Immutable

In this final episode of Immutable: Bryn and Sam share their favorite moments and what they're doing next.

Have a question? Want to chat? Join our community on Spectrum or tweet at us, @immutablefm! Ableton Push 3Blue1Brown Ableton Live Propellerheads Reason Mainstage Teenage Engineering Pocket Operator Teenage Engineering OP-1 George Kedenburg Kory Westerhold Tim van Damme JP Simard

Have a question? Want to chat? Join our community on Spectrum or tweet at us, @immutablefm! Ryan LeFevre Michael Schultz

Have a question? Want to chat? Join our community on Spectrum or tweet at us, @immutablefm! JP Simard Ryan LeFevre Max Schoening Runebound

Have a question? Want to chat? Join our community on Spectrum or tweet at us, @immutablefm!

Have a question? Want to chat? Join our community on Spectrum or tweet at us, @immutablefm! Brian Lovin Mixpanel Schiit

Have a question? Want to chat? Join our community on Spectrum or tweet at us, @immutablefm!

Have a question? Want to chat? Join our community on Spectrum or tweet at us, @immutablefm! Sponsor: Swiftype - Sign up for a free 7-day trial and free up time and energy for your employees with Swiftype Enterprise Search

In this episode: Sam lives in SF again forever. Bryn's raising more money. Have a question? Want to chat? Join our community on Spectrum or tweet at us, @immutablefm!

Have a question? Want to chat? Join our community on Spectrum or tweet at us, @immutablefm!

Have a question? Want to chat? Join our community on Spectrum or tweet at us, @immutablefm! Creative Mornings: Sam Soffes

Have a question? Want to chat? Join our community on Spectrum or tweet at us, @immutablefm! Sam's job tweet Design Details #1

Have a question? Want to chat? Join our community on Spectrum or tweet at us, @immutablefm! Contrast Daniel Burka Topo Chico Soopa Talking Rain Jeremy Goldberg Charlie Deets on PUBG Michael Schultz Awful Squad video with Michael

Have a question? Want to chat? Join our community on Spectrum or tweet at us, @immutablefm! Contrast MDS Abstract Tabletop RPG on Spectrum Combine Darwin Marlowe Max Stoiber Brian Lovin Market Sizing Fat Ev Williams Digg Bryn on Interface Lovers Noah Stokes Es Bueno Rogie

Have a question? Want to chat? Join our community on Spectrum or tweet at us, @immutablefm! MDS Sidewire Convertible note SAFE Max Stoiber Brian Lovin Sarah Jackson Redacted Johnny Cupcakes PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds

Have a question? Want to chat? Join our community on Spectrum or tweet at us, @immutablefm! Games UX PUBG Caleb Davenport Brian Lovin Rafa Conde Redacted Microsoft Whiteboard Fluent Conference Abstract ReadyDesk Soleio Cuervo Adam "Soopa" Michela Combine Max Schoening Horizon: Zero Dawn

Have a question? Want to chat? Join our community on Spectrum or tweet at us, @immutablefm! Topic 1: What should the balance between designers and developers be? Should designers be making most choices? Or should the developers be making them? Oykun Keegan Jones Sam's channel Topic 2: Does diving hurt your ears? -- BMW F800 GS Ducati Scrambler Vectors Jonnie Hallman Jen Mussari Dustin Senos

Have a question? Want to chat? Join our community on Spectrum or tweet at us, @immutablefm! Redacted Pinpoint Lickability Next Now Styled-Components Isn't Our Code Just the Best Vectors Keegan Jones Watchlist

Have a question? Want to chat? Join our community on Spectrum or tweet at us, @immutablefm! Max Schoening Zeit Next.js Jekyll Contentful Micro Guillermo Rauch Jacob Thornton Vectors Framer Styled Components

Have a question? Want to chat? Join our community on Spectrum or tweet at us, @immutablefm! Arrow Sam's shelf Caleb Davenport on Promises Sam built a table for a friend DJI Spark Tom Moor Free Fallin' Nike Missile Site Ben Scheirman MDS' Intro to Icons

Have a question? Want to chat? Join our community on Spectrum or tweet at us, @immutablefm! Batman: The Killing Joke Green Arrow: Snowbirds Don't Fly Kelly Sutton Josh Williams Max Schoening Susan Kare Bret Victor Horizon: Zero Dawn Dead Cells Video: Polygon Plays Dead Cells "That farm one": Stardew Valley Civilization VI Borderlands

