A book club for developers.
BookBytes is a fortnightly (or biweekly) book club for developers. Each episode the hosts discuss part of a book they've been reading. And they also chat with authors about their books. The books are about development, design, ethics, history, and soft skills. Sometimes there are tangents (also known as footnotes).
Adam Garrett-Harris
Jason Staten
Jen Luker
Safia Abdalla
Hosts: Adam Garrett-Harris, Jason Staten, Jen Luker, and Safia Abdalla
Safia talks about the four themes of functional programming, Jason tells us the difference between currying and partial application, Jason finds out that third normal form is not the most normal form. And Adam found out that BASE is the opposite of ACID.
Hosts: Adam Garrett-Harris, Jason Staten, Jen Luker, and Safia Abdalla
Safia finds out that she already knew some of the design patterns, but not the name, Adam is confused about the fascade pattern, they talk about DRY, YAGNI, and they get into TDD, and a bit of the Unix philosophy.
Hosts: Adam Garrett-Harris, Jason Staten, Jen Luker, and Safia Abdalla
They talk about some advanced algorithms, Safia goes on a tangent about Grace Hopper, and Jason made a compiler in Rust.
Hosts: Adam Garrett-Harris, Jason Staten, Jen Luker, and Safia Abdalla
The hosts cover one algorithm each, after wrapping up the data structures chapter.
Hosts: Adam Garrett-Harris, Jason Staten, Jen Luker, and Safia Abdalla
They go over big O and data structures, Jason and Safia have a vulcan mind meld over Timsort, and Adam almost went down a rabbit trail of YouTube videos.
Hosts: Adam Garrett-Harris, Jason Staten, Jen Luker, and Safia Abdalla
The hosts talk about various types of machines from finite-state machines, pushdown machines, and turing machines, and then get distracted by retro computing and the turbo button.
Hosts: Adam Garrett-Harris, Jason Staten, Jen Luker, and Safia Abdalla
Adam and Jen have new jobs, they talk about complexity in the real world vs academia, and then Safia and Adam get some real-time learning in lambda calculus.
Hosts: Adam Garrett-Harris, Jason Staten, Jen Luker, and Safia Abdalla
They talk about the first chapter, their computer science backgrounds, genetic algorithms, Star Trek, their first computers, and what they're looking forward to in the book.
Hosts: Adam Garrett-Harris, Jason Staten, Jen Luker, and Safia Abdalla
We talk with Sara about why she wrote the book and some of her thoughts about how to change the industry.
Hosts: Adam Garrett-Harris, Jason Staten, Jen Luker, and Safia Abdalla
We get into a lively discussion about sexism and racism in the workplace and the interview process, and Safia puts Adam and Jason in the hot seat.
Hosts: Adam Garrett-Harris, Jason Staten, Jen Luker, and Safia Abdalla
Many apps and websites are sexist, racist, or marginalize people. In this episode, we talk about a lot of examples from the book about these apps.
Hosts: Adam Garrett-Harris, Jason Staten, Jen Luker, and Safia Abdalla
We get some updates from Safia and talk about our expectations for the book.
Hosts: Adam Garrett-Harris, Jason Staten, Jen Luker, and Safia Abdalla
We talked with one of the authors of Apprenticeship Patterns about the process of writing the book, reading, learning, career paths, and changes he would make to the book.
Hosts: Adam Garrett-Harris, Jason Staten, Jen Luker, and Safia Abdalla
We talked about drinking from the firehose, practicing the craft, building breakable toys, and reading (coding books, Descartes, and Beowulf).
Hosts: Adam Garrett-Harris, Jason Staten, Jen Luker, and Safia Abdalla
We talk about mapping out our careers (or lack thereof), what titles mean at companies, craft vs art, being the worst, and getting mentors.
Hosts: Adam Garrett-Harris, Jason Staten, Jen Luker, and Safia Abdalla
How do you set yourself up for success in your career as a software engineer? How do you learn? How do you go from junior to senior?
Hosts: Adam Garrett-Harris, Jason Staten, Jen Luker, and Safia Abdalla
In this episode, we introduce the hosts, the podcast, and the first book we'll be reading, Apprenticeship Patterns.
