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Self-Directed Research

OneVariable GmbH 32 Folgen Aug 13, 2025

Self-Directed Research is a podcast where hosts James and Amos take listeners on hyper-focused technical deep dives. Each episode explores complex technical topics in detail, aiming to provide thorough understanding. Listeners can find more episodes, support options, and contact information at sdr-podcast.com.

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Intrusive lists for fun and profit Aug 13, 2025 00:58:43 Sure, 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 Depot: the build acceleration platform that's on a mission to make all builds near instant. If you're tired of watching your builds in GitHub Actions crawl like the modern-day equivalent of paint drying, give Depot's

How far can you take OpenFX? Aug 6, 2025 00:52:18 Amos 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 and transcript! This episode is sponsored by Depot: the build acceleration platform that's on a mission to make all builds near instant. If you're tired of watching your builds in GitHub Actions crawl like the modern-d

Blackmagic Fusion is weird Jul 30, 2025 00:50:44 Amos 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 transcript! This episode is sponsored by Depot: the build acceleration platform that's on a mission to make all builds near instant. If you're tired of watching your builds in GitHub Actions crawl like the modern-day equivalen

How is software safety certified Jul 23, 2025 00:53:53 James 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 compiler are a good fit these industries. Visit sdr-podcast.com/how-is-software-safety-certified to see the show notes and transcript! This episode is sponsored by Depot: the build acceleration platform that's on a mission

All you need is three iPhones Jul 16, 2025 01:00:32 Amos 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 just buying three iPhones. Visit sdr-podcast.com/all-you-need-is-three-iphones to see the show notes and transcript! This episode is sponsored by Depot: the build acceleration platform that's on a mission to make all

Traceability Jul 9, 2025 00:29:33 James 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 benefits with a minimal amount of fuss. Visit sdr-podcast.com/traceability to see the show notes and transcript! This episode is sponsored by Depot: the build acceleration platform that's on a mission to make all builds

HTML5 video Jul 2, 2025 00:51:40 Amos 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 transcript! This episode is sponsored by Depot: the build acceleration platform that's on a mission to make all builds near instant. If you're tired of watching your builds in GitHub Actions crawl like the modern-day eq

Typst is pretty neat Jun 25, 2025 00:41:42 James 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 never really actually used. Visit sdr-podcast.com/typst-is-pretty-neat to see the show notes and transcript! This episode is sponsored by Depot: the build acceleration platform that's on a mission to make all builds

DRM schemes Jun 18, 2025 00:52:13 The 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 numbered list. Visit sdr-podcast.com/drm-schemes to see the show notes and transcript! This episode is sponsored by Depot: the build acceleration platform that's on a mission to make all builds near instant. If you're t

sans-io: meh Jun 11, 2025 00:37:12 James 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. Visit sdr-podcast.com/sans-io to see the show notes and transcript! This episode is sponsored by Depot: the build acceleration platform that's on a mission to make all builds near instant. If you're tired of watching you

automating macOS Jun 4, 2025 00:44:41 Join 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 sdr-podcast.com/automating-macos to see the show notes and transcript! This episode is sponsored by Depot: the build acceleration platform that's on a mission to make all builds near instant. If you're tired of watching your builds in GitHu

Proxying is just dumb routing Mai 28, 2025 00:27:07 James 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 notes and transcript! This episode is sponsored by Depot: the build acceleration platform that's on a mission to make all builds near instant. If you're tired of watching your builds in GitHub Actions crawl like the m

The Embedded Buddy System Dez 11, 2024 00:43:26 James 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 sdr-podcast.com/the-embedded-buddy-system to see the show notes and transcript! **Sponsor:** Poststation, a tool from OneVariable that makes it easy to set up communication between your desktop, laptop, or an embedded Linux system, to as a many co

Merde is not Serde Dez 4, 2024 00:48:21 In 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, merde means poop in French. Visit sdr-podcast.com/episodes/merde-is-not-serde/ to see the show notes and transcript! CodeCrafters is a service for learning programming skills by doing. Visit our referral link at CodeCra

A different serde Nov 27, 2024 00:40:33 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 Visit sdr-podcast.com/episodes/a-different-serde/ to see the show notes and transcript! CodeCrafters is a service for learning programming skills by doing. Visit our referral link at CodeCrafters to start your free trial. If you decide to upgrade, you'll get

My home automation journey Nov 20, 2024 00:40:52 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! CodeCrafters is a service for learning programming skills by doing. Visit our referral link at C

Compile Time Crimes Nov 13, 2024 00:36:31 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! CodeCrafters is a service for learning programming skills by doi

Target triples Nov 6, 2024 00:38:47 The 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 programming skills by doing. Visit our referral link at CodeCrafters to start your free trial. If you decide to upgrade, you'll get a discount and a portion of the sale will support this podcast.

