ADSP: Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs
A programming podcast hosted by three software engineers (two at a time) that focuses on algorithms, data structures, programming languages, latest news in tech and more. The podcast was initially inspired by Magic Read Along.
Episode 296: Working in the Video Game Industry
In this episode, Conor and Ben chat about video games, working in the video game industry and more!
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ADSP: The Podcast: TwitterConor Hoekstra: LinkTree / BioBen Deane: Twitter | BlueSkyShow Notes
Date Recorded: 2026-07-22
Date Released: 2026-07-24
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Episode 295: CityStrides vs Graph Algorithms vs GPT 5.6 Sol
In this episode, Conor and Bryce chat about CityStrides, graph algorithms, GPT 5.6 Solver, and more!
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Date Recorded: 2026-07-13
Date Released: 2026-07-17
Episode 294: Histocache
In this episode, Conor and Bryce chat about histogram algorithms, histocache and more!
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Date Recorded: 2026-07-09
Date Released: 2026-07-10
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Episode 293: APL or Assembly
In this episode, Conor and Bryce chat about AI vs abstractions, the language of LLMs and more!
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Date Recorded: 2026-07-02
Date Released: 2026-07-03
Episode 292: GPU MODE, PLs, Post AGI, Wingspan & Lawn Care
In this episode, Conor and Bryce chat about GPU MODE, programming languages, post AGI, Wingspan, lawn care and more!
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Date Recorded: 2026-06-10
Date Released: 2026-06-26
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Episode 291: autoresearch with Opus 4.8 & GPT 5.5
In this episode, Conor and Bryce chat autoresearch, the top LLM models, how to get the most out of them and more!
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Date Recorded: 2026-06-10
Date Released: 2026-06-19
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Episode 290: AI Thoughts & The Best Thing You Can Do for Your Career
In this episode, Conor and Ben chat and continue their conversation about AI, its impact and what it means for the future.
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ADSP: The Podcast: TwitterConor Hoekstra: LinkTree / BioBen Deane: Twitter | BlueSkyShow Notes
Date Recorded: 2026-05-27
Date Released: 2026-06-12
Episode 289: Ben's Updated AI Thoughts
In this episode, Conor and Ben chat and Ben gives his updated thoughts about AI.
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Date Recorded: 2026-05-27
Date Released: 2026-06-05
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Episode 288: C++ Now, Lasting Quality & Programming as Theory Building
In this episode, Conor and Ben chat about C++ Now 2026, lasting software quality, programming as theory building and more.
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ADSP: The Podcast: TwitterConor Hoekstra: LinkTree / BioBen Deane: Twitter | BlueSkyShow Notes
Date Recorded: 2026-05-27
Date Released: 2026-05-29
Episode 287: AI Takes & AI Taxes
In this episode, Conor and Bryce chat with Marco Franzreb Salgado about the state of AI, whether AI should do our taxes and more.
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ADSP: The Podcast: TwitterConor Hoekstra: LinkTree / BioBryce Adelstein Lelbach: TwitterAbout the Guest:
Marco is a software engineer at NVIDIA, where he works on improving the nvCOMP library, which offers fast GPU implementations of multiple data compression formats. For the past couple of months he has been working...
Episode 286: GPU Profiling with NVIDIA Nsight Compute (NCU)
In this episode, Conor and Bryce chat with Marco Franzreb Salgado about profiling GPU code with NVIDIA Nsight Compute (NCU).
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ADSP: The Podcast: TwitterConor Hoekstra: LinkTree / BioBryce Adelstein Lelbach: TwitterAbout the Guest:
Marco is a software engineer at NVIDIA, where he works on improving the nvCOMP library, which offers fast GPU implementations of multiple data compression formats. For the past couple of months he has been working on a GPU implementation...
Episode 285: GPU Rotate (Part 2)
In this episode, Conor and Bryce chat with Marco Franzeb Salgado about a potential GPU implementation of the rotate algorithm (Part 2).
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ADSP: The Podcast: TwitterConor Hoekstra: LinkTree / BioBryce Adelstein Lelbach: TwitterAbout the Guest:
Marco is a software engineer at NVIDIA, where he works on improving the nvCOMP library, which offers fast GPU implementations of multiple data compression formats. For the past couple of months he has been working on a GPU...
Episode 284: GPU Rotate
In this episode, Conor and Bryce chat with Marco Franzeb about a potential GPU implementation of the rotate algorithm.
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ADSP: The Podcast: TwitterConor Hoekstra: LinkTree / BioBryce Adelstein Lelbach: TwitterAbout the Guest:
Marco is a software engineer at NVIDIA, where he works on improving the nvCOMP library, which offers fast GPU implementations of multiple data compression formats. For the past couple of months he has been working on a GPU implementation of...
