Beats, Rye & Types

Inspired by listeners who tell us that this show makes them too hungry, we take you over the far deep end and tell some of our favorite stories of our most enlightening meals. From cheese in Marsilles to Lengua Tacos in California, these are some of the best things we’ve ever had. Links, etc Music: Remember, “スカイライン Skyline” Chosen by AQ. Bandcamp Welcome Back, Kotter Eleven Madison Park What Is An Egg Cream? Blue Hill At Stone Barns The Modern The Best Pho in Paris Burritos from El Farolito (if you’re in SF go to the one on 24th NOT on Mission) Defontes Brick Lane Beigel mrb’s Favorite Dessert Cookbook by Gina De Palma We Are On Facebook!

What does pottery have to do with programming? What do you learn on your journey to be coming a master at both? We get to talk to one of AQ’s oldest friends, Avi Arenfeld, a MFA in Ceramic Arts, a rapper, and someone who’s just starting their journey into the world of programming. We talk a little about Hip-Hop, pots, and the most intimate user interfaces. Links, etc Music: El-P, “Drones over Bklyn (Instrumental)” Chosen by Avi. Spotify Def Jux Run the Jewels Aesop rock Alfred U Art Stream Trailer Alleghany Meadows

We catch up with our old friend Jacqui Maher, formerly of New York City and currently of London (yes, in England!). Jacui joins us to discuss leaving The City, the operator/creator divide, and the cutting edge of digital journalism. We ask how computers can help us deepen connections to complex news, learn about Structured Journalism, and hear Jacqui’s philosophy of technology and storytelling. Links, etc Music: Shake Shake Go, “England Skies” Chosen by Jacqui. Spotify Our Special Guest, Jacqui Maher @jacqui Johnny Marr Jaqui’s Dog Conor Dogberst Jake Harris, 18F Why Jill Abramson Was Fired, from The New Yorker Aaron Pilhofer Esquire Drinks Database David Wondrich New York Times Open Blog Redis The IOC Olympic Data Feed ‘Structured journalism’ offers readers a different kind of story experience, from CJR Why the Islamic State leaves tech companies torn between free speech and security, from The Washington Post The BBC royal charter A Fresh Look on Knowledge Bases: Distil

After a little hiatus we catch up with good friend and other Aaron, Aaron Patterson. We talk about Aaron’s full time work on in Open Source (Ruby and Rails), making salami, how his cats are great ice-breakers, and how he applies the punk ethos to every day life. Editors Note: Even with his fancy new mic, unfortunately, there were some problems with Aaron’s recording. I did my best to salvage and clean but we had to cut a pretty significant section out around 21:00. I also had to leave in a little piece of damaged audio just to have the conversation make any sense. Links, etc Music: Unkown Mortal Orchestra “Multi-love”, Chosen by Aaron Patterson. Spotify Our Special Guest: Aaron Patterson aka @tenderlove KEXP Top Charts @tenderlove on github Ruby on Rails Core Team Ruby core team Why the lucky stiff’s poingnant guide to ruby phuby on phails Ruby Kaigi 2009 Gorbypuff Leonard Chin

After 26 weeks (a full half year) of week after week podcastin’ we look back at the common themes we’ve touched on and the awesome guests we’ve been able to talk to. We also talk about the origins of Beats, Rye & Types and the upcoming Pizza Book. Links, etc Music: Thundercat “Them Changes”, Chosen by AQ. Spotify Thundercat Live (Video) Beats, Rye & Types: Pizza Book Jed Schmidt Episode Carin Meier Episode Greg Borenstein Episode Mikeal Rogers Per Martin-Löf

