Self-Directed Research

An introduction to how the 'plumbing' of async tasks and drivers wait, sleep, and are notified for efficient cooperative action; and a glowing overview of the maitake-sync crate's main primitives Visit sdr-podcast.com/episodes/syncing to see the show notes and transcript! Today's episode is sponsored by the postcard crate, which is looking for sponsors for the 2.0 release. More info to be found on the OneVariable blog.

How global is your context? And does it really need atomic reference counting? Visit ladybird.org for more information and to join the mailing list.

A conceptual introduction to structured communication protocols, and the design decisions behind the postcard-rpc crate Visit ladybird.org for more information and to join the mailing list.

An overview of Thread Local Variables, and the challenges they pose for experimental dynamic linking support. Visit ladybird.org for more information and to join the mailing list.

An introduction to DMA, including what it is commonly used for, and a model of how to think about what the hardware does. You can read the Inside Rust Survey Announcement for information about the Embedded Rust Community Micro Survey, or you can take the survey now by clicking here.

An experience report of attempting and MOSTLY succeeding in using the Cranelift backend for real MacOS applications

A dive into abstracting unusual behavior differences using generics to manage different storage and async usage styles

An update to previous research about speeding build times, informed by unexpected increased cost of maintenance

Meet the hosts of the Self-Directed Research Podcast, and learn what it is all about!