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The Developer’s Guide To Fonts with Stephen Nixon
Scott and Steven Nixon discuss type design, variable fonts, coding fonts, dyslexia-friendly fonts, and best practices for web typography.
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Scott and Steven Nixon discuss type design, variable fonts, coding fonts, dyslexia-friendly fonts, and best practices for web typography.
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In this potluck episode, Scott and CJ discuss TypeScript complexity, Svelte vs Vue, internationalization, the future of React, Astro vs SvelteKit, learning C# or Rust alongside JS/TS, finishing projects, and scoping project quality based on timeline and team size.
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Discussion on best practices, terminology, use cases and cost considerations when using cloud storage providers to store large files, backups, videos, images etc.
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Discussion on why SQLite is gaining popularity, its advantages like efficiency, speed and stability, misconceptions about capabilities, and how SQLite Cloud enhances it by making it shareable and adding enterprise features.
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Wes and Scott discuss 11 habits that can help developers become more effective, covering topics like understanding business goals, continuous learning, having an open mindset, asking for help, helping others, enjoying development, maintaining balance, showing empathy, attention to detail, and being part of the developer community.
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Pocketbase provides a full backend with database, authentication, file storage, and more in an easy to use interface.
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Andrew Burkhart, senior Rust engineer at 1Password, discusses their architecture with cloud, Rust core and thin clients across platforms, how data flows when saving logins, challenges with syncing and encryption, benefits of using Rust for cross-platform, safety and performance, and porting their core to WASM for the web.
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Scott and Wes discuss common components they use across projects such as navigation, headers, toasts, auth forms, admin tables, markdown renderers, icon components, and more.
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Discussion on advanced promise concepts like with resolvers, fetch promises, flow control, concurrency, throttling, TypeScript typing, and more.
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Discussion on building native iOS and Android apps with React Native
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Potluck episode answering submitted questions on various web dev topics
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Discussion on advanced promise concepts like canceling, controlling, helper methods, error handling strategies, and static methods on the Promise constructor.
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Brad Frost discusses design systems, including defining what they are, the technical architecture behind them, challenges with implementation, and how they enable consistency across large organizations.
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The React Miami live podcast episode features special live segments like map/filter/reduce code challenges, JS or NAS audience voting games, and opportunities for the audience to participate.
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React 19 has been released after 2 years, bringing some nice improvements like built-in web components, a new use API, simplified context, and allowing metadata anywhere.
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Johannes Schickling discusses Overtone, a local first music app built on Spotify/Apple Music, and Effect, a library for more structured and reusable TypeScript code.
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Discussion on using actions and form actions in React Server Components for calling server code from the client side without needing a separate API
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A 3-part series on JavaScript promises. Part 1 covers the basics of what promises are, creating promises, and waiting on promises to resolve.
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Emma Stapa, creator of Biome, discusses background, goals, and roadmap of this new CLI tool aiming to replace ESLint and Prettier with better performance and simpler configuration.
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Covers techniques for web scraping, dealing with private APIs, handling authentication, parsing HTML, and challenges like captchas.
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Discussion on finding inspiration in web design and development, how to ethically "steal" ideas, and resources for capturing inspiration.
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Ben Vinegar discusses Cloudflare Analytics Engine, building Counter Scale, managing the Syntax podcast under Sentry, and more.
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Scott and Wes detail their Visual Studio Code setups, extensions, themes, fonts, shortcuts and other preferences.
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Explore different online services, code playgrounds, and local setups for quickly testing coding ideas and concepts.
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Corey Laviska, creator of Shoelace, and Connor Rogers, Shoelace contributor, discuss reinventing Shoelace as Web Awesome under the Font Awesome umbrella. They talk about the Font Awesome Kickstarter success, wanting to avoid framework churn, and building Web Awesome as an open source UI library focused on web components.
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Topics covered include Shadow DOM vs light DOM, web scraping techniques, local first development, speeding up UI development with component libraries, affordable self-hosting options, syncing offline data, and using AI to summarize audio content.
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Scott and Wes discuss the CSS proposal for mixins and functions being added to the language. This will allow writing cleaner, more reusable code directly in CSS instead of needing a preprocessor.
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Discussion with Google Chrome extensions engineer about changes in Manifest V3, effects on ad blockers, bringing more APIs to service workers, and building extensions.
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Scott and Wes discuss tips for becoming a better developer, getting a better job, and improving your life.
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Discussion about cache invalidation issues when caching user-specific data, solutions like using different URLs, partial caching, edge functions, and drawbacks like flash of unstyled content.
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In this episode Scott and Wes Bos interview Corbin Crutchley, author of the Framework Field Guide, about his experiences with and comparisons of React, Vue and Angular.
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This episode covers different categories of UI component libraries for building web apps, from low-level headless utilities to full featured design systems. Key factors in choosing a UI library are functionality, accessibility, styling, and ability to adapt the components.
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Scott and Wes discuss the latest web development news in 2010 including jQuery 1.2, mobile apps with HTML5, custom fonts, rounded corner CSS, Node.js, WordPress 2.3 and more.
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Anne and Trudy discuss their backgrounds working with Shopify and building their app Design Packs which adds sections and templates to Shopify themes.
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Wes and Scott discuss fitness tips for developers including getting started with working out, having a home gym, diet, motivation, supplements and more.
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Explaining what middleware is and examples of how it's commonly used in web development for things like authentication, caching, error handling, etc.
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David Flanagan explains Kubernetes, containers, WebAssembly, and self-hosted infrastructure to Wes and Scott. He provides tips for managing your own servers and recommendations for learning more.
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The hosts discuss trends in modern JavaScript tooling including performance gains from writing tools in Rust and Go. They overview established tools like ESLint and Prettier as well as new tools like Biome, Oxc, ESBuild, and Rollup.
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An overview of Docker geared towards web developers - what it is, why its useful, how to get started, core concepts, tools, and some pitfalls.
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Cameron McAfee has a diverse background spanning design, development and products. Known for creating memorable brands and experiences, he aims to build tools that solve problems for creators.