Jul 4, 202557 minS0
<p>Please read important erratum at end of these notes!</p><p>Astute listeners will notice that this is the first episode in over a year. I recorded not one but two awesome interviews...and then failed to edit and...
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Significant Bits
Hosted by Josh Bleecher Snyder · technology · EN
About this Podcast:
Substantive, in-depth technical conversations about software engineering (broadly construed).
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Who hosts Significant Bits?
Significant Bits is hosted by Josh Bleecher Snyder. The show has published 7 episodes to date.
What has Significant Bits covered recently?
Recent episodes include "Read/Write/Nil with Michael Knyszek and Michael Pratt" (4 July 2025, 57 minutes), "Iota: whisper.cpp" (27 March 2024, 35 minutes), and "Iota: Random algorithms" (15 February 2024, 22 minutes).
How often does Significant Bits publish?
Significant Bits publishes roughly monthly, with episodes averaging 31 minutes across 7 episodes.
How hard is it to get booked on Significant Bits?
Booking probability for Significant Bits is 17%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Significant Bits requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Significant Bits's contact route on record: verified email.
Who should pitch Significant Bits?
The strongest fits for Significant Bits are IT Services & Software Development. Significant Bits has a technology audience.
About the host
Josh Bleecher Snyder hosts Significant Bits, a technology podcast with 7 episodes published.
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Recent episodes
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Episode #5
Iota: whisper.cpp
Mar 27, 202435 minS0<p>Links:</p>my little whisper.cpp bug fixwhy the logits were calculated inconsistentlywav2vec2 on arxiv and huggingfacethe openai whisper asr model announcementbeam search patiencetop notch guide to CTCthe bitter...
Episode #4
Iota: Random algorithms
Feb 15, 202422 minS0<p>In which I ramble about randomness and random algorithms. Now with theme music!</p><p><br>Paper Cuts planned reading: Habitability and Piecemeal Growth, in Patterns of Software (just pages 7–16 of the book, which is...
Episode #3
Write It Down with Shay Nehmad
Feb 5, 202442 minS0<p>Shay Nehmad on how writing is the key to becoming a better engineer, how to do it, and more.</p><p>Links:</p><p>* Cup O' Go podcast<br>* Code Complete book<br>* Shay's blog<br>* Obsidian and Logseq<br></p>
Episode #2
Litestream and LiteFS with Ben Johnson
Jan 23, 202436 minS0<p>This was a fun and decidedly humbling conversation with Ben Johnson about SQLite, databases, Litestream, and LiteFS.</p><p>Links:</p>Ben on GitHubLitestreamLiteFS
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Episode #1
Iota: Rolling Hashes and FastCDC
Dec 31, 202323 minS0<p>No guest for this inaugural episode--just me this round.</p><p>I cover the basics of rolling hashes and FastCDC, which appears to be the state of the art in content defined chunking.</p><p>Mentioned in the...
Significant Bits
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Nov 25, 20231 minS0<p>The plan: Guests teach me substantive topics in software engineering, and I ask dumb questions.</p><p>Please send guest suggestions, topic ideas, excitement, and monopoly money to josh@sigpod.dev</p>
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