Programming Throwdown

In this holiday episode, Jason and Patrick answer questions from listeners. They also look back at the past year’s challenges and victories.00:15:35 (Kevin)What's been the biggest thing that pushed you to learn more during your career?Was it taking a new job and moving somewhere, doing stuff in your spare time or something like a new hobby or anything else?00:29:38 (Kevin)Favorite city to live in or visit?00:31:29 First Winner (James B.)00:32:21 (Clever Clover/James)Next biggest tech prediction.00:36:28 (Paul) If we could standardize all the code there is out there to one particular language, which language would it be and why would it be Python?00:40:40 Second Winner (Collin G.)00:41:21 (Necrous)If you could redo your career and education path, what would you change?00:47:12 Third Winner (Matt I.)00:47:48 (MQNC)What is the dirtiest hackiest anti-pattern piece of code you ever wrote in full consciousness and even maybe enjoying the thrill and why was it the way to go?00:54:36 (Leedle)Thoughts on server side r

How do you stay focused when working on large projects that span many months?  In this duo episode, we talk about Project Planning techniques and trends!  We also cover solving personal data storage problems and building CNC machines & printers. 00:00:15 Introduction00:01:33 UML00:05:22 Home NAS and other personal storage solutions00:18:09 Homebrew CNC machine00:29:37 Raft (Consensus Algorithm)00:36:54 The Mathematics of 204800:45:44 Book of the Show 00:45:57 Manager Tools  00:49:10 Make Magazine 00:57:50 Tool of the Show 00:57:51 Workflowy 00:59:10 GitHub Desktop 01:01:00 Project Planning01:22:11 FarewellsResources mentioned in this episode:Tools: Workflowy: https://workflowy.com/b/ Github Desktop: https://desktop.github.com/ Companies: Manager Tools: https://www.manager-tools.com/ Make Magazine: https://makezine.com/ Other references:  QT Designer: https://www.qt.io/ Shapeoko: https://carbide3d.com/shapeoko/ Curves and Surfaces by Bartosz Ciechanowski: https://ciechanow.ski/curves-and-surfaces/ I

When you ask Alexa or Google a question and it responds, how does that actually work?  Could we have  more in-depth conversations and what would that look like?  Today we dive into conversational AI with Joe Bradley and answer these questions and many more.Thanks for supporting the show!00:00:15 Introduction00:01:24 Introducing Joe Bradley00:04:44 How Joe got into Conversation AI00:21:35 Zork and WordNet00:27:48 Automatic Image Detection/Captioning00:39:31 MuZero00:45:27 Codex00:50:15 GPT and businesses00:55:16 Artificial General Intelligence01:00:05 What is LivePerson01:16:30 Working at LivePerson01:21:18 Job opportunities in LivePerson01:27:04 How to reach Joe01:32:40 FarewellsResources mentioned in this episode:Companies: LivePerson: liveperson.com PyTorch: pytorch.org TensorFlow: tensorflow.com ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

What is "The Edge"?  The answer is that it means different things to different people, but it always involves lifting logic, data, and processing load off of your backend servers and onto other machines.  Sometimes those machines are spread out over many small datacenters, or sometimes they are in the hands of your customers.  In all cases, computing on the edge is a different paradigm that requires new ways of thinking about coding.  We're super lucky to have Jaxon on the show to share his experiences with edge computing and dive into this topic!!00:00:23 Introduction00:01:15 Introducing Jaxon Repp00:01:42 What is HarperDB?00:08:10 Edge Computing00:10:06 What is the “Edge”00:14:58 Jaxon’s history with Edge Computing and HarperDB00:22:35 Edge Computing in everyday life00:26:12 Tesla AI and data00:28:09 Edge Computing in the oil industry00:35:23 Docker containers00:42:33 Databases00:48:29 Data Conflicts00:55:43 HarperDB for personal use01:00:00 MeteorJS01:02:29 Netflix, as an example01:06:19 The speed of edge

