Her Majesty's Tech Podcast HMTP

Emil and Passy choose physical over social distancing and record their first remote session. After a brief discussion of how both are coping with the global pandemic, they talk about Emil's blog post "Designing for Keyboard Accessibility".

Follow them on Twitter at @passy, @emilsjolander and @hmtpod.

Links


Designing for keyboard accessibility: https://visly.app/blog/keyboard-accessibility

Facebook Small Business Fund: https://www.facebook.com/business/boost/grants

Netflix - Emergency Support for Workers in the Creative Community: https://media.netflix.com/en/company-blog/emergency-support-for-workers-in-the-creative-community

Steam Link: https://store.steampowered.com/steamlink/about/

Baba Is You: https://store.steampowered.com/app/736260/Baba_Is_You/

I Sold Microwave Meals On Deliveroo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k47u9tduwb8


Timestamps


COVID-19 Coping 0:07

Netflix Creative Fund 7:54

Economic Outlook 8:32

Blog Post: Designing for keyboard accessibility 13:17

Pleasant Distractions 32:55

Outro 42:20

Bloopers 43:05

Emil and Passy make use of the WeWork facilities for as long as they still exist to chat about the state of Emil's startup Visly, how a Redux-based Electron app could split its state across multiple processes and why server-side rendering is no panacea.



Follow Passy and Emil on Twitter at @passy, @emilsjolander and @hmtpod.

Links


Visly: https://visly.app/
Windows Terminal Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gw0rXPMMPE
Flipper: https://fbflipper.com/
podserve: https://github.com/passy/podserve/
Neon: https://neon-bindings.com/

Emil and Passy quickly catch up on Google I/O 2019 before talking about developing libraries for Android and iOS in Rust, namely Stretch, Emil’s most recent Flexbox implementation. They talk about why Rust makes for a particularly compelling choice on mobile and where there’s still room for improvement.

Follow them on Twitter at @passy, @emilsjolander and @hmtpod.

Links


Stretch: https://vislyhq.github.io/stretch/
Yoga: https://yogalayout.com/
Rust on Android blog post: https://medium.com/visly/rust-on-android-19f34a2fb43
Rust on iOS blog post: https://medium.com/visly/rust-on-ios-39f799b3c1dd
Cross-Platform Rust: https://medium.com/visly/cross-platform-rust-406fddd0185b
Learn Rust With Entirely Too Many Linked Lists: https://rust-unofficial.github.io/too-many-lists/

Timestamps


Intro: 00:00
Google I/O 2019: 0:42
Huawei: 6:47
Rust on Mobile: 8:18
Conclusions: 38:52
Outro: 41:34
Aftershow: Episode Numbers: 41:50
Bloopers: 42:38

Passy interviews Emil about his YC Winter 2019 participation and founder life. We chat about Emil's company Visly and the various pivots it went through to arrive at the current product as well as the business side of things.

Follow us at @hmtpod.

Timestamps


Intro: 0:00.000
Emil at YC: 0:40.352
Visly: 3:43.342
Stretch: 7:31.541
Finding priority 1: 10:00.000
What's Visly? 13:57.641
Cross-platform design: 18:01.991
UI Composition: 21:03.528
Next steps: 22:21.226
Getting into YC: 23:35.956
Demo Day: 28:16.059
Next for the biz: 30:00.924
CEO time slicing: 30:54.007
Picks: 33:39.370
Pick: Kimberlite: 34:18.238
Pick: Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: 35:32.230
Outro: 36:51.043
Blooper: 37:52.673

Emil wants to use an iPad as his main development machine to work on his Now-powered startup. We talk how web IDEs could be what gets us there. Pascal has a rant about Audition, but that didn't stop him from ballsing up the editing of this episode, too. Maybe third time's the charm?



Time codes

Intro 0:00.000

iPad Pro in Prod 1:02.257

Emil's Tech Stack 12:25.932

Zeit and Now 21:22.729

Databases 27:30.000

member Parse? 31:39.640

Web IDEs 35:40.000

Development environments 43:40.000

Audition Rant 46:45.373

Podcasting Pet Peeves 50:25.962

Outro 54:46.250

Bloopers 56:23.588

Emil (@emilsjolander) and Passy (@passy) introduce themselves in this very first episode of HMTP! This episode covers the promise and failures of voice computing. We also round it off by discussing our podcast habits and talking about documentation-driven software development. Follow us at @hmtpod.

Intro: Royal Entrance by Visager under CC-BY (https://goo.gl/D6GrtW)