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

• "Point-Free or Die: Tacit Programming in Haskell and Beyond" by Amar Shah
• C++98 std::transform
• C++23 std::views::zip_transform
• zip_transform Hoogle Translate
• C++98 std::accumulate
• C++23 std::ranges::fold_left_first
• The Twin Algorithms - Conor Hoekstra - CppNorth 2022
• frequencies Hoogle Translate
• outerProduct Hoogle Translate
• C++23 std::views::adjacent_transform
• Hoogle Translate adjacent_transform
• Hoogle Translate scan
• ADSP Episode 146: 🇸🇮 SRT23 - Algorithms, BQN's Superpowers & More!
• Combinatory Logic

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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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Show Notes

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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Show Notes

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!

• Link to Episode 264 on Website
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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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