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Picture Me Coding is a music podcast about software. Each week your hosts Erik Aker and Mike Mull take on topics in the software world and they are sometimes joined by guests from other fields who arrive with their own burning questions about technology.
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Salesforce and Low-Code with Kyle Willcox
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Dec 11, 2025 |
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Tech News Roundup: Fighting Robots with Poetry
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Nov 27, 2025 |
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Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs): How To Survive the Zombie Apocalypse
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Nov 13, 2025 |
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The Turing Test
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Oct 29, 2025 |
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Ubiquitous Computing
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Oct 15, 2025 |
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The Two Problems With Regular Expressions
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Oct 01, 2025 |
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The History of Unix, Part 2: Unix not Eunuchs
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Sep 17, 2025 |
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The History of Unix: Part 1
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Sep 04, 2025 |
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Space, Time, and Squishy Pebbles
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Aug 20, 2025 |
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Databases Part II: No SQL, No Problem
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Aug 08, 2025 |
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Vibe Coding: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
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Jul 24, 2025 |
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Friends and Relations
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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Shoulders of Giants: Jim Gray
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Jun 25, 2025 |
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Language, Meaning, and Functional Programming with Matt Teichman
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Jun 11, 2025 |
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UX Wing Fighters
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May 21, 2025 |
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Our Flag Means Local-First
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May 14, 2025 |
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Interpreting the Newses
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May 07, 2025 |
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Predicting the Future: Law, Software, and Attorneys Using AI
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Apr 30, 2025 |
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Sailing to Byzantium
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Apr 23, 2025 |
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Programming for Fun with David Beazley
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Apr 09, 2025 |
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Leslie Lamport and the Free Software Movement
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Mar 26, 2025 |
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Mike and Erik Go to Pasadena!
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Mar 19, 2025 |
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Simulating Distributed Systems with David Morrison
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Mar 12, 2025 |
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Point Break and the Spirit of Devops
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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"Where are all the elders?"
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Feb 26, 2025 |
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Origin Story: Part 1 - Mike Fails at Being a Chemist
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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The Failure Modes of Agile with Dr Junade Ali
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Feb 12, 2025 |
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Do Programmers Need to Know Anything About Computers?
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Feb 05, 2025 |
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The Story of the CAP Theorem Part 2
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Jan 29, 2025 |
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The Story of the CAP Theorem Part 1
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Jan 22, 2025 |
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Gleaming the Lambda Cube with Nathan Mull
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Jan 15, 2025 |
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Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Frances Allen and Compiler Optimizations
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Jan 08, 2025 |
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We Read the News and Everyone’s On Drugs
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Dec 18, 2024 |
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More Favorites: Radix Trees, Kadane's, Raft Leader Election
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Dec 11, 2024 |
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Our Favorite Algorithms: FFTs and Hyperloglogs!
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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Annoying Everybody with Our Questions about Timezones
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Nov 27, 2024 |
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Into the Well of Formal Verifications
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Nov 20, 2024 |
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"Some of the most valuable people I work with are really just politicians"
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Nov 13, 2024 |
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Software Engineering Management with Randy Edwards
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Nov 06, 2024 |
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Mike and Erik Vie for the Nobel Prize in Literature
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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Nostalgia for the 90s Internet
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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Origin Story: How Erik Became a Programmer
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Oct 09, 2024 |
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620 Million Years Ago the Workday Was Only 6 Hours Long
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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Software In Pop Culture with Amy Salley
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Sep 18, 2024 |
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The Agony and the Ecstasy of Excel
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Sep 11, 2024 |
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The Best I Ever Saw
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Aug 28, 2024 |
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The Value of Software with Irina Telyukova
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Aug 21, 2024 |
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Software News Roundup (with No AI news! (sorta))
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Aug 14, 2024 |
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Agile Trashers Part 2: the Trashening
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Aug 07, 2024 |
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Agile Trashers Part 1: a pre-history
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Jul 31, 2024 |
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The Nine Fallacies of Distributed Computing
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Jul 17, 2024 |
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Hidden Vibrations of the Universe: Compositionality
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Jul 10, 2024 |
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The Burnouts of the Century
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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Monoliths vs Microservices
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Jun 19, 2024 |
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The End of the Fullstack Developer Era
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Jun 12, 2024 |
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Why Rust?
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May 30, 2024 |
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Dijkstra's Diss Track
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Edsger Dijkstra
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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The XZ Apocalypse
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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AI Code Generators: Are We Going to Be Out of Work Someday?!
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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The Ethical Engineer
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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Season 2 Bonus Episode: The Way of the Naturalist
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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Becoming an Engineer: the “Build or Buy” Question
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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What the Hell is Edge Computing?
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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Let's Talk Technical Books!
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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Complexity Part 2: Out of the Tar Pit
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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The Three Faces of Complexity
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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A Short History of Deploying Software
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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It's Gonna Take a Lot of Fireworks to Clean This Place Up
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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The Charlie Brown Property of Software: Something Bad Will Eventually Happen
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Dec 27, 2023 |
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How To Swim with Sharks: An Interview with Chris Staszak
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Liskov
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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Cyber Crimes in the Early Days of Cloud Computing
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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Is a Hot Dog a Sandwich? An Entire Episode about Language Philosophy
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Nov 29, 2023 |
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Kubernetes CPU Limits Got You Down? Come on down to our complaint clinic and we'll get you sorted out!
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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Disconnect from the Internet: the Morris Worm Is Out of Control! (A True Crime story!)
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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Get in Loser, We’re Going High Frequency Trading
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Lamport
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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Things We've Changed Our Minds About
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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How Government Is Like Building Software Applications: An Interview with Frank Holland, a political and governmental affairs strategist.
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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Are Second Systems Inevitable
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Oct 04, 2023 |
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Ideas We Found in the Bog
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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Why Does Some Tech Get Popular?
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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Quotes tennis
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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Vibes Driven Development
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Aug 28, 2023 |
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How Not to Hire Software Engineers
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Aug 21, 2023 |
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Can Software Be Built On An Assembly Line?
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Aug 14, 2023 |
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The Open Source Software Renaissance Is Going to End Someday
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Aug 01, 2023 |
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And Gravity Drowned Too: the software skeptics take on chatGPT
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Jul 24, 2023 |