Picture Me Coding

About Picture Me Coding

Picture Me Coding is a music podcast about software. Each week your hosts Erik Aker and Mike Mull take on topics in the software world and they are sometimes joined by guests from other fields who arrive with their own burning questions about technology. Email us at: podcast@picturemecoding.com Patreon: https://patreon.com/PictureMeCoding You can also pick up a Picture Me Coding shirt, mug, or stickers at our Threadless shop: https://picturemecoding.threadless.com/designs Logo and artwork by Jon Whitmire - https://www.whitmirejon.com/

Publisher

Erik Aker and Mike Mull

Category

technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

24 Jul 2023

Latest episode

9 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

77 of 111 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   9 Oct 2026

   Thanks for the Memory Part 2: Garbage Collection

   Host Alex Miller interviews computer scientist Dr. Emily Carter about the history and implementation of garbage collection in dynamic memory allocation.

2. 

   25 Sept 2026

   Thanks for the Memory Part I: Allocators

   Host Alex Miller interviews memory allocation expert Dr. Michael Van De Vanter about efficient strategies for dynamic memory management.

3. 

   11 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   From the Academy to Industry with Alan Dyke

   Host Erik interviews Dr. Alan Dyke, a Ph.D. from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, about his transition from academia to diverse software industries and the importance of hurricane calibration.

Inside a recent episode

From the Academy to Industry with Alan Dyke

Published 11 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] There are differences between the UK and the US system. In the UK system, the universities are highly motivated to get you to graduate on time. If you don't submit your thesis within four years, they have financial penalties because of that. So they lose funding if you don't submit within four years. In the US system, the better you are, the harder it is to get out because your supervisor generally wants to keep you around for as long as possible, getting you to do research for him. You know, like the incentives are different. And, you know, I think in the U.S. it can often be sort of like low paid labor with a lot of work behind it and, yeah, quite a lot of stress. […]

Who has been a guest on Picture Me Coding

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Alan Dyke
• Doug Burke
• Bob Farzin
• Kyle Risse
• Erik Reinert

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

12 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 40 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

53

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

71

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