Best Taylor Hutchison Podcasts (2025)

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Episode 18: The application security mindset 59:50

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In this episode Andy and Taylor kick things about talking about the rules of programming or the guiding philosophy of a programming, which often go unspoken. The main topic is the log4j vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228), the role and responsibility of programmers in application security, and where we are as an industry with open source software.…

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Episode 17: Licensing software developers 1:00:48

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Andy and Taylor are back from a road trip and reminisce about meeting in person for conferences and discus some of the features of C# 10. The main topic is the controversial idea of licensing software developers like other engineering professions. The history of licensing and what a license would require is discussed.…

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Episode 16: Rubberducking via podcast 1:01:32

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In this episode Andy describes a bug in some code that he wrote dealing with React, Firebase, and authentication. Taylor and Andy then discover how hard it is talk about code in a podcast format. We also talk about authentiation, application security, and how easy it is to make your application insecure by mistake. Taylor talks about his impresions…

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Episode 15: The history of FTP 59:12

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The File Transfer Protocol turned 50 years old in 2021. We walk through the history of FTP, how it came to be, how it has evolved, and how it has impacted our development careers.

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Episode 14: Coming around to Java 1:22:23

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We spend a lot of time talking about C#, but what is going on in the Java world? Andy has been doing some investigating and is ready to brief us.

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Episode 13: A long eight seconds 59:14

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How do we learn best? Is there such a thing as a learning style? This episode is all about our philosophy of learning (and teaching) programming. Andy also introduces a new word.

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Episode 12: Testing our code 52:31

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The main topic of this episode is testing. We compare unit, integration, and manual testing and what leads to better code and better applications. The story of Victor Vyssotsky and the Darwin game from Bell Labs is retold and interpreted for meaning.

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Episode 11: C# Opinions Part 2 1:05:37

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Our follow-up episode in which we mostly discuss the things we like about C#.

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Episode 10: C# Opinions Part 1 54:32

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In this episode we talk about what we want to change about C# language. We walk through our wish list without regard to how difficult or impractical such changes would be.

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Episode 9: Does the web have a future? 1:00:59

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We take a look back at where the web has been and where it seems to be going and ask does it have a future? We talk PWAs, Angular, React, Blazor, micro-frontends, and other technologies and how they can coexist.

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Episode 8: A developer's intuition 42:09

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What is a code smell? How does a developer know when something is not right with the code. In this episode we talk about a developer's intuition and how that is related to code smells.

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Episode 7: A bucket of smaller buckets 38:25

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We discuss what we know and what we don’t know about mono-repos. Then we reminisce about a time when Twitter was different.

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Episode 6: Unworkable metaphors 1:12:49

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Taylor and Andy talk about teaching programming to others and how certain techniques are more helpful than others.

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Episode 5: Today is yesterday's tomorrow 56:30

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We don't ever quite get around to defining structured programming.

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Episode 4: Can't we just write sql? 58:00

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We talk about ORMs. The good. The bad. And why nothing can ever be simple.

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Episode 3: The ideal type system 46:20

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Type systems in several languages, including C#, TypeScript, and Haskell are discussed as we try to figure our what the ideal type system might be. Andy outlines the three stages of regular expressions.

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Episode 2: We say instantiate 1:02:32

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Andy and Taylor muse over contrarian programmers and AI-assisted coding. Andy outlines his philosophy of teaching classes and objects to new programmers.