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
Episodes
14 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
"Compilers and JITs" with Yasser Arguelles Snape
Here I talk with Yasser Arguelles Snape to learn about his work on compiler optimizers, and pick his brain about the architecture of low level software systems.We discuss his experience as a young programmer, his work on Cuik and TB, th...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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1:21:44
"Web Programming Crash Course" Part 2
I talk with Bret Hudson and Ben Visness to get a crash course on the basics and practical aspects of web programming.Our conversation is split into two parts. In this part we discuss: architecting a web server, Node JS fault tolerance a...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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1:11:27
"Web Programming Crash Course" Part 1
I talk with Bret Hudson and Ben Visness to get a crash course on the basics and practical aspects of web programming.Our conversation is split into two parts. In this part we discuss: working with web APIs, the structure of HTTP, REST A...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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1:03:01
"Orca" with Martin Fouilleul
Here I talk with Martin Foilleul leader of the Orca project.Our conversation starts with the origin of the Orca project, and then branches out from there to cover various aspects of what Orca is, the way it differs from other technologi...
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1:11:32
"Handmade F#" with Matthew Crews
Here I talk with Matthew Crews - the from the Fast F# YouTube channel.Our conversation starts with Matthew's journey to becoming a programmer who cares about performance. We touch on different styles of educational materials, and what w...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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1:23:17
"Designing a UI System" with Ryan Fleury
I talk with my good friend Ryan Fleury about his experience iterating on the design of a system for production quality immediate mode GUI.We cover: The way Ryan views the tradeoff space of GUI programming, how Ryan approaches reusabilit...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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1:38:17
"Investing in Tools" Round Table Part 2
I talk with the round table from the Handmade Seattle 2022 memory management podcast, featuring: Evan Ovadia, John Austin, Ryan FleuryOur conversation is split into two parts. In this part we discuss: paradigm shifts in programming tool...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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1:16:57
"Investing in Tools" Round Table Part 1
I talk with the round table from the Handmade Seattle 2022 memory management podcast, featuring: Evan Ovadia, John Austin, Ryan FleuryOur conversation is split into two parts. In this part we discuss: making the choice to invest in a pa...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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59:57
"Organizing Independent Conferences" with Abner Coimbre
I talk with my good friend Abner Coimbre about his work putting on high quality tech conferences with no sponsor influence.We cover: why Abner does the work that he does, how Abner manages the ticket prices while delivering a high quali...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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1:30:06