Podcasts by Dev n Life

Rust, Bevy game engine, and Data-Oriented Design from 2020-09-16T09:00

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Rob is learning Rust, and feels like he's total beginner again. Rust's concept of ownership and its handling of strings are just different than any other language ...

Open Source, Community, and Monetization from 2020-09-09T09:00

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Rob is back home after a stressful trip to renew a passport. For JD it was the first week after his vacation, and he had to readjust to work again. He also wanted ...

Rust, Singleplayer vs. Multiplayer, and a First Sprint from 2020-09-02T09:00

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Rob and JD catch up after their last episode on Shape Up. Rob has been studying game...

Shape Up for a Two Person Team from 2020-08-28T17:00

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YEAR 1 ANNIVERSARY! Rob and JD totally forgot that they released their first episode one year ago, and didn't prepare anything special...

Rob has been readin...

Games, Prototypes, and gRPC from 2020-08-19T09:00

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Rob is back after moving to Austin, Texas! And JD survived a heatwave in Europe that made it very tough to be productive. Nonetheless, JD managed to think more abo...

Gaming, Motivation, and Programming from 2020-07-26T13:00

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Rob had a busy week and some big news: He's moving next week. JD on the other hand took it a bit easier than usual this week, and has been thinking a lot about a n...

Basecamp, Rails, and Password Managers from 2020-07-17T10:24:17

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Rob and JD are back after a week without recording. Rob has been giving hey.com a spin as his email solution, and is enjoying the exp...

Choosing Email Providers from 2020-07-04T18:00

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Rob is back from a small vacation, while JD is waiting for his. During his vacation, Rob joined the virtual ElixirConf EU<...

Elixir, Concurrency vs Parallelism, Games with Code from 2020-06-17T08:30

Rob is still going in depth with elixir, discussing his progress and learns more about processes, concurrency and parallelism in elixir. JD discusses his struggles in finding the project he wants t...

Habits, Projects, Business from 2020-06-10T09:00

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We are back to our normal recording schedule.  Rob found a new intermediate programming course about Elixir that he started this weekend. It's by Listen

Aggregate Roots, Entities, and Deliberate Practice from 2020-06-07T16:00

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Rob plans some activities again in a world that slowly opens up, and shares his frustrating experience booking tickets for Universal Studios. JD is thinking about ...

Software Architecture and JavaScript Weirdness. from 2020-06-02T00:30

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Rob and JD go in depth about software architectures, domain driven design and web frameworks. JD is getting a bit overwhelmed at home, but still managing to dive i...

Phoenix LiveView, Rails, and Email from 2020-05-20T09:00

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Rob and JD catch up again after missing a week. Rob enjoys learning new things, and has focused his attention on new knowledge vs. progress for the sake of progre...

A New Project, more Rust, and Music for Coding from 2020-05-06T09:00

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JD and Rob check in after another week of quarantine. JD's brain has gone into overdrive looking for problems to solve to distract from the current situation, whi...

GraphQL, Password Hashes, and Rust CLIs from 2020-04-29T09:00

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Rob is enjoying his new life as a freelancer, while JD struggled through another stage of grief. He doesn't expect to be back in an office till autumn or even wint...

Hanging in there from 2020-04-22T09:00

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Corona is still a thing that weighs heavily on Rob and JD. They catch up on how they've been dealing with quarantine, and discuss how living in a remote rural area...

Wrapping up Q1 from 2020-04-15T09:00

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At the end of week five of quarantine, JD and Rob catch up. They start being sick of staying home and they miss exercising. JD contemplates buying some exercise eq...

Finding a rhythm from 2020-04-08T09:00

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JD and Rob continue where they left off. They check in about how they've adjusted to Corona, and share how they stay sane being at home. Rob shares how the launch...

Weird times we're living in from 2020-03-28T02:00

JD and Rob are stuck at home like everyone else. With these unique times they each share their experience, being a different set up for JD and nothing changing for Rob. They both discuss the future...

Getting technical from home from 2020-03-12T12:00

For the first time ever, both Rob and JD are formally working remotely. They catch up on COVID-19, routines while working from home, and the risks of walking to your mailbox in Florida, and then th...

Worries only adults have from 2020-02-24T17:00

Rob and JD catch up where they left off two weeks ago. Rob shares stories about his progress working with Elixir, and a new project he is working on. JD is formally on vacation, but finds it hard t...

This is how we learn new tech from 2020-02-17T23:00

Rob and JD check up on each other's goals and how it is coming along, Rob is having some struggles on one specifically. JD starts working and learning React and they both discuss the way their brai...

One API to rule them all from 2020-01-29T21:00

JD has started working on a side project, and some what poorly explains to Rob what he is doing. They talk about racing simulations, APIs, and the programming language Rust. Rob is back from a comp...

Let's crush new goals from 2020-01-23T23:00

First episode of the year. JD and Rob got back from holidays and are motivated to start a great year with their new set of goals. JD and Rob both discuss self improvement goals, meditation, and car...

That's a wrap from 2019-12-10T17:00

The last episode of 2019! JD and Rob reflect on their first six months of podcasting, the expectations they had before starting, and the lessons they learned along the way. They end up randomly dis...

We like nice things from 2019-11-24T15:00

Reaching the end of the year, Rob and JD talk about what they're doing and their tech plans for the holidays. Rob continues learning Elixir, JD is pursuing Rust and plans to organize all his storag...

We're still here from 2019-11-15T14:00

Scheduling a time to record is tough across continents, and Rob and JD finally catch up again after two weeks. Since last time, JD bought a car, and Rob started to explore the programming language ...

It's all about balance from 2019-10-25T17:00

Following up on last week's episode about burnout, Rob and JD discuss finding a healthy balance in life. They talk about sleep, new habits, camping and fishing, and buying cars. Rob teases a new pr...

Let's not burn out from 2019-10-19T03:00

Burning out is never good, Rob did not have a good week at work. Anxiety and lack of enjoyment at work can lead to unpleasant results. In this episode, Rob and JD discuss possible solutions to move...

Long time no talk from 2019-10-09T09:00

It has been 4 weeks since the last episode?! After that long, JD and Rob do some major catching up. Talking about JD's eventful weeks at his new job, finding new routines and adjusting to the uniqu...

We're transatlantic! from 2019-09-03T17:00

Jan David and Rob are back for their second episode to discuss side projects, both their own and side projects in general. They live on different continents now, and reflect on the experience of re...

It's alive! from 2019-08-27T17:00

After weeks of procrastination, Rob and JD make it happen and record their first podcast episode. 🎉 Don't worry if you don't know who they are! They spent three whole minutes introducing themse...