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Episodes (34)
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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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Jul 25, 2026 — Wolf and Jim open with two AI stories from the week. First, the report that an OpenAI model "escaped its sandbox" and went after Hugging Face — a story Wolf finds infuriating precisely because the words don't go together. Reading the actual joint...
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Jul 11, 2026 — High-points on Rust: how it’s different, how it might help you even if you never actually use it on a project, why people care. … And some things Jim and Wolf have (separately) been working on. Links: SQL 'SELECT * (EXCEPT ...)' new functionality...
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Jun 27, 2026 — Jim shares his adventure into running LLMs on his own hardware. For him it's less about saving money and more about privacy — working in healthcare, he can't send patient data to the cloud. App vs. model: Claude Code and Codex are applications, not...
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Jun 13, 2026 — You almost never have exactly the right amount of compute for the job. Either cores are sitting idle while your code runs on one, or you've got more problem than machine. This episode is about the two fundamental tools for closing that gap — and why...
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May 30, 2026 — Jim talks about his struggles to get decent Wi-Fi in all corners of his house. The big issue is all of the numbers and codes and things they use to describe the different Wi-Fi technologies. Hosts: Jim McQuillan can be reached at...
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May 16, 2026 — Don't let the language be the problem — let the problem be the problem.You're not picking a language; you're picking an ecosystem.Boring is a feature.Resume-driven development is real, it's expensive, and everyone has done it at least once.Python is...
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May 02, 2026 — From rsh to certificates: The story of how we learned to log in safely. SSH has been around for a long time, over 30 years in fact. In this episode we talk about what came before and why SSH is such a huge improvement. We talk about choices you can...
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Apr 18, 2026 — You already have an editor. You already love it. Nothing we say is going to change that — and we know it. But your editor shapes how you think about editing, which means there are problems it could solve for you that you've never even thought to have....
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Apr 04, 2026 — If you've been using Linux on the desktop you almost certainly have been using the X Window System. In this episode we dive into what that is, where it came from and what kinds of choices you have. We get into the toolkits like GTK and Qt and talk...
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