Command Line Heroes: Overview of all Seasons

The technology podcast Command Line Heroes has covered a diverse range of topics over the years. This page gives you a concise list of all released episodes and seasons.

About the podcast:

Command Line Heroes tells the epic true tales of how developers, programmers, hackers, geeks, and open source rebels are revolutionizing the technology landscape.

Season 1 #

About the people who transform technology from the command line up.

Episodes:

• OS Wars_part 1: Microsoft vs. Apple
• OS Wars_part 2: Rise of Linux
• The Agile_Revolution: Agile Manifesto
• DevOps_Tear Down That Wall: What is DevOps?
• The Containers_Derby: Docker
• Crack the Cloud_Open: Cloud computing
• Days of Future_Open: Importance of open source

Season 2 #

About the people who transform technology from the command line up.

Episodes:

• Press Start: Gaming
• Hello, World: History of programming languages
• Ready to Commit: Committing to open source projects
• Fail Better: How tech embraces failure
• The One About DevSecOps: DevSecOps for better security
• The Data Explosion: Big data
• At Your Serverless: What is serverless computing?
• Open Curiosity: NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• Bonus: Developer Advocacy Roundtable: Developer advocates

Season 3: Programming languages #

Histories of some important programming languages.

Episodes:

• Python’s Tale: Python as a community driven language
• Learning the BASICs: BASIC as a beginner language in the early days
• Creating JavaScript: JavaScript; the default language of the web
• Diving for Perl: Pearl; history of a fallen star
• The Infrastructure Effect: COBOL and Go as infrastructure
• Heroes in a Bash Shell: Bash; the possibly most widely used software
• Talking to Machines: Lisp and the Origins of AI
• The C Change: C and UNIX; the root of modern computing

Season 4: Hardware #

Important breakthroughs in computing hardware.

Episodes:

• Minicomputers: The Soul of an Old Machine: Minicomputers of the 1970s
• Mainframes: The GE 225 and the Birth of BASIC
• Personal Computers: The Altair 8800 and the Dawn of a Revolution
• Floppies: The Disks That Changed the World: Floppy disks to replace punch cards and magnetic tapes
• Smarter Phones: Journey to the Palm-Sized Computer: PalmPilot
• Open Source Hardware: Makers Unite: The open source hardware movement
• Consoles: The Dreamcast’s Life After Death: Dreamcast
• Steve Wozniak: Builder/designer/inspiration to many of the devices of the season

Season 5: Coders #

The who, what, where, when, and why of coding careers

Episodes:

• Becoming a Coder: Ways into coding
• Where Coders Code: Coding workspaces and the home office
• What Kind of Coder Will You Become?: 10X developers

Season 6: Inventors #

Portraits of technology inventors that turned adversity into invention.

Episodes:

• Jerry Lawson: The Engineer Who Changed the Game: Video game cartridges
• Dr. Gladys West: The Mathematician Who Reshaped Our World: GPS
• Dr. Mark Dean: The Inventor Who Made the Computer Personal: Personal computer at IBM
• Dr. Marc Hannah: The Computer Scientist Who Brought Worlds to Life: Computer graphics
• Dr. Clarence Ellis: The Developer Who Helped Us Collaborate: Operational Transformation; Collaborative tools
• Roy Clay: The Entrepreneur Who Transformed an Industry: 16-bit minicomputer (see also S04E01)
• Gladys Perkins: The Pioneer Who Took Us To New Heights: NASA rocket trajectory calculations
• Arlan Hamilton: The Investor Who’s Opening Doors: Diversifying the VC community

Season 7: Internet history #

The many important things that happened for the internet in the year 1995.

Episodes:

• Connecting The Dot-Com: DNS, dot-com bubble
• From NSF to ISP
• A Language for the Web: HTML
• Web UX Begins: Web design
• Shopping for the Web: Building trust, Amazon.com, Ebay and e-commerce
• Looking for Search: Search engine
• The World of the World Wide Web: Worldwide access
• After the Bubble: Post dot-com

Season 8: Robots #

Broadcasting the robot revolution.

Episodes:

• Robot as Servant: Promises of the 1980s
• Robot as Software: Simulation software in robot design
• Robot as Maker: Industrial robots
• Robot as Humanoid: Robots in our image, uncanny valley
• Robot as Body: Prosthetics
• Humans as Robot Caretakers: HitchBOT
• Robot as Threat: Culpability, morals and ethics
• Robot as Vehicle: Self-driving cars

Season 9: Malware #

About Malware and information security.

Episodes:

• Relentless Replicants: Computer viruses and worms, MyDoom
• Terrifying Trojans
• Lurking Logic Bombs: CIH
• Dawn of the Botnets
• Menace in the Middle: Man-in-the-middle, free WiFi
• Ruthless Ransomers: Ransomware
• Invisible Intruders: Intrusion detection, story of Cliff Stoll
• All Together Now: SATAN