19: I Don't Own Stuff Exactly with Steve Klabnik

Steve talks to us about his career, Ruby, Rust and speaking at tons of conferenes.

Show Notes

Show Notes & Links

Henning and Kahlil have an interesting and amusing conversation with Steve Klabnik about his origins as a programmer and how he got involved in Ruby, JSON API and Rust.

Highlights

• [00:01:30] Henning welcomes Steve Klabnik to the show
• [00:04:30] Learning C at age 12-ish
• [00:13:03] Dropped out of college and joined a startup
• [00:41:50] Taking over the Hackety Hack project
• [00:47:50] First conference talk
• [00:50:10] Teaching Ruby at Jumpstart Labs
• [01:04:01] Starting at Mozilla and working on Rust
• [01:12:05] arewewebyet.com
• [01:13:00] The story of JSON API
• [01:22:35] Hold on! How does that Mozilla gig work?
• [01:26:40] The Servo Parallel Browser Project
• [01:29:47] Why Rubyists should use Rust
• [01:36:45] Picks
• [01:57:00] I will be unlocking my Twitter in the near future

Links

• Steve Klabnik is @steveklabnik on Twitter
• JSON API
• Rust
• Are We Web Yet?
• Steve's picks:
  • Tropical Ruby 2015 - Keynote: The Soul of Software by Avdi Grimm
  • Netrunner
  • House of Leaves
  • MUSIC PICK: Against Me! Reinventing Axl Rose
• Henning's picks
  • JSON Server: Get a full fake REST API with zero coding in less than 30 seconds (seriously)
  • Mystery Show Podcast
  • Shohin Bonsai by Morten Albek (currently out of print) (One of my trees (about 15cm tall))
  • MUSIC PICK: Pharrell Williams - Happy
• Kahlil's picks:
  • Jake Archibald's perf video
  • Polymer 1.0
  • Dgeni
  • MUSIC PICK: On the Bible feat. TI and Zuse

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