The Hamish and Brandon Show - Episode 2

In today's episode of The Hamish and Brandon Show, Hamish outlines an idea for an easy-to-use SMS notifications app.

Posted by Hamish and Brandon on 29th Jan 2019

In today's episode of The Hamish and Brandon Show, Hamish outlines an idea for an easy-to-use SMS notifications app.

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Show Notes

00:40 - holidays

01:17 - Christmas traditions

04:30 - tourists in Quebec City vs tourists in New York City

05:28 - already a month into the new year

05:54 - changes at Hamish's work

06:43 - people actually using the stuff you make at work

07:47 - companies deciding to remove features/products

08:34 - Google plans to remove WebExtensions

12:33 - Brave Browser

12:54 - Basic Attention Token

14:15 - Patreon

16:25 - Hamish's idea "Omni"

20:00 - Twilio

23:31 - serverless computing

29:32 - now.sh

31:10 - loki.js - in-memory database

34:29 - serverless.com

36:05 - what to do with old hosted material

38:38 - it's fun having servers!

39:18 - Omni 2.0 MVP

42:11 - Unix Philosophy

43:10 - Hamish's old food drive house counter program

45:02 - GIS

47:32 - geek mentality: how can I program this?

49:00 - .ics - calendar export format

49:25 - programming during our missions

53:18 - programming with no user feedback (not a good process!)