How About Tomorrow?

Dax's internet is bad, but so are all the internet providers. Should Ken buy a farm as a backup plan to when AI takes over? And does Adam ever feel anything at all? What if this is all a simulation? And how has humanity survived this long really?

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• Astro
• esbuild - An extremely fast bundler for the web
• Buy Trees Online | FastGrowingTrees.com
• Stardew Valley
• Transistor
• ‎The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) directed by Martin Scorsese • Reviews, film + cast • Letterboxd
• ‎Dunkirk (2017) directed by Christopher Nolan • Reviews, film + cast • Letterboxd
• ‘Dunkirk,’ With Quentin Tarantino, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan - The Ringer
• Shōgun (2024 miniseries)

• (00:00) - Shhhh Ken's back

Dax is on the move, Adam learns about grills, and Ken Wheeler stops by for a two episode conversation arc. In this episode we're comparing weather, what we do in a hotel, fishing in the Ozarks and hunting in New Jersey, visiting a temple, using ChatGPT voice to learn, and the kids these days have no respect for NSync.

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• Downdetector
• Big Green Egg: The Original Kamado, since 1974
• Kamado Joe® | Ceramic Grills | Ceramic Smoker | Kamado Grill
• Slow Productivity: Cal Newport On How To Escape Burnout, Do Your Best Work & Achieve More By Doing Less – Rich Roll
• Nikita Bier on X: “Maybe we wouldn’t be so glued to our phones if they weren’t the most interesting thing in the world” / X
• StockX: Sneakers, Streetwear, Trading Cards, Handbags, Watches
• baps temple new jersey
• 50 Cent: Bulletproof
• Martha & Snoop
• Snoop Dogg Legal Action

• (00:00) - Worlds colliding

The SM7B is everywhere. Adam and Dax can't wait for their AI coworkers to arrive, but should you be concerned about your job with AI? And what does E/ACC mean? Adam asks Dax about his tweets and rules for Twitter. And the US healthcare system is broken with no fix in sight.

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• SM7B - Vocal Microphone - Shure USA
• Perplexity
• Dax on X: “you’ve all had co2 monitors for over a month now and i haven’t seen an improvement”
• Query Insights — PlanetScale Documentation
• Introducing the Data API for Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 and Amazon Aurora provisioned clusters | AWS Database Blog
• AI description of this episode.

• (00:00) - Do it at the beginning

Adam and Dax recognize they love monotony and physicality in work, and so are making plans for a post software career, Adam needs your help picking out a good movie to watch, why are web ad companies programming so poorly, how can we save our companies from AI, and how do you cope with being connected to everything everywhere all at once?

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• How to support the Zack DeRose family

• (00:00) - Adding a hazmat suit to Adam's wishlist

Adam's brain gets thrown off course, software rot vs serverless life, subscription payments vs one time payment myths, framework devs vs app devs, Adam figures out what Supabase is, Dax reviews an Apple Vision Pro and has thoughts, all while we're headed towards an AI utopia.

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• Tailwind
• Once
• Plex
• GitHub - benvinegar/counterscale: Scalable web analytics you run yourself on Cloudflare
• Astro
• Bulk Cloud Email Service - Amazon Simple Email Service - AWS
• Connect, Protect and Build Everywhere | Cloudflare
• Vercel: Build and deploy the best Web experiences with The Frontend Cloud – Vercel
• Supabase | The Open Source Firebase Alternative
• Firebase | Google’s Mobile and Web App Development Platform
• Fabrice Bellard
• Jonny Kim
• The Free Software Media System | Jellyfin
• Zuckerberg says Quest 3 is ‘the better product’ vs. Apple’s Vision Pro - The Verge
• Mr. Robot
• ‎Gemini - chat to supercharge your ideas
• React Miami

• (00:00) - Chris will definitely cut this out

Can you control your body with your mind? What about your stomach and food? Adam's got more questions about Dax's tweets, SST is changing to Bun, Adam's tired of all the things but can't stop all the things, Dax is trying to move, and we all have a graph partitioning problem.

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• Serial: Season One
• The Clearing
• John Carmack on X
• Stardew Valley
• Most Measured Man
• Blueprint Bryan Johnson
• Exposing Svelte
• Paul Rudd Interview
• Bobbi Althoff
• Effortless Finance
• Bun JavaScript Runtime
• Dax and Adam’s Podcast Guest Suggestions

Topics:

• (00:00) - Adam's not sick

Why don't food companies sponsor podcasts? How rich does Adam need to get to build his own compound? Adam debates skipping on Svelte Melt and going all in on Solid with Dax. And a new segment arrives. Dax explains a tweet to Adam: Corporate Mumbo Jumbo edition.

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• Microsoft/fast: The adaptive interface system for modern web experiences.
• jQuery
• Zag - Rapidly build UI components without sweating over the logic. - Zag
• Alpine.js
• Lit
• Radix UI
• Introduction – Kobalte
• Svelte • Cybernetically enhanced web apps
• Melt UI
• solidjs.com
• Modular Forms: The modular and type-safe form library
• Zod | Documentation
• Moving away from CDK

• (00:00) - Web standards voice guy

Adam wants to know more about Dax's AI app for movies. Is LinkedIn working for anyone these days? Are Adam and Dax role models? How YC adjacent are you? And what does Clerk do to earn all that investment money?

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• React Miami
• React Conf 2024
• CascadiaJS - a JS conf for the PacNW
• ❍ Movies
• Dax on X: "we’re re-enacting the plot to silicon valley with LLMs
• Clerk, the authentication startup, lands $30M and inks a strategic deal with Stripe | TechCrunch
• WorkOS — Your app, Enterprise Ready.
• AuthKit by WorkOS
• Radix UI

• (00:00) - Clacking and snapping

What's with the current discourse around React and RFCs? Adam's worried about his consumerism, and the possible significance of rituals in everyday life. Dax has started reading actual books again, and wonders about the productivity boost of maintaining a clean working environment.

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00:43 Two Twitch Things
04:34 The Lamborghini SUV is a scam
06:38 Does Adam have a problem with consumerism?
14:12 Do you have any spiritual or meditation in life?
20:23 Reacting about React
31:22 Musk's macadamia nut beef
32:55 Brian Johnson study
34:32 Will Adam ever eat a steak again?
41:18 Manifesting a productivity boost
42:42 Dax is reading actual books again

Adam's lifestyle choices and sleep patterns, technical issues with CloudFlare, AWS and AI, real-time, push-based updates, the challenges faced by dev tool companies and the importance of scalability, the difficulty of learning AWS, and the role of SST in curtailing some of these complexities.

00:57 Let's talk about sleep
09:23 Do you use a password manager?
10:48 Adam's Fancy Bed
14:34 Dax's sandbag workout
16:31 Tech layoffs
20:23 The AWS Exodus
23:57 Salaries in tech
24:53 Will Dax ever run out of tweets to tweet?
28:14 How's your CO2?
30:45 There's always money in the banana stand
33:16 Using Cloudflare
44:53 Everyone is stuck on ternarys
48:36 Is it stress or is it the cold plunges?
54:24 React Miami
01:01:08 Is the real time space heating up?
01:10:16 Adam's teaching