A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of being asked to join Paul Cutler and Tod Kurt on their podcast, The Bootloader.
I’ve been an avid follower of The Bootloader since it began. In my opinion, it is a perfect 30 minute format: each participant gets to bring some “picks” to talk about (mostly in the tech / software / hardware / maker space), for no more than 5 minutes – so you get to hear about six things of interest, that you may not have come across before, and learn something cool about the thing and the host or guest. You either get a Paul/Tod double-header with three picks each, or they bring on a guest, and each person picks two things. I always discover something new through listening to this show! I was surprised and delighted that Paul and Tod asked me to join them for this episode – compared to them, I am a mere amateur when it comes to making cool electronics and such.
You can listen to the show via multiple channels – like our own Games at Work.biz podcast, there’s a YouTube version, but it is audio-only (nice work YouTube for forcing everyone into that weird system). The show notes are also extensive, as they more-or-less cover a linkified transcript of what we talked about.
The YouTube edition may be a bit strange for an audio show… but gives me an opportunity to embed it here, so if you feel like it, click away!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFRGhonClp0
So, what did I pick?
Oh, you don’t want to watch listen? Well, that’s a bit sad. OK, here are my picks:
- Glance
I recently came across Glance, an easy-to-configure self-hosted dashboard that lets me arrange information, feeds and data into a useful start page for my life and interests. It is nice and straightforward, pretty easy to extend, and has a friendly community. Worth taking a look! - MNT Pocket Reform / MNT Research
I’ve written a few times about my MNT Pocket Reform, and after a recent spell where I had to get something looked at under warranty and didn’t have it with me, it came back just before we recorded the podcast episode. Again, I really wanted to share something that has a fantastic community, and in this case also a company (and people) with great principles behind it. So, I took the opportunity to give them a shout-out!
I hope you take a listen to The Bootloader, and maybe even get interested enough to check out their back catalogue of episodes and add it to your podcast app for new ones!
**tui-uefi** — Build TUIs for your bootloader.
Works with Rust's x86_64-unknown-uefi target & runs in QEMU in the demo.
Written in Rust & built with 
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