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Taking large ideas and breaking them down to Byte sized problems. Each show a tech enthusiast discusses a technical topic in a non-technical way. The show is hosted by two programmers, Mike and Jimmy.

v3.4 Concurrency: Sleeping Barbers 05/25/2020

v3.4 Concurrency: Sleeping Barbers A barber that likes to take naps, and customers who walk down long hallways. What happens when you have 1 resource and a queue of things to do? What issues might happen if you don't account for them? Join us and figure out! /episode/index/show/bytesizedtech/id/14560829

v3.3 Concurrency: Dining Philosophers 05/11/2020

v3.3 Concurrency: Dining Philosophers You have 5 individual chopsticks and 5 philosophers. How do you share your chopsticks? Why do you not get more? This classic computer science problem helps us understand resource sharing between processes, join us as we discuss it! /episode/index/show/bytesizedtech/id/14365277

v3.2 Concurrency: Collisions 04/27/2020

v3.2 Concurrency: Collisions Collisions. They happen all the time. Your WiFi is colliding right now. There are constant back off systems that allow processes to be able to notice that they are "speaking" at the same time as another process and wait until it is their turn. So join us as we discuss how this works! /episode/index/show/bytesizedtech/id/14158247

v3.1 Concurrency: ABA Problem 04/21/2020

v3.1 Concurrency: ABA Problem What is the ABA problem? Does it have to do with ABBA? Why does Homer Simpson not see errors? We talk about Concurrency in this next set of episodes, the act of computing with multiple simultaneous things occuring. /episode/index/show/bytesizedtech/id/14077031

v2.5 IDE: Review and Roundup 04/14/2020

v2.5 IDE: Review and Roundup We discuss all of the previous topics, joke about using Times New Roman in our IDE, and talk about how IDE's are all around helpful to developers. /episode/index/show/bytesizedtech/id/13979480

v2.4 IDE: Debuggers 04/06/2020

v2.4 IDE: Debuggers Do you also print to the console? Do you print after every line in your code? Fear not! The debugger can help with that! It can do everything from stepping through your code to freezing it and allowing you to modify and call things on the fly. /episode/index/show/bytesizedtech/id/13863956

v2.3 IDE: Version Control 03/30/2020

v2.3 IDE: Version Control What is version control? Does it allow you to time travel? Yes, yes it does. /episode/index/show/bytesizedtech/id/13756262

v2.2 IDE: Syntax Highlighting and Auto Formatting 03/23/2020

v2.2 IDE: Syntax Highlighting and Auto Formatting Auto Formatting, the ability to correct human error to make it code look more uniform. Syntax Highlighting, the computer telling you that the word "Sasquash" is spelled wrong. What does your IDE do for you during these times of crisis? /episode/index/show/bytesizedtech/id/13656848

Hotfix: Covid-19 and Folding At Home 03/16/2020

Hotfix: Covid-19 and Folding At Home Distributed computing and protein folding come together to help fight Covid-19. How you can help with this project by using your computer when you aren't using it. /episode/index/show/bytesizedtech/id/13568348

v2.1 IDE: Text Editors 03/09/2020

v2.1 IDE: Text Editors Split screen, find replace, what other features does your text editor have in an IDE (Integrated Development Environment)? What font do you happen to use? Do you auto convert tabs to spaces? /episode/index/show/bytesizedtech/id/13463369

v2.0 IDE: Introduction to Development Tools 03/02/2020

v2.0 IDE: Introduction to Development Tools This group of episodes is dedicated to the IDE! Integrated Development Environments are the things that most programmers interact with on the day to day. What are they? Where did they come from? How does a programmer actually make code? No it doesn't look like the Minority Report, it is just a very powerful text editor! /episode/index/show/bytesizedtech/id/13359008

v1.5 Bugs: Recap and Banter of 1.X 02/24/2020

v1.5 Bugs: Recap and Banter of 1.X Let's discuss more anecdotal evidence about the previous bugs we talked about to wrap up our first set of episodes! We look back at the previous group of episodes and talk about them in more detail as we banter back and forth about being a programmer. /episode/index/show/bytesizedtech/id/13275077

v1.4 Bugs: Facebook and Years of Friendship 02/17/2020

v1.4 Bugs: Facebook and Years of Friendship Have I really been friends longer than I've been alive? Why is the length of my friendship surprisingly similar to the Unix Epoch? Let's figure it out together! /episode/index/show/bytesizedtech/id/13172165

v1.3 Bugs: CIV games and Nukes 02/10/2020

v1.3 Bugs: CIV games and Nukes In the Civilization games, Gandhi is known to turn on a dime from nice to aggressive. Join us in discussing how a binary underflow causes this kind of behavior and how it turned a bug into a feature. /episode/index/show/bytesizedtech/id/13081667

v1.2 Bugs: Y2K and 2038 02/03/2020

v1.2 Bugs: Y2K and 2038 Y2k is a bug that has been plaguing us for years, even today in 2020. Join Jimmy as he tells Mike stories about years and how we store them in computers and how Linux/Unix will fail to work after the year 2038. /episode/index/show/bytesizedtech/id/12988700

v1.1 Bugs: Boeing Required Reboot 01/27/2020

v1.1 Bugs: Boeing Required Reboot The Boeing Dreamliner needed to reboot every 248 days. Why was that? An overflow bug in the form of a signed integer ticking up every 1/100ths of a second. Mike and Jimmy discuss this bug and how it most likely happened. /episode/index/show/bytesizedtech/id/12855140

v1.0 Bugs (Dates and Numbers) Introduction 01/17/2020

v1.0 Bugs (Dates and Numbers) Introduction Mike and Jimmy embark on a voyage exploring bugs related to numbers and dates. In this episode they describe what a bug is, talk about the first "real" bug found, and give you a topic to bring up to the programmer in your life. /episode/index/show/bytesizedtech/id/12783932

v0.0 - The introduction 01/12/2020

v0.0 - The introduction Discussion of what you can expect from this podcast, the TL;DR: Technical topics explained for non-technical people! /episode/index/show/bytesizedtech/id/12702512

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