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Had a fascinating conversation today with Joel Hooks who runs egghead.io and badass.dev.  We talked about about the evolving landscape of online education in the developer space. Recorded on September 5th, 2024.

Chris Oliver, the creator behind GoRails, Jumpstart, HatchBox and his new product, SellRepo, joins me to talk bootstrapping his Ruby on Rails training business and related tools with only a team of 3!  A great wide-ranging conversation. Recorded on September 4th, 2024 Note:  Sorry!  My short intro …

I caught up with Josh Pigford today, founder of Maybe, ToolStash, and many other projects.  We covered a lot of ground across many of his different projects, but spent the bulk of this chat geeking out about programmatic SEO.  The strategy, the technical approach, and exactly what (and how) he buil…

Mike McAllister is a designer of brands, websites, products, and WordPress goodness... Here in part 2 of our conversation, we dive into Mike's current work on OllieWP, a new product that brings great design to the WordPress ecosystem. We also talked about the balance of working on products with tak…

Mike McAllister has an incredible track record as a designer of brands, websites, products, and WordPress goodness... In part 1, we talked about Mike's experience building a successful WordPress products business that was acquired by WPEngine, and what he learned from the transition between indie p…

Here's my conversation with Shawn Adrian, co-founder of Input Logic, a product design and development agency.  They're also launching their own product in 2024 in the AI journaling space, called Stilo.ai. This conversation was recorded on March 5th, 2024.

Daniel Coulbourne is the cofounder of Thunk.dev and the co-host of the Talking Businessly podcast.  We had a great conversation about the "80/20 model" in software development consulting, striking a balance between working with clients and building your own products and projects.  This conversation…

Jack McDade is the creator of the new course, Radical Design. He's also the founder of Statamic CMS.  In this contuation of our conversation, we talked about Jack's unique approach to designing things and how he strikes a balance between fun refreshing projects like this, and running a successful p…

Jack McDade is the founder of Statamic CMS and the creator of the new course, Radical Design.  In this conversation, Jack shared his story of going from film maker to full stack designer and developer to building a website CMS product. Brian and Jack's conversation was recorded on February 20th, 20…