Chas Emerick's guest appearances

Chas Emerick

Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots

Cognicast

Mostly Lazy

Ben Orenstein

Craig Andera

Toby Crawley

Dan Croak

David Nolen

Camille Fournier

Eric Normand

Jim Crossley

Carin Meier

Kevin Lynagh

Paul deGrandis

Chris Granger

Brandon Bloom

Ellen Chisa

Rob Walling

OwlTail

Earlier this month, I had the good fortune to sit down with Ben Orenstein (@r00k), who is the host of Thoughtbot’s Giant Robots Smashing into other Giant Robots Podcast.  (He has quite the slick recording arrangement there, with pop filters, “real” microphones, and even a producer that knows what he’s doing…hi Thom!) Anyway, we had a good chat in which Ben interviewed me on topics various and sundry, both related to Clojure and not, including my talking publicly for the first time about the Quilt Project. Ben graciously agreed to my syndicating the results of our conversation here for the Mostly Lazy audience; I’m thankful to both him and Thom for the opportunity to appear on their podcast. (Recorded on April 14, 2014, and previously released on April 21, 2014 as episode #95 of Thoughtbot’s Giant Robots Smashing into other Giant Robots Podcast.) Listen: http://downloads.mostlylazy.com/episodes/mostly-lazy-012.mp3 Or, download the mp3 directly. Discrete Topics (Remember to follow @MostlyLazy so you know who’s going to be on next, and can send us topics and questions!)  100% Time  Also previously discussed with Craig Andera on episode #31 of the Cognicast née Relevance Podcast   the Quilt Project  a précis of Distributed Systems and the End of the API, a talk given at PhillyETE 2014 (keep an eye out for a dedicated written distillation   “THE PDF THING” “snowtide.com for all of your PDF extraction needs” The sad tale of Snowtide’s first iteration $140K in debt; payoff; resurrection, and the origins of the PDFTextStream product   Firewire drives, 15 years ago Noam Wasserman’s Rich vs. King concept Wherein Chas deconstructs and discredits the entire premise of his livelihood: “The only reason why PDFTextStream exists is because of the waste and incidental complexity that derives from the impedence mismatch between you communicating with me communicating with N other people over this pool of messily-defined, poorly-represented data (i.e. PDFs).” A brief summary of how PDFs work Clojure Programming from O’Reilly The one with the painted snipe   ClojureScript open source activities: lein-cljsbuild clojurescript.test (port of clojure.test to ClojureScript) double-check (fork of Reid Draper’s test.check that can be used from both Clojure and ClojureScript)   Watch out, Ben Orenstein tries to get people to cry on his podcast! – Ed.  Workaholism, the experience and dangers of weight gain (gained ~70 lbs., gone again now though) negative impact on family, friends, and loved ones sanity   Concatenative programming languages  Factor, Forth, etc   Von Neumann architecture (For some reason, I kept saying “Von Neumann” instead of Turing Machine! :-/) evil-mode for emacs multithreaded fork of vim (HN discussion, if you dare) “Heaven forfend”

