In this episode we talk to Jonathan Whitmire who designed the Picture Me Coding swag, logos, artwork (and t-shirts and stickers and coffee mugs!).

He gives us a rundown on what it's like working alongside developers and what we talk about when we talk about UX.

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This week Mike and Erik talk about the local-first software movement. There's a pretty cool paper about it from 2019 called "Local-First Software:You Own Your Data, in spite of the Cloud", and there's also a podcast, a company, and various projects. Come get inspired to build stuff!

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Mike and Erik analyze the tech news again. The AIs are hallucinating, but gamers are too because of Game Transfer Phenomenon. The Luddites are back for what's likely a futile effort to keep the robots from taking our jobs, but Mike things he can at least outrun them.

• Watching These Humanoid Robots Try to Run a Half Marathon Is Hilarious and Bizarre
• Protecting NATS and the integrity of open source: CNCF’s commitment to the community | CNCF
• Game Transfer Phenomenon
• How to Survive the AI Revolution?
• Yahoo wants to buy Chrome

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Today Mike and Erik are joined by John Benson, an attorney with a background in digital forensics who has been at the forefront of integrating LLMs into legal practice. The conversation ranges over the practice of law, digital security, and AI

Find out more about John Benson's work here: https://john-benson.com/

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This week Mike and Erik tackle Byzantine Fault Tolerance! But what's it all about? Gangsters? Generals? Constantinople? Take a journey with us as we sail off into the dizzying complexity of Byzantine faults.

Links

• Some constraints and tradeoffs in the design of network communications | Proceedings of the fifth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
• Notes on Data Base Operating Systems
• Reaching Agreement in the Presence of Faults | Journal of the ACM
• The Byzantine Generals Problem - Microsoft Research
• GitHub - JVerwolf/byzantine_generals: An implementation of Leslie Lamport's OM algorithm for the Byzantine Generals Problem
• The Byzantine Generals Strike Again
• The Chinese Generals Problem
• SIFT: Design and Analysis of a Fault-Tolerant Computer for Aircraft Control
• The Generals – Dean Eigenmann
• Practical Byzantine fault tolerance | Proceedings of the third symposium on Operating systems design and implementation

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We have an entertaining and wide-ranging discussion with prominent computer scientist and educator David Beazley, known for his many contributions to the Python community. We talk about why programming is fun, and how he has created his memorable conference talks and innovative programming classes. We also touch on music, theater, academic life, and, of course, Dave's No Doubt tribute band.

Show Notes:

• https://www.dabeaz.com/
• Sans-IO (https://sans-io.readthedocs.io/)
• Rust elevator origin story (https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/02/14/1067869/rust-worlds-fastest-growing-programming-language/)
• Book: "Understanding Software Dynamics", by Richard Sites. Addison-Wesley, 2022.
• "Critical Program Reading", https://archive.org/details/youtube-7hdJQkn8rtA

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In this SCaLE wrap-up Mike and Erik discuss the final day of the conference and talks by Denver Gingerich called "What happens when hardware puts software freedom first? We built a router to find out" and Leslie Lamport titled "Coding isn't Programming", and we got to meet Leslie Lamport and take photos with him and give him Picture Me Coding stickers.

Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):
https://uppbeat.io/t/night-drift/the-horseman

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Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):
https://uppbeat.io/t/qube/play

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This week we are on location in the city of Pasadena, CA for Scale 22x, the Socal Linux Expo. We talked to people and went to talks and drank a lot of coffee. We do a debrief of some of the amazing work we heard about in the first few days of the conference.

Stay tuned next week to hear what we learned from Leslie Lamport!

Check out some stuff we learned about!

- The Open Source Rover (from JPL)

- Solomon Hykes Keynote: "Robots Building Robots"

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