What good is partial understanding? Okt 30, 2024 00:34:13 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! Descript is the fully featured, end-to-end video editor that you already know how to use. Check out our referral link here to start a free trial - if you decide to up

Things you might not have known about clipboards Okt 23, 2024 00:29:31 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! CodeCrafters is a service for learning programming skills by _doing_. Visit our referral link at CodeCrafters to start your free trial. If you decide to upgrade, you'll get a discount and a portion of t

Async Allocators Okt 16, 2024 00:22:26 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! CodeCrafters is a service for learning programming skills by _doing_. Visit our referral link at CodeCrafters to start your free trial. If you decide to upgrade, you'll get a discount and a portion o

Frame Synchronization Okt 9, 2024 00:28:02 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! The Self-Directed Research podcast is made possible by our sponsors. We offer 30 second host-read ads at the end of every episode. Not sure how to get your message out, or what to say? Let us help

Fixing build times with rubicon Okt 2, 2024 00:23:16 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! The Self-Directed Research podcast is made possible by our sponsors. We offer 30 second host-read ads at the end of every episode. Not sure how to get your message out, or what to say? Let us he

What Are You Syncing About? Sep 25, 2024 00:30:47 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.

You might not need Arc<T> Sep 18, 2024 00:24:59 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! Episode sponsor: Visit ladybird.org for more information and to join the mailing list.

Talking to Microcontrollers with Postcard-RPC Sep 11, 2024 00:28:01 A conceptual introduction to structured communication protocols, and the design decisions behind the postcard-rpc crate Visit sdr-podcast.com/episodes/postcard-rpc to see the show notes and transcript! Episode sponsor: Visit ladybird.org for more information and to join the mailing list.

Thread-locals galore Sep 4, 2024 00:35:42 An overview of Thread Local Variables, and the challenges they pose for experimental dynamic linking support. Visit sdr-podcast.com/episodes/thread-locals to see the show notes and transcript! Episode sponsor: Visit ladybird.org for more information and to join the mailing list.

Direct Memory Access for the Uninitiated Aug 28, 2024 00:22:17 An introduction to DMA, including what it is commonly used for, and a model of how to think about what the hardware does. Visit sdr-podcast.com/episodes/dma to see the show notes and transcript! You can read the Inside Rust Survey Announcement for information about the Embedded Rust Community Micro Survey, or you can take the survey now by clicking here.

How Usable is the Rust Cranelift Backend Today Aug 21, 2024 00:18:31 An experience report of attempting and MOSTLY succeeding in using the Cranelift backend for real MacOS applications Visit sdr-podcast.com/episodes/cranelift/ to see the show notes and transcript! Episode sponsor: fasterthanlime, who makes articles and videos about computers for a living. You can support Amos's work by reading articles on their website, watching their videos on YouTube, and by sp

BBQueue - Going Just Far Enough with Generics Aug 14, 2024 00:31:10 A dive into abstracting unusual behavior differences using generics to manage different storage and async usage styles Visit sdr-podcast.com/episodes/bbqueue/ to see the show notes and transcript! Episode sponsor: OneVariable is a consultancy focused on advising and development services in the areas of systems engineering, embedded systems, and software development in the Rust programming langua

I Was Wrong About Rust Build Times Aug 7, 2024 00:27:47 An update to previous research about speeding build times, informed by unexpected increased cost of maintenance Visit sdr-podcast.com/episodes/wrong-build-times to see the show notes and transcript! Thank you to Tweede golf for sponsoring this episode. Tweede golf is a Rust consultancy from the Netherlands. Reach out to them if you need help building software in Rust, embedded or otherwise, or t

Trailer Aug 5, 2024 00:01:01 Meet the hosts of the Self-Directed Research Podcast, and learn what it is all about! Visit About us page to get to know who we are!