Programming Throwdown

186: Becoming a Manager Intro topic: plastic welding kits News/Links: https://www.parse.bot/https://blog.google/products/gemini/gemini-3/https://github.com/ByteDance-Seed/Depth-Anything-3https://www.runpod.io/ Book of the Show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d95J8yzvjbQhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1497 Patreon Plug https://www.patreon.com/programmingthrowdown?ty=h Tool of the Show Topic: Becoming a Manager ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Intro topic: Asymmetric Returns News/Links: https://github.com/karpathy/nanochathttps://www.marktechpost.com/2025/03/25/pydanticai-advancing-generative-ai-agent-development-through-intelligent-framework-design/https://spaceflightnow.com/2025/05/16/live-coverage-spacex-plans-morning-launch-of-starlink-satellites-from-california/https://openai.com/index/introducing-apps-in-chatgpt/ Book of the Show https://amzn.to/43IfU8Qhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vagyIcmIGOQ Patreon Plug https://www.patreon.com/programmingthrowdown?ty=h Tool of the Show https://www.factorio.com/nip.io Topic: Workflow Orchestrators https://temporal.io/ ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

184: Asynchronous Programming Intro topic: AI Scams News/Links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA1KVZ1eOuAhttps://www.boson.ai/technologies/voicehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrO20Jb-hy0https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/podcasts/interesting-times-a-mind-bending-conversation-with-peter-thiel.html Book of the Show https://amzn.to/4mevuzE Patreon Plug https://www.patreon.com/programmingthrowdown?ty=h Tool of the Show https://escapeacademygame.com/enwww.chatgpt.com Topic: Asynchronous Computing ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

