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Hosted by Dave Plummer and Glen Hodges · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 86 episodes
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Dave Plummer, a retired operating systems engineer for Microsoft going back to the DOS and Windows 95 days, and his co-host Glen talk about technology and answer questions from his YouTube channels: Dave’s Garage and Dave’s Attic. Just 2 high school friends from 40 years ago hangin’ out, talkin’ tech and usually sharing some kind of prairie anecdotes from their youth growing up in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. Dave is now in Seattle, WA and Glen is in Vancouver, BC.
Dave Plummer and Glen Hodges hosts Dave’s Garage: Shop Talk, a technology show with 86 episodes published.
This week on Shop Talk, Dave and Glen dig into the viewer questions from Dave’s tiny Notepad experiment: if TinyRetroPad is only a few kilobytes on disk, why does Task Manager show it using hundreds of megabytes of RAM?
Why put a microcontroller in the trunk instead of simply tapping into the brake lights or turn signals? In this episode of Shop Talk, Dave and Glen dig into the hidden trade-offs behind Dave’s Mark III RGB lighting proje
What happened to software optimization—and does understanding what's happening underneath still make you a better programmer? In Shop Talk #85, Dave Plummer answers viewer questions about software optimization, engineeri
What does it really mean when programmers say "everything is a file"? In Shop Talk #84, Dave Plummer and Glen Hodges answer viewer questions inspired by the recent fopen() discussion and explore one of the most influenti
Are we teaching programming wrong? In Shop Talk #83, Dave Plummer and Glen Hodges explore how programmers learned to think about computers in the early days of personal computing—and whether something important has been
Dave and Glen explore what’s really happening under the hood of modern computers. From memory allocation and malloc to page faults, caches, printf, BitLocker, networking APIs, and software complexity, this episode digs i
Shop Talk #81 explores the strange engineering decisions that still shape modern Windows systems today.Dave and Glen dig into GUIDs, COM, APIs, the Windows Registry, backwards compatibility, CPU scheduling, interrupts, a
Shop Talk #80 explores why old technology often feels more understandable — and sometimes more trustworthy — than the systems we use today. Dave and Glen dig into retro payphones, massive 1980s hard drives, cloud depende
What happens when AI can find every vulnerability in software? This week on Shop Talk, Dave and Glen dig into the real-world implications of powerful new AI systems that can identify—and potentially exploit—security flaw
We’ve been told AI is going to fix everything—but is that actually true? In this episode of Shop Talk, Dave and Glen dig into viewer questions about where AI falls short, what it can’t fix, and why many of the problems i
Will AI fix modern software — or just make the same problems faster? In this episode of Shop Talk, Dave and Glen dig into a question that keeps coming up: if AI can write code, why does software still feel slow, bloated,
Most modern hacks aren’t happening because of genius attackers… They’re happening because of simple decisions developers keep making. In this episode of Shop Talk, Dave and Glen break down: Why third-party scripts are st
A trusted tool gets compromised… and it raises a bigger question: why do we trust anything at all? The Axios npm hack wasn’t just another security incident — it was a reminder of how much trust we place in systems we don
This week’s Shop Talk is built entirely from your questions — pulled from the latest episodes on Dave’s Garage and Shop Talk on Dave’s Attic. From debugging “almost working” systems to figuring out when you can actually
When you're debugging a complex system, how do you know when the problem is actually solved? In this episode of Shop Talk, Dave and Glen discuss engineering instincts, repeatable testing, instrumentation, and how experie
After the latest Dave’s Garage episode, the conversation shifted. Instead of asking how to build the system, viewers started asking what actually comes after the hardware problem is solved — and what becomes hard next. I
Password crackers use hash files to check password guesses. The video explores this process and answers viewer questions about virtualization, hardware, and even a surprising use for an air compressor. A discussion of AI
00:00 - Start 00:42 - I had heard those displays were created by rear projection with Sony VPH 1020s or 2020s. 01:42 - How was the HP device used to PROJECT to such large displays? 02:11 - I’ve always been curious how th
Dave turns a Dell 7875 workstation with dual RTX6000 GPUs loose on an old Unix password file to see how quickly he can break an old UNIX password file from a PDP-11/70. Just to be clear for YT, no actual password-crackin
Protect yourself from the latest Windows Update fiasco! Dave explains the steps required. 00:00 - Start 00:12 - Hey I’m Dave… 01:46 - Can I rent some time on Daves new Dell to test my new Hello World program? 02:14 - May
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