Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDisconnect from the Internet: the Morris Worm Is Out of Control! (A True Crime story!)
Season 1 Episode 14
This week on the 35th anniversary of the infamous Morris Worm, Mike and Erik look back at this sensational true crime story. Computers will be discon…
2 years, 8 months ago
Get in Loser, We’re Going High Frequency Trading
Season 1 Episode 13
Have you ever wished you could trade billions of dollars in stocks and bonds from an Excel spreadsheet? Do you get impatient when your code takes lon…
2 years, 8 months ago
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Lamport
Season 1 Episode 12
This week Mike and Erik talked about Leslie Lamport's work. Lamport has been called "the father of distributed systems" and we cover Lamport clocks, …
2 years, 8 months ago
Things We've Changed Our Minds About
Season 1 Episode 11
You can probably learn a lot about a person by asking what they've changed their minds about. In a long career as a software engineer, you will have …
2 years, 9 months ago
How Government Is Like Building Software Applications: An Interview with Frank Holland, a political and governmental affairs strategist.
Season 1 Episode 10
Lithium mining! Water policy! Housing! Software development! What do these things have to do with each other? Let’s find out in this week’s episode, …
2 years, 9 months ago
Are Second Systems Inevitable
Season 1 Episode 9
Mike and Erik talk about second systems and weigh whether we can ever even avoid the things in the first place. Acronyms loom large in this conversat…
2 years, 9 months ago
Ideas We Found in the Bog
Season 1 Episode 8
Mike and Erik talk about super powers and then discuss technologies that were around in previous decades which seemed like they were going to be a bi…
2 years, 10 months ago
Why Does Some Tech Get Popular?
Season 1 Episode 7
Mike and Erik talk betamax and ask the question: why do some technologies get popular? Your podcast hosts are on the case! Mike tells the story of go…
2 years, 10 months ago
Quotes tennis
Season 1 Episode 6
This week Mike and Erik play a game called "quotes tennis" where they try to trip each other up with quotes from the field that the other struggles t…
2 years, 10 months ago
Vibes Driven Development
Season 1 Episode 5
Mike and Erik discuss Hillel Wayne's 3-part blog piece titled “Are We Really Engineers?” Erik tries to convince Mike that we can throw caution to the…
2 years, 10 months ago