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Mar 25, 2026 • 1h 3min

Episode 867 - Pangolin: People Can Lie

This week Jonathan chats with Milo Schwartz about Pangolin, the Open Source tunneling solution. Why do we need something other than Wireguard, and how does Pangolin fix IoT and IT problems? And most importantly, how do you run your own self-hosted Pangolin install? Listen to find out! You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, watch live or get the video version of the show on Youtube, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday. Oh, and follow the official Mastadon account! Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Mar 18, 2026 • 47min

Episode 866 - BreezyBox and Embedded Compilers

Valentyn Danylchuk, an embedded-systems hobbyist behind BreezyBox and a compact self-hosting C compiler, discusses building an ESP32-based shell and toolkit. He covers the project’s origins, why a shell beats custom firmware, running relocatable ELF apps on-device, virtual terminals and graphics, SSH and portability choices, and plans for ports, compiler backends, and community contributions.
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Mar 4, 2026 • 56min

Episode 865 - Multiplayer Firewalls

This week Jonathan chats with Philippe Humeau about Crowdsec! That company created a Web Application Firewall as on Open Source project, and now runs it as a Multiplayer Firewall. What does that mean, and how has it worked out as a business concept? Listen to find out! You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, watch live or get the video version of the show on Youtube, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday. Oh, and follow the official Mastadon account! Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Feb 11, 2026 • 1h 3min

Episode 864 - Work Hard, Save Money, Retire Early

Bill Shotts, author of The Linux Command Line and longtime Unix educator, walks through how his linuxcommand.org tutorials became a book. He discusses structuring tech books, essential Unix tools like sed and awk, shell portability, SSH workflows, and preserving command-line skills. He also shares career waves, warnings about AI for developers, and personal advice on retiring early.
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Feb 4, 2026 • 1h 18min

Episode 863 - Opencast: That Code is There for a Reason

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! You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, watch live or get the video version of the show on Youtube, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday. Oh, and follow the official Mastadon account! Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Jan 28, 2026 • 1h 8min

Episode 862 - Have Your CAKE and Eat It Too

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 parallelizable? When can we expect it in the wild? And what's new in the rest of the kernel world? Listen to find out! You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, watch live or get the video version of the show on Youtube, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday. Oh, and follow the official Mastadon account! Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Jan 21, 2026 • 1h 4min

Episode 861 - Big Databases with OpenRiak

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! You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, watch live or get the video version of the show on Youtube, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday. Oh, and follow the official Mastadon account! Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Jan 14, 2026 • 1h 5min

Episode 860 - Elixir Origin Story

Jose Valim, the creator of the Elixir programming language and Chief Adoption Officer at Dashbit, shares his journey in developing Elixir. He delves into the importance of immutability for concurrency and the historical significance of the Erlang VM. Valim highlights how Elixir excels in networked systems, real-time applications, and even AI integrations. He also discusses debugging concurrent systems, the role of lightweight processes, and the innovative Tidewave project, which aims to enhance coding with intelligent agent support.
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Dec 17, 2025 • 1h 9min

Episode 859 - OpenShot: Simple and Fast

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? Listen to find out! You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, watch live or get the video version of the show on Youtube, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday. Oh, and follow the official Mastadon account! Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Dec 10, 2025 • 1h 5min

Episode 858 - YottaDB: Sometimes the Solution is Bigger Servers

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? Listen to find out! You can join the conversation in the Hackaday Discord, watch live or get the video version of the show on Youtube, as well as getting the full story and show links from Hackaday. Oh, and follow the official Mastadon account! Theme music: "Newer Wave" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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