
        <p>Kahlil and Henning talk to Ed Finkler about his origin story. Ed tells us about his interested in computers as a user and how to took quite some time for him to become interested in development.
He adopted PHP in the early days and also dabbled in JavaScript and Python before returning to PHP.
In one of the /dev/hell podcast episodes he reviled that he has suffered from mental illness for most of his life and this gave rise to the Open Sourcing Mental Illness project he is currently involved in.</p>

<h4>Highlights

<ul>
<li><strong>[00:00:00]</strong> Pre Show</li>
<li><strong>[00:03:50]</strong> Henning introduces Ed Finkler</li>
<li><strong>[00:04:22]</strong> Space Invaders and Pong</li>
<li><strong>[00:10:36]</strong> C64, Basic</li>
<li><strong>[00:18:15]</strong> College, HTML</li>
<li><strong>[00:25:40]</strong> PHP</li>
<li><strong>[00:40:28]</strong> Desktop applications</li>
<li><strong>[00:45:58]</strong> Spaz Twitter client</li>
<li><strong>[01:08:26]</strong> Python</li>
<li><strong>[01:20:24]</strong> The MicroPHP Manifesto</li>
<li><strong>[01:23:15]</strong> /dev/hell</li>
<li><strong>[01:26:55]</strong> Mental Health Issues</li>
<li><strong>[01:43:44]</strong> Picks</li>
</ul>

<h4>Links

<ul>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/funkatron">Ed Finkler is @funkatron on Twitter</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xojo">RealBasic Xojo</a></li>
<li><a href="http://getspaz.com/">Spaz</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.graphstory.com/">Graph Story</a></li>
<li><a href="http://microphp.org/#!/">The MicroPHP Manifesto</a></li>
<li><a href="http://devhell.info/">/dev/hell</a></li>
<li><a href="http://funkatron.com/osmi/">OSMI</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/open-sourcing-mental-illness-stronger-than-fear#/">Open Sourcing Mental Illness: Stronger Than Fear</a></li>
<li><a href="http://mhprompt.org/">mhprompt.org</a></li>
</ul>

<h4>Picks

<ul>
<li>Ed's picks:
<ul><li><a href="http://outlawvern.com/">Vern's Reviews</a></li>
<li><a href="http://oneperfectshotdb.com/news/candyman-and-the-racial-divide-why-one-of-the-best-horror-films-of-the-90s-is-even-more-relevant-today/">Candyman</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBDnU382y7U">Arch Enemy - Burning Angel</a></li></ul></li>
<li>Henning's picks:
<ul><li><a href="http://rckbt.me/2015/11/exercise/">Exercise by Raquel Valez</a></li></ul></li>
<li>Kahlil's picks:
<ul><li><a href="http://cycle.js.org/">cycle.js</a></li></ul></li>
</ul>

<h3>Got feedback/suggestions/questions? Get in touch with us!

<ul>
<li><a href="http://reactive.audio">descriptive.audio</a></li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/descriptivepod">@descriptivepod</a></li>
<li><a href="https://descriptive-slack.herokuapp.com/">Descriptive on Slack</a></li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/kahliltweets">Kahlil Lechelt - @kahliltweets</a></li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/hglattergotz">Henning Glatter-Götz - @hglattergotz</a></li>
</ul></h3></h4></h4></h4>
      

<description>
        &lt;p&gt;Kahlil and Henning talk to Ed Finkler about his origin story. Ed tells us about his interested in computers as a user and how to took quite some time for him to become interested in development.
He adopted PHP in the early days and also dabbled in JavaScript and Python before returning to PHP.
In one of the /dev/hell podcast episodes he reviled that he has suffered from mental illness for most of his life and this gave rise to the Open Sourcing Mental Illness project he is currently involved in.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h4&gt;Highlights

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[00:00:00]&lt;/strong&gt; Pre Show&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[00:03:50]&lt;/strong&gt; Henning introduces Ed Finkler&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[00:04:22]&lt;/strong&gt; Space Invaders and Pong&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[00:10:36]&lt;/strong&gt; C64, Basic&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[00:18:15]&lt;/strong&gt; College, HTML&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[00:25:40]&lt;/strong&gt; PHP&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[00:40:28]&lt;/strong&gt; Desktop applications&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[00:45:58]&lt;/strong&gt; Spaz Twitter client&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[01:08:26]&lt;/strong&gt; Python&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[01:20:24]&lt;/strong&gt; The MicroPHP Manifesto&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[01:23:15]&lt;/strong&gt; /dev/hell&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[01:26:55]&lt;/strong&gt; Mental Health Issues&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[01:43:44]&lt;/strong&gt; Picks&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;h4&gt;Links

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/funkatron"&gt;Ed Finkler is @funkatron on Twitter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xojo"&gt;RealBasic Xojo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://getspaz.com/"&gt;Spaz&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.graphstory.com/"&gt;Graph Story&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://microphp.org/#!/"&gt;The MicroPHP Manifesto&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://devhell.info/"&gt;/dev/hell&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://funkatron.com/osmi/"&gt;OSMI&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/open-sourcing-mental-illness-stronger-than-fear#/"&gt;Open Sourcing Mental Illness: Stronger Than Fear&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://mhprompt.org/"&gt;mhprompt.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;h4&gt;Picks

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Ed's picks:
&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://outlawvern.com/"&gt;Vern's Reviews&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://oneperfectshotdb.com/news/candyman-and-the-racial-divide-why-one-of-the-best-horror-films-of-the-90s-is-even-more-relevant-today/"&gt;Candyman&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBDnU382y7U"&gt;Arch Enemy - Burning Angel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Henning's picks:
&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://rckbt.me/2015/11/exercise/"&gt;Exercise by Raquel Valez&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Kahlil's picks:
&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://cycle.js.org/"&gt;cycle.js&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;Got feedback/suggestions/questions? Get in touch with us!

