JUXT Cast

Episode Notes JUXT is a Platinum Sponsor of Strange Loop 2022. From September 22nd, you’ll find us in the JUXT booth at the Union Station in St. Louis, MO. Come visit!

It’s a pleasure to have our friends Dominic Monroe and Ray McDermott (from Defn podcast) join us in this episode and share their aspirations for the future of software. Ray’s vision includes a new editor in Clojure for Clojure called 'REPL-acement'. Find out more below and make sure to stop by Ray's talk at the :clojureD conference on the 11th of June at 13:15 CEST. Background: https://github.com/repl-acement/editors Work in progress: https://github.com/repl-acement/repl-acement Join the #repl-acement channel in clojurians on Slack: https://bit.ly/3t4PLPh

The separation of storage and compute is a key industry trend impacting all kinds of organisations and is acutely important for the design of modern database systems. In this episode, we discuss how general desires for increased availability, better scalability, and lower costs, has heavily influenced our own plans for XTDB's future 2.0 architecture. Listen to insights from the team, including a sneak peek of the kinds of things we're cooking up!

Juxtaposed against some software of the 90s like Microsoft Access, Lotus Notes, and Visual Basic, there is a distinct contrast in our current world. Malcolm argues that with today's fixation on Continuous Deployment, software has become static, brittle, and inflexible. In this episode, we talk about how users have consequently become disempowered. Why have we have created a culture so dependent on developers? What is the hidden cost of this incrementalism? And, how can we redistribute agency to users again?

In this episode, we dive into the concept of a 'record’. We examine what makes records technically superior to triples and tables and go back in time to uncover humanity’s long-standing preference for simple records.

Episode Notes Volpe National Transportation Systems Center Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc. BBN was selected by ARPA to build an Interface Message Processor (IMP) for the ARPANET Julie took over Ray Tomlinson’s first email system Intelpost SICP Instructor's Manual I Can Read That! A Traveler's Introduction to Chinese Characters Introduction to Algorithms Simply Scheme Chinese Characters Folk Dancing Julie’s Bulgarian Chorus teacher

Episode Notes Generative Art Procedural Generation Cellular Automata A New Kind of Science loop-recur Clojure The Beginning of Infinity - David Deutsch Ella’s talk at re:Clojure

Episode Notes Commodore 64 Commodore Basic Kent Beck Gifski Mob Programming Threading Macros Parkour Salute to the Sun - Matthew Halsall David’s Talk at re:Clojure

Episode Notes American museum of natural history in Manhattan Ham radio operators QST magazines Vacuum tube IBM 650/620 computers Joel Moses at Columbia Drum memory Biquinary encoding IBM 709 Vacuum tubes computer Marvin Minsky Claude Shannon IPL V interpreter by Carnegie Mellon Bill Gosper Lisp 1.5 programmer's manual PDP-6 MacLisp Macsyma, symbolic manipulation software Compacting garbage collector by Minsky Massachusetts watchmakers association George Daniels and the co-axial escapement Analog circuit design Synthetic Biology making creatures "to order". Tom Knight synthetic biologist and former student Formal specification of software

Episode Notes Freshcode Rich Hickey Emacs Haskell Common Lisp StarCraft 2 Victor Pelevin