Joe Van Cleave joins Gregory the Poor Typist and the Type Pals to discuss some of his recent YouTube videos, projects, and ideas, including his Royal Saturn typewriter, the Las Cruces Type-In, and 3D printed keycaps. Mail letters and postcards to be read in a future episode here: Type Pals Podcast PO Box 4292 Riverside CA 92514 United States of Ame…

Type Pal Neil in Key West, Florida, joins Gregory the Poor Typist and others to discuss repurposing discarded stationery, using a letterhead from an old family business, and taking his Smith-Corona Skyriter through airport security. Mail letters and postcards to be read in a future episode here: Type Pals Podcast PO Box 4292 Riverside CA 92514 Unit…

Join Gregory the Poor Typist as he reads postcards from Germany and Canada. Hear the latest news, including typewriters in the headlines, new Type Pals members, and birthday wishes to Type Pals celebrating in November. Then listen as the Type Pals obsess over staplers. Mail letters and postcards to be read in a future episode here: Type Pals Podcas…

Join Gregory the Poor Typist as he reads a letter from Portugal! Cam Pooter, our announcer and news correspondent, covers the latest news, welcomes new members, offers birthday wishes to Type Pals celebrating in July, and highlights some of the posts in the Type Pals forums. Mail letters and postcards to be read in a future episode here: Type Pals …

Join Gregory the Poor Typist as he reads our first official letter! Also, welcome Cam Pooter, our announcer and news correspondent. Mail letters and postcards to be read in a future episode here: Type Pals Podcast PO Box 4292 Riverside CA 92514 United States of America News stories mentioned in this episode: https://www.hhmi.org/news/dna-typewriter…

Gregory the Poor Typist and the Type Pals speak with Susan Kuver about the North Texas Type-In. This episode features highlights from Typewriter Club LIVE. The original recording was streamed live on YouTube on June 19, 2022. Video recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuWU3FYxKQ8 Type Pals: https://www.typepals.com We need YOU to record a bum…

Gregory the Poor Typist and the Type Pals talk Valentine versus Contessa versus SM4, letter writing, 3D printed daisy wheels, and the typing prompt, "Blue." This episode features highlights from Typewriter Club LIVE. The original recording was streamed live on YouTube on June 12, 2022. Video recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djmwf2RuC9I Ty…

Gregory the Poor Typist and the Type Pals talk 6 cpi, typewriter storage, and the typing prompt, "It was a dark and stormy night, and I was alone with my typewriter." Enjoy a musical interlude with the song, "Typewriter" by eyenine. This episode features highlights from Typewriter Club LIVE. The original recording was streamed live on YouTube on Ma…

Gregory the Poor Typist and the Type Pals talk adding machines, mechanical pencils, virtual typewriter hangouts, and the book, Sexy Legs and Typewriters by Paul Robert. Enjoy a musical interlude with the song, "Typewriter" by Loveseat. This episode features highlights from Typewriter Club LIVE. The original recording was streamed live on YouTube on…

Gregory the Poor Typist and the Type Pals talk typing about typing, street poetry, and first typewriters. Plus, Mei Lynne Travis performs an original song about typewriters. This episode features highlights from Typewriter Club LIVE. The original recording was streamed live on YouTube on May 15, 2022. Video recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?…

Gregory the Poor Typist and the Type Pals talk making time for typing, typewriter tables, and toilet typing. This episode features highlights from Typewriter Club LIVE. The original recording was streamed live on YouTube on May 8, 2022. Video recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-CzHzso5s4 Type Pals: https://www.typepals.com Your voice on th…

Gregory the Poor Typist and the Type Pals talk typewriter repairs, type-ins, and Tom Hanks. This episode features highlights from Typewriter Club LIVE. The original recording was streamed live on YouTube on May 1, 2022. Video recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMnUVqAWj1Q Type Pals: https://www.typepals.com Your voice on the podcast: http:/…

Gregory the Poor Typist and the Type Pals share their responses to the typing prompt, "This is my typewriter collecting philosophy." This episode also features highlights from Typewriter Club LIVE, and we meet Type Pals member Dan Rubin. The original recording was streamed live on YouTube on April 24, 2022. Video recording: https://www.youtube.com/…

Gregory the Poor Typist and the Type Pals share their responses to the typing prompt, "Nobody expected me to bring a typewriter to a party." This episode also features highlights from Typewriter Club LIVE, and we meet Type Pals member Diane Maher. The original recording was streamed live on YouTube on April 17, 2022. Video recording: https://www.yo…

Gregory the Poor Typist and the Type Pals share their responses to the typing prompt, "Well, that was foolish." This episode also features highlights from Typewriter Club LIVE, and we meet Type Pals member Nicola Fisher. The original recording was streamed live on YouTube on April 3, 2022. Video recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5T-8OdXvt…

Gregory the Poor Typist was honored to speak with the eminent YouTuber Joe Van Cleave, creator of over 300 videos about typewriters, as well as a blogger and photographer. The original recording was streamed live on YouTube on September 19, 2021. Video recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqfuDX91uuQ Joe Van Cleave on YouTube: https://www.you…

