Arvid Norberg: 20 years of libtorrent

July 05, 2026 11:53pm 33 min

This talk will gives a brief introduction to BitTorrent and a side project Arvid started 20 years ago, along with lessons learned along the way. Especially in network programming. Recorded at StockholmCpp 0x2F, https://w...

Opening Panel: Archival Poetics & The War on Memory

July 02, 2026 8:01am 1:27

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Eskil Steenberg – You should finish your software – BSC 2025

June 28, 2026 5:50am 1:06

Eskil Steenberg's talk at BSC 2025 on the importance of finished software. Eskil's links: - https://quelsolaar.com - https://x.com/eskilsteenberg - https://twitch.tv/quel_solaar BSC links: - https://BetterSoftwareConfere...

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June 11, 2026 5:49am

Organization: Internet Archive The Internet Archive discovers and captures web pages through many different web crawls. At any given time several distinct crawls are running, some for months, and some every day or longe...

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June 11, 2026 5:48am

Organization: Internet Archive The Internet Archive discovers and captures web pages through many different web crawls. At any given time several distinct crawls are running, some for months, and some every day or longe...

What we remember after reading (with Andrew Elfenbein)

May 17, 2026 5:18am 18 min

After we finish reading a book, our memories of it quickly fade and can even get distorted. Andrew Elfenbein has studied how the things we read get transformed in memory. What we remember may diverge from what’s in the b...

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May 17, 2026 5:17am 42 min

Investigation continues after boy fired a gun at a house in Bucks Co.

May 13, 2026 10:04am 2 min

Students at a Bucks County middle school learned from home on Wednesday after an 11-year-old boy fired a gun near the school building on Tuesday afternoon. NBC10's Leah Uko has more on the details on the investigation. S...

Martin Fowler & Kent Beck: Frameworks for reinventing software, again and again

April 14, 2026 9:25am 32 min

With Martin Fowler and Kent Beck. At The Pragmatic Summit: www.pragmaticsummit.com. See a writeup of the talk: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/cycles-of-disruption-in-the-tech Watch the session with Q&A also i...

337 - Cognitive Surrender - Gideon Nave and Steven D. Shaw — You Are Not So Smart

April 13, 2026 4:28am 1:01

337 - Cognitive Surrender - Gideon Nave and Steven D. Shaw April 13, 2026

41: James Bridle—Questioning Machine Intelligence with Peter Bauman

April 11, 2026 7:56am 51 min

In this podcast episode, host Peter Bauman (Le Random's editor in chief) speaks with artist and writer James Bridle about what we actually mean when we say "intelligence." They discuss…

Rebecca Solnit: Hope After the End

March 27, 2026 2:12pm 38 min

As institutions unravel, Rebecca Solnit argues despair is a mistake—and that a more compassionate, just world is already being born.

Rebecca Solnit On Why the Future Isn’t as Dark as It Looks

March 27, 2026 2:12pm 50 min

Episode 353 The world might feel dark right now, but life is actually getting better, rapidly. From the rise of feminism and antiracism to environmental movements and shifting understandings of gender, the Western world ...

Stop despairing. Start building

March 27, 2026 1:53pm 1:18

My conversation with Rebecca Solnit

Reclaiming our Humanity in the Age of AI

March 17, 2026 5:06am 59 min

Too often, AI feels like something that’s done to us, not with us or for us. It will affect every aspect of our lives. But AI is neither poison nor panacea. It is and will be what we make it. Now is the moment to shape t...

Podcast #274 – UbuWeb is a Hand Coded Archive that Stands the Test of Time

March 10, 2026 1:22am 58 min

Poet Kenneth Goldsmith created UbuWeb in 1996 as an online repository for obscure avant-garde art that, by virtue of having little commercial potential, was hard to find. Audio was an early component of the archive, owin...

Oral History of John Backus

February 17, 2026 7:36am 1:27

Interviewed by Grady Booch on September 5, 2006, in Ashland, Oregon, X3715.2007 © Computer History Museum John Backus led a team at IBM in 1957 that created the first successful high-level programming language, FORTRAN. ...

'Resisting AI' with Dan McQuillan | Critical AI Talks

February 02, 2026 10:58am 1:09

'Resisting AI' with Dan McQuillan Technology and AI are often thought of as being neutral, objective, technical, or apolitical. Our conversation with Dan McQuillan will examine the political stakes of AI, asking what can...

What if the Internet goes down? Introduction to LoRa mesh network communication with Meshcore

January 26, 2026 9:59am 1:14

How would you stay in touch if the Internet went down? Can you set up your own long-range communication network with mates? In this video, tech workers Mar, Liam, and Marissa cover what mesh network communication is, whe...

NASA's Artemis II Live Views from Kennedy Space Center 2026-01-17 11:55

January 17, 2026 10:56am

This live feed from our Kennedy Space Center in Florida will provide continuous views of the Artemis II Moon rocket beginning on Saturday, Jan. 17 with rollout from the Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Pad 39B. In the...