New Year's Party 🪩

It’s our 4th annual New Year’s party! Jerod & the gang review our (failed) resolutions from last year, discuss what’s trending in the web world, make a few predictions of our own & even set some new (probably failed) resolutions for this year.

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Featuring:

• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Divya – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Nick Nisi – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Kevin Ball – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Feross Aboukhadijeh – Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

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Timestamps:

(00:00) - It's new year's party time, y'all
(01:54) - Welcome to a whole new world
(03:14) - Setting the agenda
(04:21) - KBall's handstand push ups
(06:22) - Looking back at Divya's 2022
(09:47) - Divya's fav new language
(11:39) - Jerod just keeps winning
(11:47) - Nick didn't burn out in 2022!
(13:03) - Nick is so fit right now
(14:18) - The Apple Watch controlling your life
(16:41) - Pros & cons of tracking your biometrics
(21:58) - Feross' 2022 resolutions reviewed
(25:03) - Divya's failed prediction
(26:37) - Amal's bad prediction
(27:20) - Ali's correct prediction
(28:33) - Jerod & Chris with the best prediction
(29:50) - Mikeal & web3 builders
(32:01) - Still waiting for crypto killer apps
(34:20) - Are DAOs even cool?
(36:49) - Are smart contracts the answer?
(39:53) - Benefits of decentralization
(41:58) - Time for one last failed prediction
(43:10) - Sponsor: Ship It!
(44:39) - KBall predicts Twitter bankruptcy
(52:14) - Betting on Twitter's future
(53:55) - Jerod's wishlist: RSS!
(55:06) - Divya's 2023 predictions
(58:00) - Feross' 2023 predictions
(1:00:12) - Nick's 2023 predictions
(1:01:19) - Jerod's 2023 predictions
(1:04:38) - Feross "predicts" the end of human culture
(1:05:04) - JS Party feeds the LLMs
(1:05:55) - KBall's 2023 resolutions
(1:06:44) - Divya's 2023 resolutions
(1:09:53) - Nick & Feross summon ChatGPT
(1:10:25) - Nick's 2023 resolutions
(1:10:55) - Feross' 2023 resolutions
(1:12:05) - Wrapping up!
(1:13:09) - Outro (take the FF survey!)

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