What's life after removing yourself from social media? Philip Gee joins Henry (the last in the "trilogy") to chat about LAT, life after Twitter. We discuss being irrelevant, forcing yourself to think about different things, treating a newslette

15: Philip Gee (#2) on Unlisting Yourself

Sep 16th, 2020 45m 59s

Why would you choose to leave the public internet on your own terms? Philip Gee joins Henry (for the 2nd time) to chat about his recent choice to make a minimal public web presence after being on the web for many years. We discuss the logistics

14: Shawn Wang on Open Knowledge

Sep 2nd, 2020 54m 53s

What does it mean to be code adjacent? Shawn Wang joins Henry to chat about not just open code but open thinking with his experience in community managing, the idea of tumbling, moderating /r/reactjs, starting the Svelete Society meetup, docume

13: Jordan Scales on Nostalgia and Not Taking Yourself Too Seriously

May 26th, 2020 1h 16m

Why attempt to faithfully recreate the past? Jordan Scales joins Henry to chat about 98.css, design systems, being pixel perfect, accessibility, the Microsoft Windows User Experience reference manual, using VMs, MSPaint and Figma, whimsy and ha

12: Maggie Appleton on Embodiment Through Metaphors

May 13th, 2020 54m 1s

Is programming all digital/cerebral or do we still have embodied roots? How does this affect how we write, teach, and learn code? Maggie Appleton joins Henry to discuss everything metaphors (basically everything). We chat about mental models an

11: Maggie Appleton on Open Source as a Gift Economy

Mar 6th, 2020 55m 28s

Is the open source community a gift economy? What even is a gift? Maggie Appleton joins Henry to discuss open source as a gift economy (versus a market economy), why we participate in open source and exchange gifts, rituals and habits, patronag

10: Jonathan Farbowitz on the Commitment to Infinite Uptime

Jul 15th, 2019 1h 15m

How should we think about saving something forever? Jonathan Farbowitz (Guggenheim) continues the on-going discussion of software preservation with Henry in talking about the goals of museums, the hard (and maybe impossible) task of keeping som

9: Wendy Hagenmaier on Preserving the (Digital) Past

Jul 8th, 2019 41m 42s

In our pursuit to create products for the future do we neglect the past? Wendy Hagenmaier (Georgia Tech) discusses with Henry on the importance of maintaining our history, especially in software itself. They chat all about archival: what is it,

8: Anthony Giovannetti on Mastery and Learning through Games

Jun 21st, 2019 56m 34s

Why play or even make games? Anthony Giovannetti (MegaCrit) joins Henry to chat building video game Slay the Spire with the community. They discuss games an a interactive medium, immersion, player incentives/tradeoffs, emergent gameplay through

7: Philip Gee On Growing Old with the Web

May 31st, 2019 1h 3m

Do we learn in a vacuum, or does it involve our whole selves? Philip Gee (UC San Diego) joins Henry to chat about maintaining a web presence since its beginnings. We discuss some of the points made in Nadia's post on ideas carrying us forward,

6: Jory Burson on the Significance of Standards

May 24th, 2019 1h 4m

Why should we standardize? Jory Burson (Bocoup) joins Henry to talk open source and standards: what they are, why we need them, what should be standardized, lifecycles of standards, past/future accessibility of participating in the process, and

5: Evan You on Funding One's Freedom

May 6th, 2019 1h 26m

How can we be free? Evan You (Vue.js) chats with Henry about the complexities of funding people vs. projects, non-monetary perks of oss, Patreon potentially just a payment processor, the honing in on the uniqueness of open source (being free, f

4: Mikeal Rogers on Getting Old in Open Source

Apr 29th, 2019 1h 23m

How old is open source anyway? Mikeal Rogers (Protocol Labs) joins Henry in talking about making friends through podcasting, conference organizing as maintainer-ship, patronage and fundraising, old/new school open source, deprecating packages a

3: Stephanie Hurlburt on the Perception of Value

Apr 19th, 2019 54m 34s

What do we treasure? Stephanie Hurlburt (Binomial) joins again to chat about inherent vs. perceived value, success breeding success, psychology around hiding information, code versus money, a holistic/explicit view of business, everything as ma

2: Stephanie Hurlburt on Boundaries

Apr 12th, 2019 49m 1s

How is business development relevant to open source? Stephanie Hurlburt (Binomial) joins Henry to chat about understanding learnings from success, setting health boundaries, what "networking" really means, conversations/pitching, and more! (rec

1: Omnigamer on Speedrunning as Research

Apr 10th, 2019 1h 26m

What's beyond simply beating a video game? Eric "Omnigamer" Koziel joins Henry to chat about speedruning as an optimization problem (code golf), game knowledge as discovery, access as a result of technology, issues of game preservation/archival

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