Beats, Rye & Types

After getting to hang out in person for a long weekend, we talk about our relationship with an old friend, and how that friend is being treated these days. We also spend about a third of the episode talking about Quasimoto “The Unseen”, now one of the greats of turn of the millenia hip hop. Links, etc Music: Quasimoto “The Unseen”, Chosen by AQ. Spotify Madlib, The Bad Kid Kool Kieth/Dr Octagon Our Vinyl Weighs a Ton (Stones Throw Doc) On The Media: The American War on Drugs

BOOSH! It has been forever. But like a phoenix rising from the ashes of a really shitty year, here we are, giggling, waxing poetic about food and music, and ready to deliver more of what you want. What was that again? Links, etc Music: War on Drugs “Touch of Gray”, Chosen by MRB. Spotify Our Friend Rob Carmichael’s Ep Fleishers closing in Kingston Applestone Meat Co (Vending Machines) Book: Jeremy Fox “On Vegetables” Book: Josh McFadden “Six Seasons” Duo Restaurant + Pantry, Kingston Oxalis, aka Wood Sorrel

We can’t stop thinking about a certain vegetable and we dedicate an entire episode to discussing its history, science, and some of our favorite recipes. Also a new segment where MRB presents some of his deepest cuts. Links, etc Music: Khun Narin “Chakim”, Chosen by AQ. Spotify Paper: History and Iconography of Eggplant - Purdue University Book: Hot Sour Salty Sweet Recipe: Best Eggplant Dish Ever Book: On Food and Cooking Book: Land of Plenty Recipe: Fish Fragrant Eggplant Book: Zahav Recipe: The Food Lab’s babaganouj Recipe: Frankies Eggplant Brain Jam: Grant Green’s Visions Bonus Jammer: Baby Face Willette

WE ARE BACK. Don’t adjust your dials or whatever doohickeys the kids are playing with these days. After a long hiatus we’re back to recording. In this episode we play a little catch up, talk about progress of The Pizza Book, and MRBs forays into creating a community. Links, etc Music: Joe Mcphee “Nation Time”, Chosen by MRB. Spotify LFO - We Are Back Fire Music Documentary Indy Hall Alex Hillman PUT THIS IN YOUR FACE: Japanese Milk Bread (NYTimes Recipe)

Idalin is someone we’ve been trying for a while now to get on the show and talk to. Her talk at StrangeLoop this past Fall has been on our minds and a topic of conversation since. Her work in community building and outreach through technology is inspiring but her strong voice and perspective is something we feel like our community of technologists needs. We got to talk about her feelings on the tech community in general, her roots in activism and tech, and more. There was a little technical difficulty with this episode so please excuse AQ doing his shitty Ira Glass impression. Links, etc Music: Beyoncé “Formation”, Chosen by Idalin. Our Special Guest: Idalin Bobé Black Capitalism (Wikipedia) ThoughtWorks Idalin’s talk at StrangeLoop

We revisit one of our favorite subjects sandwiches, but sort-of. Are tacos sandwiches? Does it matter? They are delicious and we share some of our recent exploits and inspirations and complain about the dearth of good sandwiches in our respective areas. Links, etc Music: Dur-Dur Band “Dooyo”, Chosen by AQ. Spotify Awesome Tapes From Africa The Sporkful Hot Dog Debate Tacos: Recipes and Provocations (Book) Alinea Empellon NYC Rick Bayless’s Mexican Kitchen Toplobampo Restaurant CHI Diana Kennedy Guisados LA Pal’s takeaway (Now in Oakland) ChefSteps bagel recipe Johnny’s on 25th st

We finally tracked down one of our old friends and collaborators David Nolen for a chat. David is one of the few people we can talk fluently about all 3 of our primary topics with, so we caught up about David’s recent trip to Korea, ClojureScript, and experimental music and film. Links, etc Music: Nico “The End”, Chosen by David. Spotify Our Special Guest: David Nolen aka @swannodette Nico Icon (Whole File on YouTube) David and MRB’s talk at strangeloop Jeju Black Pig Jagalchi Fish Market Makgeolli David’s JSCONF Play talk ClojureScript MRB’s friends talk

