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20: I've Always Been Interested in Really Rich Experiences with Robin Ward

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Henning and Kahlil talk to Robin Ward, the co-founder of Discourse, the creator of Forumwarz and the Evilest Trout of them all. Robin explains how his interest in forums and the software that powers them leads him to a collaboration with Jeff Atwood to create Discourse. And of course we had to ask how his alias "Evil Trout" came to be.

Highlights
  • [00:00:25] Henning welcomes Robin Ward to the show
  • [00:01:20] Introduced to computers via IBM's first PC
  • [00:02:32] Kings Quest
  • [00:06:40] First job as a web developer at $15/h
  • [00:15:16] Discovered Ruby on Rails
  • [00:16:06] Forumwarz
  • [00:32:20] Jeff Atwood talks about Forumwarz ...
  • [00:33:28] Discourse
  • [00:47:20] Ember forums - first user of Discourse
  • [00:53:43] Ember.js mobile performance of Discourse
  • [01:05:44] Gamification/trust levels in Discourse
  • [01:09:42] The "Evil Trout" alias
  • [01:14:02] Picks
    • Links
    • Robin Ward is @eviltrout on Twitter
    • Forumwarz
    • Discourse
    • Robin's picks:
      • Amy Schumer
    • It follows
    • Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
    • MUSIC PICK: In Colour by Jamie XX
    • Henning's picks:
      • The end of Single Page Apps by Chris Tse
    • PHPStorm by JetBRAINS
    • MUSIC PICK: Nelly Furtado - Say it Right
    • Kahlil's picks:
      • Jafar Husain: Async Programming in ES7 | JSConf US 2015
    • RxJS - The Reactive Extensions for JavaScript
    • Reactive Podcast
    • MUSIC PICK: Lethal Bizzle Fester Skank Remix ft Stormzy, Fuse ODG & Wretch 32
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