In our first (and likely only ever) Halloween episode, Martha haunts the clubhouse, Mark delivers some bad Zelda-related news to Stephen, and from Stephen’s topic a thousand flowers bloom.

• Mark gave a talk on object-oriented programming at the first annual M+DEV confe…

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