Remotely Interesting
53 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 year ago - ★★★★ - 8 ratingsJoin us to chat about Jamstack, coding the web, the people who code the web, and sometimes, lollies. With love from Netlify 💙.
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041: A Day in the Life of Docs with Jacklyn Carroll
April 03, 2023 19:09 - 37 minutes - 25.8 MBDocs are often critically important to the success / failure of a project, but what happens behind the curtain? In this episode, we have special guest Jacklyn Carroll to talk about her work on the Netlify docs team and her experience with the world of docs. 🔌 Plugs Write the Docs https://www.writethedocs.org/ Rachael’s talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaBLXKGs9cQ Jessica Parson’s talk https://www.writethedocs.org/videos/portland/2019/lessons-learned-in-a-year-of-docs-driv...
040: Talking Astro 2.0 with Ben Holmes
January 30, 2023 16:23 - 49 minutes - 34.4 MBWelcome to Remotely Interesting brought to you by Netlify. Tools in the site-generation and framework space are evolving fast. And Astro is an example of one such tool which is doing wonderful things. Shortly before the release of its v2.0, we spoke with Ben Holmes from the Astro team to learn more about what’s coming, and to fan-rant about his whiteboard skills, apparently. 🔌 Plugs Astro 2.0 Details Obsidian theJam.dev 👥 Panelists People who were remotely interesting: Ben ...
039: The Jamstack Revisited - A Modern Context
September 26, 2022 13:33 - 44 minutes - 30.7 MBWelcome to Remotely Interesting brought to you by Netlify. The Jamstack definition is a lot different than it was when it first released, so let’s talk about where the Jamstack is today and how people can get involved with special guest Domitrius Clark! 🔌 Plugs Official Jamstack Site Jamstack Glossary Jamstack Discord 👥 Panelists People who were remotely interesting: Ben Hong Brittney Postma Cassidy Williams Domitrius Clark Phil Hawksworth As always, we hope you find it ...
038: Thinking in Serverless
August 22, 2022 18:07 - 34 minutes - 24 MBWelcome to Remotely Interesting brought to you by Netlify. There’s been a lot of buzz about “serverless” and what it is, but what does it mean to “think in serverless?” After all, it’s one thing to know what serverless means, but it’s another to be able to integrate it into strategic thinking. And in this episode, we have a special guest, Ivan Zarea, to help us with that serverless mindset. 🔌 Plugs Netlify Serverless Functions Docs Up and Running with Serverless Functions (Free C...
037: Contributing to Open Source (OSS)
July 25, 2022 19:19 - 46 minutes - 32.3 MBWelcome to Remotely Interesting brought to you by Netlify. Let’s face it. Open source is a big world and it can be intimidating to navigate. In this episode, we’ll talk about our experience with and what it’s like to contribute to it. 🔌 Plugs OpenHatch https://gramps.js.org/ Nadia Eghbal - Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software Criminal HTML “Hacking” Event Brian Douglas (Open Sauced) Ambassador Program - Auth0 Hacktoberfest Twilio Champion -...
036: Tool Decision Paralysis
July 11, 2022 19:12 - 42 minutes - 29.9 MBWelcome to Remotely Interesting brought to you by Netlify. Let’s face it. As developers, there are SO many tools for us to choose from! 😵💫 It’s not wonder why many of us develop decision fatigue and paralysis as the industry continues to grow and expand. In this episode, we talk about how we navigate the complex ecosystem and some of our favorite tools for being productive. 🔌 Plugs DevsForUkraine Install Linux on Windows with WSL axe DevTools Centered Todoist Notion todomet...
035: Debate and Switch: Monopolizing Technology
June 27, 2022 22:39 - 33 minutes - 23.7 MBWelcome to Remotely Interesting brought to you by Netlify. In our first official Debate and Switch episode, Phil, Tara, and Ben are debating (and then switching) on the topic of Monopolizing Technology: Is it good? Is it bad? You’ll have to listen to find out which it is! 🔌 Plugs OpenJS Foundation Monopoly for iOS 👥 Panelists People who were remotely interesting: Tara Z. Manicsic Phil Hawksworth Ben Hong As always, we hope you find it remotely interesting.
