Picture Me Coding

By Erik Aker and Mike Mull

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