Episode Archive
20 episodes of Hobby Horse since the first episode, which aired on March 29th, 2018.
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Episode 20: Steven Masuch is a pog slammer
November 12th, 2018 | 41 mins 12 secs
ios, pogs, web
Steven Masuch is a "character actor of the web," working on a variety of projects but hosts the Slam for Hope Pog Tournament each year in Vancouver BC, Canada.
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Episode 19: Erin McKean has sewn hundreds of dresses
November 10th, 2018 | 50 mins 53 secs
sewing
Erin McKean joins us to talk about her Dress-a-Day project, her lexicographer and developer relations past and sewing in general.
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Episode 18: Dan Benjamin knows what time it is thanks to his watches
October 19th, 2018 | 1 hr 12 mins
watches
Dan Benjamin on everything he loves about watches.
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Episode 17: Darius Kazemi explains his love of anime
September 16th, 2018 | 58 mins 43 secs
anime, bots, movies
Darius Kazemi, programmer, bot author, and Mozilla fellow is into anime and has a podcast about his favorite show. He explains it all to me, a person that has never really gotten into it.
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Episode 16: Todd Hamina is a winemaker that raced his bike across America
July 29th, 2018 | 42 mins 12 secs
bikes, cycling, wine
Todd Hamina has been making wine for 26 years and riding his bike for the past decade.
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Episode 15: Lucy Burningham spent a year becoming a beer sommelier
July 25th, 2018 | 39 mins 5 secs
beer
Writer, author of My Beer Year and certified cicerone
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Episode 14: Tiffani Ashley Bell is a Formula One Fan
July 13th, 2018 | 41 mins 30 secs
Tiffani is into really fast car racing around the world
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Episode 13: Amber Castaldo is a roller derby jammer
July 6th, 2018 | 37 mins 58 secs
portland, roller derby, sports
Amber tells us everything there is to know about roller derby
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Episode 12: Dinah Sanders rolls for initiative
June 23rd, 2018 | 1 hr 3 mins
cocktails, dungeons and dragons, games, gaming, organization
Dinah shares her knowledge of D&D, how to be a DM, and how to get into the game.
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Episode 11: Andy Baio has been eaten by a grue
June 19th, 2018 | 53 mins 53 secs
games, gaming, text adventure
Andy Baio and his love of the text adventure
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Episode 10: Marcin Wichary quit his job for his love of keyboards
June 7th, 2018 | 1 hr 8 mins
books, google, keyboard, typewriter
Our first "success story" (that is still in progress) where Marcin's hobby became so important he quit his job to pursue writing full-time, to write his first book about the history of typewriters and keyboards.
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Episode 9: Alex Cox enjoys some weed
June 3rd, 2018 | 58 mins 36 secs
chicago, marijuana, mental health, weed
Duuuuuuude. Dude. Dude. Duuuude.
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Episode 8: John Roderick on the last frontier: Alaska
May 28th, 2018 | 1 hr 26 mins
alaska, travel
John Roderick teaches us all the basics of the 49th state added to the union
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Episode 7: Erika Hall on what it takes to be a triathlete
May 19th, 2018 | 58 mins 49 secs
cycling, running, sports, swimming, triathlon
Erika Hall talks about out how much work it takes to follow a sport even though "Triathletes are worse than people who go to Burning Man."
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Episode 6: Jessie Char and her love of Disney Parks
May 11th, 2018 | 46 mins 23 secs
disney, ios
Jessie Char, co-founder of the iOS design conference Layers goes deep on her love of all things Disney parks.
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Episode 5: Jeff Atwood really loves his Yo-Yos
May 5th, 2018 | 43 mins 29 secs
tech, toys
The co-founder of Stack Overflow and founder of Discourse.org shares why he loves yo-yos so much, how big his collection is, and why he keeps sending yo-yos to everyone he knows.