034: Engineer Managing with Madleina Scheidegger
June 13, 2022 13:00 - 45 minutes - 31.4 MBWelcome to Remotely Interesting brought to you by Netlify. If you are thinking about making the transition from an engineering role to a management role, then this episode is for you. In this session, we'll explore what our experience has been, and things to watch out for if you choose to make the switch! 🔌 Plugs http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/dynlangs/People/madleina.htm https://adamgrant.net/book/think-again/ https://www.radicalcandor.com/ https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...
033: Driving Change
May 31, 2022 06:51 - 47 minutes - 33.1 MBWelcome to Remotely Interesting brought to you by Netlify. In this episode, we talk about change management and driving forward critical-but-often-undervalued work with special guest Thuy Doan (pronounced Twee and Doan rhymes with “cone”! 🍦) from Prodigy Education. A company that aims to help every child in the world love learning. Their main products are currently a Math MMO for elementary school students and online tutoring. 🔌 Plug The Change Equation WCAG 2.0 and 2.1 in Plain ...
032: Environmental Factors
May 23, 2022 19:58 - 52 minutes - 36.7 MBWelcome to Remotely Interesting brought to you by Netlify. In this episode we talk about our thoughts on the good, bad, and ugly of a workplace environment. You’ll learn about some of our distractions, uncomfortable chairs, Jason’s shaking standing desk, and much more. 👥 Panelists People who were remotely interesting: Prince Wilson Jason Lengstorf Charlie Gerard Phil Hawksworth Tara Z. Manicsic 🔌 Plug https://www.hermanmiller.com/products/seating/office-chairs/embody-chairs...
031: Minimum Viable Web Dev Knowledge
May 16, 2022 15:21 - 39 minutes - 27.4 MBWelcome to Remotely Interesting brought to you by Netlify! Since the toolchain around web development has become a lot more complex over the years, the path for getting started has felt more convoluted. However, is this really the case? Join us as we talk about what is considered “minimum viable web dev knowledge.” 🔌 Plug /r/Superbowl Neopets Netlify Forms Jamstack Templates 👥 Panelists People who were remotely interesting: Cassidy Williams Phil Hawksworth Tara Z. Manicsic...
030: State of the Jamstack Survey with Seldo
May 09, 2022 16:00 - 39 minutes - 27.8 MBWelcome to Remotely Interesting brought to you by Netlify. In this episode, we talk about the results of the Jamstack Survey and what we learned from it. 🔌 Plugs Jamstack Community Survey 2021 The State of JS The State of the Octoverse Alex Russell 👥 Panelists People who were remotely interesting: Lauris Voss Phil Hawksworth Tara Z. Manicsic 🔖 Chapters 00:55 - Topic and guest introduction 04:18 - What were your goals with the survey? 09:26 - Do you plan for a coordinat...
029: Living On The Edge of Glory
May 02, 2022 16:00 - 38 minutes - 26.7 MBWelcome to Remotely Interesting brought to you by Netlify. Most of us have heard things like CDN and caching when it comes to optimizing what we deliver to our end users when building sites and apps, but recently there’s been a trending terminology that’s crept up: “The Edge.” 🔌 Plugs Salma’s YouTube Clip on Edge Network Netlify Edge Functions Docs 👥 Panelists People who were remotely interesting: Phil Hawksworth Jason Lengstorf Cassidy Williams Salma Alam-Naylor Ben Hong...
028: Dat Dusty Domain Doe
April 11, 2022 16:21 - 37 minutes - 25.9 MBWelcome to Remotely Interesting brought to you by Netlify. Whenever someone buys a domain, we all know that that side projects always gets prioritized and shipped to production in record time right? As if! 😅 If you're anything like us, you've bought plenty of domains where the intent is there and sadly it never manifests to anything more than another line item in your domain registrar. Well, in this episode, we talk about those unused domains as well as an initiative we kicked off ...
027: Beyond the Code: Company Values & Yous Too
February 14, 2022 15:50 - 45 minutes - 42 MBWelcome to Remotely Interesting brought to you by Netlify. You have values (maybe) and the company you work for has values. Do they align and is that important? We're joined by the only guest to ever come back to our show, Thuy Doan, to get the tiniest sample size of opinions on the matter and learn from each others experiences. People who were remotely interesting: Thuy Doan Cassidy Williams Charlie Gerard Jason Lengstorf Phil Hawksworth Tara Z. Manicsic As always, we hope...
