Picture Me Coding

Erik Aker and Mike Mull
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Picture Me Coding

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.Produced by Neiko Will.Logo and artwork by Jon Whitmire - https://www.whitmirejon.com/Reach out to us here: podcast@picturemecoding.com

  1. 2 DAYS AGO

    Nostalgia for the 90s Internet

    This week Mike and Erik wax nostalgic about the early days of the internet and then they wonder if all this trite nostalogizing (is that a word?) isn't really a dangerous or simply not-useful self-deception. Was stuff really better in the early days of the internet? What do you think? Check out some links:- https://web.archive.org/- profile of Jake Nickell from 2011 in the Chicago Reader- Cory Doctorow's now-famous blogpost in Wired on "enshitiffication"Send us a text

    51 min

  2. OCT 9

    Origin Story: How Erik Became a Programmer

    In this episode Mike wanted to interview Erik on how he got his start as a programmer and he was surprised by this and all worked up about it by the end. Hear tales of Erik's journey in this episode.Send us a text

    59 min

  3. SEP 25

    620 Million Years Ago the Workday Was Only 6 Hours Long

    In this episode of Picture Me Coding, your hosts take on the topic of time, a category of discussion that it turns out they are supremely not up to the task of at all. Join us for this conversational and occasionally confused discussion.Some Links- Distributed Systems textbook by Marten van Steen- Wikipedia on ΔT (timekeeping)- Wikipedia on the leap second- Keeping Time at NISTSend us a text

    57 min

  4. SEP 18

    Software In Pop Culture with Amy Salley

    This week we were fortunate to have a super special guest, Amy Salley, who hails from the podcast Hugo Girl. Amy agreed to come on the show to talk to us about depictions of software in science fiction and we discussed works such as:A recently published short story by Naomi Kritzer called "Better Living Through Algorithms" (read it here).2001: A Space Odyssey the 1968 Kubrick filmWar Games the 1983 filmNeuromancer by William GibsonLinks!Hugo Girl Episode ListBetter Living Throu...

    1h 20m

  5. SEP 11

    The Agony and the Ecstasy of Excel

    This week Mike and Erik are joined by special guest Justin Runia an analyst and Excel wizard and returning guest Bob Farzin who told us a story in the high-frequency-trading episode about trading billions of dollars of swaps from an Excel spreadsheet. We spent the whole hour talking about Excel: is it a no-code platform? Is it a programming language? Is it a database? Should we build the whole business on top of it?If you're an immense fan of Excel like Mike is, then join us this hour as we t...

    59 min

  6. AUG 28

    The Best I Ever Saw

    So the Surfer's Journal, a surfing magazine, has a feature called "Best I Ever Saw" where they ask people in the surfing world to remark on the best surfing performance they've ever seen. These are pretty interesting to read because it's an expert praising an expert and it's fun to see through their eyes. This week Erik wanted to ask Mike, "what's the best you ever saw?" in the field of software engineering, so this forms the topic of discussion for this episode. Check out the Andy Irons one ...

    51 min

  7. AUG 21

    The Value of Software with Irina Telyukova

    Mike asked me the other day: "what's all this software actually worth?" Turns out he was talking about raw dollars. Who the hell knows? I said. Is this a thing anyone can answer? Mike, then, dug up an academic paper from the Harvard Business School called "The Value of Open Source Software" where they tried to calculate the monetary value of open source software and then we needed a bunch of help just to read and understand this paper so we called our friend Irina Telyukova and she came ...

    55 min

  8. AUG 14

    Software News Roundup (with No AI news! (sorta))

    This week Mike and Erik committed to discussing the non-AI news out there in the software world. There's a lot of non-AI stuff going almost undiscussed and so our hosts each brought three news stories they found interesting to the podcast and then Erik includes a bonus one about AI which completely messes up the whole premise of the episode.Stuff we discussed“Inside Crowdstrike's Deployment Process” “The graying open source community needs fresh blood”"Quantum Computing Set for Chicago M...

    53 min
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About

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.Produced by Neiko Will.Logo and artwork by Jon Whitmire - https://www.whitmirejon.com/Reach out to us here: podcast@picturemecoding.com

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  • Creator
    Erik Aker and Mike Mull
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2024
  • Episodes
    49
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2024 Picture Me Coding
  • Show Website
    Picture Me Coding

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