Matt chats with Adam and Dax about becoming a voice coach and how that's translated to creating courses and writing books for people wanting to learn TypeScript and coding, the differences between America and European living, Formula 1 racing, juggling, video games, board games, and what Matt's working on next.

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• Matt Pocock (@mattpocockuk)
• Professional TypeScript Training by Matt Pocock | Total TypeScript
• Football Manager
• Euro Truck Simulator 2
• Formula 1 Documentary
• Watch The Queen’s Gambit
• Cosmic Encounter
• Castles of Mad King Ludwig
• Geek Entertainment
• Teach for Life-Changing Money

Topics:

• (00:00) - Dax is excited for...
• (00:39) - Voice and accent coaching
• (05:26) - Teaching tech vs teaching voice
• (08:47) - Communication as a freelancing power up
• (14:19) - Is working 8hrs a week the actual dream?
• (21:36) - Educating Dax and Adam on European life
• (24:30) - Key (not pee) break
• (26:00) - Fit and fat, sit and sat
• (27:19) - Learning to juggle
• (29:05) - What video games does Matt play?
• (34:22) - Formula 1 watching
• (38:47) - Getting into chess
• (43:37) - Board gaming
• (48:50) - What's Matt working on next?
• (57:24) - How many browser tabs do you have open at once?
• (58:36) - The economics of book publishing

Dan Abramov chats with us about getting hired at Meta, making the move to Bluesky, centralized vs decentralized, product work vs framework work, Bluesky's development and future, and how mean Dax is on the internet.

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• dan abramov
• dan (@danabra.mov) — Bluesky
• dan 2 (@dan_abramov2) / X
• overreacted — A blog by Dan Abramov
• gaearon (dan)
• Expo
• Aaron Francis

Topics:

• (00:00) - So called "entertainers"
• (00:45) - Hi Dan
• (02:11) - Hiring on a global scale
• (05:02) - What's the process like for getting hired by Meta?
• (09:09) - How has it been at Bluesky?
• (19:06) - How do you feel about centralized vs decentralized?
• (23:46) - How do you enjoy product work vs framework work?
• (27:53) - What's the next milestone for Bluesky?
• (34:19) - Using Expo
• (43:11) - How does Facebook think about React?
• (50:19) - Is the internet too mean?

Adam and Dax were guests on the Mostly Technical podcast and so we're rebroadcasting that conversation on our feed for your listening pleasure. We take on the Laravel vs. JavaScript discourse, selling coffee over the command line, and a lot more.

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• Mostly Technical with Adam and Dax
• Watch it on YouTube
• Serverless Framework
• StatMuse
• Linear
• Vercel
• Aaron's video about Laravel + Livewire
• terminal dot shop on Twitter
• Billion Dollar Creator (Podcast)
• terminal x Laracon
• Adam's course on AWS

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