You may have noticed that the podcast has gone a bit silent over the last few weeks. There's a reason for that, I promise. Brian and I have been wondering, off-air, why we keep finding ourselves recommending "rental" more and more. It's all become a bit of rote - so we're shifting focus and re-targeting.

In today’s age of rapid technical evolution there is a never-ending abundance of code, “Solved” problems, and hacks. With this in mind, can novel code be written without it already existing? Today most technologists don’t focus on writing novel code…