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Programming Throwdown

Programming Throwdown

Patrick Wheeler and Jason Gauci

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Frequency: 1 episode/30d. Total Eps: 188

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Programming Throwdown educates Computer Scientists and Software Engineers on a cavalcade of programming and tech topics. Every show will cover a new programming language, so listeners will be able to speak intelligently about any programming language.
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187: Agentic Coding

Episode 187

samedi 2 mai 2026 • Duration 01:38:00

In this episode, Patrick and Jason cover Agentic Coding!

186: Becoming a Manager

Episode 186

mardi 3 février 2026 • Duration 01:27:30

Patrick and Jason discuss what it means to become a manager and how the role differs from individual engineering work. They cover hiring, coaching, performance management, team goals, and when moving into management is or is not the right choice.

177: Vector Databases

Episode 177

lundi 4 novembre 2024 • Duration 01:28:26

Patrick and Jason explain vector databases by starting with embeddings, similarity metrics, and approximate nearest-neighbor search. They discuss how these systems store and query high-dimensional vectors and where tools like pgvector, Weaviate, Pinecone, and Milvus fit.

Image Processing

Episode 88

lundi 1 avril 2019 • Duration 01:15:58

If you use ASCII encoding, the entire Oxford dictionary is about 5 million bytes. A single 4K image contains 25 million bytes.

Typescript

Episode 87

lundi 4 mars 2019 • Duration 01:09:32

While the web is one of the easiest platforms for deploying software, it can also be one of the trickiest to debug. People have many different browsers, and some have plugins or settings that restrict functionality.

Wolfram Language and Mathematica

Episode 86

mardi 15 janvier 2019 • Duration 02:17:05

Happy New Year! Today we are sitting down with Stephen Wolfram, inventor of Mathematica, Wolfram Alpha, and Wolfram Language!

Holiday Party

Episode 85

mercredi 2 janvier 2019 • Duration 58:23

Hey all! This is our annual holiday show!

Customer Bug Handling

Episode 84

mardi 4 décembre 2018 • Duration 01:06:27

Hey all! How do you find and triage bugs on other people's machines when they don't have the source code (or the knowledge to build it)?

Teaching Kids to Code

Episode 83

mardi 13 novembre 2018 • Duration 01:12:54

Patrick and Jason discuss how to teach kids to code by building logic, reasoning, and problem-solving skills at different ages. They share how they learned themselves and offer ideas for getting children excited about the fundamentals behind programming.

Reactive programming and the Actor model

Episode 82

vendredi 28 septembre 2018 • Duration 01:25:43

Hey everyone! This episode is an absolutely fascinating interview with Jonas Bonér, creator of Akka.

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