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The Two Problems With Regular Expressions

Season 3 Episode 83

This week we're talking about regular expressions, aka, regex.  These are a favorite tool of programmers, but they also have a dark side.  Do regex c…

9 months, 3 weeks ago

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The History of Unix, Part 2: Unix not Eunuchs

Season 3 Episode 82

A continuation of our discussion about the history of Unix and its development at Bell Labs.  Erik wonders why Unix became successful and which featu…

10 months, 1 week ago

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The History of Unix: Part 1

Season 3 Episode 81

This week we talk about the early days of Unix, primarily based on Brian Kernighan's book Unix: A History and Memoir, about his days at Bell Labs and…

10 months, 2 weeks ago

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Space, Time, and Squishy Pebbles

Season 3 Episode 80

This week we dip our toes into the river of theoretical computer science and immediately drown.  We discuss the amazing and surprising result of rese…

11 months ago

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Databases Part II: No SQL, No Problem

This week we try to make sense of what were once called "NoSQL" databases, focusing on the early entries into the field like Bigtable, Dynamo and Cas…

11 months, 2 weeks ago

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Vibe Coding: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

This week we host our friends Bobak Farzin and Kevin Fahey to talk about their experiences building applications with AI tools.  Both Bob and Kevin a…

1 year ago

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Friends and Relations

Season 3 Episode 77

We're talking about databases again.  Or database management systems, we're not totally sure.  In any case, they are relational databases (or databas…

1 year ago

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Shoulders of Giants: Jim Gray

Season 3 Episode 76

Jim Gray was a key innovator in the area of database technology and he won the Turing Prize in 1998.  He was particularly influential with respect to…

1 year ago

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Language, Meaning, and Functional Programming with Matt Teichman

Season 3 Episode 75

This week Matt Teichman, host of the Elucidations podcast, dropped by the show to chat about functional programming and its surprising relationship t…

1 year, 1 month ago

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UX Wing Fighters

Season 3 Episode 74

In this episode we talk to Jonathan Whitmire who designed the Picture Me Coding swag, logos, artwork (and t-shirts and stickers and coffee mugs!).

He …

1 year, 2 months ago

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