Adam streamed! Live! On Twitch! What's happened to Slack? Cloud based vs on prem servers. How do you define a hike? Dax contemplates building a Hackintosh. Getting addicted to the right things, and differentiating between personal success and wanting others to fail. Want to carry on the conversation? Join us in Discord . Links: Learn With Jason / LWJ on Twitch Slack bought by Salesforce @AdamNotDev on Instagram Midjourney Topics discussed: (00:36) - Adam streamed (00:50) - Can you hear me now? (...
Oct 16, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Ep 64•Transcript available on Metacast Adam and Dax discuss the importance of seasonal weather awareness and the concept of farm-to-table food. They delve into the idea of luxury goods debate between buying new or used items. Breakfast routines are talked about, followed by a lighthearted discussion on bananas. They also mention a Dev Rel 2.0 course, and contemplate the desire to not be retired while still wanting to be retired. The conversation shifts to homes, apartments, and mortgages, before concluding with a discussion on body w...
Oct 12, 2023•58 min•Ep 63•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode Adam and Dax talk about the contrasting vibes between the real world and the computer world, the ethics of recording everything one sees or hears, followed by an exploration of the dynamics of finding things in a relationship. Cloudflare and AWS are mentioned, leading to a conversation about the perceived foolishness of being an investor and the potential future of being a venture capitalist. Climate change is checked in on, followed by a personal update on Adam's experience with...
Oct 09, 2023•56 min•Ep 62•Transcript available on Metacast Melkey's back to talk with Dax about routine changes, getting COVID, finding balance between life and work, how SST makes money, could SST get bought, determining if you can work at a startup, the fact that nobody cares about your work, comparison as the thief of joy, and success being up to you. Want to carry on the conversation? Join us in Discord . Links: ThePrimeagen Trash SST AWS CDK Tomorrow E43: An Interview with Tuomas Artman of Linear Post Malone Drizzle Topics discussed: (00:00) - npm ...
Oct 05, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Ep 61•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode: Adam gets a cold, living in a character house versus the suburbs, the challenge of returning to something you had to give up, reasons behind Dax's love for cats, and where Cloudflare announcements sit alongside AWS, anthropic, and bedrock. Is it ok to root for Elon Musk's failure? What's the state of politics in the US? The episode concludes with an examination of the enshittification of tech, and the idea of retiring to tweet. Want to carry on the conversation? Join us in Disco...
Oct 02, 2023•55 min•Ep 60•Transcript available on Metacast Dax chats with Glauber Costa about his career path to this point, starting Turso, avoiding ending up in the tarpit of ideas, issues with naming the Edge, what Turso is up to, how users make life easier, and lessons learned in pricing. Want to carry on the conversation? Join us in Discord . Links: Turso The Mom Test The Matrix Ooops I Did It Again Topics discussed: (00:00) - How do you pronounce SQL? (00:54) - Countries of origin (03:17) - Glauber's career path to this point (08:39) - Starting ov...
Sep 27, 2023•54 min•Ep 59•Transcript available on Metacast Adam finds out the hard way that everyone is using morphine totally wrong, Adam and Dax debate upgrading their iPhones, Dax educates Adam on Svelte and Astro, and if Adam died who would Dax replace him with? Want to carry on the conversation? Join us in Discord . Links: Elon Musk biography Steve Jobs biography Superhuman email Hey Jason Lengstorf / Twitch NextJS Conf Tomorrow Episode 001: NextJS Conference Recap Guillermo Rauch v0 Svelte Svelte introduces Ruins Astro Nanostore Astro 3.0 blog pos...
Sep 25, 2023•1 hr 9 min•Ep 58•Transcript available on Metacast Is it better to burn out or to fade away as a content creator—or is Adam just a quiet quitter? Our thoughts on Bun's 1.0, bundling, pnpm, rebooting JavaScript, and is Vercel the dark side in the great Star Wars analogy of our dev world? Want to carry on the conversation? Join us in Discord . Links: Bun 1.0 Prettier Rome Rspack Vite Vercel Cloudflare Fly Topics discussed: (00:00) - Where's Adam? (00:28) - What do we want out of creating content? (08:57) - Bun 1.0 (19:16) - What about bundling? (2...
