In this episode, Conor and Bryce make their 2026 predictions and chat about the future!

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Show Notes

Date Recorded: 2026-01-13
Date Released: 2026-01-23

• VOTE FOR YOUR FAVORITE ADSP EPISODES OF 2025
• ADSP Episode 111: C++23 Ranges, 2022 Retro & Star Wars
• ADSP Episode 97: C++ vs Carbon vs Circle vs CppFront with Sean Baxter
• trueup Tech Layoffs Tracker
• trueup Big Tech Employee Counts
• trueup Important Dates in Modern Tech History
• Artificial Analysis
• The Psychology of Awakening by Gay Watson
• The Resonance of Emptiness by Gay Watson
• Permutation City by Greg Egan
• The Peterman Pod
• Boris Cherny (Creator of Claude Code) On What Grew His Career And Building at Anthropic (Peterman Pod)
• Pantheon
• The Metamorphosis of the Prime Intellect by Isaac Asimov
• Foundation Series by Isaac Asimov
• Ronot Series by Isaac Asimov

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In this episode, Conor and Bryce conduct the annual 2025 retro!

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Show Notes

Date Recorded: 2026-01-13
Date Released: 2026-01-16

• VOTE FOR YOUR FAVORITE ADSP EPISODES OF 2025
• ADSP Episode 259: 🇳🇴 NDC TechTown 🇳🇴 Vittorio Romeo & JF Bastien
• NDC TechTown 2025 Playlist
• Prefix Sums and Their Applications by Guy Blelloch
• Parallel Prefix Sum (Scan) with CUDA by Mark Harris
• ADSP Episode 263: 🇳🇱 The Sean Parent Origin Story
• ADSP Episode 232: Algorithms! Live from New York!

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In this episode, Conor and Ben chat about Advent of Code 2025 Day 6!

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Show Notes

Date Recorded: 2025-12-22
Date Released: 2026-01-09

• Advent of Code 2025
• Day 6 Problem
• Ben's Day 6 AoC 2025 in Python
• Conor's Day 6 AoC 2025 in BQN
• transpose Hoogle Translate

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In this episode, Conor and Ben chat about Advent of Code 2025 Day 2 and 3!

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Date Recorded: 2025-12-22
Date Released: 2026-01-02

• Advent of Code 2025
• Day 2 Problem
• Day 3 Problem
• C++23 std::views::chunk
• chunk Hoogle Translate
• BQN fn.Chunk
• BQN ↕ (windows)
• Ben's Day 3 AoC 2025 in C++
• Ben's Day 6 AoC 2025 in Python
• transpose Hoogle Translate
• Conor's Day 2 AoC 2025 in BQN
• Conor's Day 3 AoC 2025 in BQN
• Conor's Day 6 AoC 2025 in BQN

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In this episode, Conor and Ben chat about CppCon, NDC Toronto, C++Now, Teletext, Bamboozle & more!

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Date Recorded: 2025-12-22
Date Released: 2025-12-26

• Bamboozle!
• Bamboozle! Quiz
• Ceefax
• Teletext
• NDC Toronto
• C++Now
• CppCon 2025 Schedule
• API Structure and Technique: Learnings from Code Review - Ben Deane - CppCon 2025
• Engineers Are Users Too: A Case Study in Design Thinking for Infrastructure - Grace Alwan
• Implementing Your Own C++ Atomics - Ben Saks - CppCon 2025
• GROOV
• Advent of Code 2025

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In this episode, Conor chats with Kevlin Henney about the past, present and future of programming languages and with Damian Maclennan about YOW! 2025!

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About the Guests:

Kevlin Henney is an independent consultant, speaker, writer and trainer. His software development interests are in programming, practice and people. He has been a columnist for various magazines and websites. He is the co-author of A Pattern Language for Distributed Computing and On Patterns and Pattern Languages, two volumes in the Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture series, and editor of 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know and co-editor of 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know.

Damian Maclennan is a technologist, software architect, trainer, developer, cyclist, and musician in Brisbane, Australia. With over twenty five years experience building software and leading teams across many industries he has worked as a developer, software architect, consultant, troubleshooter, trainer and educator, and senior leader. Damian is the Technical Director of YOW! Conferences. Full bio here.

Show Notes

Date Recorded: 2025-12-11
Date Released: 2025-12-19

• YOW Conferences!
• ADSP Episode 190: C++, Python and More with Kevlin Henney
• 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know
• The Past, Present and Future of Programming Languages - Kevlin Henney - ACCU 2025
• The Past, Present & Future of Programming Languages • Kevlin Henney • GOTO 2024
• TIOBE Language Rankings
• RedMonk Language Rankings
• Programming Language Rankings
• Context Free YouTube
• YOW! 2025 - Beyond Sonic Pi: Tau5 and the Art of Coding with AI - Sam Aaron
• YOW! 2025 - Conceptualisation - Michael Feathers

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In this episode, Conor interviews Kevlin Henney about aphantasia, anendophasia, synesthesia, future and more!

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About the Guest:

Kevlin Henney is an independent consultant, speaker, writer and trainer. His software development interests are in programming, practice and people. He has been a columnist for various magazines and websites. He is the co-author of A Pattern Language for Distributed Computing and On Patterns and Pattern Languages, two volumes in the Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture series, and editor of 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know and co-editor of 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know.

Show Notes

Date Recorded: 2025-12-11
Date Released: 2025-12-12

• YOW Conferences!
• ADSP Episode 190: C++, Python and More with Kevlin Henney
• 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know
• Declarative thinking, declarative practice - Kevlin Henney - Meeting C++ 2017
• Aphantasia
• Anendophasia
• Synesthesia
• Rutherford & Fry: The Case of the Blind Mind's Eye
• What Do You Mean? - Kevlin Henney [ACCU 2019]
• The Way the Future Was • Kevlin Henney & James Lewis • GOTO 2025
• Overton Window
• Darth Jar Jar - Star Wars Theory

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In this episode, Conor and Bryce interview Sean Parent about the origin story of his career in software engineering!

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About the Guest:

Sean Parent is a senior principal scientist and software architect managing Adobe's Software Technology Lab. Sean first joined Adobe in 1993 working on Photoshop and is one of the creators of Photoshop Mobile, Lightroom Mobile, and Lightroom Web. In 2009 Sean spent a year at Google working on Chrome OS before returning to Adobe. From 1988 through 1993 Sean worked at Apple, where he was part of the system software team that developed the technologies allowing Apple’s successful transition to PowerPC.

Show Notes

Date Recorded: 2025-10-10
Date Released: 2025-12-05

• Source Code
• TRS80
• Ohio Scientific Challenger
• Exidy Sorcerer

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