Salesforce and Low-Code with Kyle Willcox
In this episode we discuss working in the Salesforce environment, and low-code platforms generally, with software engineer Kyle Willcox. Kyle's dev journey from a CS degree at UNC Wilmington to Sales...
11 Des 20251h 11min
Tech News Roundup: Fighting Robots with Poetry
For the holiday we're doing another news roundup, although it's mostly about data centers and AI to be honest. Inside the Data Centers... Korean Data Center Oracle Data Center Debt Cloudflare Outage...
27 Nov 20251h 4min
Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs): How To Survive the Zombie Apocalypse
Erik became fascinated with CRDTs while working on a project, so we're talking about how they work, how they simplify some distributed systems, and how they might protect you from zombies. Conflict-Fr...
13 Nov 202556min
The Turing Test
This episode is about the Turing Test, and Alan Turing's original description of the test in Computing Machinery and Intelligence. We also discuss a recent work by two UCSD researchers that claims th...
29 Okt 202558min
Ubiquitous Computing
In 1988 Mark Weiser of Xerox PARC coined the term "ubiquitous computing", and in 1991 he spelled out the particulars of this concept in a Scientific American article called "The Computer for the 21st ...
15 Okt 20251h
The Two Problems With Regular Expressions
This week we're talking about regular expressions, aka, regex. These are a favorite tool of programmers, but they also have a dark side. Do regex cause more problems than they solve? Can they be ev...
1 Okt 202556min
The History of Unix, Part 2: Unix not Eunuchs
A continuation of our discussion about the history of Unix and its development at Bell Labs. Erik wonders why Unix became successful and which features were novel and important. Mike just wants to ta...
17 Sep 202553min
The History of Unix: Part 1
This week we talk about the early days of Unix, primarily based on Brian Kernighan's book Unix: A History and Memoir, about his days at Bell Labs and the creation of Unix and C by Ken Thompson, Dennis...
4 Sep 20251h