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://reactive.audio"&gt;descriptive.audio&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/descriptivepod"&gt;@descriptivepod&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://descriptive-slack.herokuapp.com/"&gt;Descriptive on Slack&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/kahliltweets"&gt;Kahlil Lechelt - @kahliltweets&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/hglattergotz"&gt;Henning Glatter-Götz - @hglattergotz&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
      </description>

Kahlil and Henning talk to Ed Finkler about his origin story. Ed tells us about his interested in computers as a user and how to took quite some time for him to become interested in development.
He adopted PHP in the early days and also dabbled in JavaScr

Kahlil and Henning talk to Ed Finkler about his origin story. Ed tells us about his interested in computers as a user and how to took quite some time for him to become interested in development.
He adopted PHP in the early days and also dabbled in JavaScript and Python before returning to PHP.
In one of the /dev/hell podcast episodes he reviled that he has suffered from mental illness for most of his life and this gave rise to the Open Sourcing Mental Illness project he is currently involved in.

Highlights


[00:00:00] Pre Show
[00:03:50] Henning introduces Ed Finkler
[00:04:22] Space Invaders and Pong
[00:10:36] C64, Basic
[00:18:15] College, HTML
[00:25:40] PHP
[00:40:28] Desktop applications
[00:45:58] Spaz Twitter client
[01:08:26] Python
[01:20:24] The MicroPHP Manifesto
[01:23:15] /dev/hell
[01:26:55] Mental Health Issues
[01:43:44] Picks


Links


Ed Finkler is @funkatron on Twitter
RealBasic Xojo
Spaz
Graph Story
The MicroPHP Manifesto
/dev/hell
OSMI
Open Sourcing Mental Illness: Stronger Than Fear
mhprompt.org


Picks


Ed's picks:
Vern's Reviews
Candyman
Arch Enemy - Burning Angel
Henning's picks:
Exercise by Raquel Valez
Kahlil's picks:
cycle.js


Got feedback/suggestions/questions? Get in touch with us!


descriptive.audio
@descriptivepod
Descriptive on Slack
Kahlil Lechelt - @kahliltweets
Henning Glatter-Götz - @hglattergotz

24: I have been Looking for an Excuse to Exercise my Confessional Personality with Ed Finkler


        <h3>Show Notes &amp; Links

</h3><p>Kahlil and Henning talk to Jafar Husain about his origin story. If you listen to any episode of Descriptive make it this one! </p>

<p>This is the must-listen story in which Jafar takes us from batch programming Doom to writing JavaScript on the server before anyone else to many "failures" and victories to finally creating Falcor at Netflix which brings together all the lessons he learned along the way.</p>

<h4>Highlights

<ul>
<li><strong>[00:00:00]</strong> Pre-show</li>
<li><strong>[00:03:50]</strong> Kahlil introduces Jafar Husain</li>
<li><strong>[00:04:09]</strong> Batch programming to run Doom on 486SX</li>
<li><strong>[00:05:11]</strong> Turing the programming language</li>
<li><strong>[00:08:58]</strong> First contact with JavaScript</li>
<li><strong>[00:15:57]</strong> Writing JavaScript on the server</li>
<li><strong>[00:20:46]</strong> Meta programming in JavaScript</li>
<li><strong>[00:22:27]</strong> .NET</li>
<li><strong>[00:24:36]</strong> Learning non-programming skills</li>
<li><strong>[00:34:10]</strong> Microsoft Office Platform for Software Development</li>
<li><strong>[00:41:48]</strong> A programming language is yet another tool</li>
<li><strong>[00:44:27]</strong> Getting into the web at Blast Radius</li>
<li><strong>[00:45:54]</strong> Paradigm shifts - Data is Code and Code is Data</li>
<li><strong>[01:07:00]</strong> Getting on the Silverlight team</li>
<li><strong>[01:17:26]</strong> What is the difference between an Event and a Stream?</li>
<li><strong>[01:28:19]</strong> Bringing RX to Netflix</li>
<li><strong>[01:31:18]</strong> Falcor</li>
<li><strong>[01:49:19]</strong> You need to be a triple threat as a developer</li>
<li><strong>[01:58:48]</strong> Go find a great manager</li>
<li><strong>[01:59:37]</strong> How to externalize passion</li>
<li><strong>[02:05:02]</strong> Picks</li>
</ul>

<h4>Links

<ul>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/jhusain?lang=en">Jafar Husain is @jhusain on Twitter</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_(programming_language">Turing, the programming language</a>)</li>
<li><a href="http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy">Rich Hickey - "Simple Made Easy"</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/matthiasn/talk-transcripts/blob/master/Hickey_Rich/SimpleMadeEasy.md">Transcript of "Simple Made Easy"</a></li>
<li><a href="http://fsharp.org/">F#</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Meijer_(computer_scientist%29">Erik Meijer</a></li>
<li><a href="http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-001-structure-and-interpretation-of-computer-programs-spring-2005/">Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs</a></li>
<li><a href="http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-001-structure-and-interpretation-of-computer-programs-spring-2005/video-lectures/">Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs video series</a></li>
<li><a href="http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.71.2417&amp;rep=rep1&amp;type=pdf">Programming with Circles, Triangles and Rectangles</a></li>
<li><a href="http://reactivex.io/">ReactiveX</a></li>
<li><a href="http://netflix.github.io/falcor/">Falcor</a></li>
<li><a href="https://frontendmasters.com/courses/asynchronous-javascript/">Reactive programming on Frontend Masters</a></li>
</ul>

