Episode 6

Episode 6: Processes, Threads, and Concurrency Basics, or How One Machine Does Many Things at Once and Somehow Blames You When It Goes Wrong

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Processes, threads, and concurrency explain how computers juggle many tasks at once, until shared state walks in and…

Episode 6: History, Debugging, and Problem Solving (You Are Not Bad at This, This Is Just How It Feels)

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If you have ever stared at a bug long enough to start negotiating with it, congratulations. You are doing programming correctly. This episode is about the part of computer science nobody puts on the brochure: the history that explains why our tools look the way they do, the debugging that eats half your time, and … Read more

JavaScript: The Language That Accidentally Ran the World

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Somewhere in an alternate universe, the web stayed polite. Pages loaded. Links were blue. Nothing moved. Nobody got asked to accept cookies. Your toaster never needed a firmware update. And then JavaScript showed up and said, “What if… the button did something?” If you’ve ever wondered how we went from “Here is a nice webpage … Read more

Catch2: Making C++ Testing Almost Fun

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If you’ve ever tested C++ code, you know the vibe: macros everywhere, cryptic compiler errors, and a deep existential crisis halfway through writing your first fixture. Enter Catch2 — a single-header testing framework that whispers, “What if this wasn’t so painful?” Spoiler: it delivers…mostly. What is Catch2? Catch2 is a modern, header-only C++ testing framework. It focuses on … Read more

Max Ernst: Frottage, Frogs, and Full-On Surrealist Weirdness

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What if we told you the guy who helped invent collage as we know it also believed in painting dreams with the emotional precision of a nightmare in formalwear? Welcome to Episode 6 of the Artist Series, where we dive into the gloriously bizarre world of Max Ernst. Let’s get one thing clear: Max Ernst … Read more