How About Tomorrow?

By Adam Elmore & Dax RaadTechnology

How About Tomorrow? episodes

September 07, 2023iMessage Moat, Adam's Tattoo Dilemma, Dax's Tweet Schedule, and Astro Launch Week
Is unifying messaging apps a tarpit problem? And what can be done about the iMessage moat? Adam wants to try a temporary tattoo, but what should he get? Dax lets listeners in on his tweeting secret, and Astro's launch week just happened so why not talk open source economics!
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Links:
Texts.com
AirMessage
Astro Launch Week
Starlight
Terriform

Topics discussed:
(00:00) - Hi. It's Adam. Adam's the problem. It's Adam.
(00:29) - Is unifying messaging apps a tarpit problem?
(07:02) - The iMessage moat
(09:17) - Learning new technology as you get older
(14:36) - Do you tattoo?
(19:59) - How would you handle losing someone close to you?
(21:15) - What are our personality test results?
(24:29) - Dax's tweet schedule
(26:40) - Cul-de-sac facts
(30:51) - Astro v3 Launch Week
(33:19) - Open source economics
(40:16) - Hashicorp follow up
(44:35) - Adam's always ready to record
(46:31) - Adam's tattoo plan
(51:46) - America has three great cities...
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September 04, 2023Terraform Licensing, Academic Research, Walking Backwards, and Google vs AI
Does writing long tweets help you game the algorithm? Has Dax lost faith in academic research? Has Adam unlocked the secret to good knee health by walking backwards? Has Terraform licensing changes ruined open source? Has AI destroyed Google search? Has radiation destroyed steel? These are a lot of questions that definitely get answered in this episode.
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Links:
One Sec
Atomic Habits
Wim Hof breathing
HasiCorp Licensing Changes
Docker Desktop

Topics discussed:
(00:00) - Adam loves the sound of his own voice
(00:27) - OBS and Twitter Live
(01:23) - Writing long tweets
(08:06) - Life hacking with Adam and Allan
(09:27) - Dax lost faith in academic research
(14:06) - Breathing and meditiation
(16:05) - Walking backwards update
(21:20) - Terraform licensing changes
(32:24) - Google AI search results
(35:19) - Radiated steel thoughts
(43:02) - Kombucha
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August 31, 2023Home Assistant, Bad Knees, Sous Vide, and LLMs
How do we shop for things in 2023? And why do we love buying things? Adam confuses sous vide for a bidet and yet somehow doesn't get embarrassed in public. Do you get embarrassed in public? Dax explains living in NYC, while Adam debates gambling in Vegas. And tech returns with LLMs and AWS Bedrock.
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Links:
IONIQ 5
Home Assistant
Sleep Like the Dead
Sous vide
Mark Sisson
The Kneesovertoesguy
AWS Bedrock
Clownfish

Topics discussed:
(00:00) - Being muted on Twitter
(00:47) - Live on Twitter
(03:58) - Using Home Assistant
(08:26) - How do you shop for things?
(11:02) - Why do we love buying things?
(13:43) - Sous vide
(16:20) - Adam doesn't feel 37
(23:51) - Dealing with knee issues
(26:08) - Do you get embarrassed in public?
(29:38) - Living in New York
(33:38) - Should Adam gamble in Vegas?
(38:36) - LLM and AWS Bedrock
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August 28, 2023A Conversation with AJ Stuyvenberg
Dax and AJ Stuyvenberg talk about speed running hobbies, how dangerous skydiving is, working remote vs in office, the Trader Joe's model of queuing theory, being bad at something before you can be ok, and what keeps us going years into our work.
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Links:
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning
AWS re:Invent 2023
What I learned from Lego League
DynamoDB
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
An Interview with Tuomas Artman of Linear

Topics discussed:
(00:00) - Adam's speedrun
(00:26) - Lights, mics, and cigars
(02:19) - AJ's hobbies
(04:25) - How dangerous is skydiving?
(11:26) - How is Adam speedrunning through AJ's hobbies?
(15:17) - Working remote vs office
(18:51) - What's AJ's work history?
(32:45) - Trader Joe's Model of Queueing Theory
(38:18) - Amazon S3's trick
(43:09) - Being bad at something before you can be ok at something
(46:31) - Three levels of fun theory
(57:23) - What keeps you going?
(01:09:15) - The most important thing to do to be successful is...
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August 24, 202350! SST Has Users, Dax Got Partner, TwitchCon 2023, and the Startup Money Situation
What is SST learning now that they have users? There's a lot of talk about Tailwind in this episode and Dax hates every minute of it. Are you going to TwitchCon 2023? Should Adam have vegan donuts at TwitchCon? And please shut up about Tailwind.
This is the first episode with an encore. It may also be the last episode with an encore.
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Links:
Tailwind
Radix
TwitchCon
React Miami 2023
SST
PlanetScale
Uber Eats
Slice Pizza Delivery