026: Jamstack Journey: Buskana
February 07, 2022 16:00 - 39 minutes - 27.3 MBWelcome to Remotely Interesting brought to you by Netlify. People who were remotely interesting: Cassidy Williams Jason Lengstorf Ekene Eze (Kenny) Tara Z. Manicsic Zahid Mahmood As always, we hope you find it remotely interesting.
025: Jamstack Journey with Evan Weaver, Fauna CTO
November 17, 2021 04:40 - 45 minutes - 31.8 MBWelcome to Remotely Interesting brought to you by Netlify. To day we have the pleasure or meeting up with Evan Weaver, CTO of Fauna to hear about his Jamstack journey. People who were remotely interesting: Cassidy Williams Phil Hawksworth Tara Z. Manicsic And special guest: Evan Weaver, Fauna CTO Who is he? Co-founder, CTO (former CEO) of Fauna The Jamstack Journey ~2017 Global transactional database tech based on Twitter experience serverless before there even was 'server...
024: BYODB: Bring Your Own Database
September 01, 2021 04:00 - 42 minutes - 29.6 MBWelcome to Remotely Interesting brought to you by Netlify. People who were remotely interesting: Cassidy Williams Jason Lengstorf Phil Hawksworth Tara Z. Manicsic SHOW NOTES: Who's got a favorite database? Everyone Structured vs. Unstructured Data our first database experiences (lots of MySQL) learning about databases Jason thinks his brain gets bigger when he learns things Microsoft Excel does everything MongoDB & mongoose the GraphQL It is SQL or SQL Shadow and Bon...
023: Collaborating Across the Chasm
August 17, 2021 23:46 - 41 minutes - 28.7 MBWelcome to Remotely Interesting brought to you by Netlify. People who were remotely interesting: Cassidy Williams Jason Lengstorf Ekene Eze (Kenny) Phil Hawksworth Tara Z. Manicsic Marisa Morby Show notes: Tuckman's stages of group development: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuckman's_stages_of_group_development form, storm, norm, perform Collaborative deploy previews and conduits to tooling: https://www.netlify.com/products/deploy-previews/ As always, we hope you find ...
022: Technology Crossing: The Research Rundown
August 04, 2021 03:49 - 38 minutes - 26.7 MBWelcome to Remotely Interesting brought to you by Netlify. People who were remotely interesting: Jason Lengstorf Ekene Eze (Kenny) & Special Guests Emily con Hoffmann Marisa Morby SHOW NOTES: What is research & how is it done? connect & learn from users there aren't many beakers in tech research, thanks, Jason research has been democratized a lot thanks to tools like Zoom used to be done on-site What is the motivation for research? used from conception thru seeing if y...
021: Jamstack Ecosystem: Automated Testing with QA Wolf
July 20, 2021 04:07 - 45 minutes - 31.3 MBWelcome to Remotely Interesting brought to you by Netlify. People who were remotely interesting: Ben Hong Phil Hawksworth Tara Z. Manicsic & we welcome, Jon Perl & Laura Cressman from QA Wolf 👏!! In this episode, we learn about testing from some people who hate testing. BUT really what they hated was all the setup and how hard it was to get up and running with testing. SO, they solved that problem with QA Wolf. Let's jump in! Phil makes a pun - we all squirm & boo What is Q...
DPR, ODB and Other TLAs
July 07, 2021 01:41 - 38 minutes - 27.1 MBWelcome to Remotely Interesting brought to you by Netlify. People who were remotely interesting: Ben Hong Cassidy Williams Phil Hawksworth Tara Z. Manicsic SHOW NOTES: In this episode, we chat about Distributed Persistent Rendering, On-Demand Builders, and more acronyms than we know what to do with 😆 We hope you have as much as we had recording this! https://github.com/jamstack/jamstack.org/discussions/549 https://www.netlify.com/blog/2021/04/14/faster-builds-for-large-site...
