HAMY LABS POD

In this video we walk through the programming languages I've used in my 8 year career as a software engineer.

Original blog post with all links: https://hamy.xyz/blog/2025-06_career-in-programming-languages

Chapters

00:00 - Intro
00:35 - Programming Languages I've used in my career
01:25 - APT and MasterCard
03:10 - Instagram and Meta
06:25 - Reddit
11:15 - HAMY LABS
13:25 - Rippling
15:25 - Vanta

Links:

- My 2025 Programming Language Tier List - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEIvl2Nuneg&ab_channel=HAMYLABS
- My 2025 Job Search as a Senior Software Engineer - Results, Timelines, + How I Study for Interviews - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4sUmDaYyXM&ab_channel=HAMYLABS
- Why F# is a fun programming language - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb7bnR5q4Bw&ab_channel=HAMYLABS

About me: I'm Hamilton - a Technomancer building Simple Scalable Systems.

Connect with me:

- Website: https://hamy.xyz
- Email List: https://hamniverse.substack.com/
- Twitter: @SIRHAMY - https://twitter.com/SIRHAMY
- BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/sirhamy.bsky.social
- Pod Cast: HAMY LABS POD - https://hamylabspod.buzzsprout.com/

# Support 

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* Full source code access from courses / tutorials
* Exclusive discounts on products / courses

Plus you help me to keep experimenting / sharing!

For Sponsorship info: https://hamy.xyz/labs/sponsors

In this video we explore 7 reasons F# sucks along with personal anecdotes about the good and bad of building software with F#.

Original blog post with all links: https://hamy.xyz/blog/2025-06_7-reasons-fsharp-sucks

CTA: CloudSeed F# Project Boilerplate - https://cloudseed.xyz/

Chapters

00:00 - Intro
00:25 - You start talking weird
02:45 - Nulls will haunt you
04:45 - Your buggy code won't compile
06:25 - C# steals F# features from 10 years ago
08:45 - The job market is a desert
10:55 - Making illegal states unrepresentable becomes an obsession
13:00 - You can't go back

Links:

- Why F# is a fun programming language - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb7bnR5q4Bw&ab_channel=HAMYLABS
- How I got interested in F# - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQxuNw7R89U&ab_channel=HAMYLABS
- The best way to get started learning and building with F# - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_jMUCEXUZ0&ab_channel=HAMYLABS

About me: I'm Hamilton - a Technomancer building Simple Scalable Systems.

Connect with me:

- Website: https://hamy.xyz
- Email List: https://hamniverse.substack.com/
- Twitter: @SIRHAMY - https://twitter.com/SIRHAMY
- BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/sirhamy.bsky.social
- Pod Cast: HAMY LABS POD - https://hamylabspod.buzzsprout.com/

# Support 

If you liked this and would like to see more, consider becoming a supporter: https://hamy.xyz/labs/haminions

Supporters get:
* Full source code access from courses / tutorials
* Exclusive discounts on products / courses

Plus you help me to keep experimenting / sharing!

For Sponsorship info: https://hamy.xyz/labs/sponsors

In this video we explore when to use exceptions vs errors as values and how they compare performance wise.

Original blog post with all links and code: https://hamy.xyz/blog/2025-05_typescript-errors-vs-exceptions-benchmarks

Chapters

00:00 - Intro
03:35 - Benchmarking errors as values vs exceptions
05:15 - Errors vs Exceptions results
07:25 - Errors vs Exceptions Benchmark Code
08:15 - When to use Exceptions vs Error Values

Links:

- Types vs No Types - How Types Allow Code to Scale across Developers, Organizations, and Code Size - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntNGPompHsA&ab_channel=HAMYLABS
- My 2025 Programming Language Tier List - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEIvl2Nuneg&ab_channel=HAMYLABS
- Build a Simple Result type in Python - and why you should use them - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1P7J2wI46sg&ab_channel=HAMYLABS

About me: I'm Hamilton - a Technomancer building Simple Scalable Systems.

Connect with me:

- Website: https://hamy.xyz
- Email List: https://hamniverse.substack.com/
- Twitter: @SIRHAMY - https://twitter.com/SIRHAMY
- BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/sirhamy.bsky.social
- Pod Cast: HAMY LABS POD - https://hamylabspod.buzzsprout.com/

# Support 

If you liked this and would like to see more, consider becoming a supporter: https://hamy.xyz/labs/haminions

Supporters get:
* Full source code access from courses / tutorials
* Exclusive discounts on products / courses

Plus you help me to keep experimenting / sharing!

For Sponsorship info: https://hamy.xyz/labs/sponsors

In this video we explore how to answer "Tell me about yourself" questions in Software Engineer Interviews including an example of how I actually answer this in my own interviews.

