All Episodes
Picture Me Coding — 105 episodes
The Monte Carlo Method
The Most Cited Papers from JACM
The Prehistory of the Internet
Software Development in 2046
Numerology
Do You Even Schedule, Bro? Making a Digital Workout Partner with Doug Burke
TokenMaxxing!: Agentic Software Development with Bob Farzin
Patricia Selinger and the Birth of Query Optimization
"Big-O Ops": An Interview with Kyle Risse
Hash Tables
Scale 23x
Talking Murderbot with Amy Salley
The History of NGINX
Recreational Programming
Functional Programming: Are We There Yet?
The Infinite Drive: S3 and Cloud Object Storage
Salesforce and Low-Code with Kyle Willcox
Tech News Roundup: Fighting Robots with Poetry
Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs): How To Survive the Zombie Apocalypse
The Turing Test
Ubiquitous Computing
The Two Problems With Regular Expressions
The History of Unix, Part 2: Unix not Eunuchs
The History of Unix: Part 1
Space, Time, and Squishy Pebbles
Databases Part II: No SQL, No Problem
Vibe Coding: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Friends and Relations
Shoulders of Giants: Jim Gray
Language, Meaning, and Functional Programming with Matt Teichman
UX Wing Fighters
Our Flag Means Local-First
Interpreting the Newses
Predicting the Future: Law, Software, and Attorneys Using AI
Sailing to Byzantium
Programming for Fun with David Beazley
Leslie Lamport and the Free Software Movement
Mike and Erik Go to Pasadena!
Simulating Distributed Systems with David Morrison
Point Break and the Spirit of Devops
"Where are all the elders?"
Origin Story: Part 1 - Mike Fails at Being a Chemist
The Failure Modes of Agile with Dr Junade Ali
Do Programmers Need to Know Anything About Computers?
The Story of the CAP Theorem Part 2
The Story of the CAP Theorem Part 1
Gleaming the Lambda Cube with Nathan Mull
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Frances Allen and Compiler Optimizations
We Read the News and Everyone’s On Drugs
More Favorites: Radix Trees, Kadane's, Raft Leader Election
Our Favorite Algorithms: FFTs and Hyperloglogs!
Annoying Everybody with Our Questions about Timezones
Into the Well of Formal Verifications
"Some of the most valuable people I work with are really just politicians"
Software Engineering Management with Randy Edwards
Mike and Erik Vie for the Nobel Prize in Literature
Nostalgia for the 90s Internet
Origin Story: How Erik Became a Programmer
620 Million Years Ago the Workday Was Only 6 Hours Long
Software In Pop Culture with Amy Salley
The Agony and the Ecstasy of Excel
The Best I Ever Saw
The Value of Software with Irina Telyukova
Software News Roundup (with No AI news! (sorta))
Agile Trashers Part 2: the Trashening
Agile Trashers Part 1: a pre-history
The Nine Fallacies of Distributed Computing
Hidden Vibrations of the Universe: Compositionality
The Burnouts of the Century
Monoliths vs Microservices
The End of the Fullstack Developer Era
Why Rust?
Dijkstra's Diss Track
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Edsger Dijkstra
The XZ Apocalypse
AI Code Generators: Are We Going to Be Out of Work Someday?!
The Ethical Engineer
Season 2 Bonus Episode: The Way of the Naturalist
Becoming an Engineer: the “Build or Buy” Question
What the Hell is Edge Computing?
Let's Talk Technical Books!
Complexity Part 2: Out of the Tar Pit
The Three Faces of Complexity
A Short History of Deploying Software
It's Gonna Take a Lot of Fireworks to Clean This Place Up
The Charlie Brown Property of Software: Something Bad Will Eventually Happen
How To Swim with Sharks: An Interview with Chris Staszak
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Liskov
Cyber Crimes in the Early Days of Cloud Computing
Is a Hot Dog a Sandwich? An Entire Episode about Language Philosophy
Kubernetes CPU Limits Got You Down? Come on down to our complaint clinic and we'll get you sorted out!
Disconnect from the Internet: the Morris Worm Is Out of Control! (A True Crime story!)
Get in Loser, We’re Going High Frequency Trading
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Lamport
Things We've Changed Our Minds About
How Government Is Like Building Software Applications: An Interview with Frank Holland, a political and governmental affairs strategist.
Are Second Systems Inevitable
Ideas We Found in the Bog
Why Does Some Tech Get Popular?
Quotes tennis
Vibes Driven Development
How Not to Hire Software Engineers
Can Software Be Built On An Assembly Line?
The Open Source Software Renaissance Is Going to End Someday
And Gravity Drowned Too: the software skeptics take on chatGPT