Self-Directed Research Podcast
We shouldn't have to, but it turns out we can
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
Lies, damned lies, and target triples
The Wonderful Story of Target Triples and Six More
Self-describing formats, but at what cost?
An exploration of self-describing vs non-self-describing formats, and how it changes the shape of your programs more than you might think
(and some things I still don't understand)
Amos and James reminisce about how weird clipboards have always been. Or is it pasteboards? Or buffers? Oh boy.
Making allocators async is a bad great idea
A deep dive into the potential benefits, and awkward drawbacks, by making all allocations async and fallible