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- 2023
- First episode
About Campfire Coders
Come sit by the fire with dudes nerdin' out about dev, keyboards, drums, drinks, and who knows what else! 🇺🇸: Austen Cameron (@austencam) 🇨🇦: Jesse Leite (@jesseleite85)
- Publisher
- Austen Cameron & Jesse Leite
- Category
- arts · technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 11 Aug 2023
- Latest episode
- 31 Jul 2025
Latest episodes
18 episodes in the feed.
31 Jul 2025
Ep 16: Linear, Chainsaws, and Supertab, oh m'AI!
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. Linear (https://linear.app/) Statamic 6 Sneak Peak (https://statamic.com/blog/statamic-6-sneak-peek) Opencode.ai (https://opencode.ai/) Cursor Background Agents (https://docs.cursor.com/background-agent) Git Worktrees (https://git-scm.com/docs/git-worktree) Andrej Karpathy's Talk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCEmiRjPEtQ) Find us on X @campfirecoders (https://x.com/campfirecoders) / @austencam (https://x.com/austencam) / @jesseleite85 (https://x.com/jesseleite85) Email us hey@campfirecoders.com (mailto:hey@campfirecoders.com)
26 Jul 2025
Ep 15: Real Edition
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! Laracon! (https://laracon.us/) Direnv (https://direnv.net/) Cursor (https://cursor.com/) Ghostty (https://ghostty.org/) Find us on X @campfirecoders (https://x.com/campfirecoders) / @austencam (https://x.com/austencam) / @jesseleite85 (https://x.com/jesseleite85) Email us hey@campfirecoders.com (mailto:hey@campfirecoders.com)
26 Jul 2025
Ep 15x: Season Two Intro
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! 😎 Find us on X @campfirecoders (https://x.com/campfirecoders) / @austencam (https://x.com/austencam) / @jesseleite85 (https://x.com/jesseleite85) Email us hey@campfirecoders.com (mailto:hey@campfirecoders.com)
19 Sept 2024
Ep 14: Never Too Hot for a Twerking Session
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: DAP Artisan Keycaps (https://dapkeys.com/) 1337 Keyboards (https://1337keyboards.com/) Simple Commerce (https://statamic.com/addons/duncanmcclean/simple-commerce) Laracon US Talks Playlist (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=354MWY_K9yo&list=PLcjapmjyX17hK5-iWezBxrkyThRn8LkZc&index=5) Verbs (https://verbs.thunk.dev/) Radical Design (https://radicaldesigncourse.com/) Flux UI (https://fluxui.dev/) CLI Lab (https://cli.lab.joe.codes/) Terminal.shop Coffee (https://www.terminal.shop/) 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! Find us on X @campfirecoders (https://x.com/campfirecoders) / @austencam (https://x.com/austencam) / @jesseleite85 (https://x.com/jesseleite85) Email us hey@campfirecoders.com (mailto:hey@campfirecoders.com)
14 Aug 2024
Ep 13: Romeing Around Italy w/ Statamic
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: Statamic (https://statamic.com/) Flat Camp (https://flatcamp.com/) Livewire (https://livewire.laravel.com/) Volt (https://livewire.laravel.com/docs/volt) Find us on X @austencam (https://twitter.com/austencam) and @jesseleite85 (https://twitter.com/jesseleite85) Email us hey@campfirecoders.com (mailto:hey@campfirecoders.com)
3 Jul 2024
Ep 12: Coffee w/ Dr. Sforzando & Prof. Leitmotif
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: Music Sforzando (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamics_(music)#Sudden_changes_and_accented_notes) Leitmotif (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leitmotif) Dredg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dredg) Coffee Pourover (https://youtu.be/BG5Tc8MR2_4) French Press (https://youtu.be/CYhYXF9NsbI) Moka Pot (https://youtu.be/upgQsA5kLAk) Custom keymapping Karabiner Elements (https://karabiner-elements.pqrs.org/) QMK Firmware (https://docs.qmk.fm/) ZMK Firmware (https://zmk.dev/docs) Find us on X @austencam (https://twitter.com/austencam) and @jesseleite85 (https://twitter.com/jesseleite85) Email us hey@campfirecoders.com (mailto:hey@campfirecoders.com)
