A* Interview #15: Jeff Lindsay, Creator of Flynn, Co-Founder of Hacker Dojo, Executive Producer of “Indie Game: The Movie”
Check out Flynn, an open source Heroku. And Docker, a container-based deployment system. And use Jeff’s new employer DigitalOcean for some cheap, fast cloud servers.
For more Jeff, follow him on Twitter or check out his personal site.
Read about (one of) Jeff’s favorite musicans Animals as Leaders here.
Watch Indie Game: The Movie here or on Netflix. Buy Kevin Kelly’s What Technology Wants here.
Learn about the A* Series and see more interviews here.
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A* Interview #14: Rob Ashton, Hacker / Soon-To-Be-Erstwhile Peripatetic
Follow Rob on Twitter or on Github or on his personal site.
Read about (one of) Rob’s favorite musicans Mark Knopfler here
Learn about the A* Series and see more more interviews here.
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A* Interview #12: RavenDB creator Ayende Rahein
Ed Note: Ayende is understandably very enthusiastic about RavenDB. So his first answer about it is very technical and rather long. If you’d like to skip to the rest of the easier-to-understand questions, start watching at 34:50
My top two lesson from Ayende:
1) It’s a lot easier to push yourself to improve if you care enough about what you’re working on to wake up for it at 4am.
2) It’s a big mistake to not admit you have a problem. Acknowledging badness is the first step to getting better.
Read about Ayende’s current favorite singer, Lily Allen
Read Ayende’s favorite recent book, Spellmonger by Terry Mancour
Ayende recommends you go read the lmdb codebase!
Read the story of the A# Interviews here. For future interviews, subscribe to my newsletter or follow me on Twitter.
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A* Interview #10: Ning Liang, Co-Founder of YC-backed RentMetrics and co-creator of HealthSherpa.com
Check out HealthSherpa
Follow him on Twitter here.
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A* Interview #8: Targo Tennisberg, my first Estonian guest
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A* Interview #7: Tim Ambrogi, creator of the “Jamestown” indie game
This one ran a little long, but we get into the serious programming talk at around 19:00.
Learn more about the A* interview series here.
Links from the conversation
Gertrude’s Secrets, the game that originally hooked Tim on programming.
Tim’s excellent game Jamestown.
Tim’s favorite bands Storyville and Protomen.
Tim recommends that you try out Codecademy if you want to learn to code.
And you should try Tim’s audio library.
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