My very first interview! I sit down and chat with Jesse Leite to hear about his incredible journey from school to music to Laravel. You can find Jesse on the internet or find him on X. He's currently working on a podcast called Campfire Coders. As well as building custom keyboards in his free time at 1337 Keyboards. If you or someone you love is a …

In this episode, I sit down and chat with Will King, a design engineer with a background in industrial design. We spend time talking through the journey to become a design engineer and the life principle of putting yourself out there and increasing your serendipity (also known as luck surface area). You can find Will online in the following places:…

In this episode, I sit down with Rissa Jackson, a laravel developer who recently completed a Laracon Grand Slam (speaking at all the Laracons across the globe in a single year). Her most recent talk was about how to become a better developer using the principles of D&D! Rissa also holds the record for most times I've ever interviewed someone, since…

In this episode, I sat down with Dillon Mulroy to hear about his journey from a small state school to one of the most widely used and highly regarded deployment platforms for web apps. You can find Dillon on the internet here: - X - Twitch - GitHubโดย Sam Huckaby

In this episode, I sat down and chatted with Angela DiSalvo, who was previously my manager and continues to work at Beyond Identity with me. She took a pretty non-traditional route into software development, and got to work on some pretty cool tech (even though she can't really say where in the episode). Find her online here: - LinkedIn…

In 2024, I went to a developer conference called Laracon and met a ton of cool people. Afterwards, I took a risk and invited some people to sit down and tell me their stories. They told me about how they became developers and some of their encounters along the way. These are their stories.โดย Sam Huckaby

Laracon in Texas was too hot for a campfire, but apparently it was NOT too hot for a twerking session, or eating at Terry Black's three nights in a row! Austen and Jesse also talk about launching DAP Keycaps and 1337 Keyboards, as well as murdering your darling. Links: DAP Artisan Keycaps 1337 Keyboards Simple Commerce Laracon US Talks Playlist Ver…

In this episode, we discuss the complex flavour notes produced by third-wave coffee, natural wine, South Carolinian sweetgrass, instruments of musical nature, and developers as they steep themselves in the wonderful worlds of Statamic and Livewire. Links: Statamic Flat Camp Livewire Volt Find us on X @austencam and @jesseleite85 Email us hey@campfi…

Austen Sforzando and Jesse Leitmotif contemplate the fine intricacies of jazz drumming, the musical concepts of Dredg, the 3D printing of multi-stringed instruments, and brewing coffee with pourovers, moka pots, and/or french presses. We might also nerd about keyboards for an indeterminate amount of time. Links: Music Sforzando Leitmotif Dredg Coff…

Austen and Jesse dig into the backlog of past recordings and publish another episode! This one is all about horsing around with trailers, hand-wiring keyboards, counterfeiting soldering irons, printing in the third dimension, and PHP. Tell us! What do you think of: Strict types TDD Enums PHP attributes Match expressions Find us on X @austencam and …

Shrimp, bagels, grannies pwning newbs, fantasy consoles, Alan Turing cameos, 'American Hand Egg', and data loss; This episode has it all! Links & Notes: Game dev Panic Playdate handheld console and SDK Godot game engine Creativity in the design of Comix Zone M*ckup (Part 2) ⚠️ Be careful with this software on macOS Ventura and Sonoma! ⚠️ Find us on…

A fireside chat featuring new gear, old dotfiles, and updates on what we've been up to. Kiwi the puppy doesn't code Rust (yet), but she knows how to sit! Does she have the patience to sit through Jesse's Vim course, though? Links & Notes: Dotfiles Austen's dotfiles Jesse's dotfiles M*ckup We don't talk about M*ckup ...TO BE CONTINUED NEXT EP 🥁 ⚠️ S…

Managing project junk drawers and building the same thing over and over again. Desktop apps, backlogs, great UX, and a dang good time. --- Listeners, how do you handle project management? We'd love your feedback and to hear how you manage all this stuff. What works? What doesn't? @campfirecoders on X or email hey@campfirecoders.com Most Excellent L…

Ramen broth and AI; The two hottest topics (literally speaking for the former) to grace the internet since 2023! Links: Copilot Cursor Rewind Jamon Holmgren's crazy test suite refactor example Find us on Twitter (X?) @austencam @jesseleite85โดย Austen Cameron & Jesse Leite

Jesse and Austen discuss past projects, potential projects, and the topic of domain hoarding. Links: - Dustforce game - Lightyear Figma Illustration (seriously, open this one in Figma and click around) - Austen's Site Illustration Timelapse Find us on X (formerly Twitter): @austencam @jesseleite85 Feedback? Suggestions? Send it here: hey@campfireco…

Productivity, workflow, automation, [insert buzzword here]! Austen and Jesse chat about awesome tools for the Mac ecosystem. Industriously Handy Links: Raycast https://www.raycast.com/ Hammerspoon https://www.hammerspoon.org/ Find us on Twitter (X?) @austencam @jesseleite85โดย Austen Cameron & Jesse Leite

Austen adopts cats mid-episode, while being allergic to cats mid-episode. We also chat about chickens, coffee and wine adjectives, local honey, morel mushrooms, and all the hurdles around making videos. Bram's Law was also fulfilled on this day, yet again. Incredulously Awesome Links: Jesse's Vim Macros Video https://twitter.com/jesseleite85/status…

Podcast jingle ideas, even more Laracon thoughts, and why Livewire is becoming the #GOAT, in our hopefully humble opinions. Superb Links: Laracon US 2023 Talks https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=laracon+us+2023 Livewire https://livewire.laravel.com/ Alpine https://alpinejs.dev/ Inertia https://inertiajs.com/ Find us on Twitter (X?) @auste…

Imagine a podcast where we talk about publishing a podcast (how meta)! Jesse then recaps his second-ever Laracon. We also nerd out about drums for a while. Rad Links: Laracon US 2023 Talks https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=laracon+us+2023 Drumeo https://www.drumeo.com/ Find us on Twitter (X?) @austencam @jesseleite85…

Mechanical keyboards are quite the rabbit hole. Also, you should try out Space Cadet Shift keys. Trust us. Very Good Links: What is "ortholinear"? https://twitter.com/jesseleite85/status/1495889187450544137?s=20 Iris (Austen's keyboard) https://keeb.io/collections/iris-split-ergonomic-keyboard (keymap here) Lily58 (Jesse's keyboard) https://github.…

Jesse and Austen talk about each other's developer origin story. How (and when) did all this web development nonsense start? Warning: Garbage audio quality in this episode, but we hit publish anyway. It can only get better from here! Find us on Twitter (X?) @jesseleite85 @austencamโดย Austen Cameron & Jesse Leite