Podcast Episodes

Talking Murderbot with Amy Salley

Season 4 Episode 93

In this episode we're joined again by Amy Salley, cohost of the Hugo, Girl! podcast, to help us discuss the Murderbot series of books by Martha Wells…

4 months, 2 weeks ago

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The History of NGINX

Season 4 Episode 92

This episode we look into the history of the web server NGINX and of web servers more generally.  We play myth buster and try to investigate the wide…

5 months ago

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Recreational Programming

Season 4 Episode 91

Does anyone program just for fun anymore?  This episode we're talking about recreational programming, with a focus on A.K. Dewdney's Computer Recreat…

5 months, 2 weeks ago

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Functional Programming: Are We There Yet?

Season 4 Episode 90

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Scheme, we decided to talk about functional programming: what it is, how's it going these days, and does it stil…

6 months ago

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The Infinite Drive: S3 and Cloud Object Storage

Season 4 Episode 89

For our first episode of 2026 (and Season 4), we're talking about Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3).  S3 is probably the biggest cloud service, or…

6 months, 2 weeks ago

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Salesforce and Low-Code with Kyle Willcox

Season 3 Episode 88

In this episode we discuss working in the Salesforce environment, and low-code platforms generally, with software engineer Kyle Willcox.  Kyle's dev …

7 months, 1 week ago

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Tech News Roundup: Fighting Robots with Poetry

Season 3 Episode 87

For the holiday we're doing another news roundup, although it's mostly about data centers and AI to be honest.  

Inside the Data Centers...

Korean Data…

7 months, 4 weeks ago

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Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs): How To Survive the Zombie Apocalypse

Season 3 Episode 86

Erik became fascinated with CRDTs while working on a project, so we're talking about how they work, how they simplify some distributed systems, and h…

8 months, 1 week ago

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The Turing Test

Season 3 Episode 85

This episode is about the Turing Test, and Alan Turing's original description of the test in Computing Machinery and Intelligence.  We also discuss a…

8 months, 3 weeks ago

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Ubiquitous Computing

Season 3 Episode 84

In 1988 Mark Weiser of Xerox PARC coined the term "ubiquitous computing", and in 1991 he spelled out the particulars of this concept in a Scientific …

9 months, 1 week ago

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