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Lithium mining! Water policy! Housing! Software development! What do these things have to do with each other? Let’s find out in this week’s episode, an interview with Frank Holland, a political and go...

11 Okt 20231h 15min

Mike and Erik talk about second systems and weigh whether we can ever even avoid the things in the first place. Acronyms loom large in this conversation, both IRS and AWS come up. Here are some lin...

4 Okt 202349min

Mike and Erik talk about super powers and then discuss technologies that were around in previous decades which seemed like they were going to be a big deal and then faded away. Mike also talks about H...

20 Sep 202342min

Mike and Erik talk betamax and ask the question: why do some technologies get popular? Your podcast hosts are on the case! Mike tells the story of going to the "Professional Developer Conference" and ...

13 Sep 202348min

This week Mike and Erik play a game called "quotes tennis" where they try to trip each other up with quotes from the field that the other struggles to disagree with. It's a battle of wits: do you know...

6 Sep 202357min

Mike and Erik discuss Hillel Wayne's 3-part blog piece titled “Are We Really Engineers?” Erik tries to convince Mike that we can throw caution to the wind and design software based on vibes alone. Sen...

28 Aug 202354min

Mike and Erik talk about the worst interview questions you can ask software engineers and then ponder the interview process: why's it so terrible interviewing for software positions? They'll try to fi...

21 Aug 202357min

Inspired by an New York Times article on turning the production of Hollywood writing content into an assembly line, and also by Simon Winchester’s book The Perfectionists, Mike and Erik discuss if the...

14 Aug 20231h