Picture Me Coding

For our first episode of 2026 (and Season 4), we're talking about Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3). S3 is probably the biggest cloud service, or at least we think it is, because it is super freak...

9 Jan 1h 4min

In this episode we discuss working in the Salesforce environment, and low-code platforms generally, with software engineer Kyle Willcox. Kyle's dev journey from a CS degree at UNC Wilmington to Sales...

11 Dec 20251h 11min

For the holiday we're doing another news roundup, although it's mostly about data centers and AI to be honest. Inside the Data Centers... Korean Data Center Oracle Data Center Debt Cloudflare Outage...

27 Nov 20251h 4min

Erik became fascinated with CRDTs while working on a project, so we're talking about how they work, how they simplify some distributed systems, and how they might protect you from zombies. Conflict-Fr...

13 Nov 202556min

This episode is about the Turing Test, and Alan Turing's original description of the test in Computing Machinery and Intelligence. We also discuss a recent work by two UCSD researchers that claims th...

29 Okt 202558min

In 1988 Mark Weiser of Xerox PARC coined the term "ubiquitous computing", and in 1991 he spelled out the particulars of this concept in a Scientific American article called "The Computer for the 21st ...

15 Okt 20251h

This week we're talking about regular expressions, aka, regex. These are a favorite tool of programmers, but they also have a dark side. Do regex cause more problems than they solve? Can they be ev...

1 Okt 202556min

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 ta...

17 Sep 202553min