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This episode is all about the Lisp family of programming languages! Ever looked at Lisp and wondered why so many programmers gush about such a weird looking programming language style? What's with all those parentheses? Surely there must be something you get out of them for so many programming nerds to gush about the language! We do a light dive into Lisp's history, talk...

Calling all programming language nerds! Distinguished computer scientist Mark S. Miller (presently at Agoric) joins us to tell us all about distributed object programming languages and their history! We talk about actors, a bit of Xanadu, and little known but incredibly influential programming languages like Flat Concurrent Prolog, Joule, and E!Actually there's so much to talk about that this episode is just part one!...

In this episode we give a very (very) high level introduction to cryptography concepts. No math or programming background requied!Links:Crypto 101, probably the BEST book for learning about cryptography concepts. And a relevant talk from PyCon!We mentioned RSA, which is the first publicly published algorithm for public key cryptography. These days most public key cryptography uses elliptic curves instead. It's possible that in the...

Guix turns ten! We celebrate Guix's first decade by highlighting ten great things about Guix! Hear all about functional package management, time-traveling operating systems, and why "Composable DSLs" are great!Links:GuixStories about 10 years of Guix, from the Guix blogNixCool Guix features highlighted in this episode:Grafts (for security updates)guix challengeguix shell and guix environmentguix packNonguix (Proprietary! Nonfree! But sometimes some users need these things to...

This week we’re talking about Repetitive Strain Injuries (RSI). Christine and Morgan tell their stories bout over-using their wrists from programming (prodded along by an injury) and writing academic papers respectively. We discuss what you can do to treat or minimize the effects of these injuries then cap it off with a discussion of RSI gloves including Morgan's Free Soft Wear RSI glove pattern.Repetitive...