Podcasting

Whiskey Web and Whatnot

In August 2024 I was a guest on the Whiskey Web and Whatnot podcast. While their YouTube video count is low, they have a good-sized podcasting audience. Find them on your favorite podcasting app. They are great hosts, and it was fun! Some technical discussion and a fair amount of fun chatting.

Interesting bits:

• VR Gaming and Superhot
• NVIDIA: How Graphics and AI are the same
• Using multiple programming languages together

Backend Banter

In January 2024 I was a guest on Lane Wagner's Boot.dev podcast called Backend Banter. My episode focused on my 2020 article Brain Oriented Programming about a specific way OOP can go bad: your objects are not themselves object-oriented. I later interviewed Lane on Software Engineering Radio #608.

Interesting bits:

• My article on Brain Oriented Programming
• Pylint design section: recommended limits
• Looking at the shape of your code

Software Engineering Radio

I was a volunteer host for the Software Engineering Radio Podcast from 2021 through 2024. Each volunteer produces and records five shows per year. Through the combined effort of around 10 volunteer hosts, the show releases a new episode weekly. These are links to the 17 shows which I hosted:

• 645 - Vinay Tripathi on BGP Optimization
• 641 - Catherine Nelson on Machine Learning in Data Science
• 617 - Frances Buontempo on Modern C++
• 608 – Lane Wagner on Revisiting the Go Language
• 596 – Maxim Fateev on Durable Execution with Temporal
• 591 – Yechezkel Rabinovich on Kubernetes Observability
• 583 - Lucas Fittl on Postgres Performance
• 562 – Bastian Gruber on Rust Web Development
• 557 – Timothy Beamish on React and Next.js
• 549 – William Falcon on Optimizing Deep Learning Models
• 537 – Adam Warski on Scala and Tapir
• 521 - Phillip Mayhew on Test Automation in Gaming
• 500 - Sergey Gorbunov on Blockchain Interoperability
• 497 – Richard L. Sites on Understanding Software Dynamics
• 493 – Ram Sriharsha on Vectors in Machine Learning
• 484 – Audrey Lawrence on Timeseries Databases
• 474 - Paul Butcher on Fuzz Testing

Volunteering for the show is a great way to get podcasting experience in front of a fairly large audience, and you learn a lot from it. I stopped volunteering only because I wanted to free up time to experiment with other types of content creation.

My first effort was this YouTube video on Clean Code that I created in 2024. If you have an interest in podcast hosting, the show is organized and well-run by Robert Blumen, and he generally accepts any interested host, but you might have to wait for an open slot.