Episode 169 | Daniel Moore - Go For It

Guest: Daniel Moore @STRd6 Daniel Moore talks with Dave Rael about the joy that is HyperDev, life at Fog Creek Software, knowing your own motivation, doing unexpected and awesome things with the browser, and the importance of taking action Daniel X Moore is the HyperDev team lead and a member of technical staff at Fog Creek Software. He’s the creator of the popular reactive templating framework, Hamlet.coffee, and has worked in a variety of web programming roles at Sony, OkCupid, and others. Chapters: 0:57 - Dave introduces the show and Daniel Moore2:13 - Life at Fog Creek software and the remote version of the Joel Test3:04 - The Fog Creek Midas Touch?4:17 - Daniel and Fog Creek and his preoccupation with the browser6:18 - Daniel's history and the hope of using the browser as an integrated development environment8:57 - The nature of HyperDev11:08 - Who should use HyperDev and when?13:43 - Why so much emphasis on the browser?15:35 - HyperDev languages, applications, and platforms18:54 - The path for moving an application from HyperDev to your own infrastructure when it needs a more custom home21:57 - HyperDev as a place to learn25:30 - Life at Fog Creek and interaction with legends28:01 - How Daniel stays current with what he needs to know29:46 - How Daniel got started in software30:35 - The joy of the beginner's mindset and virtue of "experiemntation in a safe environment"33:41 - Daniel's story of failure - sinking money into game projects - especially not knowing the intent of what he was building37:53 - Daniel's nature - desire to create products and do "weird things in the browser" and a willingmess to take risks39:27 - Daniel's success story - Hamlet.coffee45:45 - Daniel's creative side46:16 - Daniel's book recommendation47:21 - The things about which Daniel likes to geek out47:53 - Daniel's prediction for the future of software48:19 - The source of Daniel's love of the browser50:38 - Daniel's top 3 tips for delivering more value54:38 - Keeping up with Daniel Resources: HyperDev Fog Creek Software Hamlet.coffee The Joel Test: 12 Steps To Better Code CodePen ngrok Joel Spolsky Michael Pryor How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life - Scott Adams Amazon Lambda Daniel's book recommendation: Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) - Thomas Pynchon Daniel's top 3 tips for delivering more value: Continuous Deployment Do the hard things you don't want to do - "the second 90%" Do stuff that is fun for you