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Campfire Coders

Campfire Coders

Hosted by Austen Cameron & Jesse Leite

Episodes

18

Latest episode

Jul 2025

Language

EN

About the show

Come sit by the fire with dudes nerdin' out about dev, keyboards, drums, drinks, and who knows what else! 🇺🇸: Austen Cameron (@austencam) 🇨🇦: Jesse Leite (@jesseleite85)

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July 31, 202539 min

Ep 16: Linear, Chainsaws, and Supertab, oh m'AI!

A little bit of everything, from our appreciation of Linear and well implemented Command Palettes, to how we're coding with AI, to Git worktrees, etc.LinearStatamic 6 Sneak PeakOpencode.aiCursor Background AgentsGit WorktreesAndrej Karpathy's TalkFind us on X@campfirecoders / @austencam / @jesseleite85Email ushey@campfirecoders.com

July 26, 202536 min

Ep 15: Real Edition

It's been almost a year since our last episode, we've all lost our jobs to AI, and we're going to another Laracon! Life is good!Laracon!DirenvCursorGhosttyFind us on X@campfirecoders / @austencam / @jesseleite85Email ushey@campfirecoders.com

July 26, 20250 min

Ep 15x: Season Two Intro

We're back and ready for (drumroll...) Campfire Coders: SEASON TWO!Join us as we discuss our sophisticated and intricate plans for the future of this podcast! 😎Find us on X@campfirecoders / @austencam / @jesseleite85Email ushey@campfirecoders.com

September 19, 20241 hr 26 min

Ep 14: Never Too Hot for a Twerking Session

Laracon in Texas was too hot for a campfire, but apparently it was NOT too hot for a twerking session, or eating at Terry Black's three nights in a row! Austen and Jesse also talk about launching DAP Keycaps and 1337 Keyboards, as well as murdering your darling.Links:DAP Artisan Keycaps1337 KeyboardsSimple CommerceLaracon US Talks PlaylistVerbsRadical DesignFlux UICLI LabTerminal.shop CoffeeP.S. If you grabbed any of our Campfire / DAP / 1337 stickers and/or keycaps at Laracon in Texas, post a pic and tag us!Find us on X@campfirecoders / @austencam / @jesseleite85Email ushey@campfirecoders.com

August 14, 20241 hr 7 min

Ep 13: Romeing Around Italy w/ Statamic

In this episode, we discuss the complex flavour notes produced by third-wave coffee, natural wine, South Carolinian sweetgrass, instruments of musical nature, and developers as they steep themselves in the wonderful worlds of Statamic and Livewire.Links:StatamicFlat CampLivewireVoltFind us on X@austencam and @jesseleite85Email ushey@campfirecoders.com

July 3, 20241 hr 13 min

Ep 12: Coffee w/ Dr. Sforzando & Prof. Leitmotif

Austen Sforzando and Jesse Leitmotif contemplate the fine intricacies of jazz drumming, the musical concepts of Dredg, the 3D printing of multi-stringed instruments, and brewing coffee with pourovers, moka pots, and/or french presses. We might also nerd about keyboards for an indeterminate amount of time.Links:MusicSforzandoLeitmotifDredgCoffeePouroverFrench PressMoka PotCustom keymappingKarabiner ElementsQMK FirmwareZMK FirmwareFind us on X@austencam and @jesseleite85Email ushey@campfirecoders.com

June 25, 20241 hr 6 min

Ep 11: Horsing Around in the Third Dimension

Austen and Jesse dig into the backlog of past recordings and publish another episode! This one is all about horsing around with trailers, hand-wiring keyboards, counterfeiting soldering irons, printing in the third dimension, and PHP.Tell us! What do you think of:Strict typesTDDEnumsPHP attributesMatch expressionsFind us on X@austencam and @jesseleite85Email ushey@campfirecoders.com

February 23, 20241 hr 17 min

Ep 10: Granny Games & Playdates

Shrimp, bagels, grannies pwning newbs, fantasy consoles, Alan Turing cameos, 'American Hand Egg', and data loss; This episode has it all!Links & Notes:Game devPanic Playdate handheld console and SDKGodot game engineCreativity in the design of Comix ZoneM*ckup (Part 2)⚠️ Be careful with this software on macOS Ventura and Sonoma! ⚠️Find us on X@austencam and @jesseleite85

December 12, 202348 min

Ep 9: It's Pronounced "Zed Ess Haetsch", Austen

A fireside chat featuring new gear, old dotfiles, and updates on what we've been up to. Kiwi the puppy doesn't code Rust (yet), but she knows how to sit! Does she have the patience to sit through Jesse's Vim course, though?Links & Notes:DotfilesAusten's dotfilesJesse's dotfilesM*ckupWe don't talk about M*ckup ...TO BE CONTINUED NEXT EP 🥁⚠️ Seriously, beware of this software on macOS Ventura and Sonoma ⚠️Jesse's Vim CourseWill be choose your own adventure style courseHad no name or signup when we recorded this episode, but now we do 😎Also check out Vim AdventuresAusten Doing Rad Stuff w/ Laravel + Tauri^ He would probably be too humble for this, but Jesse is writing the show notes this time, so maybe he won't notice!^ Seriously, Austen is building desktop apps with Laravel + Tauri 🤯Also check out NativePHP by Marcel PociotAnd Rust for PHP Devs by Ryan Chandler

October 31, 202351 min

Ep 8: Junk Drawer Management

Managing project junk drawers and building the same thing over and over again. Desktop apps, backlogs, great UX, and a dang good time.  --- Listeners, how do you handle project management?We'd love your feedback and to hear how you manage all this stuff. What works? What doesn't?@campfirecoders on X or email hey@campfirecoders.com Most Excellent Links:👏 Wirebox - like Codepen, but for Livewire! by @Philo01🎙️ Talking Businessly - an excellent podcast from wonderful people🔗 The episode of NPTM Jesse was talking about when he said ^🤩 Linear - beautiful UX, but also The Linear MethodFind us on X@austencam and @jesseleite85

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