Whiskey Web and Whatnot: Web Development, Neat
146 episodes - English - Latest episode: 23 days ago - ★★★★★ - 43 ratingsVeteran web developers RobbieTheWagner and Charles William Carpenter III host this informal, whiskey-fueled fireside chat with your favorite web devs. They discuss all things web development including JavaScript, TypeScript, EmberJS, React, Astro, SolidJS, CSS, HTML, Web3, and more. They take a unique approach and focus on getting to know the human side of developers and their hobbies outside of work, all while sampling a new whiskey that they rate on their unique tentacle scale.
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Hot Takes, TanStack, and Open Source with Tanner Linsley
May 04, 2023 07:00 - 54 minutes - 50 MBTanner Linsley, Co-Founder and VP of UI/UX at Nozzle is known for creating some of the most popular open-source libraries in the tech space. These libraries keep the wheels turning by making things easier for him and many other developers in their day-to-day jobs. Tanner has built libraries, such as React Query and React Table, that are now part of TanStack, his branded collection of tools. TanStack's other products include a router currently in beta, TanStack Query Table, TanStack Virtual, ...
Confluent, Kafka, and Developer Advocacy with Lucia Cerchie
April 20, 2023 07:00 - 54 minutes - 49.5 MBWhen you think about the career journey of a software developer, teaching elementary school is not typically the first thing that comes to mind. But for Lucia Cerchie, Developer Advocate at Confluent, her elementary school teaching experience gave her a huge advantage in her work. In this episode, Lucia discusses her work with Kafka, a distributed event streaming platform, and how she creates content to introduce developers to Kafka more easily, especially for beginners. She explains Kafka’...
Twitter Open Source Algorithm, Home Labs, and Chat GPT vs. Bard
April 13, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 56.8 MBTwitter released its open-source algorithm and developers like Robbie and Chuck are digging into the code to find out what they have been hiding. While the recommendation algorithm has been useful, it also has major pitfalls. Twitter’s algorithm categorizes and deprioritizes users from appearing on people's feeds which is frustrating when your page is the one being deprioritized. Google launched its AI competitor, Bard. In a rap battle, ChatGPT emerged victorious, and the two AIs even agree...
Tech Layoffs, the Economy, and Remote Work
April 06, 2023 07:00 - 58 minutes - 53.5 MBThe tech industry is still grappling with the aftermath of the second dot com crash. Executives are cash grabbing, banks are failing and the government seems to be turning a blind eye. Will executives replace all their developers with AI? It can be difficult to not turn your frustration to the C-suite when they seem to be getting more wealthy by cutting labor costs. Meanwhile, developers are living with the uncertainty and financial burden of ongoing tech layoffs. The industry’s business p...
Exploring Open-Source and SolidJS with Ryan Carniato
March 30, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 61.5 MBRyan Carniato, Creator of SolidJS and Principal Engineer at Netlify, has always had a love for music and tech. He set his punk rock dreams aside and settled down to become a full-time engineer. Ryan started programming at the age of 11 and got his first job at eBay where he contributed to their top open-source project, Marko. After building his network and experience in open source, he landed a job with Netlify living many developers’ dreams of getting paid to work on open-source projects....
The Benefits of Networking, Tech Conferences, and Disney World
March 23, 2023 07:00 - 54 minutes - 49.7 MBConferences are one of the best ways to network with like-minded developers and find new insights to bring back to your team. Plus, you might even be able to build your entire wardrobe for the year out of free swag. Chuck and Robbie are no strangers to the conference scene, they’ve attended their fair share back when developers had to find them by word of mouth. Today, there are some aggregators out which apparently have every developer conference type of thing under the sun. Whether you're ...
PNPM, Algorithms, and Angular
March 09, 2023 08:00 - 56 minutes - 52 MBIt’s hard to find a good package manager, and even the most seasoned developers still struggle to figure them out. Robbie kicks off the tech talk by sharing his misadventures trying to figure out pnpm leading Chuck to ask the burning question “Would you wear a pnpm T-shirt?” Despite Robbie’s struggles in pnpm, he still believes it is the better option compared to alternatives like npm, Yarn V1, or Yarn V3. The duo agree that pnpm fixes the biggest problem with traditional package managers li...
Balancing Legacy Code, Content Creation, and Career Growth with The Primeagen
March 02, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 58.7 MBMichael Paulson, aka The Primeagen, is known for his live streams, crazy memes, and unpopular opinions on Twitter. But he is also a software engineer with over a decade of experience in a legacy C++ codebase. Juggling engineering with any other hobby is difficult, so how does he make it work? The Primeagen, a software engineer at Netflix, is committed to content creation and passionate about encouraging aspiring developers to get out of “tutorial hell” and start building. He wakes up at 5:30...
