy, and the pressure to “wrap everything up” shows…

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Adapting Your Business to AI: Productivity Surges, New Models, and the Power of Data

📅 December 18, 2025 • Building Better Foundations • ⏱ 5 minutes read

In Part 2 of our Building Better Foundations interview with Hunter Jensen, founder and CEO of Barefoot Solutions and Barefoot Labs, we explore how companies can begin adapting their business to AI…

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Getting Started with AI in Your Business: Insights from Hunter Jensen (Part 1)

📅 December 16, 2025 • Building Better Foundations • ⏱ 5 minutes read

In this episode of Building Better Foundations, we interview Hunter Jensen, founder and CEO of Barefoot Solutions and Barefoot Labs, to explore what it really takes when getting started with AI in…

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How Value-Driven Project Discovery Shapes Better Software Outcomes

📅 December 11, 2025 • Building Better Foundations • ⏱ 5 minutes read

In Part 2 of our interview with Dusty Gulleson, CEO of eResources, we explore how value-driven project discovery helps teams make better decisions, prevent waste, and build software that actually supports the…

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How Story-Driven Discovery in Software Projects Leads to Better Results

📅 December 9, 2025 • Building Better Foundations • ⏱ 4 minutes read

In this episode of the Building Better Developers Podcast, we sit down with Dusty Gulleson, CEO of eResources, to explore why story-driven discovery is the foundation of every successful software project. Dusty…

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Managing Digital Distractions: Insights from Mister Productivity (Part 2)

📅 December 4, 2025 • Building Better Foundations • ⏱ 5 minutes read

In part 2 of our Building Better Developers conversation with Mark Struczewski (Mister Productivity), we shift from foundational habits to the modern reality of our digital world. With smartphones, notifications, social media,…

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Staying Focused in a Noisy World: Lessons from Mister Productivity (Part 1)

📅 December 2, 2025 • Building Better Foundations • ⏱ 5 minutes read

In this episode of the Building Better Developers podcast, part of our Building Better Foundations season, Rob Broadhead and Michael Meloche sit down with Mark Struczewski, better known as Mister Productivity. His…

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Thanksgiving Reflections for Developers: A Moment to Reset and Appreciate

📅 November 27, 2025 • Holiday Specials • ⏱ 4 minutes read

In this special holiday episode of the Building Better Foundations season of the Building Better Developers Podcast, hosts Rob Broadhead and Michael Meloche pause their usual deep-dive discussions to share meaningful Thanksgiving…

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