Two's Complement

Technology

Two's Complement

by Ben Rady and Matt Godbolt

If you come to a fork in the road, take it! Two’s Complement is a programming podcast, hosted by Matt Godbolt and Ben Rady; two programmers who both grew up wanting to make video games. One of them did, one of them didn’t, but now they both work together despite coming from very different backgrounds.

70 episodes

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1

Measure Twice, Optimize Once

46:01 Mar 9, 2026

2

How Fast Is Fast?

45:08 Feb 14, 2026

3

Gaming on Linux

27:22 Jan 10, 2026

4

Factorio

24:12 Dec 6, 2025

5

Vibe Coding and Robot Teammates

42:37 Nov 13, 2025

6

Conference Talks: Some Assembly Required

43:08 Oct 12, 2025

7

Running Programs

41:18 Sep 12, 2025

8

Squashing Compilers

42:24 Aug 10, 2025

9

The Benefits of Experience

33:20 Jul 18, 2025

10

Is Football Possible Anymore?

20:24 Jun 12, 2025

11

C++ and Rust: Different Tools for the Job

30:58 May 9, 2025

12

Observable Metrics

39:35 Apr 10, 2025

13

Pair Programming with HAL?

47:27 Mar 16, 2025

14

Passing Messages

58:34 Feb 14, 2025

15

Getting CRUFTy

35:14 Jan 12, 2025

16

Are We Remotely Productive?

26:19 Dec 14, 2024

17

Are Dirty Hands Right?

31:14 Nov 23, 2024

18

Sequence Locks

48:49 Oct 26, 2024

19

The Joy of Programming

39:26 Sep 11, 2024

20

Deploy First Development

40:35 Aug 17, 2024

21

Programming Under Pressure

46:50 Jul 21, 2024

22

Avoiding Abandonware

40:11 Jun 17, 2024

23

Is Optimization Refactoring?

37:08 May 15, 2024

24

The Future of Compiler Explorer

26:32 Apr 17, 2024

25

Strong ARM

41:54 Mar 18, 2024

26

make podcast

37:21 Feb 17, 2024

27

Technical Debts

46:27 Jan 15, 2024

28

Copypasta

40:53 Dec 19, 2023

29

Iter-Mental Development

27:23 Nov 19, 2023

30

Compression

46:13 Oct 23, 2023

31

Questionable Comments

42:17 Sep 18, 2023

32

Ben Walks A Tree

43:51 Aug 22, 2023

33

Video Games and Other Diversions

44:52 Jul 17, 2023

34

Yak Shaving, Part 2, Also Live!

1:01:51 Jun 20, 2023

35

Yak Shaving, Live!

1:04:32 May 22, 2023

36

Integration Tests are a Scam

0:00 Apr 18, 2023

37

Integration Tests are a Scam

36:57 Apr 18, 2023

38

The Compiler Explorer Problem

31:10 Mar 20, 2023

39

Slightly Less Terrible Tech Interviews

37:26 Feb 17, 2023

40

Not Invented, Hear?

36:36 Jan 17, 2023

41

Time For Computers

44:10 Dec 18, 2022

42

A Bit Rusty

37:19 Nov 16, 2022

43

Swift (with Doug Gregor)

54:12 Oct 12, 2022

44

Carbon Footprint

48:47 Sep 14, 2022

45

Weird Webapps

49:59 Aug 15, 2022

46

Virtual Infrastructure

52:22 Jul 15, 2022

47

Golf for Hackers

40:42 Jun 19, 2022

48

Async Whatevers

49:50 May 18, 2022

49

Terrible Business Ideas

36:40 Apr 16, 2022

50

Java and/or C++?

39:06 Mar 22, 2022

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