Prioritizing the Team Over the Tool with Jason Lengstorf
February 23, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 58.6 MBJason 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 enha...
Astro 2.0, Island Architecture, and React with Fred K. Schott
February 16, 2023 08:00 - 58 minutes - 53.7 MBAstro 2.0 is launching new exciting features and it’s setting the bar for HTML frameworks. What makes Astro unique in web development and what are its future possibilities? Fred K. Schott, CEO of the Astro Technology Company, says it’s all in the framework’s content focus and island architecture. For Fred, the aim is to have a tool that's HTML-first but still sprinkles in interactivity and allows developers to bring in components from other frameworks. They focused on solving the problem o...
Features of Astro 2.0, Challenge of Material UI, and Cleanse Diets
February 09, 2023 08:00 - 58 minutes - 53.8 MBAstro has once again become a hot topic, capturing the attention of developers and impressing them with its user-friendly features. Astro 2.0 introduced new and improved error overlays that are functional and well-designed, making debugging more efficient for developers. Astro 2.0 is powered by the fast and efficient Vite 4, which has received high praise in the developer community. Robbie thinks Vite is the future of build tools and based on the State of JS results, many others seem to ag...
Tailwind Twitter Wars and the State of JS
February 02, 2023 08:00 - 57 minutes - 53.1 MBThe developer community can be highly opinionated. We find our favorite tools and fiercely support them because they help us meet our goals. Tailwind has been polarizing since it launched in 2017. Some developers swear by it, claiming it makes their code cleaner while others think it’s a waste of time. The State of JS results are in and they reveal that Ember is still lagging behind in retention, interest, usage, and awareness compared to other frameworks. Chuck and Robbie agree that it doe...
CSS Trig, Cypress, and Software Testing Alternatives
January 26, 2023 08:00 - 59 minutes - 54.9 MBSlow page speeds and bad developer experience are huge pain points. If you can get those two things right, the developer community will likely rally behind you. CSS hit the bullseye when it introduced trigonometry functions to boost performance by avoiding Javascript. But Cypress has been a big letdown in DX. Before introducing trig functions, CSS was pretty limited and it relied on Javascript to do all the complex styling. Since Javascript takes a significant amount of time to parse, that’...
SQL vs NoSQL, Web Technologies, and Holiday Recap
January 19, 2023 08:00 - 53 minutes - 49.1 MBIf you’re like Robbie and you haven’t dug into SQL since college, learning the basics of SQL vs NoSQL is a great place to start. Working with data isn’t a part of every developer’s day-to-day, but it can’t hurt to understand the differences. NoSQL is gaining popularity among engineers because of the ease and flexibility of updating fields with new data. Some engineers prefer taking unstructured data and using a programming language they already know, like Python, to write their queries. SQL...
The Case for Adopting TypeScript with Josh Goldberg
January 12, 2023 08:00 - 59 minutes - 54.4 MBMany people dream about being their own boss, but there’s no clear rulebook that outlines how to get there. While self-employment seems glorious to some, it’s not for everyone. How does someone know when they are ready to take the step into the unknown, and how do they know if that choice will suit them? Josh Goldberg, Open Source Developer and author of Learning TypeScript, built much of his coding career at Microsoft and Codecademy before taking the leap into full-time open source tooling...
Bringing Designers and Developers Together with Pablo Ruiz-Múzquiz
January 05, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour - 56.6 MBWorking together in a professional environment is easier said than done, especially when teams have conflicting workflows, priorities, and skill sets. Designers are all too familiar with having their work feel like a second priority to developers. Is there a way that designers and developers can collaborate successfully without sacrificing their individual needs? Enter Penpot, the first Open Source design and prototyping platform for cross-domain teams. Penpot was developed by Pablo Ruiz-Mú...
Advent of Whiskey: Holiday Treats, Final Holiday Trivia, and Quantum Computing
December 24, 2022 08:00 - 28 minutes - 25.8 MBIt’s the Advent of Whiskey finale, and Chuck and Robbie keep it casual with more holiday treats, trivia, and traditions. But it wouldn’t be Whiskey Web and Whatnot without a little tech. Physicists are doing mindbending things with tech and in case you didn’t already know it, computers can create wormholes now. In this episode, Chuck and Robbie talk about their favorite holiday treats, holiday trivia, and creating wormholes using quantum computers. Key Takeaways [01:06] - Number 22 Whisk...
