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On The Maintenance Of Large Software: James Koppel
How do we maintain millions of lines of code? For example, the Social Security Administration has 60-million-lines of COBOL. James Koppel is building…
7 years, 3 months ago
Reflection Thirteen - Independent mentorship
My research recap episodes are back! This is the first I've recorded since the end of 2017. I discuss my new mentor-mentee relationship with Jonathan…
7 years, 4 months ago
Exploring Dynamicland - Omar Rizwan
Many of you have heard about Dynamicland, Bret Victor's new project. Omar Rizwan comes on the podcast this week to tell us all about it. He recently …
7 years, 4 months ago
Bringing Explicit Modeling To The Web: David K Piano
David K Piano is bringing explicit software modeling to the web with his xstate library. He gives talks around the world about statecharts, and is co…
7 years, 6 months ago
Compassion & Programming: Glen Chiacchieri
Glen Chiacchieri has worked at the MIT Media Lab on Scratch, at Dynamicland with Bret Victor, and is now becoming a psychotherapist. He's known for h…
7 years, 6 months ago
You Should Consider Some States Kevin Lynagh
Kevin Lynagh is a designer specializing in user interfaces for complex systems. He co-created Subform, a CAD-inspired UI design tool, with Ryan Lucas…
7 years, 7 months ago
Stop Being A Sysadmin For Your Own Machine: Nick Santos
Do you hate Makefiles and YAML config files? Do you feel your soul slowly dying as you wait for your tests to run? Do you yearn for even-more-continu…
7 years, 7 months ago
Teaching Abstraction: Brent Yorgey
Brent Yorgey is a professor of math and CS at Hendrix College. He studys functional programming in Haskell, type systems, and category theory, and mo…
7 years, 8 months ago
Learning Programming At Scale: Philip Guo
Philip Guo researches ways to scale programming education beyond the classroom. He is the creator of Python Tutor (http://pythontutor.com/), a widely…
7 years, 8 months ago
Building for Developers: Aidan Cunniffe
My guest this week, Aidan Cuniffee, is the founder of two startups in this space, first Dropsource and now Optic. Aidan and I discuss the trade-offs …
7 years, 11 months ago