Is It Just About the Friends We Make Along the Way?

Adam went to TwitchCon, apparently people still smoke, dogs are the ultimate hedonist, React taint conversations open up a whole new world, and who are we if we're not defined by our categories on Twitch livestreams?

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Links:

• TwitchCon
• Ludwig Ahgren
• AWS re:Invent 2023 | Amazon Web Services
• Ricky Gervais | If You Spoil A Cat #shorts
• trash on X: adam currently holds the title of most handsome dude in tech
• Urban Dictionary: taint
• Next.js Conf
• Clerk | Authentication and User Management
• Guillermo Rauch’s blog
• Steve Jobs | Book by Walter Isaacson | Official Publisher Page | Simon & Schuster

Topics discussed:

• (00:31) - TwitchCon was smoking
• (09:10) - Sessions as panels instead of talks
• (10:29) - What else was at TwitchCon
• (16:34) - Dogs as the ultimate hedonist
• (18:36) - React Taint
• (28:15) - Can you have enemies in tech?
• (32:51) - Are we playing a caricature in tech, or is it just the friends we make along the way?