Advent of Whiskey: Holiday Trivia Continued and Web Developer Tools
December 23, 2022 08:00 - 30 minutes - 27.8 MBEvery developer has a tech stack that they swear by. The perfect stack is usually a combination of convenience and productivity. Robbie released a blog on Ship Shape featuring “Top 5 Web Developer Tools for 2023”. The list features a browser that’s perfect for work and personal use, two terminals, a collaborative clutter-free code editor, and a simplified version of Git. Even if you have old favorites, it can’t hurt to switch them up and test out some of the new tools powering the developer...
Advent of Whiskey: More Holiday Trivia and Tech Interviews
December 22, 2022 08:00 - 30 minutes - 27.7 MBRobbie and Chuck think the process is rigged. Memorizing algorithms and solving problems in 30 minutes isn’t good enough to judge someone’s capabilities and decide whether they can be trusted for a job. Many great developers crack under the pressure of interviews but that doesn’t mean they’re not good at what they do. The interview process is just a formality to verify someone’s identity, it shouldn’t be used to drill developers and set them up for failure. Companies are better off looking ...
Advent of Whiskey: Holiday Trivia, Food History, and YAML
December 21, 2022 08:00 - 24 minutes - 22.5 MBIs YAML a programming language? According to Robbie and Chuck, it’s not. And even though you could code in YAML and add functions to it, doesn’t mean you should. Some things are better left uncomplicated. YAML is a data structuring format, and that’s what it’s good at. While some might disagree, Chuck and Robbie believe functions are one of the key elements of programming languages and YAML doesn’t have that baked in. If you’re looking for functions, it’s better to stick to a programming la...
Advent of Whiskey: Framework Predictions, Voting for WWW on State of JS, and Football
December 20, 2022 08:00 - 28 minutes - 26.3 MBIt’s anyone’s guess what the future of front-end frameworks will hold but the developer community on Twitter has its own predictions. Meanwhile, usage numbers for Javascript frameworks are showing that Vue and Next are catching up to React. Is the hype around React plateauing, or is that wishful thinking? Whether you call them meta frameworks, backend frameworks, or rendering frameworks, they seem to be sparking excitement in the Javascript community. Remix, Vercel, Next JS, and Nuxt are t...
Advent of Whiskey: Testing the Hype of ChatGPT, GitLab, and Holiday Trivia
December 19, 2022 08:00 - 24 minutes - 22.6 MBPopularity doesn’t equal quality. We’ve seen it with React and the latest technology to fall victim to this is OpenAI’s chatbot, ChatGPT. ChatGPT is trending on Twitter and is talked about as one of the great innovations of this era. But when Chuck and Robbie put it to the test to recommend podcast topics, it doesn’t present the most imaginative ideas. Despite the hype, the tech is not all-knowing – it is only as smart as the people who make it. On the other hand, GitLab has the opposite p...
Advent of Whiskey: More on State of JS, TV Shows, and Holiday Traditions
December 18, 2022 08:00 - 28 minutes - 26 MBEvery developer has their limits and Chuck and Robbie share their points of view. Shadow DOM and Custom Elements are the last browser APIs they know in the State of JS survey. In the spirit of the holiday, they’re breaking out the Christmas movies, decorating gingerbread houses, and visiting Santa villages to spend quality time with family. In this episode, Chuck and Robbie talk about their final thoughts on browser APIs from the State of JS survey questions, their favorite holiday TV sho...
Advent of Whiskey: State of JS, ChatGPT, and Browser APIs
December 17, 2022 08:00 - 29 minutes - 27.2 MBThe State of JS is one of the best ways to get your voice heard and learn about the Javascript ecosystem. The React developers are likely in the majority of survey respondents but every developer within the Javascript community should consider taking it to get an accurate representation. One of the topics covered in the State of JS survey is browser APIs like WebGL, Web Animations, and Service Workers. Chuck and Robbie test their knowledge to see how much they know about them and Robbie rec...
Advent of Whiskey: State of JS and Microsoft's Legacy
December 16, 2022 08:00 - 29 minutes - 27.1 MBThe Javascript landscape is ever-changing. We can always rely on the State of JS survey to keep up with the latest trends and changes in the space. According to Robbie, Microsoft seems to be at the forefront of that change. Microsoft holds the lion’s share of platforms and products in Javascript development including VS Code and GitHub. It’s hard not to rely on Microsoft as a developer. It’s also hard to find someone who doesn’t love the Xbox. But even though they’ve come a long way and gi...
