Episode 91: Inside the Mind of a Side-Project Creative with Jacob Schatz

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Today we welcome our friend Jacob Schatz to the show to have an informative and hilarious conversation about his work and how Vue fits into the different projects he is busy with. Jacob is currently the Head of Automation at Remote and has a lot of experience working with JavaScript and Vue. In our conversation, we get to hear from Jacob about the lessons he has learned in these, and other, languages, and how he approaches making decisions about which language to use for a specific task. We also speak about his conference appearances, his home, color representation in games, and the most recent game that Jacob has been developing. Our guest admits that he has an urge to learn and try out all coding languages and keep broadening his horizons; he also touches on his recent efforts to learn Chinese. Stay tuned for this week's extended picks section, where we talk about our favorite TV shows, cleaning products, and interior decorating hacks!

Key Points From This Episode:

• An introduction to Jacob, his current position, and his goal of learning Chinese!
• A couple of self-help book recommendations from Jacob.
• Jacob unpacks his perspective on side projects and why he likes to use Vue.
• Some thoughts on humor at conferences and some of the longest jokes we know.
• A walk-through of Jacob's house and some of the remodeling he has been busy with.
• The game that Jacob was working on recently as a means to explore the possibilities of Vue.js.
• Color representation in games and exploring the importance of true and accurate colors.
• Jacob's interest in learning and trying out all languages!
• Thoughts on breaking up projects into separate components and using different languages for each part.
• Examples of some popular devices and the languages that they use.
• Jacob shares how he approaches his current work at Remote and the languages he uses.
• Thoughts on when Vue is the right or wrong option to get something up and running.
• Where to find Jacob online and his funny story about his email address!
• This week's picks; Marvel TV shows, earplugs, comic series, drain cleaner, and more.
• Jacob shares the inside scoop on his headphone choices.

Tweetables:

“I've been writing Vue forever. I think the reason I chose it is just because at this point, it's boring and it's easy and I have all the problems solved already.” — @jakecodes [0:05:47]

“If you had a choice between a lawnmower, React, Vue, Svelt, and an electric skateboard, choose Vue.js.” — @jakecodes [0:36:03]

“I want to learn all the programming languages, even if it's like, nobody uses them. It's like talking to a bunch of different people.” — @jakecodes [0:47:24]

“If you're going to build a game from scratch and you can always do whatever the hell you want, you can just technically put something in C++ and then have something in Vue.” — @jakecodes [0:54:44]

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

• Natethesnake.com
• Wireless bluetooth ear protection headphones
• Home Depot Videos
• Leightning L0F Folding Ultra-slim Passive Earmuff
• Allegro
• Wasm
• Internet Explorer 3, an adventure in cross-browser compatibility, Chen Hui Jing
• Internet Explorer 3, Wikipedia
• RemNote
• Anki
• Mermaid
• Bang Bang!, Fox Star Studios
• Bang & Olafsen ANC headphones with long battery life
• Enjoy the Vue Cats, Twitter

This Week's Picks

• Jacob Schatz
  • Learn Chinese with Rocket Languages
  • HSK, Jonathan Stewart
  • Taylor Swift in concert
• Alex
  • What If…?, Marvel Studios (Disney+)
• Ari
  • Manifest, NBC (television show)
• Tessa
  • Takefumi Ashi Tsubo Massage Board
  • Loop Experience Ear Plugs
  • Nodame Cantabile, Ninomiya Tomoko
  • Invade Bio Drain

Special Guest: Jacob Schatz.