Coder Catchup
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Episode 168 - This is the end
August 12, 2019 22:30 - 8 minutes - 7.62 MBThis is it, it is the end of the podcast... until the next thing at least... listen to find out more.
Episode 167 - macOS Catalina Switches from Bash to ZSH
June 16, 2019 04:42 - 6 minutes - 5.56 MBJane Manchun Wong Tweeted about it: https://twitter.com/wongmjane/status/1135701324589256704 Apple Support Article: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208050 Apple is changing the default shell as of macOS Catlina from Bash 3.2 to ZSH due to GPL licence changing that Apple is not happy with. Newer versions of Bash use GPL v3 that Apple has concerns with, whereas older versions of Bash that are running on Mojave and earlier are licensed under the GPL v2. Software Dropbox (backup ...
Episode 166 - CSS Grid Generator
May 29, 2019 22:00 - 3 minutes - 35.1 MBAnnouncement Tweet: https://twitter.com/sarah_edo/status/1133369255104094208?s=11 CSS Grid Generator by Sarah Drasner: https://cssgrid-generator.netlify.com/ A small tool for working with CSS Grid. You can designate rows, columns, gaps, and units, and then drag to create child divs to make dynamic layouts with ease! Software Dropbox (backup and sync software) - https://db.tt/l33vnUkr6L Dashlane (password storage) - https://www.dashlane.com/en/cs/_FHtTXN3Rkdg Podcast Gear Blue...
Episode 165 - WordPress 5.2 Security Feature
May 15, 2019 22:00 - 10 minutes - 114 MBWordPress 5.2, which is available now, comes with some great and much needed security features. Cryptographically-signed updates Starting with WordPress 5.2, the WordPress team will digitally sign its update packages with the Ed25519 public-key signature system so that a local installation will be able to verify the update package's authenticity before applying it to a local site. Adding support for cryptographically-signed updates is an important step in preventing threat actors...
Episode 164 - Top 6 Tips To Get Ready to Upgrade to Rails 6
May 01, 2019 22:00 - 6 minutes - 5.55 MBEnsure as much test coverage as possible Update gems & Rails versions (this ties into the next step) Update your Ruby version to 2.5.0 or later Fix All Deprecation Warnings Setup error tracking (Rollbar, etc) Use railsdiff.org to help you upgrade your files correctly https://edgeguides.rubyonrails.org/6_0_release_notes.html Software Dropbox (backup and sync software) - https://db.tt/l33vnUkr6L Dashlane (password storage) - https://www.dashlane.com/en/cs/_FHtTXN3Rkdg Podcast Gear ...
Episode 163 - Rails 6 Beta Features
April 12, 2019 05:00 - 14 minutes - 13.7 MBApril 30: Final release. Ship and celebrate the release of Rails 6.0 at RailsConf 2019! Rails 6.0 will require Ruby 2.5+ Action Mailbox Action Mailbox allows you to route incoming emails to controller-like mailboxes. ActiveStorage is required. Simple setup with: $ rails action_mailbox:install $ rails db:migrate Like the Mailman gem https://github.com/mailman/mailman Action Text Action Text brings rich text content and editing to Rails. It includes the Trix editor that handl...
Episode 162 - Welcome Back Coder Catchup
March 27, 2019 21:00 - 12 minutes - 11.2 MBBreaking the silence on the long hiatus of Coder Catchup, what has happened, what has changed and what will be happening.
Episode 161 - Whats New In NPM 6
April 27, 2018 00:00 - 9 minutes - 5.35 MBNPM, the node package manager, has a new release, version 6 which brings along a small list of improvements and new features with a big bang for your buck. Release article: https://medium.com/npm-inc/announcing-npm-6-5d0b1799a905 Upgrade with npm i -g npm@latest NSP (Node Security Project) now built in through npm audit command Performance improvement of 17x compared to 1 year ago NPM CI command optimisation, 2 - 3x faster Configure webhooks via the CLI More visible integrity...