25 Jun 2024
Ep 11: Horsing Around in the Third Dimension
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 (mailto:hey@campfirecoders.com)! What do you think of: Strict types TDD Enums PHP attributes Match expressions Find us on X @austencam (https://twitter.com/austencam) and @jesseleite85 (https://twitter.com/jesseleite85) Email us hey@campfirecoders.com (mailto:hey@campfirecoders.com)
23 Feb 2024
Ep 10: Granny Games & Playdates
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 (https://play.date/) handheld console and SDK (https://play.date/dev/) Godot (https://godotengine.org/) game engine Creativity in the design of Comix Zone (https://youtu.be/14fjweLM3vA?si=g1oEe145HgMOc7-v) M*ckup (Part 2) ⚠️ Be careful with this software on macOS Ventura and Sonoma! ⚠️ Find us on X @austencam (https://twitter.com/austencam) and @jesseleite85 (https://twitter.com/jesseleite85)
12 Dec 2023
Ep 9: It's Pronounced "Zed Ess Haetsch", Austen
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 (https://github.com/austenc/dotfiles) Jesse's dotfiles (https://github.com/jesseleite/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 (https://vimfornormalpeople.com/) Will be choose your own adventure style course Had no name or signup when we recorded this episode, but now we do (https://vimfornormalpeople.com/) 😎 Also check out Vim Adventures (https://vim-adventures.com/) Austen Doing Rad Stuff w/ Laravel + Tauri (https://x.com/austencam/status/1719495702836068512?s=20) ^ 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 (https://x.com/austencam/status/1719495702836068512?s=20) 🤯 Also check out NativePHP (https://nativephp.com/) by Marcel Pociot (https://twitter.com/marcelpociot) And Rust for PHP Devs (https://rustforphp.dev/) by Ryan Chandler (https://twitter.com/ryangjchandler)
31 Oct 2023
Ep 8: Junk Drawer Management
Managing project junk drawers and building the same thing over and over again. Desktop apps, backlogs, great UX, and a dang good time. --- 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? @campfirecoders (https://twitter.com/campfirecoders) on X or email hey@campfirecoders.com (mailto:hey@campfirecoders.com) Most Excellent Links: 👏 Wirebox (https://wirebox.app/) - like Codepen, but for Livewire! by @Philo01 (https://twitter.com/Philo01) 🎙️ Talking Businessly (https://podcast.thunk.dev/) - an excellent podcast from wonderful people 🔗 The episode of NPTM Jesse was talking about (https://noplanstomerge.com/121) when he said ^ 🤩 Linear (https://linear.app) - beautiful UX, but also The Linear Method (https://linear.app/method) Find us on X @austencam (https://twitter.com/austencam) and @jesseleite85 (https://twitter.com/jesseleite85)
14 Oct 2023
Ep 7: We Are Artificially Intelligent
Ramen broth and AI; The two hottest topics (literally speaking for the former) to grace the internet since 2023! Links: Copilot (https://github.com/features/copilot) Cursor (https://cursor.sh/) Rewind (https://www.rewind.ai/) Jamon Holmgren (https://twitter.com/jamonholmgren)'s crazy test suite refactor example (https://youtu.be/p2mO1JiF-7U) Find us on Twitter (X?) @austencam (https://twitter.com/austencam) @jesseleite85 (https://twitter.com/jesseleite85)
17 Sept 2023
Ep 6: Domain Hoarding
Jesse and Austen discuss past projects, potential projects, and the topic of domain hoarding. Links: - Dustforce game (https://dustforce.com/) - Lightyear Figma Illustration (https://www.figma.com/community/file/1122148921238357545/Lightyear) (seriously, open this one in Figma and click around) - Austen's Site Illustration Timelapse (https://youtu.be/5gDAQzAd1n8) Find us on X (formerly Twitter): @austencam (https://twitter.com/austencam) @jesseleite85 (https://twitter.com/jesseleite85) Feedback? Suggestions? Send it here: hey@campfirecoders.com (mailto:hey@campfirecoders.com)
