BookBytes

Sep 18 2022 46 ep. 51 mins 358
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BookBytes is a book club podcast for developers. Each episode the hosts discuss part of a book they've been reading. And they also chat with authors about their books. The books are about development, design, ethics, history, and soft skills. Sometimes there are tangents (also known as footnotes).

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BookBytes 46: A Mind at Play

Sep 18 2022 61 mins  
Adam and Jason finally learn about the guy who invented the Information Age and how the transmission of data over long distances is even possible.

BookBytes 45: Weapons of Math Destruction

Feb 27 2022 56 mins  
Adam and Jason learn about how algorithms affect people in the everyday lives in very destructive ways as well as some ways to disarm them and how to use models for good.

BookBytes 44: Soonish

Nov 14 2021 54 mins  
Adam really wants cheap access to space, Jason really wants augmented reality, and they talk about other things that may or may not happen in the future.

BookBytes 43: Pico-8 Zine

Jun 20 2021 33 mins  
Jason and Adam learn about making games for a fantasy console with a lot of constraints.

BookBytes 42: So You Want to Talk About Race

Mar 20 2021 71 mins  
Adam, Jason, and Rizel talk about race and how to talk about race. They cover issues like privilege, intersectionality, police brutality, and microaggressions.

BookBytes 41: Seven Languages in Seven Weeks - Haskell

Nov 29 2020 64 mins  
Jason has dipped in and out of Haskell over the years, Adam did very little of the problems, and Jason teaches Adam a lot about functional programming.

BookBytes 40: Seven Languages in Seven Weeks - Clojure

Nov 22 2020 58 mins  
Going through Clojure was an eye opening experience for Jason, and for Adam it’s intriguing, but the learning curve is very steep.

BookBytes 39: Seven Languages in Seven Weeks - Erlang

Nov 15 2020 57 mins  
Jason loved tinkering with Erlang, they both read a little bit of Learn You Some Erlang, and Adam had a hard time with concurrency.

BookBytes 38: Seven Languages in Seven Weeks - Scala

Nov 08 2020 61 mins  
Adam loves how it supports functional and object-oriented programming, Jason said it would take a long time to really wrap his head around it, and Adam had a hard time installing and running it.

BookBytes 37: Seven Languages in Seven Weeks - Prolog

Nov 01 2020 58 mins  
Adam remembered using Prolog in college, Jason felt like he had no what he was doing, Adam thought it was fun and mind bending, and Jason felt like writing a Sudoku solver was like having cheat mode on.