A listener suggested we do a show about Chinese food, and we very happily obliged. We both have learned a lot about eating and cooking through the massive and rich cultural tapestry of Chinese culinary culture, so we share a bit about our history with American Chinese food, the idea of authenticity, how much we love spare ribs, and more. Links, etc Music: Vince Staples “Jump Off The Roof”, Chosen by MRB. Spotify Beats, Rye & Types: Pizza Book Shoutout to Tobias for the recommendation AQ’s Beef and Broccoli Recipe General Tso Documentary: Search for General Tso Joe’s Shanghai Din Tai Fung Taiwan Pok Pok NY Xian Famous Foods Flushing Malls Fuchsia Dunlop Beyond The Great Wall Land Of Plenty

“Hmmmmm…could control with REPL…” Robot music dance parties, raising chickens, artificial intelligence, and chemical computing are just some of Carin Meier’s interests. She’s cut from the same obsessive cloth as we are, and we have a great time on this episode exploring learning, connecting with others on the internet, and more. Having guests on the show always brings us in interesting directions - join us! Links, etc Music: Will Bradley & His Orchestra “Celery Stalks at Midnight”, Chosen by Carin. Spotify Our Special Guest: Carin Meier Carin’s Robot Talk from Strangeloop John McCarthy Overtone Meta-eX Sam Aaron Sonic Pi Logo Lang Leslie Lamport Byzantine Fault Tolerance Maurice Sendak Article Maurice Sendak Interview w/Colbert Philip Glass A Folly

What’s your personal pizza aesthetic? What does it take to turn a passion into a career? We get to sit down and talk to another one of our current Pizza Heroes, creator and chef of Margot’s Pizza, Adam Kuban. Adam also was one of the first of the New York food bloggers and we get to talk to him about the early days of Slice, Bar Pies, and get to hear his best Paulie Gee accent. Links, etc Music: Parry Gripp “Say Hello to Your Brand New Favorite Pizza”, Chosen by Adam. Amazon Special Guest: Adam Kuban BEATS, RYE & TYPES: THE PIZZA BOOK Margot’s Pizza Pizza <3 Emily Slice (Now Serious Eats) Paulie Gee’s Caseys Pizza SF Colony Grill, CT Star Tavern, NJ Kinchleys, NJ Lee’s Tavern, SI Eddie’s New Hyde Park Slice Harvester Robert Sietsema Steven Shaw Totonnos, Brooklyn Patsys, Harlem Grimaldis, Brooklyn Anthony Mangieri, Una Pizza Napoletana Sarah Minnick Episode Deninos, SI

As we celebrate the FREEDOM of AMERICA, we discuss the ideas how our culture values free things including Art, Music, and Software. We know that we need codes of conduct, but what does that mean for our communities? What are we willing to sell and what has no right to be sold? Links, etc Music: D’Angelo and The Vanguard “The Charade”, Chosen by MRB. Spotify BEATS, RYE & TYPES: THE PIZZA BOOK Jacobin Mag: Culture isn’t Free Netflix: ““Nina Simone Doc Richard Prince Instagram Art Kelsey Hightower tweet Andre Arko Ruby Together StableLib (LTS golang packages) Tom Dale Thoughtbot OpenSSL Heartbleed

Once again, we got to sit side-by-side as we were both attending GoRuCo in NYC. We talk about The Band, the favorite talks we’ve seen recently, transpiling, and some of the awesome conferences coming up in the fall. Links, etc Music: Neil Diamond “Dry Your Eyes”, Chosen by MRB. Spotify BEATS, RYE & TYPES: THE PIZZA BOOK The Last Waltz The Band Bill Graham Autobiography Across The Great Divide Goruco 2015 Hiro Asari (No slides yet) F# Lang Create your own Programming Language (book) Idris Elixir Programming Language Erlang and OTP in Action Eileen Uchitelle (@eileencodes) Eileen’s Talk at Goruco StackProf Aman Gupta Google PProf tool Rblineprof FullStackFest Mikeal Rogers Mike’s Talk at Strangeloop David Nolen Blake Mizerany Catskills Conf Mr Aleph’s JSConf 2012 Talk HV Tech Meetup Dan Stone Kale Kaposhilin Paul Campell Chris Williams

