Episodes

  • Episode 863 - Opencast: That Code is There for a Reason
    Feb 4 2026

    This week Jonathan chats with Olaf Andreas Schulte and Lars Kiesow about Opencast, the video management system for education. What does Opencast let a school or university accomplish, how has that changed over the last decade, and what exciting new things are coming? 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 18 mins
  • Episode 862 - Have Your CAKE and Eat It Too
    Jan 28 2026

    This week Jonathan chats with Toke Hoiland-Jorgensen about CAKE_MQ, the newest Kernel innovation to combat Bufferbloat! What was the realization that made CAKE parallelizable? When can we expect it in the wild? And what's new in the rest of the kernel world? 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 8 mins
  • Episode 861 - Big Databases with OpenRiak
    Jan 21 2026

    This week Jonathan chats with Nicholas Adams about OpenRiak! Why is there a Riak and an OpenRiak, which side of the CAP theorem does OpenRiak land on, and why is it so blazingly fast for some operations? 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
  • Episode 860 - Elixir Origin Story
    Jan 14 2026

    This week Jonathan and Randal chat with Jose Valim about Elixir! What led Jose to create this unique programming language? What do we mean that it's a functional language with immutability? 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 5 mins
  • Episode 859 - OpenShot: Simple and Fast
    Dec 17 2025

    This week Jonathan chats with Jonathan Thomas about OpenShot, the cross-platform video editor that aims to be simple to use, without sacrificing functionality. We did the video edit with OpenShot for this episode, and can confirm it gets the job done. What led to the creation of this project, and what's the direction it's going? 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 9 mins
  • Episode 858 - YottaDB: Sometimes the Solution is Bigger Servers
    Dec 10 2025

    This week Jonathan chats with K. S. Bhaskar about YottaDB. This very high performance database has some unique tricks! How does YottaDB run across multiple processes without a daemon? Why is it licensed AGPL, and how does that work with commercial deployments? 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 5 mins
  • 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