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151: Off Meta with Amir Rajan
02:27 - Amir’s Superpower: Sensitivity to Development Pain
A Picture of Amir’s Keyboard and Battlestation
Eye Tracker
06:59 - Developer Productivity and Breaking Constraints
Magic Leap
16:58 - Idea Flow
21:00 - Building an Environment That Enables You
28:18 - Optimizing Local Maxima
Bret Victor: The Future of Programming
41:01 - Questioning Fundamental Assumptions
46:55 - Game Development
Unity
56:05 - Extremeness and Pushing Boundaries: Being a Weirdo/Being an Outlier/Thinking Differently
Off Meta, Super Smash Brothers Melee Gods
Meta and Off Meta
DragonRuby Game Toolkit Sandbox
Reflections:
Jess: “A pin on my upkeeps.”
Avdi: Meta and off meta.
John: Continuity of design.
Rein: Continuity and discreteness.
Janelle: Process-oriented thinking.
Amir: Being consistent with philosophies.
This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep of DevReps, LLC. To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode
To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps. You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well.
Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks!
Special Guest: Amir Rajan.
Sponsored By:
- PagerDuty: This episode is brought to you by PagerDuty. In an always-on world, teams trust PagerDuty to help them deliver a perfect digital experience to their customers every time. With PagerDuty, teams spend less time reacting to incidents and more time building for the future.
From digital disruptors to Fortune 500 companies, over 12,000 businesses rely on PagerDuty to identify issues and opportunities in real time and bring together the right people to fix problems faster and prevent them from happening again.
We’re like the central nervous system for a company’s digital operations. We can analyze digital signals from virtually any software enabled system, and help you intelligently pinpoint issues like outages, as well as capitalize on opportunities, while empowering teams to take the right, real time action. To see how companies like GE, Vodafone, Box and American Eagle Outfitters rely on PagerDuty to continuously improve their digital operations visit PagerDuty.com.
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02:27 - Amir’s Superpower: Sensitivity to Development Pain
A Picture of Amir’s Keyboard and Battlestation
Eye Tracker
06:59 - Developer Productivity and Breaking Constraints
Magic Leap
16:58 - Idea Flow
21:00 - Building an Environment That Enables You
28:18 - Optimizing Local Maxima
Bret Victor: The Future of Programming
41:01 - Questioning Fundamental Assumptions
46:55 - Game Development
Unity
56:05 - Extremeness and Pushing Boundaries: Being a Weirdo/Being an Outlier/Thinking Differently
Off Meta, Super Smash Brothers Melee Gods
Meta and Off Meta
DragonRuby Game Toolkit Sandbox
Reflections:
Jess: “A pin on my upkeeps.”
Avdi: Meta and off meta.
John: Continuity of design.
Rein: Continuity and discreteness.
Janelle: Process-oriented thinking.
Amir: Being consistent with philosophies.
This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep of DevReps, LLC. To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode
To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps. You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well.
Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks!
Special Guest: Amir Rajan.
Sponsored By:
- PagerDuty: This episode is brought to you by PagerDuty. In an always-on world, teams trust PagerDuty to help them deliver a perfect digital experience to their customers every time. With PagerDuty, teams spend less time reacting to incidents and more time building for the future.
From digital disruptors to Fortune 500 companies, over 12,000 businesses rely on PagerDuty to identify issues and opportunities in real time and bring together the right people to fix problems faster and prevent them from happening again.
We’re like the central nervous system for a company’s digital operations. We can analyze digital signals from virtually any software enabled system, and help you intelligently pinpoint issues like outages, as well as capitalize on opportunities, while empowering teams to take the right, real time action. To see how companies like GE, Vodafone, Box and American Eagle Outfitters rely on PagerDuty to continuously improve their digital operations visit PagerDuty.com.
Support Greater Than Code