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**Full Stack Radio**

A podcast for developers interested in building great software products. Every episode, Adam Wathan is joined by a guest to talk about everything from product design and user experience to unit testing and system administration.

Latest Episodes:

113: Justin Jackson - Growing Transistor to $10,000/month Apr 24, 2019

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Topics include:

Why you need more than just a product, and what Justin brings to the table in his partnership with Jon
How having an audience helped him get his first customers, even in a crowded market
Why you should use every advantage you have to get people in the door, even though the only thing that will make customers stay is a great product with great service
"People like us do things like this" vs "scratching your own itch"
How their affiliate program has been working surprisingly well for them, and how affiliate programs compare to traditional advertising
What Justin's day looks like working on Transistor as the marketing focused side of the partnership
How Justin and Jon are paying themselves, inspired by Profit First

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Links:

Transistor, Justin's podcast hosting business
Build your SaaS, Justin's podcast on building Transistor with Jon
The Good News Podcast, Cards Against Humanity's podcast hosted on Transistor
The Transistor blog
Transistor's revenue metrics
Rewardful, the affiliate SaaS Justin uses
Profit First

112: Guillermo Rauch - Building Serverless Applications with Now Apr 10, 2019

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Topics include:

How Now is trying to bring the CDN experience to your server-side code
How the constraints of serverless can nudge you to build more robust solutions
How to talk to a database in a stateless serverless environment
Best practices for deploying serverless code when you have a centralized data store
Why routing should be handled at the Now configuration level instead of in application code
How Now functions are different from microservices, and how you share code between them
How Now bundles your project using builders
Creating a monolithic project with Now that uses different programming languages for each endpoint
How the upcoming "now dev" feature will enable you to simulate a serverless environment locally
A behind-the-scenes look at the Now dashboard, how it's built, and the third-party services that power it

Sponsors:

DigitalOcean, get your free $50 credit at do.co/fullstack
Cloudinary, sign up and get 300,000 images/videos, 10GB of storage and 20GB of monthly bandwidth for free

Links:

ZEIT
Next.js
Now.sh
Now builders on GitHub
Now Monorepo example
Wordpress running on Now on now
Third-party services for serverless projects:

111: Jeffrey Way - Building the New Laracasts with Tailwind CSS Mar 28, 2019

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Topics include:

How Jeffrey has written CSS historically, and what drew him to a utility-first approach
Incrementally replacing Bulma with Tailwind
The importance of solidifying your Tailwind configuration before beginning to implement a design
The new Tailwind color system
Why choosing a color palette in advance is much better than using preprocessor functions like darken() or lighten()
How duplicating your markup is often a better solution than trying to write incredibly crafty responsive CSS
How Tailwind helps with performance by letting you keep your CSS cached
How to use CSS variables to create multiple themes for the same Tailwind site

Sponsors:

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Links:

Laracasts
Tailwind CSS
Group Hover in Tailwind
Mobile Twitter, responsive app without media queries
Theming Tailwind demo on GitHub
Easy Tailwind Themes Using CSS Variables, free lesson on Laracasts
Laravel, Vue and SPAs, Laracasts series on building an SPA with Tailwind CSS
LaraCats.com 😸

110: Caleb Porzio - Embracing the Backend with Livewire Mar 14, 2019

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Topics include:

Pain points you run into when you are working in a JS based UI instead of a server-rendered UI
What Livewire is and where the inspiration came from
How Livewire lets you build interactive user interfaces with server-side code
The challenges of stateful long-running processes in PHP and using stateless AJAX requests as an alternative
Walking through a worked example of using Livewire to build an interactive dropdown
What's next for Livewire

Sponsors:

ImageCon, Cloudinary's upcoming conference for any developer who works with rich media. Get 15% off using the code FULLSTACKRADIO15.
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Links:

Full Stack Radio T-Shirt + Sticker Pack Pre-orders
Caleb's blog, loaded with great Livewire content
No Plans to Merge, Caleb's podcast
Sharing Data in a Laravel/Vue Application on the Zaengle blog
Embrace the Backend, Caleb's talk at Laracon 2018
Phoenix LiveView unveiling at ElixirConf 2018
morphdom
Sign up for Livewire updates

109: The Road to Tailwind CSS v1.0 Feb 27, 2019

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Topics include:

Semantic versioning and why there hasn't been a v1.0 release already
How v1.0 will be encouraging people to leverage the default design system
Breaking changes and what the upgrade story will be like
What's coming after Tailwind CSS v1.0

Sponsors:

Cloudinary, sign up and get 300,000 images/videos, 10GB of storage and 20GB of monthly bandwidth for free
Rollbar, sign up at https://rollbar.com/fullstackradio and install Rollbar in your app to receive a $100 gift card for Open Collective