Earlier this month, I had the good fortune to sit down with Ben Orenstein (<a href="https://twitter.com/r00k" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@r00k</a>), who is the host of Thoughtbot’s <a href="http://podcasts.thoughtbot.com/giantrobots" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Giant Robots Smashing into other Giant Robots Podcast</a>.  (He has quite the slick recording arrangement there, with pop filters, “real” microphones, and even a producer that knows what he’s doing…hi <a href="https://twitter.com/thoughtbotThom" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Thom</a>!) Anyway, we had a good chat in which Ben interviewed me on topics various and sundry, both related to Clojure and not, including my talking publicly for the first time about the <a href="http://quilt.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Quilt Project</a>. Ben graciously agreed to my syndicating the results of our conversation here for the Mostly Lazy audience; I’m thankful to both him and Thom for the opportunity to appear on their podcast. (Recorded on April 14, 2014, and previously released on April 21, 2014 as <a href="http://podcasts.thoughtbot.com/giantrobots/95" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">episode #95</a> of Thoughtbot’s <a href="http://podcasts.thoughtbot.com/giantrobots" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Giant Robots Smashing into other Giant Robots Podcast</a>.) Listen: <a href="http://downloads.mostlylazy.com/episodes/mostly-lazy-012.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://downloads.mostlylazy.com/episodes/mostly-lazy-012.mp3</a> Or, <a href="http://downloads.mostlylazy.com/episodes/mostly-lazy-012.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">download the mp3 directly</a>. <h3>Discrete Topics</h3> (Remember to follow <a href="http://twitter.com/MostlyLazy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@MostlyLazy</a> so you know who’s going to be on next, and can send us topics and questions!) <ul> <li><a href="http://cemerick.com/2013/02/15/100-time/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">100% Time</a> <ul> <li>Also previously discussed with Craig Andera on <a href="http://thinkrelevance.com/blog/2013/05/14/chas-emerick-mostly-lazy-podcast-episode-031" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">episode #31</a> of the Cognicast née Relevance Podcast</li> </ul> </li> <li>the <a href="http://quilt.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Quilt Project</a> <ul> <li>a précis of <a href="http://phillyemergingtech.com/2014/sessions/distributed-systems-and-the-end-of-the-api" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Distributed Systems and the End of the API</a>, a talk given at <a href="http://phillyemergingtech.com/2014/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PhillyETE 2014</a> (keep an eye out for a dedicated written distillation</li> </ul> </li> <li>“THE PDF THING” <ul> <li>“<a href="http://snowtide.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">snowtide.com</a> for all of your PDF extraction needs”</li> <li>The sad tale of Snowtide’s first iteration</li> <li>$140K in debt; payoff; resurrection, and the origins of the PDFTextStream product</li> </ul> </li> <li>Firewire drives, 15 years ago</li> <li>Noam Wasserman’s <a href="http://www.noamwasserman.com/2005/11/08/rich-versus-king-the-core-concept/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Rich vs. King</a> concept</li> <li>Wherein Chas deconstructs and discredits the entire premise of his livelihood: “The only reason why PDFTextStream exists is because of the waste and incidental complexity that derives from the impedence mismatch between you communicating with me communicating with N other people over this pool of messily-defined, poorly-represented data (i.e. PDFs).”</li> <li>A brief summary of how PDFs work</li> <li><a href="http://quilt.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Clojure Programming</a> from O’Reilly <ul> <li>The one with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Painted_snipe" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">painted snipe</a></li> </ul> </li> <li>ClojureScript open source activities: <ul> <li><a href="https://github.com/emezeske/lein-cljsbuild" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">lein-cljsbuild</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/cemerick/clojurescript.test" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">clojurescript.test</a> (port of clojure.test to ClojureScript)</li> <li>double-check (fork of Reid Draper’s test.check that can be used from both Clojure and ClojureScript)</li> </ul> </li> <li>Watch out, Ben Orenstein tries to get people to cry on his podcast! – Ed. </li> <li>Workaholism, the experience and dangers of <ul> <li>weight gain (gained ~70 lbs., gone again now though)</li> <li>negative impact on family, friends, and loved ones</li> <li>sanity</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concatenative_programming_language" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Concatenative programming languages</a> <ul> <li><a href="http://factorcode.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Factor</a>, Forth, etc</li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_architecture" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Von Neumann</a> architecture (For some reason, I kept saying “Von Neumann” instead of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_machines" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Turing Machine</a>! :-/)</li> <li><a href="https://gitorious.org/evil/pages/Home" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">evil-mode</a> for emacs</li> <li><a href="https://github.com/tarruda/vim/tree/event-loop" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">multithreaded fork of vim</a> (<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7057051" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">HN discussion</a>, if you dare)</li> <li><a href="https://www.wordnik.com/words/heaven%20forfend" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">“Heaven forfend”</a></li></ul>

Episode 12: Chas Emerick with Ben Orenstein on the Thoughtbot Podcast

This week Ben sits down with Chas Emerick to discuss his latest venture, The Quilt Project, start up philosophies and the importance of balanced time management.  100% Time Clojure Programming: Practical Lisp for the Java World The Quilt Project PDF TextStream Rich Hickey's Ant Simulator Von Neumann architecture heaven forfend Support Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots

This week Ben sits down with Chas Emerick to discuss his latest venture, The Quilt Project, start up philosophies and the importance of balanced time management. <ul> <li><a href="http://cemerick.com/2013/02/15/100-time/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">100% Time</a></li> <li><a href="http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920013754.do" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Clojure Programming: Practical Lisp for the Java World</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.quilt.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Quilt Project</a></li> <li><a href="http://snowtide.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PDF TextStream</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shm7QcJMvig" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Rich Hickey's Ant Simulator</a></li> <li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_architecture" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Von Neumann architecture</a></li> <li><a href="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/heaven_forfend" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">heaven forfend</a></li> </ul><a href="https://github.com/sponsors/thoughtbot" rel="payment nofollow" target="_blank">Support Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots</a>

95: Making Time (Chas Emerick)

The Relevance Podcast is the precursor to the Cognicast.  In this episode, we talk to Chas Emerick. You can find the original episode page here. Subscribing to The Cognicast The show is available on iTunes! You can also subscribe to the podcast using our podcast feed. You can send feedback about the show to podcast@cognitect.com, or leave a comment here on the blog. Thanks for listening! In this episode, we talk to Chas Emerick.

The Relevance Podcast is the precursor to the Cognicast. In this episode, we talk to Chas Emerick. You can find the original episode page <a href="http://thinkrelevance.com/blog/2013/05/14/chas-emerick-mostly-lazy-podcast-episode-031" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here.</a> <h1>Subscribing to The Cognicast</h1> The show is <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/thinkrelevance-the-podcast/id498067022" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">available on iTunes</a>! You can also subscribe to the podcast using our <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/cognicast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">podcast feed</a>. You can send feedback about the show to <a href="mailto:podcast@cognitect.com">podcast@cognitect.com</a>, or leave a comment here on the blog. Thanks for listening! In this episode, we talk to Chas Emerick.

Chas Emerick - Podcast Episode 031