CS202 Episode 2: APIs and Program Boundaries, or How Software Talks Without Everyone Crying
Software starts simple, then one day it has to talk to other software politely, through boundaries, contracts, and APIs that…
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CS202 Episode 1: Version Control and Change Management, or How Teams Remember What Happened Before Everyone Starts Blaming Kevin
Version control is how software teams remember what changed, who changed it, and why the checkout button suddenly became a goblin…
No More Pennies in Banking? Or: My Bank Just Put the Decimal Point in Witness Protection
My bank stopped accepting cents, and now a 59-cent problem has become a tiny financial sitcom about…
Episode 7: Operating Systems in Plain English, or The Adult in the Room That Keeps Programs from Elbowing Each Other to Death
The OS is the quiet grown-up between your code and chaos, managing memory, files, devices, and permissions before…
How to Buy Real Estate With Your IRA Without Accidentally Turning Your Retirement Plan Into a Tax Pinata
Your IRA can buy real estate, but one wrong move can turn retirement planning into a tax circus with paperwork, penalties, and…
The Modern Religion Series Conclusion: Fourteen Doors, One Very Curious Human
Fourteen religions, one curious tour, and a surprisingly practical question: how do we live together without turning every difference into…
Episode 14: Zoroastrianism, or How to Choose Good Thoughts Before Your Brain Starts Freelancing for Chaos
One of the world’s oldest religions asks a question that still lands right in the middle of modern life…
Friday Night Laughs — When Your Earnings Are a Joke!
My creator earnings finally arrived, and the dashboard had the nerve to call it money…
Episode 65: Odilon Redon, or How to Paint a Floating Eyeball and Still Look Deeply Spiritual
A floating eye, haunted flowers, and one of art history’s dreamiest weirdos walk into a Symbolist garden and then…
Episode 6: Processes, Threads, and Concurrency Basics, or How One Machine Does Many Things at Once and Somehow Blames You When It Goes Wrong
Processes, threads, and concurrency explain how computers juggle many tasks at once, until shared state walks in and…