<h4>Picks

<ul>
<li>Jafar's picks:
<ul><li><a href="https://facebook.github.io/react/">React</a></li>
<li><a href="http://clojure.org/">Clojure</a></li>
<li><a href="http://clojure.org/clojurescript">ClojureScript</a></li>
<li><a href="https://nodejs.org/en/">node.js</a></li>
<li><a href="http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-001-structure-and-interpretation-of-computer-programs-spring-2005/">Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs</a></li>
<li><a href="http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-001-structure-and-interpretation-of-computer-programs-spring-2005/video-lectures/">Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs video series</a></li>
<li><a href="http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.71.2417&amp;rep=rep1&amp;type=pdf">Programming with Circles, Triangles and Rectangles</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy">Rich Hickey - "Simple Made Easy"</a></li></ul></li>
<li>Henning's picks:
<ul><li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=1002557791">Amazon Prime Music</a></li></ul></li>
<li>Kahlil's picks:
<ul><li><a href="https://angular.io/">Angular 2</a></li>
<li><a href="http://angularconnect.com/">Angular Connect</a></li></ul></li>
</ul>

<h3>Got feedback/suggestions/questions? Get in touch with us!

<ul>
<li><a href="http://reactive.audio">descriptive.audio</a></li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/descriptivepod">@descriptivepod</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://twitter.com/kahliltweets">Kahlil Lechelt - @kahliltweets</a></li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/hglattergotz">Henning Glatter-Götz - @hglattergotz</a>**</li>
</ul></h3></h4></h4></h4>
      

<description>
        &lt;h3&gt;Show Notes &amp;amp; Links

&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;p&gt;Kahlil and Henning talk to Jafar Husain about his origin story. If you listen to any episode of Descriptive make it this one! &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;This is the must-listen story in which Jafar takes us from batch programming Doom to writing JavaScript on the server before anyone else to many "failures" and victories to finally creating Falcor at Netflix which brings together all the lessons he learned along the way.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h4&gt;Highlights

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[00:00:00]&lt;/strong&gt; Pre-show&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[00:03:50]&lt;/strong&gt; Kahlil introduces Jafar Husain&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[00:04:09]&lt;/strong&gt; Batch programming to run Doom on 486SX&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[00:05:11]&lt;/strong&gt; Turing the programming language&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[00:08:58]&lt;/strong&gt; First contact with JavaScript&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[00:15:57]&lt;/strong&gt; Writing JavaScript on the server&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[00:20:46]&lt;/strong&gt; Meta programming in JavaScript&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[00:22:27]&lt;/strong&gt; .NET&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[00:24:36]&lt;/strong&gt; Learning non-programming skills&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[00:34:10]&lt;/strong&gt; Microsoft Office Platform for Software Development&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[00:41:48]&lt;/strong&gt; A programming language is yet another tool&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[00:44:27]&lt;/strong&gt; Getting into the web at Blast Radius&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[00:45:54]&lt;/strong&gt; Paradigm shifts - Data is Code and Code is Data&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[01:07:00]&lt;/strong&gt; Getting on the Silverlight team&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[01:17:26]&lt;/strong&gt; What is the difference between an Event and a Stream?&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[01:28:19]&lt;/strong&gt; Bringing RX to Netflix&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[01:31:18]&lt;/strong&gt; Falcor&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[01:49:19]&lt;/strong&gt; You need to be a triple threat as a developer&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[01:58:48]&lt;/strong&gt; Go find a great manager&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[01:59:37]&lt;/strong&gt; How to externalize passion&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[02:05:02]&lt;/strong&gt; Picks&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;h4&gt;Links

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/jhusain?lang=en"&gt;Jafar Husain is @jhusain on Twitter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_(programming_language"&gt;Turing, the programming language&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy"&gt;Rich Hickey - "Simple Made Easy"&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/matthiasn/talk-transcripts/blob/master/Hickey_Rich/SimpleMadeEasy.md"&gt;Transcript of "Simple Made Easy"&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://fsharp.org/"&gt;F#&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Meijer_(computer_scientist%29"&gt;Erik Meijer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-001-structure-and-interpretation-of-computer-programs-spring-2005/"&gt;Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-001-structure-and-interpretation-of-computer-programs-spring-2005/video-lectures/"&gt;Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs video series&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.71.2417&amp;amp;rep=rep1&amp;amp;type=pdf"&gt;Programming with Circles, Triangles and Rectangles&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://reactivex.io/"&gt;ReactiveX&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://netflix.github.io/falcor/"&gt;Falcor&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://frontendmasters.com/courses/asynchronous-javascript/"&gt;Reactive programming on Frontend Masters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;h4&gt;Picks

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Jafar's picks:
&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://facebook.github.io/react/"&gt;React&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://clojure.org/"&gt;Clojure&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://clojure.org/clojurescript"&gt;ClojureScript&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://nodejs.org/en/"&gt;node.js&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-001-structure-and-interpretation-of-computer-programs-spring-2005/"&gt;Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-001-structure-and-interpretation-of-computer-programs-spring-2005/video-lectures/"&gt;Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs video series&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.71.2417&amp;amp;rep=rep1&amp;amp;type=pdf"&gt;Programming with Circles, Triangles and Rectangles&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy"&gt;Rich Hickey - "Simple Made Easy"&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Henning's picks:
&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=1002557791"&gt;Amazon Prime Music&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Kahlil's picks:
&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://angular.io/"&gt;Angular 2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://angularconnect.com/"&gt;Angular Connect&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;Got feedback/suggestions/questions? Get in touch with us!

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://reactive.audio"&gt;descriptive.audio&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/descriptivepod"&gt;@descriptivepod&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://descriptive-slack.herokuapp.com/"&gt;Descriptive on Slack&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/kahliltweets"&gt;Kahlil Lechelt - @kahliltweets&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/hglattergotz"&gt;Henning Glatter-Götz - @hglattergotz&lt;/a&gt;**&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
      </description>

Kahlil and Henning talk to Jafar Husain about his origin story. If you listen to any episode of Descriptive make it this one! This is the must-listen story in which Jafar takes us from batch programming Doom to writing JavaScript on the server before anyo

Kahlil and Henning talk to Jafar Husain about his origin story. If you listen to any episode of Descriptive make it this one! This is the must-listen story in which Jafar takes us from batch programming Doom to writing JavaScript on the server before anyone else to many "failures" and victories to finally creating Falcor at Netflix which brings together all the lessons he learned along the way.

