Every Wednesday, we’re joined by guests from around the world to discuss all the going on in the tech industry, and now that the year is wrapping up, we thought we’d take some time to look back on some of our favourites conversations with these thoughtful, curious, wonderfully-opinionated individuals pushing our industry forward.
Here are some of the voices who made this year’s Weekly Developer Show unforgettable.
Brian Rountree turned the tables on some scammers by writing a simple (but brilliantly effective) script, and told us all about how - and why - he did it.
Stefan Judis asked whether “bad design” is really that bad, or whether we’ve just gotten used to applications and websites looking a certain way.
Salma Alam‑Naylor questioned whether developers could use AI with more intention, and look to solve real-world problems rather than just making AI-wrappers.
Christophe Porteneuve explored the rabbithole that is nested if-statements and complex ternaries, to figure out which one we should go, and when.
We celebrated 20 years of AJAX by looking back on the early days of the web with Alexander Lichter, while Luise Freese encouraged us to keep humans in-the-loop when it comes to writing code with help from AI.
Emma Dawson broke down what the EU Accessibility Act really means for developers and why you simply cannot (and should not) ignore accessibility.
Christian “Schepp” Schaefer took us on a nostalgic journey to celebrate 50 years of Microsoft, and explains why he went through the valley of tears to switch to Mac.
Tejas Kumar showed us why MCP is exciting and why ignoring hype is one of the healthiest choices a dev can make.
Zaid Zaim talked about YouTube changed the game for people to learning to code, celebrating 20 years since it first launched.
Rowdy Rabouw explains why regex is terrifying, and Dirk Ginader said we should stop obsessively converting designs into pixels as if that were the whole job.
If 2025 taught us anything, it’s this: the tech industry moves fast and there’s always something new to explore, but the real learning happens when you’re talking to other developers.
Watch Part 1 of the Best of 2025
Check out the first compilation of the best bits from the year below.
