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Hosts Aravind Balla Brittik Basu Learning Curve Podcast

Long time users Brittik and Aravind compare both Apple's Center Stage and Samsung's DEX Hosts Aravind Balla Brittik Basu Learning Curve Podcast

Listen to this short one where Aravind and Brittik talk about how Hemingway bridge can help you be more productive. Hosts Aravind Balla Brittik Basu Learning Curve Podcast

Aravind & Brittik talk to Zubair Ahmed, developer at Mattermost and a wonderful human, about development, the current jobs scene and how Zubair landed his first job, their experiences, showing your work and how community has helped them. https://mattermost.com/careers/#openings https://remoteok.com/ People Zubair Ahmed Aravind Balla Brittik Basu Learning Curve Podcast

Brittik and Aravind talk about how anyone can be a graphic designer right now with little help from, none other than, artificial intelligence. They talk about their experience with art generated by AI and how you can do it too. Dive right in! Part of the Transcript - **Brittik:** Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Learning Curve podcast. I'm Brittik. And I'm Aravind. And today we are going to talk about how you can be a zero skill graphic designer. **Aravind:** Maybe you need a cover art for your blog post, or you need one simple square photo for your episodes cover art. But how would you do it if without any design? **Brittik:** You would need a designer friend who you have to ask like by Pan Day, please. You know? And then maybe he makes it for you, maybe you like it or not, you don't have a choice, you accept it, , and then you use it because you don't have the skills . So that is one [00:01:00] scenario. And the other scenario is you could use something like Dali or Stable Diffusion, you. Spend some time with the prompts and refine your prompts in such a way where you actually get the output that you want, or even something better that you couldn't even have imagined. **Brittik:** you like. What does it mean for graphic designers especially, what does it mean for your, that friend from whom you would ask like by Bakavi? Like would he come **Aravind:** to you [00:02:00] for help? **Brittik:** This is interesting. I think your designer friend would be happy that you are not bugging him to constantly make something for you like, Huh, Now I can finally focus on my work. I can focus on, you know, the different skills that your friend can work on rather than having to make things for every. So I think it frees up time for graphic designers where I, I understand they're losing, They might be losing some business because of it, definitely no doubt in it, but they would still be having enough time to craft their prompt skills, like they could, you know, give prompts to del your stable diffusion and come up with something even more creative. Using their hands as you know, like their tools, Photoshop and all the knowledge. That is one part. The most important skill is imagination. Imagination is not something you come up or you can create in one day. [00:03:00] Imagination of people who can draw, who can create things that is beautiful and the problems they can come. It's crazy. Like the prompts they give to their brain to come up with things, basically even to our brain, we are giving, like we are thinking and thinking is a kind of prompt that okay, brain think, what would it look like this? And then you try it and then you see if it looks good or you try something else. So that prompt they're giving to ai and AI is generating things so them, so I'm sure that they're making things that, that we can't think of. Everyone's level playing field is being upgraded. Now, people who could not do graphic designing now can, people who had imagination but did not, could not draw, were not very artistic enough to draw. Now they can, people who could do these things, now they are at an even upper level where they can think, they can imagine the whole [00:04:00] picture, and they can come up with beautiful prompts that we can't, but they.

In this episode of Learning Curve, Aravind and Brittik discuss the state of AI and how it makes sense for Indian developers to use open source AI to build products. They also talk about how AI is changing the world of development and the potential for AI to replace developers in the future.

Our desks are where we spend most of our time. So what does a developer's desk setup looks like? Listen to find out...

Join Brittik and Aravind as they ponder upon the question what is work and what does not feel like work. Have you figured that for yourself? Hosts Aravind Balla Brittik Basu Learning Curve Podcast

Brittik and Aravind talk about self hosting apps instead of paying subscription costs. They discuss Umami.is - analytics tool n8n - automation tool Raspberry Pi Railway Hosts Aravind Balla Brittik Basu Learning Curve Podcast

Aravind starts his Indie developer journey by having his first paying customer for a SaaS he is building. Brittik and Aravind chat about the journey till here and beyond. Hosts Aravind Balla Brittik Basu Learning Curve Podcast

We no longer focus on the length of an episoide. We’ve also stopped planning for the structure. You ask why? It’s because all this takes away from the liveliness of the podcast.

In this episode we talk about some of @aravindballa’s highlights from @arvidkahl’s book, The Embedded Entrepreneur 📖 If you’re building an MVP, there’s a lot you can learn from Aravind’s experience of building the @StackblocksApp

In this episode we talk about some of @aravindballa highlights from @p_millerd’s book, The Pathless Path 📖 As someone already walking the pathless path, @brittikbasu shares his experiences of walking the pathless path himself and what it takes to find & embrace your freedom

Brittik and Aravind talk about how crypto is doing in the current times and why that's the furure.

In this episode Brittik shares a personal story of relinquishing control which changed the trajectory of his life

Should you start off by writing some code or should you plan first? Listen to know what experience has taught us.

Aravind's discord account got hacked :( Learn how it all happened and how you can avoid making the same mistake

Brittik and Aravind open up about their recent burnouts and how they dealt with, what they took away and what changes they made.

There's a shift that's almost here for developers. Coding is slowly moving to the cloud with GitHub Codespaces and Gitpod. Meta frameworks like SvelteKit and Remix will be coming out of beta in 2022 and deployment of code is getting easier with services like fly.io and railway.app. The heavyweights like AWS still dominate and are the de facto choice for enterprises and for those prefer avoiding the magic of SAAS and stay as close to the metal as possible. In this episode we share our excitement on where the dev scene is headed. Tune in to our very first episode of 2022! 

Brittik and Aravind talk about what they've built with workers and tell you how awesome they are. They also talk about how Codepen makes use of Cloudflare workers at scale. Overview What they have built Behind the scenes of a worker (v8 isolates) Deno deploy Cloudflare Pages Hosts Aravind Balla Brittik Basu Learning Curve Podcast