9 Sept 2023
Ep 5: Mac Tools
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/ (https://www.raycast.com/) Hammerspoon https://www.hammerspoon.org/ (https://www.hammerspoon.org/) Find us on Twitter (X?) @austencam (https://twitter.com/austencam) @jesseleite85 (https://twitter.com/jesseleite85)
28 Aug 2023
Ep 4: Cat Allergies & Making Videos
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 (https://twitter.com/jesseleite85/status/1691924004892774877) Austen's Vim Tips Video https://youtu.be/wNpJbiPja08 (https://youtu.be/wNpJbiPja08) Vim Mastery with Jeffrey Way https://laracasts.com/series/vim-mastery (https://laracasts.com/series/vim-mastery) Neovim as an IDE with Jess Archer https://laracasts.com/series/neovim-as-a-php-ide (https://laracasts.com/series/neovim-as-a-php-ide) Derek Wyatt's (older but awesome) Vim Tutorials http://derekwyatt.org/vim/tutorials/index.html (http://derekwyatt.org/vim/tutorials/index.html) Screencasting Course with Aaron Francis https://screencasting.com/ (https://screencasting.com/) Code Rush with Rob de Kort & Jay George https://coderush.dev/ (https://coderush.dev/) The Fascinating World of Morel Mushrooms https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-H6z6M2_8U (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-H6z6M2_8U) Please do not poison yourself with fake morels! Thank you in advance! Find us on Twitter (X?) @austencam (https://twitter.com/austencam) @jesseleite85 (https://twitter.com/jesseleite85)
24 Aug 2023
Ep 3: Even More Laracon & Livewire
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 (https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=laracon+us+2023) Livewire https://livewire.laravel.com/ (https://livewire.laravel.com/) Alpine https://alpinejs.dev/ (https://alpinejs.dev/) Inertia https://inertiajs.com/ (https://inertiajs.com/) Find us on Twitter (X?) @austencam (https://twitter.com/austencam) @jesseleite85 (https://twitter.com/jesseleite85)
18 Aug 2023
Ep 2: Laracon & Drums
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 (https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=laracon+us+2023) Drumeo https://www.drumeo.com/ (https://www.drumeo.com/) Find us on Twitter (X?) @austencam (https://twitter.com/austencam) @jesseleite85 (https://twitter.com/jesseleite85)
11 Aug 2023
Ep 1: Custom Keyboards & Clicky Bait
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 (https://twitter.com/jesseleite85/status/1495889187450544137?s=20) Iris (Austen's keyboard) https://keeb.io/collections/iris-split-ergonomic-keyboard (https://keeb.io/collections/iris-split-ergonomic-keyboard) (keymap here (https://github.com/austenc/qmk_firmware/blob/b0cdfb024b590bb1b807d419bbf4bd10af231828/keyboards/keebio/iris/keymaps/austencam/keymap.c)) Lily58 (Jesse's keyboard) https://github.com/kata0510/Lily58 (https://github.com/kata0510/Lily58) (keymap here (https://github.com/jesseleite/dotfiles/blob/765cbfc0027dbc32ffc1cfc66fd7147fa83142d7/qmk/lily58/keymap.c)) Nijuni (Corne variant that we're both building soon) https://github.com/krikun98/nijuni (https://github.com/krikun98/nijuni) LOTR keycaps (https://drop.com/featured/lotr (https://drop.com/featured/lotr)) Find us on Twitter (X?) @jesseleite85 (https://twitter.com/jesseleite85) @austencam (https://twitter.com/austencam)
11 Aug 2023
Ep 0: Geocities, DOS, and Bad Audio
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! Find us on Twitter (X?) @jesseleite85 (https://twitter.com/jesseleite85) @austencam (https://twitter.com/austencam)
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- 6 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 1 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 14 / 100
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