The Beer Driven Devs

A reflective end-of-year conversation about decency, responsibility, and the small choices that quietly shape our workplaces and communities.

The Beer Driven Devs attended ADAConf again, this time with Matt presenting. In this episode Liam and Matt reflect on what they learned about change at this year's conference.

Matt and Liam unpack the stubborn stereotype of the socially inept specialist, how it still shapes expectations today, and why great leadership has nothing to do with whether you can code — and everything to do with how much you care.

This week Matt introduces Cabinet — a lightweight, encrypted offline data store for .NET apps — and shares the story, design decisions, and trade-offs behind it.

Matt and Liam share how they actually use AI day-to-day—from code assistants to creative projects—and explore whether AI is really coming for our jobs, or just changing what those jobs look like.