Have a question? Want to chat? Join our community on Spectrum or tweet at us, @immutablefm! Aaron Gotwalt Kevin Rose Sennheiser Game One Sam McDonald Michael Schultz

Have a question? Want to chat? Join our community on Spectrum or tweet at us, @immutablefm! Brian Lovin Aubrey Johnson UENO Jenny Johannesson Marc Hemeon Design, Inc. Framer Kap LiceCap ScreenFlick ScreenFlow ffmpeg GIFBrewery Gifsicle Redacted Bryn's ramen GraphQL Ben Scheirman

Have a question? Want to chat? Join our community on Spectrum or tweet at us, @immutablefm! Matt D. Smith The Tail of the Dragon Brent Jackson aka jxnblk Diana Mounter aka broccolini Adam Michela Josh Puckett GraphQL gRPC AIUX Peter Nowell Sketch Master Wes Bos Wes Bos on Developer Tea Ben Wilkins Rafa Condé Stardew Valley

Have a question? Want to chat? Join our community on Spectrum or tweet at us, @immutablefm! Canvas Max Schoening Oren Teich "Standup: Laptop Sticker" on YouTube "Personal Sam" on YouTube MDS Aubrey Johnson Fully Jarvis Standing Desk Jared Erondu W3C page that recommends REMs Shopify Polaris

Have a question? Want to chat? Join our community on Spectrum or tweet at us, @immutablefm! Ink Sam's drone video DJI Mavic "Free Fallin" Caleb Davenport Ellen Soffes MDS Gabriel Valdivia Star Wars: The Last Jedi Trailer Side-by-side version Eero

If you have questions of your own, you can tweet us at @immutablefm, email us at questions@immutable.fm, chat with us in our new Spectrum frequency, or join our Slack team! Ink Sentry Runtime 38: App Production-Readiness Spectrum Firebase PostgreSQL RethinkDB GraphQL Kelly Sutton Redis Matt Panzarino Carmel Deamicis Flow Nuclide Clerky CFO Andrew Caleb Davenport LegalZoom Orthogonal Brian Lovin

If you have questions of your own, you can tweet us at @immutablefm, email us at questions@immutable.fm, chat with us in our new Spectrum frequency, or join our Slack team! RescueTime Aubrey Johnson Gabriel Valdivia Gabe's prototype post Max Schoening Bread Time "82: Quarry Fish" on Spectrum Caleb Davenport Drew Wilson Michael Flarup Max Stoiber MDS Todd Balsley

If you have questions of your own, you can tweet us at @immutablefm, email us at questions@immutable.fm, chat with us in our new Spectrum frequency, or join our Slack team! Tara's tweet about haptic feedback Tara Mann Max Schoening Sebastiaan De With Tim Van Damme FiftyThree Paper Kevin Gutkowski Michael Knepprath Jeff Smith Spanish Amazon Sony A7sII Patton Oswalt Patton's 8-minute filibuster on Parks and Rec

If you have questions of your own, you can tweet us at @immutablefm, email us at questions@immutable.fm, chat with us in our new Spectrum frequency, or join our Slack team! Max Stoiber ReactConf Design Details with Max Stoiber Ajay Nainani Marc Edwards Marc's post on display resolutions Kevin Smith Jori Lallo NSScreenCast

If you have questions of your own, you can tweet us at @immutablefm, email us at questions@immutable.fm, chat with us in our new Spectrum frequency(!!!), or join our Slack team! Spectrum Figma SXSW Funsize Hustle Podcast Gabriel Valdivia Christophe Tauziet The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Michael Knepprath Stardew Valley Alex Duloz The Pastry Box Project Chris Coyier Noah Stokes Bryn's post, "Clarity", on The Human in the Machine Brian Lovin Max Schoening Tools & Toys Shawn Blanc Uncrate Hood Sisters Nothing Magical Michael Flarup Tara Mann Victor Kernes Victor's icon Anthony Collurafici Blackbox Ryan McLeod Intercom EZDrummer

If you have questions of your own, you can tweet us at @immutablefm, email us at questions@immutable.fm, or join our Slack team! Sam's motorcycle video Sam's music video Sam's VR video Horizon: Zero Dawn The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Primaries The Hood Sisters Overcast Pocket Casts Bumpers Jacob Thornton Ian Ownbey

