Her Majesty's Tech Podcast
By HMTP
Her Majesty's Tech PodcastMar 30, 2020
Designing for Keyboard Accessibility
Emil and Passy choose physical over social distancing and record their first remote session. After a brief discussion of how both are coping with the global pandemic, they talk about Emil's blog post "Designing for Keyboard Accessibility".
Follow them on Twitter at @passy, @emilsjolander and @hmtpod.
Links
- Designing for keyboard accessibility: https://visly.app/blog/keyboard-accessibility
- Facebook Small Business Fund: https://www.facebook.com/business/boost/grants
- Netflix - Emergency Support for Workers in the Creative Community: https://media.netflix.com/en/company-blog/emergency-support-for-workers-in-the-creative-community
- Steam Link: https://store.steampowered.com/steamlink/about/
- Baba Is You: https://store.steampowered.com/app/736260/Baba_Is_You/
- I Sold Microwave Meals On Deliveroo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k47u9tduwb8
Timestamps
- COVID-19 Coping 0:07
- Netflix Creative Fund 7:54
- Economic Outlook 8:32
- Blog Post: Designing for keyboard accessibility 13:17
- Pleasant Distractions 32:55
- Outro 42:20
- Bloopers 43:05
Multi-Process Electron & The Big Server-Side Rendering Refactor
Emil and Passy make use of the WeWork facilities for as long as they still exist to chat about the state of Emil's startup Visly, how a Redux-based Electron app could split its state across multiple processes and why server-side rendering is no panacea.
Follow Passy and Emil on Twitter at @passy, @emilsjolander and @hmtpod.
Links
- Visly: https://visly.app/
- Windows Terminal Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gw0rXPMMPE
- Flipper: https://fbflipper.com/
- podserve: https://github.com/passy/podserve/
- Neon: https://neon-bindings.com/
Rust on Android and iOS
Emil and Passy quickly catch up on Google I/O 2019 before talking about developing libraries for Android and iOS in Rust, namely Stretch, Emil’s most recent Flexbox implementation. They talk about why Rust makes for a particularly compelling choice on mobile and where there’s still room for improvement.
Follow them on Twitter at @passy, @emilsjolander and @hmtpod.
Links
- Stretch: https://vislyhq.github.io/stretch/
- Yoga: https://yogalayout.com/
- Rust on Android blog post: https://medium.com/visly/rust-on-android-19f34a2fb43
- Rust on iOS blog post: https://medium.com/visly/rust-on-ios-39f799b3c1dd
- Cross-Platform Rust: https://medium.com/visly/cross-platform-rust-406fddd0185b
- Learn Rust With Entirely Too Many Linked Lists: https://rust-unofficial.github.io/too-many-lists/
Timestamps
- Intro: 00:00
- Google I/O 2019: 0:42
- Huawei: 6:47
- Rust on Mobile: 8:18
- Conclusions: 38:52
- Outro: 41:34
- Aftershow: Episode Numbers: 41:50
- Bloopers: 42:38
Emil goes to YC
Passy interviews Emil about his YC Winter 2019 participation and founder life. We chat about Emil's company Visly and the various pivots it went through to arrive at the current product as well as the business side of things.
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Timestamps
- Intro: 0:00.000
- Emil at YC: 0:40.352
- Visly: 3:43.342
- Stretch: 7:31.541
- Finding priority 1: 10:00.000
- What's Visly? 13:57.641
- Cross-platform design: 18:01.991
- UI Composition: 21:03.528
- Next steps: 22:21.226
- Getting into YC: 23:35.956
- Demo Day: 28:16.059
- Next for the biz: 30:00.924
- CEO time slicing: 30:54.007
- Picks: 33:39.370
- Pick: Kimberlite: 34:18.238
- Pick: Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: 35:32.230
- Outro: 36:51.043
- Blooper: 37:52.673
iPad Pro in Prod
Emil wants to use an iPad as his main development machine to work on his Now-powered startup. We talk how web IDEs could be what gets us there. Pascal has a rant about Audition, but that didn't stop him from ballsing up the editing of this episode, too. Maybe third time's the charm?
Time codes
Intro 0:00.000
iPad Pro in Prod 1:02.257
Emil's Tech Stack 12:25.932
Zeit and Now 21:22.729
Databases 27:30.000
member Parse? 31:39.640
Web IDEs 35:40.000
Development environments 43:40.000
Audition Rant 46:45.373
Podcasting Pet Peeves 50:25.962
Outro 54:46.250
Bloopers 56:23.588
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Intro: Royal Entrance by Visager under CC-BY (https://goo.gl/D6GrtW)