We talk about school lunches, fast food, Ludum Dare, game development, Minecraft, Userscape’s new employee, taking a vacation, 2013 year in review, amount of revenue to have before hiring full-time, the first two years of running a software consultancy, being too open about your employee information, Laracon 2014, and running an online retail shop.

• Gavin Bowman of Retro Dreamer
• What Now Podcast
• Bootstrapped.fm episode on movies for programmers
• Ludum Dare
• Notch live-coding for Ludum Dare 28, part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4.
• The Story of Minecraft – documentary
• Chris Fidao (@fideloper)
• 2013 year in review – forum thread
• Lessons Learned: The First Two Years of Running a Consultancy
• Open salaries at Buffer
• Laracon 2014 in NYC
• Selling an e-commerce store, with a follow-up

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