Sep 18, 2023•45 min•Ep 57•Transcript available on Metacast The fun of a DHH rant and the ensuing storm of reactions, planning vacations, how SST is looking at enterprise sales, TwitchCon plans, enjoying fall weather and tornado fears, and Adam watches a bad movie and doesn't enjoy it. Want to carry on the conversation? Join us in Discord . Links: DHH on TypeScript TwitchCon Twitch Apps React Miami / @ReactMiamiConf Joplin 2011 tornado Happiness For Beginners Michael Pollan on Caffeine Topics discussed: (00:00) - It's the year of audio on Linux on the de...
Sep 14, 2023•55 min•Ep 56•Transcript available on Metacast Adam gives up his health insurance and gets injured shortly after: coincidence? Are we tech bros just because we care about things? Is Dax going to upgrade to Astro v3? And Dax introduces Adam to the dark web. Want to carry on the conversation? Join us in Discord . Links: Adam's tweets about coffee Astro Tor Mark Rober YouTube If you drink coffee... Topics discussed: (00:24) - Adam got choked (04:55) - The health insurance racket (12:05) - Are we tech bros? (21:54) - Upgrading to Astro v3 (27:07...
Sep 11, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Ep 55•Transcript available on Metacast Is unifying messaging apps a tarpit problem? And what can be done about the iMessage moat? Adam wants to try a temporary tattoo, but what should he get? Dax lets listeners in on his tweeting secret, and Astro's launch week just happened so why not talk open source economics! Want to carry on the conversation? Join us in Discord . Links: Texts.com AirMessage Astro Launch Week Starlight Terriform Topics discussed: (00:00) - Hi. It's Adam. Adam's the problem. It's Adam. (00:29) - Is unifying messag...
Sep 07, 2023•59 min•Ep 54•Transcript available on Metacast Does writing long tweets help you game the algorithm? Has Dax lost faith in academic research? Has Adam unlocked the secret to good knee health by walking backwards? Has Terraform licensing changes ruined open source? Has AI destroyed Google search? Has radiation destroyed steel? These are a lot of questions that definitely get answered in this episode. Want to carry on the conversation? Join us in Discord . Links: One Sec Atomic Habits Wim Hof breathing HasiCorp Licensing Changes Docker Desktop...
Sep 04, 2023•48 min•Ep 53•Transcript available on Metacast How do we shop for things in 2023? And why do we love buying things? Adam confuses sous vide for a bidet and yet somehow doesn't get embarrassed in public. Do you get embarrassed in public? Dax explains living in NYC, while Adam debates gambling in Vegas. And tech returns with LLMs and AWS Bedrock. Want to carry on the conversation? Join us in Discord . Links: IONIQ 5 Home Assistant Sleep Like the Dead Sous vide Mark Sisson The Kneesovertoesguy AWS Bedrock Clownfish Topics discussed: (00:00) - B...
Aug 31, 2023•50 min•Ep 52•Transcript available on Metacast Dax and AJ Stuyvenberg talk about speed running hobbies, how dangerous skydiving is, working remote vs in office, the Trader Joe's model of queuing theory, being bad at something before you can be ok, and what keeps us going years into our work. Want to carry on the conversation? Join us in Discord . Links: Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning AWS re:Invent 2023 What I learned from Lego League DynamoDB Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance An Interview with Tuomas Artman of Linear Topics dis...
Aug 28, 2023•1 hr 12 min•Ep 51•Transcript available on Metacast What is SST learning now that they have users? There's a lot of talk about Tailwind in this episode and Dax hates every minute of it. Are you going to TwitchCon 2023? Should Adam have vegan donuts at TwitchCon? And please shut up about Tailwind. This is the first episode with an encore. It may also be the last episode with an encore. Want to carry on the conversation? Join us in Discord . Links: Tailwind Radix TwitchCon React Miami 2023 SST PlanetScale Uber Eats Slice Pizza Delivery Topics discu...
