How About Tomorrow?

By Adam Elmore & Dax RaadTechnology

How About Tomorrow? episodes

August 19, 2024Slicing a Nice Piece of Bacon
Adam's moved his office, the arbitrary nature of exercise, prepping for the Laracon basketball game, Dax explains breaking at the Olympics, Dax sliced off a nice piece of bacon, how you can email us, trying to find your doctor and electrician for life, and taxes and humidity in Florida.
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Laracon 2024
Scott Tolinski - Syntax.fm on X: “@a_txcllctr87033 Breaking is all about positivity.
Australian B-Girl Raygun ‘devastated’ by online hate after Olympic performance
The Australian Breaker Who Broke the Internet
Paris Olympics 2024: How Rachel Raygun Gunn qualified for Olympics, ‘travesty’, how the Olympics’ breaking farce was allowed to happen
wip: terminal (initial commit)
South of the Border Attraction

Topics:
(00:00) - No context Adam reacting to things
(00:46) - Adam moved (his office)
(02:57) - The arbitrary nature of exercise
(06:26) - Basketball game at Laracon
(12:35) - Breakdancing at the Olympics
(23:45) - Dax sliced a piece of bacon off
(25:35) - Adam's fantasy football league challenge
(26:38) - Email us!
(27:44) - Sponsor: Terminal.shop
(28:22) - Finding your electrician or doctor for life
(36:33) - Doing the same thing every day at work
(39:50) - What autonomous vehicles could do for our economy?
(41:49) - Florida man explains taxes
(45:50) - Humidity measurements
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50 min
August 12, 2024The History of the World and How it Scales with Sam Lambert
Sam Lambert stops by to talk Unifi networking, cooking meat, microplastics, disease research, the history of the world, scaling at PlanetScale, and why people love PostGres.
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The ultimate MySQL database platform — PlanetScale
UniFi - Introduction - Ubiquiti
Nest Wifi Pro Coverage
Aztec Empire
Buddhas of Bamiyan
Modern PostgreSQL Book