23: One is Just the Other in Reverse with Jafar Husain


        <h3>Show Notes &amp; Links

</h3><p>Kahlil and Henning talk to Ashley Williams about her introduction to computers and programming with Logo and HyperCard. Ashley explains how her degrees in philosophy and neuroscience help her reason about program architecture and where her interest in teaching comes from. She becomes the lead instructor at Flatiron School after being rejected as a student, which leads to many different teaching and speaking engagements. Before taking a position at npm, Inc. she also worked at Mozilla and Bocoup.</p>

<h4>Highlights

<ul>
<li><strong>[00:00:00]</strong> Kahlil welcomes Ashley Williams to the show</li>
<li><strong>[00:00:58]</strong> Logo</li>
<li><strong>[00:01:42]</strong> HyperCard</li>
<li><strong>[00:06:35]</strong> Philosophy and Neuroscience</li>
<li><strong>[00:22:02]</strong> Where @ag_dubs comes from</li>
<li><strong>[00:23:46]</strong> Teaching</li>
<li><strong>[00:35:24]</strong> From rejected student to lead instructor</li>
<li><strong>[00:42:27]</strong> NYC Web Development Fellowship</li>
<li><strong>[00:49:44]</strong> bocoup</li>
<li><strong>[00:51:19]</strong> endpoints</li>
<li><strong>[00:59:32]</strong> APIs and API driven development</li>
<li><strong>[01:01:56]</strong> Ashley's personal website</li>
<li><strong>[01:07:26]</strong> Mozilla</li>
<li><strong>[01:08:56]</strong> Low Cost Education</li>
<li><strong>[01:12:02]</strong> Conference Talks</li>
<li><strong>[01:14:56]</strong> npm, Inc.</li>
<li><strong>[01:25:18]</strong> Writing documentation</li>
<li><strong>[01:34:33]</strong> Picks</li>
</ul>

<h4>Links

<ul>
<li>Ashley Williams is <a href="https://twitter.com/ag_dubs">@ag_dubs</a> on Twitter</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_(programming_language">Logo (programming language)</a>)</li>
<li><a href="http://hypercard.org/">hypercard.org</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperCard">HyperCard</a></li>
<li><a href="https://jamesfriend.com.au/pce-js/pce-js-apps/">HyperCard player</a></li>
<li><a href="https://instagram.com/p/fVuT3wKGgT/">"ashley's hypers"</a></li>
<li><a href="http://wesleyanargus.com/2006/12/01/wesceleb-ashley-williams-08/">"The Server"</a></li>
<li><a href="http://flatironschool.com/">Flatiron School</a></li>
<li><a href="http://flatironschool.com/nycfellowship/">NYC WEB DEVELOPMENT FELLOWSHIP</a></li>
<li><a href="https://bocoup.com/">bocoup</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/ashleygwilliams/endpoints">endpoints</a></li>
<li><a href="http://jsonapi.org">json-api</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/emberjs/data">ember-data</a></li>
<li><a href="http://sailsjs.org/">sails</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.sinatrarb.com/">sinatra</a></li>
<li><a href="http://ashleygwilliams.github.io/">Ashley's personal site</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/">Mozilla Foundation</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DN4yLZB1vUQ">JSConf - If you wish to learn ES6/2015 from scratch, you must first invent the universe</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.npmjs.com/">npm</a></li>
<li><a href="http://trek.github.io/">Trek Glowacki - early documentation on Ember</a></li>
</ul>

<h4>Picks

<ul>
<li>Ashley's picks:
<ul><li><a href="http://insidejokesbook.com/">Inside Jokes by Daniel Dennet</a></li>
<li><a href="http://greenkeeper.io/">greenkeeper.io</a></li>
<li><a href="http://squatconf.eu/">Squatconf</a></li>
<li><a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/every-open-eye/id1018532737">MUSIC PICK: Chvrches - Empty Threat</a></li></ul></li>
<li>Henning's picks:
<ul><li><a href="https://www.bigmarker.com/communities/global-ember-meetup/bulletin">Ember Global meetup</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJ1kY-CSpBk">Nested Loops</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v75aX5-gSA">No, Really... Robots and JavaScript?!</a></li>
<li>Music: <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/alright/id218353630">Jamiroquai - Alright</a></li></ul></li>
<li>Kahlil's picks:
<ul><li><a href="https://github.com/facebook/react/issues/5052#issuecomment-145594782">React on Web Components</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL37ZVnwpeshH37NxpV6XbgdDpY-w48hMd">JSConf EU 2015 videos</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL37ZVnwpeshHoV6GgvG9WWAP6rjnEdAs9">CSSConf EU 2015 videos</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.metalsmith.io/">Metalsmith</a></li>
<li><a href="https://soundcloud.com/megabomegabo">MUSIC PICK: Boris Lechelt</a></li></ul></li>
</ul>

<h3>Got feedback/suggestions/questions? Get in touch with us!

