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Ron Au's story and how to be whimsical!

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Description
We have a chat with Ron Au, the creator of the infamous floating head talk from 2019! He tells us about his journey from journalism into web development and how he ended up at Hugging Face. Enjoy!

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Intro music by Braden Wiggins a.k.a. Fractal (braden@fractal-hq.com)

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Unpopular Opinions

  • Ron: Svelte is BAD - way too happy when using it. Meeting a ton of interesting people. UGH! THE WORST!
  • Swyx: English has won, Duolingo should not exist

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