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FLOSS Weekly

Hackaday 217 Episodes Jun 17, 2026

FLOSS Weekly is the original podcast about Free, Libre, and Open Source Software. Hosted by Jonathan Bennett and a rotating group of co-hosts, each episode features interviews with prominent figures in the free software community, highlights interesting open source projects, and covers news about software that listeners use daily. The podcast aims to educate and entertain both developers and enthusiasts.

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Episode 871 transcript Jun 17, 2026 FLOSS-871 Jonathan: This week we're talking with Florian Gilcher of Ferrous Systems about Rust, Rust in the business, Rust in the kernel, the history of Rust, and a whole lot more. You don't wanna miss it, so stay tuned. This is Floss Weekly, episode 871, recorded Tuesday, June the 16th. Rust won't save you It's time for FOSS Weekly. That's the show about free, libre, and open source software. I'm
Episode 871 - Rust Won't Save You Jun 17, 2026 01:15:38 This week Jonathan chats with Florian Gilcher about Rust and Ferrous Systems! How have we gotten here, what's coming next, and what's new in the Rust 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 870 transcript Jun 10, 2026 FLOSS-870 Jonathan: This week I talked with Alexander Neumann about Restic, the backup program written in Go that runs everywhere and most importantly will restore your backups. That's important. This is Floss Weekly, episode 870, recorded Tuesday, June the 9th, open source gardening It's time for Floss Weekly. That's the show about free, libre, and open source software. I'm your host, Jonathan Be
Open Source Gardening Jun 10, 2026 01:12:28 This week Jonathan chats with Alexander Neumann about Restic, a particularly compelling backup and restore solution written in Go. Why did the world need one more backup program? And what's Alexander's personal take on transitioning from programmer to maintainer? 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, a
Episode 869 - Linux on Your Toaster Apr 29, 2026 34:08 This week Jonathan chats with Andrei, Mahir, and Praneeth, live on location at Texas Instruments! The team at TI has been working hard to provide really good Open Source support for Sitara processors, including upstreaming support to the mainline Linux kernel. We talk about the CI pipeline for these devices, the challenges of doing Open Source at a big company, and more. Check it out! You can join
Episode 868 transcript Apr 22, 2026 FLOSS-868 Jonathan: This is Floss Weekly, episode 868. Recorded Tuesday, April the 21st. Remove the Noodles. Hey folks, it's time for Floss Weekly. That's the show about Free Libre and open source software. I am your host, Jonathan Bennet. And today we're gonna talk about programming. We're gonna talk about, is it fair to call it vibe coding? See, that's become a prerogative. Pejorative, excuse me
Episode 868 - Remove the Noodles Apr 22, 2026 01:06:26 This week Jonathan chats with Johannes Millan about Super Productivity and Parallel Code! Those are two very different projects, but both aiming for helping us get our work done. Super Productivity is a scheduling and time tracking suite, while Parallel Code is an almost-IDE for managing and isolating AI coding agents. This episode has something for everybody, so check it out! You can join the con
Episode 866 transcript Mar 25, 2026 FLOSS-866 Jonathan: This is Floss Weekly, episode 866, recorded Tuesday, March the 17th Breezy Box. Hey folks, it's time for Floss Weekly. That's the show about free Libre and open source software. I am your host, Jonathan Bennett, and today we have a real treat. You may remember I was off at Embedded World last week, did repping mesh tastic, but also learning about all kinds of fun hardware and s
Episode 876 transcript Mar 25, 2026 FLOSS-867 Jonathan: This is Floss Weekly, episode 867, recorded Tuesday, March the 24th. Pangolin, people can lie. 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 going to talk well. A little bit of IO ot. We're gonna talk security, we're gonna talk about something that claims to be a replacement for
Episode 867 - Pangolin: People Can Lie Mar 25, 2026 01:03:17 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,
Episode 866 - BreezyBox and Embedded Compilers Mar 18, 2026 47:14 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 g
Episode 865 transcript Mar 4, 2026 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 f

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