Topics:
(00:00) - Computers will always let you down
(00:27) - Falling asleep to self driving Tesla chats
(02:17) - Using Unifi networking gear
(12:02) - Cooking meat
(18:24) - Why are microplastics everywhere?
(22:55) - Ordering diseases and cells for research from a JC Penny Catalogue
(30:25) - American history with Adam and Dax
(34:26) - South American history with Dax
(38:24) - Could all the data get wiped out and we lose everything?
(54:52) - Scaling and PlanetScale
(01:08:48) - Why do people love PostGres?
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1 hr 20 min
August 05, 2024BS Jobs, Redundancy in Software, Self Driving Cars, and Dax's List
The eternal debate of freelance life vs being employed at a larger company, small teams vs big teams, bullshit jobs, self driving cars are finally discussed, Twitter VC fights, politics and tech, and Dax's list of next things to do.
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Bullshit Jobs
The Rational Optimist
Here’s why David Sacks, Paul Graham and other big Silicon Valley names had a brawl on X over VC behavior | TechCrunch
Topics:
(00:00) - What is in Adam's pocket?
(00:49) - Hi. It's Adam. I'm the problem. It's Adam.
(02:22) - Freelance life vs employed life
(08:48) - Bullshit jobs
(12:03) - Building resilience and redundancy
(18:13) - Self driving vehicle hesitancy
(25:30) - Dax's neighborhood won't last forever
(29:29) - Where would Dax live if he had $100 million
(37:50) - How self driving car tech evolved
(40:24) - Ocular migraines
(44:36) - Dinosaurs and weird body parts
(48:58) - Dax's list of next things
(51:13) - Twitter VC fights and loyalty thoughts
(57:49) - Politics and tech
(01:06:54) - Finishing a project let down
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1 hr 13 min
July 22, 2024Being Weird About 100 Eps, Crowdstrike Bugs, and Chris Joins Us with Clips
It's episode 100 time but don't worry, Adam's not being weird about it at all. We're thinking about how normies understand things like the Crowdstrike bug, Adam thinks the economy is fake, and Chris joins us with clips from past episodes like Adam's thirst traps, Dax watching tv all the time, are they playing characters or real on the podcast, and Chris questions Dax's cryptic tweets.
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xkcd: Dependency
Lemon Productions – Chris' podcast production company
Chris on X
Chris' YouTube channel
Chris on TikTok
Below Deck
Dax’s WTF tweet
Topics:
(00:00) - Reminder to Chris to cut this part out
(00:34) - Can you hear me now after 100 episodes
(01:01) - Crowdstrike chaos is fun?
(06:49) - The fragility of open source
(09:49) - Understanding IT in the normal non-cloud world
(16:06) - Adam still thinks most of the economy is fake
(20:01) - The value and hinderance of small teams
(24:46) - Adam as a Hero
(26:05) - Adam is not being weird about episode 100
(26:37) - Sponsor: SSH terminal.shop
(27:06) - Chris joins us
(32:02) - Is 100 episodes a lot?
(37:40) - The tweet with 13,000 views
(42:24) - ep30 Adam finds out something shocking about Dax
(46:16) - Adam's movie choices
(48:30) - Are they playing a character or is it reality?
(51:53) - Dax's cryptic tweets
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55 min
July 15, 2024Scrolling Bugs, Pursuing Optimization, and Number Go Up is Good
Dax went to hell and back for a scrolling bug, what do we lose in the pursuit of optimization at all costs, what kind of business do we want to build, Adam is definitely AI, Twitter drama over commit hooks, Adam hates pyramids and thinks they're stupid, and Adam tries meditation but as a result his brain doesn't work for podcasting.
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wip: terminal (initial commit)
charmbracelet/bubbletea: A powerful little TUI framework 🏗
TIDAL - High Fidelity Music Streaming
🚨🚨 Doom Ascii 🚨🚨
Dior Handbag Scandal
Laracon 2024
Dax’s Commentary
The World Without Us
The Last Question
Project Hail Mary Audiobook
This is where the link to Adam's 5 word tweet would go except he let everyone down and didn't follow through on tweeting a five word tweet. What else might Adam do to let us all down do you suppose? Maybe he doesn't actually like coffee? Maybe he's actually AI after all? Please click here to tweet at Adam and let him know how disappointed you are in him being an AI bot that kills baby seals for fun.
Topics:
(00:00) - Adam's a real boy!
(00:56) - Dax has been in hell for 48 hours because of scrolling
(08:59) - Has something shifted in programming?
(16:25) - We can lose a lot by pursuing optimizational at all costs
(19:37) - What is the business we want to make?
(24:50) - Number go up is good
(30:19) - Adam definitely is AI
(33:12) - Are you pro-Commit hook?
(38:32) - Hand operated calculators vs pyramids
(49:00) - What speed do you listen at?
(50:51) - Let's all leave Adam alone with his thoughts
(55:00) - Activists and vandalism
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1 hr 2 min
July 08, 2024Terminal Coffee Updates, and Dax Analyzes Adam (again)
Adam is tired, Dax tries to help analyze Adam in a surprisingly kind way, struggling to fend off grifters, Terminal Coffee updates, and Rspack news.
