This week Jonathan chats with Bill Shotts about The Linux Command Line! That’s Bill’s book published by No Starch Press, all about how to make your way around the Linux command line! Bill has had quite a career doing Unix administration, and has thoughts on the current state of technology. Watch to find out more! […]
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! https://explore.opencast.org/ https://opencast.org/ https://opencast.org/2025/12/19/opencast-apereo-update/ Did you know you can […]
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 parallelization? When can we expect it in the wild? And what’s new in the rest of the kernel world? Watch to find out! Blog: https://blog.tohojo.dk Github: https://github.com/tohojo Mastodon: @ to**@so****.org Did you […]
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! https://www.linkedin.com/groups/14551410/ https://github.com/openriak/ https://join.slack.com/t/postriak/shared_invite/zt-3i0e8alkg-hUKkWVcJQhWt5IzmQQ9I0w https://files.tiot.jp/riak/ https://www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/ https://www.meetup.com/tokyo-openriak-meetup-group/ Did you know you can watch the live […]
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? https://elixir-lang.org/ https://github.com/elixir-plug/plug Did you know you can watch the live recording of the show right on our YouTube Channel? Have someone you’d like us […]
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? […]
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? Watch to find out! https://yottadb.com https://github.com/YottaDB/YDB Did you know you can watch the […]
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? Watch to find out! VectorCamp:https://vectorcamp.gr SIMD Info: https://simd.info SIMD AI: https://simd.ai VSCode plugin: https://code.simd.info Did […]
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? Watch to find out! https://www.qt.io/ Did you know you can watch the live recording of the show […]
This week Jonathan chats with Kevin, Colin, and Curtis about Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead! It’s a rogue-like post-apocalyptic survival game that you can play in the terminal, over SSH if you really want to! Part of the story is a Kickstarter that resulted in a graphics tile-set. And then there’s the mods! https://cataclysmdda.org/ https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA Did […]