Programming Throwdown, Episode 75, Arduino.

Take it away, Patrick. Welcome back to a non-interview programming throwdown i

really like the i really like the interview episodes i always like talking to people i just like talking um

talking to people but you know sometimes i was sitting down and and you know picking my book of the show and

and my permission like i kind of miss doing this like i yeah i've been too long without being

able to talk about something i've read so actually i like a lot i had a lot of books and i actually

did too yeah i mean i um i don't know if i mentioned this in the past episode but um audible uh

you know i uh uh they reach out to me in like

Christmas and I don't know if you got the same thing I did but they said you could

prepay for the year and it was significantly cheaper yeah like almost like

half price or something yeah it was that's right it was half price and I got all

12 credits up front and And yeah, I jumped on that. And yeah, and so I've been reading a ton of books. I pick one of them for Book of the Show. But yeah, we definitely have a backlog. Yes, I also did. Oh, no, I did it a while before that, so I've actually had the 12 credits for a while.

But then you still get the access. This is, anyways, this is off topic.

And you get the access to the sales for the thing. And I, my commute is just long enough that like I just really enjoy listening to the books. And I really make it through them

quite quickly. And so I have sort of a large catalog. But the 12 credits, like one per month isn't really sufficient. So then they have sales where they run stuff for, you know, $2 or $5 or buy one, get one free. Oh, nice. Or something. And so they'll email you like, oh, there's a sale going on. And I end up almost always picking up like a book or two from

the sale just to supplement the fact of you know having enough to listen to nice very so all right but

the first time I want to talk about is something that I've actually talked with people about work about

when we interview people at work is a discussion that comes out and so I thought it'd be

interesting to sort of discuss it here what you have to say I have some thoughts on it I guess

and then generally you know there won't be an authoritative answer here but at least if people in

the audience have this question I've heard it and that is should programmers be expected to

code in their free time?

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