
Picture Me Coding is a music podcast about software. Each week your hosts Erik Aker and Mike Mull take on topics in the software world and they are sometimes joined by guests from other fields who arrive with their own burning questions about technology.Email us at: podcast@picturemecoding.comPatreon: patreon.com/PictureMeCodingYou can also pick up a Picture Me Coding shirt, mug, or sticke... more
| Publishes | Twice monthly | Episodes | 100 | Founded | 3 years ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Category | Technology | |||

This week we were joined by our friend Doug Burke, who runs a company and has been working on his "digital life workout partner", a voice-activated LLM tool. Doug's story is interesting because he does not have a background in software development, a... more
In this episode we invite back our friend Bob Farzin to discuss our personal experiences with using teams of agents to write software, and we try to parse out the experiences we're seeing on the interwebs, including Steve Yegge's GasTown and Wes McKi... more
In this episode we attempt to explain query optimization and where it came from. In particular we discuss Patricia Selinger's 1979 SIGMOD paper Access Path Selection in a Relational Database Management System.
• Access Path Selection paper (PDF)
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This week Mike and Erik are joined by Kyle Risse.
Erik met Kyle at Scale 23x in Pasadena this year while volunteering for the Tech Team. Kyle has a ton of experience in the field working on networks, infrastructure, linux server operations, and doi... more
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This show centers on software and technology topics delivered with a blend of technical depth and casual, accessible discourse. Across episodes, conversations span functional programming, distributed systems, open source, AI and ethics, legal tech, UX design, and the broader impact of technology on society. Guests come from adjacent fields—philosophy, design, law, and music—providing diverse perspectives while the hosts maintain a practical, hands-on angle on coding, tooling, and code culture. A notable strength is the mix of rigorous problem spaces (e.g., Byzantine generals, local-first software) with lighter, human-interest angles, making complex ideas approachable without sacrificing substance. The show's recurring focus on real-world so... more
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