Computer Science: Just the Useful Bits
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
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 developer. We talk about the up-and-coming develope...
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 RUG:B, a Berlin-based Ruby group, maintains SimpleC...
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 conversation! We talk about how Ross "cheats" both to ...
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 hunting. We talk a *lot* about Ruby performance - who...
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 test automation engineer. When two old engineers g...
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 than Ruby. He was raised by missionaries, and is thu...
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!), RubyBlend and CodeFund. We talk about the prison and...
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's practical is very different for different peopl...
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 full-stack software engineer, which is "like being ...
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 without having experience before university, and what ...
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 in his competitive public university in Argentina....
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 full-time computer programming. We caught up on how ...
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 learning compilers is necessarily like an old-style app...
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, what he looks for when hiring developers and how...
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 envious. He doesn't remember his classes on mathema...
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 128, through PHP to Ruby and onward. He talks about ...
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 your own package manager, why you should write what...
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 everything career-related. For show notes, links, ...
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 him. We also talk about educational overengineeri...
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 coding was probably close enough; about how, to be rea...
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 fundamentals of computer science. We talk about uni...
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 to know him for Faktory. Mike and I talk a lot abo...
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 development to finish his degree and get a master's d...
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 also explain big-O notation in a simple way that (...
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. From https://codefol.io/posts/BigCo-New-Employee-Tra...