If you have questions of your own, you can tweet us at @immutablefm, email us at questions@immutable.fm, or join our Slack team! Unity Oculus Marc Edwards Pocket Casts Drew Wilson Sam's rates n contracts n stuff CFOAndrew Space Program, Inc. Jonathan Cutrell Firebase Sidewire Affinity Designer SVG Stack Styled-Components SXSW Figma Framer fresh2design Meetup @ SXSW

If you have questions of your own, you can tweet us at @immutablefm or join our Slack team and most them in the #immutable channel! Topic 1: Do you think Abstract solves the folder structure problem in design? Abstract Kevin Smith Kerem Suer Kerem on Design Details Sketch Figma Tim Van Damme Tom Moor Frank Chimero Josh Brewer Topic 2: How do you handle design feedback, especially visible design? Is Wake the best option? Wake Bryn Jonathan Cutrell Brian Lovin Sam Figma Mirror

If you have questions of your own, you can tweet us at @immutablefm or join our Slack team and most them in the #immutable channel! Brian Lovin Jonathan Cutrell Developer Tea Design Details Fallout 4 Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes Overcooked Ellen Soffes Ink Livestream ActionCable PostgreSQL Redis Max Schoening Fire Emblem: Heroes

If you have questions of your own, you can tweet us at @immutablefm or join our Slack team and most them in the #immutable channel! TV Stand photo CarPlay Tudor Pelagos Brian Lovin Jonathan Cutrell Redux GitHub Projects Zeit now

If you have questions of your own, you can tweet us at @immutablefm or join our Slack team and most them in the #immutable channel! Phoenix Elixir Erlang Oculus Bread Time Bryn.io Next Zeit Spector Brian Lovin Styled Components Max Stoiber Jacob Thornton "Isn't Our Code Just the Best?" Danny Trinh Now Team Sketch Design, Inc. Hodinkee Tudor Pelagos Lamy Noto Kaweco Liliput Caran D'ache metal ballpoint Lamy Pico rOtring RapidPro Fisher Space Pen Check Guardian Mitsubishi Boxy-100 Volkswagen Tiguan Audi Q3 Volkswagen Touareg Audi Q7 BMW 3-series Topic 2: Do design systems stifle creativity? Marc Edwards Keaton Taylor

If you have questions of your own, you can tweet us at @immutablefm or join our Slack team and most them in the #immutable channel! Oculus Steam Unity Tilt Brush Vive Quill Spectrum concept Dribbble Louie Mantia GitHub Medium About.com Rogie King Rogie's Goals Noah Stokes Noah on Design Details Tara Mann

If you have questions of your own, you can tweet us at @immutablefm or join our Slack team and most them in the #immutable channel! Bryn: Jonathan Cutrell Sam: Overcooked Sam's desk LG UltraFine 5K Display NSScreenCast Ben Sherman Max Schoening Rasmus Andersson Gabriel Valdivia David Chen Unity PC Part Picker BitFenix Phenom Case Sam McDonald Nintendo Switch

If you have questions of your own, you can tweet us at @immutablefm or join our Slack team and most them in the #immutable channel! Sam: Photos of Sam's media center Sam's SketchUp file Noah Stokes The Motherfuton News Bryn: Input Mono Operator Robin Rendle David Jonathan Ross Bryn.io Hawkeye purple Gabriel Valdivia Sam's Résumé Jonathan Cutrell Firebase Re-base Rebass HomeBridge Hello Sense Logitech Pop Rogie King Einstein's Miracle Year

If you have questions of your own, you can tweet us at @immutablefm or join our Slack team and most them in the #immutable channel! Topic 1: I use Xcode on my iMac, but want to also use a MacBook to develop as well. I keep all my code locally, not using Github or such. What's the best way to sync my code and easily go back and forth? Topic 2: How do people organize their CSS? I just started using PostCSS and want to clean up a big style sheet. I am splitting up my styles into different parts at the moment (grid.css etc.), and feel like that is the proper way to do it. However, I have no clue how I can best divide things (which .css files I should make; what system makes sense) Spector BassCSS Matt Leonard Sam: Sam's Media Stand Bryn: Jonathan Cutrell Hitman Ip Man

If you have questions of your own, you can tweet us at @immutablefm, email us at questions@immutable.fm, or join our Slack team! Sponsor: Linode Topic 1: What do you see is the best approach for copy on large scale products? Do you find it best when designers, devs and pms are coming up with copy, or have you found it helpful to have dedicated copywriters to work with the group? Oren Teich Sam's update Plasso Stripe Drew Wilson Heavy Rotation Shares JS stack tweet Bryn's update: Doodle Therapy preview tweet Brian Lovin 37Signals

