
Join us on this adventure as Amos describes the history of Bluetooth & co., the trials and tribulations of connecting devices in their home and how this has helped their mental well-being (yes, really).
Visit sdr-podcast.com/episodes/my-home-automation-journey/ to see the show notes and transcript!
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Nov 20, 2024
40 min

James explains how to combine macros and const-fns to work around limitations of what is possible at compile time, and how to do extremely wasteful calculations at compile time to deduplicate lists of things to make embedded systems go brrr
Visit sdr-podcast.com/episodes/compile-time-criemes/ to see the show notes and transcript!
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Nov 13, 2024
36 min

The Wonderful Story of Target Triples and Six More
Visit sdr-podcast.com/episodes/target-triples/ to see the show notes and transcript!
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Nov 6, 2024
38 min

An exploration of self-describing vs non-self-describing formats, and how it changes the shape of your programs more than you might think
Visit sdr-podcast.com/episodes/partial-understanding/ to see the show notes and transcript!
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Oct 30, 2024
34 min

Amos and James reminisce about how weird clipboards have always been. Or is it pasteboards? Or buffers? Oh boy.
Visit sdr-podcast.com/episodes/clipboards/ to see the show notes and transcript!
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Oct 23, 2024
29 min

A deep dive into the potential benefits, and awkward drawbacks, by making all allocations async and fallible
Visit sdr-podcast.com/episodes/async-allocators/ to see the show notes and transcript!
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Oct 16, 2024
22 min

An overview of how devices decide how to split streams of bits and bytes into frames, and the things that can go wrong
Visit sdr-podcast.com/episodes/frame-sync/ to see the show notes and transcript!
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Oct 9, 2024
28 min

Amos presents rubicon, which through terrible dynamic linking crimes, brought joy again into developing their website
Visit sdr-podcast.com/episodes/dynamic-linking/ to see the show notes and transcript!
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Oct 2, 2024
23 min

An introduction to how the 'plumbing' of async tasks and drivers wait, sleep, and are notified for efficient cooperative action; and a glowing overview of the maitake-sync crate's main primitives
Visit sdr-podcast.com/episodes/syncing to see the show notes and transcript!
The postcard crate, which is looking for sponsors for the 2.0 release. More info to be found on the OneVariable blog.
Sep 25, 2024
30 min

How global is your context? And does it really need atomic reference counting?
Visit sdr-podcast.com/episodes/arc to see the show notes and transcript!
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Sep 18, 2024
24 min
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