Episodes

  • New Banana Ice Cream, Coffee Partners, Google IO and OpenAI, and Opportunity Costs for Engineers
    May 20 2024

    Can you tell that Adam's moved his desk? We talk about how Adam's making banana ice cream, time travel possibilities, the opportunities afforded us as software engineers, being optimistic or a downer on Twitter, the Google IO event compared with the OpenAI event, and reasons to build identical houses.

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    • wip: terminal (initial commit)
    • Ninja™ CREAMi™
    • The Order of Time
    • Carlo Rovelli’s Time Order
    • Google I/O 2024
    • Introducing GPT-4o
    • Her
    • Dune: Part Two

    Topics:

    • (00:00) - This is the beauty of editing
    • (00:47) - Adam's moved (his desk)
    • (02:47) - Our partner for coffee
    • (10:52) - Adam makes banana ice cream but with a new device
    • (15:03) - Is time travel possible?
    • (18:43) - Opportunity cost as a software engineer
    • (36:47) - Gamestop stock is surging again
    • (40:19) - Debbie Downer vs Optimistic Adam
    • (56:04) - Learning from Crypto to inform AI
    • (01:02:13) - The Google IO event
    • (01:07:22) - The OpenAI event
    • (01:11:17) - Her, Dune 2, and good audio
    • (01:15:13) - Why would you build an identical house?
    • (01:22:17) - Listening at 2x speed
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    1 hr and 26 mins
  • Parenting is Exactly Like Owning a Dog—And What's the Point of Being Alive?
    May 13 2024

    Dax has parenting advice for everyone, Adam worries about the point of even living, college as a scam, and theories on the anxious generation.

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    • Dax's picture of Adam
    • Apple apologizes for iPad Pro ‘Crush’ ad: it ‘missed the mark’ | Ad Age
    • iPad Pro Criticized
    • Ryan Florence’s iPad Anger
    • Dax Interview Impact
    • Anxious Generation Book

    Topics:

    • (00:00) - It's just like having a dog
    • (00:33) - The third time's the charm
    • (02:02) - Dax's good news
    • (06:00) - Apple's iPad announcement
    • (18:37) - Parenting and technology
    • (28:53) - Haircuts
    • (33:08) - What is the point of being alive?
    • (42:28) - College is a scam
    • (54:01) - Terminal shipping
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    59 mins
  • The Origins of Terminal.Shop
    May 6 2024

    Are Dax and Adam (and the rest of the Terminal.shop crew) drug dealers? We're talking about the coffee industry, what Terminal.shop is built on, the origin story of Terminal.shop, and how cool it feels to ship physical goods in the real world that real humans will hold in their real human hands.

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    • wip: terminal (initial commit)
    • Charm
    • bashbunni - Twitch

    Topics:

    • (00:00) - Dax realizes (again) how amazing he is
    • (00:29) - Dax ruins oat milk
    • (06:14) - EVery company is now a tech company
    • (11:57) - Learning about the coffee industry first hand
    • (15:05) - Terminal coffee update
    • (30:41) - How did we build terminal.shop?
    • (38:19) - The fun of running a physical goods business vs software
    • (45:04) - The origin story behind Terminal.shop
    • (53:49) - Working with a legal drug
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    1 hr
  • Reacting to Miami + Launching a Company in the Terminal
    Apr 29 2024

    Everyone's recovering from React Miami and the party at Dax's - oh and we launched a company for buying products like coffee in the terminal!

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    • terminal.shop
    • TwitchCon

    Topics:

    • (00:31) - This episode brought to you by our sponsor
    • (01:53) - Catching everyone up on the last few weeks
    • (06:48) - How was Miami?
    • (12:28) - Waving at the summit
    • (18:50) - How walkable is your city?
    • (24:43) - How late do you eat?
    • (31:26) - Building for the terminal
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    37 mins
  • The Last One Before React Miami
    Apr 15 2024

    Adam's flying as you read this, and he's definitively not still sick. We're talking about Adam's internet being hacked, updates on our secret project, Cloudflare news, NextJS and Vercel benchmarking drama, and very important planning for React Miami and what to feed Adam.

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    • Cloudflare acquires PartyKit to allow developers to build real-time multi-user applications
    • Cloudflare acquires Baselime to expand serverless application observability capabilities
    • React Miama

    Topics:

    • (00:00) - Adam is basically here. Here being in Miami.
    • (00:37) - Dr. Dax diagnosing Adam
    • (04:34) - Why is sound on the web so bad?
    • (07:05) - Is someone hacking Adam's internet?
    • (12:09) - Update on our secret project
    • (13:11) - Cloudflare news
    • (17:48) - NextJS Vercel infastructure
    • (27:45) - Benchmarking Vercel
    • (33:21) - Is it possible to have a good console?
    • (38:00) - There's only so much caring in a company
    • (41:05) - Plans for React Miami
    • (51:49) - How we going to feed Adam?
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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • Is AI Just 5 Crypto Bros in a Trenchcoat?
    Apr 8 2024

    How long do you think Adam's crazy expensive Apple monitor will last? Dax tries to pass off all his front end tasks to Liz, Lambda fixed a streaming bug, Adam catches up on Cloudflare Dev week, Dax tries to make fun of Adam about Huberman, AI rizz and Gaussian splatting, and LEGO, Disney, and Universal all nailed it.

