In this episode Dani and Katt about compassion fatigue. What is that? It’s the end result of moments, experiences- day in and day out that move us and affect us at our cores. They discuss some of the latest (and most upsetting) news stories, and when that’s over- it’s time to discuss how we all get affected by these things, and what we can do to combat it.

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• San Francisco becomes largest city in U.S. to ban fur sales - by j_sabatini - March 20, 2018 - The San Francisco Examiner
• World's last white northern rhino dies - CNN
• Everything Was Beautiful, and Nothing Hurt - Moby
• Aurochs - Wikipedia
• Auroch - GWAR
• Death to Dickie Duncan - GWAR
• Officials kill snapping turtle that ate puppy in school | New York Post
• Satya June/July 05: Fear of Feeling by Pattrice Jones
• Aftershock: Confronting Trauma in a Violent World
• WayFare - Online Store for Dairy Free, Plant Based Food
• That 1 Guy | Awooooooooooooooo!

It has been a week and Motz has watched Actual Cannibal Shia Labeouf about 100 times, the Candidates tournament is in full swing, and the Pro Chess League is getting ready to enter the finals. We break down all of this and more.

Links:

• Shia LaBeouf Lyrics - Rob Cantor
• Turning Shia LaBeouf into an Actual Cannibal: Behind the Scenes of the Viral Music Video
• PRO Chess League Quarterfinals Primer: Who's in and Who's out? - Chess.com
• Candidates' Tournament R9: Karjakin Prolongs Kramnik's Misery - Chess.com

You read that correct, you can now run .NET Code directly in your browser with WebAssembly and Mono and it is absolutely amazing. On top of that you can run Xamarin.Forms and ASP.NET applications directly in the browser without any plugins. Frank explains how this all works.

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• Making WebAssembly better for Rust & for all languages – Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog
• WebAssembly
• .NET and WebAssembly - Is this the future of the front-end? - Scott Hanselman
• GitHub - aspnet/Blazor: Blazor is an experimental .NET web framework using C#/Razor and HTML that runs in the browser with WebAssembly
• Hello WebAssembly | Mono
• praeclarum - Ooui.Wasm - .NET in the browser

Join us for another documentary review- this time of 'Forks Over Knives'! We also get in touch with our domestic sides and talk about a little house decoration; curtains, drapes, rugs and flags...or is there more to it than that??

Producers Note: Sorry for the late upload, technical hick-up messed up the auto-post!

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• The Last Pig
• Pet pig adopted from BC SPCA killed and eaten by new owners | Globalnews.ca
• Forks Over Knives

The candidates tournament has officially kicked off and Danny gives his full impressions. We sidetrack to talk about Ikea trips, Hamilton, coffee drinking, and our love for Shia LaBeouf.

Links:

• #bulletjournal - Google Search
• "Shia LaBeouf" Live - Rob Cantor - YouTube
• soundbite.fm: a podcast network

It is that time of year to sit down and analyze F# and how absolutely awesome it is! Frank and James talk through some features that make it a delightful programming language. They also chat about the MVP summit, cool new features, and talk about their heroes.

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• F# Guide | Microsoft Docs — Tour of F#
• MVP Global Summit
• Functional reactive programming - Wikipedia
• F# Software Foundation

In this part two of our dish on dairy we're covering it all...a 'myth truths' website, some new companies making waves in the industry and one of our staple replacers who is having a real #rippleeffect on dairy (and our lives!)

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Links:

• Milk Facts
• Choose MyPlate
• Sources of Calcium: 18 Surprising Sources of Calcium (That Aren't Milk) | Greatist
• Animal-Free Dairy-Tech Company Raises $24.7 Million
• Perfect Day: All the dairy you love, with none of the dairy cows. | Perfect Day
• The Not Company

This week we go the deepest into chess than on any other episode as we sit down and give our predictions for the 2018 Candidates! As a bonus Motz and Danny give their full break-down (spoiler-free) of Black Panther.

Links:

• Who Will Be The Next World Chess Champion? - Chess.com
• Who will win the 2018 Candidates' tournament? - Surveys - Chess.com
• Magnus (2016) - IMDb
• The December Coffee Dripper - Designed by coffee experts by Nicholas Cho — Kickstarter
• Candidates Tournament 2018 - Wikipedia

Frank is ready to start his next app and he is completely skipping cross-platform development... or is he?!?! We investigate what to do with File->New and how to start the architecture for your next app. Why target the platform specific APIs instead of cross-platform APIs? What is Frank doing and how is he going to handle the situation where he wants to go to a new platform?!

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Links:

• About Core Animation
• An Introduction to SkiaSharp - Xamarin
• Overcast
• Under the Radar - Relay FM
• Functional reactive programming - Wikipedia
• reactjs/redux: Predictable state container for JavaScript apps
• Apple could let you run iPad apps on your Mac | TechCrunch
• James Montemagno 🙈 on Twitter: "This week on @mergeconflictfm we tackle the unthinkable! Docker! Containers, Swarms, & Pods Oh my! Essentially @praeclarum gives me a full 101 and why everyone should care: https://t.co/779xoUBFvf… https://t.co/ioteYt1RYM"

Did you ever wonder what would happen if we didn't milk cows? We're here to tell you how one farmer thinks milk floods would be the result! Careful! (Also did you know cows would obviously take over the world if we didn't kill them for meat?!) This dairy talk followed by details of Danielle's most recent trip to NYC! Because food is life.

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