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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...