00:00:00 Intro 00:01:58 Introducing Mark Cunningham 00:07:01 How Do You Find A Job? 00:15:43 How to Get the Best Interview 00:33:06 Tips on How To Pass An Interview 00:38:38 How to Have a Good Interview 00:48:12 What is the Reverse Interview? 00:54:24 What Is The Hiring Manager's Role? 00:57:12 Reverse Interviews: Red Flags 01:14:45 How to Negotiate a Tech Offer 01:23:02 When to Negotiate Your Compensation 01:35:21 Interview Horror Stories 01:39:29 How Do You Deal With Fake AI Applicants? 01:45:32 The Bidding Network ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Intro topic: Getting an entry-level job News/Links: https://gbatemp.net/threads/mario-kart-64-decompilation-project-reaches-100-completion.671104/https://seohong.me/blog/q-learning-is-not-yet-scalable/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQWpF2Gb-gU&vl=enhttps://linuxgizmos.com/orangepi-rv2-a-cost-effective-risc-v-board-with-m-2-2280-slot-and-dual-gigabit-ethernet/ Book of the Show https://amzn.to/44Dznszhttps://amzn.to/3TqoKCB Patreon Plug https://www.patreon.com/programmingthrowdown?ty=h Tool of the Show https://www.reddit.com/r/PokemonROMhacks/comments/1l9zdta/pok%C3%A9mon_odyssey_final_release/https://play.google.com/store/apps/dev?id=6891422865930303475&hl=en_US Topic: ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Intro topic: Video Game Prices News/Links: https://youtu.be/WdadpHLAfdA?si=oXYnhB0EdkR_RaPEhttps://www.tdmpc2.com/https://read.engineerscodex.com/p/clever-code-is-probably-the-worsthttps://venturebeat.com/ai/a-new-open-source-text-to-speech-model-called-dia-has-arrived-to-challenge-elevenlabs-openai-and-more/ Book of the Show https://amzn.to/44Dznszhttps://amzn.to/4jMjvZ5 Patreon Plug https://www.patreon.com/programmingthrowdown?ty=h Tool of the Show https://huggingface.co/spaces/microsoft/phi-4-multimodal Topic: Memory Management ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Intro topic: Grills News/Links: https://www.infobip.com/developers/blog/seniors-working-on-a-legacy-projecthttps://www.tomsguide.com/ai/ai-image-video/recraft-might-be-the-most-powerful-ai-image-platform-ive-ever-used-heres-whyhttps://www.cs.otago.ac.nz/cosc345/resources/nasa-10-rules.htmhttps://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/amd-estimates-of-radeon-rx-9070-xt-performance-leaked-42-percent-66-percent-faster-than-radeon-rx-7900-gre Book of the Show https://a.co/d/1ZpUhGlhttps://amzn.to/3ES4p5i Patreon Plug https://www.patreon.com/programmingthrowdown?ty=h Tool of the Show https://fal.ai Topic: Reinforcement Learning ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Intro topic: Lego event space & retail store: https://www.instagram.com/bambeecave News/Links: https://gist.github.com/hopeseekr/f522e380e35745bd5bdc3269a9f0b132https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/20/deepseek-claims-its-reasoning-model-beats-openais-o1-on-certain-benchmarks/https://newsletter.techworld-with-milan.com/p/computer-science-papers-every-developerhttps://www.zdnet.com/article/nvidia-signs-largest-car-maker-toyota-to-use-its-self-driving-tech/ Book of the Show https://www.sscardapane.it/alice-book/ Patreon Plug https://www.patreon.com/programmingthrowdown?ty=h Tool of the Show https://store.steampowered.com/app/3361470/Digseum/ Topic: Project Planning and Management ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Intro topic: Smart homes News/Links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIKI7y3DTXkhttps://github.com/share/sharedbhttps://about.fb.com/news/2024/09/introducing-orion-our-first-true-augmented-reality-glasses/https://www.meta.com/experiences/blade-sorcery-nomad/2031826350263349/ Book of the Show https://amzn.to/4fry2XWhttps://amzn.to/3YxuD3c Patreon Plug https://www.patreon.com/programmingthrowdown?ty=h Tool of the Show https://www.playbalatro.com/https://www.cursor.com/ Topic: Working from Home ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Intro topic: Buying a Car News/Links: https://github.com/zakirullin/cognitive-loadhttps://gamengen.github.io/https://softwaredoug.com/blog/2024/09/07/your-team-needs-juniorshttps://huggingface.co/facebook/seamless-streaminghttps://github.com/fishaudio/fish-speechhttps://github.com/ictnlp/LLaMA-Omni Book of the Show https://youtu.be/8X1_HEJk2Hw?si=T8EaHul-QMahyUvQhttps://www.novelminds.ai/ Patreon Plug https://www.patreon.com/programmingthrowdown?ty=h Tool of the Show https://pinestudio.com/games/escape-simulator/https://www.cursor.com/ Topic: Vector Databases (~54 min) ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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175: Resume Writing Intro topic: DSLR Photography vs Camera Phone News/Links: https://robertheaton.com/pyskywifi/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSN76gb_Z28https://stackoverflow.blog/2024/06/19/the-real-10x-developer-makes-their-whole-team-better/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwJIYj3hPAU Book of the Show https://amzn.to/3xNEoRBhttps://amzn.to/3W2JjpM Patreon Plug https://www.patreon.com/programmingthrowdown?ty=h Tool of the Show https://amzn.to/3S9VJLfhttps://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=AmazonWebServices.amazon-q-vscode Topic: Resume Writing (Courtesy of Matthew C.) https://www.manager-tools.com/2016/05/how-scan-resume-part-1 ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Intro topic: Social Media Auto Responder LLM News/Links: https://press.aboutamazon.com/2024/4/aws-announces-general-availability-of-amazon-q-the-most-capable-generative-ai-powered-assistant-for-accelerating-software-development-and-leveraging-companies-internal-dataDIY 256-Core RISC-V super computerhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4d3PgEXhdYhttps://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/new-models-added-to-the-phi-3-family-available-on-microsoft-azure/https://openai.com/index/hello-gpt-4o/ Book of the Show https://www.mfmpod.com/https://openreview.net/pdf?id=BZ5a1r-kVsf Patreon https://www.patreon.com/programmingthrowdown?ty=h Tool of the Show https://store.steampowered.com/app/1868140/DAVE_THE_DIVER/https://store.steampowered.com/app/1444480/Turing_Complete/ Topic: DevOps ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