Topics discussed:
(00:00) - Dax wants to know what you think about Tailwind
(00:32) - Food and energy level updates
(01:58) - Getting a massage thoughts
(03:28) - How About Old Man Podcast
(05:53) - How long have we been programming?
(07:03) - Dax is Twitch partnered
(08:21) - Can you be neutral about Tailwind?
(14:34) - Who's not going to TwitchCon?
(21:34) - SST has users!
(27:20) - What's the outlook for startups in the post free money environment?
(30:21) - Uber and food delivery
(36:45) - Just shutup about Tailwind already
(40:36) - Adam needs to pee and blow
(42:27) - The encore
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53 min
August 21, 2023Remote Work, Big Companies without Big Teams, and Finding Dax a Hat
Dax needs your help finding a new hat, talking about Dax's controversial tweet on remote work, is most work fake, and why aren't medical records shared between doctors? Next up is episode 50!
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Links:
Dax's tweet on working remote
Basecamp's Remote
Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber

Topics discussed:
(00:00) - This is all fake
(00:34) - What's in Dax's ear?
(03:15) - Help Dax find a new hat
(06:33) - Talking remote and Dax's tweet
(12:51) - It's easy to have a belief when you don't have to pay any price for it
(18:13) - Remote companies need someone super motivated
(19:43) - Is most work fake?
(23:10) - Can companies get big without being literally big?
(26:37) - It feels like we never make progress
(30:06) - Getting a good teacher in school
(34:26) - Why aren't medical records shared?
(36:53) - Motivated for episode 50
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40 min
August 17, 2023Rust, Go, C#, and Why Oppenheimer and Star Wars Can Both Be Good
The one where Dax and Adam manage to piss off Marvel fans, Star Wars fans, Hayden Christensen fans, metric system fans, the rest of the world - but also talk about Rust, Go, and C#.
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Links:
Rest in peace Bram Moolenaar, author of Vim and hero of many developers
Neovim
Christopher Nolan films
Oppenheimer
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III
TMNT (2007)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Star Wars films list
Hayden Christensen
Go
Rust
Rust Foundation so sorry for scaring the C out of you with trademark crackdown talk
C#
SST on GitHub

Topics discussed:
(00:00) - Pee and pivot
(00:29) - How did Bram create Vim?
(05:02) - Oppenheimer
(08:09) - TMNT, Marvel, and Star Wars
(15:49) - Disney, Apple, and Sports
(17:35) - Metric vs imperial
(21:10) - Are Go and Rust comparable languages?
(27:04) - What is the best language to use in serverless with Lambda?
(29:38) - Why is nobody talking about C#?
(36:46) - Dax's knee and Adam's jujitsu update
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39 min
August 14, 2023Podcast Fights, SST Astro API Issues, and Being Wired for Bad Things
Tomorrow has some competition and Adam's fired up (not really), why are we wired for bad things, SST and Astro API questions, and what's up with Dax's dumb challenges?
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Links:
Mostly Technical podcast
Is Laravel the happiest developer community on the planet?
GitHub Issue on SST

Topics discussed:
(00:00) - Stressing Adam
(00:32) - Competition for Tomorrow
(03:41) - Why are we wired for bad things?
(09:15) - Being busy is good
(09:54) - Accidentally doing things on social media
(14:33) - Dax's dumb dumb challenges
(21:27) - Astro and SST API situation
(32:56) - Tomorrow community building
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36 min
August 10, 2023The Dream Is Over, Jujitsu & Skimboard Injuries, and NYC vs Ozarks vs Miami
Adam has secrets, and wonders if it's too late for him to be anonymous. The LK-99 dream might be over? Despite Adam's jujitsu injuries, they pale in comparison to Dax's skim board injury. Flight pricing is frustrating, and comparing spring in NYC vs the Ozarks.
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Links:
LK99 dream is over?
Making a toaster from scratch
How to With John Wilson

Topics discussed:
(00:00) - Talking Xirty
(00:31) - Not talking about the things
(01:30) - This is as official as it's going to get
(03:14) - Appreciation for material science
(08:40) - Taking a week off in Lake Tahoe
(10:37) - Dax beach board update
(16:59) - Jujitsu update
(21:16) - Is it too late to become anonymous?
(22:27) - Is it Twitter or X?
(27:18) - Dax flight rants
(31:14) - Getting hit by lightning
(37:05) - Building the tallest building
(39:57) - Comparing spring in NYC vs the Ozarks
(42:40) - ...and then there's Florida
(43:58) - What do people do with pumpkins?
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48 min
August 07, 2023Astro and SST, Humans Are Amazing and Awful, and Superconductor Optimism
Adam's got Astro + SST + Lambda on the brain, and Dax has too many meetings with humans. But humans have had a breakthrough in superconductor tech, so maybe humans aren't the worst?
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Links:
Astro
AWS Lambda Response Streaming
Astro Hybrid Rendering
CloudFront routing
Vercel
Elizabeth Holmes
Superconductor breakthrough
Tony Hawk rides a hoverboard
Malthusianism
Amazon is working on LLM stuff too
Fine-tune LLaMA 2 on Amazon SageMaker

Topics discussed:
(00:00) - The links don't change
(00:56) - Astro, Lambda, and SST thoughts
(04:46) - Route splitting explained
(13:16) - How are meetings still happening?
(16:56) - Which team is Dax's favorite?
(20:31) - Is it difficult for a product company to contribute in an open source way?
(24:27) - Is it difficult to manage an open source community?
(25:49) - Is nepotism a bad word?
(29:54) - Do people have free will?
(34:50) - Superconductor Breakthrough
(43:39) - Humans hate ourselves a lot
(47:31) - Material advancements
(50:35) - Amazon's 2 pizza team is ahead of all of this
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59 min

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