Unwind

Latest Episodes:

How does a web dev become a CPU engineer? w/ Alex (aolo2) Mar 08, 2025

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Welcome to the first episode of Unwind in podcast form! Web developer turned CPU engineer Alex (aolo2) joins us to discuss three amazing programs he made from scratch: a collaborative whiteboard, a chat application, and a processor trace viewer.

For those listening via a podcast feed, welcome to Unwind. Unwind started as a live interview show on Twitch, but this year we've decided to change the format and bring it to podcast platforms. We're still keeping the old Handmade Network Podcast episodes around, so you can listen through the backlog at any time.

This episode is intended to be watched in video form. We recommend watching on YouTube or Spotify.

Show notes:

Alex’s whiteboard program: https://git.some.website/aolo2/desk2/src/branch/sdf
Alex’s chat program: https://github.com/aolo2/chat
Handmade Hero: https://guide.handmadehero.org/
Milton, another Handmade paint program: https://www.miltonpaint.com/
Our 2024 Visibility Jam: https://handmade.network/jam/visibility-2024
Colin’s profiler, Spall: https://gravitymoth.com/spall/

Join the Handmade community: https://handmade.network/

Edited by Vital Ash: https://youtube.com/@vitalash

State of the Network 2021 Jan 09, 2022

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Rudy Faile - community member, former podcast guest, navy veteran, and systems engineer - joins us to discuss the Handmade movement in 2021, including the Handmade Seattle conference, Handmade projects, and Handmade Network, and where we are planning to go with Handmade Network in 2022 and beyond.

https://handmade-seattle.com/

https://happenlance.com/

https://handmade.network/jam

https://handmade.network/showcase

How The Internet Works, w/ Tyler Leeds & Rudy Faile Sep 02, 2021

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Tyler Leeds is a network engineer for Automattic. He works as a member of a small team that manages a massive network, responsible for a massive portion of the entire web. He and Rudy Faile, a coworker of Tyler's, community member, and former podcast guest, join us in this episode to dig into the guts of how networking works at a lower level. We discuss both the technical and human aspects of how the Internet comes together, and what that means for software developers.

Tyler was kind enough to provide a practical example of a BGP update (which we discuss in the podcast) in action for us to check out: https://handmade.network/static/media/podcast/hmn/bgp_example.txt

https://www.cisco.com/

https://automattic.com/

https://www.arin.net/resources/guide/asn/

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv4

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6

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

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/ip/routing-information-protocol-rip/13769-5.html

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/ip/border-gateway-protocol-bgp/13753-25.html

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

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

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

The Web's Problems & Future, w/ Ben Visness and Asaf Gartner Jul 02, 2021

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Ben Visness and Asaf Gartner—web development professionals and Handmade Network staff members—join us in this episode. We discuss the problems that the web is trying to solve, the source of performance problems in web-based software, how the web could improve practically in the short-term, and how it could improve dramatically in the long-term.

https://jquery.com/

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS

https://v8.dev/

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Document_Object_Model

https://www.w3schools.com/csS/css3_flexbox.asp

https://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/trace-event-profiling-tool

https://webassembly.org/

https://developer.chrome.com/docs/devtools/evaluate-performance/

Examining Computer Science Education, w/ Demetri Spanos Jun 02, 2021

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Demetri Spanos is a machine learning expert, PhD recipient, and former university professor. In this episode, he joins us again to discuss the subject of education, particularly in universities. We dig into the perceived problems of computer science and software engineering education, whether they are real or serious, why they are there, how they have been solved elsewhere, and how we might solve them in the future.

https://www.caltech.edu/

https://www.usc.edu/

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

https://ncu.libguides.com/writingresources/synthesis

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_(software_platform)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-oriented_programming

https://nodejs.org/en/

https://www.olin.edu/

Ripcord, Programming, and Education, w/ Cancel May 03, 2021

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Andrew Richards (also known as cancel), creator of Ripcord, joins us to chat about how he got into low level programming, the development and technical challenges of Ripcord, programming languages, teaching low-level programming, and modern software.

https://cancel.fm/

https://cancel.fm/ripcord

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-16

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal_(programming_language)

https://bellard.org/tcc/

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

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

Funding Handmade Projects, w/ Andrew Kelley & Allen Webster Jan 08, 2021

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Andrew Kelley and Allen Webster join us to discuss the funding model of Zig language and making Handmade-style projects self-sufficient in funding.

https://ziglang.org/zsf/

https://4coder.net

https://patreon.com

https://itch.io

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ucHARxVbhrBbuZDbhrGHYDTsYAs8_bMH

https://sourcehut.org/

Andrew Reece Oct 30, 2020

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Andrew Reece, creator of Handmade Network project WhiteBox (https://whitebox.handmade.network), a real-time debugging tool, joins us to discuss WhiteBox, low-level programming, improving the cycle of human-computer interaction both in the physical and software spaces, instant feedback, providing insight into the multiple dimensions that define a program and its effects, and the future of computing.

https://whitebox.systems

https://twitter.com/whitebox_sys

https://infovis-wiki.net/wiki/Visual_Variables

https://www.axismaps.com/guide/general/visual-variables/

http://worrydream.com/

https://futureofcoding.org/

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

https://llvm.org/

https://clang.llvm.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object-oriented_programming

https://dynamicland.org/

Building Handmade Teams, w/ Allen Webster Oct 16, 2020

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Creator of 4coder and RAD Game Tools engineer Allen Webster joins us to discuss teamwork on a new project he started with Ryan, sparked by topics discussed last time he joined us. Using this project as an example, we explore various problems with approaching a team-based Handmade project as programmers used to working on projects alone, and some of the solutions used for approaching those problems.

https://handmade.network/podcast/ep/14a5407e-5f73-4c59-a422-44c4ece6a1bf

https://4coder.net

http://www.melconway.com/Home/pdf/committees.pdf

Martijn Courteaux Oct 02, 2020

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Martijn Courteaux, programmer on the SilverNode project (https://silvernode.handmade.network), joins us to discuss the architecture and development of SilverNode, a RAW photo editor to improve the efficiency and abilities of photographers when editing photos.

https://silvernode.io

https://silvernode.handmade.network

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtrDnkbsSQG7UqQm57f17Hw

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

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

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

https://halide-lang.org/

https://github.com/bkaradzic/bgfx

https://www.blender.org/

http://media.idlab.ugent.be/