In this episode, Patrick and Jason cover Agentic Coding!

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Hey all! This is our annual holiday show!

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)?

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.

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

Hey all! I was able to send out all the domestic Christmas gifts (email me if you haven't gotten yours!) but we could not ship them Internationally.

What is a thread/process? How can you speed up a program that requires a lot of compute resources?

Sunday is a non-traditional day for a new episode and this is definitely a non-traditional episode! Today we are talking about Technical Arguments.

James Morse: Software Engineer at Cisco System Administrator to DevOps Difference between DevOps and MLOps Getting Started with DevOps Luke Marsden: CEO of Helix ML How to start a business at 15 years old BTRFS vs ZFS MLOps: the intersection of software, DevOps and AI Fine-tuning AI on the Cloud Some advice for folks interested in ML Ops Yuval Fernbach: CTO MLOps & JFrog Starting Qwak Going from a jupyter notebook to production ML Supply Chain Getting started in Machine Learning Stephen Chin: VP of DevRel at Neo4J Developer Relations: The Job What is a Large Language Model? Knowledge graphs and the Linkage Model How to Use Graph databases in Enterprise How to get into ML Ops.

Web services are for much more than building websites: they are one of the most common techniques for passing information among programs. Creating a web API for your program is a great way to access it from a browser, another program, or a mobile app.

Julia may be the most requested language we have ever received on the show, so Patrick and I took some time of the past few weeks to get familiar with Julia and share our findings. Overall, it's a really slick language that has data and process parallelism built into the language, so it will run on many threads or even many machines without having to design a communication system by hand.

Writing documentation is an art and there aren't many cut-and-dry rules that will guarantee the right documentation quality. In this episode Patrick and I chat about our lessons learned and also cover a bunch of ways to document and write self-documenting code.

Ever want to build your own robot? We explain how to do this using Arduino!

Today we discuss Cryptocurrency and Smart Contracts with Amy Wan, CEO of Sagewise. Amy has a legal background and combines this with expertise in cryptocurrency, blockchain, ICOs, and smart contracts.

How can you use all of the computers in your lab/office at the same time to speed up tasks? Today we talk with Dori Exterman, CTO of Incredibuild, about parallel computing and the awesome tool Incredibuild has created that can run any multi-process program on several machines.

How can you maintain a separate version of your app/site in all langauges and locales? How do you handle right-to-left text, various currencies, and a bunch of languages with non-ascii characters?

Today, we are going to talk about... office space! Not the hilarious 1999 movie directed by Mike Judge, but modern office spaces for engineers and developers.

Did you know that there was a programming language co-invented by a consortium of government offices and top businesses (at the time)? Today we talk about that language: COBOL, and also discuss the mainframe computers of that era that ran COBOL.

Today we chat with Mark Engelberg about his background in software engineering and game design.

Patrick and Jason discuss how to write a strong technical resume that gets attention without becoming bloated or misleading. They cover what to include, what to avoid, how automated screening changes resume writing, and how career choices shape the resume you build over time.

Patrick and Jason chat with John Sonmez about the soft skills that matter most in a software career, including communication, self-motivation, learning effectively, and negotiation. The episode focuses on the non-technical habits that can have an outsized impact on long-term growth.

Today we explain how cryptocurrency works and why it is possible to buy and sell electonic currency.

In this episode we explain how code reviews work and why they are so important.

In this episode we interview Josh and Adam from Kobiton. They describe the challenges with releasing a mobile app for many platforms, and how Kobiton allows one to test their app on many devices in the cloud.

In this episode we explain how data is encrypted and decrypted, and how you can use encryption in the things you build.

In this episode we interview Spencer Gibb and Mark Heckler from Pivotal, the company behind Spring Framework: a set of powerful enterprise Java libraries and services.

On this show we discuss PHP and Hack, an language that extends PHP.

On this show we discuss Clojure and ClojureScript, and all the amazing things you can build with them.

How to build great mobile apps with Javascript.

How to distribute software so it works on other people's computers.

Patrick and Jason explain DevOps and how it relates to site reliability, build systems, testing infrastructure, and release processes. They cover infrastructure as code, CI/CD, deployment strategies, operational metrics, and the kinds of failures good DevOps practices are meant to prevent.

This show is an interview with Daniel Moore about scaling web sites.

This show covers software optimization (how to make software run faster).

This show is an intro to robotics. Blog post: https://www.programmingthrowdown.com/episodes/56-robotics.

This show covers many different editors. Blog post: https://www.programmingthrowdown.com/episodes/55-editor-wars.

On this episode we invite Mark Harris, Chief Technologist at NVIDIA, to talk about programming for the GPU.

On this episode we invite Mikeal Rogers, Community Manager at the Node.JS Foundation, to talk about open source communities and organizing large open source projects.

This show covers Scientific Python: A platform for data analysis, visualization, and reporting built on top of python. Book of the Show Jason: Masterminds of Programming Patrick: Redshirts.

This show covers Online/Continuing education. We ask the experts: How can more people get jobs in programming?

This show celebrates 50 episodes of Programming Throwdown! We answer questions from the audience live on livecoding.tv .

This show covers Tamper Protection: How hackers are able to tamper with compiled programs and the programs that prevent tampering.

Patrick and Jason discuss unit testing, regression testing, and system testing, with a focus on when mocking actually helps. They explain mocks versus fakes, testing tradeoffs, and the practical role of testing libraries across several major languages.

This show covers Source Control: Various tools that keep history of your code and enable code collaboration. Book of the Show Jason: Kobolds Ate My Baby Patrick: Firefight.

This show covers Ruby: a multipurpose interpreted language for rapid development. Book of the Show Jason: Paranoia RPG Player’s Handbook Patrick: Lock In.

This show covers R: a language suitable for data mining and machine learning. Book of the Show Jason: The hard thing about hard things http://amzn.to/1UqMjDD Patrick: Steel World http://amzn.to/1JMcsa5.