Podcast
Runtime Reverie
Hosted by Patrick Smith & Armin Sadeghi · EN
Front-end & back-end tech, business strategy, and user experience.
10episodes
Episodes
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021: GitHub Copilot vs Resharper
Jan 22, 202400:55:17Tap to summarizeTopics An AI agent that automatically changed you to the cheapest provider Knock off products on Amazon Using GitHub Copilot to act as a programming language translator Copilot’s lack of knowledge of newer or less popular languages Resharper’s powerful templates Code refactoring tools Structural vs text editors Being able to skip automated tests that are known to be deterministic! Using universal formats as a lingua franca in WebAssembly Is the Rabbit r1 is using a headless web browser to do its bidding? Rabbit r1 using fuzzy AI to interpret fuzzy web pages because we don’t have open precise APIs Links Patrick Smith: X profile Nigel Thorne: X profile Vincent Le Quang: X profile Armin Sadeghi: X profile Craig Sullivan: X profile
Transcribe →020: Will Rabbit r1 replace our phones?
Jan 11, 202400:14:39Tap to summarizeLinks Introducing Rabbit r1 Rabbit Homepage Patrick Smith: X profile Armin Sadeghi: X profile Craig Sullivan: X profile Vincent Le Quang: X profile Nigel Thorne: X profile
Transcribe →019: Our 2024 tech predictions
Jan 5, 202400:36:13Tap to summarizeTopics Adobe abandons acquisition of Figma Start-up exits & venture capital making high returns Business risk from having offices in more interventionist countries Apple Watch ban from patent dispute Amazon’s Astro home robot Our tech predictions for 2024 Links The Verge: Adobe abandons $20 billion acquisition of Figma The Verge: Apple Watch ban: everything you need to know Wikipedia: Amazon Astro Patrick Smith: X profile Armin Sadeghi: X profile Craig Sullivan: X profile Vincent Le Quang: X profile Nigel Thorne: X profile
Transcribe →018: What web devs can learn from making games
Dec 16, 202300:52:55Tap to summarizeTopics Vincent made a game engine using Bun.js & WebGL Modifying code from your debugger Ways of implementing visual damage after shooting a wall Nigel’s career is cool as hell: he used to make games for the Gameboy Advanced Recording and replaying a log of all non-deterministic game input (e.g. user’s button presses) Networking tricks from multiplay games Wiring of code ahead of time vs at runtime Links Vincent’s new game engine built using Bun.js & WebGL Zig’s Struct-of-Arrays https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMOS_(programming_language) Bret Victor - Inventing on Principle Patrick Smith: X profile Armin Sadeghi: X profile Craig Sullivan: X profile Vincent Le Quang: X profile Nigel Thorne: X profile
Transcribe →017: A tale of two CEOs
Nov 28, 202300:36:39Tap to summarizeTopics Binance CEO from hero to zero OpenAI CEO from hero to zero to hero (?) Using GPT assistants for programming The sheer speed of C++ running single threaded on today’s CPUs Embracing or fighting React’s declarative nature We bring back Windows vs Mac flame wars Links Binance and CEO ‘CZ’ plead guilty to federal charges, agreed to pay $4.3B in fines Patrick Smith: X profile Armin Sadeghi: X profile Craig Sullivan: X profile Vincent Le Quang: X profile Nigel Thorne: X profile
Transcribe →016: Turns out React is not bad
Nov 20, 202300:39:39Tap to summarizeTopics Coming back to React Vercel and Next.js Developer Experience (DX) React Native Web app vs native apps Why App Stores are annoying friction The implicit nature of React memo Links Patrick Smith: X profile Armin Sadeghi: X profile Craig Sullivan: X profile Vincent Le Quang: X profile Nigel Thorne: X profile
Transcribe →015: Tech’s hard reset: bankruptcy & layoffs
Nov 9, 202300:32:43Tap to summarizeTopics WeWork bankruptcy Sam Bankman-Fried trial Redundancies in tech Australian economy Tech complexity Links Patrick Smith: X profile Armin Sadeghi: X profile Craig Sullivan: X profile Vincent Le Quang: X profile Nigel Thorne: X profile
Transcribe →014: AI is a marketing term and crossing the content creator inflection point
Nov 1, 202300:41:10Tap to summarizeTopics AI executive order and why AI is just a marketing term The complexity that is Next 14 Grayjay & Lil API Crossing the content creator inflection point Links Vercel Skew Protection Grayjay Lil API Fireship Primitive Technology Louis Rossmann FarmCraft101 Patrick Smith: X profile Armin Sadeghi: X profile Craig Sullivan: X profile Vincent Le Quang: X profile Nigel Thorne: X profile
Transcribe →013: Serverless vs Dedicated Servers
Oct 25, 202300:40:14Tap to summarizeTopics How we find and consume our news. Serverless vs dedicated servers. Linters are both the worst and best thing ever invented. Links Biome Zellij Cursorless: project home page and video of conference talk Patrick Smith: X profile Armin Sadeghi: X profile Craig Sullivan: X profile Vincent Le Quang: X profile Nigel Thorne: X profile
Transcribe →012: The jQueryification of libraries
Oct 24, 202300:45:20Tap to summarizeTopics Joining a new job and adapting or getting everyone to convert your way of doing things. Extracting pieces of libraries you want, instead of installing the whole library. The jQueryification of libraries. A teaser about single page apps. Links Patrick Smith: X profile Armin Sadeghi: X profile Craig Sullivan: X profile Vincent Le Quang: X profile Nigel Thorne: X profile
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