Dax is sick, but his voice sounds amazing so you should still listen, we streamed a basketball game in Dallas, rented a Lambo, went to Laracon 2024, muse on VPS complexity, InstantDB impressions, kids not knowing how to program properly, taking the right size bets in a startup, and going viral on Twitter in 2024.

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• Transistor - modern podcast hosting and analytics
• Justin Jackson (@mijustin) / X
• Laracon 2024
• Laravel Framework
• Dax getting stuffed
• wip: terminal (initial commit)
• Instant
• Turk’s Opinion on Norwegian

Topics:

• (00:00) - Switching sides if the price is right
• (00:42) - Dax is *sick*
• (02:43) - Streaming a basketball game in Dallas
• (06:20) - We rented a lambo
• (08:21) - Laracon 2024
• (09:18) - Sponsor: Dax getting stuffed
• (09:57) - In person fun
• (14:33) - VPS complexity
• (24:38) - Initial InstantDB impressions
• (34:01) - The kids these days don't know how to do "x"
• (41:58) - Startups taking the right size bets
• (44:03) - Turk going viral

We're flying (or in) Dallas as you listen to this - ps who is actually listening to this? We chat native vs web apps, backend vs frontend, managers vs no manager jobs, and how Dax defines what's worth glorifying.

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• Laracon 2024
• StatMuse | Search StatMuse, save time.
• How we sold coffee from the terminal
• terminaldotshop/terminal
• Flutter App Development
• Expo
• Inside Out 2 (2024)

Topics:

• (00:27) - Matchy matchy cameras
• (01:37) - The joys of Primeagen chats
• (04:13) - The schedule for today in Dallas
• (10:49) - Who actually listens and knows us?
• (13:42) - Adam disappeared
• (17:23) - What's next for SST?
• (18:51) - Native app vs web apps
• (28:55) - Just build an API and not have to deal with front end
• (30:36) - We wish we could do more backend, less frontend
• (33:33) - Do we want to be a manager again?
• (41:21) - What is worth glorifying?

Adam's moved his office, the arbitrary nature of exercise, prepping for the Laracon basketball game, Dax explains breaking at the Olympics, Dax sliced off a nice piece of bacon, how you can email us, trying to find your doctor and electrician for life, and taxes and humidity in Florida.

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• Laracon 2024
• Scott Tolinski - Syntax.fm on X: “@a_txcllctr87033 Breaking is all about positivity.
• Australian B-Girl Raygun ‘devastated’ by online hate after Olympic performance
• The Australian Breaker Who Broke the Internet
• Paris Olympics 2024: How Rachel Raygun Gunn qualified for Olympics, ‘travesty’, how the Olympics’ breaking farce was allowed to happen
• wip: terminal (initial commit)
• South of the Border Attraction

Topics:

• (00:00) - No context Adam reacting to things
• (00:46) - Adam moved (his office)
• (02:57) - The arbitrary nature of exercise
• (06:26) - Basketball game at Laracon
• (12:35) - Breakdancing at the Olympics
• (23:45) - Dax sliced a piece of bacon off
• (25:35) - Adam's fantasy football league challenge
• (26:38) - Email us!
• (27:44) - Sponsor: Terminal.shop
• (28:22) - Finding your electrician or doctor for life
• (36:33) - Doing the same thing every day at work
• (39:50) - What autonomous vehicles could do for our economy?
• (41:49) - Florida man explains taxes
• (45:50) - Humidity measurements

Sam Lambert stops by to talk Unifi networking, cooking meat, microplastics, disease research, the history of the world, scaling at PlanetScale, and why people love PostGres.

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• The ultimate MySQL database platform — PlanetScale
• UniFi - Introduction - Ubiquiti
• Nest Wifi Pro Coverage
• Aztec Empire
• Buddhas of Bamiyan
• Modern PostgreSQL Book

Topics:

• (00:00) - Computers will always let you down
• (00:27) - Falling asleep to self driving Tesla chats
• (02:17) - Using Unifi networking gear
• (12:02) - Cooking meat
• (18:24) - Why are microplastics everywhere?
• (22:55) - Ordering diseases and cells for research from a JC Penny Catalogue
• (30:25) - American history with Adam and Dax
• (34:26) - South American history with Dax
• (38:24) - Could all the data get wiped out and we lose everything?
• (54:52) - Scaling and PlanetScale
• (01:08:48) - Why do people love PostGres?

The eternal debate of freelance life vs being employed at a larger company, small teams vs big teams, bullshit jobs, self driving cars are finally discussed, Twitter VC fights, politics and tech, and Dax's list of next things to do.

