Podcast Episodes

Why Rust?

Season 2 Episode 33

After a few weeks off while Mike traveled the land, your Picture Me Coding hosts are back this week with an episode about the programming language Ru…

2 years, 1 month ago

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Dijkstra's Diss Track

Season 1 Episode 32

This is part II of our Standing on the Shoulders of Giants episode about Edsger Dijkstra, the greatest philosopher of our field.

Instead of using soci…

2 years, 3 months ago

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Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Edsger Dijkstra

Season 2 Episode 31

This week we talked about the greatest philosopher of our field: Edsger Dijkstra. Most software engineers will immediately recall Dijkstra's Algorith…

2 years, 3 months ago

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The XZ Apocalypse

Season 2 Episode 30

A week ago a developer in San Francisco named Andres Freund found a backdoor in SSH which would grant some shadowy figure access to Linux machines ru…

2 years, 3 months ago

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AI Code Generators: Are We Going to Be Out of Work Someday?!

Season 2 Episode 29

Along with our friend Bob Farzin, we visit upon the sleeping body of AI three ghosts this week: one for the past, one for the present, and one for th…

2 years, 3 months ago

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The Ethical Engineer

Season 2 Episode 28

In our industry there are myriad examples of companies behaving unethically, so what power do we have as software engineers to uphold ethical princip…

2 years, 4 months ago

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Season 2 Bonus Episode: The Way of the Naturalist

Season 2

Mike's out this week so Erik went into his backyard and talked about famous Naturalists while birds chirped in the background. It's short and unexpec…

2 years, 4 months ago

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Becoming an Engineer: the “Build or Buy” Question

Season 2 Episode 27

It’s a very old software engineering question: should we build the thing or buy the thing? Fred Brooks says "you should always buy." This may even be…

2 years, 4 months ago

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What the Hell is Edge Computing?

Season 2 Episode 26

In which Mike and Erik try to understand what "edge computing" means and whether it's meaningful or marketing speak. The topic comes up because Mike …

2 years, 4 months ago

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Let's Talk Technical Books!

Season 2 Episode 25

This week Mike and Erik dig into their bookshelves to find and discuss their favorite technical books. As per usual, Mike references a bunch of stuff…

2 years, 5 months ago

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