Breaking the Build is a tech podcast for people who remember when JavaScript was just a browser thing, still have opinions about Netscape Navigator, and aren’t ready to pretend AI is going to replace everything just yet.
Hosted by Tim and James — two e-commerce and software veterans who’ve been in the industry long enough to be frustrated by it — each episode picks a topic and chases it wherever it goes. Sometimes that’s a genuine debate about whether Google has gotten worse, server-side rendering making a comeback, or what AI actually is and isn’t good for. Sometimes it ends with a detailed plan for a t-shirt howitzer, or an argument about whether shuffle has ever truly worked as a technology.
The format is loose: a couple of topics, some banter, and a round of Would You Rather questions that usually reveal more about the hosts than any research ever could. Episodes are short enough for a commute and specific enough that you’ll actually learn something — even if that something is that IKEA furniture guides are beyond the comprehension of current AI models, that vinyl players are technology, or that a PHP space shuttle would run on a $7/year thruster plugin.
No sponsors. No agenda. Just two people who’ve been building things on the internet for thirty years, still finding it funny.