173: Mocking and Unit Tests Intro topic: Headphones News/Links: https://physicsfestival.tamu.edu/https://youtu.be/6mZRWFQRvmw?t=27012https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05440https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/04/what-we-know-about-the-xz-utils-backdoor-that-almost-infected-the-world/ Book of the Show https://amzn.to/3xyEKLohttps://amzn.to/49ycDJj Patreon Plug https://www.patreon.com/programmingthrowdown?ty=h Tool of the Show https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.playdigious.shapez&hl=en_US&gl=UShttps://apps.apple.com/us/app/shapez-factory-game/id6450830779https://store.steampowered.com/app/975370/Dwarf_Fortress/ Topic: Mocking and Unit Tests https://docs.python.org/3/library/unittest.mock.htmlhttps://github.com/mockito/mockitohttps://github.com/google/googletest ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

172: Transformers and Large Language Models Intro topic: Is WFH actually WFC? News/Links: https://vadimkravcenko.com/shorts/falsehoods-junior-developers-believe-about-becoming-senior/https://wiki.purduesigbots.com/software/control-algorithms/basic-pure-pursuithttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYR7mmcwT2whttps://www.wescottdesign.com/articles/pid/pidWithoutAPhd.pdfhttps://blog.google/technology/developers/gemma-open-models/ Book of the Show https://amzn.to/3uEhg6vhttps://amzn.to/3UZtP7b Patreon Plug https://www.patreon.com/programmingthrowdown?ty=h Tool of the Show https://stadia.google.com/controller/index_en_US.htmlhttps://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-sshfs-to-mount-remote-file-systems-over-ssh Topic: Transformers and Large Language Models ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Intro topic: Monitor setups News/Links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuJ5UuknsHUhttps://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2024/01/22/palworld-accused-of-using-genai-with-no-evidence-so-far/?sh=26a9651b4239https://andreasjhkarlsson.github.io/jekyll/update/2023/12/27/4-billion-if-statements.htmlhttps://ai.meta.com/blog/seamless-m4t/ Book of the Show https://amzn.to/3SrmgnPhttps://amzn.to/47JUCXJ Patreon Plug https://www.patreon.com/programmingthrowdown?ty=h Tool of the Show https://www.fireproofgames.com/games/the-roomhttps://www.incredibuild.com/ Topic: Compilers and Interpreters (Request by Jessica W.) https://www.craftinginterpreters.com/https://nandgame.com/ ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Predictions: Jason Patrick Early career, finding role at FAANG, liaising vs shipping code. Startup? 3 part. 1. How and when current hype for AI will end? 2. Shape of the show 3. Upcoming in tech What are essential programmer knowledge items? CS Student, how to organize life and goals? What purpose life should serve? What kind of programmer were you in college? Happy Holidays! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Intro topic: Testing your car battery News/Links: https://www.sfchronicle.com/tech/article/google-layoffs-california-companies-18465600.phphttps://blog.maximeheckel.com/posts/real-time-cloudscapes-with-volumetric-raymarching/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_Rascalshttps://www.theverge.com/23906313/meta-quest-3-review-vr-mixed-reality-headset Book of the Show https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//pubs/archive/40671.pdfhttps://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2023/10/20/eureka-robotics-research/Patreon Plug https://www.patreon.com/programmingthrowdown?ty=h Tool of the Show https://store.steampowered.com/app/1457320/Techtonica/https://amzn.to/3Qpmb20 Topic: HyperLogLog ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Intro topic: What are expectations on developers that have nothing to do with programming News/Links: https://smartguess.is/blog/your-estimate-is-less-than-that/https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/excel-blog/announcing-python-in-excel-combining-the-power-of-python-and-the/ba-p/3893439https://makingsmallercircles.com/articles/7-habits-of-highly-effective-software-engineers/https://www.phoronix.com/news/Raspberry-Pi-5-Shipping Book of the Show https://amzn.to/3St3L35https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-pete-and-sebastian-show/id570256898Patreon Plug https://www.patreon.com/programmingthrowdown?ty=h Tool of the Show obsidian.mdhttps://github.com/inkle/ink Topic: Godot ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Intro topic: Jogging Metrics News/Links: https://huggingface.co/Undi95/Unholy-v1-12L-13Bhttps://www.blameless.com/blog/the-reverse-red-herringhttps://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/https://sampruden.github.io/posts/godot-is-not-the-new-unity/https://gist.github.com/reduz/cb05fe96079e46785f08a79ec3b0ef21 Book of the Show https://amzn.to/48qlg9Ahttps://amzn.to/3LChBffPatreon Plug https://www.patreon.com/programmingthrowdown?ty=h Tool of the Show Topic: Desktop user interfaces ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★