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TECHNOLOGY

Randomly Typed

Computer science, alpacas and other musings.

01/10/2021

34 - DNS design iterations

JS and Lance talk about how DNS works and how different improvements have been designed and implemented to overcome a variety of flaws that have arisen over time. Show notes: https://www.randomlytyped.com/34

30 min
12/07/2020

33 - Two Generals' Problem

Lance and JS talk about the Two Generals' Problem and try to understand its real impacts on networked systems. Show notes: https://www.randomlytyped.com/33

22 min
11/23/2020

32 - Lossless compression algorithms

Lance and JS try to make things smaller! In this episode, we explore how to compress information efficiently in a variety of different ways with different tradeoffs. Show notes: https://www.randomlytyped.com/32

37 min
11/02/2020

31 - Signalling System Number 7 (SS7) and phone networks

JS and Lance discover the inner working of the SS7 protocol used in networks by phone carriers, how it’s being abused, and why it’s something we should probably be more concerned about. Show notes: https://www.randomlytyped.com/31

35 min
10/19/2020

30 - How to Bring Down the Internet with Regex

JS and Lance chat about a couple of interesting and very public incidents of a regular expression unexpectedly causing major outages at well-known software companies. We walk through exactly how these incidents happened and discover how easy it is to write a regex with no time complexity guarantees.

28 min
10/07/2020

29 - Great Cannon of China

Lance and JS discuss censoring attacks from China targeting Github. Show notes: https://www.randomlytyped.com/29

14 min
09/12/2020

28 - Software Versioning Schemes

We’re back! JS and Lance are ready to talk about software versioning schemes. Who would have that boiling down complex software systems into a series of numbers would be so hard?

31 min
03/21/2020

27 - Dial-up Modems

Max and JS talk about dial-up modems and try to understand how they work while sharing their nostalgia. Show notes: https://www.randomlytyped.com/27

29 min

Computer science, alpacas and other musings.

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Randomly Typed
Years Active

2019 - 2021
Episodes

34
Rating

Clean
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