We’ve said before that we define ourselves by our tastes, but how can that be when our tastes are constantly changing? What does it mean to be a polyglot and what inspires us to make the effort to step outside our respective comfort zones? We talk about the good ol’ days of JavaScript, MRB’s School of Jazz, and playing the Electric Jug. Links, etc Music: Roky Erikson “Two Headed Dog”, Chosen by AQ. Spotify BEATS, RYE & TYPES: THE PIZZA BOOK You’re Gonna Miss Me (Film) Eye Mind Saga (Book) Electric Jug Jeff Porter @drinkeatlove

A very special episode: We sat down IN PERSON for the first time as part of the podcast and talked about a variety of things on our minds. AQ accidentally did not hit record on the first try, but we ended up taking a slightly different track anyway. We talk about overturning dogmas and preconceptions about the food we like and cook, and generally the things we believe to be true. Links, etc Music: Ashra Tempel “Sunrain”, Chosen by AQ. Spotify BEATS, RYE & TYPES: THE PIZZA BOOK RubyNation AQ’s Talk at Ruby Nation MRB’s Talk at Ruby Nation Rose’s Luxury Tea Leaf Salad Burma Superstar Grant Achatz Flavor Bouncing The Flavor Bible Ideas in Food (The Book) Maximum Flavor Ramenized Noodles NaOH No Heat Maillard Chad Yakobson, Crooked Stave AQ’s Meat Fridge Michael Ruhlman’s Charcuterie Salumi (Book) Jacobin Mag: Slow Food Chef’s Table with Dan Barber

As we prepare for some upcoming speaking engagements, we discuss our different philosophies around giving talks at conferences and also give some tips to aspiring speakers in the computology community. Links, etc Music: Novos Baianos “Brasil Pandeiro”, Chosen by MRB. Spotify BEATS, RYE & TYPES: THE PIZZA BOOK The Idris Programming Language The Idris Compiler Toolchain (PDF) ‘Modern Compiler Implementation’ by Andrew Appel Dave Thomas ‘The Ruby Object Model’ by Dave Thomas ‘Shaving with Occam’ by Jim Weirich AQ’s Upcoming Talk at Qcon Ruby Nation Alexa Hirschfeld

What is the role of research in computology, food, and music? We get to talk to our friend and scholar, Greg Borenstein, who’s just finished working on finishing his thesis at the MIT Media Lab. We talk about the intersection of art and computers, learning as a curve, and salad dressing. Links, etc Music: Eno & Hyde “Daddy’s Car”, Chosen by Greg. Spotify Greg Borenstein BEATS, RYE & TYPES: THE PIZZA BOOK MIT Media Lab Musical Applications of Electric Field Sensing (PDF) Seam Carving for Content-Aware Image Resizing (PDF) ACM SIGGRAPH Kyle MacDonald Greg’s Talk at Paperless Post Leslie Lamport Deep Learning Parsons Design and Technology Golan Levin Interactive Machine Learning Max MSP Open Frameworks Zach Lieberman Dan Barber Ferran Adria Burma, Naomi Duiguid Pounded Beef

What makes a beautiful pizza beautiful? In our first of many conversations with chefs, we talk to Sarah Minnick, owner and chef at Lovely’s Fifty Fifty in Portland, OR. Sarah makes some of the most stunning pizzas we’ve ever seen and we got the chance to chat and to know more about her, her craft, and her obsessions. Links, etc Music: Destroyer “Bay of Pigs”, Chosen by Sarah. Spotify Lovely’s Fifty-Fifty Sarah’s Instagram (Must Follow) BEATS, RYE & TYPES: THE PIZZA BOOK DiFara Tartine Book 3 The Cheeseboard Apizza Scholls Nostrana Adam Kuban

