A romp through the field of computer programming, grapling with our history and wondering what should come next. A mix of deeply technical talk, philosophy, art, dark lore, and good takes. Hosted by Ivan Reese, Jimmy Miller, and Lu Wilson.
75 episodes transcribedJimmy Miller joins the show as co-host. Together, we embark on a new series of episodes covering the most influential and interesting papers in the hi...
Today's guest is Ella Hoeppner, who first came onto the radar of our community back in the fall when she released a web-based visual Clojure editor ca...
Scott Anderson has spent the better part of a decade working on end-user programming features for VR and the metaverse. He's worked on playful creatio...
The name Replit will be familiar to regular listeners of our show. The backstory and ambitions behind the project, however, I bet will be news to you....
In this episode, I'll be talking to Toby Schachman, who many of you are surely familiar with thanks to an incredible string of projects he's released...
Mary Rose Cook is a programmer with.. just.. so many side projects, oh my — and, she works at Airtable. Mary created Gitlet, a version of Git in...
Ravi Chugh is a (recently-tenured 🎉) prof at the University of Chicago. He’s famous for leading the Sketch-n-Sketch project, an output-directed...
"Metaphors are important here." There's a small handful of people that I've been requested again and again to interview on the Future of Coding podcas...
Miller Puckette created "The Patcher" Max (the precursor to Max/MSP), and later Pure Data, two of the most important tools in the history of visual pr...
This was originally meant to be a little mini-episode halfway through March, with the next full episode coming at the start of April. Would you believ...
Orca is a visual programming environment for making music. Except it's not graphical, it's just text arranged in a grid. Except it doesn't actually ma...
We live in a world that is gradually becoming more closed off, more controlled, more regional. Our relationship with technology is now primarily one o...
Last Monday, Ellen Chisa and Paul Biggar unveiled Dark, a new web-based programming environment for creating backend web services. In these conversati...
"The world's been divided into people who can make software, and the people who use software all day, and basically we think that that paradigm is not...
Ivan Reese guest hosts. I've been intimidated by Jack Rusher from the first blush. I mean, he's wearing a high-collared fur coat and black sunglasses...
This episode explores the intersections between various flavors of math and programming, and the ways in which they can be mixed, matched, and combine...
Usually when we think of mathematics and programming languages, we think of tedious, didactic proofs that have nothing to do with our day to day exper...
Hillel Wayne is a technical writer and consultant on a variety of formal methods, including TLA+ and Alloy. In this episode, Hillel gives a whirlwind...
Jonathan Edwards is an independent researcher working on drastically simplifying programming for beginners. He is known for his Subtext seri...
Tudor Girba builds tools and techniques for improving the productivity and happiness of software teams. He currently works on the Glamorous Toolkit, a...