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    • Home · tmux/tmux Wiki
    • Visual Studio Code Server
    • Josh’s Online Courses
    • Copilot Programmer
    • The Pillars of the Earth (miniseries)
    • Suno AI
    • Dax’s AI Bangers
    • The Cloudflare Blog
    • Aaron Francis on X: “@thdxr I’ll wait, thanks.” / X
    • California Workers' Rights
    • Andrew Huberman Profile
    • 3D Gaussian Splatting

    Topics:

    • (00:00) - The mystery project is...
    • (00:42) - How long does a monitor last?
    • (02:25) - Who wants to do front end dev really?
    • (15:42) - Is AI just crypto bros take two?
    • (34:44) - Would you chill at a relaxed job vs going to create more in a company?
    • (38:15) - Lambda fixed the streaming bug
    • (45:19) - Cloudflare Dev week
    • (54:51) - How does Cloudflare pricing really work?
    • (01:06:49) - React Miami teaser
    • (01:08:33) - Was Twitter boring this week?
    • (01:10:36) - Is working long hours in software dev bad?
    • (01:18:50) - Andrew Huberman's methods of control
    • (01:26:08) - AI has no rizz
    • (01:30:47) - Gaussian splatting
    • (01:36:58) - LEGO nailed it
    • (01:41:31) - Disney nailed it
    • (01:43:08) - Universal nailed it
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    1 hr and 47 mins
  • Determining Success for a Startup, Bundling & Unbundling, Big vs Small Dev Teams
    Apr 1 2024

    Adam tries on a chain for Florida, Linear fixes GitHub Issues issue for Dax, big vs small vs medium dev teams, how long do startup devs actually have to develop, how much of a factor is luck in a startup's success or failure, Disney and media bundling and unbundling, and are Adam Sandler movies actually any good?

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    • GitHub Integration – Linear
    • Paddle – The complete payments, tax, and subscriptions solution for SaaS
    • Paddle Board Rentals
    • Baumol Effect
    • Bundling and Unbundling
    • Claude Anthropic
    • Adam Sandler Films
    • Uncut Gems 2019 Film Reviews
    • React Miami

    Topics:

    • (00:00) - Squeeky boom
    • (00:28) - Adam tries on a chain - or is it a necklace?
    • (03:55) - Do you track your sleep?
    • (04:38) - Linear fixes GitHub issues?
    • (10:08) - Big team vs small team vs medium team
    • (20:57) - Where do startup founders go when their startup dies?
    • (25:02) - How long is the window for a developer?
    • (30:11) - Do you feel like it's all going to come down to luck?
    • (38:21) - It feels like any aquisition feels like a failure
    • (42:08) - Disney, IP, ESPN, and sports rights
    • (48:08) - Bundling and unbundling
    • (50:07) - LLM pricing instability
    • (54:02) - Let's cool it on the robots
    • (56:11) - Are Adam Sandlar
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    1 hr and 1 min
  • SST Ion Update, Benefits of SQLite, Adam Goes Zed, Dax Goes Mac, and Getting Old
    Mar 25 2024

    Dax talks about the launch of SST Ion, a video he shot to promote it and get ahead of the q's people ask, what the migration path is like, should companies still do a launch week, the benefits of an SQLite production, catching up on Astro DB, should Adam take a detour into Zed land, Dax goes Mac, finding time to watch movies or play video games, and physical limitations overcome with neural implants.

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    • SST Ion is finally here
    • Ion
    • sst/ion: ❍ — a new engine for SST
    • Experience up to 40% faster stack creation with AWS CloudFormation
    • How we sped up AWS CloudFormation deployments with optimistic stabilization | AWS DevOps Blog
    • Navigate the AWS Maze with Confidence | Pro AWS
    • Astro DB
    • Turso — SQLite for Production
    • Prettier Daemon
    • Zed Coding Speed
    • Arch Linux
    • Raycast
    • Alacritty Terminal Emulator
    • Tinker Tailor Soldier
    • AI Business Apps
    • Neuralink enables chess play

    Topics:

    • (00:00) - 10 years of Arch will do it to you
    • (00:39) - Launching SST Ion
    • (13:49) - What's the migration path right now?
    • (15:30) - Should companies still do a launch week?
    • (18:39) - What are the benefits of SQLite based development?
    • (25:26) - Catching up on Astro DB?
    • (31:18) - What is SST competing with?
    • (34:07) - Should Adam take a detour into Zed land?
    • (35:31) - Dax goes Mac
    • (44:20) - Finding time to game or watch movies
    • (01:06:14) - Did you remember Neural Link?
    • (01:12:19) - Physical limitations of getting older
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    1 hr and 20 mins