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Ep. 30: The magic of story editing
How do you make a story sound exceptional? Today we explore the magic and power of editing with Lisa Mathew
Nov 25, 2025
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Duleepa Wijayawardhana
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Ep. 27: BioWare Stories Part 1 - Releasing the BioWare Community and Neverwinter Nights
Sometimes the best stories happen from the craziest circumstances. Today, I take you behind the scenes when BioWare was releasing Neverwinter Nights in…
Nov 3, 2025
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Duleepa Wijayawardhana
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34. Holiday Traditions from Canada to Finland
Welcome to a special Christmas edition. It's all about holiday traditions, yours and mine including 18 interviews from Canada to Finland
Dec 22, 2025
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Duleepa Wijayawardhana
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Ep. 2: How deeply are engineers adopting AI in larger software teams?
Are the rates of developers adopting Agentic AI in coding tasks as high as people say or are leaders believing the hype when reality says otherwise?
May 12, 2025
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Duleepa Wijayawardhana
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15:24
Ep. 29: BioWare Stories Part 3 - Dragons, Mako, Mounts and more
Listen now | Did you know that there were no plans for dragons in Dragon Age, why the Mako is so strange to manipulate and how the Asari came to be in…
Nov 17, 2025
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Duleepa Wijayawardhana
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Ep. 16: MySQL, MariaDB, and AI – A conversation with Kaj Arnö
MySQL changed the world. The commercial web as you know it ran on this database. Join me for a chat with MariaDB Foundation Executive Chair, Kaj Arnö…
Aug 19, 2025
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Duleepa Wijayawardhana
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Kaj Arnö
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Ep. 11: On the emotions of autobiography
Have you written about some emotional period in your life? Like the death of a loved one? Have you heard what you wrote being read back to you? Come…
Jul 14, 2025
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Duleepa Wijayawardhana
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Erwin Warkentin
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Ep. 5: Fiction in the age of AI / Time travel to 1989
When anyone can use ChatGPT to write a novel, will anyone be creating and reading new original novels written by humans? Why should we bother to…
Jun 2, 2025
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Duleepa Wijayawardhana
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Ep. 31: 1980s Hong Kong through teenage eyes
What was Hong Kong of the 1980s like as a teenager? Come wander the crowded streets of the so-called Pearl of the Orient in its last full decade as a…
Dec 1, 2025
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Duleepa Wijayawardhana
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35. The Couch Murder on Long's Hill
Unravelling the mystery of a New Year's Eve in 1994 on Long's Hill, St. John's, Newfoundland
Dec 31, 2025
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Duleepa Wijayawardhana
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Ep. 6: Finland's "The Shortcut" and my enlightened migration
Listen now | An interview with the CEO of The Shortcut organization in Finland and recounting my own path to enlightened migration
Jun 9, 2025
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Duleepa Wijayawardhana
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Ep. 14: Puff vs the purple dune buggy
The story of the day a purple dune buggy almost got the better of its master Puff the Chevette. Also my first "driving experience" in Canada...
Aug 3, 2025
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Duleepa Wijayawardhana
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