Randomly Typed
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
34 - DNS design iterations
10 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
JS and Lance talk about how DNS works and how different improvements have been designed and implemented to overcome a variety of flaws that have arise...
33 - Two Generals' Problem
07 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Lance and JS talk about the Two Generals' Problem and try to understand its real impacts on networked systems. Show notes: https://www.randomlytyped....
32 - Lossless compression algorithms
23 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Lance and JS try to make things smaller! In this episode, we explore how to compress information efficiently in a variety of different ways with diffe...
31 - Signalling System Number 7 (SS7) and phone networks
02 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
JS and Lance discover the inner working of the SS7 protocol used in networks by phone carriers, how it’s being abused, and why it’s something we s...
30 - How to Bring Down the Internet with Regex
19 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
JS and Lance chat about a couple of interesting and very public incidents of a regular expression unexpectedly causing major outages at well-known sof...
29 - Great Cannon of China
07 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Lance and JS discuss censoring attacks from China targeting Github. Show notes: https://www.randomlytyped.com/29
28 - Software Versioning Schemes
12 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
We’re back! JS and Lance are ready to talk about software versioning schemes. Who would have that boiling down complex software systems into a serie...
27 - Dial-up Modems
21 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Max and JS talk about dial-up modems and try to understand how they work while sharing their nostalgia. Show notes: https://www.randomlytyped.com/27
26 - Variance in Type Systems
29 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Type systems can be intimidating. Listen in as JS and Lance struggle to understand type variance! Contravariance, covariance, invariance, bivariance.....
25 - CQRS: Command-Query Responsibility Segregation
15 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
CRUD isn’t the only way! Lance and JS talk about how separating reads from writes in your domain models can open up a world of possibilities. ...
24 - Protocols Over The Air, Used And Abused
01 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
On this episode, Lance and JS discuss the evolution of wireless car unlocking technologies. We talk about some different type of attacks and how they ...
23 - Immutable Data Structures
18 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Most data structure are only useful if you can modify them. Today, JS and Lance talk about immutable data structure which don't allow for direct modif...
22 - Digital Rights Management (DRM)
04 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
JS and Lance discuss the technical and legal implications of digital rights management systems of the past, leading up to the complex and secretive im...
21 - Voting Systems & Arrow's Theorem
21 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
JS and Lance continue their conversation about voting systems and ultimately discover how the outcome of an election could possibly be dictated by a s...
20 - Voting Systems & The Condorcet Paradox
07 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lance and JS examine the social sciences to see what it means to have a fair voting system, and how every system we’ve come up with so far has some ...
19 - Gödel's incompleteness theorems
23 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Some of the toughest problems in mathematics went unsolved for long periods of time, only for them to be proven hundreds of years later. Can anything ...
18 - The Halting Problem
09 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We travel back in time to the 1930s to discuss the mathematical landscape which lead to The Halting problem and how a machine constructed as a mental ...
17 - Applied Cryptography and Security
26 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
JS and Lance discuss the real-world applications and implications of cryptography with topics like key sharing, password keeping and end-to-end encryp...
16 - Asymmetric cryptosystems and digital signing
12 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
JS and Lance continue their cryptography explorations by working through an example of RSA, an asymmetric cryptosystem, while discovering its surprisi...
15 - History of Symmetric Cryptosystems
28 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
JS and Lance are reunited! We go back in time to discover how the earliest cryptosystems worked and cover some ground on the basics of cryptography.
14 - The Slow Web
14 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
JS and special guest Max discuss the slow web phenomenon and discuss what makes some technological experiences more meaningful than others.
13 - P vs. NP, why not both?
01 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We discover why the unsolved P == NP millennium problem is so difficult, and how the ramifications affect our every-day programming.
12 - Bloom filters
18 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We talk about Bloom filters, a probabilistic data structure for set membership queries, how they work, and what all the fuss is about.
11 - Libra
03 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We explore Facebook's new cryptocurrency and discuss it's potential ramifications on our society and global economy.
10 - Prefix Scans
24 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We look at the prefix scan algorithm for the sum operation, and discover how it can be parallelized in a relatively simple but unintuitive way.
9 - Accessibility
06 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We discuss the origins of accessibility and how things changed as society moved into the digital age.
8 - Distributed Systems Introduction
22 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We go over the fundamentals of distributed systems and get to the bottom of buzzwords like scalability, availability and transparency.
7: Technical Debt
08 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We explore the topic of software quality and discover what technical debt actually means.
6: Side Projects
18 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We discuss the projects we have been working on in our spare time and what we've learned in the process.
5: Transactions, ACID or Just Basic?
04 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we discuss the different kinds of database transactions, how they are implemented, and what guarantees they provide.
4: Software Licenses
20 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Can I take your code and sell it? We discuss the variety of available licenses and whether they make sense in our current technological landscape.
3: Divide and Conquer
06 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we discuss divide and conquer algorithms like merge sort, and see why it's more challenging to analyze their complexity.
2: To the Hype Train!
24 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Are cryptocurrencies just hype? Probably, but let's still talk about how they were created, their merits and their problems.
1: The Simple Complexity Episode
14 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
An overview of computational complexity theory.