020: DPR, ODB and Other TLAs
July 07, 2021 01:41 - 38 minutes - 27.1 MBWelcome to Remotely Interesting brought to you by Netlify. People who were remotely interesting: Ben Hong Cassidy Williams Phil Hawksworth Tara Z. Manicsic SHOW NOTES: In this episode, we chat about Distributed Persistent Rendering, On-Demand Builders, and more acronyms than we know what to do with 😆 We hope you have as much as we had recording this! https://github.com/jamstack/jamstack.org/discussions/549 https://www.netlify.com/blog/2021/04/14/faster-builds-for-large-site...
019: The Jamstack Can't Do That: Don't Go Into the Long Grass!
June 23, 2021 03:07 - 38 minutes - 26.9 MBShow Notes DPR RFC: https://github.com/jamstack/jamstack.org/discussions/549 Matt's talk about simplicity at React Summit https://www.netlify.com/blog/2021/04/29/keeping-it-simple-at-react-summit/?utm_campaign=devex-&utm_source=remotely-interesting&utm_content=dpr-keeping-it-simple
018: Tool Time With a Bunch of Tools: Headless CMSeseses
June 08, 2021 14:00 - 40 minutes - 27.9 MB🔌 Plug Strapi Prismic Frontend Horse Daniel Phiri's Site
017: Technology Crossing: Stardew Valley Futures
May 25, 2021 15:00 - 41 minutes - 29 MBDiscussion Points Hustle Culture meeting goals and deadlines vs? work/life balance team & management influence on hustle culture Burn Out working past wanting to work how to stop working? What's the alternative? what are some ways to change the way we work? what are some personal ways to set boundaries or deal with burn out?
The Jamstack Can Do That: Be the Future
May 11, 2021 15:00 - 40 minutes - 28.3 MB**The Future is in the Technology** - Quick overview of what the Jamstack architecture is and where it's headed - What & Why decoupling - What technologies exist now that help solve static problems of the past (e.g. serverless functions for dynamic data like payments, JWT for stateless auth, build plugins for more autonomous workflow, etc.) - What advancements are coming? (good point for edge handlers plug) **The Future is in the Ecosystem** - How is the ecosystem growing? - What ...
016: The Jamstack Can Do That: Be the Future
May 11, 2021 15:00 - 40 minutes - 28.3 MB**The Future is in the Technology** - Quick overview of what the Jamstack architecture is and where it's headed - What & Why decoupling - What technologies exist now that help solve static problems of the past (e.g. serverless functions for dynamic data like payments, JWT for stateless auth, build plugins for more autonomous workflow, etc.) - What advancements are coming? (good point for edge handlers plug) **The Future is in the Ecosystem** - How is the ecosystem growing? - What...
015: Web Accessibility: An a11y Special with Epic Guests
March 30, 2021 21:22 - 46 minutes - 21.8 MB📋 Discussion Points Why a11y matters What is web a11y and why do we care? JS frameworks/React and a11y A11y in the developer community A11y has become seemingly more popular and more mainstream. Why? At the same time, the state of a11y on the web has not really improved (see: WebAIM million). It's our (collective) job to make the web-accessible. How to bake accessibility into your workflow How does Netlify test for accessibility while building the product? (see blog post) ...
014: The Jamstack Can Do That: It's Not That Dangerous to Go Alone
March 16, 2021 16:00 - 47 minutes - 22.2 MBWelcome to Remotely Interesting brought to you by Netlify. People who were remotely interesting: Ben Hong Cassidy Williams Ekene Eze Jason Lengstorf Phil Hawksworth Tara Z. Manicsic In this episode, we talk about the importance of how good developer experience (DX) can play a critical role in helping developers build and share their applications with ease. We cover topics such as: What is DX & why does it matter? What is DX in the Jamstack? Tips for setting up a good DX...
The Jamstack Can Do That: It's Not That Dangerous to Go Alone
March 16, 2021 16:00 - 47 minutes - 22.2 MBMagic workflows (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧
013: How to Level Up - Dreams & Disasters
February 05, 2021 19:08 - 54 minutes - 25.4 MBWelcome to Remotely Interesting brought to you by Netlify. People who were remotely interesting: Ben Hong Cassidy Williams Jason Lengstorf Phil Hawksworth Tara Z. Manicsic In this episode, we discuss our resolutions for the new year focusing on tech projects we plan to do and even NOT do. We'll throw in some resources that help us and some that we think may help you too! We do get a little sidetracked (shocking, I know) and talk about nose noises, the origins of phrases & s...
