How About Tomorrow? – Details, episodes & analysis

DHH talks with us about his journey back to Linux, Apple's control over the App Store, setting up servers on the web, and tries out Terminal coffee.

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• HEY — A delightfully fresh take on email + calendar, from 37signals
• HEY — Apple vs. HEY, antitrust, and monopoly
• Fix Consumer Electronics
• Make your day
• ONCE — Campfire
• Install WSL
• Introducing Omakub
• Omakase Developer Setup
• Visual Studio Code Linux
• Tokyo Night
• Home
• Lazygit Terminal UI
• Zen Maintenance
• UncomplicatedFirewall
• Gimp

Topics:

• (00:00) - Are we recording?
• (00:30) - How high is DHH really?
• (02:27) - Thoughts on AI + generative AI
• (05:31) - Linux on the desktop
• (18:07) - DHH's journey into Linux
• (27:51) - DHH's Omakub Linux set up
• (35:00) - The hardware journey
• (41:37) - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and connecting your computer to the internet
• (53:07) - Setting up servers like pets vs cattle
• (01:14:36) - Are we just doomed to repeat this every generation?
• (01:19:19) - What would make DHH want to stop programming?
• (01:26:51) - Plugging Terminal.shop

Dax is sick, but his voice sounds amazing so you should still listen, we streamed a basketball game in Dallas, rented a Lambo, went to Laracon 2024, muse on VPS complexity, InstantDB impressions, kids not knowing how to program properly, taking the right size bets in a startup, and going viral on Twitter in 2024.

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• Transistor - modern podcast hosting and analytics
• Justin Jackson (@mijustin) / X
• Laracon 2024
• Laravel Framework
• Dax getting stuffed
• wip: terminal (initial commit)
• Instant
• Turk’s Opinion on Norwegian

Topics:

• (00:00) - Switching sides if the price is right
• (00:42) - Dax is *sick*
• (02:43) - Streaming a basketball game in Dallas
• (06:20) - We rented a lambo
• (08:21) - Laracon 2024
• (09:18) - Sponsor: Dax getting stuffed
• (09:57) - In person fun
• (14:33) - VPS complexity
• (24:38) - Initial InstantDB impressions
• (34:01) - The kids these days don't know how to do "x"
• (41:58) - Startups taking the right size bets
• (44:03) - Turk going viral

Matt chats with Adam and Dax about becoming a voice coach and how that's translated to creating courses and writing books for people wanting to learn TypeScript and coding, the differences between America and European living, Formula 1 racing, juggling, video games, board games, and what Matt's working on next.

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• Matt Pocock (@mattpocockuk)
• Professional TypeScript Training by Matt Pocock | Total TypeScript
• Football Manager
• Euro Truck Simulator 2
• Formula 1 Documentary
• Watch The Queen’s Gambit
• Cosmic Encounter
• Castles of Mad King Ludwig
• Geek Entertainment
• Teach for Life-Changing Money

Topics:

• (00:00) - Dax is excited for...
• (00:39) - Voice and accent coaching
• (05:26) - Teaching tech vs teaching voice
• (08:47) - Communication as a freelancing power up
• (14:19) - Is working 8hrs a week the actual dream?
• (21:36) - Educating Dax and Adam on European life
• (24:30) - Key (not pee) break
• (26:00) - Fit and fat, sit and sat
• (27:19) - Learning to juggle
• (29:05) - What video games does Matt play?
• (34:22) - Formula 1 watching
• (38:47) - Getting into chess
• (43:37) - Board gaming
• (48:50) - What's Matt working on next?
• (57:24) - How many browser tabs do you have open at once?
• (58:36) - The economics of book publishing

Adam & Dax discuss their first tech conference experience in a hotel room in Las Vegas.

Adam & Dax discuss the ongoing Twitter drama. Can the remaining staff keep the platform running? Is the world overreacting? Is Mastodon a viable alternative?

Adam & Dax discuss the future of (pure) serverless after an ominous tweet from a prominent figure at AWS.

Adam & Dax discuss a blog post by DHH where he explains why they're moving away from the cloud and managing their infrastructure in-house.

Adam & Dax talk about the Shopify acquisition of Remix and what it means for the web development landscape moving forward.

Adam & Dax talk about The Edge, serverless, big companies vs. small, CloudFlare vs. AWS, and more.

Adam & Dax discuss the big Next.js Conf takeaways and where the web is headed.