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How About Tomorrow?

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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
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?
Adam & Dax discuss their most recent fights on Twitter and the forces that are driving increased anger on the internet.
(00:00) - Not a fighter... but on Twitter
(01:16) - What the conflict was about
(03:52) - Looking for people to agree
(08:08) - Parameters around productive conversation online
(12:32) - Is that just the nature of Twitter?
(16:35) - Fake Twitter fights
(17:29) - Communities that do it well
Adam & Dax discuss signals and what the future looks like for React.
(00:24) - What are signals?
(02:07) - React vs Solid and signals?
(05:35) - You think you know something, but you need to unlearn your React brain
(07:07) - What is different?
(10:22) - Derived state and effects
(11:59) - Tradeoffs in choosing Solid over React
(15:57) - Does bundle size matter?
(17:57) - Big picture implications?
(22:31) - Sites vs apps decision
Adam & Dax discuss their recent side project: Rebase.tv, a live game show for developers.
(00:33) - We're making something together
(01:57) - Making a landing page
(05:52) - AWS issues we've had
(08:51) - Quality over speed
(11:22) - Drop the things that are nagging you
(14:32) - What would you do if you didn't have a side project?
(16:36) - Is it unique to be passionate about software development?
(19:30) - Where does software development land outside of developers?
(22:45) - Rebase.tv
Adam & Dax discuss the recent tsunami of AI advancements. Also, Adam might be an AI bro.
(00:35) - Adam's AI hype
(03:36) - AI tools are available to non-experts now
(07:05) - Is it stealing from artists?
(10:18) - What AI tools are you using?
(14:12) - Astro's langchain for docs
(16:53) - When is something AI?
(21:47) - AI music generation
(23:46) - Can we automate the bad jobs?
(30:00) - Is there hope?
Adam & Dax discuss the release of SST v2.
(00:01) - SST 2 is out
(01:05) - Was there any doubt in what you were building?
(05:58) - What's new in SST?
(08:17) - Adam's experience with SST
(13:00) - Who's building on SST?
(17:33) - Deploy Next.js into an AWS account
(23:38) - Podcast hibernation
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.