Episode 160 - Stripe Just Solved Most of Your Billing Problems
April 16, 2018 21:30 - 24 minutes - 14.1 MBhttps://stripe.com/billing Titled: Billing and subscriptions for fast-growing businesses Description: The most ambitious companies design billing around customer experience. Stripe Billing is a new set of tools to build and scale your recurring business model. FOR DEVELOPERS BUILDING BLOCKS FOR BILLING The Stripe Billing API is easy to integrate into existing websites, mobile apps, or even CRM systems. Developers can use out-of-the-box functionality to get started quickly or us...
Episode 159 - React 16.3
April 09, 2018 21:30 - 6 minutes - 3.76 MBRelease Notes: https://reactjs.org/blog/2018/03/29/react-v-16-3.html Changelog: https://github.com/facebook/react/releases/tag/v16.3.0 Context API! No more props drilling! (Passing props through various components) Thanks to createContext function on the React class. Harry Wolff has a great overview video of it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ilq6G-VMyQ Elijah Manor also has a great overview video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhWqy-vxKS8 Yes, it is a new Context API, but i...
Episode 158 - Top 5 Migration Tips After Upgrading to Rails 5.2
April 02, 2018 21:30 - 8 minutes - 5.03 MBRails 5.2.0 RC2 Notes - http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2018/3/20/Rails-5-2-RC2/ Rails 5.2.0 Release Notes - http://edgeguides.rubyonrails.org/5_2_release_notes.html Active Storage With the new Active Storage framework in Rails 5.2, we’ve solved for the modern approach of uploading files straight to the cloud. Out of the box, there’s support for Amazon’s S3, Google’s Cloud Storage, and Microsoft Azure Cloud File Storage. If you’re dealing with images, you can create variants on th...
Episode 157 - Top 5 Tips To Get Ready to Upgrade to Rails 5.2
March 26, 2018 20:30 - 5 minutes - 3.33 MBMy Top 5 Tips to Get Ready for Upgrading to Rails 5.2. Ensure as much test coverage as possible Upgrade to the latest 5.1.x release (step through each major release if you are on earlier versions such as 5.0.x or 4.x) Fix All Deprecation Warnings Setup error tracking (Rollbar, etc) Use railsdiff.org to help you upgrade your files correctly
Episode 156 - Prepare Your Website for the Webpocalypse
March 19, 2018 20:30 - 10 minutes - 6 MBMajor browsers will be starting to mark your website as insecure in the very near future. How to prepare and make sure your website is not marked as insecure. Google Security Blog: https://security.googleblog.com/2018/02/a-secure-web-is-here-to-stay.html Mozilla Security Blog: https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2018/01/15/secure-contexts-everywhere/ Secure for free with Let’s Encrypt: https://letsencrypt.org/getting-started/ Software Dropbox (backup and sync software) - https:/...
Episode 155 - Speed Up Your Node CI Builds By Up to 10x With One Command
March 12, 2018 20:30 - 4 minutes - 2.72 MBNPM 5.7.0 Release Changelog - https://github.com/npm/npm/releases/tag/v5.7.0 NPM CI The new npm ci command installs from your lock-file ONLY. If your package.json and your lock-file are out of sync then it will report an error. It works by throwing away your node_modules and recreating it from scratch. Beyond guaranteeing you that you'll only get what is in your lock-file it's also much faster (2x-10x!) than npm install when you don't start with a node_modules. As you may take ...
Episode 154 - Webpack Released with What!?
March 05, 2018 20:30 - 12 minutes - 7.1 MBBlog post by Sean Larkin: https://medium.com/webpack/webpack-4-released-today-6cdb994702d4 What’s New? Much faster, a bit of a give in, but, it is up to 98% faster! Huge! Zero config (crazy amounts of boilerplate be gone) Sensible defaults with the config too! WebAssembly suport Module Type’s Support Docs are coming, calm yourself! Software Dropbox (backup and sync software) - https://db.tt/l33vnUkr6L Dashlane (password storage) - https://www.dashlane.com/en/cs/_FHtTXN3Rkd...
Episode 153 - Chrome and Firefox Just Broke Your Development Environment
February 26, 2018 20:30 - 3 minutes - 1.96 MBBoth Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox now force all .dev gTLD to use HTTPS which may break your local development setup if you do not use HTTPS. Mattias Geniar has a great article on this at https://ma.ttias.be/chrome-force-dev-domains-https-via-preloaded-hsts/ Software Dropbox (backup and sync software) - https://db.tt/l33vnUkr6L Dashlane (password storage) - https://www.dashlane.com/en/cs/_FHtTXN3Rkdg Podcast Gear Blue Yeti USB Microphone (Silver) - http://amzn.to/2BjKEh9 ...
