

How About Tomorrow?
Adam Elmore & Dax Raad
Adam and Dax discuss web technologies, the internet, and the future of (basically) everything.
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Mar 18, 2024 • 1h 25min
Part 2 With Ken Wheeler - AI Farming, Adam Feels Nothing, and Dax Has Terrible Internet
Dax's internet is bad, but so are all the internet providers. Should Ken buy a farm as a backup plan to when AI takes over? And does Adam ever feel anything at all? What if this is all a simulation? And how has humanity survived this long really?Want to carry on the conversation? Join us in Discord.Astroesbuild - An extremely fast bundler for the webBuy Trees Online | FastGrowingTrees.comStardew ValleyTransistorThe Wolf of Wall Street (2013) directed by Martin Scorsese • Reviews, film + cast • LetterboxdDunkirk (2017) directed by Christopher Nolan • Reviews, film + cast • Letterboxd‘Dunkirk,’ With Quentin Tarantino, Sean Fennessey, and Chris Ryan - The RingerShōgun (2024 miniseries)(00:00) - Shhhh Ken's back
(00:28) - Dax's bad internet
(02:33) - The internet's bad internet
(04:01) - Working on large, old shit
(10:28) - Will tree shaking ever work?
(13:11) - Buying a farm instead of dealing with AI
(14:52) - Mango talk
(21:27) - Does Adam feel anything? EveR?
(27:41) - What do you do when you hang out with people?
(28:38) - Ken's thoughts on AI
(37:07) - What if we end up in a simulation?
(42:41) - Shogun and exploration
(47:12) - How has humanity (and Dax) survived?
(01:02:14) - Do people just hang out anymore?
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Mar 11, 2024 • 58min
Where Did Dax Move, Adam Learns About Grills, and a Chat with Ken Wheeler (Part 1)
Dax is on the move, Adam learns about grills, and Ken Wheeler stops by for a two episode conversation arc. In this episode we're comparing weather, what we do in a hotel, fishing in the Ozarks and hunting in New Jersey, visiting a temple, using ChatGPT voice to learn, and the kids these days have no respect for NSync.Want to carry on the conversation? Join us in Discord.DowndetectorBig Green Egg: The Original Kamado, since 1974Kamado Joe® | Ceramic Grills | Ceramic Smoker | Kamado GrillSlow Productivity: Cal Newport On How To Escape Burnout, Do Your Best Work & Achieve More By Doing Less – Rich RollNikita Bier on X: “Maybe we wouldn’t be so glued to our phones if they weren’t the most interesting thing in the world” / XStockX: Sneakers, Streetwear, Trading Cards, Handbags, Watchesbaps temple new jersey50 Cent: BulletproofMartha & SnoopSnoop Dogg Legal Action(00:00) - Worlds colliding
(01:32) - How does Dax sound?
(07:22) - Dax is still moving
(11:24) - Adam learns something new today: grill edition
(14:05) - Do you ever think about doing a different profession?
(16:12) - Golf and data science
(21:31) - Introducing Ken Wheeler
(26:46) - Weather update
(31:40) - The hotel experience
(35:34) - Fishing in the Ozarks and hunting in New Jersey
(43:06) - Visiting a Hindu temple
(46:25) - Using ChatGPT voice to learn
(49:22) - No respect for NSync
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Mar 4, 2024 • 1h 11min
AI Coworkers, Dax's Twitter Rules, Planetscale Insights, and Adam's Health(care)
The SM7B is everywhere. Adam and Dax can't wait for their AI coworkers to arrive, but should you be concerned about your job with AI? And what does E/ACC mean? Adam asks Dax about his tweets and rules for Twitter. And the US healthcare system is broken with no fix in sight.Want to carry on the conversation? Join us in Discord.SM7B - Vocal Microphone - Shure USAPerplexityDax on X: “you’ve all had co2 monitors for over a month now and i haven’t seen an improvement”Query Insights — PlanetScale DocumentationIntroducing the Data API for Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 and Amazon Aurora provisioned clusters | AWS Database BlogAI description of this episode.(00:00) - Do it at the beginning
(00:29) - Mics and mic technique
(05:32) - AI developer coworkers
(18:09) - What does the best programming language look like in the future?
(24:39) - Are we too optimistic about AI's future?
(29:28) - AI is great for cleaning up data
(33:17) - You don't have to be human with AI
(38:16) - What does E/ACC mean?
(40:39) - The White House says we should write Rust
(42:07) - Adam asks Dax about his tweets
(44:00) - Dax's Twitter avatar rule
(46:24) - What's PlanetScale Insights?
(53:18) - The state of health care in America
(01:02:13) - Interest rates going down - or up?
(01:03:39) - Meta ask: leave us a rating please!
(01:08:03) - Would you get Neuralink?
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Feb 26, 2024 • 1h 1min
Are Software Developers Like Movie Producers, or Are We Software Engineers?
Are software developers like movie producers? Explore the challenges of web ad companies programming poorly. Learn how to save businesses from AI. Coping with being connected to everything all at once in a tech-driven world.

