Runtime Arguments

Conversations about technology between two friends who disagree on plenty, and agree on plenty more.

Podcasting since 2025 • 36 episodes

Runtime Arguments

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35: HTTP - The Unsung Hero of the Internet

Jim leads a deep dive into HTTP — how it works, why it's still the backbone of the internet, and what's changed since Tim Berners-Lee built it at CERN in 1991. Wolf and Jim cover the protocol from request methods to modern performance upgrades,...

August 22, 2026 • 1:41:52

34: The Hardest Test You'll Ever Write Is Test #1

Wolf is at the "relies on tests" end of the spectrum. Jim is closer to the other end, somewhere around "how do I start?". He doesn’t need convincing. He just needs to get from zero (non-trivial) tests to one. Today’s episode is a candid discuss...

August 08, 2026 • 1:24:49

33: Perl Refuses To Die

Wolf and Jim open with two AI stories from the week. First, the report that an OpenAI model "escaped its sandbox" and went after Hugging Face — a story Wolf finds infuriating precisely because the words don't go together. Reading the actual joi...

July 25, 2026 • 1:09:52

32: Why Rust?

High-points on Rust: how it’s different, how it might help you even if you never actually use it on a project, why people care. … And some things Jim and Wolf have (separately) been working on.Links:SQL 'SELECT * (EXCE...

July 11, 2026 • 1:45:12

31: Local LLMs: Good Enough Might Be Enough

Jim shares his adventure into running LLMs on his own hardware. For him it's less about saving money and more about privacy — working in healthcare, he can't send patient data to the cloud.App vs. model: Claude Code and Codex...

June 27, 2026 • 59:50

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