Episodes

  • The Cache Flush Episode 13: The Grammar of Systems

    The Cache Flush Episode 13: The Grammar of Systems
    May 18 2023
    Systems can be simple, complicated, complex, or chaotic… but even that model is too simple, because they can also be all of these at once! Notes:
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    7 mins
  • The Cache Flush 012: Computer Power and Human Reason

    The Cache Flush 012: Computer Power and Human Reason
    May 10 2023
    In 1964, Joseph Weizenbaum created the famous "ELIZA" program, with which a human user could hold a simulated "therapy" session. The implications of the human reactions to ELIZA and later research inspired Weizenbaum to write one of the formative cautionary reflections on ethics in artificial intelligence. Today, as ChatGPT storms the world, this book is more relevant than ever.
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    8 mins
  • The Cache Flush Episode 11: The Closed World

    The Cache Flush Episode 11: The Closed World
    May 3 2023
    In this episode, selections from Chapter 2 of The Closed World: Computers and the Politics of Discourse in Cold War America. Notes Transcript This is the Cache Flush, a programmer’s audio scrapbook. This is episode 11, recorded Sunday, April 30th, 2023. Today I have some selections from chapter two of the Closed World Computers and […]
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    10 mins
  • The Cache Flush Episode 010: Making Errors, Making Sense, Making Use

    The Cache Flush Episode 010: Making Errors, Making Sense, Making Use
    Apr 26 2023
    A semi-reboot of the show. I'll be reading selections from my "software humanities" library - books and papers at the intersection of code and history, psychology, politics, ethics, ecology, and systems thinking.
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    6 mins
  • 009 Sponsorship Specifications

    009 Sponsorship Specifications
    Apr 28 2020
    Booknotes from Domain-Driven Design and Reactive Design Patterns, and some notes on mentorship vs sponsorship.
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    Less than 1 minute
  • 008 Reconstituted sophisticated opinions

    008 Reconstituted sophisticated opinions
    Feb 27 2020
    Thoughts on strong opinions and terms for complexity; some booknotes from Reactive Design Patterns and Domain-Driven Design; notes from Jessica Kerr.
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    Less than 1 minute
  • 007 Silver duct tape factories

    007 Silver duct tape factories
    Nov 8 2019
    Booknotes on Domain Driven Design, and conversations with Jessica Kerr about silver bullets and why your own codebase always feels full of holes.
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    Less than 1 minute
  • 006 Persistence of Impostor Relationships

    006 Persistence of Impostor Relationships
    Oct 5 2019
    Musings on the over-use of the term “impostor syndrome”, what it means to persist an object, and some booknotes on “Understanding Systems”.
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    Less than 1 minute