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Justin and Jason discuss the possibility of Jason bringing on a new developer to Math Academy, how Jason is allergic to any kind of bureaucracy, formality or scheduling, the challenge of building newsletters for certain verticals, Justin’s anticipated pivot towards customized newsletters and premium memberships, what colleges Colby is applying to, how difficult it is to get into a decent computer science program these days, and the TV show The Boys.
I was ready to post a completely different comment, but after the bit an hour in to this pod, all I can say is… “I too, was once an unstoppable 8th grader!!!” 😤
@Justin: Health > Wealth
@Jason: That’s great to hear about the new hire. If I had one wish, it would just be faster page loads—both between questions and after completing a lesson. Sacrificing a bit in terms of optimal next lesson ordering would be worth it to be able to go on more quickly.
@Mark – Got it! Thanks for the feedback.
@Mark – Thanks!
Thanks for the double mention on this episode!
Re: the comment about “you guys are like an old comfortable pair of shoes”. That indeed was a complement and as for the “old” part, I think we are the same age (I was born in 1971) and I am nowhere near old 🙂
@Jason: I’m also someone who went from Superman level vision to having to deal with presbyopia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presbyopia) in the last few years. My wife and I keep a bunch of pairs of 1.25x glasses from the dollar store scattered around the house. They break or get lost all the time but for $1 who cares?
Finally I got excited when you guys started talking about Elixir. I’m a big proponent and I have a small side website doing event ticketing I wrote in Elixir/Phoenix that has been humming along with zero problems for the last four years. I get a lot of very bursty traffic when events go live and it never breaks a sweat. That said at this point it makes zero sense to think about re-writing your node app in Elixir.
Another great ep thanks guys!
Can’t recall if it was about JavaScript still or not but Justin’s pronouncement of “Layer” had me laughing:
me: “Layah” (Australian)
Jason: “Layerrrr”
Justin: “Lair” … an evil Lair for JavaScript developers?
Appreciate the time you take for these, a great way to pass the time for a 12km run!