Podcast Episodes

The Most Cited Papers from JACM

Season 4 Episode 103

In this episode we discuss the 5 most-cited papers from the flagship journal of the Association for Computing Machinery, the JACM.   The papers inclu…

11 hours ago

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The Prehistory of the Internet

Season 4 Episode 102

This episode started with the question: who first had the idea to connect computers together to make a network?  We explore JCR Licklider's ideas abo…

2 weeks ago

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Software Development in 2046

In this episode we discuss a couple of recent papers on just-in-time development and agentic systems and how we think they suggest trends that will a…

4 weeks ago

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Numerology

Season 4 Episode 100

For the 100th episode of Picture Me Coding we talk about numbers.  Mike talks about his favorite numbers, Erik talks about his favorite ports, and we…

1 month, 1 week ago

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Do You Even Schedule, Bro? Making a Digital Workout Partner with Doug Burke

Season 4 Episode 99

This week we were joined by our friend Doug Burke, who runs a company and has been working on his "digital life workout partner", a voice-activated L…

1 month, 3 weeks ago

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TokenMaxxing!: Agentic Software Development with Bob Farzin

Season 4 Episode 98

In this episode we invite back our friend Bob Farzin to discuss our personal experiences with using teams of agents to write software, and we try to …

2 months, 1 week ago

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Patricia Selinger and the Birth of Query Optimization

Season 4 Episode 97

In this episode we attempt to explain query optimization and where it came from.  In particular we discuss Patricia Selinger's 1979 SIGMOD paper Acce…

2 months, 3 weeks ago

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"Big-O Ops": An Interview with Kyle Risse

Season 4 Episode 96

This week Mike and Erik are joined by Kyle Risse. 

Erik met Kyle at Scale 23x in Pasadena this year while volunteering for the Tech Team. Kyle has a t…

3 months, 1 week ago

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Hash Tables

Season 4 Episode 95

Some recent articles about research on hash tables made us realize we probably didn't know enough about hash tables, one of the fundamental data stru…

3 months, 3 weeks ago

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Scale 23x

Season 4 Episode 94

We give a report of our experiences at the 23rd version of the Southern California Linux Expo (Scale 23x) in Pasadena.  Erik was a volunteer in the n…

4 months ago

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