The Reference Counting Podcast

Taylor Hutchison and Andy Collins
The Reference Counting Podcast

Taylor Hutchison and Andy Collins casual conversations about the technical and not-so-technical aspects of software development.

  1. 12/27/2021

    Episode 18: The application security mindset

    In this episode Andy and Taylor kick things about talking about the rules of programming or the guiding philosophy of a programming, which often go unspoken. The main topic is the log4j vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228), the role and responsibility of programmers in application security, and where we are as an industry with open source software.

    1 hr

  2. 12/22/2021

    Episode 17: Licensing software developers

    Andy and Taylor are back from a road trip and reminisce about meeting in person for conferences and discus some of the features of C# 10. The main topic is the controversial idea of licensing software developers like other engineering professions. The history of licensing and what a license would require is discussed.

    1h 1m

  3. 09/28/2021

    Episode 16: Rubberducking via podcast

    In this episode Andy describes a bug in some code that he wrote dealing with React, Firebase, and authentication. Taylor and Andy then discover how hard it is talk about code in a podcast format. We also talk about authentiation, application security, and how easy it is to make your application insecure by mistake. Taylor talks about his impresions with GitHub Copilot.

    1h 2m

  4. 07/31/2021

    Episode 15: The history of FTP

    The File Transfer Protocol turned 50 years old in 2021. We walk through the history of FTP, how it came to be, how it has evolved, and how it has impacted our development careers.

    59 min

  5. 06/07/2021

    Episode 14: Coming around to Java

    We spend a lot of time talking about C#, but what is going on in the Java world? Andy has been doing some investigating and is ready to brief us.

    1h 22m

  6. 05/17/2021

    Episode 13: A long eight seconds

    How do we learn best? Is there such a thing as a learning style? This episode is all about our philosophy of learning (and teaching) programming. Andy also introduces a new word.

    59 min

  7. 04/22/2021

    Episode 12: Testing our code

    The main topic of this episode is testing. We compare unit, integration, and manual testing and what leads to better code and better applications. The story of Victor Vyssotsky and the Darwin game from Bell Labs is retold and interpreted for meaning.

    53 min

  8. 04/05/2021

    Episode 11: C# Opinions Part 2

    Our follow-up episode in which we mostly discuss the things we like about C#.

    1h 6m
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