00:00:24 Introduction00:02:19 Edo's Background00:08:20 What are Embeddings?00:14:00 Self-Organizing Maps & how humans store data00:22:27 The lifecycle of a machine learning system00:34:40 The weirdness of high-dimensional spaces00:42:20 How to manage a vector database00:47:01 Pinecone the company★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

We are sponsored by audible! http://www.audibletrial.com/programmingthrowdownWe are on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/programmingthrowdownT-Shirts! http://www.cafepress.com/programmingthrowdown/13590693Join us on Discord! https://discord.gg/r4V2zpCThe Art of VacationsTaking a good vacation is as important as getting a good night's sleep (*very important*).  It may sound silly on its face, but planning a vacation and planning around your vacation is extremely important to ensure that you are in the right headspace the rest of the year.  This is especially true in the COVID era where many of us are working from home.  In this episode, we dive into why vacations are so important, how to plan a relaxing vacation, and how to make sure that your team is supported while you are out.Intro topic: Virgin Galactic and Virgin Orbit and Blue OriginNews/Links: TextStyleBrush: Transfer of Text Aesthetics from a Single Examplehttps://deepai.org/publication/textstylebrush-transfer-of-text-aesthetics-from-a-single-example B

You’ve seen the dancing Boston Dynamics dogs, Honda’s ASIMO greeting people at malls, and the half-court-shooting robot at the Olympics, among other awe-inspiring robot stories that nowadays are getting increasingly more common. But equally fascinating, especially for us programmers, is the amount of programming and structure needed to make sure these robots work as intended. In this episode, we talk with Abhay Venkatesh, Software Engineer at Anduril Industries, about Platforms for Robotics (PFRs), and the intricacies happening inside these mechanical wonders.This episode touches on the following key topics and ideas:00:00:24 Introduction00:01:10 Introducing Abhay Venkatesh00:03:00 What robotics is as a field or practice00:07:18 Platform for Robotics (PFRs)00:10:07 OODA loop00:12:27 What makes up a Platform for Robotics?00:14:17 Raspberry Pi 00:15:30 Nvidia Tegra00:17:17 Edge computing00:19:29 Telemetry00:22:06 Ad: SignalWire, a next-gen video collaboration platform00:23:30 Real-time constraints and safety ch

Brief Summary:Authentication has become a necessity in a digital world that’s ever-increasing in complexity. What can you do to arm yourself against the constant threat of data breaches and hacks? In this episode Jason sits down with Aviad Mizrachi, CTO and Co-Founder of Frontegg, to give us valuable insight into how Authentication works, and how these help you become more defensible against attacks.This episode touches on the following key topics and ideas:00:00:24 Introduction00:01:10 Introducing Aviad Mizrachi00:04:36 The login00:06:32 The many intricacies of Authentication00:10:25 How are passwords sent to servers?00:11:26 Query param00:16:59 Multi-factor authorization (MFA)00:20:11 Time-based One-Time Password (TOTP)00:28:05 Single Sign-on (SSO) Cross-site scripting00:33:38 Ad: SignalWire, a next-gen video collaboration platform00:35:03 Session tokens00:36:36 Cross-site scripting (XSS)00:39:24 JSON web tokens (JWTs)00:41:24 Difference between session token and refresh token00:49:33 More about Frontegg, A

In this duo episode, Jason and Patrick introduce us to the world of hash maps, from buckets and hash functions, to differences between open and closed addressing, to minimal perfect hashes and locality sensitive hashing. A familiarity with hash maps is an oft-overlooked but highly sought-after skill, and it can be a valuable asset for those eyeing a career in programming.Along with the main topic, Jason and Patrick also talk about some of their latest interests: books, gadgets, tools and games.This episode touches on the following key topics and ideas:00:01:27 Playing games with Oculus Quest: Acron, Racket: Nx, Gorn, Superhot 00:11:05 News: “I Made a Water Computer” by Steve Mould00:14:56 colinfurze00:15:52 News: Comprehensive guide to Attention Mechanisms00:21:53 News: Starship SN1500:25:18 News: MailSync now Open source (GPL)00:28:34 Jason’s Book of the Show: Elon Musk00:32:04 Patrick’s Book of the Show: Ready Player Two00:33:40 Jason’s Tool of the Show: Datadog00:38:44 Patrick’s Tool of the Show: I Expect

