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Software Unscripted
Richard Feldman
111 episodes
1 month ago
Software Unscripted, A weekly podcast of casual conversations about code hosted by Richard Feldman.

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Software Unscripted
Securing Evolving Software with Noah Hall

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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1 month ago
59 minutes 50 seconds

Software Unscripted
Andreas Kling on Ladybird Browser, SerenityOS, and Powerlifting

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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2 months ago
1 hour 20 minutes 8 seconds

Software Unscripted
GPU Programming and Language Design with Chris Lattner

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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3 months ago
1 hour 18 minutes 49 seconds

Software Unscripted
Broken AI Discourse with Steve Klabnik

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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4 months ago
1 hour 19 minutes 43 seconds

Software Unscripted
Language Design Deep Dive with Elixir Creator José Valim

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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5 months ago
2 hours 26 minutes 12 seconds

Software Unscripted
From Scala to Roc with Monica McGuigan

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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9 months ago
1 hour 7 minutes 42 seconds

Software Unscripted
Testing in Production with Mike Bryzek

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.


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10 months ago
1 hour 17 minutes 50 seconds

Software Unscripted
Building Video Editing Software with Andrew Lisowski

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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10 months ago
1 hour 2 minutes 50 seconds

Software Unscripted
The EYG Language with Peter Saxton

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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11 months ago
1 hour 17 minutes 25 seconds

Software Unscripted
AI in Programming Education with Will Sentance

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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1 year ago
59 minutes 21 seconds

Software Unscripted
Software for Elite Athletes with Kyle Boddy

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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1 year ago
1 hour 7 minutes 57 seconds

Software Unscripted
Mojo with Chris Lattner

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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1 year ago
1 hour 49 minutes 25 seconds

Software Unscripted
Tooling-Aware Language Design with Eli Dowling

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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1 year ago
1 hour 11 minutes 59 seconds

Software Unscripted
The CrowdStrike Incident with Kelly Shortridge

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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1 year ago
58 minutes 30 seconds

Software Unscripted
Distributed Functions with Jonathan Magen

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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1 year ago
48 minutes

Software Unscripted
Undo-Redo and Persistent State with Tom Ballinger
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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1 year ago
59 minutes 28 seconds

Software Unscripted
Smalltalk's Past, Present, and Future with Juan Vuletich
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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1 year ago
54 minutes 30 seconds

Software Unscripted
From Game Dev to Web Dev

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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1 year ago
1 hour 8 minutes 32 seconds

Software Unscripted
Fuzz Testing with Brendan Hansknecht
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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1 year ago
1 hour 6 minutes 3 seconds

Software Unscripted
A Haskeller Tries Smalltalk with Ian Jeffries
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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1 year ago
1 hour 4 minutes 25 seconds

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

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.