Jessitron & Avdi Pair on Dark and the Square API
This was one of our after-hours sessions so there’s a bunch of yelling and cursing and probably some inappropriate variable names.
Eric & Avdi Talk About the Developer Education Business
Eric Normand (of LispCast and PurelyFunctional.tv) and I have been trading notes about the developer education business for years. The other day we caught up and talked about business models,…
Test-Driven Re-implementation with Josh Thompson
Yesterday Josh Thompson, one of my Rubber Duck Session clients, proposed a novel idea for deliberately practicing coding skills: take a popular open-source project with a good test suite, delete…
How to meet people at tech events when you’re awkward and shy
Avdi Grimm and Jessica Kerr discuss strategies fro making meaningful connections at tech events.
Refactoring a tech talk abstract
Rewriting a conference talk proposal to better “sell” the content.
How to clean up Medium feeds in Inoreader
How to fix one of the many annoyances of reading Medium blogs (if you happen to use Inoreader).
Tuesday25: Keeping an automation notebook
In today’s pomodoro, I step through a series of actions I want to automate. In the process, I write a live, executable notebook of shell commands using Emacs Org-Mode.
Tuesday25: Mostly just yelling at the computer
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Tuesday 25: Writing a RubyTapas episode (with voice dictation)
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