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151: Off Meta with Amir Rajan
02:27 - Amir’s Superpower: Sensitivity to Development Pain
A Picture of Amir’s Keyboard and Battlestation
06:59 - Developer Productivity and Breaking Constraints
16:58 - Idea Flow
21:00 - Building an Environment That Enables You
- File Watching
- Automating Leverage
28:18 - Optimizing Local Maxima
Bret Victor: The Future of Programming
- Delta Time
41:01 - Questioning Fundamental Assumptions
- Continuity of Design™️
- Gradual Stiffening
46:55 - Game Development
56:05 - Extremeness and Pushing Boundaries: Being a Weirdo/Being an Outlier/Thinking Differently
Off Meta, Super Smash Brothers Melee Gods
Meta and Off Meta
DragonRuby Game Toolkit Sandbox
Reflections:
Jess: “A pin on my upkeeps.”
Avdi: Meta and off meta.
John: Continuity of design.
Rein: Continuity and discreteness.
Janelle: Process-oriented thinking.
Amir: Being consistent with philosophies.
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Special Guest: Amir Rajan.
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