Links:

Full Stack Radio T-Shirt + Sticker Pack Pre-orders
Tailwind CSS
Adam's Work Journal, where writes about his progress on v1.0
The v1.0 To-Do List
PR explaining the new config format

108: Jonathan Reinink - Client-Side Rendering, Server-Side Routing Feb 14, 2019

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Topics include:

Why the UI fidelity threshold for building an SPA feels so low
How forcing yourself to prepare data for Vue helps avoid putting too much logic into your templates
Why it's still worth building your app as a traditional server-based web app, even if you are using Vue for your entire UI
Performance and complexity benefits of being able to prepare data for the view in a controller instead of having to build an API
Strategies for dealing with things like accessing routes, checking authorization rules, and other things you'd normally do in a Blade template
Switching from a template-inheritance mindset to a component mindset

Sponsors:

Rollbar, sign up at https://rollbar.com/fullstackradio and install Rollbar in your app to receive a $100 gift card for Open Collective
Cloudinary, sign up and get 300,000 images/videos, 10GB of storage and 20GB of monthly bandwidth for free

Links:

Laravel
Vue.js
Server-side apps with client-side rendering, from Jonathan's blog
Example project
Ziggy, package for accessing your Laravel routes on the client

107: Sam Selikoff - Pushing Complexity to the Client-Side Jan 30, 2019

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Topics include:

Building an API without writing any controller code
Thinking of your API like a database as much as possible
Modeling everything on the server as a resource, including things like S3 upload signatures
Using tools like Firebase to avoid writing an API entirely

Sponsors:

Rollbar, sign up at https://rollbar.com/fullstackradio and install Rollbar in your app to receive a $100 gift card for Open Collective
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Links:

EmberMap, Sam's Ember.js training site
JSON:API, the API spec Sam uses to build his SPA backends
JSONAPI::Resources, the Rails gem for declaratively building a JSON:API compliant API
Firebase
Vuex
Apollo GraphQL

106: Sam Selikoff - Single Page Application Architecture Jan 16, 2019

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Topics include:

Why you should think of SPAs as desktop apps instead of web apps
Strategies for pushing complexity out of your backend and on to the client
Building optimistic UIs
Best practices for storing and retrieving data
Why you should design your SPAs with an "offline-first" mindset

Sponsors:

Cloudinary, sign up and get 300,000 images/videos, 10GB of storage and 20GB of monthly bandwidth for free
Rollbar, sign up at https://rollbar.com/fullstackradio and install Rollbar in your app to receive a $100 gift card for Open Collective

Links:

EmberMap, Sam's Ember.js training site
Cruddy by Design, Adam's talk on modeling with resources
Progressive Enhacement is Dead, Long Live Progressive Enhancement, a talk from Tom Dale that talks about building offline-first web applications
Ember Data
JSON:API
Ember-Orbit

105: Strength Training for Nerds Jan 03, 2019

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Topics include:

What exercises you should focus on and why
How to develop a system that will force you to make progress
The importance of keeping a training journal
Why full-body workouts are better than training a specific muscle group each day
The importance of mobility for both training and your work life
Why building strength is so important as you age
Why you shouldn't trust trainers trying to sell complex exercise programs
Why you probably shouldn't be running for exercise
What equipment you need to get started

Sponsors:

Rollbar, sign up at https://rollbar.com/fullstackradio and install Rollbar in your app to receive a $100 gift card for Open Collective
Cloudinary, sign up and get 300,000 images/videos, 10GB of storage and 20GB of monthly bandwidth for free

Links:

Starting Strength by Mark Rippetoe
5/3/1 by Jim Wendler
Deskbound by Kelly Starrett
Atomic Habits by James Clear
Strong app for iOS
"Why You Should Not Be Running" by Mark Rippetoe
The MobilityWOD BattleStar
Rogue Fitness
Adam's last powerlifting competition on YouTube
Habits for Hackers, Ben's latest course

104: Jonathan Reinink - Pushing More Work to the Database Dec 19, 2018

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Topics include:

Issues you run into when you do too much work in code instead of in the database
Why memory usage is just as important as query count
How being smarter with your database usage can let you avoid hard problems like cache invalidation
Denormalizing computable data to make it queryable
Using "where not exists" strategically to improve query performance
Why the solution to n+1 problems isn't always as simple as eager-loading
How subqueries work and how you can use them to avoid memory problems when eager-loading

Sponsors:

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Links:

Refactoring UI
"Dynamic relationships in Laravel using subqueries" on Jonathan's blog
Source code for Jonathan's Laracon Online talk
The benefits of NOT EXISTS on StackOverflow
Advanced Eloquent, Jonathan's Laravel package

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