If you have questions of your own, you can tweet us at @immutablefm, email us at questions@immutable.fm, or join our Slack team! Sponsor: Linode Notes: UUID Date.now() Caleb Davenport Hodinkee Tiiny Kevin Rose Seiko Watch Spectrum Active Record docs

If you have questions of your own, you can tweet us at @immutablefm, email us at questions@immutable.fm, or join our Slack team! Sponsor: Linode Topic 1: Are there any particular resources that you guys frequent to digest bits of info to stay aware? Yarn Max Stoiber Jon Gold Jacob Thornton Guillermo Rauch Topic 2: Places you stay away from when working? And do you do anything to block out access to distractions? Hacker News and Designer News are bad so I'm not going to link to them. Figma User Group Concentrate is dead and the website is gone, so I can't link to it. RescueTime Topic 3: People talk about the best practices for handing off files to developers (like Sketch or Figma files). As a developer, what's the best way to learn to quickly build from a design file? Drop Sip ColorSnapper 2 XScope 8 Point Grid Zeplin RedPen Topic 4: How do you find side projects to work on when you’ve run out of creative juice? Topic 5: How do you go from good to great? "Sometimes, magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect."

If you have questions of your own, you can tweet us at @immutablefm, email us at questions@immutable.fm, or join our Slack team! Sponsor: Hired Topic 1: What are you thankful for? Topic 2: What did we do with our free time over Thanksgiving? Our Thanksgiving Dinner Rafa Condé Moana Brian Lovin "Shiny" - Jemaine Clement Civilization VI Deus Ex: Human Revolution React zsh Bryn's dotfiles Diana "broccolini" Mounter Brent "jxnblk" Jackson Rebass Topic 3: What would you do with unlimited time? Hyperbolic Time Chamber Whiskey Topic 4: What do you think of the new MacBook Pro? Topic 5: What games are you playing? Jackbox Party Pack 3 Polygon Plays Quiplash 2 Mario Kart 8 Super Smash Bros Wii U Hitman for iPad Hitman for Xbox Pokemon: Sun & Moon Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Fallout 3 Dishonored 2 Splinter Cell Forza Horizon 3 Grand Theft Auto V Touch the Skyrim Griffin McElroy Pokemon Y Nuzlocke Run Michael Schultz Order 66 Rogue One

If you have questions of your own, you can tweet us at @immutablefm, email us at questions@immutable.fm, or join our Slack team! Sponsor: Hired Topic 1: Preferred static code analysis tools - JavaScript and Ruby. I find myself back in JS this month and my toolset could be outdated. Using eslint and js-beautify to do static checking and format cleanup. (Ruby I’ve moved to RubyMine, but I like the command line so could come back…) JSHint SwiftLint JP Simard Realm RuboCop Sublime Text 3 Topic 2: Using Tachyons in production for SaaS? Good idea or should we try to keep it for smaller projects and prototyping? Adam Morse Tachyons (scroll down for gallery) Spector BassCSS Brent Jackson Topic 3: Any ideas of frameworks with a lot of components written in React already? I mean like react-bootstrap. What else is there? Rebass Topic 4: What’s your best idea that you haven’t acted on yet (that you can share - or you can talk about it in vague terms) - and what’s preventing you from doing it? Brian Lovin Topic 5: What's your current recording setup? Immutable 12: Wal-Mart Brand Audio Shure Beta 87A Supercardioid Marco Arment OWC ThunderBay 4 Focusrite Clarett 8Pre Caleb Davenport Heil PR40 Apogee One Audio-Technica ATH-M40 Master & Dynamic MH40 B&O H3 Beyerdynamic DT770 Pro Tara Mann Beyerdynamic DT880 Beyerdynamic DT990

If you have questions of your own, you can tweet us at @immutablefm, email us at questions@immutable.fm, or join our Slack team! Sponsor: Linode Topic 1: What's your method of choosing colors for text? Do you prefer to use specific hex values or opacity. e.g. Material Design specifies colors with percentages. Material Design's type color guidelines Colorable by jxnblk Topic 2: Thoughts on the new Macbook Pro? Runtime on Touch Bar Topic 3: What's the best monitor recommendation for design other than the 5k iMac's display.? I've heard a lot of good things about Dell but was interested to know your thoughts & recommendations. Marc Edwards' chart Topic 4: What's the most memorable project you've worked on? Design Details #1 Topic 5: What's your process for starting side projects? Do you treat it like you do projects at work, by doing research, defining your target metrics, designing and testing low fi designs, and gradually moving towards final visual designs. Or, do just jump right into mocking out the visuals? Swipies