<ul>
<li><a href="http://reactive.audio">descriptive.audio</a></li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/descriptivepod">@descriptivepod</a></li>
<li><a href="https://descriptive-slack.herokuapp.com/">Descriptive on Slack</a></li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/kahliltweets">Kahlil Lechelt - @kahliltweets</a></li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/hglattergotz">Henning Glatter-Götz - @hglattergotz</a></li>
</ul></h3></h4></h4></h4>
      

<description>
        &lt;h3&gt;Show Notes &amp;amp; Links

&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;p&gt;Kahlil and Henning talk to Ashley Williams about her introduction to computers and programming with Logo and HyperCard. Ashley explains how her degrees in philosophy and neuroscience help her reason about program architecture and where her interest in teaching comes from. She becomes the lead instructor at Flatiron School after being rejected as a student, which leads to many different teaching and speaking engagements. Before taking a position at npm, Inc. she also worked at Mozilla and Bocoup.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h4&gt;Highlights

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[00:00:00]&lt;/strong&gt; Kahlil welcomes Ashley Williams to the show&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[00:00:58]&lt;/strong&gt; Logo&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[00:01:42]&lt;/strong&gt; HyperCard&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[00:06:35]&lt;/strong&gt; Philosophy and Neuroscience&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[00:22:02]&lt;/strong&gt; Where @ag_dubs comes from&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[00:23:46]&lt;/strong&gt; Teaching&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[00:35:24]&lt;/strong&gt; From rejected student to lead instructor&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[00:42:27]&lt;/strong&gt; NYC Web Development Fellowship&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[00:49:44]&lt;/strong&gt; bocoup&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[00:51:19]&lt;/strong&gt; endpoints&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[00:59:32]&lt;/strong&gt; APIs and API driven development&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[01:01:56]&lt;/strong&gt; Ashley's personal website&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[01:07:26]&lt;/strong&gt; Mozilla&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[01:08:56]&lt;/strong&gt; Low Cost Education&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[01:12:02]&lt;/strong&gt; Conference Talks&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[01:14:56]&lt;/strong&gt; npm, Inc.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[01:25:18]&lt;/strong&gt; Writing documentation&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[01:34:33]&lt;/strong&gt; Picks&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;h4&gt;Links

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Ashley Williams is &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/ag_dubs"&gt;@ag_dubs&lt;/a&gt; on Twitter&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_(programming_language"&gt;Logo (programming language)&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://hypercard.org/"&gt;hypercard.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperCard"&gt;HyperCard&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://jamesfriend.com.au/pce-js/pce-js-apps/"&gt;HyperCard player&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://instagram.com/p/fVuT3wKGgT/"&gt;"ashley's hypers"&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://wesleyanargus.com/2006/12/01/wesceleb-ashley-williams-08/"&gt;"The Server"&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://flatironschool.com/"&gt;Flatiron School&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://flatironschool.com/nycfellowship/"&gt;NYC WEB DEVELOPMENT FELLOWSHIP&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://bocoup.com/"&gt;bocoup&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/ashleygwilliams/endpoints"&gt;endpoints&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://jsonapi.org"&gt;json-api&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/emberjs/data"&gt;ember-data&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://sailsjs.org/"&gt;sails&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sinatrarb.com/"&gt;sinatra&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://ashleygwilliams.github.io/"&gt;Ashley's personal site&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/"&gt;Mozilla Foundation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DN4yLZB1vUQ"&gt;JSConf - If you wish to learn ES6/2015 from scratch, you must first invent the universe&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.npmjs.com/"&gt;npm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://trek.github.io/"&gt;Trek Glowacki - early documentation on Ember&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;h4&gt;Picks

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Ashley's picks:
&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://insidejokesbook.com/"&gt;Inside Jokes by Daniel Dennet&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://greenkeeper.io/"&gt;greenkeeper.io&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://squatconf.eu/"&gt;Squatconf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/every-open-eye/id1018532737"&gt;MUSIC PICK: Chvrches - Empty Threat&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Henning's picks:
&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.bigmarker.com/communities/global-ember-meetup/bulletin"&gt;Ember Global meetup&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJ1kY-CSpBk"&gt;Nested Loops&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v75aX5-gSA"&gt;No, Really... Robots and JavaScript?!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Music: &lt;a href="https://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/alright/id218353630"&gt;Jamiroquai - Alright&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Kahlil's picks:
&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/facebook/react/issues/5052#issuecomment-145594782"&gt;React on Web Components&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL37ZVnwpeshH37NxpV6XbgdDpY-w48hMd"&gt;JSConf EU 2015 videos&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL37ZVnwpeshHoV6GgvG9WWAP6rjnEdAs9"&gt;CSSConf EU 2015 videos&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.metalsmith.io/"&gt;Metalsmith&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://soundcloud.com/megabomegabo"&gt;MUSIC PICK: Boris Lechelt&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;Got feedback/suggestions/questions? Get in touch with us!

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://reactive.audio"&gt;descriptive.audio&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/descriptivepod"&gt;@descriptivepod&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://descriptive-slack.herokuapp.com/"&gt;Descriptive on Slack&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/kahliltweets"&gt;Kahlil Lechelt - @kahliltweets&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://twitter.com/hglattergotz"&gt;Henning Glatter-Götz - @hglattergotz&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;
      </description>

Kahlil and Henning talk to Ashley Williams about her introduction to computers and programming with Logo and HyperCard. Ashley explains how her degrees in philosophy and neuroscience help her reason about program architecture and where her interest in tea

Kahlil and Henning talk to Ashley Williams about her introduction to computers and programming with Logo and HyperCard. Ashley explains how her degrees in philosophy and neuroscience help her reason about program architecture and where her interest in teaching comes from. She becomes the lead instructor at Flatiron School after being rejected as a student, which leads to many different teaching and speaking engagements. Before taking a position at npm, Inc. she also worked at Mozilla and bocoup.

