Stray Pointers

About Stray Pointers

Stray Pointers is a podcast where seemingly ordinary people join us for extraordinary discussions. There are a lot of amazing people out there. I thought that it would be interesting to interview people accomplishing or having accomplished amazing things in a variety of subject areas including computing, BBS's, hacking, health care, music, comic books, writing, illustration, education, journalism, podcasting, startups, electronics, video games, astronomy, agriculture ... you name it. For more information about the podcast, please see Jim Lawless' Stray Pointers page at: https://straypointers.com Illustration is © 2023 by Rick J. Lundeen. Please visit Rick's sites : https://rickjlundeen.wordpress.com/ https://www.teepublic.com/user/rick-lundeen

Publisher

Jim Lawless

Category

arts · technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

3 Aug 2023

Latest episode

8 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

53 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   8 Oct 2026

   Horror Novelist Angela Sylvaine Rejoins Us For Our 50th Podcast!

   The YouTube (audio only) version of this episode can be found here: https://youtu.be/oxz77qF6HtQ Angela Sylvaine makes her fifth appearance on our 50th podcast!  We discuss her recent writing efforts, we talk about the ideation process behind her stories, and we do our annual exchange of urban legend stories. Angela's Linktree Site https://linktr.ee/angelasylvaine Email: straypointers@gmail.com RSS Feed: http://feeds.libsyn.com/481983/rss Stray Pointers can also be found here: Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/stray-pointers/id1713097752 Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2dUPfppZtZfBehYy5Qx03k Amazon Music https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/9fa7c117-b43b-4676-aced-99eae7b1ae91/stray-pointers Player.FM https://player.fm/series/series-3705378 YouTube: Season 1: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIZg5UVGaR2ORXVpcuyaHCMUiqEJrnrPC Season 2: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIZg5UVGaR2Pe9YkfOpufRiY2Q4uKXHcy Season 3: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIZg5UVGaR2PKeBt3QJrfAuwswKx9Yww9 Season 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeYZN6UOzYo&list=PLIZg5UVGaR2PGCk2Pe7uzmpao-9oU4_rw

2. 

   19 Jan 2026

   2025 Advent of Code Follow-Up

   Juan Vazquez and Cameron Cunning rejoin the show to discuss how we fared with the 2025 Advent of Code competition. Website for the Advent of Code competition: https://adventofcode.com/ Cameron's GitHub Repo: https://github.com/ccunning2/AoC2025/tree/main/aoc-2025 Juan's Github Repo: https://github.com/javazquez/advent-of-code/tree/main/2025/aoc_2025_elixir Jim's AoC2025 GitHub Repo: https://github.com/jimlawless/aoc2025/

3. 

   2 Dec 2025

   Forth Systems Creator Tom Zimmer Joins the Show

   Tom Zimmer has implemented a variety of Forth compiler systems ranging from 8-bit commercial Forths to more modern implementations.  Tom discusses his background with electronics, computing, and Forth. Tom's websites: https://photobubba.com/ https://tomzimmer.wordpress.com/ The Win32Forth Project Page https://win32forth.sourceforge.net/ The Forth Interest Group (FIG) historical page on Forth. https://www.forth.org/

Reach and audience

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

YouTube views

3,980

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

2 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 44 / 100

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

Quality

34

Social presence

0

YouTube

68

Engagement

68