Edge Cases

A weekly podcast about (mostly Apple-related) software development by Andrew Pontious and Wolf Rentzsch.

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117
01 Jan 2015

Something Was Not Going Right

play (32 minutes 15 MB)

Wolf on events vs threads and Andrew on our Overcast feed issues.

Links:

  • Accidental Tech Podcast: 97: You Have to Know When to Stop « atp.fm
  • felixge/node-mysql, Streaming query rows « GitHub
  • A New Streaming API for Node v0.10 « Node.js Blog
  • the morning paper: an interesting/influential/important paper from the world of CS every weekday morning, as selected by Adrian Colyer
  • Why threads are a bad idea « the morning paper
  • Threads Are Interesting « Edge Cases
  • Why events are a bad idea « the morning paper
  • Conflict-free Replicated Data Types « Edge Cases
  • On the duality of operating system structures « the morning paper
  • A language-based approach to unifying events and threads « the morning paper
  • Scala Actors: Unifying thread-based and event-based programming « the morning paper
  • Akka
  • Weaving the Leopard’s Pelt: Simulating Fibers on OS X, by Andrew Pontious via Wayback Machine (PDF)
  • Edge Cases tweet: “For users of Overcast, type or paste this in as a workaround for a properly-working Edge Cases feed: http://edgecasesshow.com/rss_overcast.xml”
  • Overcast
  • Overcast tweet: “Overcast has just surpassed 200,000 users in less than 6 months. Thank you all very much. I’ll keep working on making it even better.”
  • Playing Jenga with Microsoft Word « Edge Cases
  • Edge Cases feed « Overcast