22: Building Abstractions That Aren't Ahistorical with Ashley Williams


        <h3>Show Notes &amp; Links

</h3><p>Henning and Kahlil talk to Steve Francia about his introduction to programming with a Texas Instrument Calculator, Zoop Framework, Blogging, MongoDB, Vim Distributions, Go &amp; Hugo and many other stops in his career up to his current job at Docker and his numerous speaking engagemens on a large variety of topics. </p>

<h4>Highlights

<ul>
<li><strong>[00:00:26]</strong> Henning welcomes Steve Francia to the show</li>
<li><strong>[00:01:40]</strong> First programming experience with Texas Instruments calculators</li>
<li><strong>[00:04:30]</strong> C, Pascal, Prolog</li>
<li><strong>[00:16:45]</strong> Swiched from CS degree to Philosophy</li>
<li><strong>[00:20:00]</strong> Developed software for Toyota</li>
<li><strong>[00:21:16]</strong> Zoop Framework</li>
<li><strong>[00:28:40]</strong> OpenSky</li>
<li><strong>[00:37:00]</strong> Blogging</li>
<li><strong>[00:38:36]</strong> MongoDB</li>
<li><strong>[00:43:34]</strong> Vim Distribution detour</li>
<li><strong>[01:00:40]</strong> More MongoDB</li>
<li><strong>[01:02:49]</strong> Go</li>
<li><strong>[01:03:47]</strong> Hugo</li>
<li><strong>[01:16:20]</strong> The Go community and OSS communities in general</li>
<li><strong>[01:19:28]</strong> Docker</li>
<li><strong>[01:35:25]</strong> MongoDB's large number of programming languages</li>
<li><strong>[01:28:50]</strong> The Pitch for Docker containers</li>
<li><strong>[01:51:48]</strong> Picks</li>
</ul>

<h4>Links

<ul>
<li>Steve Francia is <a href="https://twitter.com/spf13">@spf13</a> on Twitter</li>
<li><a href="http://http://sourceforge.net/projects/zoopframework/">Zoop Framework</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.opensky.com/">OpenSky</a></li>
<li><a href="http://spf13.com/">Blogging</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.mongodb.org/">MongoDB</a></li>
<li><a href="http://vim.spf13.com/">spf13-vim</a></li>
<li><a href="https://golang.org/">Go</a></li>
<li><a href="http://gohugo.io/">Hugo</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/spf13/cobra">Cobra</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.docker.com/">Docker</a></li>
<li>Steve's picks:
<ul><li><a href="http://amzn.to/1IY0KyS">Badman Under the Red Hood</a>
<ul><li><a href="http://amzn.to/1KREGq4">Based on the graphic novel of the same name</a></li></ul></li>
<li><a href="http://amzn.to/1IY11BZ">I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend by Martin Short</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Zelda_(video_game">The Legend of Zelda</a></li>
<li>MUSIC PICK: <a href="http://www.lessthanjake.com">Less than Jake</a>
<ul><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krXG307d4k8">The Science Of Selling Yourself Short</a></li>
<li>From the album <a href="http://amzn.to/1eTVUVf">Anthem Album</a></li></ul></li></ul></li>
<li>Henning's picks:
<ul><li><a href="http://www.google.com/inbox/">Google inbox</a></li>
<li><a href="https://emberweekend.com/episodes">EmberWeekend</a></li>
<li><a href="http://karlsruhejs.org/">KarlsruheJS/BeerJS</a></li>
<li>MUSIC PICK: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diT3FvDHMyo">Enjoy the Silence - Depeche Mode</a></li></ul></li>
<li>Kahlil's picks:
<ul><li><a href="https://angularjs.de/">AngularJS.de</a></li>
<li><a href="http://karlsruhejs.org/">People from KarlsruheJS</a></li>
<li><a href="http://thisweekinstartups.com/">This Week in Startups</a></li>
<li>MUSIC PICK: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWmrtFcMhRg">Sickick Who Needs Keyboards anyway?</a></li></ul></li>
</ul>

<h3>Got feedback/suggestions/questions? Get in touch with us!

<ul>
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<li><a href="https://twitter.com/descriptivepod">@descriptivepod</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://twitter.com/distilledhype">Kahlil Lechelt - @distilledhype</a></li>
<li><a href="https://twitter.com/hglattergotz">Henning Glatter-Götz - @hglattergotz</a></li>
</ul></h3></h4></h4>
      

<description>
        &lt;h3&gt;Show Notes &amp;amp; Links

&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;p&gt;Henning and Kahlil talk to Steve Francia about his introduction to programming with a Texas Instrument Calculator, Zoop Framework, Blogging, MongoDB, Vim Distributions, Go &amp;amp; Hugo and many other stops in his career up to his current job at Docker and his numerous speaking engagemens on a large variety of topics. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h4&gt;Highlights

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[00:00:26]&lt;/strong&gt; Henning welcomes Steve Francia to the show&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[00:01:40]&lt;/strong&gt; First programming experience with Texas Instruments calculators&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[00:04:30]&lt;/strong&gt; C, Pascal, Prolog&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[00:16:45]&lt;/strong&gt; Swiched from CS degree to Philosophy&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[00:20:00]&lt;/strong&gt; Developed software for Toyota&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[00:21:16]&lt;/strong&gt; Zoop Framework&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[00:28:40]&lt;/strong&gt; OpenSky&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[00:37:00]&lt;/strong&gt; Blogging&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[00:38:36]&lt;/strong&gt; MongoDB&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[00:43:34]&lt;/strong&gt; Vim Distribution detour&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[01:00:40]&lt;/strong&gt; More MongoDB&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[01:02:49]&lt;/strong&gt; Go&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[01:03:47]&lt;/strong&gt; Hugo&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[01:16:20]&lt;/strong&gt; The Go community and OSS communities in general&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[01:19:28]&lt;/strong&gt; Docker&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[01:35:25]&lt;/strong&gt; MongoDB's large number of programming languages&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[01:28:50]&lt;/strong&gt; The Pitch for Docker containers&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[01:51:48]&lt;/strong&gt; Picks&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;h4&gt;Links

