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

Topics:

Taylor Otwell and Ryan Florence join us to talk about whether "full stack" is a term worth using in 2024, how Laravel differs from Rails, why there isn't a real JavaScript community, what Taylor would like to see from the Remix community, and whether Laravel is like Canada.

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• wip: terminal
• ButcherBox: Meat Delivery Subscription
• Cloud Monitoring as a Service | Datadog
• Connect, Protect and Build Everywhere | Cloudflare
• Adam Wathan (@adamwathan) / X
• What is Amazon API Gateway? - Amazon API Gateway
• Inertia.js - The Modern Monolith
• Reason · Reason lets you write simple, fast and quality type safe code while leveraging both the JavaScript & OCaml ecosystems.

Topics:

• (00:00) - Filthy JavaScript developers
• (00:30) - What does full stack mean?
• (10:46) - How Laravel different from Rails?
• (16:17) - Is the frontend and backend team divide real?
• (18:47) - Why isn't there a JavaScript community?
• (36:32) - Are JavaScript frameworks in the best position to be the fullest stack?
• (46:18) - What about Blitz.js?
• (49:34) - What would Tayor like to see from the Remix community?
• (54:41) - Is Rails worse than building an app with Cloudflare?
• (56:38) - Is the top of funnel for web development JavaScript?
• (01:07:17) - Is Laravel like Canada?

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

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

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

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