012: Side Projects & Side Dishes
January 12, 2021 21:08 - 52 minutes - 24.6 MBWelcome to Remotely Interesting brought to you by Netlify. People who were remotely interesting: Ben Hong Cassidy Williams Jason Lengstorf Tara Z. Manicsic For this episode, we were in the holiday spirit and decided to talk about our side projects and side dishes! We have recipes for code, recipes for food, and recipes for disaster? Join us and see! Tara's Side Project & Side Dish Phil Is Not Here! asiannati.com Gatsby, Strapi.io, Netlify ++ AACAC: Asian American Cul...
011: The Jamosphere - Lunch Money!
January 07, 2021 05:08 - 39 minutes - 18.4 MBWelcome to Remotely Interesting brought to you by Netlify. In this episode, we start diving into the awesomeness that is the Jamstack ecosystem, which we fondly refer to as The Jamosphere (cue cool, funky theme song). What better way to kick off this segment than with the Jamstack Conf Web App of the Year: Lunch Money! We were thrilled to have the brilliant solopreneur, engineer & designer of Lunch Money, Jen Yip, join us in discussing the creation of the app. We discuss the origin...
010: Jamstack Explorers: The Guts
December 23, 2020 16:14 - 38 minutes - 17.8 MBWelcome to Remotely Interesting brought to you by Netlify. People who were remotely interesting: Ben Hong Cassidy Williams Jason Lengstorf Phil Hawksworth Sarah Drasner Tara Z. Manicsic We just pulled an all-nighter to finish shipping you a free, open-source learning platform for the Jamstack and its surrounding ecosystem! What better time to record a podcast discussing all the technical details than when we're delirious and slap-happy?? In all honesty, we put a lot of work ...
009: The Jamstack Can Do That - Rendering
December 04, 2020 03:22 - 37 minutes - 17.4 MBWelcome to Remotely Interesting brought to you by Netlify. People who were remotely interesting: Ben Hong Cassidy Williams Phil Hawksworth Tara Z. Manicsic People have long referred to the Jamstack as an architecture for static websites. But, dynamic data and content? Guess what, the Jamstack can do that. We try to help unravel the long, winding road of rendering terminology on the way to talking about dynamic content in the Jamstack. Hope we help clarify something, anything, ...
008: Pandemic Pair and Mob Programming
December 03, 2020 07:34 - 40 minutes - 18.7 MBWelcome to Remotely Interesting brought to you by Netlify. People who were remotely interesting: Ben Hong Cassidy Williams Jason Lengstorf Phil Hawksworth Sarah Drasner Most of us are working remotely these days due to the pandemic. Our team has found a the pair and mob programming has really helped improve our mental health and productivity. Hear us out, it's actually really fun. Pairing past, present, & Sarah makes people cry Vulnerability in pair programming How low Jas...
007: Virtual Tech Events & Quarantine Conferences
October 05, 2020 13:32 - 42 minutes - 29.3 MBWelcome to Remotely Interesting brought to you by Netlify. (by the way, Jamstack Conf is Tomorrow!!! come join us!) People who were remotely interesting: Jason Lengstorf Lindsay Levine Phil Hawksworth Tara Z. Manicsic Bringing tech events into the virtual web-o-sphere can be a daunting task. In this episode, we talk about what it's been like as an attendee, contributor, and organizer of there virtual events. We cover the great things, the maybe-not-so-great things, and even c...
Virtual Tech Events & Quarantine Conferences
October 05, 2020 13:32 - 42 minutes - 29.3 MBGiving a talk to no one ヽ(´∇´)ノ
How to Level Up - Communication, Catalytic Skills & More
September 25, 2020 15:50 - 55 minutes - 38.7 MBHey everybody look how smart I am! (╭ರᴥ•́)
005: How to Level Up - Communication, Catalytic Skills & More
September 25, 2020 15:50 - 55 minutes - 38.7 MBWelcome to Remotely Interesting brought to you by Netlify. People who were remotely interesting: Cassidy Williams Jason Lengstorf Phil Hawksworth Tara Z. Manicsic In this episode, we attempt to give you as much advice as we can muster about great ways to help you level up and what we've learned at different companies and roles. Let's jump right in. Communicate, communicate, Cat Communication verbally and in writing, being able to communicate what code does, what you want to ...
