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Rust, Bevy game engine, and Data-Oriented Design
Rob is diving into Rust and feels like he has to relearn everything. JD has been diving into game engines, and has set up Bevy for their project. He's hacking around t...
Open Source, Community, and Monetization
JD wonders if it makes more sense to focus on game development, or invest equally in building up a community around the project. Rob's concerned that someone might ste...
Rust, Singleplayer vs. Multiplayer, and a First Sprint
After deciding to try the Shape Up methodology to build the game, JD and Rob sit down to discuss what to build first. Feeling a bit intimidated by the complexity of th...
Shape Up for a Two Person Team
On their One Year Anniversary, Rob and JD dive deep into the Shape Up methodology and discuss how they can use it for their new project. Rob shares his concerns around...
Games, Prototypes, and gRPC
Rob is back, and JD catches him up on the latest developments with their game. JD shares some background about the inspiration for the game, considerations for an earl...
Gaming, Motivation, and Programming
Rob is about to move, and JD has been thinking a lot about the intersection of practicing programming and video games. Unhappy with his current approach to start a new...
Basecamp, Rails, and Password Managers
Rob shares his experience with hey.com, while JD spent the last two weeks playing with Rails and OAuth. He's been using Basecamp to try out the Shape Up methodology, a...
Choosing Email Providers
Rob and JD discuss the launch of hey.com, and their plans to switch email providers. Rob is interested in ProtonMail, which JD is considering to leave. The two talk th...
Elixir, Concurrency vs Parallelism, Games with Code
Rob is still going in depth with elixir, discussing his progress and learns more about processes, concurrency and parallelism in elixir. JD discusses his struggles in ...
Habits, Projects, Business
The last episode got JD thinking. What projects are important enough to work on, given the limited time we have? How might the science of habit formation help stick to...
Aggregate Roots, Entities, and Deliberate Practice
This episode has everything. Rob shares a story about the crappy website he had to use to book tickets for a park, JD is starting to plan his summer vacation in a COVI...
Software Architecture and JavaScript Weirdness.
Rob and JD go in depth about software architectures, domain driven design and web frameworks. JD is getting a bit overwhelmed at home, but still managing to dive into ...
Phoenix LiveView, Rails, and Email
Rob and JD catch up after missing a week. Rob has been learning new things, and has experimented with Phoenix LiveView and nuxt. The two discuss StimulusReflex, a simi...
A New Project, more Rust, and Music for Coding
JD introduces a new project he is working an: a Rust CLI to organize files in a sane way. Dreaming of a paperless office, he is looking for the best way to use the loc...
GraphQL, Password Hashes, and Rust CLIs
Rob is enjoying his new life as a freelancer, while JD struggled through another stage of grief. Both have been using their side projects to ignore the current state o...
Hanging in there
Corona is still a thing that weighs heavily on Rob and JD. They catch up on how they've been dealing with quarantine, and discuss how living in a remote rural area sud...
Wrapping up Q1
At the end of week five of quarantine, JD and Rob catch up. They start being sick of staying home and they miss exercising. But Rob shares exciting news about big chan...
Finding a rhythm
JD and Rob continue where they left off. They check in about how they've adjusted to Corona, and share how they stay sane being at home. Rob shares how the launch of T...
Weird times we're living in
JD and Rob are stuck at home like everyone else. With these unique times they each share their experience, being a different set up for JD and nothing changing for Rob...
Getting technical from home
For the first time ever, both Rob and JD are formally working remotely. They catch up on COVID-19, routines while working from home, and the risks of walking to your m...
Worries only adults have
Rob and JD catch up where they left off two weeks ago. Rob shares stories about his progress working with Elixir, and a new project he is working on. JD is formally on...
This is how we learn new tech
Rob and JD check up on each other's goals and how it is coming along, Rob is having some struggles on one specifically. JD starts working and learning React and they b...
One API to rule them all
JD has started working on a side project, and some what poorly explains to Rob what he is doing. They talk about racing simulations, APIs, and the programming language...
Let's crush new goals
First episode of the year. JD and Rob got back from holidays and are motivated to start a great year with their new set of goals. JD and Rob both discuss self improvem...
That's a wrap
The last episode of 2019! JD and Rob reflect on their first six months of podcasting, the expectations they had before starting, and the lessons they learned along the...
We like nice things
Reaching the end of the year, Rob and JD talk about what they're doing and their tech plans for the holidays. Rob continues learning Elixir, JD is pursuing Rust and pl...
We're still here
Scheduling a time to record is tough across continents, and Rob and JD finally catch up again after two weeks. Since last time, JD bought a car, and Rob started to exp...
It's all about balance
Following up on last week's episode about burnout, Rob and JD discuss finding a healthy balance in life. They talk about sleep, new habits, camping and fishing, and bu...
Let's not burn out
Burning out is never good, Rob did not have a good week at work. Anxiety and lack of enjoyment at work can lead to unpleasant results. In this episode, Rob and JD disc...
Long time no talk
It has been 4 weeks since the last episode?! After that long, JD and Rob do some major catching up. Talking about JD's eventful weeks at his new job, finding new routi...