Original blog post with all links: https://hamy.xyz/blog/2025-05_tell-me-about-yourself-swes

Chapters

00:35 - How to Answer "Tell me about yourself"
04:55 - My Elevator Pitch

Links:

- My 2025 Job Search as a Senior Software Engineer - Results, Timelines, + How I Study for Interviews - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4sUmDaYyXM&ab_channel=HAMYLABS
- How to find a fulfilling career - no matter what you're into - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0IG8XQMGKU&ab_channel=HAMYLABS
- 66 Companies Hiring Remote Software Engineers in the US in 2025 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uiggzQBsZc&ab_channel=HAMYLABS

About me: I'm Hamilton - a Technomancer building Simple Scalable Systems.

Connect with me:

- Website: https://hamy.xyz
- Email List: https://hamniverse.substack.com/
- Twitter: @SIRHAMY - https://twitter.com/SIRHAMY
- BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/sirhamy.bsky.social
- Pod Cast: HAMY LABS POD - https://hamylabspod.buzzsprout.com/

# Support 

If you liked this and would like to see more, consider becoming a supporter: https://hamy.xyz/labs/haminions

Supporters get:
* Full source code access from courses / tutorials
* Exclusive discounts on products / courses

Plus you help me to keep experimenting / sharing!

For Sponsorship info: https://hamy.xyz/labs/sponsors

In this video we explore my 2025 job search as a senior software engineer - covering my results, how long it took, and how I study for interviews.

Original blog post with all links and images: https://hamy.xyz/blog/2025-04_job-search-results

Chapters

00:30 - Interview Stats
07:25 - Interview Results over Time
14:05 - How I Schedule Interviews
17:40 - Common Interview Types

Links:

- How do you know it's time to quit your job? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uPnB_z1Z8w&ab_channel=HAMYLABS
- How to find a fulfilling career - no matter what you're into - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0IG8XQMGKU&ab_channel=HAMYLABS
- My Career as a Software Engineer so far (6 yoe, ex-Meta, ex-Founder) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VupR_6tQEb8&ab_channel=HAMYLABS

About me: I'm Hamilton - a Technomancer building Simple Scalable Systems.

Connect with me:

- Website: https://hamy.xyz
- Email List: https://hamniverse.substack.com/
- Twitter: @SIRHAMY - https://twitter.com/SIRHAMY
- BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/sirhamy.bsky.social
- Pod Cast: HAMY LABS POD - https://hamylabspod.buzzsprout.com/

# Support 

If you liked this and would like to see more, consider becoming a supporter: https://hamy.xyz/labs/haminions

Supporters get:
* Full source code access from courses / tutorials
* Exclusive discounts on products / courses

Plus you help me to keep experimenting / sharing!

For Sponsorship info: https://hamy.xyz/labs/sponsors

In this video we explore how Cloudflare Container pricing compares to other major offrings - Google Cloud Run, AWS Fargate, Azure Container Apps, Railway, Digital Ocean App Platform, and Heroku Dynos

Original blog post with all images and links: https://hamy.xyz/blog/2025-04_cloudflare-containers-comparison

CTA: CloudCompare also has comparisons for Object Storage and Egress Costs - https://cloudcompare.xyz/

Chapters

00:25 - Cloudflare Containers
02:10 - How Cloudflare Container Pricing Compares to other Serverless Offerings

Links:

- Comparing Cloud Egress Costs - Azure vs Digital Ocean vs Google Cloud vs Railway - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx_bJiURsf8&ab_channel=HAMYLABS
- Hosting my Server-Side-Rendered F# site on Google Cloud for $1 per month - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktliIiBK2Vw&ab_channel=HAMYLABS
- Hosting my Docker Container on a VPS with Coolify as a PaaS with GitHub Autodeploys - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oRQT7Plndk&ab_channel=HAMYLABS

About me: I'm Hamilton - a Technomancer building Simple Scalable Systems.

Connect with me:

- Website: https://hamy.xyz
- Email List: https://hamniverse.substack.com/
- Twitter: @SIRHAMY - https://twitter.com/SIRHAMY
- BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/sirhamy.bsky.social
- Pod Cast: HAMY LABS POD - https://hamylabspod.buzzsprout.com/

# Support 

If you liked this and would like to see more, consider becoming a supporter: https://hamy.xyz/labs/haminions

Supporters get:
* Full source code access from courses / tutorials
* Exclusive discounts on products / courses

Plus you help me to keep experimenting / sharing!

For Sponsorship info: https://hamy.xyz/labs/sponsors

In this video we discuss the impacts of quitting coffee for 3 months - on my life and career as a software engineer.

Original blog post with all links and images: https://hamy.xyz/blog/2025-04_i-quit-coffee

Chapters

00:30 - My Coffee-Drinking Background
02:05 - Why I Decided to Quit Coffee
04:25 - Results of Quitting Coffee
10:25 - How was Quitting Coffee? (First 3 Months)
17:35 - How Quitting Coffee Impacted my Software Engineering Interviews / Tasks

Links:

- Liquid Death Iced Teas - https://amzn.to/3YuFjAg
- My Simple Daily Todolist as a Software Engineer - Maximize Productivity, Minimize Waste - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMIqaPqxwPU&ab_channel=HAMYLABS 
- How to find a fulfilling career - no matter what you're into - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0IG8XQMGKU&ab_channel=HAMYLABS
- How do you know it's time to quit your job? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uPnB_z1Z8w&ab_channel=HAMYLABS

About me: I'm Hamilton - a Technomancer building Simple Scalable Systems.

