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FLOSS Weekly

It"s the OG podcast about Free, Libre, and Open Source Software, FLOSS Weekly! Join us each Wednesday as Jonathan Bennett and the posse of Co-hosts interview big names of Free Software, cover utterly fascinating Open Source Projects you may have never heard of, and cover the news about software you use every day without even realizing it.

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Episode 866 - BreezyBox and Embedded Compilers

FLOSS Weekly ·

2026/03/18

This week Jonathan chats with Valentyn Danylchuk about BreezyBox. That's the ESP32 shell and toolkit that gives you a console and compiler right on an ESP32 device. What was the inspiration for this impressive project? And what direction is it heading? 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

Episode 865 transcript

FLOSS Weekly ·

2026/03/04

FLOSS-865 Jonathan: Hey folks. This week I talked with Philip Humo about Crowds sec. That is an open source security company and their flagship product is a web application firewall that puts the open source into it in a couple of different ways. It's really fascinating and you don't wanna miss it. Since stay tuned, this is Floss Weekly episode 865, recorded Tuesday, March the third, multiplayer firewall. It is time for Floss Weekly. That's the show about free Libre and open source software. I'm

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Episode 865 - Multiplayer Firewalls

FLOSS Weekly ·

2026/03/04

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

Episode 864 transcript

FLOSS Weekly ·

2026/02/11

FLOSS-864 Jonathan: This week I chat with William Sch, the author of the Lenox Command Line, a book all about how to get stuff done in Lenox, in the Shell. It's a lot of fun. You don't wanna miss it. So stay tuned. This is Floss Weekly, episode eight a hundred and sixty four, recorded Tuesday, February the 10th. Work hard, save money. Retire early. Hey folks, it's time for Floss Weekly. That's the show about Free Libre and open source software. I'm your host, Jonathan Bennett, and today we're gonna

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Episode 864 - Work Hard, Save Money, Retire Early

FLOSS Weekly ·

2026/02/11

This week Jonathan chats with Bill Shotts about The Linux Command Line! That's Bill's book published by No Starch Press, all about how to make your way around the Linux command line! Bill has had quite a career doing Unix administration, and has thoughts on the current state of technology. Listen to find out more! 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

Episode 863 transcript

FLOSS Weekly ·

2026/02/04

FLOSS-863 Jonathan: Hey folks, this week I'm talking with Ola Schulte and Lars au about Open Cast. That's the project for recording lectures, uploading them, and, uh, coming soon, even a video portal built into it. You don't wanna miss it, so stay tuned. This is Floss Weekly episode 863, recorded Tuesday, February the third, opencast. That code is there for a reason. It is Time for Floss Weekly. That's the show about Freed Libre and open source software. I'm your host, Jonathan Bennett. And today,

01:17:41

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

FLOSS Weekly ·

2026/02/04

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

Episode 862 transcript

FLOSS Weekly ·

2026/01/28

FLOSS-862 Jonathan: Whew. This week I talk with Toke Hoyland Jorgenson about cake mq. That is the technology in the kernel that keeps your packets flowing the way that they're supposed to. Yes, we're talking buffer bloat and getting an update on what's new there. This is Floss Weekly, episode 862. Recorded Tuesday, January the 27th. Have your cake and eat it too. It's time for Floss Weekly. That's the show about Free Libre and open source software. I'm your host, Jonathan Bennett, and today we are

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Episode 862 - Have Your CAKE and Eat It Too

FLOSS Weekly ·

2026/01/28

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

Episode 861 transcript

FLOSS Weekly ·

2026/01/21

FLOSS-861 Jonathan: Hey folks. This week I'm talking with Nicholas Adams about Open React, not React Open. React. That's the big database project. It scales, it replicates, it can do a lot of stuff very, very quickly. It's no sequel. Just don't ask it to fuzzy match. That's real slow. Uh, it's a lot of fun. You don't wanna miss it. This is Floss Weekly episode 861. Recorded on Monday, January the 20th. Big databases with Open React. Hey folks, it's time for Floss Weekly. That's the show about Free

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Episode 861 - Big Databases with OpenRiak

FLOSS Weekly ·

2026/01/21

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

Episode 860 transcript

FLOSS Weekly ·

2026/01/14

FLOSS-860 Jonathan: Hey folks. This week Randall joins me. We talk with Jose Valli about Elixir. In fact, we get its origin story. What was the problem we were originally trying to solve, and why is Elixir so interesting for today's problems, whether it be concurrency, the web, or even ai, you don't wanna miss it. So stay tuned. This is Floss Weekly episode 860, recorded Tuesday, January the 13th. Elixir Origin Store. Hey folks, it is Time for a Floss Weekly. That's the show about Free Libre and

01:05:08

Episode 860 - Elixir Origin Story

FLOSS Weekly ·

2026/01/14

This week Jonathan and Randal chat with Jose Valim about Elixir! What led Jose to create this unique programming language? What do we mean that it's a functional language with immutability? 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

Episode 859 transcript

FLOSS Weekly ·

2025/12/17

Jonathan: Hey folks. This week I talked with Jonathan Thomas about Open Shop. It's the video editor that aims to, will be simple to use, and yet still powerful enough to get everything done. It runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux, completely open source. It's a lot of fun. You don't wanna miss it. So stay tuned. This is Floss Weekly, episode 859, recorded Tuesday, December the 16th. Open shot, simple and fast. Hey folks, it's time for Floss Weekly. That's the show about Free Libre and open source

01:09:25

Episode 859 - OpenShot: Simple and Fast

FLOSS Weekly ·

2025/12/17

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

Episode 858 transcript

FLOSS Weekly ·

2025/12/10

FLOSS-858 Jonathan: Hey folks. This week I talk with KS baskar about YADA db. It's the high performance database. That's not sql. Well, at least not yet. It's sort of coming. It's been around for a really long time, and it's tied closely to something called the mumps language. It is a deep dive into the technology behind YADA DB and its history. You don't wanna miss it, so stay tuned. This is Floss Weekly, episode 858, recorded Tuesday, December the ninth. Yada db. Sometimes the solution is bigger

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Episode 858 - YottaDB: Sometimes the Solution is...

FLOSS Weekly ·

2025/12/10

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

Episode 857 transcript

FLOSS Weekly ·

2025/12/03

FLOSS-857 Jonathan: Hey folks, this week I talk with Constantinos Margaritas about, well send the instructions and open source, uh, architectures what's going on with X 86 64 and Arm and long soon, we talked about a lot of different stuff. He's been a Debbie and developer for about 25 years, got quite the career and we cover a lot of it. This is Floss Weekly, episode 857, recorded Tuesday, December the second. OC Ification. Hey folks, it's time for Floss Weekly. That's the show about Free Libre and

01:13:19

Episode 857: SOCification

FLOSS Weekly ·

2025/12/03

This week Jonathan chats with Konstantinos Margaritis about SIMD programming. Why do these wide data instructions matter? What's the state of Hyperscan, the project from Intel to power regex with SIMD? And what is Konstantinos' connection to ARM's SIMD approach? 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

Episode 855 transcript

FLOSS Weekly ·

2025/11/27

FLOSS-855 Jonathan: Hey folks. This week I talked with the guys from Cataclysm, DDA. It's an open source game that you can play over SSH. It's also got a tile set if you want to play it that way. It's all about the apocalypse and trying and failing to survive. It's a lot of fun. You don't wanna miss it. So stay tuned. This is Floss Weekly episode. 855 recorded Tuesday, November the 18th. Get in the mind cart loser. Hey folks, it's time for Floss Weekly. That's the show about Free Libre and open

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