Story: The History and Mystery Of Eliza
I recently got an email from Jeff Shrager, who said he'd been working hard to solve a mystery about some famous code. Eliza, the chatbot, was built in 1964, and she didn't answer questions like Alexa ...
5 Jul 202244min
Chat: Why still 80 columns?
On June 1st, 2014, the following question showed up on hacker news: "Why is 80 characters, the standard limit for code width." You probably know what happens next. People started to post their opinio...
1 Jun 202239min
Story: LISP in Space
Have you ever had a unique approach to a problem and been excited to use it, but you're met with skepticism? Today's story: what happens if you take someone who's passionate about LISP and put them ...
2 Mai 202238min
Chat: April Fools' Is Cancelled
On this day in 2014 "lame april fools' jokes" were banned from hacker news. Today in our first This-Day-in-History segment, I want to share some of history not just of April Fools', but of tech pra...
1 Apr 202238min
Story: The Story Graph with Nadia Odunayo
Whenever I work on a side project, I can't help but daydream of it taking off in a big way. For today's guests, something like that did happen. When Nadia started building her side project, she did...
2 Mar 202248min
Story: Serenity OS
How would you build an operating system? My answer is I wouldn't. First off, I don't know how. And the second thing is it seems like to large of a task. It took thousands of developers to build Wi...
1 Feb 202241min
Chat: The Internet Is Made of Duct Tape
Today, I have two of my favorite guests together: Krystal Maughan and Don McKay. We are going to be sharing strange and interesting facts about computing. I'm super pumped about this because, sometime...
2 Jan 202242min
Story: Cocoa Culture
The last episode, I said I wasn't sure there was such a thing as culture, but that's not the case. Every place I've worked has been a bit different, and often those differences had huge impacts on the...
2 Des 202144min