Connect with me:

- Website: https://hamy.xyz
- Email List: https://hamniverse.substack.com/
- Twitter: @SIRHAMY - https://twitter.com/SIRHAMY
- BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/sirhamy.bsky.social
- Pod Cast: HAMY LABS POD - https://hamylabspod.buzzsprout.com/

# Support 

If you liked this and would like to see more, consider becoming a supporter: https://hamy.xyz/labs/haminions

Supporters get:
* Full source code access from courses / tutorials
* Exclusive discounts on products / courses

Plus you help me to keep experimenting / sharing!

For Sponsorship info: https://hamy.xyz/labs/sponsors

In this video we answer the question - Is HTMX Dying? 

Original blog post with all links and images: https://hamy.xyz/blog/2025-04_is-htmx-dying

Chapters

00:25 - HTMX is Dying
02:10 - HTMX Usage Trends
07:05 - HTMX Competitors
09:00 - Official HTMX Response

Links:

- What it’s like to run HTMX in Production - Stories from Experienced Software Engineers - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ec_ovkHHuZ8&ab_channel=HAMYLABS
- Why you should choose HTMX for your next web-based side project - and ditch MPAs and SPAs - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vusiFvBNZyQ&ab_channel=HAMYLABS
- The HAM Stack - A Simple Scalable Tech Stack for building modern web apps fast and cheap - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLnZtg63h1I&ab_channel=HAMYLABS

About me: I'm Hamilton - a Technomancer building Simple Scalable Systems.

Connect with me:

- Website: https://hamy.xyz
- Email List: https://hamniverse.substack.com/
- Twitter: @SIRHAMY - https://twitter.com/SIRHAMY
- BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/sirhamy.bsky.social
- Pod Cast: HAMY LABS POD - https://hamylabspod.buzzsprout.com/

# Support 

If you liked this and would like to see more, consider becoming a supporter: https://hamy.xyz/labs/haminions

Supporters get:
* Full source code access from courses / tutorials
* Exclusive discounts on products / courses

Plus you help me to keep experimenting / sharing!

For Sponsorship info: https://hamy.xyz/labs/sponsors

In this video we explore some questions to ask yourself to help determine if it's time to quit and some opportunities to explore before you do so.

Original blog post with all links: https://hamy.xyz/blog/2025-01_how-to-know-its-time-to-quit

CTA:  Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making - https://amzn.to/4fT1iXI

Chapters

01:05 - How to know when to quit (according to Build)
01:50 - You're no longer passionate about the mission and position
04:45 - You've tried everything to make your current position work for at least a few months
09:40 - You reasonably believe there's a better position out there
14:40 - How to know it's time to quit your job? 

Links:

- How to find a fulfilling career - no matter what you're into - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0IG8XQMGKU&ab_channel=HAMYLABS
- My journey from Software Engineer to Entrepreneur and back again - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsPUNXoVvXQ&ab_channel=HAMYLABS
- Why F# is a fun programming language - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb7bnR5q4Bw&ab_channel=HAMYLABS

About me: I'm Hamilton - a Technomancer. I build Simple Scalable Systems to make the world 1% better.

Connect with me:

- Website: https://hamy.xyz
- Twitter: @SIRHAMY - https://twitter.com/SIRHAMY

# Support 

If you liked this and would like to see more, consider becoming a supporter: https://hamy.xyz/labs/haminions

Supporters get:
* Full source code access from courses / tutorials
* Exclusive discounts on products / courses

Plus you help me to keep experimenting / sharing!

For Sponsorship info: https://hamy.xyz/labs/sponsors

In this video we talk about my newest app - TTL Calculator - what it does, why I built it, and how I built it.

Original blog post with all links: https://hamy.xyz/blog/ttl-calculator

CTA: TTL Calculator - https://ttlcalculator.com/

Chapters

00:40 - Why I built it
01:50 - How I built it
04:10 - Building with Datastar
06:25 - The future of CloudSeed

Links:

- One Million Checkboxes - Globally Synced Data with HTMX - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhO0s8qNGSI&ab_channel=HAMYLABS
- The HAM Stack - A Simple Scalable Tech Stack for building modern web apps fast and cheap - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLnZtg63h1I&ab_channel=HAMYLABS
- Why F# is a fun programming language - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb7bnR5q4Bw&ab_channel=HAMYLABS

About me: I'm Hamilton - a Technomancer. I build Simple Scalable Systems to make the world 1% better.

Connect with me:

- Website: https://hamy.xyz
- Twitter: @SIRHAMY - https://twitter.com/SIRHAMY

# Support 

If you liked this and would like to see more, consider becoming a supporter: https://hamy.xyz/labs/haminions

Supporters get:
* Full source code access from courses / tutorials
* Exclusive discounts on products / courses

Plus you help me to keep experimenting / sharing!

For Sponsorship info: https://hamy.xyz/labs/sponsors