This week we are talking about being a people manager vs what it means to be a project or technical manager. We talk a little bit about Mike's change of heart on mileage programs as well as Kyle and Mike getting new mileage program credit cards. We also talk about what Luminary and others mean to the podcast industry going forward.
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This week we have a special guest join us on the podcast. Mike Davis from our Sacramento office is in town and he joins us to talk about our recent tech team team-building outing, meeting the new team, and discussing splitting your organization into large or small teams.
We also get the latest update on Mike’s perpetually delayed Spins Coffee maker and talk a little bit about Kickstarter projects.
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This week we cover MIT's 10 Breakthrough Technologies that could happen in 2019. We also talk about Mike joining Kyle's team at the office, Qi chargers build into your monitor, and what to do while charging your Tesla.
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This week is our 30th episode! We go a bit all over the board starting out with a look back at our first 30 episodes. We discuss Apple's recently canceled AirPower mat and delve into Kyle's recent Tesla Mobile Service experience. The primary topic of the episode focuses on traveling with packing cubes, merino wool, and travel laundry products. We round out the show with a reoccurring segment about what we have been watching.
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Apple Media Event
This week we are covering Apple “services” media event where they announced several subscription services that are either available now or later this year including Apple News+, Apple Arcade, Apple TV Channels, and the Apple Card
The title says it all. Kyle brings up his favorite topic “Tesla”, but this time it’s not good news.
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This week we discuss what’s happening with our friends in the Midwest who are getting hit by a bomb cyclone that caused massive flooding. We have some new marketing material for the podcast, we discuss the new stickers a little bit and follow up with the status of Kyle’s DIY project as well as looming deadlines, scope creep, and interviews all sucking up time.
Our primary topic this week is discussing seating and rearranging people in the office. We discuss the issues, why it matters, and why they might upset some people.
In the news, we discuss Tesla’s new Model Y, an iOS trackpad mode to help with your text entry, Google Stadia a new gaming platform just announced by Google, and the second generation AirPods that were also just announced.
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Tesla News #1
In a follow-up from last week's episode number 26 Tesla reversed course on closing all its showrooms and will keep a few of them open. To handle the increased cost of operating those facilities they are increasing their vehicle prices across the board with the exception of one. We discuss the rollbacks in Kyle’s favorite segment.
Our primary topic for the show is the discussion of reorganizing teams. There’s a lot to cover here and we discuss the pros and the cons. We talk about all the different eyes that might be on the restructuring. When is an ideal time to execute something like this and of course why you might want to take on a task like this?
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Podcast Album Artwork
This week we have some exciting news. A friend of the show Jernej from Gentle Giant illustrations has kindly created the show some new cover artwork. The artwork depicts Seattle’s famous Pike Place Market sign with the Coffee & Code Cast written across it. Of course, also included is Seattle’s beautiful skyline, and no Seattle anything is ever complete without the Space Needle.
In episode 23 we discussed a bar game called Erotic Photo Hunt. The game is a racy version of a spot the differences type game where you tap on the differences between the images. We discussed that the game isn’t found very often anymore or that it’s being discontinued according to Eater.com
A co-worker relayed a picture that they found a working copy of the game in a bar in Seattle’s Fremont/Ballard neighborhood.
This week was Mobile World Congress and Microsoft’s Holo Lens 2 was shown in many demos. Some demos showed a VR world that “follows” you or stays in your line of sight and some showed you walking around a stationary type virtual object.
No Coffee & Code Cast is complete without Tesla news. This week the show discusses two new modes Tesla has unveiled via software update. Dog Mode is a new option a driver can enable as they leave the car to maintain the temperature in extreme heat or cold conditions. The display also notes for any passerby that the car is maintaining the temperature and exactly what the interior temp of the car is at that moment.
The second mode is Sentry mode which effectively gives you a form of video surveillance of your car while you are away. The video is recorded to your thumb drive and unavailable via the Tesla app. However, if your card is nudged or hit the car will fire your phone notification and record from all cameras the car offers.
Erotic Photo Hunt FollowupMixed Reality / Virtual Reality / Augmented RealityTesla Sentry & Dog ModeShow Notes
In this episode, we talk about foldable phones and take a deep dive into Bluetooth audio technology. We get an update on Kyle’s clean livin’ journey and discuss Mike's new backup battery for all his devices including the MacBook Pro. We revisit a regular topic on the show as well and discuss what we have been watching recently.
This week we talk briefly about our recent travels to Denver and discuss the new interview process that we have adopted at the office including its pros and cons. Kyle has an ambitious new workout and nutrition plan that he’s going to get started on that Mike may join in on. We also talk about some Tesla news after a several-week hiatus in addition to the cancellation of Amazon HQ2 and the newly launched LimePod program in Seattle.