Episodes

  • Episode 857: SOCification
    Dec 3 2025

    This week Jonathan chats with Konstantinos Margaritis about SIMD programming. Why do these wide data instructions matter? What's the state of Hyperscan, the project from Intel to power regex with SIMD? And what is Konstantinos' connection to ARM's SIMD approach? Listen to find out!

    You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, watch live or get the video version of the show on Youtube, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday. Oh, and follow the official Mastadon account!

    Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

    Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

    http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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    1 hr and 13 mins
  • FLOSS 856: QT: Fix It Please, My Mom is Calling
    Nov 26 2025

    This week Jonathan chats with Maurice Kalinowski about QT! That's the framework that runs just about anywhere, making it easy to write cross-platform applications. What's the connection with KDE? And how has this turned into a successful company? Listen to find out!

    You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, watch live or get the video version of the show on Youtube, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday. Oh, and follow the official Mastadon account!

    Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

    Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

    http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • FLOSS 855: Get in the Minecart, Loser!
    Nov 19 2025

    This week Jonathan chats with Kevin, Colin, and Curtis about Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead! It's a rogue-like post-apocalyptic survival game that you can play in the terminal, over SSH if you really want to! Part of the story is a Kickstarter that resulted in a graphics tile-set. And then there's the mods!

    You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, watch live or get the video version of the show on Youtube, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday. Oh, and follow the official Mastadon account!

    Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

    Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

    http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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    1 hr and 7 mins
  • FLOSS 854: The Big Daddy Core
    Nov 12 2025

    This week Jonathan and Ben chat with Jason Shepherd about Ocre and Atym.io! That's the lightweight WebAssembly VM that lets you run the same containers on Linux and a host of embedded platforms, on top of the Zephyr embedded OS. What was the spark that led to this project's creation, what does Atym.io bring to the equation, and what are people actually doing with it? Listen to find out!

    You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, watch live or get the video version of the show on Youtube, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday. Oh, and follow the official Mastadon account!

    Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

    Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

    http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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    1 hr and 1 min
  • FLOSS 853: Hardware Addiction; Don't Send Help
    Oct 29 2025

    This week Jonathan and Rob chat with Cody Zuschlag about the Xen project! It's the hypervisor that runs almost everywhere. Why is it showing up in IoT devices and automotive? And what's coming next for the project? Watch to find out!

    You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, watch live or get the video version of the show on Youtube, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday. Oh, and follow the official Mastadon account!

    Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

    Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

    http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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    1 hr and 8 mins
  • FLOSS 852: Sir, This is a Wendy's
    Oct 22 2025

    This week Jonathan talks to Robert Wolff about DevEco! How did this developer group come to be, and what is its purpose? What are the lessons learned about building communities and working with others? Listen to find out!

    You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, watch live or get the video version of the show on Youtube, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday. Oh, and follow the official Mastadon account!

    Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

    Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

    http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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    1 hr and 13 mins
  • FLOSS 851: Buckets of Money
    Oct 15 2025

    This week Jonathan talks to James Cole about Firefly III, the personal finance manager! This one itches James' own itch, but brings a great visualization and management tools for your personal finances!

    You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, watch live or get the video version of the show on Youtube, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday. Oh, and follow the official Mastadon account!

    Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

    Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

    http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • FLOSS 850: One Rom To Rule Them All
    Oct 8 2025

    This week Jonathan and Aaron chat with Piers Finlayson about One ROM! Why does the retro-computing world need a solution for replacement ROMs? How difficult was it to squeeze a MCU and layout into the original ROM footprint? And what's next for the project? Listen to find out!

    You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, watch live or get the video version of the show on Youtube, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday. Oh, and follow the official Mastadon account!

    Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

    Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

    http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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    1 hr and 16 mins