Curious Conversations on the Art of Software Maintenance
Stuck in the mud with your codebase? Wondering how others are making it work? You're not alone.
On Maintainable, Robby talks with seasoned engineers who have battled technical debt, messy legacy code, and the cultural chaos of software development—and won.
They share real stories. Real lessons. No silver bullets, just practical ways to make your software (and your team) better.
We're in this together.
Enjoy the show.

Recent Episodes

EP-203 | March 25, 2025
Chris Salvato: Building Developer Paradise by Sitting in the Problem Space

EP-202 | March 18, 2025
Heimir Thor Sverrisson: Architecture First, Tech Debt Second

EP-201 | March 11, 2025
Noémi Ványi: Only Fix Problems That Are Actually Problems

EP-200 | February 25, 2025
Julia López: Code Tells a Story—Even the White Spaces

EP-199 | February 18, 2025
Marty Haught: Rethinking Technical Debt—Is It Really Just Drift?

EP-198 | February 11, 2025
Mike Bowers - From ISAM to JSON—Navigating 40+ Years of Database Evolution

EP-197 | January 28, 2025
Lorna Mitchell: Writing Documentation Engineers Will Actually Read

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