The Burnouts of the Century
Following publication of a recent report where 80%(!) of software engineers and managers are reporting burnout, Mike and Erik take on the difficult topic of burnout in our industry. Through a discussi...
3 Juli 202450min
Monoliths vs Microservices
Did you ever wake up one day and realize your microservices architecture had transformed into a large distributed monolith? Did your boss come to your house and did your family try to disown you? Mike...
19 Juni 202459min
The End of the Fullstack Developer Era
Mike made this argument recently that the era of the full stack developer is over. The so-called stacks are still around, but they're now surrounded by so much infrastructure and supporting technolog...
12 Juni 202453min
Why Rust?
After a few weeks off while Mike traveled the land, your Picture Me Coding hosts are back this week with an episode about the programming language Rust. They've mentioned this language a few times and...
30 Maj 202457min
Dijkstra's Diss Track
This is part II of our Standing on the Shoulders of Giants episode about Edsger Dijkstra, the greatest philosopher of our field. Instead of using social media, Dijkstra would dash off hot takes on hi...
24 Apr 202430min
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Edsger Dijkstra
This week we talked about the greatest philosopher of our field: Edsger Dijkstra. Most software engineers will immediately recall Dijkstra's Algorithm, for finding the shortest path between two nodes ...
17 Apr 202448min
The XZ Apocalypse
A week ago a developer in San Francisco named Andres Freund found a backdoor in SSH which would grant some shadowy figure access to Linux machines running the latest version of a library called liblzm...
10 Apr 202445min
AI Code Generators: Are We Going to Be Out of Work Someday?!
Along with our friend Bob Farzin, we visit upon the sleeping body of AI three ghosts this week: one for the past, one for the present, and one for the future. We make a sincere attempt to haunt the cr...
27 Mars 202455min
