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!

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.

@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.