Changelog & Friends – Episode #69

ANTHOLOGY – Self-hosted, self-confident & self-employed

feelin' them hallway vibes @ ATO 2024

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We take you one last time back to the All Things Open 2024 hallway track to talk with some friends, new & old. We speak with Alex Kretzchmar about self-hosting. We speak with Israa Taha about self-confidence. We speak with Avindra Fernando & Adhithi Ravichandran about self-employment.

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1 00:00 Let's talk! 00:38
2 00:38 Sponsor: Sentry 03:17
3 03:55 Alex Kretzchmar intro 00:21
4 04:16 Nice to meet Alex 00:45
5 05:01 Sell hosting to self-hosters 01:32
6 06:33 Writing a book 02:46
7 09:19 NixOS excitement 03:39
8 12:57 To self-host or not 03:58
9 16:55 What's new at Tailscale 10:18
10 27:13 No Google October 02:47
11 30:00 Perplexica 02:30
12 32:31 Sponsor: Coder.com 02:00
13 34:30 Sponsor: Eight Sleep 02:35
14 37:06 Israa Taha intro 00:25
15 37:31 Nice to nudge Israa 00:53
16 38:24 ATO first impressions 00:37
17 39:01 HallwayConf! 02:11
18 41:11 Foo Camp & BarCamp 01:30
19 42:41 THAT spaces 04:08
20 46:50 React Native space 01:27
21 48:17 Keeping up with RN 00:34
22 48:51 Expo & new RN arch 00:38
23 49:29 Is it GPT-able? 00:51
24 50:20 Learn by doing what? 01:07
25 51:27 Israa's magic wand 01:09
26 52:35 Israa the podcaster 00:14
27 52:49 Sponsor: AssemblyAI 03:24
28 56:13 Avi & Adhiti intro 00:31
29 56:43 Nice to mispronounce Avi 00:32
30 57:15 Rock chalk, Jayhawk! 00:47
31 58:02 Avi's career path 00:24
32 58:26 Avi's life path 00:33
33 58:59 Starting a business 02:46
34 1:01:45 Opportunistic 00:53
35 1:02:38 The hardest part 00:57
36 1:03:35 Hunting down checks 00:20
37 1:03:55 Mean-time to payment 01:45
38 1:05:40 Hours worked vs hours billed 01:23
39 1:07:03 Maintaining balance 02:05
40 1:09:08 Bringing kids to confs 01:04
41 1:10:12 Power couple 01:18
42 1:11:30 The next generation 00:52
43 1:12:22 Nice to break fasts with Adhithi 01:50
44 1:14:11 Avi's story checks out 00:23
45 1:14:34 Adhithi's career path 01:22
46 1:15:56 Separation of concerns 01:17
47 1:17:13 How it happened 01:08
48 1:18:21 Two eggs, one basket 00:41
49 1:19:02 Referral fee, plz 01:02
50 1:20:04 De-risking 00:25
51 1:20:29 What drives her 00:55
52 1:21:23 Imagine having a boss 00:30
53 1:21:54 Scaling biz, kids 01:54
54 1:23:47 Let's talk again soon! 01:06
55 1:24:53 (Butter snobbery) 02:16

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