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Picture Me Coding

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Picture Me Coding

Erik Aker and Mike Mull

The Most Cited Papers from JACM

July 24, 2026 6:00am 1:14

In this episode we discuss the 5 most-cited papers from the flagship journal of the Association for Computing Machinery, the JACM.   The papers include everything from distributed computing to real-time scheduling. Direc...

The Prehistory of the Internet

July 10, 2026 6:00am 1:00

This episode started with the question: who first had the idea to connect computers together to make a network?  We explore JCR Licklider's ideas about an  "Intergalactic Network", some of the earliest attempts at networ...

Software Development in 2046

June 26, 2026 6:00am 1:05

In this episode we discuss a couple of recent papers on just-in-time development and agentic systems and how we think they suggest trends that will affect software development for years to come.  We boldly predict that i...

Numerology

June 12, 2026 6:00am 54 min

For the 100th episode of Picture Me Coding we talk about numbers.  Mike talks about his favorite numbers, Erik talks about his favorite ports, and we discuss the surprising phenomenon of Benford's Law.Send us Fan Mail

Do You Even Schedule, Bro? Making a Digital Workout Partner with Doug Burke

May 29, 2026 2:00am 1:14

This week we were joined by our friend Doug Burke, who runs a company and has been working on his "digital life workout partner", a voice-activated LLM tool. Doug's story is interesting because he does not have a backgro...

TokenMaxxing!: Agentic Software Development with Bob Farzin

May 15, 2026 6:00am 1:10

In this episode we invite back our friend Bob Farzin to discuss our personal experiences with using teams of agents to write software, and we try to parse out the experiences we're seeing on the interwebs, including Stev...

Patricia Selinger and the Birth of Query Optimization

May 01, 2026 6:00am 1:02

In this episode we attempt to explain query optimization and where it came from.  In particular we discuss Patricia Selinger's 1979 SIGMOD paper Access Path Selection in a Relational Database Management System. Access Pa...

"Big-O Ops": An Interview with Kyle Risse

April 17, 2026 2:00am 1:34

This week Mike and Erik are joined by Kyle Risse. Erik met Kyle at Scale 23x in Pasadena this year while volunteering for the Tech Team. Kyle has a ton of experience in the field working on networks, infrastructure, linu...

Hash Tables

April 03, 2026 6:00am 58 min

Some recent articles about research on hash tables made us realize we probably didn't know enough about hash tables, one of the fundamental data structures in the biz.  We talk about the history of hashing and hash table...

Scale 23x

March 20, 2026 6:00am 1:27

We give a report of our experiences at the 23rd version of the Southern California Linux Expo (Scale 23x) in Pasadena.  Erik was a volunteer in the network group this year, so we have some behind the scenes stories in ad...

Talking Murderbot with Amy Salley

March 06, 2026 6:00am 1:32

In this episode we're joined again by Amy Salley, cohost of the Hugo, Girl! podcast, to help us discuss the Murderbot series of books by Martha Wells.  We discuss our favorite characters and plots, but also how these boo...

The History of NGINX

February 20, 2026 6:00am 57 min

This episode we look into the history of the web server NGINX and of web servers more generally.  We play myth buster and try to investigate the widespread story that NGINX arose from a need to scale porn sites.Igor Syso...

Recreational Programming

February 06, 2026 5:00am 1:00

Does anyone program just for fun anymore?  This episode we're talking about recreational programming, with a focus on A.K. Dewdney's Computer Recreations column from the 1980s.  Also, taco shops.https://cs.stanford.edu/~...

Functional Programming: Are We There Yet?

January 23, 2026 6:00am 52 min

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Scheme, we decided to talk about functional programming: what it is, how's it going these days, and does it still matter in the era of AI.  Although there's been 70 years of research ...

The Infinite Drive: S3 and Cloud Object Storage

January 09, 2026 6:00am 1:04

For our first episode of 2026 (and Season 4), we're talking about Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3).  S3 is probably the biggest cloud service, or at least we think it is, because it is super freakin' huge.  We talk a...

Salesforce and Low-Code with Kyle Willcox

December 10, 2025 7:00pm 1:11

In this episode we discuss working in the Salesforce environment, and low-code platforms generally, with software engineer Kyle Willcox.  Kyle's dev journey from a CS degree at UNC Wilmington to Salesforce dev to web app...

Tech News Roundup: Fighting Robots with Poetry

November 26, 2025 6:00pm 1:04

For the holiday we're doing another news roundup, although it's mostly about data centers and AI to be honest.  Inside the Data Centers...Korean Data CenterOracle Data Center DebtCloudflare OutageRust Adoption Drives And...

Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs): How To Survive the Zombie Apocalypse

November 12, 2025 6:00pm 56 min

Erik became fascinated with CRDTs while working on a project, so we're talking about how they work, how they simplify some distributed systems, and how they might protect you from zombies.Conflict-Free Replicated Data Ty...

The Turing Test

October 29, 2025 5:00am 58 min

This episode is about the Turing Test, and Alan Turing's original description of the test in Computing Machinery and Intelligence.  We also discuss a recent work by two UCSD researchers that claims that current LLMs pass...

Ubiquitous Computing

October 15, 2025 6:00am 1:00

In 1988 Mark Weiser of Xerox PARC coined the term "ubiquitous computing", and in 1991 he spelled out the particulars of this concept in a Scientific American article called "The Computer for the 21st Century".  We discus...

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