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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.
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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 modern-day equivalent of paint drying, give Depot's GitHub Actions runners a try. They’re up to 10x faster, with unlimited concurrency, faster caching, support for Linux, macOS, and Windows, and they plug right into other Depot optimizations like accelerated container image builds and remote caching for Bazel, Turborepo, Gradle, and more. Depot was built by developers who were tired of wasting time waiting on builds instead of shipping. It's made for teams that want to move faster and stay focused on what actually matters. That’s why companies like PostHog use Depot to cut build times from over 3 hours to just 3 minutes, saving tens of thousands of build hours every week. Start your free 7-day trial at depot.dev and let them know we sent you.
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!
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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.
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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
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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).
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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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The Wonderful Story of Target Triples and Six More
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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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Amos and James reminisce about how weird clipboards have always been. Or is it pasteboards? Or buffers? Oh boy.
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