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• Bullshit Jobs
• The Rational Optimist
• Here’s why David Sacks, Paul Graham and other big Silicon Valley names had a brawl on X over VC behavior | TechCrunch

Topics:

• (00:00) - What is in Adam's pocket?
• (00:49) - Hi. It's Adam. I'm the problem. It's Adam.
• (02:22) - Freelance life vs employed life
• (08:48) - Bullshit jobs
• (12:03) - Building resilience and redundancy
• (18:13) - Self driving vehicle hesitancy
• (25:30) - Dax's neighborhood won't last forever
• (29:29) - Where would Dax live if he had $100 million
• (37:50) - How self driving car tech evolved
• (40:24) - Ocular migraines
• (44:36) - Dinosaurs and weird body parts
• (48:58) - Dax's list of next things
• (51:13) - Twitter VC fights and loyalty thoughts
• (57:49) - Politics and tech
• (01:06:54) - Finishing a project let down

It's episode 100 time but don't worry, Adam's not being weird about it at all. We're thinking about how normies understand things like the Crowdstrike bug, Adam thinks the economy is fake, and Chris joins us with clips from past episodes like Adam's thirst traps, Dax watching tv all the time, are they playing characters or real on the podcast, and Chris questions Dax's cryptic tweets.

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• xkcd: Dependency
• Lemon Productions – Chris' podcast production company
• Chris on X
• Chris' YouTube channel
• Chris on TikTok
• Below Deck
• Dax’s WTF tweet

Topics:

• (00:00) - Reminder to Chris to cut this part out
• (00:34) - Can you hear me now after 100 episodes
• (01:01) - Crowdstrike chaos is fun?
• (06:49) - The fragility of open source
• (09:49) - Understanding IT in the normal non-cloud world
• (16:06) - Adam still thinks most of the economy is fake
• (20:01) - The value and hinderance of small teams
• (24:46) - Adam as a Hero
• (26:05) - Adam is not being weird about episode 100
• (26:37) - Sponsor: SSH terminal.shop
• (27:06) - Chris joins us
• (32:02) - Is 100 episodes a lot?
• (37:40) - The tweet with 13,000 views
• (42:24) - ep30 Adam finds out something shocking about Dax
• (46:16) - Adam's movie choices
• (48:30) - Are they playing a character or is it reality?
• (51:53) - Dax's cryptic tweets

Dax went to hell and back for a scrolling bug, what do we lose in the pursuit of optimization at all costs, what kind of business do we want to build, Adam is definitely AI, Twitter drama over commit hooks, Adam hates pyramids and thinks they're stupid, and Adam tries meditation but as a result his brain doesn't work for podcasting.

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• wip: terminal (initial commit)
• charmbracelet/bubbletea: A powerful little TUI framework 🏗
• TIDAL - High Fidelity Music Streaming
• 🚨🚨 Doom Ascii 🚨🚨
• Dior Handbag Scandal
• Laracon 2024
• Dax’s Commentary
• The World Without Us
• The Last Question
• Project Hail Mary Audiobook
• This is where the link to Adam's 5 word tweet would go except he let everyone down and didn't follow through on tweeting a five word tweet. What else might Adam do to let us all down do you suppose? Maybe he doesn't actually like coffee? Maybe he's actually AI after all? Please click here to tweet at Adam and let him know how disappointed you are in him being an AI bot that kills baby seals for fun.

Topics:

• (00:00) - Adam's a real boy!
• (00:56) - Dax has been in hell for 48 hours because of scrolling
• (08:59) - Has something shifted in programming?
• (16:25) - We can lose a lot by pursuing optimizational at all costs
• (19:37) - What is the business we want to make?
• (24:50) - Number go up is good
• (30:19) - Adam definitely is AI
• (33:12) - Are you pro-Commit hook?
• (38:32) - Hand operated calculators vs pyramids
• (49:00) - What speed do you listen at?
• (50:51) - Let's all leave Adam alone with his thoughts
• (55:00) - Activists and vandalism

Adam is tired, Dax tries to help analyze Adam in a surprisingly kind way, struggling to fend off grifters, Terminal Coffee updates, and Rspack news.

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• Mark Sisson (@marksissonprimal) • Instagram photos and videos
• Breathing Exercises | Wim Hof Method
• wip: terminal (initial commit)
• Rspack
• Index - OpenNext
• Inspire Creativity, Enrich Life

Topics:

• (00:00) - Say more words
• (00:27) - Adam's tired
• (03:52) - Dax tries to analyze Adam but also be kind. It's weird. But it works.
• (16:08) - Sensing happiness from people you look up to
• (18:47) - Mo money mo problems
• (21:03) - The world is set up to tap into Adam's personality
• (28:00) - Is the SAD American diet to blame?
• (31:28) - After you admit you're lost, what next?
• (33:38) - Dax's non-pretentious pretentious way of speaking
• (35:19) - Sponsor: Terminal.shop
• (35:32) - SST's new multiplexer
• (37:10) - Terminal coffee update
• (37:44) - Are all kids jerks or just the ones around Adam?
• (40:07) - Does the business owner life ever slow down or stop?
• (43:51) - Rspack news