Tech Talk: Jimmy Koppel on Advanced Software Design
Tech Talks are in-depth technical discussions. How do we create great software? What are the important skills need to properly review a PR? How do you identify assumptions of a code base and the stabl...
1 Aug 201953min
Tech Talk: Typescript with Chris Krycho
Tech Talks are in-depth technical discussions. How do we make JavaScript easier to work with? Chris Krycho has been using typescript to add types to javascript since 2016. Chris is a software develope...
15 Juli 20191h 10min
Tech Talk: Rethinking Technological Positivism with Cory Doctorow
Self-driving cars or armed autonomous military robots may make use of the same technologies. In a certain sense, we as software developers are helping to build and shape the future. What does the futu...
15 Juni 20191h 1min
Tech Talk: Crafting Interpreters With Bob Nystrom
Bob Nystrom is the author of Crafting Interpreters. I speak with Nystrom about building a programming language and an interpreter implementation for it. We talk about parsing, the difference between c...
31 Maj 201956min
Tech Talk: Rethinking databases and Noria with Jon Gjengset
Can we make databases faster and remove the need for caching reads in an external cache? Can we make a distributed SQL based relational database that outperforms memcached? Jon Gjengset and the PDOS t...
30 Apr 201958min
Tech Talk: Learning to Think with Andy Hunt - Pragmatic Programmers guide to being productive
Andy Hunt is a celebrity in the world of software development. Or at least he is one to me. The Pragmatic Programmer is a classic book on software development book. He is an author of the agile manife...
15 Apr 201954min
Tech Talk: Data and Scale with Pat Helland - The long view on distributed databases
Tech Talks are in-depth technical discussions. Pat Helland has a wealth of knowledge on building distributed data stores. He has been working on distributed data stores since 1978, when he worked on t...
31 Mars 201956min
Abstraction and Learning with Runar Bjarnason
What is abstraction? Can we have a precise definition of abstraction that, once understood, makes writing software simpler? Runar has thought a lot about abstraction and how we can choose the proper...
15 Mars 201949min