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Steve Francia is &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/spf13"&gt;@spf13&lt;/a&gt; on Twitter&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://http://sourceforge.net/projects/zoopframework/"&gt;Zoop Framework&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.opensky.com/"&gt;OpenSky&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://spf13.com/"&gt;Blogging&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.mongodb.org/"&gt;MongoDB&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://vim.spf13.com/"&gt;spf13-vim&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://golang.org/"&gt;Go&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://gohugo.io/"&gt;Hugo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/spf13/cobra"&gt;Cobra&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.docker.com/"&gt;Docker&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Steve's picks:
&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://amzn.to/1IY0KyS"&gt;Badman Under the Red Hood&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://amzn.to/1KREGq4"&gt;Based on the graphic novel of the same name&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://amzn.to/1IY11BZ"&gt;I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend by Martin Short&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Zelda_(video_game"&gt;The Legend of Zelda&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;MUSIC PICK: &lt;a href="http://www.lessthanjake.com"&gt;Less than Jake&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krXG307d4k8"&gt;The Science Of Selling Yourself Short&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;From the album &lt;a href="http://amzn.to/1eTVUVf"&gt;Anthem Album&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Henning's picks:
&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/inbox/"&gt;Google inbox&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://emberweekend.com/episodes"&gt;EmberWeekend&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://karlsruhejs.org/"&gt;KarlsruheJS/BeerJS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;MUSIC PICK: &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diT3FvDHMyo"&gt;Enjoy the Silence - Depeche Mode&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Kahlil's picks:
&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://angularjs.de/"&gt;AngularJS.de&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://karlsruhejs.org/"&gt;People from KarlsruheJS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://thisweekinstartups.com/"&gt;This Week in Startups&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;MUSIC PICK: &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWmrtFcMhRg"&gt;Sickick Who Needs Keyboards anyway?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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Show Notes &amp; Links

Henning and Kahlil talk to Steve Francia about his introduction to programming with a Texas Instrument Calculator, Zoop Framework, Blogging, MongoDB, Vim Distributions, Go &amp; Hugo and many other stops in his career up to his cur

Show Notes &amp; Links

Henning and Kahlil talk to Steve Francia about his introduction to programming with a Texas Instrument Calculator, Zoop Framework, Blogging, MongoDB, Vim Distributions, Go &amp; Hugo and many other stops in his career up to his current job at Docker and his numerous speaking engagemens on a large variety of topics. 

Highlights


[00:00:26] Henning welcomes Steve Francia to the show
[00:01:40] First programming experience with Texas Instruments calculators
[00:04:30] C, Pascal, Prolog
[00:16:45] Swiched from CS degree to Philosophy
[00:20:00] Developed software for Toyota
[00:21:16] Zoop Framework
[00:28:40] OpenSky
[00:37:00] Blogging
[00:38:36] MongoDB
[00:43:34] Vim Distribution detour
[01:00:40] More MongoDB
[01:02:49] Go
[01:03:47] Hugo
[01:16:20] The Go community and OSS communities in general
[01:19:28] Docker
[01:35:25] MongoDB's large number of programming languages
[01:28:50] The Pitch for Docker containers
[01:51:48] Picks


Links


Steve Francia is @spf13 on Twitter
Zoop Framework
OpenSky
Blogging
MongoDB
spf13-vim
Go
Hugo
Cobra
Docker
Steve's picks:
Badman Under the Red Hood
Based on the graphic novel of the same name
I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend by Martin Short
The Legend of Zelda
MUSIC PICK: Less than Jake
The Science Of Selling Yourself Short
From the album Anthem Album
Henning's picks:
Google inbox
EmberWeekend
KarlsruheJS/BeerJS
MUSIC PICK: Enjoy the Silence - Depeche Mode
Kahlil's picks:
AngularJS.de
People from KarlsruheJS
This Week in Startups
MUSIC PICK: Sickick Who Needs Keyboards anyway?


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        <h3>Show Notes &amp; Links

</h3><p>Henning and Kahlil talk to Robin Ward, the co-founder of Discourse, the creator of Forumwarz and the Evilest Trout of them all. Robin explains how his interest in forums and the software that powers them leads him to a collaboration with Jeff Atwood to create Discourse. And of course we had to ask how his alias "Evil Trout" came to be.</p>

<h4>Highlights

<ul>
<li><strong>[00:00:25]</strong> Henning welcomes Robin Ward to the show</li>
<li><strong>[00:01:20]</strong> Introduced to computers via IBM's first PC</li>
<li><strong>[00:02:32]</strong> Kings Quest</li>
<li><strong>[00:06:40]</strong> First job as a web developer at $15/h</li>
<li><strong>[00:15:16]</strong> Discovered Ruby on Rails</li>
<li><strong>[00:16:06]</strong> Forumwarz</li>
<li><strong>[00:32:20]</strong> Jeff Atwood talks about Forumwarz ...</li>
<li><strong>[00:33:28]</strong> Discourse</li>
<li><strong>[00:47:20]</strong> Ember forums - first user of Discourse</li>
<li><strong>[00:53:43]</strong> Ember.js mobile performance of Discourse</li>
<li><strong>[01:05:44]</strong> Gamification/trust levels in Discourse</li>
<li><strong>[01:09:42]</strong> The "Evil Trout" alias</li>
<li><strong>[01:14:02]</strong> Picks</li>
</ul>

