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Chats with James Podcast

by James Munns

Chats with James is a podcast discussing everything that James or his guests are passionate about.Embedded Systems, the Rust Programming Language, and a variety of other technical topics are the most commonly discussed items.

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Episodes

  1. 017 - On the Road: RustNL & Oxidize

    The “On the Road” episode has two parts, covering different Rust conferences in May 2024. The first section is from RustNL in Delft, the Netherlands, where James interviews Laura and Jonathan, some of the organizers of the event, on their history with Rust and the struggles and successes of…

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  2. 016 - Scott Mabin

    James talks with Scott Mabin about how he joined the Espressif team and got involved in embedded Rust, the working culture in chip manufacturing companies and preferences about designing and building mechanical keyboards.

  3. 015 - Manish Goregaokar

    Another episode is coming from the archives, originally recorded in May 2022 with Manish Goregaokar as the guest- James and Manish touch on many topics, including: internationalization of languages, zero-copy deserialization in Rust, speedrunning video games and Vaccinate CA.

  4. 014 - Steve Klabnik

    This episode is coming from the archives, originally recorded in May 2022 - James talks with Steve Klabnik from Oxide Computer about knowledge transfer within the Rust community, how learning-by-doing and reading datasheets help you develop, and how limits and regulations are put in place across...

  5. 013 - Ryan Summers

    In this episode, James chats with Ryan Summers about the process of developing protocols, the guidelines of working in safety critical systems and embedded engineering.

  6. 012 - Sophia Turner

    In this episode, James chats with Sophia about the intricacies of writing programming languages, what makes designing programs fun, strategies for defining goals, and more.

  7. 011 - Eliza Weisman

    James chats with Eliza about systems, systems of systems, operating systems, java, java cards, what posix did wrong, and a ton of other rust adjacent things.

  8. 010 - Dion Dokter

    James chats with Dion Dokter about device drivers, bootloaders, and embedded Rust.

  9. 009 - Sylvan Morris

    James chats with Sylvan Morris about introducing Rust into a company, working at an embedded startup, over the air bootloaders, and managing risk.

  10. 008 - Yoshua Wuyts

    James chats with Yoshua Wuyts to discuss Control Theory in traditional software domains, the possibilities of RISC-V, and open source hardware.

  11. 007 - Michael Nitschinger

    James chats with Michael Nitschinger of Couchbase to discuss Coffee Machines, PID control loops, Bluetooth Low Energy, and Databases.

  12. 006 - Bryan Cantrill

    James chats with Bryan Cantrill of Oxide Computer to discuss the open source hardware explosion, Oxide's experience with Embedded Rust, the importance of a culture of sharing knowledge, and the joy of fixing hard-to-diagnose systems problems.

  13. 005 - Clifford Heath

    James chats with Clifford Heath to discuss the differences between procedural and structural code, using natural language processing to describe software, code generation, and programming education approaches.

  14. 004 - François Baldassari

    James chats with François Baldassari to discuss embedded systems, engineering practices (and where the industry is lacking), and the social side of improving the skills of embedded systems teams.

  15. 003 - Michael Gattozzi

    James chats with Michael Gattozzi to discuss developer tooling, message serialization, and undefined behavior in Rust.

  16. 002 - Christopher Hunt

    James chats with Christopher Hunt to discuss programming languages, the cost of software abstraction, Bluetooth, and state machines.

  17. 001 - Lachezar Lechev

    James chats with Lachezar Lechev to discuss Rust in Avionics, drone simulation technologies, and burnout in software development.

  18. 000 - Foreward

    James introduces the Chats with James Podcast.

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

Chats with James is a podcast discussing everything that James or his guests are passionate about.Embedded Systems, the Rust Programming Language, and a variety of other technical topics are the most commonly discussed items.

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James Munns

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Chats with James is a podcast discussing everything that James or his guests are passionate about.Embedded Systems, the Rust Programming Language, and a variety of other technical topics are the most commonly discussed items.

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Chats with James Podcast is created and hosted by James Munns.
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