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Are you up to speed on all of this new CSS stuff? Chris Coyier and Kaelan compare notes on CSS and frontend development (they also discuss MDN plus). Links https://chriscoyier.net https://twitter.com/chriscoyier https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Houdini https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Masonry_Layout https://styled-system.com https://blog.stackblitz.com/posts/introducing-webcont...

In this episode, we talk to Eve Porcello about her experience teaching web development and Moon Highway, a training and curriculum development company she runs with her husband, Alex Banks. Links https://twitter.com/eveporcello https://moonhighway.com https://www.linkedin.com/learning https://graphqlworkshop.com https://www.howtographql.com https://odyssey.apollographql.com https://graphql.org Con...

Johan Eliasson joins us to talk about Nhost, an open-source, Backend-as-a-service with a GraphQL API. How does Nhost compare to Firebase and Supabase? Learn more in this episode. Links https://nhost.io https://twitter.com/nhostio https://podrocket.logrocket.com/firebase https://podrocket.logrocket.com/9 https://hasura.io Careers at Nhost Contact us https://podrocket.logrocket.com/contact-us @PodRo...

In this episode, Brian interviews Laurie Barth, Senior Software Engineer at Netflix, about what it means to be a middle-end developer, job titles, and Web Dev Twitter. Links https://twitter.com/laurieontech https://laurieontech.com https://egghead.io/q/resources-by-laurie-barth https://jobs.netflix.com/culture https://twitter.com/PodRocketpod/status/1392536541550071810 https://twitter.com/laurieon...

We sit down with Anthony Campolo to talk about the history, common misconceptions, and increased popularity of GraphQL. Links https://twitter.com/ajcwebdev https://dev.to/ajcwebdev https://github.com/ajcwebdev https://stepzen.com https://redwoodjs.com https://fsjam.org https://podrocket.logrocket.com/redwoodjs https://graphql.org https://relay.dev https://www.gatsbyjs.com/docs/how-to/querying-data...

Facebook Open Source now has over 600 publicly available projects in its portfolio including some well-known projects like React, React Native, PyTorch, Docusaurus, GraphQL, Jest, and more. Listen to this episode of PodRocket to hear Dmitry Vinnick, a Developer Advocate at Facebook Open Source, talk about what it means to be open source at Facebook, how to manage such a large portfolio, and what i...

What is modern Redux? What is it with the obsession of declaring Redux dead? In this episode, Ben and Brian interview Mark Erikson to talk about all things Redux. Links https://twitter.com/acemarke https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com https://redux.js.org https://redux-toolkit.js.org https://immerjs.github.io/immer https://react-redux.js.org/api/hooks https://react-redux.js.org/api/connect https://rt...

Ben interviews Madeleine Reese, Founder and CEO of Allma. Allma is building next-generation alerting, incident response, and service cataloging natively in Slack. Their focus is on helping the entire organization to resolve incidents faster and be able to communicate more effectively during an incident. Links https://allma.io https://twitter.com/madsgo https://allma.io/bsb https://allma.io/inciden...

In this episode, Ben and Kate talk to David East, Developer Relations Engineer at Firebase. They talk about the three tiers of the Firebase product -- Build, Release & Monitor, and Engage. They also get into design vs. development and what that means for web developers in 2021. Links https://firebase.google.com/ https://twitter.com/Firebase https://twitter.com/_davideast https://davidea.st/ ht...

Ben interviews Martin Šošić about Wasp, an open-source, declarative DSL for devs that he built with his twin brother, Matija. Learn more about how Wasp works and why it has been getting attention on Product Hunt and Hacker News. Links https://wasp-lang.dev/ https://twitter.com/wasplang https://discord.gg/rzdnErX https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26091956 https://www.producthunt.com/posts/wasp-l...

Brian interviews Adewale Abati, also known as Ace, a frontend engineer and developer advocate at Flutterwave . Ace is known for sharing his developer experiences through social media, technical writing, public speaking, and his YouTube channel . He also maintains Made in Nigeria -- a curation of awesome open source tools and projects built by Nigerian developers. Links https://www.acekyd.com http:...

Ben interviews Jason Bosco, cofounder of Typesense, an open source search engine that’s optimized for both performance and ease of use. They talk about how Typesense compares to Algolia and Elasticsearch, how to get started using Typesense, and how you can get involved. Links https://typesense.org/ https://github.com/typesense https://twitter.com/jasonbosco https://twitter.com/Typesense https://me...