Aug 24, 2023•52 min•Ep 50•Transcript available on Metacast Dax needs your help finding a new hat, talking about Dax's controversial tweet on remote work, is most work fake, and why aren't medical records shared between doctors? Next up is episode 50! Want to carry on the conversation? Join us in Discord . Links: Dax's tweet on working remote Basecamp's Remote Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber Topics discussed: (00:00) - This is all fake (00:34) - What's in Dax's ear? (03:15) - Help Dax find a new hat (06:33) - Talking remote and Dax's tweet (12:51) - It's ...
Aug 21, 2023•39 min•Ep 49•Transcript available on Metacast The one where Dax and Adam manage to piss off Marvel fans, Star Wars fans, Hayden Christensen fans, metric system fans, the rest of the world - but also talk about Rust, Go, and C#. Want to carry on the conversation? Join us in Discord . Links: Rest in peace Bram Moolenaar, author of Vim and hero of many developers Neovim Christopher Nolan films Oppenheimer Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III TMNT (2007) Tee...
Aug 17, 2023•39 min•Ep 48•Transcript available on Metacast Tomorrow has some competition and Adam's fired up (not really), why are we wired for bad things, SST and Astro API questions, and what's up with Dax's dumb challenges? Want to carry on the conversation? Join us in Discord . Links: Mostly Technical podcast Is Laravel the happiest developer community on the planet? GitHub Issue on SST Topics discussed: (00:00) - Stressing Adam (00:32) - Competition for Tomorrow (03:41) - Why are we wired for bad things? (09:15) - Being busy is good (09:54) - Accid...
Aug 14, 2023•35 min•Ep 47•Transcript available on Metacast Adam has secrets, and wonders if it's too late for him to be anonymous. The LK-99 dream might be over? Despite Adam's jujitsu injuries, they pale in comparison to Dax's skim board injury. Flight pricing is frustrating, and comparing spring in NYC vs the Ozarks. Want to carry on the conversation? Join us in Discord . Links: LK99 dream is over? Making a toaster from scratch How to With John Wilson Topics discussed: (00:00) - Talking Xirty (00:31) - Not talking about the things (01:30) - This is as...
Aug 10, 2023•48 min•Ep 46•Transcript available on Metacast Adam's got Astro + SST + Lambda on the brain, and Dax has too many meetings with humans. But humans have had a breakthrough in superconductor tech, so maybe humans aren't the worst? Want to carry on the conversation? Join us in Discord . Links: Astro AWS Lambda Response Streaming Astro Hybrid Rendering CloudFront routing Vercel Elizabeth Holmes Superconductor breakthrough Tony Hawk rides a hoverboard Malthusianism Amazon is working on LLM stuff too Fine-tune LLaMA 2 on Amazon SageMaker Topics di...
Aug 07, 2023•59 min•Ep 45•Transcript available on Metacast Why is everyone wrong about everything - especially with Adam? Does an AI breakthrough mean utopia? Are we using Threads to post about X'ing Twitter? Dax has a new hobby, and Adam updates on his jujitsu hobby. Dax has some theories on Vercel and some SST Console roadmap updates. Want to carry on the conversation? Join us in Discord . Links: Why does Musk want an everything X app? Vercel Netlify SST Console Drizzle Astro Topics discussed: (00:00) - The leaf blower rule of podcast recording (00:38...
Aug 03, 2023•47 min•Ep 44•Transcript available on Metacast Dax has a conversation with Tuomas Artman of Linear about their mindset when starting Linear, how they developed the Linear Method, was being fast important from the beginning, what the difference is between collaboration and syncing, and what is Linear's tech stack. Want to carry on the conversation? Join us in Discord . Links: Linear Superhuman Replicache GraphQL Topics discussed: (00:21) - Introducing Tuomas Artman & Linear (01:38) - What was the mindset when you started Linear? (09:41) -...
Jul 31, 2023•47 min•Ep 43•Transcript available on Metacast Dax interviews Liz about her journey into tech and startups, how Dax and Liz met, working in a health startup in the pandemic, deciding to do your own thing, almost quitting, expectations of what it's like to be a founder, and dealing with potential embarrassment. Want to carry on the conversation? Join us in Discord . Links: Whimsical Bumi Paul Graham: How to Not Die SST SST on YouTube Topics discussed: (00:37) - Introducing Liz (03:19) - What did you think were options when you were growing up...
