Why Are Computers
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Why Are Computers
A podcast about computers and computer programs and why.
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4 episodes
Why Are Computers 4: Seemingly Disconnected Things
Chris Patuzzo tells the story of creating the Sentient programming language, with diversions into NAND to Tetris, self-enumerating pangrams, the boole...
Why Are Computers 3: Ways to Be Less Clever
Sandi Metz and Katrina Owen reflect upon the process of writing a book together, the secrets of building good software, and the logistics of the self-...
Why Are Computers 2: This Increasingly Complicated World
James Edward Gray II doubles down on Twitter arguments about static type systems, modern software tooling, the mind-expanding effects of being a polyg...
Why Are Computers 1: A Fairly Deep Yak Shave
James Coglan talks about the lengthy process of creating Terminus and Faye, thinking through coding, software as argument, maintaining open source pro...