Does your summer roadtrip across America include Saturn V Rockets, self-driving cars, dinosaur bones, and maybe Kittyhawk? Well, then you might be Oz and family! Charlie and Oz catch up on Oz's grand tour of America's inspiring hubs of ambition and technology, with plenty of detouring into the wonderful book genre of video game memoirs.

Shownotes

• [book] Failure Is Not An Option - Gene Kranz
• [book] Skunkworks - Ben Rich
• [book] The Wright Brothers - David McCullough
• [book] Masters of Doom - David Kushner
• [documentary] Indie Game the Movie
• [book] Sid Meier's Memoir!: A Life in Computer Games
• [book] The Making of Prince of Persia - Jordan Mechner
• [book] Tomorrow, Tomorrow, Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin
• [song] "This song wrote itself" - Charlie's song about self-driving cars, performed in a self-driving car
• Hack Club's "Blot" pen plotter
• Hack Club

Programming is the best! We're chatting with Thorsten Ball (self-published author of Writing an Interpreter in Go and Writing a Compiler in Go) about all of our mutual favorite topics: learning new stuff, great textbooks, writing, and why bugs are actually great (a gift, even!).

Shownotes

• Writing an Interpreter in Go (Thorsten's book):
• Writing a Compiler in Go (Thorsten's book)
• The Dragon Book (compilers)
• Thorsten's newsletter:
• Thorsten's website
• Zed.dev
• Sourcegraph

Zach Latta is the founder of Hack Club (hackclub.com). Zach's a high school dropout who's now helped 30k high school students around the world start their own coding clubs. He also helped build the much-beloved "yo" texting app in 2014. This is a fun conversation about coding in school, being a kid, the importance of friendship in learning, and realizing that you can make awesome stuff with awesome people in this world.

Shownotes:

• Hack Club
• László Polgár
• Yo App:
• Neopets
• Putting the You in CPU
• Pizza Hut BOOK-IT Program