Should all frontend developers know CSS and HTML like the back of their hand? What about React, Angular, Vue, and webpack? Where does the list end? In this episode, Kaelan and Brian talk about the nature of frontend and what that means for the future of the profession. Links https://css-tricks.com/the-great-divide/ https://bradfrost.com/blog/post/front-of-the-front-end-and-back-of-the-front-end-we...

In this Founder Friday episode, Ben interviews David Thor, founder and CEO of Architect , the world’s first DevOps-as-a-Service platform. They talk about the DevOps landscape, how Architect improves developer productivity, and how it helps teams adopt best practices. Links https://www.architect.io https://twitter.com/davidcthor https://www.hashicorp.com https://www.heroku.com https://pypi.org/proj...

Ben interviews Charlie Cheever, CEO and cofounder of Expo. They talk about the difficulties of building a cross-platform app and what Expo is doing to make that easier for developers. They also get into the state of React Native and more. Links https://expo.io https://twitter.com/ccheever https://expo.io/eas https://expo.io/tools https://expo.io/client https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/react-n...

Ben interviews Cristian Bote, creator of goober (a less than 1KB CSS-in-JS solution). Cristian is also a member of the Preact core team. Unsurprisingly, they talk about Preact, goober, and WMR (a tiny all-in-one development tool for modern web apps). Links https://twitter.com/cristianbote_ https://cristianbote.com https://github.com/cristianbote/goober https://goober.js.org https://goober.rocks ht...

Ben and Brian talk to Shawn Wang, better known as Swyx, about infinite building, his experience as a Reddit moderator, blogging platforms, scaling developer relations, and more. Links https://twitter.com/swyx https://www.swyx.io https://www.swyx.io/clubhouse-hate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking,_Fast_and_Slow https://www.reddit.com/r/reactjs https://testautomationu.applitools.com https://ex...

Ben and Kate talk to Caleb Porzio about Alpine.js and what to expect in 2021. They also get into some of Caleb’s other creations like Laravel Livewire and makevscodeawesome.com . Links https://calebporzio.com https://twitter.com/calebporzio https://github.com/alpinejs/alpine https://twitter.com/Alpine_JS https://twitter.com/youyuxi/status/1262075462651609088 https://github.com/livewire/livewire ht...

In the second installment of our Founder Friday series, Ben talks with Screenplay cofounders, Tomas Reimers and Greg Foster. They discuss the technical details behind Screenplay, what it’s like trying to get funding during a pandemic, and the Screenplay roadmap. Links https://screenplay.dev https://screenplay.dev/docs/quick-start https://twitter.com/gregmfoster https://twitter.com/tomasreimers Con...

Ben and Kate talk to David Luecke, creator of Feathers, a framework for real-time applications and REST APIs. They talk about where Feathers fits in the fullstack framework space, pros and cons of building a modular framework, and what it has been like to maintain a project that needs to keep up with React. Links https://feathersjs.com/ https://github.com/feathersjs/feathers https://github.com/daf...

Today, Ben and Kate interview David Price, a core member of RedwoodJS and developer-in-residence at Preston-Werner Ventures. They talk about what it means to be fullstack JAMstack, how RedwoodJS gives you your time back, and what it takes to create a highly collaborative open-source community. Links https://redwoodjs.com/ https://twitter.com/mojombo https://twitter.com/appfactory https://www.prism...

Today Ben and Kate talk with Paul Copplestone, CEO and cofounder of Supabase, the open source firebase alternative. They discuss how Supabase works, whats in store for 2021, why open source matters, and the role HackerNews played in Supabase’s launch. Links https://supabase.io https://github.com/supabase https://twitter.com/kiwicopple https://postgrest.org https://news.ycombinator.com https://twit...

Today Ben and Kate sit down with Nikolas Burk, Prisma’s Head of Developer Success. They talk about how Prisma helps developers build better web apps, how it works with TypeScript, the Prisma roadmap, and, of course, building an open-source community. Links https://www.prisma.io/ https://www.prisma.io/docs/guides https://www.prisma.io/docs/concepts/overview/prisma-in-your-stack/is-prisma-an-orm htt...

This is our first-ever Founder Friday episode where we feature founders of startups and devtool projects. Today, Ben talks with Chris Mather, founder of Elements, a new fullstack JavaScript framework. Ben talks to Chris about how he created Elements, his journey from CTO to founder, the process of getting funding for the project, and how you can get started with Elements today. Links https://eleme...

In this episode, Brian and Ben talk with Cassidy Williams about being “tech famous,” web developer comedy as a genre, and what it’s like to create content specifically for web developers. We also get into developer experience for a little bit, touching on both the future and importance of niche communities. Links https://cassidoo.co/ https://twitter.com/cassidoo https://github.com/cassidoo https:/...