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Sam and Ryan discuss an elegant solution to the async nested dropdown problem, a FastBoot success story regarding inlined CSS, pre-warming FastBoot's cache, and implementing a new design alongside an…

Sam and Ryan chat about the challenges of testing custom asynchronous code. They also talk about React's new Hooks API, and discuss situations where hooks might be more composable than yields and con…

Sam and Ryan talk about the challenges of building nested dropdowns, whether a component reading data from its children is an anti-pattern, how angle-bracket syntax encourages new components, and whe…

Sam and Ryan talk about their upcoming email course on Ember component patterns, wrapping up their EmberMap series on Functional CSS, refactoring some FastBoot code in Node, and how Mirage might be u…

Sam and Ryan talk about lessons from Jason Fried's Q&A about scoping down product features, and how that applies to our open-source work. They also talk about inlining critical-path CSS with FastBoot…

Sam and Ryan chat about two new EmberMap series, Forms and Async testing, as well as Sam's keynote at EmberCamp and the best way to avoid product gaps in open-source software. They also answer some l…

Sam and Ryan continue their discussion about the role of product in an engineer's daily working life. They talk about what product gaps are, the symptoms of product gaps on tech teams, and what you c…

Sam and Ryan talk about the cost of using engineering as discovery, the consequences of embedding product decisions throughout the design and development phases of a project, and other lessons that s…

Sam and Ryan talk about the Ember 2018 Roadmap RFC and its focus on improving communication, completing in-progress work, and shipping Ember Octane. They also talk about how to verify complex addon b…

Mel chats with Sam about getting into Ember, lessons learned from collaborating at work an in open source, and how to make it easier for JavaScript engineers to use better UI patterns.

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Sam and Ryan chat (on new mics!) about Ryan's recent video on declarative keyboard events, changes to EmberMap's FastBoot architecture, and some of Ryan's recent work on FastBoot testing.

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Jon joins Sam and Ryan to talk about his recent work on rehydration in FastBoot and all the creative ways we can use Codemods to automate the routine parts of our jobs.

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• 0:00 – How Jon got in…

Sam and Ryan chat about provider components in Ember, including the first renderless components they wrote, the different types of data components can provide, and the patterns of template compositio…

Jen talks to Sam and Ryan about her journey learning from and giving back to Ember, and how she keeps her community contributions sustainable by tying them back to personal goals and rewards.

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Sam and Ryan talk about their initial attempts to get Mirage running in Node, the benefits and workflows that it will unlock, some different approaches for using code in both the browser and Node, an…

Sam and Ryan talk about how to deal with building non-optimistic UIs using Ember and Ember Data, and how constrained visual design tools might help us build better UIs. They also answer some question…

Sam and Ryan talk about bringing the ideas of declarative rendering over to our data layers, how easy it is for data to become stale in SPAs, and more stories from their recent adventures in FastBoot…

Sam and Ryan chat about what to do when a node module breaks in FastBoot, how to best wrap 3rd-party libraries in an Ember Addon, and how to test the filesystem. They also answer some listener questi…

Sam and Ryan chat about some ideas around caching in FastBoot, different ways of prioritizing work, and the difference between easy things and hard things in Ember.

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Toran talks to Sam and Ryan about his project Ember CLI Hot Loader, which is an implementation of component-based hot module reloading for Ember apps.

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• 0:00 – Losing hot reloading when moving…