House of Leaves

Show Notes & Links

Henning and Kahlil have an interesting and amusing conversation with Steve Klabnik about his origins as a programmer and how he got involved in Ruby, JSON API and Rust.

Highlights

  • [00:01:30] Henning welcomes Steve Klabnik to the show
  • [00:04:30] Learning C at age 12-ish
  • [00:13:03] Dropped out of college and joined a startup
  • [00:41:50] Taking over the Hackety Hack project
  • [00:47:50] First conference talk
  • [00:50:10] Teaching Ruby at Jumpstart Labs
  • [01:04:01] Starting at Mozilla and working on Rust
  • [01:12:05] arewewebyet.com
  • [01:13:00] The story of JSON API
  • [01:22:35] Hold on! How does that Mozilla gig work?
  • [01:26:40] The Servo Parallel Browser Project
  • [01:29:47] Why Rubyists should use Rust
  • [01:36:45] Picks
  • [01:57:00] I will be unlocking my Twitter in the near future

Links

  • Steve Klabnik is @steveklabnik on Twitter
  • JSON API
  • Rust
  • Are We Web Yet?
  • Steve's picks:
    • Tropical Ruby 2015 - Keynote: The Soul of Software by Avdi Grimm
    • Netrunner
    • House of Leaves
    • MUSIC PICK: Against Me! Reinventing Axl Rose
  • Henning's picks
    • JSON Server: Get a full fake REST API with zero coding in less than 30 seconds (seriously)
    • Mystery Show Podcast
    • Shohin Bonsai by Morten Albek (currently out of print) (One of my trees (about 15cm tall))
    • MUSIC PICK: Pharrell Williams - Happy
  • Kahlil's picks:
    • Jake Archibald's perf video
    • Polymer 1.0
    • Dgeni
    • MUSIC PICK: On the Bible feat. TI and Zuse