The same systems that cause failure are the ones that create success - so why do we blame them? We talked to Dave Zweiback, about his book “Beyond Blame” and what makes positive and healthy teams. Links, etc Music: Peter Rowan “Raven”, Chosen by Dave Spotify Our Special Guest: Dave Zwieback @mindweather Buy Dave’s book: Beyond Blame - bit.ly/beyondblame Bill Monroe George Harrison “My Sweet Lord” George Harrison VH1 Interview Peter Senge Thinking Fast and Slow John Allspaw Knight Capital Story BUY THE PIZZA BOOK

We kick of the new year discussing a topic thats frequently on both of our minds at work: Technical Debt. Where does Tech debt come from? What does it mean for different sizes of teams? Can you “fix it”? Links, etc Music: The Temptations “Papa Was a Rolling Stone”, Chosen by MRB. Spotify Norman Whitfield MRB’s work: Code Climate Hire AQ Dan Luu Blog Post Peter Seibel blog post/talk AQ’s blog post

After reflecting on 2015, we look forward to 2016 and what we want to accomplish and who we want to be. What are your resolutions for the new year? This is the last episode of 2015 and we’re feeling very grateful for every one who supported us this year. You all are dope. Links, etc Music: Taylor McFerrin “Degrees of Light”, Chosen by AQ. Spotify mrb’s pottery Hire AQ Preserving The Japanese Way Getting things Done Fogus’s 100:10:1 MBTI: Meyers Briggs

We look back on the year 2015 and talk about the things we accomplished, the world around us changing, and razor clams. Links, etc Music: Erykah Badu “Cel U Lar Device”, Chosen by MRB. Spotify How to Build a Wood Oven Between the World and Me JSCONF Last Call Papers We Love Catskills Conf Kendrick Lamar Vince Staples Rose’s Luxury Superiority Burger Floating Points Cal Pep, Barcelona

We got together late night (or late for us) after a long Thanksgiving weekend to talk about music and our latest projects including gravy and bagels. Links, etc Music: Floating Points “Nespole”, Chosen by AQ. Spotify Ruhlman turkey stock A Tribe Called Quest “peoples .. “ Reissue Velvet Underground “matrix tapes” Abby Denson (aq’s cousin) Hammelman BREAD Reinhart Crust and Crumb Nancy Silverton La Brea Bakery Breads Diane Kennedy Tortilla book Alex Stupak “Tacos” Mission Chinese Food Cookbook

In case you hadn’t heard, We launched a Kickstarter Campaign last week to raise money to get the first edition of “The Pizza Book” printed and in your hands. In this episode we talk to the real talent behind the book, Steve Berry, who is helping us design, formulate, and generally make the Pizza Book something awesome. We talk about his design origins, the rules of subjectivity, and of course, the book. Links, etc Music: Ours “Sometimes”, Chosen by Steve. Spotify Our Special Guest: Steve Berry, @thoughtmerchant The Pizza Book! Preorder Now Diegetic Sound Material Design Article about Sound Issues

We’re lucky to call awesome people who live across the ocean our friends. We especially love Mathias Meyer, CEO of Travis CI, who helped us score a hat trick of topics this episode. We talk about testing headphones, butchers in Berlin, finding balance as a manager, and how Europe is so different from the United States. Links, etc Music: Animals as Leaders “Cafo”, Chosen by Mathias. Spotify Taylor Swift ‘Bad Blood’ Video Toby Sterrett @takeo Animals as Leaders “CAFO” Video Michael Pollan “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” Mathias’s Blog Camille Fournier on BRT “This is Why People Leave Your Company”

Why is smaller better when it comes to software and community? We talk to a kindred grumpy old man, Justin Searls about some of the finer points of building communities, open source maintership, and the good old days of when you could understand your damn video game platform. Links, etc Music: Jóhann Jóhannsson “Part 5/The Sun’s Gone Dim and the Sky’s Turned Black”, Chosen by Justin. Spotify Our Special Guest, Justin Searls (@searls) Columbus, Ohio Old Man Yells At Cloud Justin’s keynote at Ruby Conf 2014 Justin’s emoruby: emoji to Ruby compiler Steve Klabnik Test Double The Rust Programming Language MINASWAN CoffeeScript “Sometimes a Controller is Just a Controller” The MEAN stack Yeoman Matthias Felleisen The Racket Programming Language John McCarthy Jewel Bots Little Bits Mitsuwa Market Graeter’s Jeni’s Ice Cream

