Self-Directed Research

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This is the Self-Directed Research Podcast! Our hosts, James and Amos, host hyper focused technical deep dives

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Aug 13, 2025 · 58 min
Intrusive lists for fun and profit
(on embedded)
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Aug 6, 2025 · 52 min
How far can you take OpenFX?
Can you embed a full motion design suite in it?
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Jul 30, 2025 · 50 min
Blackmagic Fusion is weird
or: Migrating from AppleScript to Lua
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Jul 23, 2025 · 53 min
How is software safety certified
(a crash course)
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Jul 16, 2025 · 1 hr
All you need is three iPhones
just not in the foot
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Jul 9, 2025 · 29 min
Traceability
'eating your vegetables' for software
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Jul 2, 2025 · 51 min
HTML5 video
Chaos is a bitrate ladder
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Jun 25, 2025 · 41 min
Typst is pretty neat
tl;dr: a programming language for documents
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Jun 18, 2025 · 52 min
DRM schemes
A short history of copy protection
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Jun 11, 2025 · 37 min
sans-io: meh
Much ado about no i/o
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Jun 4, 2025 · 44 min
automating macOS
The quest for transparent DOM element screenshots
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May 28, 2025 · 27 min
Proxying is just dumb routing
Proxying: it's good for you!
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Dec 11, 2024 · 43 min
The Embedded Buddy System
James' cheat codes for low/mid volume + rapid embedded development
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Dec 4, 2024 · 48 min
Merde is not Serde
Another take on (de)serialization in Rust
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Nov 27, 2024 · 40 min
A different serde
And now for something completely different
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Nov 20, 2024 · 40 min
My home automation journey
Spending money vs. spending time: why choose?
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Nov 13, 2024 · 36 min
Compile Time Crimes
We shouldn't have to, but it turns out we can
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Nov 6, 2024 · 38 min
Target triples
Lies, damned lies, and target triples
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Oct 30, 2024 · 34 min
What good is partial understanding?
Self-describing formats, but at what cost?
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Oct 23, 2024 · 29 min
Things you might not have known about clipboards
(and some things I still don't understand)
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