How About Tomorrow?

Adam & Dax discuss how each generation views friendship, how SST finally cracked open source marketing, and some serverless topics. (00:00) - Cold open (00:28) - Making YouTube videos is hard (03:03) - Age gets blurry online (05:06) - Friends (10:01) - SST updates (15:19) - SST update #2 (17:38) - Creating a Lambda warmer ★ Support this podcast ★

Adam & Dax discuss how PHP & Laravel are taking over the narrative. (00:33) - That sounds like something a scammer would say (02:50) - Dax has read all the Laravel docs (04:33) - What is the performance story? (06:40) - What about type safety and diversity? (08:44) - Helping build a thumbnail generator (12:37) - How well did Dax's algorithm work? (14:27) - Is serverless perfect for indie hacking? (17:48) - Dark matter devs (22:18) - Do you want to do the work or just talk about the idea of it? ★ Support this podcast ★

Adam & Dax discuss Dax's recent efforts in benchmarking Vercel against OpenNext and then bring on Aaron Francis to discuss type systems and what good hustle looks like. (00:00) - Cold opens are cold (00:27) - Benchmarking stuff (05:38) - Vercel's response (08:04) - Adam is now a Laravel developer (09:38) - ...or maybe Svelte? (11:13) - Why Laravel? (13:06) - Why is PHP so chill and Javascript not? (19:35) - What makes it difficult in Javascript? (22:07) - Why doesn't someone use types? (23:12) - Does PHP have types? (29:01) - The benefits of waiting (32:42) - Is this Aaron's first role in devrel? (33:38) - What is your goal in your job? (39:11) - Devrels for hire (41:28) - What's your perfect Saturday? (45:27) - Once more for Laravel ★ Support this podcast ★

Adam & Dax discuss... nothing at all, really. (00:30) - Adam's gonna Florida (01:20) - Driving alone vs driving with someone (04:48) - Hating things that people love (08:16) - Adam's drawn to people who are mean to him (10:17) - Dax goes to relationship therapy with Adam (13:20) - Reclaiming the word dramatic (14:32) - Do you eat peanut better and jelly sandwiches? (18:09) - Adam's relationship with food (21:47) - Struggle of putting on weight (23:34) - Miami Only Fans Towers (24:25) - Adam's house update (27:28) - Saunas and steam rooms ★ Support this podcast ★

Adam & Dax discuss how they got into open source and interview a surprise guest. (00:33) - How'd Dax get into open source? (05:39) - Should everything be open source? (08:44) - Should you get into open source to start your career? (14:09) - What are the downsides of getting involved in open source? (17:00) - Is monetizing open source projects bad? (22:49) - Open source helps careers in a variety of ways (25:05) - What was Adam's experience with open source software? (29:34) - What was Teej's open source journey? (37:22) - Did open source grow on you and change your views? ★ Support this podcast ★

Adam & Dax discuss Vercel, the culture around it, and the pros and cons of using it. (00:50) - Therapy for Adam (01:53) - Hating something people love (05:26) - I can say things because people use my thing (07:43) - What are some of the reasons not to build everything on Vercel? (10:30) - Vercel pricing (11:44) - Understanding what you're off loading (16:31) - Understanding vendor priorites and challenges (18:25) - Support during growth (20:31) - Hiring React team brings more scrutiny (24:17) - Comparing it to Astro (26:07) - What is Astro's business model? (28:24) - Companies have cultures (30:30) - Be aware of the vortex you might be sucked into ★ Support this podcast ★

Adam & Dax discuss their startup founding experiences and lessons learned. (00:51) - Adam's start up journey (02:56) - Dax's startup journey (07:17) - Not giving up for enough time (10:19) - Adam and Dax's similar startup stories (14:57) - At what stage in your career is a startup a logical pursuit? (18:01) - Is location important for your startup? (20:10) - How does equity dilution impact engineers? (24:46) - Did you cold call for sales? (25:57) - How should you handle employees and hiring at a startup? (27:43) - How do you know your product is ready for development? (29:56) - How do I convince my cofounder it's time to abandon? ★ Support this podcast ★

Adam & Dax discuss more AI craziness and whether anyone will catch OpenAI. (00:32) - What's happened in AI since we last talked? (04:19) - How does AI not take jobs? (11:11) - What's coming after serverless? (12:49) - Dax explains Jersey Shore to Adam (14:06) - Is human intelligence going down? (16:49) - How do you feel about ChatGPT now? (20:37) - More opportunities at a different scale (21:41) - Web3 shifted to AI ★ Support this podcast ★

Adam & Dax discuss their latest project: a Discord server for developers who stream programming, and those that like to watch them. (00:00) - Watch.dev (01:53) - What is Dev Streaming? (04:28) - Getting in to streaming (07:27) - It doesn't have to be your full day (09:07) - Find your thing (11:18) - Not getting as much done due to streaming (13:11) - Watching people code has value (14:45) - Are you anxious about people watching you code? (16:19) - Do you prepare for streaming or just go live? (17:47) - Learning about the tech behind streaming (20:40) - Having a creative outlet that's just fun ★ Support this podcast ★

Adam & Dax discuss the SVB collapse and how the government stepped in to prevent catastrophe. (00:41) - What happened at Silicon Valley Bank? (03:09) - What could've the impact been? (08:13) - Why are people upset about bailing out a bank? (11:26) - Individual bank accounts weren't affected (12:44) - VC chatter (16:22) - Simon Wardley's Twitter thread (19:07) - Hearing the end of the 2008 crash (19:57) - How do you stay on top of things? ★ Support this podcast ★