20: I've Always Been Interested in Really Rich Experiences with Robin Ward DESCRIPTIVE

Show Notes & Links

Henning and Kahlil talk to Robin Ward, the co-founder of Discourse, the creator of Forumwarz and the Evilest Trout of them all. Robin explains how his interest in forums and the software that powers them leads him to a collaboration with Jeff Atwood to create Discourse. And of course we had to ask how his alias "Evil Trout" came to be.

Highlights


[00:00:25] Henning welcomes Robin Ward to the show
[00:01:20] Introduced to computers via IBM's first PC
[00:02:32] Kings Quest
[00:06:40] First job as a web developer at $15/h
[00:15:16] Discovered Ruby on Rails
[00:16:06] Forumwarz
[00:32:20] Jeff Atwood talks about Forumwarz ...
[00:33:28] Discourse
[00:47:20] Ember forums - first user of Discourse
[00:53:43] Ember.js mobile performance of Discourse
[01:05:44] Gamification/trust levels in Discourse
[01:09:42] The "Evil Trout" alias
[01:14:02] Picks


Links


Robin Ward is @eviltrout on Twitter
Forumwarz
Discourse
Robin's picks:
Amy Schumer
It follows
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
MUSIC PICK: In Colour by Jamie XX
Henning's picks:
The end of Single Page Apps by Chris Tse
PHPStorm by JetBRAINS
MUSIC PICK: Nelly Furtado - Say it Right
Kahlil's picks:
Jafar Husain: Async Programming in ES7 | JSConf US 2015
RxJS - The Reactive Extensions for JavaScript
Reactive Podcast
MUSIC PICK: Lethal Bizzle Fester Skank Remix ft Stormzy, Fuse ODG & Wretch 32


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