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Two's Complement

Two's Complement

Ben Rady and Matt Godbolt

Technology

Frequency: 1 episode/32d. Total Eps: 67

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If you come to a fork in the road, take it! Two’s Complement is a programming podcast, hosted by Matt Godbolt and Ben Rady; two programmers who both grew up wanting to make video games. One of them did, one of them didn’t, but now they both work together despite coming from very different backgrounds.
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The Joy of Programming

mercredi 11 septembre 2024 • Duration 39:26

Matt and Ben realize they love their jobs, and decide to keep doing them. Flow state, to the point where it makes people uncomfortable, is discussed. Also toilet humor. Ben makes an unintentional Sesame Street reference. Matt recalls his level 70 cleric.

Deploy First Development

samedi 17 août 2024 • Duration 40:35

Our hosts congratulate themselves on finally having decent microphones. Matt quizzes Ben on his "Deploy First" approach to software development. Ben explains branch-based deployment environments. He assures Matt he's a mortal. Matt promises to be less rubbish.

Iter-Mental Development

dimanche 19 novembre 2023 • Duration 27:23

Ben and Matt compare iterative and incremental approaches to software development. To everyone's astonishment, they turn out to be different. Then they decide we need better names for these things, but it turns out naming things is hard.

Compression

lundi 23 octobre 2023 • Duration 46:13

Matt and Ben talk about how compression works, specifically deflate, which is apparently everywhere. Ben gets particular about compression ratios. Matt explains how to compress /dev/random by sorting it first.

Questionable Comments

lundi 18 septembre 2023 • Duration 42:17

Ben and Matt comment on different types of comments in code. Join our hosts and they explore both good and bad types of comments, from the essential to the inexcusable. Matt explains how to bump the failure counter to 99. Ben suggests violence against cats.

Ben Walks A Tree

mardi 22 août 2023 • Duration 43:51

Ben ventures into the forest, finds a tree traversal problem, and then fails his will save and gets fascinated by a hash map. Matt suggests zombies. Then they come up with a solution and talk about how to test it because of course they do.

Video Games and Other Diversions

lundi 17 juillet 2023 • Duration 44:52

Matt and Ben talk about what they would do if they founded a game studio. And ASICs. And testing because why not. Join our hosts as they speculate on whether anyone has made a successful open source video game instead of just taking 5 minutes to Google it.

Yak Shaving, Part 2, Also Live!

mardi 20 juin 2023 • Duration 01:01:51

Ben and Matt finish shaving the yak from the prior episode. While waiting for DNS certificate validation to complete, our hosts discuss the "branch based environment" approach to infrastructure, and consider how serverless services make that model a bit cheaper.

Yak Shaving, Live!

lundi 22 mai 2023 • Duration 01:04:32

Matt and Ben hit the record button while shaving a yak and then attempt to pass it off as a podcast episode. Join our hosts as they troubleshoot DNS problems, fiddle with makefiles, and fail to remember the things that their prior selves did.

Integration Tests are a Scam

mardi 18 avril 2023 • Duration 36:57

Ben and Matt borrow a title from J.B. Rainsberger and talk about how integration tests want to take all your money. Or time. Same thing.

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