SWE – Software Engineering for the Rest of Us

About SWE – Software Engineering for the Rest of Us

SWE: Software engineering, explained like you're smart but brand new. Two hosts, one big idea a day, zero jargon left unexplained. If you've ever nodded along in a tech conversation you didn't understand, this is your show.

Publisher

Arian Zargaran

Category

technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

5 Oct 2026

Latest episode

12 Nov 2026

Latest episodes

41 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   12 Nov 2026

   Episode 40: Your Phone Is Just a Billion Light Switches

   Mia and Leo explain bits and bytes through a row of light switches: how eight switches make a byte, how numbers become letters, photos, and songs, and why every computer on Earth thinks in just zero and one — with transistors and your phone's storage as real examples.

2. 

   11 Nov 2026

   Episode 39: Why Undo Always Goes Backwards

   Mia and Leo explain stacks and queues through a stack of cafeteria plates and a grocery checkout line: push, pop, enqueue, dequeue, and why the undo button, the back button, and the printer queue all run on the same two simple shapes — with Spotify's play queue and the call stack as real examples.

3. 

   10 Nov 2026

   Episode 38: Why Strangers Give Away Code Worth Millions

   Mia and Leo explain open source software through a community cookbook: licenses, forks, pull requests, and why strangers write code worth millions and give it away for free — with Linux, Firefox, and Visual Studio Code as real examples.

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