Nick Nisi joins us to confess his AI subscription glut, drool over some cool new hardware gadgets, discuss why the TypeScript team chose Go for their new compiler, opine on the React team’s complicated relationship with Vercel, suggest people try Astro, update us on his browser habits, and more.
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Notes & Links
Chapters
| Chapter Number | Chapter Start Time | Chapter Title | Chapter Duration |
| 1 | 00:00 | Let's talk! | 00:38 |
| 2 | 00:38 | Sponsor: Retool | 01:51 |
| 3 | 02:29 | Metaphors & Friends | 01:27 |
| 4 | 03:55 | Godwin's Law | 00:38 |
| 5 | 04:33 | Still TypeScripting | 00:35 |
| 6 | 05:08 | Git ingest | 01:47 |
| 7 | 06:55 | Coding has changed | 02:26 |
| 8 | 09:21 | Nick's big confession | 02:34 |
| 9 | 11:55 | Raycast vs Spotlight | 03:04 |
| 10 | 14:59 | Nick, the AI junkie | 03:45 |
| 11 | 18:44 | Sponsor: Heroku | 02:40 |
| 12 | 21:23 | Managing AI relations | 02:48 |
| 13 | 24:11 | That trust threshold | 04:50 |
| 14 | 29:01 | Maybe it's a me problem | 01:36 |
| 15 | 30:37 | It's come a long way | 01:48 |
| 16 | 32:25 | A failed segway | 02:41 |
| 17 | 35:06 | BUSY Bar | 02:41 |
| 18 | 37:47 | Vapor hardware | 00:32 |
| 19 | 38:20 | The Flipper | 02:30 |
| 20 | 40:50 | Toy nostalgia | 02:15 |
| 21 | 43:05 | Sponsor: Depot | 02:20 |
| 22 | 45:25 | Back to BUSY Bar | 01:32 |
| 23 | 46:57 | TypeScript compiler on Go | 06:17 |
| 24 | 53:14 | Facebook's engineering prowess | 01:18 |
| 25 | 54:31 | React and Vercel | 03:51 |
| 26 | 58:22 | Nick likes Astro | 01:07 |
| 27 | 59:29 | Slightly too obscure | 01:17 |
| 28 | 1:00:47 | Content-driven sites vs | 02:38 |
| 29 | 1:03:25 | Eleventy is cool | 03:12 |
| 30 | 1:06:37 | Use long flags when scripting | 04:41 |
| 31 | 1:11:18 | Who is paying attention to this podcast? | 00:20 |
| 32 | 1:11:38 | Revisiting browsers | 01:59 |
| 33 | 1:13:37 | 1Password love/hate | 01:24 |
| 34 | 1:15:00 | Adam on Windows | 06:04 |
| 35 | 1:21:05 | What we're excited about | 01:17 |
| 36 | 1:22:21 | Golf! | 02:56 |
| 37 | 1:25:18 | Disc golf! | 03:03 |
| 38 | 1:28:21 | Long Peleton | 01:25 |
| 39 | 1:29:46 | Bye, friends | 00:12 |
| 40 | 1:29:58 | Coming up next | 01:29 |