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Two's Complement

by Ben Rady and Matt Godbolt
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Latest episodes

  • Lightning Round

    October 11, 2026 · 43 min

    Ben gives his house to an AI named after GLaDOS, and Matt makes the compiler build a Z80. A dying USB dock threatens to end it all.

  • Is Programming Still Fun?

    September 11, 2026 · 44 min

    Ben asks a question that violates Betteridge's law. Matt rediscovers the joy of coding like a caveman on a plane with no WiFi.

  • The Tinfoil House

    August 15, 2026 · 38 min

    Ben's friend is locked out of their AWS account and Matt's AI has decided he's a hacker. The escape route runs through a cheap computer, a mesh network, and Neal Stephenson.

  • Never Twice the Same Color

    July 10, 2026 · 44 min

    Matt records from the wrong continent and explains how he taught his computer to be a 1950s television. Ben guesses his way to the secret of the colo(u?)r burst and wins today's podcast.

  • Programming in English

    June 14, 2026 · 32 min

    Ben sets out to learn Rust by only reading it, while Matt wonders if you can learn to land a plane from a book. Also: is snark a portmanteau?

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  • The Rabbit Was Always There

    May 25, 2026 · 44 min

    Ben asks what happens when you curl google.com, and Matt peels back HTTP until the rabbit turns out to have been in the hat all along. Then a USB hub stages a dramatic intervention.

  • Speed of Thought

    April 11, 2026 · 49 min

    Ben has stopped talking to Claude directly. Matt hasn't opened his editor in days. They try to work out whether this is fun, programming, or a very expensive slot machine.

  • Measure Twice, Optimize Once

    March 9, 2026 · 46 min

    Ben asks a simple question about performance and Matt talks for 46 minutes. The one true use case for linked lists is revealed, and a part three is threatened.

  • How Fast Is Fast?

    February 14, 2026 · 45 min

    Ben interviews Matt with a deceptively simple question: make my program go fast. 44 minutes later, robot dogs are falling over, Grace Hopper's wire makes an appearance, and Matt still hasn't gotten the job.

  • Gaming on Linux

    January 10, 2026 · 27 min

    Ben wipes his PC over Thanksgiving and installs Ubuntu for gaming. Matt recalls the dark days of himem.sys and IRQ conflicts. The universe was created last Thursday, and someone gets a hangover.

  • Factorio

    December 6, 2025 · 24 min

    Ben's new TCP backpressure explanation: conveyor belts full. Matt zooms out and mistakes his factory for a Pentium 2. Ben plans to switch to Linux gaming; Matt's start bar keeps popping up and he's had it.

  • Vibe Coding and Robot Teammates

    November 13, 2025 · 43 min

    Ben worries replacing juniors with LLMs creates a future hiring crisis - who'll train the robot-wranglers? Matt blames COVID brain fog, then proves it by botching NP-completeness. Capitalism is bad at escaping local minima.

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About the show

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.