Hacking the Grepson

Hacking the Grepson 062: Problematic Tech Talk

Matt and Mike discuss the ongoing debate over certain tech terms that don't always sound right to modern day ears.

Hacking the Grepson 061: Multi-Lingualism

Much like the many written/spoken human languages that exist, there are quite a lot of programming languages, too. As a result of Advent of Code 2023, Mike and Matt discuss how diving into the backlogs and trying to create a project that talks Python, Ruby, and more, all at once, can be both challenging and fun.

Hacking the Grepson 060: Advent of Code 2023 Wrapup - Part 2

Our final discussion on the Advent of Code 2023, covering days 17 through 25, is upon your ears. Will Santa's elves successfully fix snow production and save Christmas? Erm, sorta?

Hacking the Grepson 059: Advent of Code 2023 Wrapup - Part 1

Matt, Mike, and a special guest discuss day 11-16 of the Advent of Code 2023. Join us as we expand the cosmos, roll rocks on platforms, and drive an unreliable crucible.
* Advent of Code 2023

Hacking the Grepson 058: Advent of Code 2023 - Day 4 to 10

It may be 2024, so Advent of Code 2023 is done, but our minds are still catching up, trying to solve its puzzles. On this episode, Matt and Mike discuss days 4 through 10, and even a meta idea to figure out the difficulty curve for future problems.

Hacking the Grepson 057: Advent of Code 2023 - Day 1 to 3

While the awesome programming challenge known as the Advent of Code has officially ended for 2023, the discussion can now begin. Matt and Mike discuss the first three days and their successes and difficulties with them.

Hacking the Grepson 056: Advent of Code - Preamble

The current month is December, and you know what that means. It means the Advent of Code is afoot again! Matt and Mike yet again share their thoughts on this annual programming challenge after a few days of solving.
* Advent of Code 2023
* Advent of TypeScript

Hacking the Grepson 055: ImprovDev - Teams and Trust

It's time for another installment of ImprovDev, the first since the, uh, only other one thus far! Matt explains the importance of trust when working with a team, and Mike listens and nods sagely while occasionally interjecting other, related words.

Hacking the Grepson 054: Web Accessibility

It's important to make software as accessible as possible, because diversity of experience is valuable. The web is a gigantic system of communication in our society, and on this episode Matt and Mike discuss some ways you can make it more accessible and inclusive.
* ARIA
* WCAG Standard
* Inclusive Microsoft Design

Hacking the Grepson 053: Tech Interviews, Part Deux

Matt and Mike share more insight into the sometimes complex world of technical interviews. We also thoroughly discuss a timely new potential interview question.

Hacking the Grepson 052: Slay the Spire

Matt and Mike attempt to break down the roguelike deckbuilder known as Slay the Spire into its component game development parts.

Hacking the Grepson 051: Hacking the Grepson Check-In

It's been a while since we started this podcast. Let's do a check-in.

Hacking the Grepson 050: Hackers

For our 50th episode, Matt and Mike finally discuss the movie, and its iconic quip "Hack the Gibson", that inspired this whole podcast business. Yes, we jack into cyberspace and get psychedelic by giving our thoughts on the mid-90s sci-fi film, Hackers.

Hacking the Grepson 049: Improv of Code (AoC 2019.1)

As a bit of an experiment on this episode, Matt and Mike decide to look at an Advent of Code problem from the archives, one never seen before, and then solve it together. Spoiler alert for AOC 2019, Day 1!
* Advent of Code

Hacking the Grepson 048: P vs NP

Matt and Mike dive into a rather heavy problem that has been confounding computer scientists for decades: P vs NP. Find out whether it's peanut-related or not, and what the ramifications of it being either about peanuts or not about peanuts actually are.

Hacking the Grepson 047: MusicDev - Web Audio API

Another episode in the MusicDev series is ready for your ears, and this time it's all about the Web Audio API. Want to build interactive web apps that use audio? Then this episode is a high-level overview of how to do that.
* Web Audio API (MDN)
* Mike's impressive Excalidraw diagram
* Nebyoodle
* SoundLister
* Keebord
* AudioHash (still a wip, actually)
* GemWarrior

Hacking the Grepson 046: The Builder’s Trap

Matt and Mike explore the phenomenon known as "The Builder's Trap", wherein builders end up building stuff even when it's not the best solution to a problem.
* https://www.patkua.com/blog/the-builders-trap

Hacking the Grepson 045: Bad Coding Habits

Matt and Mike discuss a blog post talking about some potentially suboptimal character traits of programmers that one should avoid.
* 10 Coding Habits That Make You a Bad Programmer: https://levelup.gitconnected.com/10-coding-habits-that-make-you-a-bad-programmer-96be9b1c2289

Hacking the Grepson 044: The XY Problem

Matt and Mike dive into the phenomenon that leads to questions like "How do you get the last 3 characters of a file?", "What is Dykstra's algorithm?", and "Where is the bleach?".

Hacking the Grepson 043: Data Types and Structures, Part 2

Matt and Mike continue their moderate dive into programming fundamentals by moving on from basic/primitive variable types to complex types, such as Arrays and Structs.