Prioritizing the Team Over the Tool with Jason Lengstorf

Jason Lengstorf built up an audience on YouTube by doing unscripted live coding and sharing his mistakes with his community. He credits his background as a musician and frontman of an emo band for helping him get comfortable with looking foolish in front of people.

As the host of Learn With Jason, he believes there is no right or wrong answer when it comes to choosing a web development tool, as long as the decision is based on the team’s experience and the situation that the tool will enhance. Jason shares his experience and lessons learned at IBM where they allowed teams to use any tool they wanted. This resulted in different parts of the platform being built with different frameworks and the need to standardize.

In this episode, Jason talks to Chuck and Robbie about the importance of choosing the right web development tool for the job, the adoption possibilities for Astro, and what the future holds for open-source developers.

Key Takeaways

[00:33] - Introduction to Jason Lengstorf, Host of Learn With Jason.

[05:03] - A whiskey review: Heaven Hill Bottled-in-Bond.

[15:06] - Jason’s opinion on Tailwind and how to choose the correct web tool.

[22:16] - What makes Astro powerful?

[29:16] - Funding open-source projects.

[44:19] - How Jason feels about Redwood JS.

[47:44] - Incorporating TypeScript in personal projects.

[50:17] - Jason’s interests in pajama pants and burgers.

Quotes

[15:34] - “You should use whatever you can convince your whole team to use. A lot of the discussion about which tool is right or wrong is sort of missing the forest for the trees.” ~ Jason Lengstorf

[16:46] - “If you have a group of people who have an expertise or a lack of expertise, then the tools you choose should be polyfilling for where they’re at and allowing them to use their strengths.” ~ Jason Lengstorf

[20:53] - “The only way that you can really use a tool wrong is if you’re dragging people kicking and screaming against their will into using a tool. You’re just setting yourself up for failure.” ~ Jason Lengstorf

Links

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Heaven Hill Bottled-in-Bond
Buffalo Trace Distillery
Ezra Brooks Bourbon
Evan Williams Bourbon
Pappy Van Winkle
Febreze
Bacardi 151
Tailwind CSS
JavaScript
React JS
BEM
Netlify
IBM Cloud
Backbone JS
Angular
Vue
jQuery
Astro
Gatsby JS
Svelte
Next JS
Internet Explorer
Facebook
Vercel
Remix
Preact JS
Qwik
Jason Miller
Andrew Clark
Zach Leatherman
Eleventy
Ryan Carniato
Kyle Matthews
Render
Fly
Hydrogen
Rich Harris
Oracle
Tom Preston-Werner
Shopify
Cloudflare
Solid JS
Lululemon
Red Hat
NPM
Microsoft
Google
Homebrew
Open Collective
Planned Parenthood
Redwood JS
Rails
Tanner Linsley
TanStack
The Burger Show
Hot Ones
Nuxt JS
Parks and Recreation
Amboy
Chat GPT

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