Dax Raad
building @SST_dev and @withbumi
Appears in 121 Episodes
Adam Got Suckerberg'd, Humanoid Robots to Do Our Laundry, and Apple AI Sucking
Why is it so difficult to optimize a router at home in 2025, Dax has boring drone plans, where are our humanoid laundry folding robots, Adam's got a new JavaScript fra...
Miami is Cold, Adam's All in on AI, Dax Cracks YouTube, and Kids Are Expensive
We're back! Dax has complaints about Miami's weather, exploring a potentially "dumber" way to buy coffee, childcare costs, Dax has figured out YouTube, Adam is re-eval...
Talking with Typecraft
A real fear of heights, Typecraft's set up and content on YouTube, working in hard mode in the terminal, development with Ruby on Rails, developers selling coffee, pla...
Open Source Security Theater
Dax kicks off an open source rant, plastics, TSA security theater and the connection to rich people getting murdered, Adam wonders if he can become a romantic or if he...
Dax's CSS Journey vs Adam's Exercise Journey
Dax recites every line of CSS he's ever written, what it's like teaching your partner to code, Adam relearns the importance of exercise and is mad about it, American f...
Adam Talks a Lot of Shit for Someone From the Ozarks
Legal notice: this is an international recording (we think). Adam pitches Dax on SST adding analytics and other things he wants SST to build, justifying flying first c...
The Psychology of Adam and the Strategy of AWS
Dax explains Canada, where has Adam actually been to, Dax hates pants, AWS announcements, a $10,000 pizza, the psychology of Adam, and should we want to improve oursel...
NYC Event, OCaml, and Dax Explains Steaks to Adam (Vegan Edition)
What are Adam and Dax - and Terminal - doing in NYC this week? And what do they need to build for it? Why is OCaml involved? Adam realizes he hasn't been using AI in r...
Offending Everyone by Sharing Tough Moments, The Video, and Politics
It's annoying when they skip a week but Adam and Dax explain why, Dax's Default, how did Adam's phone break, politics happened and we have some theories, Liz's Theorie...
Time Moves Slowly, Friendships Drifting, and Adam Learns Something New About Dax
Time and friendships drifting slowly, what's going on with drones, movies made with iPhones, Dax is going to do something for the first time this year, is not being on...
New JavaScript Framework, Does Adam Feel, and a New Story Arc for Dax?
Is Adam going to leave Twitter for real this time, new JavaScript frameworks, buying zero.com, is Adam content or just busy, a new story arc for Dax, and Adam needs yo...
Vite, Docker, Hurricane Update, Board Games, and Pixar Movies
Adam's gonna slow fade for 100 more episodes, Vite announces their round, what about Docker, playing board games, remaking the same story over and over, and all the go...
Rita Kozlov on Building In Public, Cloudflare's Birthday Week, and How Long Software Actually Takes
Rtiz talks with Dax about building towards an event like Cloudflare's birthday week, launching and getting feedback from the community, Cloudflare's platform journey, ...
Dax Is Definitely Not Sponsored By Cloudflare and Adam is Definitely a Real Human Being
Hear how Dax got into some trouble this week, Adam wishes he could be less midwestern, being mad at people in your dreams, Cloudflare container like stuff, who gets to...
Working Remote, AWS Lags, and Dax Explains the Economy
Adam has dreams of a perfect gated community, Statmuse's mobile app getting accepted, why is Amazon returning everyone to the office, has AWS fallen behind, Dax explai...
DHH Talks Apple, Linux, and Running Servers
DHH talks with us about his journey back to Linux, Apple's control over the App Store, setting up servers on the web, and tries out Terminal coffee.Want to carry on th...
The Kids These Days Don't Know How To Do It Right 👴
Dax is sick, but his voice sounds amazing so you should still listen, we streamed a basketball game in Dallas, rented a Lambo, went to Laracon 2024, muse on VPS comple...
Native vs Web, Managers, and What's Happening Today in Dallas
We're flying (or in) Dallas as you listen to this - ps who is actually listening to this? We chat native vs web apps, backend vs frontend, managers vs no manager jobs,...
Slicing a Nice Piece of Bacon
Adam's moved his office, the arbitrary nature of exercise, prepping for the Laracon basketball game, Dax explains breaking at the Olympics, Dax sliced off a nice piece...
The History of the World and How it Scales with Sam Lambert
Sam Lambert stops by to talk Unifi networking, cooking meat, microplastics, disease research, the history of the world, scaling at PlanetScale, and why people love Pos...
BS Jobs, Redundancy in Software, Self Driving Cars, and Dax's List
The eternal debate of freelance life vs being employed at a larger company, small teams vs big teams, bullshit jobs, self driving cars are finally discussed, Twitter V...
Being Weird About 100 Eps, Crowdstrike Bugs, and Chris Joins Us with Clips
It's episode 100 time but don't worry, Adam's not being weird about it at all. We're thinking about how normies understand things like the Crowdstrike bug, Adam thinks...
Scrolling Bugs, Pursuing Optimization, and Number Go Up is Good
Dax went to hell and back for a scrolling bug, what do we lose in the pursuit of optimization at all costs, what kind of business do we want to build, Adam is definite...
Terminal Coffee Updates, and Dax Analyzes Adam (again)
Adam is tired, Dax tries to help analyze Adam in a surprisingly kind way, struggling to fend off grifters, Terminal Coffee updates, and Rspack news.Want to carry on th...
Open Source Drama, Streaming Productivity, and the State of JavaScript
Adam and Dax both got hairdids, Adam learns how a tattoo is installed, why can't we be more productive while live streaming, bringing out our different personalities i...
Matt Pocock on Voice Coaching, Communication, Gaming, and Teaching How to Code
Matt chats with Adam and Dax about becoming a voice coach and how that's translated to creating courses and writing books for people wanting to learn TypeScript and co...
Dan Abramov on Working at Bluesky, React, and the Social Internet
Dan Abramov chats with us about getting hired at Meta, making the move to Bluesky, centralized vs decentralized, product work vs framework work, Bluesky's development ...
How About Mostly Technical?
Adam and Dax were guests on the Mostly Technical podcast and so we're rebroadcasting that conversation on our feed for your listening pleasure. We take on the Laravel ...
What Does “Full Stack” Mean? w/ Taylor Otwell and Ryan Florence
Taylor Otwell and Ryan Florence join us to talk about whether "full stack" is a term worth using in 2024, how Laravel differs from Rails, why there isn't a real JavaSc...
New Banana Ice Cream, Coffee Partners, Google IO and OpenAI, and Opportunity Costs for Engineers
Can you tell that Adam's moved his desk? We talk about how Adam's making banana ice cream, time travel possibilities, the opportunities afforded us as software enginee...