Come sit by the fire with dudes nerdin' out about dev, keyboards, drums, drinks, and who knows what else!
🇺🇸: Austen Cameron (@austencam)
🇨🇦: Jesse Leite (@jesseleite85)
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This episode catches up with Austen and Jesse a year after their last recording, covering their preparations for Laracon and sharing updates on their lives. Discussions range from Jesse's ambitious homesteading project and house design in SketchUp to Austen's custom keycap creations. They also delve into developer tools, exploring Direnv for environment management and an in-depth look at their NeoVim and Cursor editor configurations, including a detailed discussion of the "super picker" and terminal emulators.
We're back and ready for (drumroll...) Campfire Coders: SEASON TWO! Join us as we discuss our sophisticated and intricate plans for the future of this podcast! 😎 Find us on X @campfirecoders / @austencam / @jesseleite85 Email us hey@campfirecoders.com
Laracon in Texas was too hot for a campfire, but apparently it was NOT too hot for a twerking session, or eating at Terry Black's three nights in a row! Austen and Jesse also talk about launching DAP Keycaps and 1337 Keyboards, as well as murdering your darling. Links: DAP Artisan Keycaps 1337 Keyboards Simple Commerce Laracon US Talks Playlist Verbs Radical Design Flux UI CLI Lab Terminal.shop Coffee P.S. If you grabbed any of our Campfire / DAP / 1337 stickers and/or keycaps at Laracon in Texa...
In this episode, we discuss the complex flavour notes produced by third-wave coffee, natural wine, South Carolinian sweetgrass, instruments of musical nature, and developers as they steep themselves in the wonderful worlds of Statamic and Livewire. Links: Statamic Flat Camp Livewire Volt Find us on X @austencam and @jesseleite85 Email us hey@campfirecoders.com...
Austen Sforzando and Jesse Leitmotif contemplate the fine intricacies of jazz drumming, the musical concepts of Dredg, the 3D printing of multi-stringed instruments, and brewing coffee with pourovers, moka pots, and/or french presses. We might also nerd about keyboards for an indeterminate amount of time. Links: Music Sforzando Leitmotif Dredg Coffee Pourover French Press Moka Pot Custom keymapping Karabiner Elements QMK Firmware ZMK Firmware Find us on X @austencam and @jesseleite85 Email us he...
Austen and Jesse dig into the backlog of past recordings and publish another episode! This one is all about horsing around with trailers, hand-wiring keyboards, counterfeiting soldering irons, printing in the third dimension, and PHP. Tell us ! What do you think of: Strict types TDD Enums PHP attributes Match expressions Find us on X @austencam and @jesseleite85 Email us hey@campfirecoders.com...
Shrimp, bagels, grannies pwning newbs, fantasy consoles, Alan Turing cameos, 'American Hand Egg', and data loss; This episode has it all! Links & Notes: Game dev Panic Playdate handheld console and SDK Godot game engine Creativity in the design of Comix Zone M*ckup (Part 2) ⚠️ Be careful with this software on macOS Ventura and Sonoma! ⚠️ Find us on X @austencam and @jesseleite85...
A fireside chat featuring new gear, old dotfiles, and updates on what we've been up to. Kiwi the puppy doesn't code Rust (yet), but she knows how to sit! Does she have the patience to sit through Jesse's Vim course, though? Links & Notes: Dotfiles Austen's dotfiles Jesse's dotfiles M*ckup We don't talk about M*ckup ...TO BE CONTINUED NEXT EP 🥁 ⚠️ Seriously, beware of this software on macOS Ventura and Sonoma ⚠️ Jesse's Vim Course Will be choose your own adventure style course Had no name or...
Managing project junk drawers and building the same thing over and over again. Desktop apps, backlogs, great UX, and a dang good time. --- Listeners, how do you handle project management? We'd love your feedback and to hear how you manage all this stuff. What works? What doesn't? @campfirecoders on X or email hey@campfirecoders.com Most Excellent Links: 👏 Wirebox - like Codepen, but for Livewire! by @Philo01 🎙️ Talking Businessly - an excellent podcast from wonderful people 🔗 The episode of N...
Ramen broth and AI; The two hottest topics (literally speaking for the former) to grace the internet since 2023! Links: Copilot Cursor Rewind Jamon Holmgren 's crazy test suite refactor example Find us on Twitter (X?) @austencam @jesseleite85...
Jesse and Austen discuss past projects, potential projects, and the topic of domain hoarding. Links: - Dustforce game - Lightyear Figma Illustration (seriously, open this one in Figma and click around) - Austen's Site Illustration Timelapse Find us on X (formerly Twitter): @austencam @jesseleite85 Feedback? Suggestions? Send it here: hey@campfirecoders.com...
Productivity, workflow, automation, [insert buzzword here]! Austen and Jesse chat about awesome tools for the Mac ecosystem. Industriously Handy Links: Raycast https://www.raycast.com/ Hammerspoon https://www.hammerspoon.org/ Find us on Twitter (X?) @austencam @jesseleite85...
Austen adopts cats mid-episode, while being allergic to cats mid-episode. We also chat about chickens, coffee and wine adjectives, local honey, morel mushrooms, and all the hurdles around making videos. Bram's Law was also fulfilled on this day, yet again. Incredulously Awesome Links: Jesse's Vim Macros Video https://twitter.com/jesseleite85/status/1691924004892774877 Austen's Vim Tips Video https://youtu.be/wNpJbiPja08 Vim Mastery with Jeffrey Way https://laracasts.com/series/vim-mastery Neovim...
Podcast jingle ideas, even more Laracon thoughts, and why Livewire is becoming the #GOAT, in our hopefully humble opinions. Superb Links: Laracon US 2023 Talks https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=laracon+us+2023 Livewire https://livewire.laravel.com/ Alpine https://alpinejs.dev/ Inertia https://inertiajs.com/ Find us on Twitter (X?) @austencam @jesseleite85...
Imagine a podcast where we talk about publishing a podcast (how meta)! Jesse then recaps his second-ever Laracon. We also nerd out about drums for a while. Rad Links: Laracon US 2023 Talks https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=laracon+us+2023 Drumeo https://www.drumeo.com/ Find us on Twitter (X?) @austencam @jesseleite85...
Mechanical keyboards are quite the rabbit hole. Also, you should try out Space Cadet Shift keys. Trust us. Very Good Links: What is "ortholinear"? https://twitter.com/jesseleite85/status/1495889187450544137?s=20 Iris (Austen's keyboard) https://keeb.io/collections/iris-split-ergonomic-keyboard ( keymap here ) Lily58 (Jesse's keyboard) https://github.com/kata0510/Lily58 ( keymap here ) Nijuni (Corne variant that we're both building soon) https://github.com/krikun98/nijuni LOTR keycaps ( https://d...
Jesse and Austen talk about each other's developer origin story. How (and when) did all this web development nonsense start? Warning: Garbage audio quality in this episode, but we hit publish anyway. It can only get better from here! Find us on Twitter (X?) @jesseleite85 @austencam