006: How to Level Up - Communication, Catalytic Skills & More
September 25, 2020 15:50 - 55 minutes - 38.7 MBWelcome to Remotely Interesting brought to you by Netlify. People who were remotely interesting: Cassidy Williams Jason Lengstorf Phil Hawksworth Tara Z. Manicsic In this episode, we attempt to give you as much advice as we can muster about great ways to help you level up and what we've learned at different companies and roles. Let's jump right in. Communicate, communicate, Cat Communication verbally and in writing, being able to communicate what code does, what you want to ...
006: What's Jammin'? Jamstack FUD
September 24, 2020 19:26 - 44 minutes - 30.9 MBWelcome to Remotely Interesting brought to you by Netlify. People who were remotely interesting: Cassidy Williams Matt Biilmann Phil Hawksworth Sarah Drasner Tara Z. Manicsic JAMSTACK FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, & Doubt) Recently WordPress's Matt Mullenweg's came out as not a fan of the Jamstack and we've heard lots of feedback from the community about things people may not understand about the Jamstack. It got us to thinking, "What can we help clarify about the Jamstack to help...
005: What's Jammin'? Jamstack FUD
September 24, 2020 19:26 - 44 minutes - 30.9 MBWelcome to Remotely Interesting brought to you by Netlify. People who were remotely interesting: Cassidy Williams Matt Biilmann Phil Hawksworth Sarah Drasner Tara Z. Manicsic JAMSTACK FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, & Doubt) Recently WordPress's Matt Mullenweg's came out as not a fan of the Jamstack and we've heard lots of feedback from the community about things people may not understand about the Jamstack. It got us to thinking, "What can we help clarify about the Jamstack to help...
What's Jammin'? Jamstack FUD
September 24, 2020 19:26 - 44 minutes - 30.9 MBThis is a joy to witness (◍•ᴗ•◍)♡ ✧*。
The Jamstack Can Do That: Access Control
September 01, 2020 03:09 - 38 minutes - 26.9 MBI yam who I yam ٩(^෴^)۶
004: The Jamstack Can Do That: Access Control
September 01, 2020 03:09 - 38 minutes - 26.9 MBWelcome to Remotely Interesting brought to you by Netlify. People who were remotely interesting: Cassidy Williams Jason Lengstorf Phil Hawksworth Tara Z. Manicsic Did you know that Jamstack could do that?? Apparently, Phil didn't BUT fear not, we helped him remember he actually knew alllll about how you can easily add authentication, gate content and do so much more with authentication in the Jamstack. Discussion Points We cover a few different project and posts the team ...
Do you have to have passion to be a good coder?
August 17, 2020 05:15 - 44 minutes - 20.5 MBWhere are the passionate forklift drivers? (๑•﹏•)
003: Do you have to have passion to be a good coder?
August 17, 2020 05:15 - 44 minutes - 20.5 MBWelcome to Remotely Interesting brought to you by Netlify. People who were remotely interesting: Cassidy Williams Jason Lengstorf Phil Hawksworth Sarah Drasner Tara Z. Manicsic There have been a lot of discussions online about passion and programming. We dig into working for money vs(?) working for passion, how passions have been weaponized, generational views, and forklift wallpaper (of course). We also talk about the other sides of coding jobs and using them to follow othe...
002: Blogging - How to, How Not to, & Ones We Like
August 17, 2020 04:57 - 32 minutes - 14.8 MBWelcome to Remotely Interesting brought to you by Netlify. People who were remotely interesting: Cassidy Williams Divya Tagtachian Jason Lengstorf Phil Hawksworth Blogging is hard...except for when it's easy. We've been blogging for long enough that we'd like to share with you the things that help us, the things that hurt our process, and the things we admire in other's work. We discuss the challenges of being concise, how we deliver content we care about, and more! SHOW NOTE...