Campfire Coders

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

Austen Cameron & Jesse Leite — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 23:11:52 -0600

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.

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Ep 15: Real Edition

Austen Cameron & Jesse Leite — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 14:16:08 -0600

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!

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Ep 15x: Season Two Intro

Austen Cameron & Jesse Leite — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 14:06:09 -0600

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! 😎

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Ep 14: Never Too Hot for a Twerking Session

Austen Cameron & Jesse Leite — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 10:52:40 -0600

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:

P.S. If you grabbed any of our Campfire / DAP / 1337 stickers and/or keycaps at Laracon in Texas, post a pic and tag us!

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Ep 13: Romeing Around Italy w/ Statamic

Austen Cameron & Jesse Leite — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 10:12:20 -0600

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:

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

Austen Cameron & Jesse Leite — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 12:57:27 -0600

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:

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Ep 11: Horsing Around in the Third Dimension

Austen Cameron & Jesse Leite — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 09:01:15 -0600

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 types
TDD
Enums
PHP attributes
Match expressions

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Ep 10: Granny Games & Playdates

Austen Cameron & Jesse Leite — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 10:04:50 -0700

Shrimp, bagels, grannies pwning newbs, fantasy consoles, Alan Turing cameos, 'American Hand Egg', and data loss; This episode has it all!

Links & Notes:

Game dev
- Panic Playdate handheld console and SDK
- Godot game engine
- Creativity in the design of Comix Zone
M*ckup (Part 2)
- ⚠️ Be careful with this software on macOS Ventura and Sonoma! ⚠️

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

Austen Cameron & Jesse Leite — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 10:38:58 -0700

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:

Dotfiles
- Austen's dotfiles
- Jesse's dotfiles
M*ckup
- We don't talk about M*ckup ...TO BE CONTINUED NEXT EP 🥁
- ⚠️ Seriously, beware of this software on macOS Ventura and Sonoma ⚠️
Jesse's Vim Course
- Will be choose your own adventure style course
- Had no name or signup when we recorded this episode, but now we do 😎
- Also check out Vim Adventures
Austen 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 Pociot
- And Rust for PHP Devs by Ryan Chandler

Ep 8: Junk Drawer Management

Austen Cameron & Jesse Leite — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 09:56:08 -0600

Managing project junk drawers and building the same thing over and over again. Desktop apps, backlogs, great UX, and a dang good time.

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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?

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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 Method

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Ep 7: We Are Artificially Intelligent

Austen Cameron & Jesse Leite — Sat, 14 Oct 2023 10:18:09 -0600

Ramen broth and AI; The two hottest topics (literally speaking for the former) to grace the internet since 2023!

Links:

Copilot
Cursor
Rewind
Jamon Holmgren's crazy test suite refactor example

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@jesseleite85

Ep 6: Domain Hoarding

Austen Cameron & Jesse Leite — Sun, 17 Sep 2023 00:02:41 -0600

Jesse and Austen discuss past projects, potential projects, and the topic of domain hoarding.

Links:
- Dustforce game
- Lightyear Figma Illustration (seriously, open this one in Figma and click around)
- Austen's Site Illustration Timelapse

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@austencam
@jesseleite85

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Ep 5: Mac Tools

Austen Cameron & Jesse Leite — Sat, 09 Sep 2023 07:42:11 -0600

Productivity, workflow, automation, [insert buzzword here]! Austen and Jesse chat about awesome tools for the Mac ecosystem.

Industriously Handy Links:

Raycast https://www.raycast.com/
Hammerspoon https://www.hammerspoon.org/

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@jesseleite85

Ep 4: Cat Allergies & Making Videos

Austen Cameron & Jesse Leite — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 14:52:19 -0600

Austen adopts cats mid-episode, while being allergic to cats mid-episode. We also chat about chickens, coffee and wine adjectives, local honey, morel mushrooms, and all the hurdles around making videos. Bram's Law was also fulfilled on this day, yet again.

Incredulously Awesome Links:

Jesse's Vim Macros Video https://twitter.com/jesseleite85/status/1691924004892774877
Austen's Vim Tips Video https://youtu.be/wNpJbiPja08
Vim Mastery with Jeffrey Way https://laracasts.com/series/vim-mastery
Neovim as an IDE with Jess Archer https://laracasts.com/series/neovim-as-a-php-ide
Derek Wyatt's (older but awesome) Vim Tutorials http://derekwyatt.org/vim/tutorials/index.html
Screencasting Course with Aaron Francis https://screencasting.com/
Code Rush with Rob de Kort & Jay George https://coderush.dev/
The Fascinating World of Morel Mushrooms https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-H6z6M2_8U
- Please do not poison yourself with fake morels! Thank you in advance!

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Ep 3: Even More Laracon & Livewire

Austen Cameron & Jesse Leite — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 09:36:03 -0600

Podcast jingle ideas, even more Laracon thoughts, and why Livewire is becoming the #GOAT, in our hopefully humble opinions.

Superb Links:

Laracon US 2023 Talks https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=laracon+us+2023
Livewire https://livewire.laravel.com/
Alpine https://alpinejs.dev/
Inertia https://inertiajs.com/

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Ep 2: Laracon & Drums

Austen Cameron & Jesse Leite — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 11:10:57 -0600

Imagine a podcast where we talk about publishing a podcast (how meta)! Jesse then recaps his second-ever Laracon. We also nerd out about drums for a while.

Rad Links:

Laracon US 2023 Talks https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=laracon+us+2023
Drumeo https://www.drumeo.com/

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@jesseleite85

Ep 1: Custom Keyboards & Clicky Bait

Austen Cameron & Jesse Leite — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 12:31:41 -0600

Mechanical keyboards are quite the rabbit hole. Also, you should try out Space Cadet Shift keys. Trust us.

Very Good Links:

What is "ortholinear"? https://twitter.com/jesseleite85/status/1495889187450544137?s=20
Iris (Austen's keyboard) https://keeb.io/collections/iris-split-ergonomic-keyboard (keymap here)
Lily58 (Jesse's keyboard) https://github.com/kata0510/Lily58 (keymap here)
Nijuni (Corne variant that we're both building soon) https://github.com/krikun98/nijuni
LOTR keycaps (https://drop.com/featured/lotr)

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@austencam

Ep 0: Geocities, DOS, and Bad Audio

Austen Cameron & Jesse Leite — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 12:20:53 -0600

Jesse and Austen talk about each other's developer origin story. How (and when) did all this web development nonsense start?

Warning: Garbage audio quality in this episode, but we hit publish anyway. It can only get better from here!

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