TechZing is an informal bi-weekly chat show aimed at entreprenures and hackers interested in creating their own web app startup. The show is both educational (with practical advice) and conversational.
355: TZ Discussion - Content Impossible
Justin and Jason discuss the latest progress on TaskFlow, Math Academy, and Colby's video game. Join our Discord, chat with us and fellow listeners! https://discord.gg/2EbBwdHHx8
354: TZ Discussion - This Is Not The Div You're Looking For
Justin and Jason discuss how Justin's return to music after a long break and without proper equipment seems to have unleashed a new level of creativity, his recent challenges with TaskFlow and specifically the hand-to-hand combat he's been engaged in with contentEditable, how Colby's internship has been progressing and the YC-inspired project/venture that Jason has set up for him, the latest with Math Academy and how Jason resolved the Stripe custom-payments integration issue, and finally the movie The Gray Man and the streaming series The Terminal List.
353: TZ Discussion - With Some Interruption
Justin and Jason discuss why Justin had to take some time off from working on TaskFlow, the importance of momentum and the performance improvements that have resulted from the simplified FastNode data model, the latest with Math Academy, the problem with large updates, and the resulting communication problems they incur, how Colby's internship is working out, the problems with Jason's MacBook Pro and the how Jason and Sandy binged 10 episodes of The Offer.
352: TZ Discussion - Thought Bomb
Justin and Jason discuss Jason's recent trip to Belize, Jason's literature review of SEO and CRO, Justin's work on the TaskFlow DOM and how to make it work in a real-time collaborative context, the latest with Math Academy, Jason's sleepy feet, and a little bit about various tv shows.
351: TZ Discussion - Nodsey
Justin and Jason discuss the reasons why Justin feels his past startup efforts fell short, the user interface, data model and future use cases of TaskFlow, the new gamification model for Math Academy and how the system has been made more responsive and efficient, and the shows Stranger Things, The Boys, and Severance.
350: TZ Discussion - The Virtual Irish Pub 2.0
Justin and Jason discuss why Justin is having so much fun working on TaskFlow and some potential features and functionality, the importance of refining the inner loop of a product and making the experience customizable, Mark's top three frustrations with his Math Academy experience, how Jason is making the system more efficient and responsive, why Justin is simultaneously skeptical about whether Math Academy will ever be released and why he thinks it's going to be HUGE, why Justin thinks it should be debuted on Product Hunt (if it's ever done), Jason's idea for creating user-story videos, why he's held out so long on releasing Math Academy publicly, and why he prefers Stanger Things to Severance, and finally, why Justin doesn't watch anything anymore.
349: TZ Discussion - Death by Mockup
Justin and Jason discuss the TechZing Discord server, the rebirth of TaskFlow, why Justin loves Laravel, Jason's approach to designing UI, why he wants to grow Math Academy without hring a lot of people and the latest improvements to the software, the series WeCrashed and Severance, and the heatmap software HotJar.Episode Notes
348: TZ Discussion - The Great College Wipeout
Episode Notes Justin and Jason discuss Areli's push to be a division I gymnast, why Justin is moving back to London, what he's doing with Georgie's online course and how his trainer is too busy trading crypto to train him anymore, the latest with Math Academy, how Jason hacked together a math expression parser and evaluator, how to keep students motivated and making progress, the disaster that was this year's college admission's process, the shows Slow Burn, Fyre, We Crashed, Contact, Erin Brokovich, The Dropout, Super Pumped, and Severance, and why Jason STILL hasn't managed to set up his new MacBook Pro.
347: TZ Interview - Brett Kennedy / Head of Robotics, JPL
Jason talks with Brett Kennedy, head of robotics at JPL
346: TZ Discussion - Better Late Than Never
Episode Notes Justin and Jason discuss the fire that burned down Joe's house, the death of Morning Brief, what killed AppIgnite, why Justin is leaving his mountain life behind, the latest with Math Academy, why Jason thinks Money Ball is the best startup movie ever made, Justin's desire to start recording music again, and why Jason still hasn't managed to set up the MacBook Pro he got for Christmas.es go here
345: TZ Discussion - Schedule Free
Episode Notes Notes go heJustin and Jason discuss the possibility of Jason bringing on a new developer to Math Academy, how Jason is allergic to any kind of bureaucracy, formality or scheduling, the challenge of building newsletters for certain verticals, Justin's anticipated pivot towards customized newsletters and premium memberships, what colleges Colby is applying to, how difficult it is to get into a decent computer science program these days, and the TV show The Boys.
344: TZ Discussion - Morning Joe
Episode Notes Notes go hereJustin, Jason and Joe discuss Morning Brief, Math Academy, and ... a lot of other stuff.
343: TZ Discussion - Analytics Matter, Especially When You're Not Looking at Them
Episode Notes Justin and Jason discuss why Justin is reinvigorated about a premium version of Morning Brief and some of the new features that are on deck, how the first few weeks of the Math Academy beta launch have been going, and thoughts on how to structure and run a startup.
342: TZ Discussion - The Hell That is a Beta Launch
Justin and Jason discuss the launch of the Math Academy online learning system and the pivot of Morning Brief. Post comments here.
341: TZ Discussion - Morning Brief Goes Live!
Justin and Jason discuss Jason’s trip to the Pacific Northwest and Colby’s first college tour, why kids are maturing more slowly these days, the launch of Morning Brief, initial feedback from users, pricing, and thoughts on the future, the implementation of the Math Academy knowledge-graph algorithm and preparing for the upcoming commercial launch, John Carmack’s article on static analysis and the relationship between code size and code quality, Jason’s recent efforts to remove old and unused code from the Math Academy codebase and thoughts on how to better modularize code in a large web application, using a job service like Amazon SQS to process non-real-time tasks, how Justin injured himself gardening, why Jason is teaching his 13-year-old daughter calculus over the summer, the first legitimate math research done by a Math Academy high-school student, and billionaires in space.