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Matt and Mike, two career developers, discuss their experiences and talk about programming in a (hopefully) not-too-technical way.... more
FAQs about Hacking the Grepson:How many episodes does Hacking the Grepson have?The podcast currently has 108 episodes available.
August 23, 2023Hacking the Grepson 048: P vs NPMatt and Mike dive into a rather heavy problem that has been confounding computer scientists for decades: P vs NP. Find out whether it's peanut-related or not, and what the ramifications of it being either about peanuts or not about peanuts actually are....more36minPlay
August 09, 2023Hacking the Grepson 047: MusicDev - Web Audio APIAnother episode in the MusicDev series is ready for your ears, and this time it's all about the Web Audio API. Want to build interactive web apps that use audio? Then this episode is a high-level overview of how to do that.* Web Audio API (MDN)* Mike's impressive Excalidraw diagram* Nebyoodle* SoundLister* Keebord* AudioHash (still a wip, actually)* GemWarrior...more33minPlay
July 26, 2023Hacking the Grepson 046: The Builder’s TrapMatt and Mike explore the phenomenon known as "The Builder's Trap", wherein builders end up building stuff even when it's not the best solution to a problem.* https://www.patkua.com/blog/the-builders-trap...more46minPlay
July 12, 2023Hacking the Grepson 045: Bad Coding HabitsMatt and Mike discuss a blog post talking about some potentially suboptimal character traits of programmers that one should avoid.* 10 Coding Habits That Make You a Bad Programmer: https://levelup.gitconnected.com/10-coding-habits-that-make-you-a-bad-programmer-96be9b1c2289...more41minPlay
June 28, 2023Hacking the Grepson 044: The XY ProblemMatt and Mike dive into the phenomenon that leads to questions like "How do you get the last 3 characters of a file?", "What is Dykstra's algorithm?", and "Where is the bleach?"....more15minPlay
June 14, 2023Hacking the Grepson 043: Data Types and Structures, Part 2Matt and Mike continue their moderate dive into programming fundamentals by moving on from basic/primitive variable types to complex types, such as Arrays and Structs....more40minPlay
May 31, 2023Hacking the Grepson 042: Data Types and Structures, Part 1Matt and Mike finally get to some fundamentals about programming: variables. In Part 1, we discuss so-called "primitive" types, such as Boolean and String....more26minPlay
May 17, 2023Hacking the Grepson 041: Tech Taxonomy ReduxIt's best not to get too hung up on terminology, especially as it relates to people's skills and job titles. That being said, Matt and Mike decide to ignore this advice and bikeshed the intention of three tech terms for a time....more21minPlay
May 03, 2023Hacking the Grepson 040: MusicDev - IterationAll things come to fruition through process. In programming, as in music, that process can be called iteration. In another installment of the MusicDev series, Matt and Mike go over (and over (and over)) this phenomenon....more34minPlay
April 19, 2023Hacking the Grepson 039: ProgleMatt and Mike discuss a new daily obsession, Progle, which tasks one with identifying programming languages from both their attributes and their actual code.https://progle.net...more18minPlay
FAQs about Hacking the Grepson:How many episodes does Hacking the Grepson have?The podcast currently has 108 episodes available.