Episode 152 - Laravel 5.6 and Laravel Spark 6
February 19, 2018 20:30 - 22 minutes - 12.8 MBLaravel 5.6 Release Notes - https://laravel.com/docs/5.6/releases Laravel 5.6 News - https://laravel-news.com/laravel-5-6 Laravel Spark - https://spark.laravel.com/ Laravel Logging Improvements, Single Server Task Scheduling, Dynamic Rate Limiting, Broadcast Channel Classes, API Controller Generation, Model Serialization Improvements, Eloquent Date Casting, Blade Component Aliases, Argon2 Password Hashing, UUID Methods, Collision, Bootstrap 4 Laravel Spark This release include...
Episode 151 - Digital Ocean Just Got Better
February 12, 2018 20:30 - 9 minutes - 5.72 MBhttps://blog.digitalocean.com/new-droplet-plans We have some exciting news about Droplet plans. Today we are upgrading CPUs, memory, and SSD storage across our Droplet classes and introducing a few new plans. These new plans provide flexible and scalable compute services with some of the best price to performance available. Here are the new and updated plans: Standard Droplets $5/month 512mb RAM to 1gb, vCPU 1, SSD 20gb to 25GB $10/month 1gb RAM to 2gb, vCPU 1, SSD 30gb to 50GB...
150 Episodes of Coder Catchup (audio from video)
February 05, 2018 20:30 - 13 minutes - 7.78 MBCelebrating 150 episodes of the Coder Catchup podcast, talking about the experience, what is to come and more. Note: This is the audio taken from the video posted on YouTube at https://youtube.com/codercatchup
Episode 149 - Bracket Pair Colorizer - VS Code Plugin for Matching Bracket Colours
January 29, 2018 20:30 - 4 minutes - 2.51 MBThis extension allows matching brackets to be identified with colours. The user can define which characters to match, and which colours to use. https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=CoenraadS.bracket-pair-colorizer Software Dropbox (backup and sync software) - https://db.tt/l33vnUkr6L Dashlane (password storage) - https://www.dashlane.com/en/cs/_FHtTXN3Rkdg Podcast Gear Blue Yeti USB Microphone (Silver) - http://amzn.to/2BjKEh9 Blue Yeti USB Microphone (Blackout...
Episode 148 - Bootstrap 4 Finally Released!
January 24, 2018 09:00 - 9 minutes - 5.51 MBSite: http://getbootstrap.com/ Blog Post: http://blog.getbootstrap.com/2018/01/18/bootstrap-4/ Quote: It’s literally taken us years to do it, but Bootstrap 4 has finally arrived! Words cannot begin to describe the elation the entire team and I have for this release, but I’ll do my best. Thank you to everyone, especially to the team, and to everyone who’s contributed code in a pull request or opened an issue. Thank you. Since our last beta, we’ve been hard at work stabilizing a f...
Episode 147 - Ruby 2.5.0 Released
January 17, 2018 07:00 - 6 minutes - 3.72 MBRuby 2.5.0 is the first stable release of the Ruby 2.5 series. It introduces many new features and performance improvements. https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2017/12/25/ruby-2-5-0-released/ Also available on Heroku https://devcenter.heroku.com/changelog-items/1348 Software Dropbox (backup and sync software) - https://db.tt/l33vnUkr6L Dashlane (password storage) - https://www.dashlane.com/en/cs/_FHtTXN3Rkdg Podcast Gear Blue Yeti USB Microphone (Silver) - http://amzn.to/2BjKE...
Episode 146 - Let your editor colours shine with Rainglow
January 08, 2018 20:30 - 3 minutes - 2.24 MBA collection of over 250 themes for a variety of different editors and software. All themes are originals created by Dayle Rees. https://rainglow.io/ VS version (320+ color themes for Visual Studio.) - https://github.com/rainglow/vs Software Dropbox (backup and sync software) - https://db.tt/l33vnUkr6L Dashlane (password storage) - https://www.dashlane.com/en/cs/_FHtTXN3Rkdg Podcast Gear Blue Yeti USB Microphone (Silver) - http://amzn.to/2BjKEh9 Blue Yeti USB Microphone (Bl...
