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Programming Throwdown

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Patrick Wheeler and Jason Gauci

Programming Throwdown educates Computer Scientists and Software Engineers on a cavalcade of programming and tech topics. Every show will cover a new programming language, so listeners will be able to speak intelligently about any programming language.

#186

185: Workflow Orchestrators

Intro topic: Asymmetric Returns News/Links: ---NanoChat by Andrej Karpathy ------ [https:/... more

04 Nov 2025

1 HR 32 MINS

1:32:02

04 Nov 2025

#185

184: Asynchronous Programming

184: Asynchronous Programming Intro topic: AI Scams News/Links: ---Coding Adventure: Ray-T... more

23 Sep 2025

1 HR 30 MINS

1:30:32

23 Sep 2025

#184

183: Landing a Software Job in 2025

00:00:00 Intro00:01:58 Introducing Mark Cunningham00:07:01 How Do You Find A Job?00:15:43 ... more

31 Jul 2025

1 HR 46 MINS

1:46:53

31 Jul 2025

#183

182: AI Assisted Coding

Intro topic: Getting an entry-level job News/Links: ---Mario Kart 64 Fully Decompiled ----... more

30 Jun 2025

1 HR 37 MINS

1:37:36

30 Jun 2025

#182

181: Memory Management

Intro topic: Video Game Prices News/Links: ---Step one: Jump in the Lava - Abyssoft ------... more

12 May 2025

1 HR 46 MINS

1:46:21

12 May 2025

#181

180: Reinforcement Learning

Intro topic: Grills News/Links: ---You can’t call yourself a senior until you’ve worked on... more

17 Mar 2025

1 HR 52 MINS

1:52:22

17 Mar 2025

#180

179: Project Planning

Intro topic: Lego event space & retail store: [https://www.instagram.com/bambeecave] (http... more

03 Feb 2025

1 HR 43 MINS

1:43:00

03 Feb 2025

#179

178: Working from Home

Intro topic: Smart homes News/Links: ---SpaceX Starship Flight Test Five / Six ------ [htt... more

03 Dec 2024

1 HR 45 MINS

1:45:15

03 Dec 2024

#178

177: Vector Databases

Intro topic: Buying a Car News/Links: ---Cognitive Load is what Matters ------ [https://g... more

04 Nov 2024

1 HR 28 MINS

1:28:26

04 Nov 2024

#177

176: MLOps at SwampUp

---James Morse: Software Engineer at Cisco ------System Administrator to DevOps ------Diff... more

24 Sep 2024

1 HR 58 MINS

1:58:37

24 Sep 2024

#176

175: Resume Writing

175: Resume Writing Intro topic: DSLR Photography vs Camera Phone News/Links: ---Free Int... more

16 Aug 2024

1 HR 40 MINS

1:40:55

16 Aug 2024

#175

174: Devops

Intro topic: Social Media Auto Responder LLM News/Links: ---Amazon releases Amazon Q ----... more

10 Jun 2024

1 HR 25 MINS

1:25:47

10 Jun 2024

#174

173: Mocking and Unit Tests

173: Mocking and Unit Tests Intro topic: Headphones News/Links: ---Texas A&M University P... more

29 Apr 2024

1 HR 35 MINS

1:35:22

29 Apr 2024

#173

172: Transformers and Large Language Models

172: Transformers and Large Language Models Intro topic: Is WFH actually WFC? News/Links: ... more

11 Mar 2024

1 HR 26 MINS

1:26:08

11 Mar 2024

#172

171: Compilers and Interpreters

Intro topic: Monitor setups News/Links: ---BlueScuti, Willis, beats Tetris ------ [https:/... more

12 Feb 2024

1 HR 25 MINS

1:25:10

12 Feb 2024

#171

170: 2023 Holiday Special Live

Predictions:Jason ---VR for Work ---Lowering AI training cost/ improved efficiency ---RIS... more

24 Dec 2023

1 HR 38 MINS

1:38:34

24 Dec 2023

#170

169: HyperLogLog

Intro topic: Testing your car battery News/Links: ---Tech Layoffs still going on ------ [h... more

27 Nov 2023

1 HR 29 MINS

1:29:33

27 Nov 2023

#169

168: Godot

Intro topic: What are expectations on developers that have nothing to do with programming ... more

20 Nov 2023

1 HR 28 MINS

1:28:34

20 Nov 2023

#168

167: Desktop User Interfaces

Intro topic: Jogging Metrics News/Links: ---Unholy LLM ------ [https://huggingface.co/Undi... more

23 Oct 2023

1 HR 26 MINS

1:26:06

23 Oct 2023

#167

166: Speedy Database Queries with Lukas Fittl

- pganalyze: [https://pganalyze.com/] (https://pganalyze.com/) - Weekly series "5mins of ... more

16 Oct 2023

1 HR 12 MINS

1:12:12

16 Oct 2023

#166

165: Differential Equations

Intro topic: Revisiting the power of Spreadsheets News/Links: ---LK-99 Isn’t a Superconduc... more

25 Sep 2023

1 HR 16 MINS

1:16:43

25 Sep 2023

#165

164: Choosing a Database For Your Project With Kris Zyp

Things to consider when choosing a database ---Speed & Latency ---Consistency, ACID Compli... more

11 Sep 2023

1 HR 31 MINS

1:31:21

11 Sep 2023

#164

163: Recursion

Episode 163 - Recursion Intro topic: Electric Cars News/Links: ---Snake Game in 101 Bytes ... more

14 Aug 2023

1 HR 29 MINS

1:29:07

14 Aug 2023

#163

162: Interactive Fiction

In the latest episode of Programming Throwdown, we delve into the captivating world of int... more

24 Jul 2023

1 HR 08 MINS

1:08:15