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**Software Unscripted**

Software Unscripted, A weekly podcast of casual conversations about code hosted by Richard Feldman.

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Latest Episodes:

Securing Evolving Software with Noah Hall Sep 20, 2025

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xz vulnerability: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XZ_Utils_backdoor

Spectre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectre_(security_vulnerability)

Meltdown: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meltdown_(security_vulnerability)

Heartbleed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbleed

Noah on GitHub https://github.com/eeue56 - Substack https://substack.com/@eeue56 - BlueSky https://bsky.app/profile/derw-lang.com

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Andreas Kling on Ladybird Browser, SerenityOS, and Powerlifting Sep 01, 2025

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Ladybird Browser - https://ladybird.org

SerenityOS - https://serenityos.org

Story of the man who used powerlifting to recover after falling off a roof https://startingstrength.com/articles/brian_jones_story.pdf

StrongLifts 5x5 - https://stronglifts.com/stronglifts-5x5/

Starting Strength - https://startingstrength.com/

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GPU Programming and Language Design with Chris Lattner Jul 25, 2025

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Richard talks with Swift, LLVM, Clang, and Mojo creator Chris Lattner about programming on the GPU and on the CPU, as well as a number of programming language design topics.

Chris's "Democratizing AI Compute" blog series - https://www.modular.com/blog/democratizing-compute-part-1-deepseeks-impact-on-ai
Mojo https://www.modular.com/mojo
Roc https://www.roc-lang.org
Software Unscripted episode with Futhark language creator https://pod.link/1602572955/episode/00564b1774ebe0e4225a630825ed3dee
Claude 4 https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-4

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Broken AI Discourse with Steve Klabnik Jul 04, 2025

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Longtime Rust contributor Steve Klabnik talks with Richard about the broken state of AI discourse, from excessive hype to excessive hate, and reasonable alternatives we could pursue instead.

Steve's blog post: "I am disappointed in the AI discourse" - https://steveklabnik.com/writing/i-am-disappointed-in-the-ai-discourse/

Deep dive into why Rust's compile times are slow: https://www.pingcap.com/blog/rust-compilation-model-calamity/

Y Combinator partners on "100x productivity" claims: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IACHfKmZMr8&t=155s

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Language Design Deep Dive with Elixir Creator José Valim Jun 01, 2025

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Elixir creator José Valim goes into a very deep dive on language design with Richard, centered around some upcoming major design changes to the Roc programming language.

- https://elixir-lang.org

- https://roc-lang.org

- Unison's algebraic effects: https://www.unison-lang.org/docs/fundamentals/abilities/

- Koka's algebraic effects: https://koka-lang.github.io/koka/doc/book.html#why-effects

- OCaml's algebraic effects: https://ocaml.org/manual/5.3/effects.html

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From Scala to Roc with Monica McGuigan Jan 27, 2025

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Monica McGuigan, a Scala programmer at JP Morgan, talks with Richard about her experiences learning Roc with a Scala background. They get into topics like how language design affects beginners and experts, what parts of functional programming are easier and harder to learn than others, and how language designers inform their design decisions.

Support Software Unscripted on Patreon: https://patreon.com/SoftwareUnscripted

Monica's chapter on JSON decoders: https://github.com/roc-lang/book-of-examples/pull/68

Grapheme clusters: https://unicode.org/glossary/#extended_grapheme_cluster

Roc's string operations: https://www.roc-lang.org/builtins/Str

Talk: The Functional Purity Inference Plan: https://youtu.be/42TUAKhzlRI?si=TwxYoqMgh0UXQLfn

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Testing in Production with Mike Bryzek Jan 05, 2025

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Mike Bryzek has been a technical cofounder of two very successful companies using some very unorthodox technical strategies that have worked out very well for him and his teams! These include testing in production, spending the first few months of a brand-new company's life investing in automation and tooling before shipping a product, and microservices - but not done in the way I've usually heard them described.

Support Software Unscripted on Patreon: https://patreon.com/SoftwareUnscripted

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Building Video Editing Software with Andrew Lisowski Dec 16, 2024

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Richard talks with Andrew Lisowski, a Senior Engineer at Descript - which makes audio and video editing software that has been used to edit this very podcast! They talk about some of the surprising challenges of dealing with video editing compared to audio alone, the economics of niche podcasts and programming conferences, and the evolution of Web browsers!

Support Software Unscripted on Patreon: https://patreon.com/SoftwareUnscripted

Descript: https://www.descript.com

Andrew Lisowski: https://www.hipstersmoothie.com

devtools.fm episode that was on HN frontpage: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41301639

Zencastr: https://zencastr.com/?via=richard-feldman

Forced Aligners: https://github.com/MahmoudAshraf97/ctc-forced-aligner

Gentle Aligner: https://github.com/lowerquality/gentle

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The EYG Language with Peter Saxton Nov 17, 2024

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Richard talks with Peter Saxton, creator of the EYG programming language, about the problems Peter aims to solve with EYG, and some of the unique design decisions he's made with it. A type-safe eval() operation even comes up in the discussion!

Support Software Unscripted on Patreon: https://patreon.com/SoftwareUnscripted

EYG: https://eyg.run

Unison: https://unison-lang.org

Roc: https://roc-lang.org

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AI in Programming Education with Will Sentance Oct 16, 2024

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Richard talks with Will Sentance, the teacher of the Hard Parts series and the founder and CEO of CodeSmith, which is a Software Engineering and AI immersive education program. They talk about how AI is intersecting with modern programming education, what's considered "fundamentals" these days, and how Will thinks about teaching object-oriented and functional programming.

Support Software Unscripted on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/SoftwareUnscripted

JavaScript: The Hard Parts: https://frontendmasters.com/courses/javascript-hard-parts-v2/

AI for Software Engineers: https://frontendmasters.com/workshops/engineering-and-ai/

CodeSmith: https://www.codesmith.io/

Richard's courses: https://frontendmasters.com/teachers/richard-feldman/#courses

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