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Mark Sisson (@marksissonprimal) • Instagram photos and videos
Breathing Exercises | Wim Hof Method
wip: terminal (initial commit)
Rspack
Index - OpenNext
Inspire Creativity, Enrich Life
Topics:
(00:00) - Say more words
(00:27) - Adam's tired
(03:52) - Dax tries to analyze Adam but also be kind. It's weird. But it works.
(16:08) - Sensing happiness from people you look up to
(18:47) - Mo money mo problems
(21:03) - The world is set up to tap into Adam's personality
(28:00) - Is the SAD American diet to blame?
(31:28) - After you admit you're lost, what next?
(33:38) - Dax's non-pretentious pretentious way of speaking
(35:19) - Sponsor: Terminal.shop
(35:32) - SST's new multiplexer
(37:10) - Terminal coffee update
(37:44) - Are all kids jerks or just the ones around Adam?
(40:07) - Does the business owner life ever slow down or stop?
(43:51) - Rspack news
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51 min
July 01, 2024Open Source Drama, Streaming Productivity, and the State of JavaScript
Adam and Dax both got hairdids, Adam learns how a tattoo is installed, why can't we be more productive while live streaming, bringing out our different personalities in different groups, open source drama, issues with TC39 and bureaucracy on the web, Dax's stamp of package approval, and discussing the State of JavaScript.
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WinterCG
TC39 - Specifying JavaScript.
Bun — A fast all-in-one JavaScript runtime
State of JavaScript
Topics:
(00:00) - Nailed it first try. Perfect.
(01:06) - Adam and Dax get their hairdid
(06:04) - Getting a tattoo is wild
(09:20) - Keeping live streaming productive
(15:01) - Do you have different personalities with different people?
(21:34) - Open source drama
(34:32) - Issues with TC39
(41:32) - Stamping packages as Good
(47:44) - State of JavaScript survey
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59 min
June 17, 2024Matt Pocock on Voice Coaching, Communication, Gaming, and Teaching How to Code
Matt chats with Adam and Dax about becoming a voice coach and how that's translated to creating courses and writing books for people wanting to learn TypeScript and coding, the differences between America and European living, Formula 1 racing, juggling, video games, board games, and what Matt's working on next.
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Matt Pocock (@mattpocockuk)
Professional TypeScript Training by Matt Pocock | Total TypeScript
Football Manager
Euro Truck Simulator 2
Formula 1 Documentary
Watch The Queen’s Gambit
Cosmic Encounter
Castles of Mad King Ludwig
Geek Entertainment
Teach for Life-Changing Money
Topics:
(00:00) - Dax is excited for...
(00:39) - Voice and accent coaching
(05:26) - Teaching tech vs teaching voice
(08:47) - Communication as a freelancing power up
(14:19) - Is working 8hrs a week the actual dream?
(21:36) - Educating Dax and Adam on European life
(24:30) - Key (not pee) break
(26:00) - Fit and fat, sit and sat
(27:19) - Learning to juggle
(29:05) - What video games does Matt play?
(34:22) - Formula 1 watching
(38:47) - Getting into chess
(43:37) - Board gaming
(48:50) - What's Matt working on next?
(57:24) - How many browser tabs do you have open at once?
(58:36) - The economics of book publishing
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1 hr 8 min
June 10, 2024Dan Abramov on Working at Bluesky, React, and the Social Internet
Dan Abramov chats with us about getting hired at Meta, making the move to Bluesky, centralized vs decentralized, product work vs framework work, Bluesky's development and future, and how mean Dax is on the internet.
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dan abramov
dan (@danabra.mov) — Bluesky
dan 2 (@dan_abramov2) / X
overreacted — A blog by Dan Abramov
gaearon (dan)
Expo
Aaron Francis
Topics:
(00:00) - So called "entertainers"
(00:45) - Hi Dan
(02:11) - Hiring on a global scale
(05:02) - What's the process like for getting hired by Meta?
(09:09) - How has it been at Bluesky?
(19:06) - How do you feel about centralized vs decentralized?
(23:46) - How do you enjoy product work vs framework work?
(27:53) - What's the next milestone for Bluesky?
(34:19) - Using Expo
(43:11) - How does Facebook think about React?
(50:19) - Is the internet too mean?
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1 hr 7 min
June 03, 2024How About Mostly Technical?
Adam and Dax were guests on the Mostly Technical podcast and so we're rebroadcasting that conversation on our feed for your listening pleasure. We take on the Laravel vs. JavaScript discourse, selling coffee over the command line, and a lot more.
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Mostly Technical with Adam and Dax
Watch it on YouTube
Serverless Framework
StatMuse
Linear
Vercel
Aaron's video about Laravel + Livewire
terminal dot shop on Twitter
Billion Dollar Creator (Podcast)
terminal x Laracon
Adam's course on AWS
Topics:
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1 hr 31 min

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