Episode 283: From 0 Programming to NVIDIA in < 3.5 Years
In this episode, Conor and Bryce chat with Marco Salgado about his journey from no programming experience to NVIDIA in < >Link to Episode 283 on WebsiteDiscuss this episode, leave a comment, or ask a question (on GitHub)
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ADSP: The Podcast: TwitterConor Hoekstra: LinkTree / BioBryce Adelstein Lelbach: TwitterAbout the Guest:
Marco is a software engineer at NVIDIA, where he works on improving the nvCOMP library, which offers fast GPU implementations of multiple data compression formats. For the past couple of months he has been working on a GPU implementation of...
Episode 282: Programming Language Archaeology & Semantics
In this episode, Conor and Ben chat about programming language archeology!
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ADSP: The Podcast: TwitterConor Hoekstra: LinkTree / BioBen Deane: Twitter | BlueSkyShow Notes
Date Recorded: 2026-03-30
Date Released: 2026-04-17
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In this episode, Conor and Ben chat about Haskell deforestation, hylomorphisms, boost ranges, Jello and more!
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ADSP: The Podcast: TwitterConor Hoekstra: LinkTree / BioBen Deane: Twitter | BlueSkyShow Notes
Date Recorded: 2026-03-30
Date Released: 2026-04-10
Episode 280: C++26 Big Ticket Items, GCC vs Clang & More
In this episode, Conor and Ben chat about major features shipping in C++26, GCC vs Clang and more!
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ADSP: The Podcast: TwitterConor Hoekstra: LinkTree / BioBen Deane: Twitter | BlueSkyShow Notes
Date Recorded: 2026-03-30
Date Released: 2026-04-03
Episode 279: ArrayBox.dev & Agentic Software Development
In this episode, Conor and Bryce chat about ArrayBox.dev, some Parrot algorithms, the future of agentic software development and more!
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Date Recorded: 2026-03-10
Date Released: 2026-03-27
Episode 278: The Age of Ideas
In this episode, Conor and Bryce chat about the age of ideas, whether AI will lead to cognitive atrophy, some exiciting personal news and more!
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Date Recorded: 2026-03-10
Date Released: 2026-03-20
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Episode 277: High on AI Update
In this episode, Conor and Bryce give a "High on AI" update, chat about the AI tools they're using, their workflows and more!
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Date Recorded: 2026-03-10
Date Released: 2026-03-13
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Episode 276: Mini AI / Cursor Update (+ Running)
In this episode, Conor and Bryce give a mini AI & Cursor update, as well as chat about running and more.
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Date Recorded: 2026-02-26
Date Released: 2026-03-06
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Episode 275: Cartel Chaos & Travel Troubles
In this episode, Conor and Bryce chat about cartel chaos and travel troubles!
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Date Recorded: 2026-02-26
Date Released: 2026-02-27
Episode 274: Recreational Math, Calculators & the Quadratic Formula
In this episode, Conor and Ben chat about recreational math, calculators, the quadratic formula and more!
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ADSP: The Podcast: TwitterConor Hoekstra: LinkTree / BioBen Deane: Twitter | BlueSkyShow Notes
Date Recorded: 2026-02-04
Date Released: 2026-02-20
Episode 273: Recreational Algorithms, δΈηΎεεδΈ, PEDMAS & Orwell
In this episode, Conor and Ben chat about recreational algorithms, the Chinese number system, PEDMAS, George Orwell and more!
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Date Recorded: 2026-02-04
Date Released: 2026-02-13
Episode 272: Inverses, Monoids and β
In this episode, Conor and Ben chat about algorithms inverses, monoids, infinity and more!
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Date Recorded: 2026-02-04
Date Released: 2026-02-06
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Episode 271: Mastermind Algorithms
In this episode, Conor talks about algorithms used to solve the Mastermind game and specifically a beautiful use of an inverse algorithm.
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Date Recorded: 2026-01-29
Date Released: 2026-01-30
Episode 270: 2026 Predictions - AI, The Future, Books & More!
In this episode, Conor and Bryce make their 2026 predictions and chat about the future!
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Date Recorded: 2026-01-13
Date Released: 2026-01-23
Episode 269: 2025 Double Retro
In this episode, Conor and Bryce conduct the annual 2025 retro!
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Date Recorded: 2026-01-13
Date Released: 2026-01-16
Episode 268: Advent of Code 2025 (Day 6)
In this episode, Conor and Ben chat about Advent of Code 2025 Day 6!
