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June 29, 2015

19: I Don't Own Stuff Exactly with Steve Klabnik

1 hour 59 minutes

Show Notes & Links

Henning and Kahlil have an interesting and amusing conversation with Steve Klabnik about his origins as a programmer and how he got involved in Ruby, JSON API and Rust.

Highlights

[00:01:30] Henning welcomes Steve Klabnik to the show

[00:04:30] Learning C at age 12-ish

[00:13:03] Dropped out of college and joined a startup

[00:41:50] Taking over the Hackety Hack project

[00:47:50] First conference talk

[00:50:10] Teaching Ruby at Jumpstart Labs

[01:04:01] Starting at Mozilla and working on Rust

[01:12:05] arewewebyet.com

[01:13:00] The story of JSON API

[01:22:35] Hold on! How does that Mozilla gig work?

[01:26:40] The Servo Parallel Browser Project

[01:29:47] Why Rubyists should use Rust

[01:36:45] Picks

[01:57:00] I will be unlocking my Twitter in the near future

Links

Steve Klabnik is @steveklabnik on Twitter

JSON API

Rust

Are We Web Yet?

Steve's picks:

Tropical Ruby 2015 - Keynote: The Soul of Software by Avdi Grimm

Netrunner

House of Leaves

MUSIC PICK: Against Me! Reinventing Axl Rose

Henning's picks

JSON Server: Get a full fake REST API with zero coding in less than 30 seconds (seriously)

Mystery Show Podcast

Shohin Bonsai by Morten Albek (currently out of print) (One of my trees (about 15cm tall))

MUSIC PICK: Pharrell Williams - Happy

Kahlil's picks:

Jake Archibald's perf video

Polymer 1.0

Dgeni

MUSIC PICK: On the Bible feat. TI and Zuse

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By Kahlil Lechelt