This week, Ben and Paul are flying as a duo, a true dad-cast. We walk through the slow build of increasingly complex keyboard macros, followed by the inevitable cleansing and renewal of an empty slate. Pus, type systems and type safety, the galaxy brain edition.

Just before OpenJS World kicks off, we sit down for a chat with Robin Ginn, executive director of the OpenJS foundation. Turns out their code is being used to help power space suits for NASA astronauts. With great power, comes great responsibility.

This week we converse as a quartet, with Cassidy Williams joining the regular crew. We talk about how to make fun of yourself, breaking prod your first month on the job, and the best way to convert digital gold into cold hard cash.

This week we chat with Dries Buytaert, best known for his role in creating the open-source content management system, Drupal. He was also a co-founder of company called Acquia.

What if the future of great discussion around software looks like broadcast television from the last century? And what if the next generation of students think in pull requests and commits instead of book reviews and pop quizzes?

In this episode we chat about the ways in which React has reshaped web design and mourn the lost days of maximalist HTML overkill. Plus, what would social media look like today had Napster lived to conquer the music industry?

This week we chat about Textmoji, a tool for stylizing your text messages and Slack chats. Paul and Sara discuss how their computer workstations have evolved over three months of being fully remote. And Ben hips everyone to Seek, an app that uses machine learning to turn real plants and animals into collectible Pokemon.

This week we chat about tiptoeing out of lockdown, a leadership change at Magic Leap, and where Node.JS and Javascript sit as they turn 11 and 25-years-old, respectively. Plus, Boo.com, and throwbacks to the callbacks of the past.

Our guest this week is Brian LeRoux, co-founder and CTO of Begin, which focuses on helping clients deploy AWS Lambda. He serves as a "Benevolent Dictator" in the role of JS Foundation Architect as part of the Linux Foundation. Prior to that, he held roles as a principal scientist at Adobe and a VP at the Apache software foundation.

This week, the gang discusses open source governance, the pros and cons of sociopathic leadership, and Paul's parsing project.