Self-Directed Research

James shares why you might want to design embedded systems as a network of devices, instead of trying to cram everything into a single chip

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In a rare direct follow-up episode, Amos shares an even differenter take on Serde, this time focusing on the kind of needs a server would have when handling data. Spoiler: Yes, merde means poop in French.

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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

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Join us on this adventure as Amos describes the history of Bluetooth & co., the trials and tribulations of connecting devices in their home and how this has helped their mental well-being (yes, really).

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James explains how to combine macros and const-fns to work around limitations of what is possible at compile time, and how to do extremely wasteful calculations at compile time to deduplicate lists of things to make embedded systems go brrr

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The Wonderful Story of Target Triples and Six More

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An exploration of self-describing vs non-self-describing formats, and how it changes the shape of your programs more than you might think

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Amos and James reminisce about how weird clipboards have always been. Or is it pasteboards? Or buffers? Oh boy.

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A deep dive into the potential benefits, and awkward drawbacks, by making all allocations async and fallible

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An overview of how devices decide how to split streams of bits and bytes into frames, and the things that can go wrong

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Amos presents rubicon, which through terrible dynamic linking crimes, brought joy again into developing their website

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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

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How global is your context? And does it really need atomic reference counting?

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A conceptual introduction to structured communication protocols, and the design decisions behind the postcard-rpc crate

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An overview of Thread Local Variables, and the challenges they pose for experimental dynamic linking support.

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An introduction to DMA, including what it is commonly used for, and a model of how to think about what the hardware does.

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An experience report of attempting and MOSTLY succeeding in using the Cranelift backend for real MacOS applications

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A dive into abstracting unusual behavior differences using generics to manage different storage and async usage styles

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An update to previous research about speeding build times, informed by unexpected increased cost of maintenance

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