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Computer Science: Just the Useful Bits

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Episode publication activity over the past year

Last Checked: 2025-10-25 08:54:37

With Larry Orton: Getting Started and Standing Out

08 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Larry has 15 years' experience in the military under his belt, and is still training as a software d...

With Tobi Pfeiffer: So Many Languages

01 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Tobi works at Shopify and is the author of benchee, an Elixir-language benchmarking suite. He runs R...

With Ross Kaffenberger: Teaching, WebPacker and Paradigms

25 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Oh man, my audio quality is AWFUL here. Luckily Ross's is better and he's great at carrying the conv...

With Craig Petterson: Buzzwords, Pina Coladas and Centaur Chess

18 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We talk about how Craig got started, of course, and about buzzwords and how he did his early job hun...

With Akien McIain: Test Automation Engineering

11 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This episode is with me, my wife Krissy and Akien McIain, a mutual friend who is also a very senior ...

With Andrew Owen: the Culture of Programming -- If You're Raised by Missionaries

04 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

I barely know how to summarise this one. It's one of my favourites. Andrew is from dot-NET rather th...

With Andrew Mason: I Expected College to be Basically Boot Camp

27 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Andrew is the founder of the Remote Ruby Podcast (now a lot more prominent than when we talked!), Ru...

With Shai Schechter: Hustle Hard, Do What's Practical

19 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Shai Schechter, co-founder of RightMessage, has been hustling since he was 11. He believes that what...

With Caitlyn Greffly: It's Like Being Paid to Go to School and Make Cool Things Forever

21 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Caitlyn didn't want to go back and get a degree "at my age", but went to Thinkful to learn to be a f...

With Jennifer Tran: Coding Paradigms, the Satisfaction of Studying and Unspoken Cultural Norms

08 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Jennifer is an early-career cloud engineer. We talk about how she got into software development with...

With Ernesto Tagwerker: Learning Programming, Business and Management

08 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Ernesto and I talk about how he learned software development, but also some business and management ...

With John Pavan: Coming to Programming from Nuclear Physics

01 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

I met John Pavan early in his career, after he'd just made the transition from nuclear physics to fu...

With Chris Seaton: On Ph.Ds and Software Apprenticeships

23 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Chris Seaton, founder of TruffleRuby, talks with me about getting a computer science Ph.D, how learn...

With Michael Dominick: Your Duck Was the Only Thing That Company Had Going For It!

15 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Michael Dominick, of the Mike Dominick Show, talks to me about patterns in software, the Pokemon API...

With George Sheppard: On Security, UML and What's More Important than Money

10 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

George and I talk about how he learned to do what we do. He loved his classes on security, and I'm e...

With Jared White: the Trip from PHP to Ruby and Beyond

03 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Jared and I talk about his journey through all sorts of programming platforms, from the Commodore 12...

With Chris Oliver: The Black Magic of Video Game Timing

27 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Chris and I talk about the black magic of video game timing, why you should build y...

With Drew Carpenter: Static or Dynamic Languages?

13 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, Drew and I talk about job interviews, static and dynamic languages and a little of ...

With Hugo DiFrancesco: ...

06 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

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With Swizec Teller: The Value of Theory and Why Not to Build an Analytics Service

29 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Swizec and I talk about his theory-heavy education in Slovenia and how extremely useful it's been to...

With Alain Mauri: to be a Great Developer, Learn Sport Instead of Computer Science

22 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Alain and I talk about the old days; about jumping into a first job in PHP because Commodore 64 codi...

With Jake Yesbeck: On Getting Lucky, Mastery and the Fundamentals

14 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Jake and I talk about basically just getting lucky... And also about mastery and understanding the f...

With Mike Perham: Sidekiq and Whitepapers, and What Success is For

07 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Mike, of course, is most famous in the Ruby community for Sidekiq. Outside Ruby, you're more likely ...

With Tyler Williams: Hands-On Teaching Between Students; Formal and Informal Teaching

31 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Tyler Williams talks about what made his education good. He's actually going back after years of dev...

With Jason Swett: when data structures, big-O notation and algorithms were completely useless...

19 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Jason Swett and I talk about his education as a programmer and the classes he took in university. I ...

BigCo New Employee Training - Inside Voice

27 Dec 2019

Contributed by Lukas

This isn't actually an episode. More of a test upload, and a vocal rendition of an old blog post. Fr...