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Every week, a new presentation on what Amos or James has been up to. Usually: Rust, embedded, web servers, but anything is fair game. New episodes every Wednesday! sdr-podcast.com

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Self-Directed Research @sdr-podcast.com · 27/11/2025
What a quiz, @fasterthanli.me 🧠 ! @jamesmunns.com 's Game Theory (and smarts) got him 20/35 (⏪⏪ 🏃‍♀️ <-- me, when I heard "What's James' score? Oh, Amanda will do it" 🙈)
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Self-Directed Research @sdr-podcast.com · 26/11/2025
It's almost like I was there with them 🥹
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Self-Directed Research @sdr-podcast.com · 09/10/2025
Meanwhile: the producer of the podcast (and their partner) 🎨 painting and waiting for furniture deliveries at @onevariable.com ‘s new office space
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Self-Directed Research @sdr-podcast.com · 13/08/2025
YAY 📌 time for the @amandamajor.bsky.social's self-directed research 😇 in between seasons
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Self-Directed Research @sdr-podcast.com · 07/08/2025
Wednesday was Wednesday this week, the world is right again.
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Self-Directed Research @sdr-podcast.com · 31/07/2025
🙈 Days go by and whoops. But there is a GAME in this one (not that the editor understood, but games are cool) 🦀👨‍👩‍👧‍👦✂️ #episoderelease
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Self-Directed Research @sdr-podcast.com · 24/07/2025
⚠️✈️🚗🦺✅ Woo another almost hour long episode, maybe makes up for the day delay again 🙏 (life sure be life-ing, I'm trying my best 🫠)
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Self-Directed Research @sdr-podcast.com · 18/07/2025
Me editing this episode (sorry Wednesday was Thursday this week!)
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Self-Directed Research @sdr-podcast.com · 09/07/2025
Software’s version of “eat your vegetables”
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Self-Directed Research @sdr-podcast.com · 02/07/2025
guess what it's sdr time
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Self-Directed Research @sdr-podcast.com · 26/06/2025
Check it www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeNr... sdr-podcast.com/episodes/typ...
Meme with the text "The Microsoft Word doc after you move one image" and a scene from the Simpsons with an M.C. Escher-esque layout of the house like an optical illusion
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Self-Directed Research @sdr-podcast.com · 18/06/2025
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Self-Directed Research @sdr-podcast.com · 13/06/2025
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Self-Directed Research @sdr-podcast.com · 04/06/2025
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EuroRust @eurorust.eu · 03/06/2025
Something special is coming to #EuroRust25.. @fasterthanlime.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy and @jamesmunns.com will be recording an episode of the Self-Directed-Research podcast @sdr-podcast.com — live on stage! 🦀 Hear what they've been nerd-sniped by lately. It’s gonna be smart, chaotic, and very Rust.
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James Munns @jamesmunns.com · 04/06/2025
Get your headphones ready, @fasterthanli.me is back with a descent into madness on what is possible with automation tools on @sdr-podcast.com, all in service of freedom from jaggies when it comes to code snippets. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5FY...
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automating macOS
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amos @fasterthanli.me · 28/05/2025
season 2 of SDR starts today let's goooooo 😘 @jamesmunns.com @amandamajor.bsky.social 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDXR... 🎺 sdr-podcast.com
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Proxying is just dumb routing
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James Munns @jamesmunns.com · 28/05/2025
Aaaand we're back with Season Two of @sdr-podcast.com! Check it out now with the slides on YouTube: youtu.be/LDXRVT8uU1E, or for all the info and links on the website: sdr-podcast.com/episodes/pro... Excited to be back with @fasterthanli.me and @amandamajor.bsky.social for another season!
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Proxying is just dumb routing
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Self-Directed Research @sdr-podcast.com · 15/01/2025
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Self-Directed Research @sdr-podcast.com · 26/12/2024
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Self-Directed Research @sdr-podcast.com · 20/12/2024
☀️ 🏝️ 😌
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Self-Directed Research @sdr-podcast.com · 11/12/2024
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Self-Directed Research @sdr-podcast.com · 05/12/2024
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Self-Directed Research @sdr-podcast.com · 04/12/2024
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Self-Directed Research @sdr-podcast.com · 28/11/2024
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Self-Directed Research @sdr-podcast.com · 28/11/2024
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James Munns @jamesmunns.com · 27/11/2024
Now live, my descent into madness, taking a perfectly fine, widely used, generally safe library in Rust (serde), and making a way hackier, way less general, and way more unsafe version, for marginally faster compile times, smaller code, and faster runtime ser/de. sdr-podcast.com/episodes/a-d...
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A different serde
And now for something completely different 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 View the presentatio...
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Self-Directed Research @sdr-podcast.com · 26/11/2024
A sneak peek into tomorrow's episode of Self-Directed Research ... ❗😇 ☢️ #serde #unsafe
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Self-Directed Research @sdr-podcast.com · 31/10/2024
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amos @fasterthanli.me · 30/10/2024
👀 THIS WEEK IN SDR james continues his cruisade against self-describing formats. amos makes stabs at golang without saying the word "protobuf" out loud. good times are had by everyone. 👂 sdr-podcast.com/episodes/par...
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What good is partial understanding?
Self-describing formats, but at what cost? An exploration of self-describing vs non-self-describing formats, and how it changes the shape of your programs more than you might think View the presentati...
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amos @fasterthanli.me · 18/09/2024
look 👀 it’s mx. fasterthanlime trying to convince james that their unsafe rust code is fine it’s fiiiiiine okay? trust me bro sdr-podcast.com/episodes/arc
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