Programming Throwdown

Hey all!! Ask and ye shall receive! Someone in the Programming Throwdown discord suggested that we cover terminals and shells, so here we are! Despite sounding simple on the surface, there's decades of complexity around terminal emulators and system shells. Patrick and I unpack this and more in today's episode! Thanks so much for all of your emails and support on Patreon! It's your enthusiasm and financial support that enable us to teach so many people, and we are eternally grateful for your support! Show notes: https://www.programmingthrowdown.com/2019/05/episode-90-terminals-and-shells.html

S1: Holiday 2022 Special

Today we field questions from Programming Throwdown’s listeners about AI, machine learning, and more practical matters as developers in our annual holiday special!

00:00:24 Introductions

00:00:43 Programming Showdown merch

00:02:13 Paul S

00:03:28 Dealing with ergonomics

00:10:39 On AI coding assistant tools

00:16:43 Warren Y

00:20:24 Ben inquires about performance testing

00:27:39 Wild coding story

00:29:37 AI coding’s disruption potential

00:34:20 Jason’s Turing riddle

00:35:50 ChatGPT

00:43:59 Christian B

00:45:13 Collection-of-Letters asks on documentation

00:49:07 Zeh F

00:50:51 Coding books that weren’t that great

00:54:40 James K

00:57:32 Jeremy S wonders about ML

01:00:45 Virtual and live hangouts

01:02:09 A retrospective

01:07:49 Xu L

01:09:22 Showing off the shirts

01:11:31 Farewells

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