30: Available compute: way more than you need, right up until you need it!
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 tools for closing that gap — and why picking the wrong one makes things slower, not fa…
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 are applications, not models. Features like plan mode come from the app…
Louth’s Moment Has Arrived: Things Got Emotional on LMFM Ahead of The Big Game Tomorrow - 10/07/2026
After 69 years of waiting, Louth are back in an All-Ireland Senior Football Championship semi-final, and excitement across the Wee County has reached fever pitch.
This morning on The Agenda, we heard from Louth GAA Chair Sean McClean ahead of the biggest game in a generation, while passionate supp…
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 * (EXCEPT ...)' new functionalityhttps://peter.eisentraut.org/blog/2026/06/30/waiting…
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 joint statement, it turns out the incident happened during…
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 discussion where Wolf addresses Jim’s obstacles and tries to "…
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, with detours into cookies, CORS, WebSockets, and the t…
36: Now, let's talk about leaning the ladder (finally)
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 attention, and where it lands. So how do you aim it? Wolf makes the case that the answer …
37: Unix Year 2038 problem and the art of underestimating
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., Make). He compares it to Y2K, tracing the two-digit-year decision back to real …
38: The Claude Shannon Episode: Surprise, Entropy, and Bits
What is Information Theory?
Information is not meaning
Likely things need very few bits to communicate, maybe less than 1! Unlikely things need more bits.
Entropy is in the eye of the beholder. It’s what you already know that informs your ability to extract meaning from a message. To one person, i…
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