Unwind

Mar 08 2025 17 ep. 79 mins 156
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The Handmade programming community has a different perspective on software development. In this show, we sit down with Handmade programmers and let them show off their work and share what they've been learning.

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How does a web dev become a CPU engineer? w/ Alex (aolo2)

Mar 08 2025 57 mins  
Welcome to the first episode of Unwind in podcast form! Web developer turned CPU engineer Alex (aolo2) joins us to discuss three amazing programs he made from scratch: a collaborative whiteboard, a chat application, and a processor trace viewer. For those listening via a podcast feed, welcome to Unwind. Unwind started as a live interview show on Twitch, but this year we've decided

State of the Network 2021

Jan 09 2022 44 mins  
Rudy Faile - community member, former podcast guest, navy veteran, and systems engineer - joins us to discuss the Handmade movement in 2021, including the Handmade Seattle conference, Handmade projects, and Handmade Network, and where we are planning to go with Handmade Network in 2022 and beyond. https://handmade-seattle.com/ https://happenlance.com/ https://handmade.network/jam h

How The Internet Works, w/ Tyler Leeds & Rudy Faile

Sep 01 2021 84 mins  
Tyler Leeds is a network engineer for Automattic. He works as a member of a small team that manages a massive network, responsible for a massive portion of the entire web. He and Rudy Faile, a coworker of Tyler's, community member, and former podcast guest, join us in this episode to dig into the guts of how networking works at a lower level. We discuss both the technical and human

The Web's Problems & Future, w/ Ben Visness and Asaf Gartner

Jul 01 2021 72 mins  
Ben Visness and Asaf Gartner—web development professionals and Handmade Network staff members—join us in this episode. We discuss the problems that the web is trying to solve, the source of performance problems in web-based software, how the web could improve practically in the short-term, and how it could improve dramatically in the long-term. https://jquery.com/ https://dev

Examining Computer Science Education, w/ Demetri Spanos

Jun 01 2021 85 mins  
Demetri Spanos is a machine learning expert, PhD recipient, and former university professor. In this episode, he joins us again to discuss the subject of education, particularly in universities. We dig into the perceived problems of computer science and software engineering education, whether they are real or serious, why they are there, how they have been solved elsewhere, and how

Ripcord, Programming, and Education, w/ Cancel

May 03 2021 82 mins  
Andrew Richards (also known as cancel), creator of Ripcord, joins us to chat about how he got into low level programming, the development and technical challenges of Ripcord, programming languages, teaching low-level programming, and modern software. https://cancel.fm/ https://cancel.fm/ripcord https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-16 https://en

Funding Handmade Projects, w/ Andrew Kelley & Allen Webster

Jan 07 2021 81 mins  
Andrew Kelley and Allen Webster join us to discuss the funding model of Zig language and making Handmade-style projects self-sufficient in funding. https://ziglang.org/zsf/ https://4coder.net https://patreon.com https://itch.io https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ucHARxVbhrBbuZDbhrGHYDTsYAs8_bMH https://sourcehut.org/

Andrew Reece

Oct 29 2020 92 mins  
Andrew Reece, creator of Handmade Network project WhiteBox (https://whitebox.handmade.network), a real-time debugging tool, joins us to discuss WhiteBox, low-level programming, improving the cycle of human-computer interaction both in the physical and software spaces, instant feedback, providing insight into the multiple dimensions that define a program and its effects, and the fut

Building Handmade Teams, w/ Allen Webster

Oct 15 2020 82 mins  
Creator of 4coder and RAD Game Tools engineer Allen Webster joins us to discuss teamwork on a new project he started with Ryan, sparked by topics discussed last time he joined us. Using this project as an example, we explore various problems with approaching a team-based Handmade project as programmers used to working on projects alone, and some of the solutions used for approachin

Martijn Courteaux

Oct 01 2020 81 mins  
Martijn Courteaux, programmer on the SilverNode project (https://silvernode.handmade.network), joins us to discuss the architecture and development of SilverNode, a RAW photo editor to improve the efficiency and abilities of photographers when editing photos. https://silvernode.io https://silvernode.handmade.network https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtrDnkbsSQG7UqQm57f17Hw https