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Potluck episode covering procrastination, planning code, CSS, leadership skills, side projects and more
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Overview of Turbolinks for fast page loads using server-generated HTML and discussion of integration with JavaScript frameworks.
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Overview of options and considerations for hosting and streaming video in 2020 with a deep dive into the tech stack Scott chose for his site
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Wes and Scott play a guessing game to identify obscure top level domain names. After falling behind early, Scott makes a dramatic comeback in later rounds to ultimately win.
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Discussion with Jerome Hardaway, executive director of Vets Who Code, on his background, founding VWC, their tech stack, being an ally, and skills learned in the military
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Discussion of various techniques like honeypots, IP throttling, and CAPTCHAs to secure web forms from spam bots and malicious users while allowing legitimate use.
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Wes and Scott discuss things they wish React and its ecosystem had out of the box without additional libraries and tooling.
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Wes explains the various rural internet options available, the specific hardware needed to set up cellular internet, data plan considerations, and steps through his own setup at his cottage property without traditional ISP access.
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Potluck episode discussing libraries vs frameworks, browser choices, career questions, XState, styled components, podcast picks and more.
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Covers lesser known but useful CSS functions for accessing attributes, calculations, selecting children, trigonometry, clamping values, equal columns in grid, fitting content, and image filters.
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Covers terminal, typing, OS skills, GitHub, dev tools, and other web development basics and best practices.
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Scott talks about his bad luck with Apple laptops and his new System76 Lemur Pro laptop running Pop!OS Linux distro for development instead.
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Ian Ramsay discusses building a WebRTC-based video chat called ZipCall and his journey into programming
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Wes Bos and Scott Tolinski continue their series on web performance, focusing on tips for making websites work well on slow Internet connections.
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This podcast episode provides a breakdown of headless CMS options, including hosted, self-hosted and API-based systems. Scott and Wes discuss key considerations when evaluating CMS choices and provide an overview of popular options in each category.
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Developing websites and apps to work well on slow, spotty, or offline connections by implementing things like service workers, skeleton screens, better loading indicators, and gracefully handling failures.
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In this potluck/Q&A episode, Scott and Wes discuss end-to-end testing, hosting podcast RSS feeds, Prismic CMS, education, git workflows, scaling challenges and new React frameworks.
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Discussion on whether web developers should continue supporting Internet Explorer 11, including metrics to help decide, strategies for partial support, and modern features you can start using once IE11 support is dropped.
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In this episode Scott teaches Wes about Svelte, a new JavaScript framework that compiles away unused code for blazing fast performance. They cover features like built-in reactivity, cleaner templates vs JSX, routing with HTML anchors, and animations/transitions.
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Scott talks about his new personal website that he built using Svelte and Sapper. He took a relaxed approach and focused on custom animations, brutalist design, and fast performance rather than perfect code.