Software Unscripted

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Software for Elite Athletes with Kyle Boddy Sep 26, 2024

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Richard talks with Kyle Boddy about the biomechanical and data analysis software Kyle wrote—and continues to write—as the founder and CTO of Driveline Baseball, a data-driven player development company that has landed numerous players in Major League Baseball, including multiple Most Valuable Players and 2024's number one draft pick. They talk about Kyle's background in PHP and the C++ he wrote to coordinate budget high-speed cameras back when Driveline was a one-programmer garage shop, up through today where large language models have become an integral part of the development team's daily work.

Driveline Baseball: https://www.drivelinebaseball.com/

Washington Post article: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/10/op-moneyballai/

Documentary about Driveline: https://youtu.be/K5Dnshu7atU

Phind AI: https://www.phind.com

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Mojo with Chris Lattner Aug 30, 2024

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For the 100th episode of Software Unscripted, Richard talks with Chris Lattner, creator of Swift, the Clang C++ compiler, LLVM, and now the Mojo programming language, about Mojo, Roc, API design, compiler optimizations, and language design!

"Swift for C++ Practitioners" by Doug Gregor - https://www.douggregor.net/posts/swift-for-cxx-practitioners-value-types/

Mojo - https://www.modular.com/mojo

Modular Computing - https://www.modular.com

Roc - https://roc-lang.org

LLVM - https://llvm.org

Clang - https://clang.llvm.org

Swift - https://www.swift.org

CUDA - https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-zone

SIMD - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_instructionmultipledata

cmov instruction - https://github.com/marcin-osowski/cmov

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Tooling-Aware Language Design with Eli Dowling Aug 21, 2024

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Richard talks with Eli Dowling about his contributions to the Roc programming language, as well as the intersection of language design and editor tooling, parsers that recover from errors, tree-sitter, going beyond the language server protocol, and the downsides of macros.

Perceus paper - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2020/11/perceus-tr-v1.pdf

The Koka Programming Language - https://koka-lang.github.io

"The Quicksort Talk" (Outperforming Imperative with Pure Functional Languages) - https://youtu.be/vzfy4EKwG_Y

Tree-Sitter - https://tree-sitter.github.io

Neovim Editor - https://neovim.io

Helix Editor - https://helix-editor.com

Zed Editor - https://zed.dev

Language Server Protocol (LSP) - https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol

Hygienic Macros - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygienic_macro

Rust Macros - https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch19-06-macros.html

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The CrowdStrike Incident with Kelly Shortridge Aug 11, 2024

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Richard talks with Kelly Shortridge about the CrowdStrike Incident that caused many computers worldwide to get stuck in a boot loop on July 19, 2024.

A video version of this episode is available on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzjaZssBEiI or ad-free to our wonderful Patreon supporters! https://www.patreon.com/posts/109888395

The incident: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_CrowdStrike_incident

Kelly Shortridge: https://www.kellyshortridge.com

Kelly's book: https://securitychaoseng.com

Hillel Wayne's interviews with traditional engineers who have also been software engineers: https://www.hillelwayne.com/talks/crossover-project

Gell-Mann amnesia effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect

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Distributed Functions with Jonathan Magen Jul 18, 2024

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Richard talks with distributed systems scientist Jonathen Magen about functional programming in distributed systems, including languages like Gleam, Elixir, Ballerina, and Jolie. They also talk about type inference, big data, and a few other topics.

Jonathan Magen: https://yonkeltron.com or https://jawns.club/@yonkeltron

Programming languages mentioned:

https://ballerina.io

https://www.jolie-lang.org

https://gleam.run

https://elixir-lang.org

Richard's talk: Why Static Typing Came Back - https://youtu.be/Tml94je2edk

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Undo-Redo and Persistent State with Tom Ballinger Jul 12, 2024

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Richard talks with Tom Ballinger about undo and redo in the context of REPLs and running effects, stateful systems in general, hot code loading, and database query planning.

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Smalltalk's Past, Present, and Future with Juan Vuletich Jun 24, 2024

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Richard talks with Juan Vuletich, creator of Cuis Smalltalk, about the past, present and future of Smalltalk - including quite a bit of interesting history and programming philosophy!

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From Game Dev to Web Dev Jun 16, 2024

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Richard talks with Wolfgang Schuster about his experiences first as a professional game developer, and then later as a professional Web developer. Theytalk about the differences in programming practices he's seen between the two, including things like automated testing, dependency management, and releases.

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Fuzz Testing with Brendan Hansknecht Jun 04, 2024

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Richard talks with Brendan Hansknecht, an AI compiler engineer at Modular, about various testing techniques, including fuzzing, property-based tests, database tests, tests involving network requests, and more!

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A Haskeller Tries Smalltalk with Ian Jeffries May 25, 2024

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Richard talks with Ian Jeffries about his experiences as a Haskeller exploring modern Smalltalk (arguably the original object-oriented programming language), including both the historical context of where Smalltalk came from as well as what it's like using it in a modern context.

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