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Oct 03, 2026 — What is Information Theory? Information is not meaningLikely things need very few bits to communicate, maybe less than 1! Unlikely things need more bits.Entropy is in the eye of the beholder. It’s what you already know that informs your ability to...

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Sep 19, 2026 — Jim walks through the classic 2038 problem — Unix's 32-bit signed timestamp (seconds since Jan 1, 1970) overflows on January 19, 2038, flipping negative and breaking anything that depends on file/time comparisons (e.g., Make). He compares it to Y2K,...

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Sep 05, 2026 — It sounds like a productivity episode. It isn't. Everything changes, all the time; what you know is perishable, and so is what you've built. The scarce resource isn't time — everyone gets the same clock — it's attention, and where it lands. So how do...

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Aug 22, 2026 — Jim leads a deep dive into HTTP — how it works, why it's still the backbone of the internet, and what's changed since Tim Berners-Lee built it at CERN in 1991. Wolf and Jim cover the protocol from request methods to modern performance upgrades, with...

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Aug 08, 2026 — Wolf is at the "relies on tests" end of the spectrum. Jim is closer to the other end, somewhere around "how do I start?". He doesn’t need convincing. He just needs to get from zero (non-trivial) tests to one. Today’s episode is a candid discussion...

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