Ever wondered how route planning apps, well, plan routes? In this episode, we navigate through this fascinating topic, a field as data-driven and systemic as it is magical and compelling. Joining us is Parker Woodward, Route Expert and Marketing Director for Route4Me. We discuss how route planning works, the intricacies behind it, and how services like Route4Me perform complex balancing acts between machine learning and user-generated feedback.This episode touches on the following key topics and ideas:00:00:23 Introducing Parker00:01:54 Becoming a Route Expert00:04:22 Getting started through smaller startups00:12:41 Leveraging technology for the greater good00:14:36 The magic of route planning00:23:30 Homomorphism and satisfiability00:31:18 Geocoding00:33:06 User-generated feedback00:37:08 Importance of statistics knowledge00:39:34 The degree of automation in route planning00:42:54 Inverse decision-making00:48:47 Operations Research00:53:42 Dwarf Fortress00:56:40 US vs European routes00:57:51 What Route4Me do

What makes for good documentation? In this episode, we dive into one of the most important yet overlooked facets of coding. With us are Omer Rosenbaum and Tim Post of Swimm.io. Swimm is an app that allows you to create docs coupled with your code, which are auto-synced and integrated into your workflow. It makes for much more efficient, elegant, and accessible documentation. Omer is the CTO of Swimm, and Tim is Principal Development Relations and User Advocate. They are the experts who will guide us through good code documentation practices and tools, as well as share some fascinating real-life examples and stories.This episode touches on the following key topics and ideas:00:01:20 Introducing Omer and Tim00:03:28 Omer: learning tech while in the military00:06:36 Israel Tech Challenge00:08:32 Impostor Syndrome00:12:15 Tim: the consulting career route00:18:15 Stack Overflow elected moderator00:20:59 ZFS and Btrfs 00:22:49 What is good code documentation?00:34:48 Documentation and remote work00:36:99 Good pract

In this episode, we’re excited to have Meredydd Luff, the founder of Anvil. Anvil is a powerful tool that allows you to build full stack web apps with just Python. Without the need to be fluent in Javascript or other languages, Anvil is easy enough for beginners, but robust enough for professional work. We talk to Meredydd about Anvil and its features, as well as delve into the importance of making programming more accessible to more people.This episode touches on the following key topics and ideas:00:00:17 Jason introduces Meredydd and Anvil 00:01:06 What is Anvil?00:09:27 Web hydration00:11:00 Jupyter Notebook00:12:49 The Uplink00:14:02 GraphQL00:23:06 How Anvil works00:24:19 Skulpt00:28:09 Brython00:29:04 Pyodide00:32:46 Javascript daisy chaining00:37:11 GRPC and protocol buffers 00:39:03 “Anvil is an abstraction.”00:40:09 Escape hatches00:43:10 Anvil and Webpack00:44:35 “Learn Python and build a website.”00:45:02 Accessibility00:47:16 Meredydd’s personal background, and Anvil’s beginnings00:52:56 Putting

In another duo episode, Jason and Patrick give an in-depth introduction to trees, their many types, approaches and functions, and their importance in modern programming. Also, peppered throughout the episode are the games, books, tools, and ideas that have currently piqued their interest.This episode touches on the following key topics and ideas:00:00:17 Avoiding drama at work00:07:10 News: C++20 (7:10)00:09:37 News: Play Co-op Diablo II in the browser00:12:58 Wreckfest00:15:07 Kaboom00:17:45 The future of remote work00:24:46 Jason’s Book of the Show: Debt: The First 5000 Years00:27:08 fractional-reserve banking00:31:30 DeFi, distributed finance00:33:08 Patrick’s Book of the Show: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, the Illustrated Edition00:35:49 (Ad) Audible00:37:05 Jason’s Tool of the Show: Vagrant00:41:04 Patrick’s Tool of the Show: Zach Gage Games00:45:03 (Ad) ConfigCat00:46:03 feature flags00:47:03 Trees: why are they important? 00:49:43 The divide and conquer approach00:51:34 The agglometric approac