Episode 145 - Christmas 2017 Sign Off and Quick Review
December 21, 2017 20:30 - 2 minutes - 1.72 MBA quick review of the past year of the podcast and youtube channel as well as what is happening next year.
Episode 144 - The Largest NodeJS best practices list
December 18, 2017 20:30 - 5 minutes - 3.28 MBhttps://github.com/i0natan/nodebestpractices The largest Node.JS best practices list. Curated from the top ranked articles and always updated
Episode 143 - 24 Pull Requests of Christmas
December 11, 2017 20:30 - 4 minutes - 2.68 MBhttps://24pullrequests.com/ Giving back little gifts of code for Christmas
Episode 142 - Ruby on Rails 5.2 Beta
December 04, 2017 20:30 - 12 minutes - 7.42 MBDiscussing the Ruby on Rails 5.2 beta release and the great features coming with it. http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2017/11/27/Rails-5-2-Active-Storage-Redis-Cache-Store-HTTP2-Early-Hints-Credentials/
Episode 141 - WordPress 4.9 Exciting New Features
November 27, 2017 20:45 - 7 minutes - 4.14 MBA run down of some of the new exciting features in WordPress 4.9 Resources: https://wordpress.org/ http://www.wpbeginner.com/news/whats-new-in-wordpress-4-9/
Episode 140 - GitHub Security Issues
November 21, 2017 21:36 - 5 minutes - 3.31 MBA walkthrough of the new GitHub security alerts feature. https://github.com/blog/2470-introducing-security-alerts-on-github
Episode 139 - Feel the Wind Blow While Building Your Site with Tailwind CSS
November 13, 2017 20:30 - 5 minutes - 3.1 MBA Utility-First CSS Framework for Rapid UI Development Website: https://tailwindcss.com/
Episode 138 - Awesome New Hanami 1.1 Features
November 06, 2017 20:30 - 11 minutes - 6.54 MBA run through of the latest features in the newest release of Hanami 1.1 Full notes: http://hanamirb.org/blog/2017/10/25/annoucing-hanami-110.html
Episode 137 - Chrome Is Now Listing Your Website As Insecure If You Have Not Done This
October 30, 2017 20:30 - 3 minutes - 1.81 MBTalking about the recent changes in Chrome 62+ that will mark your websites as insecure if you are not running the site over HTTPS. https://blog.chromium.org/2017/04/next-steps-toward-more-connection.html?m=1
Episode 136 - Vue 2.5 Released
October 23, 2017 20:30 - 5 minutes - 3.32 MBA summary of Vue JS latest release, 2.5 level E. https://medium.com/the-vue-point/vue-2-5-released-14bd65bf030b
Episode 135 - MyTimeZone Chrome Extension
October 16, 2017 20:46 - 2 minutes - 1.34 MBSimple timezone conversion Automatic timezone converter for simple scheduling https://mytimezone.io/
Episode 134 - Modern JavaScript Cheatsheet
October 09, 2017 20:30 - 3 minutes - 1.79 MBCheatsheet for the JavaScript knowledge you will frequently encounter in modern projects. https://mbeaudru.github.io/modern-js-cheatsheet/
Episode 133 - Simple React Snippets For Visual Studio Code
October 02, 2017 20:30 - 3 minutes - 1.93 MBBurke Holland wrote an article about Simple React Snippets, a Visual Studio Code plugin that he created. https://medium.com/burke-knows-words/simple-react-snippets-22eddd65f835
Episode 132 - Awesome Vue.js
September 25, 2017 21:30 - 2 minutes - 1.36 MBhttps://github.com/vuejs/awesome-vue A curated list of awesome things related to Vue.js
Episode 131 - Grid It Up With CSS Grid Guide
September 18, 2017 21:30 - 4 minutes - 2.32 MBhttps://cssgrid.cc/ The CoffeeCup Guide to LIBERATING LAYOUT THROUGH CSS GRID
Episode 130 - Rails Storage Being Actively Developed
September 12, 2017 23:00 - 9 minutes - 5.47 MBA brand-new framework for managing cloud and local files in Rails. Overdue! DHH Tweeted that Active Storage is coming to Rails 5.2! https://twitter.com/dhh/status/882965074767474688 Check it out on GitHub https://github.com/rails/activestorage
