Self-Directed Research – Details, episodes & analysis

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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Episode sponsor: fasterthanlime, who makes articles and videos about computers for a living. You can support Amos's work by reading articles on their website, watching their videos on YouTube, and by sponsoring them on GitHub sponsors or Patreon.

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

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Episode sponsor: OneVariable is a consultancy focused on advising and development services in the areas of systems engineering, embedded systems, and software development in the Rust programming language. Do you need help building something in Rust? Check out onevariable.com/work to see if one of the specialties speaks to your needs.

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

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Thank you to Tweede golf for sponsoring this episode. Tweede golf is a Rust consultancy from the Netherlands. Reach out to them if you need help building software in Rust, embedded or otherwise, or to book a training to get your teams up to speed on topics like using async on bare metal systems.

Meet the hosts of the Self-Directed Research Podcast, and learn what it is all about!

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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 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

Visit sdr-podcast.com/episodes/syncing to see the show notes and transcript!

The postcard crate, which is looking for sponsors for the 2.0 release. More info to be found on the OneVariable blog.

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

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