In this episode, we talk with Frank McSherry, Gödel Prize-winning data scientist, and Co-founder and Chief Scientist at Materialize, Inc. Frank shares expert viewpoints drawn from his years as an academic, as well as personal insights on helping run a company at the cutting edge of real-time data streaming.Show Notes: https://www.programmingthrowdown.com/2021/05/episode-111-real-time-data-streaming.html ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Programming Throwdown talks cybersecurity with Dotan Nahum, CEO and Co-founder of Spectral. Dotan provides us with a high-level overview of the role of cybersecurity, its definition, evolution, and current challenges. He also shares tips for small- and medium-sized ventures on how to develop best practices.The episode touches on the following key topics and ideas:00:01:12 Evolution of modern cybersecurity 00:06:06 When to integrate security in a design00:11:54 Shadow IT00:13:50 Hacker motives and motivations; SQL Injection explained00:16:48 Firewalls and WAFs00:20:29 Cybersecurity for small- and medium-sized companies 00:23:52 “The last mile of developers”00:26:47 dotfiles00:32:23 Simple tools and good practices00:40:42 Attack vectors, attack factors00:44:16 Ransomware and phishing00:48:19 Unsafe languages00:50:02 Fuzzing00:54:11 Rust programming language00:55:54 Example security scenario with IntelliJ00:59:42 More about Spectral, Dotan’s company01:03:40 Staying virtual using DiscordTranscript:Episode 110 Com

We chat with Kevin Urrutia about why marketing is so important to any project, how digital marketing is different than traditional marketing, and what tools we can use to market our ideas.  Thanks for listening!Show notes: https://www.programmingthrowdown.com/2021/03/episode-109-digital-marketing-with.html★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

We’re having a duo episode for this month! Patrick and I discuss the relevance of Kotlin, a JVM language used for web backends and android development, and why you should look into it. Also we are testing out adding transcripts to the show notes. Let us know what you think! Show notes: https://www.programmingthrowdown.com/2021/03/episode-108-kotlin.html★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Happy Holidays! In this show we make predictions about 2021 and take questions from YOU, our loyal fans! Show notes: https://www.programmingthrowdown.com/2021/01/episode-107-holiday-episode-2020.html★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

This month we are speaking with Connel Gauld from Zappar about Augmented Reality. Connel is an AR genius and blows our mind with details on how AR works under the hood and how it's easy for anyone to make AR apps and websites. AR is the next great platform, so it's good to get in early. Give it a listen and tell us what you built! Show notes: https://www.programmingthrowdown.com/2020/11/episode-106-augmented-reality-with.html Teamistry: https://link.chtbl.com/teamistry?sid=podcast.throwdown★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

The September episode did arrive.... somewhat delayed, but it's worth the wait!! We have NEW INTRO MUSIC by amazing recording artist Eric Barndollar. We have a NEW PODCAST DEPLOYMENT SCRIPT which means the podcast timestamp will be correct and people won't have to hunt for our latest episodes. Last but not least, we have an AMAZING EPISODE where we interview Peter Voss, founder and CEO of aigo.ai and inventor of the term "Artificial General Intelligence", to discuss chatbots and general AI. Geeking out about AI may be my favorite thing to do on Earth, so I can't put in words how incredibly excited I am to share this episode with everyone. Show notes: https://www.programmingthrowdown.com/2020/10/episode-105-chatbot-with-brain-with.html Teamistry: https://link.chtbl.com/teamistry?sid=podcast.throwdown★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★