Gregory the Poor Typist had the pleasure of interviewing Theodore Munk, archivist for the Typewriter Database and author of the Typewriter Repair Bibles. The original recording was streamed live on YouTube on August 29, 2021. Video recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2QkVOu0wTg Typewriter Database: https://typewriterdatabase.com Theodore Mu…

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Richard Feldman has spent years using and teaching Elm and wouldn't want to use anything else at this point. Learn about why he likes it so much and how you can learn from him and his new book, Elm in Action. Rtfeldman on Twitter Elm in Action Aditya Siram (Deech) CoffeeScript Haskell GHCJS React PureScript Elm David Nolen ClojureScript Om 42: Jake…

Dave and Jamison host the Soft Skills Engineering podcast. Jamison talks about how he got into coding, and they talk about how they met and why they started the podcast, as well as the Dunning–Kruger effect, and React Rally. Soft Skills Engineering Jamison Dance on Twitter Jamison's website Dave Smith on Twitter The Manager's Path (book) Performanc…

Jens shares what accessibility is, why it's important for everyone, and how it can increase your business revenue. JAWS Screen Reader Lighthouse in Chrome DevTools axe: the Accessibility Engine from Deque ELIA Menu Concepts Accessibility on MDN WAI-ARIA Footnotes There actually is some caption access in movie theaters…

Cassidy is really into mechanical keybards. She talks about how she got into keyboards, some keyboard vocabulary, and the Scrabble keycaps she launched on Massdrop. Cassidy Williams on Twitter cassidoo.co/ Venmo Massdrop Mechanical keyboard subreddit WASD keyboards Sentraq Clueboard Keyboard sizes 100% TKL - tenkeyless - 75-80% 66-68% - takes off t…

Jason talks about his experience teaching SQL at a dev bootcamp and why he does it. BookBytes Podcast DevMountain Jeremy Robertso MongoDB SQL Chinook Reuven Lerner The Freelancers Show meetup.com RailsBridge Girl Develop It Scratch Jason on TwitterBy Adam Garrett-Harris

Safia and I talk about how she got into computers, her startup, how she uses pen and paper for productivity, and a recent event where she received a lot of hate online. BookBytes Podcast Neopets Productivity blog post Uni-ball Onyx Fine tip red pen Safia on Twitter Safia's site Safia's blogBy Adam Garrett-Harris

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Kent C. Dodds has accomplished a lot in a short amount of time in his career. Kent's Website Kent on Twitter Kent on Github Kent's videos on Egghead Zero to 60 in Software Development: How to Jumpstart Your Career - Forward 4 Web Summit Why Hiring is So Hard in Tech by Eric Elliott BucketSteams Demo Video The Changelog Episode 200 Takeaways Teachin…

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I talked with Jake about being an author and software engineer. He shares his journey of becoming an author and getting selected to have his first book published through the Kindle Scout program. And he talks about his new book, Vagrants. Freelancer VagrantsBy Adam Garrett-Harris

@climagic is a twitter account all about the command line. Mark talks about why he started the account, some interesting things he's done with it, why CLI is so great, why you should learn it, some history of the command line, and some useful commands. climagic on Twitter climagic on YouTube climagic website Once you understand the language, you're…

Kye Hohenberger is the creator of Emotion, a high performance, lightweight css-in-js library. He talks about the benefits of CSS-in-JS and of emotion in particular. Kye's Tweet A Unified Styling Language by Mark Dalgleish Emotion on Github Blog Post on Emotion Blog Post on Emotion 7 Marian Call Good Morning Moon Music Video…

Kyle Mathews is the creator of Gatsby, a blazing fast React static site generator. He talks about why he made Gatsby, why it's so fast, and why you should use it. Gatsby Website Gatsby Github Plugins wishlist (and example sites) I think most people are capable of doing a lot more than they think they can. It's just letting yourself believe that and…

Storybook is an interactive development & testing environment for React and React-Native UI components. Marie explains why it's useful and how they use it at Algolia. Storybook Marie's Talk at React Conf To be efficient when debugging, you need to produce a bug in the smallest environment possible to be sure you are not polluted by your other stuff…

Why should you care about licenses? Mike Linksvayer talks about free and open source licenses, some of the legal issues behind them, and why you should pay attention to them. Mike Linksvayer's Wikipedia page Mike Linksvayer's Twitter Mike Linksvayer's blog The Legal Side of Open Source ChooseALicense.com Balanced Employee IP Agreement Open Source L…

Aaron Frost and I talk about ES6, a little bit of the history, some of our favorite features, and he explains the benefits of maps and sets. Aaron Frost on Twitter ES6 Compatibility TableBy Adam Garrett-Harris

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In which I talk with Aaron Costley, a software engineer at Amazon, about Angular 2 and why he chose it for his latest project at Amazon. Angular What's good about it It's created by Google Embraces web components TypeScript Very easy to build shareable componentsSwimlanes data table Angular CLI Downsides No Pug support yet Still bugs in the CLI Lac…

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