Programming
Episodes
Episode 25 - Micro Frontends Patterns
20 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The episode is inspired by research I conducted a few years ago in which I interviewed hundreds of other senior engineers and architects building web ...
Episode 24 - AI Agents
13 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we'll cover what AI agents are, how they work, common agentic implementation patterns, and how agents manage their context window. En...
Episode 23 - Building a minimal reactive framework
17 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode explores building a minimal reactive framework using signals as a reactivity primitive. We'll look into implementing a simple component m...
Episode 22 - Signals
10 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we'll explore a concept called Signal that has been getting a lot of traction in JavaScript over the past few years. I'll describe a ...
Episode 21 - Maps, Hash Maps, Tree Maps, and Hash Tables
01 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today in less than 20 minutes, we'll explore what maps are and how they work under the hood. We'll talk about the differences between treemaps, hash m...
Episode 20 - Static and Dynamic Systems
23 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today we'll look into static and dynamic systems. We'll discuss what does it mean for a programming language or a framework to be static or dynamic. ...
Episode 19 - Type Systems and Type Checking
16 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we'll look at the very basics of type systems and their enforcement. We'll discuss strongly and weakly typed languages. After that, ...
Episode 18 - How JavaScript Bundlers Work
25 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we'll look at what data structures and algorithms JavaScript bundlers use. We'll talk about ECMAScript modules, strongly connected c...
Episode 17 - Dependency Injection
21 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today we'll talk about using dependency injection across paradigms! You'll understand what this pattern is all about and how to use it. During the ep...
Episode 16 - Memoization
14 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today we'll learn about memoization! Memoization is a practice that helps us improve the performance of our apps using caching. In the episode, we'll...
Episode 15 - Compilers, Linters, and Formatters
07 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the programming podcast, we'll discuss static analysis and code transformation. In particular, we'll look at the difference between...
Episode 14 - The Four Principles of OOP
31 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In today's episode, you'll learn the four principles of object-oriented programming. We'll discuss abstraction, inheritance, encapsulation, and polymo...
Episode 13 - Binary Heaps
24 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today we're going to discuss the binary heap data structure. In this episode, you'll learn where to use heaps in practice, how they can come handy to ...
Episode 12 - COVID-19. Epidemic modeling with SIR.
17 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Instead of digging into algorithms and data structures, today, you'll learn about epidemic modeling. In 9 minutes in this episode, you'll get a mathem...
Episode 11 - Coupling and Cohesion
10 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today you'll learn how keeping your abstractions more cohesive and less coupled can improve the quality and maintainability of your software.
Episode 10 - Topological Sort
03 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The chances are that the information from this episode will come in handy to you during a coding interview and likely in real life! In this episode, ...
Episode 9 - Sorting. Counting Sort.
26 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever been frustrated during interviews thinking that your interviewer expects you to have memorized a bunch of sorting algorithms you'd never...
Episode 8 - Decorator Pattern
18 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today you'll learn how at runtime, you can enhance the behavior or existing objects using the decorator pattern. In this episode, we'll discuss the a...
Episode 7 - Tries
11 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the episode today, we'll talk about the trie data structure. You'll learn what tries are, how you can use them in practice, and how to implement th...
Episode 6 - Graphs and Graph Traversal
04 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we'll discuss graphs. You'll learn how this data structure looks like and what are its applications. Later on, we'll talk about algor...
Episode 5 - Arrays and Linked Lists
26 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we'll discuss two fundamental data structures in computer science - arrays and linked lists. Their understanding is essential not onl...
Episode 4 - Quickselect
21 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today we're going to talk about quickselect. This algorithm helps us quickly find the n-th smallest element in unsorted arrays. It'll not only help yo...
Episode 3 - Partial Application (not Currying)
14 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today we'll discuss partial application and currying. By the end of the episode, you'll understand what these two different concepts are how they are ...
Episode 2 - Binary Search
05 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today we'll discuss the binary search algorithm. We'll go through several examples when the algorithm makes sense and discuss in detail how it works. ...
Episode 1 - How Compilers Work
05 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we discuss how compilers work. By the end of the show, you'll have a high-level understanding of the phases the source code you write...