Regular Programming

Data has moved to a real database. Next, there may be brave attempts to add actual structure. Working with a real database is nice, as is not losing data, and being able to restore.

Not everything is …

It seems a mingle is a thing, and not just in Swedish! But what do we want to get out of them, how do we go into them, and how do we create good ones?

Do you want resonance or hole-poking when you tel…

Performance: we wish the incentives were there to focus on it more often.

Lars would like more opportunities and incentives to focus on making things fast, rather than just making them not slow. Unfor…

CTOs want the ability to get prototypes built and out into production fast. Others preach the gospel of building things properly. How fast can you be? How much can you perpare before you hit the ice?…

Did they do design, or did they just do a system?

Distributed systems are hard in many ways. Andreas describes a system communicating between backends and mobile phones in exciting ways with many exci…

Lars went to ElixirConf EU. Going to a conference can be a credibly incredible experience. Elixir has more clarity than Erlang.

Lars also gave a talk, a fact he was comfortably uncomfortable with. Giv…

Text editors - which ones do we enjoy, which ones have we used, and what do we actually want and need in them?

Andreas has read about vim, sed and awk. Lars is quite comfortable in vim, but finds Visu…

How do we feel about working remotely? Pretty good, on the whole.

Chairs and other basics are of course important, as is making your way of remote work a nice way of doing remote work for you. It is a…

Lars is thinking about distributed systems, and Andreas kind of fears them. The best thing to do for most cases might be to avoid distributing things at all. But if you do end up needing to distribut…

About Hackers Thinking about the term "hacker". Time to take it back to mean something rather down to earth, rather than a pedistal requiring years of C and a black hoodie?

What do airlines have again…

About Being Wrong

Wherein polite gentlemen at gaming conventions explain how people didn't have their variables separate enough with regard to the Dunning-Kruger effect. Lars thinks Andreas has drawn …

About Estimates

Estimates are a nasty subject, Andreas doesn't know how to handle it.

Fortunately, Lars has one weird trick, which doctors hate.

When you have plenty of control, estimates can be useful.

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Passing pandemics make it possible to meet developers in real life again. Elixir-Lars makes a splash, and tells about recent and coming real-life events he's enjoyed. Things learned from real-life ev…

The continued cratering of Twitter, and the joy of discovering open alternatives. Lars and many others find themselves on the open and federated Mastodon instead of Twitter, having a great time, and …

How to teach functional programming? What are the proper steps, beyond the first ones? Especially when you can't or don't want to point to a framework and say "we do it this way!"

Lars outlines his id…

Archives are cool. How do you keep your digital things in order and, hopefully, backed up?

We need more archivists.

Andreas has re-read Snowcrash, and while it isn't the manual for the world to adopt i…

There are good things in programming, many of which are enumerated in this episode.

Among other nice things: the best features in Elixir. Lars won open source? Bots and realtime-y stuff. Not to mentio…

The hardware woes episode. But first: the joy and wonder of ID3v2.3.

Implementing the specification of a binary format as a library.

Lars' next laptop. Then Lars' gear situation. Power bricks and cable…

Elon Musk wanting to buy Twitter leads naturally into the topic of cyberdecks and jacking in, which in turn naturally leads one to talk about audio on Linux.

But what is a cyberdeck? How do you build …