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. -3 ДН.

    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 мин.

  2. 4 СЕНТ.

    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 ч.

  3. 20 АВГ.

    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 мин.

  4. 8 АВГ.

    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 ч. 10 мин.

  5. 24 ИЮЛ.

    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 ч. 8 мин.

  6. 9 ИЮЛ.

    Friends and Relations

    We're talking about databases again.  Or database management systems, we're not totally sure.  In any case, they are relational databases (or database management systems). The relational database has been the go-to system for storing structured data since the 1980s, and is still the most popular type of system to use for applications and business reporting.  We discuss their history, what makes them relational, and our experiences with some of the better known commercial and open-source relational systems. A Relational Model of Shared Databanks - EF Codd Dr. Michael Stonebraker - A Short History of Database Systems Send us a text

    58 мин.

  7. 25 ИЮН.

    Shoulders of Giants: Jim Gray

    Jim Gray was a key innovator in the area of database technology and he won the Turing Prize in 1998.  He was particularly influential with respect to the definition and formalization of transactions, and he identified and named the A, C, and D of ACID.   Gray, an avid hiker and sailor, disappeared in 2007 while sailing out of San Francisco to the Farallon Islands, and no trace of him was ever found. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/video/behind-the-code-with-jim-gray/ https://www.wired.com/2007/07/ff-jimgray-2/ Send us a text

    1 ч. 4 мин.

  8. 11 ИЮН.

    Language, Meaning, and Functional Programming with Matt Teichman

    This week Matt Teichman, host of the Elucidations podcast, dropped by the show to chat about functional programming and its surprising relationship to linguistics and philosophy. Matt teaches Linguistics, Philosophy, and Computer Science at the University of Chicago and he also works on open-source software for the University of Chicago library, including an interesting OCaml project used by archivists called Attachment Converter. Thanks to our newest Patreon subscribers: Ralph Minderhoud and Tim Lavoie! Stuff to Check Out Matt's podcast: ElucidationsMatt's website: Matt Teichman - Philosophy - University of ChicagoAttachment Converter, open-source library: Attachment ConverterStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Montague SemanticsSend us a text

    1 ч. 16 мин.
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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.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/

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  • Автор
    Erik Aker and Mike Mull
  • Годы выхода
    2023 - 2025
  • Выпуски
    83
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