How About Tomorrow?

How About Tomorrow?

By Adam Elmore & Dax RaadTechnology
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How About Tomorrow? episodes

  • José Valim tells us about Elixir

    José Valim, the creator of Elixir, joins Dax to tell us the story behind how it was born and what makes it great.

    Want to carry on the conversation? Join us in Discord.

    • (00:00) - Intro
  • (00:30) - José gets into streaming
  • (02:34) - Dax's experience with Elixir
  • (04:08) - The beginning
  • (12:25) - Functional Programming
  • (26:00) - Modules and functions
  • (33:12) - Standard Library
  • (42:19) - Should tooling be built in?
  • (48:52) - Elixir ecosystem
  • (01:00:19) - Patterns
  • (01:02:02) - Typesafety
  • (01:13:03) - Takeaway
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    1 hr 15 min
  • Religion, Mortality, and The Last Airbender

    How does Dax get his news? Should Adam start reading Hacker News? And Adam and Dax talk religion, spirituality, The Last Airbender, and how kids impact your mortality.

    Want to carry on the conversation? Join us in Discord.

    Links:

    • THE FEYNMAN SERIES - Beauty
    • Richard Feynman’s Love Letter to His Wife Sixteen Months After Her Death
    • Esther Perel - Your Guide to Relational Intelligence

    Topics Discussed:

    • (00:00) - Next up: religion!
  • (00:40) - Does Dax consume the news?
  • (08:17) - Dax's problem with Hacker News
  • (11:59) - Complex vs complicated
  • (15:44) - What about religon?
  • (24:21) - Adam's going to say some things
  • (30:52) - The Last Airbender
  • (33:35) - Where do you land on spirtuality?
  • (38:15) - Do you ever think about why?
  • (43:16) - Mortality and kids
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    51 min
  • Beyond survival, why do we do what we do?

    Adam & Dax discuss a lot of things; arguably too many things. Among those things: the story of Elixir, what we do when life gets too easy, game dev dreams, dev conferences, bridge collapses, and monotony.

    • (00:27) - Talking to people on Twitch
  • (01:34) - The story of Elixr
  • (03:54) - Adam has adjusted
  • (06:52) - Is life too easy?
  • (08:49) - Dax's rich person goals?
  • (11:35) - Adam's game dream
  • (20:28) - Dax Theft Auto
  • (24:36) - Adam's rich person goals
  • (27:13) - Working + partners + hobbies
  • (30:29) - Dev Conferences
  • (35:03) - Bridges collapsing and Miami flooding
  • (37:18) - Dax's head floating in space
  • (46:18) - Monotony
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    49 min
  • Grass, polarization and a political take purge

    Adam & Dax discuss lawns, weed—all the forms of grass, really. They also dip into some political topics, so brace yourself.

    • (00:26) - What's the fork foot rule?
  • (01:08) - Adam felt an emotion
  • (04:04) - Supplementing recommendations
  • (12:24) - Melting down for the views
  • (13:40) - Twitter Circles
  • (15:23) - Society sucks and is dumb: Grass edition
  • (24:34) - Can you be yourself?
  • (27:03) - Society and the norms around family and parenting
  • (35:58) - Getting polarized or being measured
  • (37:11) - Why not talk about immigration?
  • (45:29) - Does USA do too much in the world?
  • (52:07) - Adam wants to enter his villian era
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    55 min
  • Entertainment, like anime and movies and such

    Adam & Dax discuss what media they consume for entertainment, among other things.

    • (00:31) - I'm Kiwi
  • (02:39) - Lärabars and Jared Leto
  • (05:53) - Adam learns something shocking about Dax
  • (07:48) - What does Dax watch?
  • (10:26) - What is the draw of anime?
  • (14:29) - Our movie diet
  • (18:59) - Love you, bye
  • (19:45) - Uh oh. People.
  • (22:26) - Cerebral movies
  • (25:30) - Miami Heat sads
  • (26:24) - Dax's electric longboard
  • (31:41) - Adam's Reddit brain fart
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    34 min
  • Dax uses arch and neovim, btw

    Adam & Dax discuss using Linux and Neovim, being vegan, and other annoying personality traits they share.

    • (00:00) - Coward
  • (00:00) - Timestamp: 158760000
  • (00:27) - Stream Deck thoughts
  • (01:39) - Linux and Neovim
  • (10:09) - JavaScript doesn't suck, you suck
  • (16:08) - Developer education and courses
  • (22:44) - Having too many options
  • (31:51) - Why do we make more money as we get older?
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    40 min
  • Live Streaming Economics and Immortality

    Adam & Dax discuss the recent Twitch developments and the challenges with running a live streaming service. They also talk about reading books and living forever.

    • (00:36) - AWS.fm
  • (01:34) - Topless Twitter photos
  • (03:06) - Gym thoughts
  • (06:19) - Twitch's unforced error
  • (10:50) - Go lower down the stack
  • (12:37) - Nothing lasts forever
  • (14:09) - Dax has read 10 books
  • (22:06) - Would you live forever?
  • (24:50) - Reddit API pricing
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    30 min
  • Tech Conferences and Apple's Headset

    Adam & Dax discuss the realities of tech conferences as well as Apple's Vision Pro headset.

    • (00:00) - But AI, Dax?
  • (00:31) - Low energy vs depressed?
  • (01:58) - Post conference thoughts
  • (03:51) - Dax's theory on tech conferences
  • (11:46) - Experience brings the ability to relax
  • (12:49) - Apple Vision Pro thoughts
  • (27:05) - Would you want to develop for it?
  • (28:14) - A vision for AR in society
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    34 min
  • Replicache, Local First, and Sunburns

    Adam & Dax spend way too much time discussing sun exposure, then dive into local-first patterns with Replicache and more.

    • (00:37) - Comparing sun burns
  • (05:14) - Replicache
  • (09:00) - Linear is an example of local first app
  • (09:42) - What UX wins do you get using Replicache?
  • (13:16) - What is it like to write code?
  • (16:34) - SPA vs not a SPA
  • (19:06) - Why isn't Replicache more popular?
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    27 min
  • The Dog Episode

    Adam & Dax discuss dogs, Sam Altman's congressional hearing (that neither of them watched), the current state of the venture capital markets, and more.

    • (00:00) - Ruff start
  • (00:33) - Is Adam a dog person?
  • (01:55) - Adam's dog story
  • (04:43) - Dax's dog story
  • (07:11) - Sam Altman's congressional hearing
  • (09:14) - Why Y Combinator?
  • (11:59) - Is VC drying up?
  • (16:31) - How could they regulate AI?
  • (21:38) - Could the US get to civil war?
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    25 min

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