Jul 27, 2023•57 min•Ep 42•Transcript available on Metacast Adam has questions this episode: Why does Tailwind bring out the worst in people? Why don't more people just make nice fast apps like Linear? Why is Notion slow? Is sites vs apps a real debate? Is the developer experience getting better? And should Adam help Dax become the Benevolent Dictator of JavaScript that he was born to be? Want to carry on the conversation? Join us in Discord . Links: Camlink Notion Linear Superhuman Replicache ESLint Brazilian jiu-jitsu Lex Fridman podcast Joe Rogan Adam...
Jul 24, 2023•56 min•Ep 41•Transcript available on Metacast Trash is here but before he arrives, Adam and Dax cover some important ground like Lotion vs Sand, drinking energy drinks, and driving until your brain shuts off. Trash joins the call and wonders about renting vs owning, if the Ozarks are real or just on Netflix, being rich adjacent in Miami, and what he's working on these days. And the there of them wonder about the state of TypeScript in 2023. Want to carry on the conversation? Join us in Discord . Links: Tesla recalls 8 Mile movie TypeScript ...
Jul 20, 2023•1 hr 22 min•Ep 40•Transcript available on Metacast Dax trimmed his beard and Adam doesn't like it. Who looks better with an old face filter? Were there any great software designs in the 90's? And should Adam be worried about hookworms while he's touching grass to stay away from toxic positivity? Want to carry on the conversation? Join us in Discord . Links: The longest Adam's beard has been Old filter Adam Old filter Dax Dax's old filter Adam This Australian Bartender Found an ATM Glitch and Blew $1.6 Million Topics discussed: (00:00) - Dax stab...
Jul 17, 2023•56 min•Ep 39•Transcript available on Metacast New format we're trying! Stick around for a conversation with Melkey at the end of the preamble with Adam and Dax who chat about meeting humans for coffee (in a totally normal, human way), Adam's Threads experience compared with Dax's, wondering if we're socially anxious, and who should interview Liz? Then Melkey stops by to chat about life working at Twitch, his dog, when people should have kids, and whether real life friends know what any of them do. Want to carry on the conversation? Join us ...
Jul 13, 2023•1 hr 3 min•Ep 38•Transcript available on Metacast Is Adam washed out - in comparison to Dax? Do Adam or Dax worry about data privacy these days? What should Dax do about his weird neighbor - or is he the weird neighbor? And recognizing when your tech stack isn't the source of your power. Want to carry on the conversation? Join us in Discord . Links: Raspberry Pi Ubiquiti Camera Men in Black LevelsIO Outliers Topics discussed: (00:00) - Ozarks better watch out (00:32) - Is Adam washed out - by comparison? (01:30) - Do you worry about data privac...
Jul 10, 2023•53 min•Ep 37•Transcript available on Metacast Adam and Dax are definitely not going to talk about React drama or devrel. Instead, they're sticking to questions about dinosaurs and interest rates and how they impact the economy. ( The interest rates. Not so much the dinosaurs. ) Want to carry on the conversation? Join us in Discord . Links: OBS Riverside Ping.gg Prettier Astro VHTML Fly.io raises money Prehistoric Planet on Apple TV Dinosaurs reimagined Stripe Topics discussed: (00:00) - I'm kind of a big deal around here (00:32) - Ping and ...
Jul 06, 2023•44 min•Ep 36•Transcript available on Metacast Dax and Adam put life's biggest questions to ThePrimeagen: Why does he hate ESM? How tall is he? Do people around him know he's ThePrimeagen? Why has work culture changed around feedback? Can you still squat? Can we cringe? And what is your biggest fear in life? Want to carry on the conversation? Join us in Discord . Links: Astro OCaml Wheel of Time Cat's in the Cradle Topics discussed: (00:33) - Introducing our special guest: Dax Rad (01:21) - Introducing The Primeagen (02:52) - Quotes from Pri...
Jul 03, 2023•58 min•Ep 35•Transcript available on Metacast 
