178: Working from Home

Programming Throwdown

Patrick Wheeler and Jason Gauci

Objective C, Java, Programming Throwdown, Education, News, Programming Languages, How To, Tech News, C, Python

4.6 • 604 Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2024

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Summary

Intro topic: Smart homes

News/Links:

SpaceX Starship Flight Test Five / Six
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIKI7y3DTXk
ShareDB
- https://github.com/share/sharedb
Orion AR Glasses
- https://about.fb.com/news/2024/09/introducing-orion-our-first-true-augmented-reality-glasses/
Blade and Sorcery 1.0 is out
- https://www.meta.com/experiences/blade-sorcery-nomad/2031826350263349/

Book of the Show

Patrick:
- The Book that Wouldn’t Burn by Mark Lawrence
  - https://amzn.to/4fry2XW
Jason:
- Masters of Doom
  - https://amzn.to/3YxuD3c

Patreon Plug https://www.patreon.com/programmingthrowdown?ty=h

Tool of the Show

Patrick:
- Balatro
  - https://www.playbalatro.com/
Jason:
- Cursor IDE
  - https://www.cursor.com/

Topic: Working from Home

Intro
Background & WFH experiences
Is it Panacea?
- Realizing it works better for some than others
- Internally Motivated
Scheduling
Communications
Home Setup
- Dedicated space
- Handling Non-work Distractions
- Keyboards, Monitors, Music, … Desk related things
The specter of RTO

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Programming Throwdown Episode 178, Working from Home.
0:20.0	Dig it away, Jason.
0:21.5	Hey, everybody.
0:22.6	We are here with a new episode of programming Throwdown, and it's Patrick and I talking
0:28.1	about working from home.
0:31.9	Before that, we're going to jump into a little bit of intro topic for people or this is their first time listening.
0:39.1	You know, some news, news and links of the day, book of the show, tool of the show,
0:44.4	and then we will dive into our main juicy topic, which is working from home.
0:48.9	And it's going to be interesting because this is one of the few topics where Patrick and I
0:53.7	disagree. So we're going to have a little bit of a friendly topics where Patrick and I disagree.
0:54.8	So we're going to have a little bit of a friendly debate here about working from home.
0:58.4	But before we go into that, I want to talk about smart homes.
1:02.3	I remember hearing about smart homes a really long time ago and thinking, you know,
1:09.1	actually here's where I first heard it.
1:10.6	Remember when Bill Gates,
1:12.4	this is like, I think at the 90s, he showed off his home and as he was walking through the
1:17.5	house, the lights are turning on. The sound was following him. Yeah, I remember thinking that was
1:21.7	amazing. Uh, this is what a billionaire does. Actually, I had one before that. It was Carousel of
1:26.9	progress and then that. Oh, man, Carousel of Progress is so good. Actually, I had one before that. It was Carousel of Progress and then that.
1:28.4	Oh, man, Carousel of Progress is so good. Just for people don't know, Carousel of Progress is this
1:35.1	amazing ride at Disney. It's still around. I took my... Amazing is a bit of an oversell. But yes,
1:40.4	it is a ride at Disney World. Yeah, I guess, you know, it's dated now. It's like, in the future, we will have microwaves, you know.
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