Tech, Bugs & Rock & Roll

Tech, Bugs & Rock & Roll

By Dylan Beattie and Mark RendleTechnology
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Tech, Bugs & Rock & Roll episodes

  • 1.15 The Music Geek-Out

    A pre-recorded episode because Dylan & Mark are both away this Thursday. We talk about the music we remember from our (very different) formative years, and pick our favourite albums from each decade we've been alive. Mark cheats.

    1 hr 27 min
  • 1.14 Have We Reached Peak Delve?

    Mark's Framework Laptop 16 is finally mostly working, Dylan's been in Copenhagen reviewing conference abstracts, and everybody else is delving into dynamic landscape... or are they?

    1 hr 1 min
  • 1.13 Mark's Solved the Fermi Paradox

    This week Mark's solved the Fermi paradox, Dylan's built a teleprompter in JavaScript (twice!), somebody (not us) nearly backdoored every Linux system on the planet, and we just found out laser pointers are illegal in Switzerland.

    1 hr 2 min
  • 1.12 We Have a Theme Song!

    We said when we got to 100 subscribers we'd have a theme song... well, here it is. Plus we're talking about the Redis license change, Microsoft's new Garnet project, green clouds, racing spreadsheets, and Bad Software Stockholm Syndrome.

    1 hr 4 min
  • 1.11 npm install space-chimps

    Mark's been watching the rocket people launch new rockets, Dylan's been reading about rocket people launching old rockets, and we're talking about the npm ecosystem, building VS Code extensions, and what Disney movies have to do with Iain M. Banks.

    (Dylan's house fell off the internet during recording and I implied that I would edit the audio before publishing. I did not edit the audio - M)

    (I was going to put a picture of a space chimp on the video thumbnail but then I thought somebody might try to buy it for $25,000, so I didn't - D)

    1 hr 1 min
  • A Billion Rows of Code Colf

    Dylan's been watching people play code golf with Rockstar, and pushing the key on his keyboard that tells him Cortana doesn't exist any more, Mark's been processing a billion rows of data and running FretBadger from a Raspberry Pi in his house, and Google Gemini won't show C++ code to people under 18 because apparently pointer arithmetic isn't safe for kids. What a time to be alive, eh?

    1 hr 12 min
  • Good and Evil

    Mark & Dylan talk about online advertising (evil), in-ear monitors (good), Beauty in Code in Malmö (good), NCrunch version 5 and JetBrains Rider (great), and Apple deciding they're not going to kill progressive web apps after all, maybe (still a bit evil though).

    1 hr 14 min
  • Leap Day

    It's Leap Day! Mark & Dylan talk about leap years, Dylan's proposal for a new calendar system, why you shouldn't use AI to design your Willy Wonka experience, a tool for making your code look terrible, Mark's ongoing adventures with the Framework 16 Laptop, and more.

    1 hr 11 min
  • Building, Hard and Soft

    This week, Mark's been building the Framework 16 laptop, and Dylan's been building Entity Framework Core from source. Neither of them has had much success, but only one of them is now afraid of screwdrivers.

    1 hr 8 min
  • We are old and software is fat

    Dylan and Mark talk about the good old days where programs were so small you typed them in every time you needed them, and go off on tangents four or five levels deep. Again.

    1 hr 5 min

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Software engineers and international tech speakers, Dylan Beattie and Mark Rendle, talk about what's been happening in their worlds.