Mr. 4th Programming Conversations
Allen Webster, the creator of the Mr. 4th Programming YouTube channel, interviews programmers on their views and experiences of programming. Topics include trends in independent software culture, insights about being an effective software developer, the strengths and weaknesses of specific techniques and technologies, and much more. Find more about Mr. 4th at mr4th.com
Podcasting since 2023 • 14 episodes
Mr. 4th Programming Conversations
Latest Episodes
"Terminal.Click" with Abner Coimbre
I talk with Abner Coimbre about his experimental graphical terminal emulator Terminal. ClickWe start off talking about Abner's personal interest in the terminal. We talk about his decision to build a terminal that doesn't talk to a shel...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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1:21:27
"Boundaries of Language Design" with Andrew Kelley & Ginger Bill
I talk with Andrew Kelley and Ginger Bill about the position of classical languages in the textual programming paradigm.We talk about what makes a programming system suited to the native computing layer, interfaces for constructing soft...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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2:04:25
"Visual Programming: Lattice" with John Austin
I talk with John Austin about his visual programming system called Lattice.We talk about the ideas behind the tool, John's vision for Lattice, the initial inspiration for the project, John's preferences for where to rely on visual progr...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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1:35:27
"Local First Software and the Automerge CRDT" with Peter van Hardenberg
A recast of the Handmade Seattle 2023 podcast, in which I interviewed Peter van Hardenberg, of Ink and Switch, to learn about the lab, local first software, and their research into "Conflict-free Replicated Data Types" or CRDTs for short.
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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1:22:38
"Explainer Videos" with VoxelRifts
I talk with VoxelRifts to learn more about his journey into programming, how he found low level programming, and why his low level explainer videos are so good.In this conversation we discuss: Learning programming, difficulties and adva...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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55:00