In today's episode of The Hamish and Brandon Show, Hamish outlines an idea for an easy-to-use SMS notifications app.
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Show Notes
00:40 - holidays
01:17 - Christmas traditions
04:30 - tourists in Quebec City vs tourists in New York City
05:28 - already a month into the new year
05:54 - changes at Hamish's work
06:43 - people actually using the stuff you make at work
07:47 - companies deciding to remove features/products
08:34 - Google plans to remove WebExtensions
12:33 - Brave Browser
12:54 - Basic Attention Token
14:15 - Patreon
16:25 - Hamish's idea "Omni"
20:00 - Twilio
23:31 - serverless computing
29:32 - now.sh
31:10 - loki.js - in-memory database
34:29 - serverless.com
36:05 - what to do with old hosted material
38:38 - it's fun having servers!
39:18 - Omni 2.0 MVP
42:11 - Unix Philosophy
43:10 - Hamish's old food drive house counter program
45:02 - GIS
47:32 - geek mentality: how can I program this?
49:00 - .ics - calendar export format
49:25 - programming during our missions
53:18 - programming with no user feedback (not a good process!)