Advent of Whiskey: Coding Advent Calendars and the Strangest AI Projects
December 15, 2022 08:00 - 24 minutes - 22.5 MBIt’s the season of advent calendars, and coding platforms are launching challenges left and right. If you are waiting for a sign to try a new language or framework, advent calendars are a great place to start. The Advent of Whiskey series will be 10 episodes leading up to Christmas. Chuck and Robbie are following Flaviar's Whiskey Advent Calendar 2022, trying new whiskeys each episode and talking about the latest in tech. Robbie might be gearing up to try the CSS advent calendar challenge ...
Supabase, Logflare, and Offroading with Chase Granberry
December 08, 2022 08:00 - 52 minutes - 48 MBChase Granberry can be called a serial entrepreneur. He bootstrapped his first software company before selling it and starting the centralized logging service, Logflare. Chase sold the company to Supabase and joined the team as an acquired hire to support the team with a centralized logging solution and plotting insights for customers. Chase explains where Supabase is really different from Firebase and some of the benefits you can get from its flexibility combined with real-time data. In ...
Javascript Games, WTF JS, and a Visit to Phoenix
December 01, 2022 08:00 - 35 minutes - 32.2 MBIt’s not a normal day at the office. Robbie and his family are in Phoenix and the Whiskey Web and Whatnot hosts got together to play a losing game of golf and sip margaritas followed by whiskey. In this episode, Chuck and Robbie guess whether things are Javascript packages or grocery items in a game called “Is it a JS package?”, test their knowledge of tricky Javascript syntax from WTF JS, and talk about Robbie’s experience visiting Chuck in Phoenix. Key Takeaways [00:57] - A whiskey revi...
Debating React, Fonts, and Fatherhood with Josh Collinsworth
November 24, 2022 08:00 - 58 minutes - 53.1 MBReact isn’t good at anything, except being popular. That’s a bold statement, but it’s one that Josh Collinsworth stands by. It seems like nearly every major tech company has React in their stack. But why is a framework built specifically for Facebook so popular in the general developer community? Josh Collinsworth, Senior Front End Developer at Shopify, wrote an article titled “The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy of React”. Even though Shopify uses React, Josh didn’t hold back his views on the fra...
Framework Debates, Tech Layoffs, and Starlink
November 17, 2022 08:00 - 1 hour - 56.5 MBThe tech layoff saga continues. The latest company in the hot seat is Twitter. After Elon Musk took control of the company, the platform has been in disarray, leaving developers out of jobs and Twitter users confused about the future of the platform. Is the tech world on fire? Whether it’s social media, browser wars, or framework debates – the tech community seems to be in disagreement or in crisis. Tech companies were aggressively hiring developers before the economic downturn. Now, these ...
A11y Hour with Amber Hinds
November 10, 2022 08:00 - 54 minutes - 50.4 MBWordPress powers over 43% of sites on the internet today, making it a powerhouse web technology. Its simplicity attracted bloggers and do-it-yourselfers who navigate the platform by Googling code snippets. That knowledge gap comes with a whole host of accessibility issues. Amber Hinds, Founder and CEO at Equalize Digital, quit her part-time gig as a freelance developer when she found WordPress was an easier way to manage content. She's been doing accessibility work on the platform since 2016...
Funding Open Source Projects, Leaving Homebrew, and Launching Tea with Max Howell
November 03, 2022 07:00 - 57 minutes - 52.3 MBWorking on open source projects is a largely thankless job and a labor of love. The developers behind these projects often juggle full-time jobs to pay their bills while maintaining the software that keeps so much of the internet afloat. Max Howell, CEO of tea.inc., pivoted from chemistry to web development because of his fascination for open source. He worked full-time and did pull requests for Homebrew during his free time. After hustling to build a package manager used by engineers workin...
Multi-Page Apps, Prefetch vs Preload, and Web Nostalgia
October 27, 2022 07:00 - 59 minutes - 54.6 MBWhile multi-page apps (MPAs) seem like a new fixation for the developer community, they're pretty ancient news. If you were browsing the web in the 90s, you were likely visiting a multi-page app. Lucky for us, web tech improved, and made the entire experience of multi-page apps more appealing. One of the cons of MPAs is that they don't have preload and prefetch out of the box. Single-page apps (SPAs) on the other hand give you the power to decide how your site loads by loading all the resour...