Episode 129 - Laravel 5.5
September 04, 2017 21:45 - 22 minutes - 12.8 MBLaravel 5.5 Release Notes https://laravel.com/docs/5.5/releases#laravel-5.5 More information on the release at Laravel News https://laravel-news.com/laravel-5-5
Episode 128 - Put a Muzzle on Your Mac Notification with Muzzle App
August 28, 2017 21:45 - 2 minutes - 1.68 MBA simple mac app to silence embarrassing notifications while screen sharing https://muzzleapp.com/
Episode 127 - Lets Encrypt Goes Wild
August 22, 2017 09:23 - 5 minutes - 3.12 MBWildcard certificates coming January 2018! https://letsencrypt.org/2017/07/06/wildcard-certificates-coming-jan-2018.html
Episode 126 - The Joy of Elixir
August 15, 2017 21:28 - 4 minutes - 2.7 MBJoy of Elixir is a gentle introduction to programming, aimed at people who already know some things about computers, but who have little-to-no programming experience. If you think you don't know enough about computers, well you got here already and that's enough! The Book: https://joyofelixir.com/ Blog Post: http://ryanbigg.com/2017/07/joy-of-elixir
Episode 125 - Elixir 1.5 and Phoenix 1.3 Released
August 07, 2017 21:45 - 14 minutes - 8.14 MBElixir 1.5 https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2017/07/25/elixir-v1-5-0-released Elixir v1.5 includes new features, enhancements, and bug fixes. While Elixir v1.4 focused on tools for concurrency and scalability, Elixir v1.5 brings many improvements to the developer experience and quality of life. As we will see, many of those are powered by the latest Erlang/OTP 20. This is also the last Elixir release that supports Erlang/OTP 18. UTF-8 atoms, function names and variables IEx helpers ...
Episode 124 - React 16 Beta/Fibre
July 31, 2017 21:45 - 8 minutes - 4.93 MBReact 16 is the first release that ships with a rewrite of the React core (previously codenamed "Fiber") Github Release Issue: https://github.com/facebook/react/issues/10294 Ives van Hoorne (@CompuIves) tweeted a CodeSandbox link to be able to play around with React 16 https://twitter.com/compuives/status/890444347417665536
Episode 123 - Getting Real with React Apps
July 24, 2017 21:45 - 3 minutes - 1.98 MBReal world React apps and their open source codebases for developers to learn from https://github.com/jeromedalbert/real-world-react-apps Learn from React apps written by experienced developers. You'll find the source code for the apps in the apps/ subdirectory.
Episode 122 - React Redux Cheatsheet
July 17, 2017 21:45 - 2 minutes - 1.66 MBGet up and running with Redux using this awesome cheatsheet and article https://github.com/uanders/react-redux-cheatsheet
Episode 121 - Accelerate Your React Learning with React Express
July 10, 2017 21:45 - 2 minutes - 1.7 MBhttp://www.react.express/ A guide to learning react with interactive examples and more. React Cheatsheet https://reactcheatsheet.com/ React for Beginners by Wes Bfs https://reactforbeginners.com/
Episode 120 - Awesome Design Systems
July 05, 2017 12:51 - 2 minutes - 1.25 MBWhere to find it? https://github.com/alexpate/awesome-design-systems A collection of awesome design systems from around the web. There are some great ones.
Episode 119 - Processes Beware the Procodiles
June 29, 2017 22:30 - 4 minutes - 2.86 MBWhere to find it? https://github.com/adamcooke/procodile Run processes in the background (and foreground) on Mac & Linux from a Procfile (for production and/or development environments) About (taken from the repo) Running & deploying Ruby apps to places like Viaduct & Heroku is really easy but running processes on actual servers is less fun. Procodile aims to take some the stress out of running your Ruby/Rails apps and give you some of the useful process management features you ...