Picture Me Coding

Erik Aker and Mike Mull

Picture Me Coding is a music podcast about software. Each week your hosts Erik Aker and Mike Mull take on topics in the software world and they are sometimes joined by guests from other fields who arrive with their own burning questions about technology.Email us at: podcast@picturemecoding.comPatreon: https://patreon.com/PictureMeCodingYou can also pick up a Picture Me Coding shirt, mug, or stickers at our Threadless shop: https://picturemecoding.threadless.com/designsLogo and artwork by Jon Whitmire - https://www.whitmirejon.com/

  1. 29 OTT

    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 that current LLMs pass the Turing Test. Computing Machinery and Intelligence Large Language Models Pass the Turing Test  Pragmatic Engineer Podcast with Armin Ronacher Send us a text

    59 min

  2. 15 OTT

    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 Century".  We discuss whether or not Weiser's vision was achieved.  It's hard to argue that computers are now all around us, but it doesn't seem like they've faded into the background as Weiser hoped. The Computer for the 21st Century Designing Calm Technology Toward Ubiquitous Operating Systems: Lessons from the Field Ambient Computing Has Arrived: Here's What It Looks Like in My House Send us a text

    1 h 1 min

  3. 1 OTT

    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 evil?  We also discuss the origins of regular expressions, formal language theory, and finite automata. Now You've Got Two Problems XKCD: Regular Expressions Representation of Events in Nerve Nets and Finite Automata OWASP: ReDOS Send us a text

    56 min

  4. 17 SET

    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 talk about cool pranks Group 1127 pulled off. Unix: A History and Memoir - Brian Kernighan The Unix Time-Sharing System Send us a text

    53 min

  5. 4 SET

    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 Ritchie, and other luminaries. https://www.amazon.com/UNIX-History-Memoir-Brian-Kernighan/dp/1695978552 https://dsf.berkeley.edu/cs262/unix.pdf https://cs3210.cc.gatech.edu/r/unix6.pdf Send us a text

    1 h

  6. 20 AGO

    Space, Time, and Squishy Pebbles

    This week we dip our toes into the river of theoretical computer science and immediately drown.  We discuss the amazing and surprising result of researcher Ryan Williams about how space is a more powerful resource in computing than time. For Algorithms, Memory Is a Far More Powerful Resource Than Time | WIRED https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.17779 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JuWdXrCmWg Send us a text

    46 min

  7. 8 AGO

    Databases Part II: No SQL, No Problem

    This week we try to make sense of what were once called "NoSQL" databases, focusing on the early entries into the field like Bigtable, Dynamo and Cassandra.  We try to explain how they differ from prior database systems and what motivated their creation. Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data Dynamo: Amazon’s Highly Available Key-value Store Cassandra - A Decentralized Structured Storage System Send us a text

    1 h 10 min

  8. 24 LUG

    Vibe Coding: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

    This week we host our friends Bobak Farzin and Kevin Fahey to talk about their experiences building applications with AI tools.  Both Bob and Kevin are very tech savvy in different ways, but neither is a full-time software developer.  Yet both have had good experiences building functional applications with tools like Cursor and Claude Code.  We discuss the benefits and drawbacks of these tools, and the challenges that Bob and Kevin found in building their own software. “Andrej Karpathy: Software Is Changing (Again)”Vibe scraping and vibe coding a schedule app for Open Sauce 2025 entirely on my phone“Will the future of software development run on vibes?” Ars TechnicaSend us a text

    1 h 8 min
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Descrizione

Picture Me Coding is a music podcast about software. Each week your hosts Erik Aker and Mike Mull take on topics in the software world and they are sometimes joined by guests from other fields who arrive with their own burning questions about technology.Email us at: podcast@picturemecoding.comPatreon: https://patreon.com/PictureMeCodingYou can also pick up a Picture Me Coding shirt, mug, or stickers at our Threadless shop: https://picturemecoding.threadless.com/designsLogo and artwork by Jon Whitmire - https://www.whitmirejon.com/

Informazioni

  • Creatore
    Erik Aker and Mike Mull
  • Anni di attività
    2023 - 2025
  • Puntate
    86
  • Classificazione
    Contenuti espliciti
  • Copyright
    © 2025 Picture Me Coding
  • Sito web del podcast
    Picture Me Coding