As you can tell by our terrible senses of humour, we’re dads. Since we spend a lot of time thinking about and caring for our sons and daughters, we enlisted the expertise of one of our good friends and “Old Dad”, Andrew Gerrand (@enneff) to talk to us about fatherhood. In this case we get to touch on fatherhood as it relates not only to our actual kids, but also as the stewardship of a major open-source project (Google’s Go language #golang). Links, etc Music: Tipper “Tripping the light fantastic”, Chosen by Andrew. Spotify All things Andrew Gerrand The Go Programming Language BEATS, RYE & TYPES: THE PIZZA BOOK Aaron’s Hip-Hop jams Andrew’s Synthesizer in Go Learn programming with Scratch Learn programming with the Khan Academy IBM Basic Manual, 1982 (PDF) Know Your Meme: PWNED Russ Cox Rob Pike Richard Hudson on Google Scholar The Golang Blog

Alternate titles: What is a Yak Shave? How do you know you’re Yak Shaving? and (most importantly) You’re Going to Shave Some Yaks. We talk about the age old tradition of going on the endless quest that in and of itself has many quests. Links, etc Music: Ceremony “Your Life in France”, Chosen by AQ. Spotify Youtube BEATS, RYE & TYPES: THE PIZZA BOOK Yak Shaving on Wiktionary MBTI/Meyers & Briggs

Believe it or not we get complimented a lot. Not on our amazing looks or witty personalities, but on our ability to order well at restaurants. This is an art and a skill, not dumb luck. We share some of our favorite memories of eating out, reflect of the surly nature of one of our favorite spots, and talk about the ups and downs of the bon vivant lifestyle. Links, etc Music: Mulatu Astatke “Tezeta (Nostolgia)”, Chosen by MRB. Spotify BEATS, RYE & TYPES: THE PIZZA BOOK Russ & Daughters Cafe Marta Jim Harrison: “The Raw and the Cooked” Congee Village NY Times on House Special Chicken Paul Rudd in Wet Hot American Summer Frankies 457 Danny Bowien Menu from Frankies/Danny Bowien Popup Rice Paper, VA Saison SF Eleven Madison Park Ad Hoc Pok Pok NY Andy Ricker (Mostly pictures of cats)

In our minds theres nothing more appealing then a lazy Sunday with a pile of books, some good music, and a good dinner at the end of it. Books are a central part of our lives (especially books related to food and computology) so we’ll be dedicating a number of episodes to the topic. First we talk about the books that we consider foundational to our crafts. Check the show notes for links to every book we mention. Links, etc Music: Emanative “Makondi”, Chosen by AQ. SoundCloud, Spotify, Bandcamp Steve Reid Foundation Don Cherry - Makondi Harold McGee, On Food and Cooking Kenji/Food Lab, Serious Eats America’s Test Kitchen Best Recipes Momofuku Frankies Sputino Being Frank on Munchies/Vice Marco Pierre White, White HEAT 25 The French Laundry Cookbook Alice Waters, Chez Panisse Menu Cookbook Jeffery Zeldman, Designing with Web Standards K & R, The C Programming Language Perl Black Book Concepts, Techniques, and Models in Computer Programming

We sit down with one of the people we admire most in NYC tech general, Camille Fournier. We get to talk about the typical things around Consensus: What’s up with it, Why it’s a hard problem, and how managing people is like managing process (or isn’t at all). If that doesn’t sound appealing, may I interest you in Steak Tartare? Links, etc Music: The Wrens “Everyone Choose Sides”, Chosen by Camille. Spotify, Download Our Special Guest: Camille Fournier Twitter Blog BEATS, RYE & TYPES: THE PIZZA BOOK Rent the Runway Tech Blog Zookeeper Paxos Paper ZAB Paper Raft AQ’s Blog Post about Burnout etcd Craft Conference Zookeeper for the Skeptical Architect Brian Goetz, Clojure Conj Camille’s Favorite Recipe: Balthazar Steak Tartare