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• What is Mirage and how does it work?
• What makes Mirage better than a dummy JSON server you run on another port?
• What makes Mirage better than running your actual API locally?
• Using Mirage for actu…

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• What is Alpine and what does it replace?
• How does Alpine compare to Vue?
• How does Alpine compare to Stimulus?
• “Why not just use vanilla JavaScript you dummy?”
• How Alpine works internally
• Pa…

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• Why "fixed time, variable scope" is so important for actually getting things done
• Integrating development and design into a single process instead of design first, develop later
• What it …

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• What exactly is a finite state machine?
• Why trying to keep track of a component's status using boolean flags is leads to bugs and complex code
• Why it makes so much more sense to keep tra…

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• What were the first feature/change ideas that got the wheels turning for Vue 3
• How Vue's underlying VNode data structure is changing and how that affects users who work directly with re…

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• Why Heroku introduced BEM to try and solve their CSS issues and why it didn't work
• How custom tooling and Ember's component system alleviated any maintainability concerns about litterin…

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• What Inertia.js is and what problem it solves
• Why Inertia is more like a protocol than a framework
• How navigation works in Inertia
• How form submissions work in Inertia
• How Inertia automati…

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• How do you keep data synchronized between two different clients when all of the data is stored locally instead of in the cloud?
• Understanding conflict-free replicated data types and how…

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• Brainstorming ideas vs. paying attention to your own problems
• Why it's smart to start with a product that might never make a million dollars a year
• Should you avoid markets with competit…

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• Creating pixel-perfect mockups in advance vs. designing and implementing in tandem
• Working with existing JS libraries for interactive UI features vs. hand-rolling a custom implementatio…

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• Building website templates vs. a UI kit
• Should the product be positioned as a UI library or an educational resource?
• One-time purchase pricing vs. subscription pricing vs. some combinati…

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• Walking through how a single screen in the app is rendered in step-by-step detail
• How they separate container components and presentational components to make things easier to reason ab…

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• The risks and technical challenges of building client-side API integrations and why Benedikt decided to focus on a server-side integration for launch
• Building Userlist with Ember instea…

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• What is serverless?
• What AWS services Vapor manages and how they are billed
• Using a single RDS instance with multiple databases
• Understanding cold boots with Lambda and how to minimize th…

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• How modernizing a Flash app drove Ryan to start building SPAs
• How products are really just user interfaces to the end user, and why that means it makes sense to make the UI the core of …

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• Can you have more than one "h1" on page?
• How important is heading order?
• Why not everything that looks like a heading should necessarily be a heading
• Why you may want to include invisible…

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• What CSS-in-JS even is
• What Emotion does differently than other CSS-in-JS libraries
• How to actually use Emotion to style your projects
• How the JSX pragma works and what it's for
• How Emotio…

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• How pattern matching works in Elixir and why it's more powerful than method overloading in other languages
• How Elixir's pipe operator makes the transition from OO to functional programm…

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• How Gatsby is more than just a static site generator
• How you create pages with Gatsby and how it's more powerful than traditional static site generators
• The benefits of having a unified …

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• How Vue focuses on making things easy at the cost of a more complex API, while React focuses on keeping things simple at the cost of a steeper learning curve
• How to translate Vue's comp…