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Self-Directed Research

@sdr-podcast.com

Every week, a new presentation on what Amos or James has been up to. Usually: Rust, embedded, web servers, but anything is fair game. New episodes every Wednesday! https://sdr-podcast.com/

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Self-Directed Research @sdr-podcast.com · 11mo ago

What a quiz, @fasterthanli.me 🧠 ! @jamesmunns.com 's Game Theory (and smarts) got him 20/35 (⏪⏪ 🏃‍♀️ <-- me, when I heard "What's James' score? Oh, Amanda will do it" 🙈)

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EuroRust@eurorust.eu · 11mo ago

The second @sdr-podcast.com live session is on YouTube now 🙌 Here, @fasterthanli.me tests @jamesmunns.com's knowledge of obscure compiler optimizations. Between trick questions and missed optimization opportunities, this quiz is as unfair as they come! 🦀 Check it out 👉 youtu.be/ubXjidi5YNc

Self-Directed Research @sdr-podcast.com · 11mo ago

It's almost like I was there with them 🥹

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EuroRust@eurorust.eu · 11mo ago

The first of two @sdr-podcast.com live sessions is on YouTube 🙌 @jamesmunns.com walks @fasterthanli.me through the tricks required to get the ergot messaging library working even on the smallest of devices. Make sure to subscribe to catch the other talks! 🦀 Check it out 👉 youtu.be/33l3gNPBpzc

Self-Directed Research @sdr-podcast.com · last yr.

YAY 📌 time for the @amandamajor.bsky.social's self-directed research 😇 in between seasons

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James Munns@jamesmunns.com · last yr.

Last episode of season 2 of @sdr-podcast.com: "Intrusive Linked Lists For Fun And Profit (on embedded)"! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ct10... Come and hear about the silly things I'm doing to (ab)use Pin, and the Cool and Unsafe code that allows for safely putting things on the stack in global lists!

Self-Directed Research @sdr-podcast.com · last yr.

⚠️✈️🚗🦺✅ Woo another almost hour long episode, maybe makes up for the day delay again 🙏 (life sure be life-ing, I'm trying my best 🫠)

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James Munns@jamesmunns.com · last yr.

Safety critical, safety critical, safety critical, safety critical. Rust. With @fasterthanli.me, for @sdr-podcast.com. Watch now for more info: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RntT...

Self-Directed Research @sdr-podcast.com · last yr.

Me editing this episode (sorry Wednesday was Thursday this week!)

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James Munns@jamesmunns.com · last yr.

This week's @sdr-podcast.com is "All You Need is Three iPhones", because it turns out the secret to video production these days isn't necessarily a lot of specialty gear, but actually a couple of used old-gen iPhones. Learn from @fasterthanli.me's gear misadventures! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntZP...

Self-Directed Research @sdr-podcast.com · last yr.

Software’s version of “eat your vegetables”

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James Munns@jamesmunns.com · last yr.

In this episode of @sdr-podcast.com, we're gunna found out exactly how many of our listeners have ever worked in safety critical industries, and whomst among us have opinions about requirements/code/test traceability tools :D www.youtube.com/watch?v=-f6R...

Self-Directed Research @sdr-podcast.com · last yr.

guess what it's sdr time

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James Munns@jamesmunns.com · last yr.

Today on @sdr-podcast.com, I IMMEDIATELY whiff a pop culture reference (confusing Bane and Littlefinger). Also: a deep dive from @fasterthanli.me into modern image + video formats, and understanding how to think about modern formats like av1/avif/webp/jxl and more! www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzVG...

Self-Directed Research @sdr-podcast.com · 2y ago

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James Munns@jamesmunns.com · 2y ago

If you've heard me talking about postcard-rpc before, but been too afraid to ask what that is, here's a @sdr-podcast.com episode to wind you down from any post Christmas celebrations :D Reminder: we're on break until next year, please do subscribe and catch up if you haven't! youtu.be/fTbIotFTf_A

Self-Directed Research @sdr-podcast.com · 2y ago

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James Munns@jamesmunns.com · 2y ago

And now for the last @sdr-podcast.com episode of the year: "The Embedded Buddy System", or, "James' cheat codes for low/mid volume + rapid embedded development" Huge thanks to @fasterthanli.me, @amandamajor.bsky.social, and all of you that have listened this year! www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCHj...

Self-Directed Research @sdr-podcast.com · 2y ago

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coreyja@coreyja.com · 2y ago

Just had a moment today at work were we needed to debug something to do with copy paste And I remembered an episode of @sdr-podcast.com where @fasterthanli.me talked about PasteBoard-Viewer! Yay learning useful tools from podcast episodes! And thanks for the detailed show notes with links!

James Munns@jamesmunns.com · 2y ago

Now live, my descent into madness, taking a perfectly fine, widely used, generally safe library in Rust (serde), and making a way hackier, way less general, and way more unsafe version, for marginally faster compile times, smaller code, and faster runtime ser/de. sdr-podcast.com/episodes/a-d...

A different serde

And now for something completely different A 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 View the presentatio...

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amos@fasterthanli.me · 2y ago

👀 THIS WEEK IN SDR james continues his cruisade against self-describing formats. amos makes stabs at golang without saying the word "protobuf" out loud. good times are had by everyone. 👂 sdr-podcast.com/episodes/par...

What good is partial understanding?

Self-describing formats, but at what cost? An exploration of self-describing vs non-self-describing formats, and how it changes the shape of your programs more than you might think View the presentati...

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