S1: Holiday 2022 Special

12/26/22 • 72 min

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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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

If you’ve enjoyed this episode, you can listen to more on Programming Throwdown’s website: https://www.programmingthrowdown.com/

Reach out to us via email: [email protected]

You can also follow Programming Throwdown on

Facebook | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Player.FM

Join the discussion on our Discord

Help support Programming Throwdown through our Patreon.

Happy holidays from Programming Throwdown to everyone!

★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Previous Episode

148: Package Management with Max Howell

Package managers are an often-overlooked aspect of any operating system, but their importance is not to be underestimated – especially in today’s development environment. As both creator of Homebrew and CEO of tea.xyz, Max Howell is intimately familiar with the ins and outs of open-source development, software engineering, and balancing passion with practicality. He shares these experiences and more with us in today’s deep dive into the subject!

00:01:00 Introductions

00:01:29 When Max started Tea.XYZ

00:03:51 British plugs

00:08:10 Literally rolling out of bed to work

00:11:49 The value of meetups

00:13:14 Getting into open-source

00:23:00 Mandrake

00:25:02 Turning frustration into action

00:30:47 Deno

00:40:28 OSX’s relationship with Unix

00:55:33 Trying out Ruby

01:01:13 April Fools prank ideas

01:04:13 The cause of sleepless nights with Homebrew

01:14:41 What got Max inspired to do Tea

01:19:53 From startup to company

01:41:55 Farewells

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Links:

Tea.XYZ:
- Website: https://tea.xyz/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/teaxyz_
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tea.xyz/
- Github: https://github.com/teaxyz
- Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/teaxyz
- Discord: https://discord.com/invite/KCZsXfJphn

References:

101 on Package Management:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Package_manager
Deno:
- https://deno.land/

If you’ve enjoyed this episode, you can listen to more on Programming Throwdown’s website: https://www.programmingthrowdown.com/

Reach out to us via email: [email protected]

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★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Next Episode

149: Workflow Engines with Sanjay Siddhanti

At scale, anything we build is going to involve people. Many of us have personal schedules and to-do lists, but how can we scale that to hundreds or even thousands of people? When you file a help ticket at a massive company like Google or Facebook, ever wonder how that ticket is processed? Sanjay Siddhanti, Akasa’s Director of Engineering, is no slouch when it comes to navigating massive workflow engines – and in today’s episode, he shares his experiences in bioinformatics, workflows, and more with us.

00:00:39 Workflow engine definitions

00:01:40 Introductions

00:02:24 Sanjay’s 8th grade programming experience

00:05:28 Bioinformatics

00:10:29 The academics-vs-industry dilemma

00:16:52 Small company challenges

00:18:18 Correctly identifying when to scale

00:24:04 The solution Akasa provides

00:31:38 Workflow engines in detail

00:36:02 ETL frameworks

00:45:06 The intent of integration construction

00:47:13 Delivering a platform vs delivering a solution