Picture Me Coding

Erik Aker and Mike Mull
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.Email us at: podcast@picturemecoding.comYou 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. 3 DAYS AGO

    We Read the News and Everyone’s On Drugs

    In this episode we looked at the tragic story of tech company CEOs doing drugs and the various knock-on effects.We also played a lightning round of "Aspiring to be a nation state or on drugs?" with various headlines.This is the final episode of Picture Me Coding for 2024 and we’ll be taking a break for a few weeks after this. But we’ll be back next year!Mike made a playlist of all the music we talked about this year too! Find it here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6jbM32yzvi8MK3zv2cXPSr?s...

    1h 11m

  2. DEC 11

    More Favorites: Radix Trees, Kadane's, Raft Leader Election

    We carried over from last week and kept doing algos! This week we talked about:- Diffie Hellman- Radix Trees: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/321479.321481- Kadane's Algorithm- Raft's Leader Election: https://raft.github.io/raft.pdfSend us a text

    56 min

  3. DEC 4

    Our Favorite Algorithms: FFTs and Hyperloglogs!

    Mike wanted to talk about our favorite algorithms this week, so we covered a few:- Fast Fourier Transforms- HyperloglogSome references are below:- Article in Communications of the ACM: What Is an Algorithm?- Al-Khwarizmi (mathematician, wikipedia page)- HyperLogLog Paper: https://algo.inria.fr/flajolet/Publications/FlFuGaMe07.pdfSend us a text

    50 min

  4. NOV 27

    Annoying Everybody with Our Questions about Timezones

    In this episode, Mike and Erik go back to the topic of time in order to explore what is specifically frustrating to programmers about dealing with time. Why's it so hard and annoying? And why do people get so irritated when we ask them a bunch of questions about what they really want us to build with respect to time?We also mentioned on this and our last episode that there are some new ways to reach out to us (in addition to our email address), but they are:- Bluesky account: https://bsky.app...

    52 min

  5. NOV 20

    Into the Well of Formal Verifications

    This week Mike and Erik were trying to understand the arena of formal verification: what are these tools? Where do they come from? How do they work? Can we categorize them?There's a ton of stuff to talk about in this area and we're just learning the things, so we made an attempt here to wade in and figure stuff out!We also mentioned on this episode that there are some new ways to reach out to us (in addition to our email address), but they are:- Bluesky account: https://bsky.app/profile/pictu...

    59 min

  6. NOV 13

    "Some of the most valuable people I work with are really just politicians"

    Our discussion with Randy Edwards from last week carried over to the following week in this part 2 episode of our discussion on software engineering management. Our wide-ranging discussion included references to James Bond and Billy Woods and all kinds of unexpected stuff in between.Announcement Part 2: In celebration of episiode 50, Picture Me Coding now has a threadless shop with shirts, stickers, and coffee mugs for purchase! Impress your friends with your knowledge of the niche podcast sp...

    48 min

  7. NOV 6

    Software Engineering Management with Randy Edwards

    This week we took on the subject of software engineering management and we were joined in this discussion by Randy Edwards, who started writing C++ at 16 and now runs an organization with software engineering managers reporting to him. Randy shares wisdom he's learned along the way and Mike and Erik try to interrogate the goals and methods of management.Announcement: In celebration of episiode 50, Picture Me Coding now has a threadless shop with shirts, stickers, and coffee mugs for purc...

    41 min

  8. OCT 30

    Mike and Erik Vie for the Nobel Prize in Literature

    Recently, some people won a Nobel Prize in Physics for contributions in the field of Neural Networks and Mike went down this huge rabbit hole of content-addressable-memory and Hopfield Networks and Geoffrey Hinton's work on the Boltzmann machine. If you feel lost in this episode, let Mike be your guide (and you may be less lost than Erik).Send us a text

    48 min
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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.comYou 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/

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  • Creator
    Erik Aker and Mike Mull
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2024
  • Episodes
    57
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2024 Picture Me Coding
  • Show Website
    Picture Me Coding

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