Regular Programming: Recent Episodes

Lars Wikman, Andreas Ekeroot

Conversations about programming. By Andreas Ekeroot and Lars Wikman, funded by Underjord.io.

Performance: we wish the incentives were there to focus on it more often.

Lars would like more opportunities and incentives to focus on making things fast, rather than just making them not slow. Unfortunately, things tend to line up so that fast enough and more features are in focus. Plus, performance and optimization can be very context sensitive and age out without anyone really noticing.

Also pondered: IRC, Gentoo, and the eldritch horrors buried within the x86 architecture.

Links

Quotes

Given up on old man Elixir
Gotta go fast
I never really needed it
Grep, naively
All the problems at the same time
Travelling knapsack problem
My ORM-infected brain
Measuring things and muttering under my breath
I have a hobby, I do job interviews
Tools by toolmakers for toolmakers
I'm the IRC guy
Machine-whispering optimization

There are good things in programming, many of which are enumerated in this episode.

Among other nice things: the best features in Elixir. Lars won open source? Bots and realtime-y stuff. Not to mention a type system that screams at you.

Also: Lists in lists, in lists (in lists).

Code made by other people is not one of the things, however. Code made by other people is always upsetting. CSS does not make the list either, but Tailwind does, prompting a discussion of fractally difficult things, leaky abstractions, and progressive enhancement.

Linkable matter

IO-lists - lists in lists in lists with eventually some binary data in them
Id3vx - The now published ID3 library
LiveView
Phoenix
Either in Haskell
Clowns to the Left of me, Jokers to the Right (the paper)
Stealers Wheel - Stuck in The Middle With You
Functors
Elm
Fmap and bind in Haskell
Lars' Telegram bots
Genserver
Moment.js
Autobots and Decepticons
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
Tailwind CSS
Graceful degradation
Progressive enhancement

Better titles

Keeps giving nil
Carefully optimistically happy
A JSON-thingy
You won open source
I have written the code, and it's not my problem
Murdering your garbage collector
A type system that screams at me
The maybes I got over pretty quickly
They never stopped being results
An inherited Erlang footgun
The speaker that was in the monkey
It's not only that I'm a backend developer

The hardware woes episode. But first: the joy and wonder of ID3v2.3.

Implementing the specification of a binary format as a library.

Lars' next laptop. Then Lars' gear situation. Power bricks and cable capabilities are … a labyrinth.

The trials and tribulations of getting and setting up a Steam deck.

Linkable matter
The ID3v2.3 spec
EXIF
Fold left and fold right
Lars' blog post about working with ID3
CRDT
Apple's WWDC keynote
The M2 Macbook air
The Framework laptop
Linux on M-chip computers
Dell's XPS laptops
RJ45
Steam deck
Slackware
PopOS
Reglyph? Reglef? Desktop environment
Aspyre
Frank C-something of Nerves and his bechmark suite
* Sony A7C

If we had titles
Trying to be clever, and doing it poorly
It still reverses the whole thing
Arbitrary comments
The future of mp3:s
The world is less and less file-centric
A USB-C-shape cable

Elon Musk wanting to buy Twitter leads naturally into the topic of cyberdecks and jacking in, which in turn naturally leads one to talk about audio on Linux.

But what is a cyberdeck? How do you build one? And when would you use it?

The sad state of video calls compared to Star Trek - why don't they have to install Teams to hail the Microsoft ship?

Lamenting the sad state of the current crop of dystopic overlords. Who runs Google, really? Amazon might be the most attractive target, just don't take down all our clouds by accident, okay?

Cyberpunk wasn't prepared for crypto, but when other things get bad enough that ceases to be a problem. Let's not papercut ourselves all the way to dystopia.

Linkable material
Elon Musk has or has not yet bought Twitter
Cyberdecks
Jack - the sound library
Shadowrun
Keytar
Pi 400
Pi TFT
Touchbar Lemmings
The Framework laptop
Google glass still exists
FPGA
Obsbot PTZ Camera
Cory Doctorow on the Corecursive podcast
Lightning - the on-top-of-Bitcoin payment system
Podcast index
Mer - the Swedish cordial-type drink

Alternate titles
Jack in
Something vulgar about it
As far as cyberdecks go
The keytar of keyboards
Just hack the Gibson
Rearview mirrors, but cameras
Out cyberdecking
The current crop of dystopic overlords
Web-scale capitalism
Our current psychopaths
* Papercut our way to dystopia

Notes will improve when beatings continue.

Hopefully some day :)

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Show notes may show up again some day. But right now we wouldn't be on it :)

Thanks to the listener who chimed in and wanted our thoughts on microservices. That wasn't what put it on the topic list but I think we still get credit for responding to input right?

We apologize for any discomfort in the audio. We lost the original Ekeroot recording and had to use the backup cloud recording. The people responsible have been sacked.

This episode was a bit delayed, sorry about that. Poor planning on our part :)

Show notes, hopefully some day :)

Show notes TBD, maybe :)

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Some show notes might show up later if you are lucky :)

More notes TBD

We're talking gear and trying to answer the always relevant question of what is needed to program.

Logitech TrackMan Marble FX Trackball

Painstakingly putting together a framework on frameworks. Also name dropping as if there was no tomorrow.

Jonathan Stark speaks about value based pricing, his podcast Ditching Hourly is highly recommended.
Fight Club

Show notes are on vacation time. Hopefully we'll have them expanded eventually :)

Notes will arrive if vacation allows.

All about that base, data base no, trouble.

Painstakingly putting together a framework on frameworks. Also name dropping frameworks and everything under the sun as if there was no tomorrow.

On the benefits and woes of written communication. Code reviews are usually written, so we revisit them again.

rfc2119 Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels
Dunning–Kruger effect

On the benefits and woes of code reviews.

Accelerate by Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humlbe and Gene Kim
Marie Kondo
Flying workstation
CI/CD
Kubernetes
"Nobody expects the spanish inquisition!"
hlint
Credo
clippy
rustfmt
dialyzer
The do-not-eat-all-the-resources-ticket
partial in Python

Sometimes you end up talking about Javascript.