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Feb 19, 2024 • 1h 24min
Dax's Vision Pro Review, Cloud Pricing, Rebuilding Plex, and Moving to an AI Utopia
Topics range from software rot vs serverless life, subscription payments myths, framework devs vs app devs, Supabase vs Firebase, Dax's review of Apple Vision Pro, moving towards an AI utopia, and more tech-related discussions.

Feb 12, 2024 • 1h 12min
Do We Need More Haters? Why is SST Using Bun? And Does Adam Need Drugs?
Can you control your body with your mind? What about your stomach and food? Adam's got more questions about Dax's tweets, SST is changing to Bun, Adam's tired of all the things but can't stop all the things, Dax is trying to move, and we all have a graph partitioning problem.Want to carry on the conversation? Join us in Discord.Serial: Season OneThe ClearingJohn Carmack on XStardew ValleyMost Measured ManBlueprint Bryan JohnsonExposing SveltePaul Rudd InterviewBobbi AlthoffEffortless FinanceBun JavaScript RuntimeDax and Adam’s Podcast Guest SuggestionsTopics:(00:00) - Adam's not sick
(00:34) - The power of your mind
(04:03) - The psychology of food
(06:49) - True crime podcasting
(11:31) - Does the amount of people on earth feel more positive or negative?
(15:25) - The developer family tree
(18:22) - Do we need more haters?
(27:26) - Who is Dax subtweeting?
(33:05) - Why SST is using Bun
(34:48) - SST live Lambda change
(38:02) - What about our guests?
(39:40) - Are you tired of everything?
(46:04) - What about drugs?
(49:19) - Dax is trying to move - you'll never guess where
(57:41) - Our online persona vs reality
(01:06:49) - Adam's graph partitioning problem
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Feb 5, 2024 • 1h 18min
New Money vs Old Money, Dax Explains a Tweet, and Should Adam Skip Svelte and Go Solid?
Topics discussed in this podcast include the lack of food company sponsorship, the difference between old money and new money, the debate between using Svelte or Solid, the slow web standards process, the decision-making process for choosing a UI framework, and the concept of competition in business. They also touch on reflections on business travel, critique of consulting firms, and their experience with podcast listening and online platforms.

Jan 29, 2024 • 1h 12min
Dax's Viral AI App, Being a Role Model, Clerk Raising $$, and Hacker News Fears
Dax, the creator of a viral AI app for movies, discusses topics like being a role model, Hacker News fears, and LinkedIn's efficiency in this entertaining podcast. Clerk, an authentication startup, raising $30M and its strategic deal with Stripe is also mentioned.

Jan 22, 2024 • 47min
React, Reading, and Rituals
Topics include React debates, concerns about consumerism, significance of rituals, reading actual books again, productivity boost from clean workspace, spirituality and meditation, Elon Musk's macadamia nut beef, manifesting productivity, and Brian Johnson study

Jan 15, 2024 • 1h 14min
Realtime, Dev Tooling, AWS Pain, and Sleep Resets
Adam's lifestyle choices and sleep patterns, technical issues with CloudFlare, AWS and AI, real-time, push-based updates, the challenges faced by dev tool companies and the importance of scalability, the difficulty of learning AWS, and the role of SST in curtailing some of these complexities.00:57 Let's talk about sleep09:23 Do you use a password manager?10:48 Adam's Fancy Bed14:34 Dax's sandbag workout16:31 Tech layoffs20:23 The AWS Exodus23:57 Salaries in tech24:53 Will Dax ever run out of tweets to tweet?28:14 How's your CO2?30:45 There's always money in the banana stand33:16 Using Cloudflare44:53 Everyone is stuck on ternarys48:36 Is it stress or is it the cold plunges?54:24 React Miami01:01:08 Is the real time space heating up?01:10:16 Adam's teaching
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