<h4>Links

<ul>
<li>Robin Ward is <a href="https://twitter.com/eviltrout">@eviltrout</a> on Twitter</li>
<li><a href="http://www.forumwarz.com/">Forumwarz</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.discourse.org/">Discourse</a></li>
<li>Robin's picks:
<ul><li><a href="http://www.amyschumer.com/">Amy Schumer</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3235888/">It follows</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Meridian">Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy</a></li>
<li>MUSIC PICK: <a href="http://www.jamiexx.com">In Colour by Jamie XX</a></li></ul></li>
<li>Henning's picks:
<ul><li><a href="http://confreaks.tv/videos/wickedgoodember2015-keynote-the-end-of-single-page-apps">The end of Single Page Apps by Chris Tse</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/">PHPStorm by JetBRAINS</a></li>
<li>MUSIC PICK: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JnGBs88sL0">Nelly Furtado - Say it Right</a></li></ul></li>
<li>Kahlil's picks:
<ul><li><a href="http://youtu.be/lil4YCCXRYc">Jafar Husain: Async Programming in ES7 | JSConf US 2015</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/Reactive-Extensions/RxJS">RxJS - The Reactive Extensions for JavaScript</a></li>
<li><a href="http://reactive.audio/">Reactive Podcast</a></li>
<li>MUSIC PICK: <a href="http://youtu.be/kqsjufgaYZo">Lethal Bizzle Fester Skank Remix ft Stormzy, Fuse ODG &amp; Wretch 32</a></li></ul></li>
</ul>

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</ul></h3></h4></h4>
      

<description>
        &lt;h3&gt;Show Notes &amp;amp; Links

&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;p&gt;Henning and Kahlil talk to Robin Ward, the co-founder of Discourse, the creator of Forumwarz and the Evilest Trout of them all. Robin explains how his interest in forums and the software that powers them leads him to a collaboration with Jeff Atwood to create Discourse. And of course we had to ask how his alias "Evil Trout" came to be.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h4&gt;Highlights

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[00:00:25]&lt;/strong&gt; Henning welcomes Robin Ward to the show&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[00:01:20]&lt;/strong&gt; Introduced to computers via IBM's first PC&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[00:02:32]&lt;/strong&gt; Kings Quest&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[00:06:40]&lt;/strong&gt; First job as a web developer at $15/h&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[00:15:16]&lt;/strong&gt; Discovered Ruby on Rails&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[00:16:06]&lt;/strong&gt; Forumwarz&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[00:32:20]&lt;/strong&gt; Jeff Atwood talks about Forumwarz ...&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[00:33:28]&lt;/strong&gt; Discourse&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[00:47:20]&lt;/strong&gt; Ember forums - first user of Discourse&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[00:53:43]&lt;/strong&gt; Ember.js mobile performance of Discourse&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[01:05:44]&lt;/strong&gt; Gamification/trust levels in Discourse&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[01:09:42]&lt;/strong&gt; The "Evil Trout" alias&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;[01:14:02]&lt;/strong&gt; Picks&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;h4&gt;Links

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Robin Ward is &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/eviltrout"&gt;@eviltrout&lt;/a&gt; on Twitter&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.forumwarz.com/"&gt;Forumwarz&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.discourse.org/"&gt;Discourse&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Robin's picks:
&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.amyschumer.com/"&gt;Amy Schumer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3235888/"&gt;It follows&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_Meridian"&gt;Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;MUSIC PICK: &lt;a href="http://www.jamiexx.com"&gt;In Colour by Jamie XX&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Henning's picks:
&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://confreaks.tv/videos/wickedgoodember2015-keynote-the-end-of-single-page-apps"&gt;The end of Single Page Apps by Chris Tse&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.jetbrains.com/phpstorm/"&gt;PHPStorm by JetBRAINS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;MUSIC PICK: &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JnGBs88sL0"&gt;Nelly Furtado - Say it Right&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Kahlil's picks:
&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://youtu.be/lil4YCCXRYc"&gt;Jafar Husain: Async Programming in ES7 | JSConf US 2015&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/Reactive-Extensions/RxJS"&gt;RxJS - The Reactive Extensions for JavaScript&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://reactive.audio/"&gt;Reactive Podcast&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;MUSIC PICK: &lt;a href="http://youtu.be/kqsjufgaYZo"&gt;Lethal Bizzle Fester Skank Remix ft Stormzy, Fuse ODG &amp;amp; Wretch 32&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
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Show Notes &amp; Links

Henning and Kahlil talk to Robin Ward, the co-founder of Discourse, the creator of Forumwarz and the Evilest Trout of them all. Robin explains how his interest in forums and the software that powers them leads him to a collaboratio

Show Notes &amp; Links

Henning and Kahlil talk to Robin Ward, the co-founder of Discourse, the creator of Forumwarz and the Evilest Trout of them all. Robin explains how his interest in forums and the software that powers them leads him to a collaboration with Jeff Atwood to create Discourse. And of course we had to ask how his alias "Evil Trout" came to be.

Highlights


[00:00:25] Henning welcomes Robin Ward to the show
[00:01:20] Introduced to computers via IBM's first PC
[00:02:32] Kings Quest
[00:06:40] First job as a web developer at $15/h
[00:15:16] Discovered Ruby on Rails
[00:16:06] Forumwarz
[00:32:20] Jeff Atwood talks about Forumwarz ...
[00:33:28] Discourse
[00:47:20] Ember forums - first user of Discourse
[00:53:43] Ember.js mobile performance of Discourse
[01:05:44] Gamification/trust levels in Discourse
[01:09:42] The "Evil Trout" alias
[01:14:02] Picks


Links


Robin Ward is @eviltrout on Twitter
Forumwarz
Discourse
Robin's picks:
Amy Schumer
It follows
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
MUSIC PICK: In Colour by Jamie XX
Henning's picks:
The end of Single Page Apps by Chris Tse
PHPStorm by JetBRAINS
MUSIC PICK: Nelly Furtado - Say it Right
Kahlil's picks:
Jafar Husain: Async Programming in ES7 | JSConf US 2015
RxJS - The Reactive Extensions for JavaScript
Reactive Podcast
MUSIC PICK: Lethal Bizzle Fester Skank Remix ft Stormzy, Fuse ODG &amp; Wretch 32


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20: I've Always Been Interested in Really Rich Experiences with Robin Ward

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