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This is the Self-Directed Research Podcast! Our hosts, James and Amos, host hyper focused technical deep dives Visit sdr-podcast.com/ for more information about the podcast, check out all episodes and learn about who we are and how to support us! Questions, comments, interested in sponsoring? Send an email to contact@sdr-podcast.com
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Signup to Generate a PitchThis is the Self-Directed Research Podcast! Our hosts, James and Amos, host hyper focused technical deep dives Visit for more information about the podcast, check out all episodes and learn about who we are and how to support us! Questions, comments, interested in sponsoring?
Self-Directed Research is hosted by OneVariable GmbH. The show has published 32 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Intrusive lists for fun and profit" (13 August 2025, 59 minutes), "How far can you take OpenFX?" (6 August 2025, 52 minutes), and "Blackmagic Fusion is weird" (30 July 2025, 51 minutes).
Self-Directed Research publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 44 minutes across 32 episodes.
Booking probability for Self-Directed Research is 30%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Self-Directed Research requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Self-Directed Research's contact route on record: public web form.
The strongest fits for Self-Directed Research are IT Services & Software Development and Scientific Research & Development. Self-Directed Research has a technology audience.
OneVariable GmbH hosts Self-Directed Research, a technology podcast with 32 episodes published.
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<p> Sure, it's unsafe, but it's not like, UNSAFE unsafe. </p> <p> Visit sdr-podcast.com/intrusive-lists-for-fun-and-profit to see the show notes and transcript! </p> <p> This episode is sponsored by Depot: the build...
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<p> Amos continues on the arc of nerd-sniping themselves to make their videos in the silliest possible way.</p> <p> Visit sdr-podcast.com/how-far-can-you-take-openfx to see the show notes and transcript! </p> <p> This...
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<p> Amos goes further into automating their video production workflow. Get ready to play a game!</p> <p> Visit sdr-podcast.com/blackmagic-fusion-is-weird to see the show notes and transcript! </p> <p> This episode is...
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<p>James explains a bit about how safety critical industries think about reliability, the work that goes into shipping safety critical software, and how the Rust language and compiler are a good fit these...
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<p>Amos shares the audio, video, and lighting equipment they use (past and present!) to produce the videos on the fasterthanlime channel. It turns out you can save a lot of money by just buying three iPhones.</p> <p>...
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<p>James discusses the concept of software traceability tools, used in safety critical software development, and his wishes for an open source version that could give all of the benefits with a minimal amount of...
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<p>Amos explains their choices when it comes to encoding settings for images and for short videos in browsers in 2025.</p> <p> Visit sdr-podcast.com/html5-video to see the show notes and transcript! </p> <p> This...
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<p>James shares a bit about Typst as an excited newcomer to the 'documents as code' ecosystem, while simultaneously throwing a lot of shade at LaTeX, a tool that James and Amos have never really actually used.</p> <p>...
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<p>The top 10? Bottom 10? In any case, enjoy a breakdown of 10 digital rights management schemes. Also, admire Amos' restraint as a YouTuber that they waited until 2025 to make a numbered list.</p> <p> Visit...
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<p> James and Amos have a spirited discussion about sans-io, a technique for writing protocol libraries, and the tradeoffs of sans-io when compared to leaning into async/await. </p> <p> Visit sdr-podcast.com/sans-io to...
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<p>Join us as Amos falls down the rabbit hole of automation tools to bring you, the viewer, the absolute highest quality screenshots and code snippets.</p> <p> Visit sdr-podcast.com/automating-macos to see the show...
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<p> James and Amos are back, and talking about routing, reverse proxies, and yeeting packets onto the internet. </p> <p> Visit sdr-podcast.com/proxying-is-just-dumb-routing to see the show notes and transcript! </p> <p>...
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<p> James shares why you might want to design embedded systems as a network of devices, instead of trying to cram everything into a single chip </p> <p> Visit sdr-podcast.com/the-embedded-buddy-system to see the show...
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<p> In a rare direct follow-up episode, Amos shares an even differenter take on Serde, this time focusing on the kind of needs a server would have when handling data. Spoiler: Yes, merde means poop in French.</p>...
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<p> A bit about how serde works well, a bit about how serde doesn't work well, and a bit about a different, questionable way of doing things</p> <p>Visit sdr-podcast.com/episodes/a-different-serde/ to see the show notes...
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<p> Join us on this adventure as Amos describes the history of Bluetooth & co., the trials and tribulations of connecting devices in their home and how this has helped their mental well-being (yes, really).</p> <p>Visit...
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<p> 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...
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<p> The Wonderful Story of Target Triples and Six More</p> <p>Visit sdr-podcast.com/episodes/target-triples/ to see the show notes and transcript!</p> <p> CodeCrafters is a service for learning programming skills by...
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<p> An exploration of self-describing vs non-self-describing formats, and how it changes the shape of your programs more than you might think</p> <p>Visit sdr-podcast.com/episodes/partial-understanding/ to see the show...
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<p> Amos and James reminisce about how weird clipboards have always been. Or is it pasteboards? Or buffers? Oh boy. </p> <p>Visit sdr-podcast.com/episodes/clipboards/ to see the show notes and transcript!</p> <p>...
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