How About Tomorrow?

By Adam Elmore & Dax Raad

Adam and Dax discuss web technologies, the internet, and the future of (basically) everything.... more

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The podcast currently has 130 episodes available.

How About Tomorrow? episodes:

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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53min
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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40min
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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39min
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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36min
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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48min
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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59min
August 03, 2023Threads, Twitter X, Board Sports, Jujitsu, and the SST Roadmap
Why is everyone wrong about everything - especially with Adam? Does an AI breakthrough mean utopia? Are we using Threads to post about X'ing Twitter? Dax has a new hobby, and Adam updates on his jujitsu hobby. Dax has some theories on Vercel and some SST Console roadmap updates.
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Links:
Why does Musk want an everything X app?
Vercel
Netlify
SST Console
Drizzle
Astro

Topics discussed:
(00:00) - The leaf blower rule of podcast recording
(00:38) - Why is everyone so wrong?
(03:08) - AI breakthrough means utopia
(08:13) - X Twitter
(13:46) - Are we still Threading?
(18:48) - You have to consume something to bring value to people
(20:51) - Dax getting into a new hobby
(25:17) - Jujitsu follow up
(28:43) - Does putting in the time work?
(33:22) - Theories on Vercel
(38:50) - The SST Console roadmap
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48min
July 31, 2023An Interview with Tuomas Artman of Linear
Dax has a conversation with Tuomas Artman of Linear about their mindset when starting Linear, how they developed the Linear Method, was being fast important from the beginning, what the difference is between collaboration and syncing, and what is Linear's tech stack.
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Links:
Linear
Superhuman
Replicache
GraphQL

Topics discussed:
(00:21) - Introducing Tuomas Artman & Linear
(01:38) - What was the mindset when you started Linear?
(09:41) - Was the high level of polish intentional from the beginning?
(13:59) - How did you develop the Linear Method?
(17:46) - How does designing with big companies compare to a smaller company?
(19:50) - Was being a fast app important from the beginning?
(24:15) - Linear syncs a large portion of your data locally
(29:20) - Defining a finite set of data to work with
(34:16) - What's the difference between collaboration and syncing?
(40:30) - Have you seen more companies take this design approach?
(45:04) - What is Linear's tech stack?
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48min
July 27, 2023An Interview with Liz Raad on Her Journey into Startup Life
Dax interviews Liz about her journey into tech and startups, how Dax and Liz met, working in a health startup in the pandemic, deciding to do your own thing, almost quitting, expectations of what it's like to be a founder, and dealing with potential embarrassment.
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Links:
Whimsical
Bumi
Paul Graham: How to Not Die
SST
SST on YouTube

Topics discussed:
(00:37) - Introducing Liz
(03:19) - What did you think were options when you were growing up?
(05:59) - Was it difficult to get into tech as a non-engineer?
(08:15) - How Dax and Liz met
(14:28) - Liz's master plan
(17:55) - Working in a health startup in the pandemic
(20:24) - Build vs buy struggle
(24:16) - How did Liz decide to leave and start her own thing?
(28:32) - The difference between Dax and Liz
(31:58) - Almost quitting
(37:01) - Expectations of what it would be like to be a founder
(42:37) - Being surprised at how long it takes
(48:28) - Dealing with the potential embarrassment
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57min
July 24, 2023Adam Questions Nice App Design, JavaScript Dictators, and Jiu-jitsu
Adam has questions this episode: Why does Tailwind bring out the worst in people? Why don't more people just make nice fast apps like Linear? Why is Notion slow? Is sites vs apps a real debate? Is the developer experience getting better? And should Adam help Dax become the Benevolent Dictator of JavaScript that he was born to be?
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Links:
Camlink
Notion
Linear
Superhuman
Replicache
ESLint
Brazilian jiu-jitsu
Lex Fridman podcast
Joe Rogan
Adam.dev
Marc Andreessen on Lex Fridman
Ben Horowitz

Topics discussed:
(00:00) - You gotta go through Dax first
(00:26) - Why does Tailwind bring out the worst in everyone?
(01:55) - Cables and gear make the office vibe off
(05:12) - Avoiding bloat like Notion
(07:17) - Who takes care of planning and logistics in life?
(08:16) - Talking Linear and local first
(15:53) - Why aren't we all designing better apps?
(21:32) - Request for startups to build
(26:21) - Is sites vs apps a real thing?
(29:19) - Is the developer experience getting better or more complex?
(33:21) - Is doing the ESLint dance worth it?
(35:30) - Dax the Benevolent Dictator
(38:40) - Adam's a martial artist now
(47:37) - Why are certain podcasters controversial?
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