Self-Directed Research
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Intrusive lists for fun and profit
Intrusive lists for fun and profit
About this podcast
This is the Self-Directed Research Podcast! Our hosts, James and Amos, host hyper focused technical deep dives
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Episodes
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- Intrusive lists for fun and profit · 59 minSure, it's unsafe, but it's not like, UNSAFE unsafe. Visit sdr-podcast.com/intrusive-lists-for-fun-and-profit to see the show notes and transcript! This episode is sponsored by…
- How far can you take OpenFX? · 52 minAmos continues on the arc of nerd-sniping themselves to make their videos in the silliest possible way. Visit sdr-podcast.com/how-far-can-you-take-openfx to see the show notes…
- Blackmagic Fusion is weird · 51 minAmos goes further into automating their video production workflow. Get ready to play a game! Visit sdr-podcast.com/blackmagic-fusion-is-weird to see the show notes and…
- How is software safety certified · 54 minJames explains a bit about how safety critical industries think about reliability, the work that goes into shipping safety critical software, and how the Rust language and…
- All you need is three iPhones · 1 h 0 minAmos shares the audio, video, and lighting equipment they use (past and present!) to produce the videos on the fasterthanlime channel. It turns out you can save a lot of money by…
- Traceability · 30 minJames discusses the concept of software traceability tools, used in safety critical software development, and his wishes for an open source version that could give all of the…
- HTML5 video · 52 minAmos explains their choices when it comes to encoding settings for images and for short videos in browsers in 2025. Visit sdr-podcast.com/html5-video to see the show notes and…
- Typst is pretty neat · 42 minJames shares a bit about Typst as an excited newcomer to the 'documents as code' ecosystem, while simultaneously throwing a lot of shade at LaTeX, a tool that James and Amos have…
- DRM schemes · 52 minThe top 10? Bottom 10? In any case, enjoy a breakdown of 10 digital rights management schemes. Also, admire Amos' restraint as a YouTuber that they waited until 2025 to make a…
- sans-io: meh · 37 minJames and Amos have a spirited discussion about sans-io, a technique for writing protocol libraries, and the tradeoffs of sans-io when compared to leaning into async/await…
- automating macOS · 45 minJoin us as Amos falls down the rabbit hole of automation tools to bring you, the viewer, the absolute highest quality screenshots and code snippets. Visit…
- Proxying is just dumb routing · 27 minJames and Amos are back, and talking about routing, reverse proxies, and yeeting packets onto the internet. Visit sdr-podcast.com/proxying-is-just-dumb-routing to see the show…
- The Embedded Buddy System · 43 minJames shares why you might want to design embedded systems as a network of devices, instead of trying to cram everything into a single chip Visit…
- Merde is not Serde · 48 minIn a rare direct follow-up episode, Amos shares an even differenter take on Serde, this time focusing on the kind of needs a server would have when handling data. Spoiler: Yes…
- A different serde · 41 minA bit about how serde works well, a bit about how serde doesn't work well, and a bit about a different, questionable way of doing things Visit…
- My home automation journey · 41 minJoin 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…
- Compile Time Crimes · 37 minJames 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…
- Target triples · 39 minThe Wonderful Story of Target Triples and Six More Visit sdr-podcast.com/episodes/target-triples/ to see the show notes and transcript! CodeCrafters is a service for learning…
- What good is partial understanding? · 34 minAn exploration of self-describing vs non-self-describing formats, and how it changes the shape of your programs more than you might think Visit…
- Things you might not have known about clipboards · 30 minAmos 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…
