Full Stack Radio

Topics include:

• Why you need more than just a product, and what Justin brings to the table in his partnership with Jon
• How having an audience helped him get his first customers, even in a crowded marke…

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• How Now is trying to bring the CDN experience to your server-side code
• How the constraints of serverless can nudge you to build more robust solutions
• How to talk to a database in a state…

Topics include:

• How Jeffrey has written CSS historically, and what drew him to a utility-first approach
• Incrementally replacing Bulma with Tailwind
• The importance of solidifying your Tailwind configurat…

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• Pain points you run into when you are working in a JS based UI instead of a server-rendered UI
• What Livewire is and where the inspiration came from
• How Livewire lets you build interactiv…

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Topics include:

• Semantic versioning and why there hasn't been a v1.0 release already
• How v1.0 will be encouraging people to leve…

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• Why the UI fidelity threshold for building an SPA feels so low
• How forcing yourself to prepare data for Vue helps avoid putting too much logic into your templates
• Why it's still worth bu…

Topics include:

• Building an API without writing any controller code
• Thinking of your API like a database as much as possible
• Modeling everything on the server as a resource, including things like S3 upl…

Topics include:

• Why you should think of SPAs as desktop apps instead of web apps
• Strategies for pushing complexity out of your backend and on to the client
• Building optimistic UIs
• Best practices for stor…

Topics include:

• What exercises you should focus on and why
• How to develop a system that will force you to make progress
• The importance of keeping a training journal
• Why full-body workouts are better than…

Topics include:

• Issues you run into when you do too much work in code instead of in the database
• Why memory usage is just as important as query count
• How being smarter with your database usage can let y…

Questions include:

• What's your process for getting started on a new design?
• How do you make your designs feel original?
• How do you choose fonts for a new project?
• How do you make complex tables look good…

Topics include:

• Why "success" shouldn't mean the same thing to everyone
• How to stay small without doing all the work you don't want to do yourself
• Why it's important to define what "enough" is for your …

Topics include:

• Why deadlines are critical
• Using manual processes to avoid building features entirely
• How launching a stripped down version of your idea can help you build the right thing
• Recognizing whe…

Topics include:

• The history behind Nuxt.js
• How Nuxt.js uses special Page components and file-based routing instead of using a traditional router
• Creating dynamic page-based routes without a custom serve…

Topics include:

• How Next.js is different than using create-react-app
• How page-based routing works in Next.js vs. a traditional router
• The mechanics behind how components are server-side rendered and pic…

Topics include:

• What JSON Web Tokens are and how to use them to authenticate users
• Strategies for invalidating stateless API tokens
• Using cookie and session authentication
• Using authentication-as-a-servi…

Topics include:

• How modern JS frameworks have made the web less accessible
• How Reach UI is making it easier for people to build accessible components without sacrificing customizability
• The importance o…

Topics include:

• Why goals aren't useful on their own
• The four rules that guide human behavior
• Using environment design to encourage the habits you want to adopt
• Building habits of avoidance
• Why being prod…

Topics include:

• How to fetch and reconstitute an aggregate from its events
• Using generators to make it easy to transform event streams
• What it looks like to apply an event to an aggregate
• How to create e…

Topics include:

• The benefits of pairing with someone more experienced than you
• The benefits of pairing with someone less experienced than you
• How pairing helps you build things faster
• Why pairing often r…