Creating the Belter Language for Syfy
Nick Farmer is best known for developing the Belter constructed language (conlang) for Syfy’s The Expanse. What's involved in creating a convincing constructed language? How real are these languages?
15 Apr 201636min
Failure - "What if you fake it and don't make it?"
Scott talks to web developer and entrepreneur Kronda Adair about her business and her recent failure. How do projects fail and what do we do with that failure? Can failure be a motivator or does it sl...
8 Apr 201633min
March Is For Makers: Arduinos, JavaScript, and Johnny-Five with Lyza Danger Gardner
Scott sits down and talks with Lyza Gardner, CTO of Cloud Four and long-time web expert, about her recent explorations into hardware using the Johnny-Five Framework. You can control Arduinos and other...
1 Apr 201633min
March Is For Makers: Modulo and Modular Electronics with Erin Tomson
Erin Tomson left Pixar after 13 years to pursue something totally new! Her hardware startup called "Modulo" brings plug and play flexibility to the world of microcontrollers like Arduino and Particle....
25 Mar 201634min
March Is For Makers: Arrow.com Electrical Engineer Laura Hughes
This week Scott talks to to electrical engineer Laura Hughes from Arrow.com. Laura specializes in lighting and power supply design and can solve pretty much any problem with an LED. Laura schools Scot...
18 Mar 201630min
March Is For Makers: Arduinos and Useless Robots with Simone Giertz
Simone Giertz is a Maker, a robotics enthusiast and surprisingly (her words!) a non-engineer. She's become somewhat of an expert in sh*tty robots and we love her for it. Also, she happens to be Swedis...
11 Mar 201633min
March Is For Makers: Taking Stuff Apart with Captain Brent Chapman
Captain Brent Chapman has a BS from the West Point, an MS in Information Security from Carnegie Mellon, and has been tearing electronics apart since he was four. Today, Cpt Chapman works for the Defen...
4 Mar 201634min
Ambitious UX and Ambitious Apps with Ember and Lauren Tan
Scott talks to Lauren Tan, a Senior Developer at Dockyard, about her excitement with the Ember Framework. Her talk on "Ambitious UX for Ambitious Apps" covers new techniques like Reactive UX that are ...
26 Feb 201633min
