The Joy of making with LEGO Master and Cosplaying Engineer Amie DD
Amie is a maker of things. Her background is in Game Programming and Simulation and she started her career at Marvel Studios, working on Captain America and X-Men Destiny. She later transitioned to Research and Development for development work on the Xbox and Playstation. She also plays with LEGO and was recently on FOX's LEGO Masters show. She is also an acive 3D printer and cosplayer. She talks to Scott about all she pulls all this cross disciplinary knowledge into a life fueled with enthusiasm and making things!https://www.amiedd.com
5 Mar 202032min
Pathways to Data Science with Sri Megha Vujjini
Originally interested in telecommunications engineering, Megha moved toward data science after working with robotics. Now, she's a data scientist during the day, and she volunteers to help youth in Chicago get started on similar paths. She and Scott discuss how others can get involved in this emerging field and why it's important to make tech careers more accessible to everyone!Saggezza
27 Feb 202028min
Agile Project Management for Families with Yvonne Marcus
Agile and Scrum and Kanban, oh my! What if we take the techniques we've learned from years of project management and apply that to our homes and families? Scott talks with Agile Parent and Home Systems Strategist Yvonne Marcus about how she brought Agile home.https://www.yvonnemarcus.com/
20 Feb 202031min
Surviving as a remote tech employee with Jayson J. Phillips
Jayson has been working remotely managing both teams and projects for a number of years. Scott's been remote for over 13 years. They sit down and talk about their favorite best practices as remote employees. What are some "life hacks" that we can use to be effective as remotes?Jayson's Remote Worker Twitter Thread
13 Feb 202032min
Saving Blade Runner with ScummVM's Eugene Sandulenko
For years ScummVM has allowed us all to play classic point-and-click adventure games by providing a runtime for the original data files. Most recently the classic "Blade Runner" was rescued after a herculean effort by the ScummVM team and is now available for purchase on GOG.com. Scott talks to Eugene Sandulenko about why ScummVM is NOT an emulator, how it works, and why it's so important.Download Blade Runner (1997) from GOGhttps://www.scummvm.org/
6 Feb 202034min
Building a CPU from Scratch with Ben Eater
Ben Eater is currently creating educational videos for my YouTube channel and exploring ways to maximize human potential through education online. He's recently become well known for creating an 8-bit CPU from scratch as well as a series on building a 6502 computer on a breadboard. https://eater.net/
30 Jan 202034min
Visualizing Math with Freya Holmér
Freya Holmér makes educational math visualizations, does live game development on Twitch, as well as creates videos and Unity tools! She's been in the games industry for 10 years, working on things like Shader Forge, a node-based shader editor for Unity, and Budget Cuts, a VR stealth game made at Neat Corp. She talks to Scott about her love of math and making math accessible using a number of custom visualization tools.Math for Game Dev - An Improvised Live CourseVisual Guide to RadiansLow persistence in VR!Motion blur - useful even at 60 fpsthe area of a circle is τr²/2cross product - visualizedA collection of my mathematical art and visualizationshttp://www.acegikmo.com/https://www.patreon.com/acegikmohttps://www.twitch.tv/acegikmo
23 Jan 202035min
Myself: It's not weird at all
This episode wasn't supposed to be an episode! I was invited by Jeff Fritz of Twitch fame to talk to his community team of Live Coders on Discord. They recorded it, and mentioned several times that it was useful content! So, why not try something new and make this an episode! Let me know on Twitter if you find my views on community, productivity, and life useful to you!http://Livecoders.devhttp://Github.com/livecoders
16 Jan 202053min
