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

An episode recorded in the weird space in the first week of the new year. Dax downgrades to 1 grape instead of 12, Adam almost died (again), Home Assistant and Homebridge and Homekit, SST dreaming, React Miami party plans at Dax's house, and the ulimate question: Does Adam have a face for recording courses?

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Links:

• homelab.
• Apache Hadoop
• Dream Machine Pro - Ubiquiti Store Canada
• Synology Inc.
• Tailscale · Best VPN Service for Secure Networks
• Home Assistant
• Homebridge
• React Miami
• Bryan Johnson’s Quest For Immortality | TIME
• Emmett Shear on X
• Devon Eriksen on X
• Serial: Season One
• Lore

• (00:00) - We are beloved

What's happening with the new version of SST, Ion? Twitter has changed with monetization, Dax's thoughts on the triangle company, the debate between single-page applications (SPAs) and server-rendered apps, Adam's fascination with Fascinating, and an important weather update from Florida.

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Links:

• Dax on X about Ion
• SST
• Terraform by HashiCorp
• Pulumi
• Fey
• Fascinating (@fasc1nate)

Topics discussed:

• (00:00) - Did I put you in a weird spot?

Dax convinces Adam that the Kombucha he bought is exclusive so Adam is forced to buy it.

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Links:

• Radiate Kombucha

Topics discussed:

• (00:00) - Kombucha influencers

Moving tech Twitter to LinkedIn, cleaning up Contacts.app, the hype and dread cycle of AI announcements, why Adam hates weekends, why are LLMs so dorky, and the idea of creating a 100% AI Tomorrow podcast.

Oh and we're taking a break until January, 2024!

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Links:

• Adam Elmore on LinkedIn
• Dax ⠀ on LinkedIn
• Mercury | Banking for Startups
• Show HN: The HN Recap – AI generated daily HN podcast

Topics discussed:

• (00:32) - Tech Twitter moving to LinkedIn

Adam's wondering why people hate Aurora Serverless? What's happening with AWS rumors and Preinvent / Reinvent? Dax thinks Pulumi is the best infrastructure as code tool. And Adam wonders if he can stop being a jerk on Twitter.

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Links:

• Features • GitHub Actions
• Using Aurora Serverless v2 - Amazon Aurora
• Let’s Encrypt
• Low-Latency Content Delivery Network (CDN) - Amazon CloudFront - Amazon Web Services
• RedwoodJS: The App Framework for Startups | RedwoodJS.com
• AdonisJS - A fully featured web framework for Node.js
• Pulumi - Universal Infrastructure as Code | Pulumi
• Terraform by HashiCorp
• Open Source Development Framework - AWS Cloud Development Kit - AWS

Topics discussed:

• (00:00) - What's in a name?

Serverless is going paid and Dax has thoughts, Adam really wants his GitHub username, why can you say illegal things on social media, Dax VC'd and learned a new word, Adam's obsessed with air purifiers, how can we Benjamin Button ourselves, and Adam is going to teach a AWS course.

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Links:

• Shop Oura Ring
• WHOOP | Unlock Your Potential
• Serverless: Zero-Friction Serverless Apps On AWS Lambda & Beyond.
• SST
• Terraform by HashiCorp
• Replicache
• solidjs.com
• Tailwind CSS - Rapidly build modern websites without ever leaving your HTML.
• Joel Hooks

Topics discussed:

• (00:00) - Nice

Dax and Adam read through Kent C. Dodds' article on Why He Won't Use Next.js and give their thoughts on the web platform, independence, Next.js eating React, collaboration, experimenting on users, too much magic, and complexity.

Oh and something's off with the X.

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Links:

• Linear – A better way to build products
• Dax on X: “the rest of us have literally no hope” / X
• Next.js Conf
• How About Tomorrow? | Next.js Conf 2022 Recap
• Why I Won’t Use Next.js | Epic Web Dev by Kent C. Dodds
• solidjs.com
• Index - OpenNext
• Scale & Ship Faster with a Composable Web Architecture | Netlify
• Remix - Build Better Websites
• Refactoring UI
• Custom fonts without compromise using Next.js and next/font – Vercel
• MooTools
• Domainr · fast, free, domain name search, short URLs, new gTLDs, whois
• Buy a domain name - Register cheap domain names from $0.99 - Namecheap
• Live streaming with Riverside

Topics discussed:

• (00:00) - Meeting Trash