Alright, Let’s Do This!

  • Why I decided to go ahead with this microcast
  • Positive feedback on first episode
  • Publicly accountable
  • Have wanted to do a podcast for years!
  • Inspired by many others, recently including:
  • Timetable by Manton Reece

Timetable

Manton Reece

  • Build Your SaaS by Jon Buda & Justin Jackson

Build Your SaaS

Jon Buda

Justin Jackson

  • The Art of Product Podcast by Ben Orenstein & Derrick Reimer

The Art of Product Podcast

Ben Orenstein

Derrick Reimer

  • Q from @thisizkp: Learning both Rust & Elm?
  • Totally new to Rust

@thisizkp

  • Smattering of Elm a couple of years ago
  • Building Reactive WordPress Plugins – Part 3 – Elm

Building Reactive WordPress Plugins – Part 3 – Elm

  • WP Cron Pixie

WP Cron Pixie

  • Progress update:
  • Reading The Rust Programming Language book

The Rust Programming Language

  • Just finished Chapter 10: Generic Types, Traits, and Lifetimes

Chapter 10: Generic Types, Traits, and Lifetimes

  • Familiar with concepts of Generics & Traits, but Lifetimes (especially annotating them) will take some getting used too
  • Yay for compilers! 😉
  • Moving on to Chapter 11: Writing Automated Tests

Chapter 11: Writing Automated Tests

  • Expect to use tests quite a bit in project, less than with PHP though
  • Yay for compilers! 😉
  • Have a basic “Hello World” Rust app using Rocket web framework running

Rocket

  • Found old skeleton page navigation test for project written in Elm
  • Won’t use it
  • May nick a few ideas though
  • What’s the project?
  • Not telling … yet!

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