We were very lucky to steal an hour from our very busy and very inspiring friend, Alex Payne to talk about many things that aren’t scala programming or twitter. In an unexpected turn of events, we talked about the virtues of Veganism for an extended period of time and made some very cagey (pun intended) analogies to the world of startup culture. What’s wrong with being young, ambitious, and funded by a machine made to break you? Links, etc Music: Death Grips “I Break Mirrors With My Face in The United States”, Chosen by Alex. Spotify Our Special Guest: Alex Payne aka al3x alex article about vegan in france Eastside Burger, Paris Arpege Live Murikami Running New Yorker article The Stanford Inn, Mendocino Marget Atwood, The Madaddam Series Portland Ecotrust Hudson Valley Farm Hub Al3x’s blog Ken Perlin at Paperless Post Tech Talks

We had an awesome time talking with technologist and musician Stephanie Morillo about her love of music, getting into tech, and how we define ourselves by our passions. Come for the tunes, stay for the banh mi. Links, etc Music: Céu “Concrete Jungle”, Chosen by Stephanie. Spotify Special Guest: Stephanie Morillo @radiomorillo Website Céu Chico Science Laguardia High School “Fame” the movie Avi Arenfeld BRT Episode Nicki Minaj Matt McGorry Stephanie’s Music Elis Regina Esperanza Spalding Gretchen Parlato James Blake Jessie Ware Blackstreet brooklyn.js

As MRB returned from Strangeloop 2015 we talked about some of the more interesting aspects of the conference. Specifically it raised questions for both of us about what makes a community and what is the work in building one. We had a lot of questions but not many answers so we’re looking for experts to join us in the future and point us in the right direction. Links, etc Music: The Internet “Get Away”, Chosen by AQ. Spotify Odd Future The Internet Tiny Desk Concert Strange Loop 2015 David Nolen MRB + David’s Talk, “A History of Programming Languages for Two Voices” Alex Miller Idalin Bobe “From Protesting to Programming: Becoming a Tech Activist” by Abby Bobé “Wouldn’t Censorship Be Exciting” by Alex Payne Catskills Conf “Between The World and Me” by Ta-Nehisi Coates “The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration” by Ta-Nehisi Coates Episode 25: Robots and Chickens with Carin Meier “Unconventional Programming with Chemical Computing” by Carin Meier JSConf Chris Wil

When life gives you lemons, preserve them and use them later for a delicous tagine. We’ve had our share of failure in our lives: some recent, some old scars. We share some reflections on f*ing up and moving on with our lives. Links, etc Music: Charlemagne Palestine “Strumming Music”, Chosen by MRB. Spotify Fund us on Patreon AQ’s Bagels AQ’s failed startup: RadioTail

Rob Carmichael is the founder and proprietor of Seen Studio, a graphic(al) design studio that produces instantly recognizable album covers that visually connect listeners to music in an age when that sort of thing is supposed to be dead. We discuss music, the magic of DIY, art and labor, and why he does what he does. We love learning from experts and Rob is a standout in his field, a dedicated craftsman, and a true mensch. Links, etc Music: The Chills, “Night of Chill Blue” YouTube Special Guest: Rob Carmichael, Seen Studio @seenstudio Portfolio Rob’s Interview on Noisey Shrimper Records Discography Chris Knox The Chills The Bats The Clean Robert Beatty Kai’s Power Tools Dirty Projectors, “Bitte Orca” Pen & Pixel Camper Van Beethoven, “Telephone Free Landslide Victory” Bruce Licher, Independent Project Press Refrigerator, “Temple City” Catsup Plate, “A Record Label” Black Dice three.one.g Records Black Dice, “Ball/Peace In The Valley” from mrb’s Collection DFA