Tailwind CSS, Headless UI, and Powerlifting with Adam Wathan
October 20, 2022 07:00 - 53 minutes - 49.4 MBMaintaining a CSS codebase can become chaotic pretty quickly and building a new stylesheet for every project can get tedious. Frameworks like Tailwind CSS were born to solve this problem. Adam Wathan, CEO of Tailwind Labs, built a "library-style CSS" for personal use and had no idea the concept would resonate with as many people as it did. When developers started asking him to share his library for them to use in their own projects, he got to work building out the framework. Two years after ...
Native Apps, Progressive Web Apps, and Media Monopolies
October 13, 2022 07:00 - 58 minutes - 53.6 MBThere's a lot to consider before committing to a framework to build a native app. If you choose to build in native, ask yourself whether you're prepared to handle the downsides that come with it. To start, you're limited to one framework and writing in one programming language. If you're not familiar with the syntax, that could pose a major learning curve. With native apps, it's tempting to have a separate app for every device that a user might run your app on, but on the operations front,...
SolidJS: The Framework Creating a Buzz with Dan Jutan
October 06, 2022 07:00 - 59 minutes - 54.6 MBEvery once in a while a new framework rises to popularity and gets the developer community buzzing. One of the frameworks with the most momentum right now is SolidJS. But what makes Solid so special? Dan Jutan, Product Manager at Astro, Inc. and SolidJS core team member believes the frameworks that prioritize developer experience will always come out on top. Before he landed at Solid, Dan started his career using Vue 3. It didn't take long before he was overwhelmed by the API surface and was...
Embracing New Tech, JavaScript, and the W3WC NFT Launch
September 29, 2022 07:00 - 58 minutes - 53.8 MBThe beauty of tech is that it keeps evolving. As a developer, it's important to keep evolving too. Whether that's trying new frameworks, starting side projects, or adopting emerging tech. JavaScript, for example, has taken on a whole new purpose since it was developed in the 90s to support a web browser. The language keeps developers like Robbie intrigued with features that seem underpromoted and underused by the community. At ShipShape, Chuck and Robbie are always experimenting. They're emb...
Balancing Engineering Management, Side Hustles, and Porsches with Kelly Vaughn
September 22, 2022 07:00 - 56 minutes - 52.2 MBWe all have at least one friend who somehow finds enough hours in a day to have a full-time job and take on several side projects. How can you successfully juggle a career, side hustles, and make time for your passions? Kelly Vaughn, Engineering Manager at Spot AI, has some thoughts. She is leading a diverse, fully remote, global team that spans from California to India. Kelly keeps her management style flexible to account for the quirks and personality types of her team. When she's not ste...
A11y Hour with Crystal Preston-Watson
September 15, 2022 07:00 - 51 minutes - 47.6 MBAccessibility is like learning a new language, leaving many developers wondering where to start. The answer is pretty simple, start anywhere. But the onus isn’t all on devs. Crystal Preston-Watson has partial sight and uses a screen reader in her day-to-day as a Senior Digital Accessibility Analyst at Salesforce, one of the largest tech companies in the world. As strange as it may seem, she never used a screen reader until she was asked to test one out in her previous role as a quality engi...
The Release of Nuxt 3 with Daniel Roe
September 08, 2022 07:00 - 55 minutes - 50.6 MBThe best way to win over a developer is to make their job simpler. The release of Nuxt 3 promises an even better developer experience than its former versions. That’s music to every developer’s ears. Who doesn’t want faster rendering? Daniel Roe, framework architect at Nuxt Labs has been working to get Nuxt 3 production ready for a stable release. In addition to DX improvements, once N3 is out of release, you can expect hybrid rendering, less JavaScript, and a cross-platform framework that ...
HTML Accessibility, Package Managers, and the Whiskey Web and Whatnot NFT
September 01, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 54.9 MBDevs have a lot on their plate, but the key is to find time for what's important. Championing accessibility is only possible if devs prioritize it and a good place to start is by knowing your HTML elements. If dogs can learn 50 human words, then devs can learn 50 HTML elements. On another note, not all package managers are made equal. Robbie has been loyal to Yarn for years and is okay with waiting a few minutes for installs. But from Chuck's operations perspective, when you're talking about...
Tech Rants, Supporting Open Source, and Great TV Shows
August 25, 2022 07:00 - 59 minutes - 54.7 MBBuilding products is hard. And devs can often feel hamstrung by competing priorities. The battle between revenue and quality is ever-present and ongoing. But is it possible to achieve both? In this episode, Chuck and Robbie discuss some of their frustrations with the tech companies and tech stacks in the modern era, supporting open source projects, and some great TV shows they have been enjoying. Key Takeaways * [01:27] - A whiskey review - Barrell Dovetail Whiskey. * [08:00] - Why tech...
