Interpreting the Newses
Mike and Erik analyze the tech news again. The AIs are hallucinating, but gamers are too because of Game Transfer Phenomenon. The Luddites are back for what's likely a futile effort to keep the robo...
7 Touko 202556min
Predicting the Future: Law, Software, and Attorneys Using AI
Today Mike and Erik are joined by John Benson, an attorney with a background in digital forensics who has been at the forefront of integrating LLMs into legal practice. The conversation ranges over th...
30 Huhti 20251h 7min
Sailing to Byzantium
This week Mike and Erik tackle Byzantine Fault Tolerance! But what's it all about? Gangsters? Generals? Constantinople? Take a journey with us as we sail off into the dizzying complexity of Byzantine ...
23 Huhti 202558min
Programming for Fun with David Beazley
We have an entertaining and wide-ranging discussion with prominent computer scientist and educator David Beazley, known for his many contributions to the Python community. We talk about why programmi...
9 Huhti 20251h 8min
Leslie Lamport and the Free Software Movement
In this SCaLE wrap-up Mike and Erik discuss the final day of the conference and talks by Denver Gingerich called "What happens when hardware puts software freedom first? We built a router to find out"...
26 Maalis 202544min
Mike and Erik Go to Pasadena!
This week we are on location in the city of Pasadena, CA for Scale 22x, the Socal Linux Expo. We talked to people and went to talks and drank a lot of coffee. We do a debrief of some of the amazing wo...
19 Maalis 20251h
Simulating Distributed Systems with David Morrison
Every once in a while you come across a project where you’re like “Oh, dang, wish I’d thought of that”. That’s the case with this week’s guest, David R. Morrison. David is the founder of Applied C...
12 Maalis 202555min
Point Break and the Spirit of Devops
This week Mike and Erik are joined by Rob Hernandez who has deep experience with Devops and both cloud and on-prem infrastructure. Rob takes us from the early days of his career as a student IT worker...
5 Maalis 20251h 22min
