added episode 42; lane shackleton

Author: Steve Krouse

episodes/042.md

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-title: 42 - TODO - Lane Shackleton
+title: 42 - Blurring the Line Between User and Programming - Lane Shackleton
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-# #42 - TODO: Lane Shackleton
+# #42 - Blurring the Line Between User and Programming: Lane Shackleton
 
-_TODO/2019_
+_08/15/2019_
 
-TODO
+"The world's been divided into people who can make software, and the people who use software all day, and basically we think that that paradigm is not a good one. It feels kind of broken," says Lane Shackleton, Head of Product at Coda, where they are building a new kind of document that blurs the line between users and programmers. 
 
-TODO
+A Coda document starts out looking like a familiar online document, a lot like Google Docs. There's a blinking cursor, you can bold and italicize text, add images, and collaboratively edit it alongside others. But a Coda table is much more powerful than a traditional table that you'd find in a typical word processor. Like a spreadsheet, the a Coda table allows you to create complex relationship between pieces of data via a formula language. Upon closer examination, the Coda table is more structured than spreadsheets and more closely resembles a friendly relational database, like Airtable.
 
-<!--Alan Kay quote of simple simple and hard possible-->
-<!--youtube ran on spreadsheets. X (5?) years in private beta and now public-->
-<!--changing the way people see themselves, and the way communities, families, etc function-->
-<!--domain experts should get to model their world-->
-<!--vision is apps used externally one day-->
-<!--start with a simple doc and evolve your knowledge with it-->
+If you're familiar with Notion, another augmented document medium, this all may sound familiar. Coda differentiates itself in a few ways. For one, it allows users to build complex (but no-code) trigger-based workflows from within the tool, such as when a table is modified or a button is pressed. For another, Coda really sells itself as an app-builder, in that teams can use Coda documents on their phones as native mobile apps. For example, a bike shop can have its employees easily swipe and snap a photo of inventory directly into a Coda table simply by creating a photo column in that table. Coda takes care of converting that column into an interface that automatically pulls up the camera on mobile.
 
-<!--previewing intermediate values in formula creation, inspired by BV-->
-<!--infix with dot operator-->
-<!--start concrete and abstract: buttons that push buttons-->
+Coda was inspired by the founders' experience at YouTube, where the company "ran on spreadsheets," but now they dream of building a medium that fundamentally changes how people see themselves, as creators instead of merely as consumers, and reshapes the way teams, communities, and even families collaborate and function. It's a big, compelling vision, and Coda has a long way to go.
 
-<!--blurring the distinction between users and programmers-->
+<iframe src="https://omny.fm/shows/future-of-coding/blurring-the-line-between-user-and-programming-lan/embed" width="100%" height="180" frameborder="0" title="Blurring the Line Between User and Programming: Lane Shackleton"></iframe>
 
-<!--academia vs startups of quicker but then risk you don't get the foundations right... more like academics than other startups-->
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-## Full Transcript
+## Transcript
 
 _Transcript sponsored by [repl.it](https://repl.it/)_
 

index.md

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 # Episodes
 
+<span class="date">2019 Aug 15 -</span> [#42 - Blurring the Line Between User and Programmer: Lane Shackleton](./episodes/042)
+
 <span class="date">2019 Jul 26 -</span> [#41 - The Aesthetics of Programming Tools: Jack Rusher](./episodes/041)
 
 <span class="date">2019 Jun 13 -</span> [#40 - Joining Logic, Relational, and Functional Programming: Michael Arntzenius](./episodes/040)