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Hosted by Jim McQuillan & Wolf · technology · EN-US
Conversations about technology between two friends who disagree on plenty, and agree on plenty more.
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Signup to Generate a PitchRuntime Arguments is hosted by Jim McQuillan & Wolf. The show has published 40 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "40: Cargo Cult Programming" (31 October 2026, 51 minutes), "39: Sometimes a complete rewrite is the right choice" (17 October 2026, 108 minutes), and "37: Unix Year 2038 problem and the art of underestimating" (19 September 2026, 63 minutes).
Runtime Arguments publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 79 minutes across 40 episodes.
Booking probability for Runtime Arguments is 31%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Runtime Arguments requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Runtime Arguments's contact route on record: verified email.
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Jim McQuillan & Wolf hosts Runtime Arguments, a technology podcast with 40 episodes published.
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Episode #40
When are you programming, and when are you just pretending ... really, really, well? Cargo cult science is a term Richard Feynman invented to describe one way of doing science wrong. The computer science world has...
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Episode 39 is the show's 40th, since numbering started at zero. Jim and Wolf ask listeners whether a video version would be worth doing, and Wolf adds "rules" to the values-and-goals framework from episode 36. In their...
Episode #37
Jim walks through the classic 2038 problem — Unix's 32-bit signed timestamp (seconds since Jan 1, 1970) overflows on January 19, 2038, flipping negative and breaking anything that depends on file/time comparisons (e.g...
Episode #36
It sounds like a productivity episode. It isn't. Everything changes, all the time; what you know is perishable, and so is what you've built. The scarce resource isn't time — everyone gets the same clock — it's...
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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...
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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...
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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 *...
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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...
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<p>You almost never have exactly the right amount of compute for the job. Either cores are sitting idle while your code runs on one, or you've got more problem than machine. This episode is about the two fundamental...
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<p>Jim talks about his struggles to get decent Wi-Fi in all corners of his house. The big issue is all of the numbers and codes and things they use to describe the different Wi-Fi...
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Don't let the language be the problem — let the problem be the problem.You're not picking a language; you're picking an ecosystem.Boring is a feature.Resume-driven development is real, it's expensive, and everyone has...
Episode #27
<p><b>From rsh to certificates: The story of how we learned to log in safely.</b></p><p>SSH has been around for a long time, over 30 years in fact. In this episode we talk about what came before and why SSH is such a...
Episode #26
<p>You already have an editor. You already love it. Nothing we say is going to change that — and we know it. But your editor shapes how you think about editing, which means there are problems it could solve for you that...
Episode #25
<p>If you've been using Linux on the desktop you almost certainly have been using the X Window System.</p><p>In this episode we dive into what that is, where it came from and what kinds of choices you have.</p><p>We get...
Episode #24
<p>If you've ever debugged a program, looked for lost socks or tried to figure out why red spots are developing on your skin, then Bayes' rule was almost certainly used to help you on your journey. Even if you don't...
Episode #23
<p>Containers have become the standard way for deploying applications on servers and the web and sometimes even on the desktop.</p><p>In this episode we dive into what containers are, how they work, how to build them...
Episode #22
<p>In episode 8, Wolf talks about using AI to write code; and a bit of the landscape around that. In this episode, he describes what he’s learned on his journey from just coding to using AI as a major tool in his...
Episode #21
<p>Jim brings his vast knowledge of Databases and dives into the history, some theory, some best practices and some choices you can make.</p><p><b>Links:</b></p><p>Claude best practices guide...
Episode #20
<p>Git is an amazing tool for managing your source code. Lots of people use it every day but most people barely scratch the surface of what git can do.</p><p>In this episode, we dive in and explain lots of features from...
Episode #19
<p>Data centers are sprouting up every where. Do we really need more of them?</p><p>In this episode, Jim and Wolf talk about what data centers are, how prevalent they are and what it takes to build them.</p><p>We talk...
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