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ADSP: The Podcast: TwitterConor Hoekstra: LinkTree / BioBen Deane: Twitter | BlueSkyShow Notes
Date Recorded: 2025-12-22
Date Released: 2026-01-09
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Episode 267: Advent of Code 2025 (Day 2 & 3)
In this episode, Conor and Ben chat about Advent of Code 2025 Day 2 and 3!
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ADSP: The Podcast: TwitterConor Hoekstra: LinkTree / BioBen Deane: Twitter | BlueSkyShow Notes
Date Recorded: 2025-12-22
Date Released: 2026-01-02
Episode 266: Holiday Special π CppCon, NDC Toronto, C++Now, Teletext, Bamboozle & More!
In this episode, Conor and Ben chat about CppCon, NDC Toronto, C++Now, Teletext, Bamboozle & more!
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ADSP: The Podcast: TwitterConor Hoekstra: LinkTree / BioBen Deane: Twitter | BlueSkyShow Notes
Date Recorded: 2025-12-22
Date Released: 2025-12-26
Episode 265: π¦πΊ YOW! Live π¦πΊ Kevlin Henney & Damian Maclennan
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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ADSP: The Podcast: TwitterConor Hoekstra: LinkTree / BioAbout 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...
Episode 264: π¦πΊ Aphantasia, Anendophasia & the Future with Kevlin Henney
In this episode, Conor interviews Kevlin Henney about aphantasia, anendophasia, synesthesia, future and more!
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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...
Episode 263: π³π± The Sean Parent Origin Story
In this episode, Conor and Bryce interview Sean Parent about the origin story of his career in software engineering!
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ADSP: The Podcast: TwitterConor Hoekstra: Twitter | BlueSky | MastodonBryce Adelstein Lelbach: TwitterAbout 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...
Episode 262: π³π± Chaos with Sean Parent! Bikes, Buses, Waffles & More!
In this episode, Conor and Bryce interview Sean Parent about generic programming and there is much chaos!
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ADSP: The Podcast: TwitterConor Hoekstra: Twitter | BlueSky | MastodonBryce Adelstein Lelbach: TwitterAbout 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...
Episode 261: π³π± C++ Under the Sea π³π± Bernhard, Koen & C++26 Reflection!
In this episode, Conor and Bryce record live from C++ Under the Sea! We interview Bernhard, Koen, talk about C++26 Reflection and more!
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Bernhard is a senior system software engineer at NVIDIA, where he extends, optimizes and maintains the CUDA Core Compute Libraries (CCCL). Previously, he worked as software engineer among physicists at CERN on real-time and embedded...
Episode 260: π³π± C++ Under the Sea π³π± Ray, Paul, Parrot & Scanman!
In this episode, Conor and Bryce record live from C++ Under the Sea! We interview Ray and Paul from NVIDIA, talk about Parrot, scans and more!
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ADSP: The Podcast: TwitterConor Hoekstra: Twitter | BlueSky | MastodonBryce Adelstein Lelbach: TwitterAbout the Guests:
Ray is a Senior Systems Software Engineer at NVIDIA since 2022. Studied Software Engineering at the University of Amsterdam. Founded the Dutch C++ Meetup in 2013 and co-organizes C++ Under the Sea since 2023. He...
Episode 259: π³π΄ NDC TechTown π³π΄ Vittorio Romeo & JF Bastien
In this episode, Conor and Bryce record live from NDC TechTown in Norway! We interview Vittorio Romeo and JF Bastien about C++, training, their talks and more!
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Vittorio is a passionate C++ expert with over a decade of professional and personal experience. His expertise covers library development, high-performance financial backends, game development, open-source contributions, and active participation in...
Episode 258: π³π΄ An Algorithm Taxonomy (Serial, Parallel, Cooperative)
In this episode, Conor and Bryce record live from Norway! Bryce explains the taxonomy of algorithms: serial, parallel, and cooperative!
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ADSP: The Podcast: TwitterConor Hoekstra: Twitter | BlueSky | MastodonBryce Adelstein Lelbach: TwitterDate Recorded: 2025-09-23
Date Released: 2025-10-31
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Episode 257: π³π΄ Live from Norway! Replicate, Scatter, Gather & RLD (Part 3)
In this episode, Conor and Bryce record live from Norway! They continue their chat about the replicate, scatter, gather and run length decode algorithms!
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ADSP: The Podcast: TwitterConor Hoekstra: Twitter | BlueSky | MastodonBryce Adelstein Lelbach: TwitterDate Recorded: 2025-09-23
Date Released: 2025-10-24