Episode 73: Thomas Hart Benton, or How to Paint America Like It Just Drank Three Cups of Coffee and Joined a Parade
Thomas Hart Benton painted America like it had muscles, music, gossip, and a wagon wheel loose in the best possible way…
Episode 72: Grant Wood, or How to Paint America So Stiffly It Starts Making Eye Contact
Grant Wood painted America so calmly that the pitchfork became famous and the farmhouse started looking suspicious…
An Earnest Entreaty To Watch The Road Before My Rearview Mirror Develops Trust Issues
I saw a driver behind me looking down at a red light, and suddenly my rearview mirror developed trust issues…
Flying Cars: The Future That Keeps Circling the Airport
We were promised flying cars decades ago, so why are we still sitting in traffic like obedient little ground mammals…
AI Streaming, or Why the Robot Is Typing Like It Just Found the Coffee
AI is not typing like a tiny office goblin. Streaming is stranger, faster, and way more interesting than…
CS202 Episode 7: Software Engineering as Team Sport, or The Social Layer of Technical Work Where Half the Problems Move
Software stops being a solo act when the codebase starts needing memory, manners, reviews, and someone brave enough to ask…
Friday Night Laughs — Republicans vs Democrats
Republicans, Democrats, leaking valves, and the one thing America still agrees on: somebody better call the plumber before…
Nasser, the Suez Canal, and the Day History Got Stuck in Traffic
Nasser took the canal, Britain and France took offense, and history immediately started making that face where…
CS202 Episode 6: Debugging at Scale, or When the Bug Is Not in One Line but in the Relationship Between Eight Ideas
A bug crosses eight modules, the logs start humming, and one tiny trace finally points at the thing nobody wanted to…
CS202 Episode 5: Build Systems and Dependency Management, or How Software Becomes a Thing You Can Actually Run on Purpose
Software does not become real just because the code looks sincere. First it has to build, link, package, and survive the tiny machinery of…