Web Frameworks, the Launch of Astro 1.0, and National Parks with Nate Moore
August 18, 2022 07:00 - 57 minutes - 52.8 MBIntroducing a new framework can be challenging, especially when developers are loyal to old favorites. But Astro 1.0 is bridging the gap between old and new by staying compatible and familiar with other frameworks. Nate Moore, an engineer at Astro Technology Company and core maintainer on Astro has been working on Astro 1.0 for 16 months. His major focus was launching a new web framework that is sustainable and future-proof. Astro 1.0 is targeted at devs building content-based websites and i...
A11y Hour with Mark Steadman
August 11, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour - 56.7 MBLike many developers, Mark Steadman began working in web development with just a couple of goals in mind: write something that runs and passes a test. No major thought for those using the interface he created. Mark's perspective changed when he sat with a few folks who were blind or had low vision, and watched as they used assistive technology for the web and attempted to navigate a site he'd developed. Their struggle to tackle basic web functions against inaccessible code was Mark's wake-u...
Conventional Commits vs. Release-It and Chatting About the Changelog
August 04, 2022 07:00 - 58 minutes - 53.5 MBThere are two types of engineers. The "normal" ones who strive to make their day-to-day lives as easy as possible and the Robbie's of the world who strive to do everything themselves until the last line of code is sealed in a changelog. On that note, do you prefer conventional commits? Or the tools out there that make organization easier and, sometimes, automated? Chuck and Robbie don't see eye-to-eye on this particular topic so prepare yourself for the mildest smackdown of the century. In...
Emerging Tech, a Resource Renaissance, and Embracing Ember with Preston Sego
July 28, 2022 07:00 - 53 minutes - 48.8 MBA few years into Preston Sego's coding career, a colleague working on increasing interactivity on the company's interface chose Ember for the endeavor. Years later, when Preston began developing his own project, he took his colleague's advice and began testing the waters with Ember as well. In 2019, Preston noticed interesting work brewing within Ember. Realizing Ember was adaptable to modern tools, Preston decided to dive back in and start building out a chat app to test the framework. Tha...
A11y Hour with Eric Bailey
July 21, 2022 07:00 - 58 minutes - 53.9 MBIn recent years, accessibility has evolved from a way to avoid legal landmines, to a specialization developers are taking a serious approach to for the sake of their companies, apps, and users. Eric Bailey has been at the forefront of this maturation, working as both an advocate and educator in the accessibility and inclusive design space. A user experience designer by trade, Eric developed a passion for accessibility that led him to The A11Y Project – an open source, one-stop shop for digi...
Developing Orbit and the Future of Cross Framework Solutions with Dan Gebhardt
July 14, 2022 07:00 - 50 minutes - 46.6 MBYears ago, Dan Gebhardt was mapping out data needs for an app he was building. In a struggle to make sense of every requirement and apply them to other packages like Ember Data, he hit a wall. At this point, there was no option for adapting Ember Data to the complex specificities of his app's needs. Dan tried to rationalize a solution, deconstructing entire data universes and all aspects of a data library. The end result was Orbit, a framework-agnostic data layer with use cases beyond the o...
Matt Johnson: When Web3 Is Worth It and Learning to Lead
July 07, 2022 07:00 - 54 minutes - 49.6 MBIn high school, Matt Johnson followed in the footsteps of his older brother, pursuing similar hobbies like sports and music. After joining a band, Matt realized they needed a website. Mirroring his brother, Matt learned to code, built a website, and changed his college major. Following graduation, Matt dove into business ownership, buying out the company he interned for with a business partner. That once small operation has grown to a team of over 100 and as of July 1st, Matt will be Midwest...
Polaris, Starbeam, and the Future of Ember with Godfrey Chan
June 30, 2022 07:00 - 53 minutes - 49 MBIn 2022, the future of Ember is taking shape thanks to developers like Godfrey Chan. Alongside Yehuda Katz and other engineers, Godfrey's working on a new edition of Polaris. The project has three main goals: to align Ember with the modern npm packaging system, continue to invest and innovate in reactivity, and encourage universal design principles. Like many developers, Godfrey came to Ember from Rails. Months after chatting with Yehuda and Tom Dale at EmberConf, Godfrey was hired at Tilde...