single-threaded: a software developer podcast

Jenn Creighton has built front-end systems at places like The New York Times and ClassPass, and she brings that senior-engineer perspective to a show focused on the human side of software work. Single-threaded is not really about code, though code comes up constantly. It is about what happens around the code: how teams actually make decisions, how career growth works past the senior level, what goes wrong when management pushes unrealistic deadlines, how to advocate for yourself in performance reviews without burning out in the process. Jenn interviews engineers, managers, and tech leads, and she is good at pulling out the stories people usually only share at conference afterparties. One episode might cover the specifics of leading a large React migration. The next could be about navigating an acquisition, or dealing with difficult coworkers, or deciding whether to switch from IC to management. The tone is honest and sometimes vulnerable. Jenn does not pretend she has everything figured out, and her guests follow her lead. For developers who feel like the technical blog posts of the world have covered the easy questions but nobody talks about the hard ones, this show fills a real gap. It is particularly useful for mid-to-senior engineers trying to figure out what their next five years should look like, and for women and underrepresented folks who want to hear voices that sound more like their own. Thoughtful, quiet, and worth the time.