Keith Thompson

S3E1 - WebSacket

March 8th, 2019  |  Season 3  |  34 mins 17 secs

Keith and Jamie are back with another season. In this first episode, Jamie and Keith recap what they have been doing in non-Chronic land and then jump into where they are at with the internal release of Chronic (spoiler alert, very close). They chat about the technical changes made to the Chronic server API and what it took to change the clients along the way.

S2E11 - Chuck a Tarball

July 17th, 2018  |  Season 2  |  32 mins 58 secs

In this last episode for the season, Jamie discusses his talks he has been working on as well as a new chatbot framework called Juvet. Keith talks about the work he been doing around deploying Chronic with hot code swapping. Jamie and Keith both talk about the role of an anonymous user and the initial implementation of GraphQL inside of the Elixir API application. The next few sprints are freed up to get a lot of work done on Chronic. Stay tuned on this feed for season 3 coming in September 2018!

S2E10 - Build Your Own Box Fort

June 7th, 2018  |  Season 2  |  30 mins 8 secs

Keith talks about his experience at ChefCon, moving while living in boxes, and his work on Chronic Workflows. Jamie talks about his implementation of the web timer and drawing boxes for the architecture for his new Elixir bot framework called Juvet.

S2E9 - A Really Young Snowbird

May 15th, 2018  |  Season 2  |  31 mins 38 secs

During this sprint Keith discusses the changes he’s implemented for workflows in Chronic.

Jamie talks about shipping a long awaited Tatsu feature and flipping features in the cloud.

S2E8 - Straight Geocities for a Moment

May 3rd, 2018  |  Season 2  |  31 mins 4 secs

Keith & Jamie are back to discuss the architecture that they've come up with for Chronic, some books that they're reading, the traffic to CoderJourney, and how much imposter syndrome sucks.

S2E7 - First Chat of 2018

April 17th, 2018  |  Season 2  |  29 mins 23 secs

Keith and Jamie return after weeks and weeks (with a lost episode thrown in there). Both of them are trying to get to working on Chronic, trying a new technique to hold themselves accountable.

S2E5 - Maybe Chef Doesn't Suck

February 21st, 2018  |  Season 2  |  21 mins 53 secs

Jamie and Keith are back after another one-month hiatus. During the break, Jamie ventured into Alexa skills and Keith back-pedaled on his opinion of Chef.

S2E4 - Like a Bear

January 24th, 2018  |  Season 2  |  24 mins 11 secs

Jamie and Keith are back to talk about some 2018 goals, winters hours, stress, and the awesomeness that is Elixir/Erlang.

S2E3 - The Grinch is a Hero

December 19th, 2017  |  Season 2  |  28 mins 58 secs

Jamie and Keith are back after taking some intentional time to work on things other than Chronic. They discuss Jamie's continued development of Tatsu and what Keith thinks is going to make for an awesome Python course before digging into the latest development on Chronic.

S2E2 - WebSockets are Confusing

December 16th, 2017  |  Season 2  |  24 mins 14 secs

Jamie and Keith chat about what they got done while working on Chronic and also talk about the progress they hope to make on Tatsu and the Python course (respectively)

S2E1 - The Rise of Chronic

November 28th, 2017  |  Season 2  |  30 mins 23 secs

Keith and Jamie are back from their hiatus. Keith didn't ship anything over that time, but something much more exciting happened. Jamie continued working on Tatsu and Callback. Most importantly, the hosts are now working on a project TOGETHER called Chronic.

S1E17 - Look at All the Things We're Not Doing

August 3rd, 2017  |  Season 1  |  33 mins 9 secs

Jamie and Keith end the first season of The Standup by once again talking about all of the things they didn't get accomplished, but this episode is not without interesting discussion. Keith talks about his struggle trying to use NoSQL and why he switched from Firebase to using Elixir/Phoenix/GraphQL for the backend of Lectern. Jamie celebrates Tatsu being featured as a "Brilliant Bot" by Slack and the scaling issues that came with it.

S1E16 - Game Changer

July 4th, 2017  |  Season 1  |  26 mins 13 secs

Another episode and another two weeks that didn't go as expected. Keith decides to give a binge watching option to his tutorial views and shelves submissions for a few weeks. Jamie runs into the complications that come along with conversation UIs as he implements vacation mode into Tatsu.

S1E15 - The Good News of Meditation

June 20th, 2017  |  Season 1  |  27 mins 3 secs

Jamie and Keith are back from BeerCityCode (and other conferences), and it's right back to hustling. Keith is feeling revitalized, but Jamie needs to recover from his travels. This discussion covers struggles with focus, Keith's web app challenge, and the future of Tatsu and Callback.

S1E14 - Onward to Beer City

June 14th, 2017  |  Season 1  |  28 mins 14 secs

Jamie and Keith reunite to talk about their side hustle adventures. Most of Keith's energy is going into closing the open circles in his life by launching his redesign... and switching to Elixir. While Jamie is

S1E13 - Too Much Coffee

June 7th, 2017  |  Season 1  |  31 mins 8 secs

Keith details his catastrophic coffee issues and being sick yet again. Jamie