Aaron and Matei talk about college, computer science, productivity, and pretty much whatever they want. They sometimes answer their own and their audiences’ questions.
Your hosts are students at UC San Diego and members of the ACM club there.
Listen between your classes to stay up to date on current events and maybe even have a good time.
Matei reminisces, Aaron goes to a concert, and they both talk about finals week A LOT.
Show Notes
The Ballmer Peak (https://xkcd.com/323/)
TypeScript (https://www.typescriptlang.org)
Ruby on Rails (https://rubyonrails.org)
Rust is Full-Stack (https://www.joshfinnie.com/blog/using-webassembly-created-in-rust-for-fast-react-components/)
21 Nov 2021
Routine Changes
Matei tries staying home, Aaron watches too much YouTube, and they both follow up on various topics.
Show Notes
Ben Eater (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCS0N5baNlQWJCUrhCEo8WlA)
Timery (https://timeryapp.com/)
14 Nov 2021
Moving Around
Matei drinks too much coffee, Aaron moves on-campus, and they both talk about the importance of physical work.
Show Notes
Modern Times Coffee Beer (http://www.moderntimesbeer.com/beer/black-house)
Incas Used Cocaine Leaves (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coca#Coca_use_by_the_Incas)
Where Matei Gets His Coffee Beans (https://drinktrade.com)
7 Nov 2021
So Many Issues
Matei is sad about Halloween, Aaron has many troubles, and they both talk about open source projects.
Show Notes
FireWire (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_1394)
Scoop (https://scoop.sh/)
Scoop-backup (https://git.irs.sh/KNOXDEV/scoop-backup)
Ninite (https://ninite.com/)
31 Oct 2021
Retail Therapy
Matei buys a new speedcube, Aaron fishes at UCSD surplus, and they both share their thoughts on productivity tools.
Show Notes
Flagship Cubes Store
Google Calendar
OmniFocus
Toggl Track
Notion
JetBrains Space
ClickUp
24 Oct 2021
Hanging Out In #vent
Matei is amazed by the new MacBooks, Aaron finally covers an interesting backburner topic, and they both vent about their last weeks of schoolwork.
Show Notes
Example of needless type-checking in Discord's API (https://github.com/acmucsd/discord-bot/blob/1f22d742f83873f4586cd9a093ed77f726304327/src/commands/ACMURL.ts#L42-L54)
CTFBot (https://github.com/acmucsd/ctfbot)
Putnam Exam (https://www.maa.org/math-competitions/putnam-competition)
Paper on LANTENNA (https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.00104)
17 Oct 2021
The Dining Hall Episode
Aaron and Matei host fellow ACM member Ronak as they all go ballistic on rating dining halls. This was bound to happen eventually.
Show Notes
The Definitive UCSD Dining Hall Tier List (https://tiermaker.com/images/tier-lists-2021/1301641/dining-halls-at-ucsd-1301641-1634432375.png)
Conan O'Brien at Foodworx (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkjhGQAJkVs)
10 Oct 2021
AI-Assisted Foot-Shooting
Aaron and Matei address feedback and talk about Facebook's monumental failure and the reason why the podcast got delayed by 4 hours last week.
SHOW NOTES
Responsible Disclosure (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsible_disclosure)
Lot P304 (https://www.google.com/maps/place/Lot+P304,+La+Jolla,+CA+92037/@32.881249,-117.2430984,18.25z)
Mount Laguna (https://www.google.com/maps/place/Mt+Laguna,+CA+91948/@32.8711066,-116.4370148,15z)
Cloudflare's Article on the Facebook Outage (https://blog.cloudflare.com/october-2021-facebook-outage/)
The Thing Happening at the Same Time as the Outage (https://www.npr.org/2021/10/04/1042921981/facebook-whistleblower-renewing-scrutiny-of-social-media-giant)
3 Oct 2021
Whole Foods Basement
Aaron and Matei discuss dining halls and WiFi, how to adult, how to kick off an academic quarter and the sacred Whole Foods Triton Cash Terminal.
SHOW NOTES
Reached expected enrollment numbers for 2035 (https://triton.news/2021/06/the-pandemic-did-not-cause-ucsds-housing-crisis)
HDH Pines Placard (https://i.imgur.com/ff85CH5_d.png?maxwidth=1080&fidelity=grand)
CAPS (https://caps.ucsd.edu/)
Google Calendar
Notion (https://www.notion.so/)
28 Sept 2021
That Time Already?
Aaron and Matei do a totally slick and planned intro and chat about hybrid learning, dining halls and getting around campus.
SHOW NOTES:
Enrollment Numbers for Fall 2021: https://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/uc-san-diego-admits-record-52946-first-year-and-transfer-students (https://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/uc-san-diego-admits-record-52946-first-year-and-transfer-students)
The UCSD Housing Crisis: https://triton.news/2021/06/the-pandemic-did-not-cause-ucsds-housing-crisis/ (https://triton.news/2021/06/the-pandemic-did-not-cause-ucsds-housing-crisis/)
Whole Foods does indeed accept Triton Cash: https://hdh.ucsd.edu/tcas/tritoncash/pages/Vendors.html (https://hdh.ucsd.edu/tcas/tritoncash/pages/Vendors.html)
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