Self-Directed Research Podcast
Things you might not have known about clipboards
(and some things I still don’t understand)
Amos and James reminisce about how weird clipboards have always been. Or is it pasteboards? Or buffers? Oh boy.
Published on 2024-10-23T20:00:00Z
Async Allocators
Making allocators async is a bad great idea
A deep dive into the potential benefits, and awkward drawbacks, by making all allocations async and fallible
Published on 2024-10-16T20:00:00Z
Frame Synchronization
Just simple enough to cause problems
An overview of how devices decide how to split streams of bits and bytes into frames, and the things that can go wrong
Published on 2024-10-09T20:00:00Z
Fixing build times with rubicon
A somewhat reasonable use of dynamic linking
Amos presents rubicon, which through terrible dynamic linking crimes, brought joy again into developing their website
Published on 2024-10-02T20:00:00Z
What Are You Syncing About?
How to think in a-sync
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
Published on 2024-09-25T20:00:00Z