If you have questions of your own, you can tweet us at @immutablefm, email us at questions@immutable.fm, or join our Slack team! Sponsor: Linode Topic 1: What is typographic scale? Specifics 002: Typographic Scale Robert Bringhurst's The Elements of Typography Topic 2: What is vertical rhythm? Specifics 001: The 8-Point Grid Topic 3: How do you choose fonts? Topic 4: How do you choose a scale that works across web and mobile? Topic 5: What are some common type mistakes?

If you have questions of your own, you can tweet us at @immutablefm, email us at questions@immutable.fm, or join our Slack team! Sponsor: Linode Topic 1: Would be cool to hear how you guys go about doing user research - whats your process like? what steps do you take to ensure you accomplish your goals, what have you found to work or not work. Being at a small company, I often don’t get a chance to do specific metric testing but more holistic testing of a feature or preliminary research Oren Teich Topic 2: Do you ever deal with anxiety? How? I’m in a new position where work comes from multiple different directions and can be unpredictable, so I occasionally feel pretty overwhelmed. Topic 3: Onboarding new hires is tricky. What're some things that previous employers have done that worked well? Boxen Topic 4: In previous episodes, you spoke a lot about building the minimum and “iterating from there.” How do you make sure that this improvement iteration actually happens? Quite often, teams say “we’ll iterate on it,” and then either forget to or start working on something else entirely. How do you make sure that this “improvements” iteration gets done? Topic 5: What are your thoughts on using InVision for prototyping compared to other tools like Framer, Principle, and straight up HTML/CSS/JS? Framer Principle Origami Studio Quartz Composer Flinto Marvel Daniel Hooper PugJS

If you have questions of your own, you can tweet us at @immutablefm, email us at questions@immutable.fm, or join our Slack team! Sponsor: Hired Topic 1: If you were visiting San Francisco for only a few days, what are the top 3–5 things you’d want to do? Visit Mt. Tam See SF from Twin Peaks and/or Treasure Island Alcatraz Bike from Ferry Building, through Presidio and Fort Mason, across the Golden Gate Bridge Fort Funston Hawk Hill Pueblo Bonito Lighthouse Tahoe In-N-Out Tacolicious The Little Chihuahua Darwin Reveille 7th Street Sightglass Samovar Yerba Buena SF MoMA Exploratorium Academy of Sciences de Young Museum Golden Gate Park Bourbon and Branch Tradition SF Monk's Kettle Michael Schultz Topic 2: What software do you guys use for podcasting? Cast Sarah Double-Ender Caleb Davenport Canvas Heavy Rotation Topic 3: What are some areas of technical knowledge debt you’ve been meaning to pay off? Technical Knowledge Debt Modocache Topic 4: What do you do when you’re really really stuck in a side project when it feels like you don’t know how to finish it? Specifics LastFM Kelly Sutton Topic 5: Do you use any screen recording analytics tools? Do you think it violates your user's privacy? Lookback Mixpanel Sentry Segment Mode

If you have questions of your own, you can tweet us at @immutablefm, email us at questions@immutable.fm, or join our Slack team! Sponsor: Linode Topic 1: What do you guys find is the best naming convention for colors in CSS? Papayawhip = #ffefd5 Topic 2: I really want to create a web design framework at work (CSS libraries, components, along with Sketch symbols for quick mockups), but I’m not sure how to separate it out between different clients. I want it to be as reusable as possible, but also customizable for different projects. Not really sure where to start. Spector Gulp Pug Matt Leonard Topic 3: tachyons v semantic UI v something like bootstrap. What sorts of things do I need to consider? Esp. with greenfield projects Tachyons BEM Bootstrap Mark Otto Fat Adam Morse BassCSS Brent Jackson Topic 4: What are your opinions on the Dash app drama? Bogdan Popescu AKA Kapeli: Maker of Dash Phil Schiller Caleb Davenport Runtime DJI Mavic Topic 5: When creating a side project MVP (like HeavyRotation), How do you decide what's a must, what goes & what should be postponed for later in terms of features, polish level, testing, etc? Design Details Heavy Rotation