web01.fireside.fm Tue, 07 Apr 2026 05:33:16 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Hobby Horse - Episodes Tagged with “Tech” https://the.hobbyhorse.club/tags/tech Sat, 05 May 2018 14:00:00 -0700 Interviews with notable people talking about something they're not normally known for, or outside their normal purview, how they got into it and what they love most about it. Any sort of hobby, side-gig, or obsession is fair game. en-us episodic Interviews that go elsewhere Matt Haughey Interviews with notable people talking about something they're not normally known for, or outside their normal purview, how they got into it and what they love most about it. Any sort of hobby, side-gig, or obsession is fair game. yes Matt Haughey mathowie@gmail.com Episode 5: Jeff Atwood really loves his Yo-Yos https://the.hobbyhorse.club/5 d2437a34-2247-4b00-959c-90be177e3103 Sat, 05 May 2018 14:00:00 -0700 Matt Haughey full Matt Haughey 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. 43:29 yes calvin-hobbes-yoyo https://uploads.fireside.fm/images/8/8902c1c9-f2fa-4d62-89a4-5ff690afde35/JTtJCen7.png The four shapes of yo-yos: Types of YoYos https://uploads.fireside.fm/images/8/8902c1c9-f2fa-4d62-89a4-5ff690afde35/fFX3p2f8.png A wall rack showing off some of Jeff's 200-300 yo-yos he currently owns: Jeffsyoyos https://uploads.fireside.fm/images/8/8902c1c9-f2fa-4d62-89a4-5ff690afde35/PuQLrJNs.jpg Jeff Atwood is the co-founder of Stack Overflow and the Stack Exchange network of Q&A sites and in 2012 started his company Discourse (https://www.discourse.org/) to build software and services around better forums. In September of 2017, his son got a yo-yo and Jeff was instantly hooked, playing with yo-yos for the first time since he was a kid in the 1980s, and it quickly became an obsession and a collection with hundreds of yo-yos. Recently he's been sending out gift packs to everyone he knows online and we talk about how he came to yo-yos, what's great about them, and why he's spreading the gospel of yo-yos to anyone who wants to listen and try. calvin-hobbes-yoyo

The four shapes of yo-yos:
Types of YoYos

A wall rack showing off some of Jeff's 200-300 yo-yos he currently owns:
Jeffsyoyos

Jeff Atwood is the co-founder of Stack Overflow and the Stack Exchange network of Q&A sites and in 2012 started his company Discourse to build software and services around better forums.

In September of 2017, his son got a yo-yo and Jeff was instantly hooked, playing with yo-yos for the first time since he was a kid in the 1980s, and it quickly became an obsession and a collection with hundreds of yo-yos. Recently he's been sending out gift packs to everyone he knows online and we talk about how he came to yo-yos, what's great about them, and why he's spreading the gospel of yo-yos to anyone who wants to listen and try.

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The four shapes of yo-yos:
Types of YoYos

A wall rack showing off some of Jeff's 200-300 yo-yos he currently owns:
Jeffsyoyos

Jeff Atwood is the co-founder of Stack Overflow and the Stack Exchange network of Q&A sites and in 2012 started his company Discourse to build software and services around better forums.

In September of 2017, his son got a yo-yo and Jeff was instantly hooked, playing with yo-yos for the first time since he was a kid in the 1980s, and it quickly became an obsession and a collection with hundreds of yo-yos. Recently he's been sending out gift packs to everyone he knows online and we talk about how he came to yo-yos, what's great about them, and why he's spreading the gospel of yo-yos to anyone who wants to listen and try.

Links:

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