The Command Line Podcast

by cmdln@thecommandline.net (Thomas Gideon) · · · CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 · 146 subscribers

A podcast by a self-described hacker, curmudgeon and hacktivist about the practice and profession of programming drawing on over a decade of professional experience and a lifetime spent hacking, the intersection of politics and society with technology and anything else clever, elegant or funny that catches my mind as a die hard technology geek.

This is an episode of The Command Line Podcast. I talk about the practice of code review, especially when it is challenging. You can directly download the MP3 or Ogg Vorbis audio files. You can grab additional formats and audio source files from the Internet Archive. Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

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![](http://thecommandline.net/files/687474703a2f2f626c6f672e70687573696f6e2e6e6c2f77702d636f6e74656e742f75706c6f6164732f323031332f31312f646f636b65722e706e67.png)This is an episode of The Command Line Podcast. I unpack some of my own experiences of the evolutionary trend that has results in Docker. You can directly download the [MP3](https://archive.org/download/2017-08-06TheCommandLinePodcast/cmdln.net_2017-08-06.mp3) or [Ogg Vorbis](https://archive.org/download/2017-08-06TheCommandLinePodcast/cmdln.net_2017-08-06.ogg) audio files. You can grab [additional formats and audio source files](https://archive.org/details/2017-08-06TheCommandLinePodcast/) from the Internet Archive. ![Creative …
![](http://thecommandline.net/files/IMG_20170723_1645462-300x300.jpg)This is an episode of The Command Line Podcast. I talk about the how frustration can be effectively channeled by building surprising tools, for yourself and your fellow developers. You can directly download the [MP3](https://archive.org/download/2017-07-23TheCommandLinePodcast/cmdln.net_2017-07-23.mp3) or [Ogg Vorbis](https://archive.org/download/2017-07-23TheCommandLinePodcast/cmdln.net_2017-07-23.ogg) audio files. You can grab [additional formats and audio source files](https://archive.org/details/2017-07-23TheCommandLinePodcast/) from …
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![](http://thecommandline.net/files/old- microphone-2290314_1920-300x300.jpg)This is an episode of The Command Line Podcast. I offer a bit of a stream of consciousness on the state of the podcast, over a decade of history, and thoughts for the future. You can directly download the [MP3](https://archive.org/download/2017-05-28TheCommandLinePodcast/cmdln.net_2017-05-28.mp3) or [Ogg Vorbis](https://archive.org/download/2017-05-28TheCommandLinePodcast/cmdln.net_2017-05-28.ogg) audio files. You can grab [additional …
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