Episodes

  • Kind of a big deal

    Kind of a big deal
    Oct 31 2024
    Jerod & the gang play "Twenty" Questions to get to know Amy, review the big Svelte 5 release, discuss commercial open source & get Nick's report from SquiggleConf!
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    1 hr
  • Digging through Jerod Santo’s tool box

    Digging through Jerod Santo’s tool box
    Oct 17 2024
    KBall interviews Jerod about the tools he uses in development, podcasting & business. We start with text editors & terminal tools, move to podcast recording & editing tools, discuss the open source podcasting platform Jerod built in Elixir, then finish with tools to run a small business & our approaches to genAI. Oh, and you don't want to miss Jerod's Big Confession!
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    59 mins
  • A great horse to bet on

    A great horse to bet on
    Oct 10 2024
    Jerod & KBall discuss a trio of goings on in/around the web dev world: Evan You's new startup, Matt Mullenweg's WordPress mess & Ryan Carniato's WebComponents debate.
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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • Create interactive tutorials the easy way

    Create interactive tutorials the easy way
    Oct 3 2024
    Tomek Sułkowski from TutorialKit joins Jerod to tell him all about the open source toolkit for creating awesome, interactive tutorials without having to code up the hard parts.
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    51 mins
  • Leveling up JavaScript with Deno 2

    Leveling up JavaScript with Deno 2
    Sep 26 2024
    Jerod is joined by Ryan Dahl to discuss his second take on leveling up JavaScript developers all around the world. Jerod asks Ryan why not try to fix or fork Node instead of starting fresh, how Deno (the open source project) can avoid the all too common rug pull (not cool) scenario, what's new in Deno 2 & their pragmatic decision to support npm, they talk JSR, they talk Deno KV & SQLite, they even talk about Ryan's open letter to Oracle in an attempt to free the unused "JavaScript" trademark from the giant's clutches.
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    1 hr and 6 mins
  • It's all about the squiggles

    It's all about the squiggles
    Sep 19 2024
    Nick is joined by Josh Goldberg & Dimitri Mitropoulos to discuss SquiggleConf, a new conference focused on web dev tooling. We explore the motivations behind creating a conference dedicated to developer tools, the challenges of organizing both conferences and local meetups, and strategies for building engaged tech communities. We also discuss the importance of developer tooling, the pandemic's impact on tech events, and share insights on encouraging new speakers and creating inclusive environments & more!
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    1 hr and 12 mins
  • Undirected hyper arrows

    Undirected hyper arrows
    Sep 12 2024
    Chris Shank has been on sabbatical since January, so he's had a lot of time to think deeply about the web platform. On this episode, Jerod & KBall pick Chris' brain to answer questions like, what does a post-component paradigm look like? What would it look like if the browser had primitives for building spatial canvases? How can we make it easier to make “folk interfaces” on the web?
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    1 hr and 8 mins
  • Don’t ever use these TypeScript features

    Don’t ever use these TypeScript features
    Sep 5 2024
    Jerod, Nick & Chris discuss a next-gen JavaScript bundler, Node getting even tighter with TypeScript, the top programming languages according to IEEE Spectrum, Chris' feelings on Node's built-in test runner & more!
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    49 mins