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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:

103: Steve Schoger - Design Q&A + Refactoring UI Details Dec 05, 2018

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Questions include:

What's your process for getting started on a new design?
How do you make your designs feel original?
How do you choose fonts for a new project?
How do you make complex tables look good, and how do you make them work on mobile?
What's the best way to style multiple secondary actions on a page?

Refactoring UI topics include:

Structuring the book to make it easy to read in a short amount of time
An overview of the sections and chapters in the book
What's covered in the screencasts
How the included color palettes are designed and why they are more useful than the color palettes you're used to generating online
What the font recommendation guide includes and how it's organized
Details about the included icon set
What's inside the component gallery, and how it's meant to be used
The release date! 🎉

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Links:

Refactoring UI
🔥 Design Tips
Fonts In Use
"Getting Real" by Basecamp, our inspiration for structuring the book
Refactoring UI on YouTube
Preview of the Refactoring UI icon set
Preview of the Refactoring UI color palettes
Preview of the Refactoring UI component gallery

102: Paul Jarvis - Staying Small Nov 21, 2018

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Topics include:

Why "success" shouldn't mean the same thing to everyone
How to stay small without doing all the work you don't want to do yourself
Why it's important to define what "enough" is for your business instead of always feeling the need to do better than you did last year
Questions to ask yourself to figure out what "success" would be for you
How knowing your "enough" can help you build better products for the people you want to serve
Why you should ignore the people who don't like what you're doing and double down on the people who love it

Sponsors:

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Links:

Paul's website
Company of One, Paul's upcoming book
"Enough already", from Paul's blog
"1,000 True Fans", by Kevin Kelly
"Find your rat people", from Paul's blog
"Sean D'Souza doesn't want to grow his company!"

101: Ben Orenstein - How to Build an App in a Week Nov 07, 2018

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Topics include:

Why deadlines are critical
Using manual processes to avoid building features entirely
How launching a stripped down version of your idea can help you build the right thing
Recognizing when you don't need to solve a problem yet
Why you shouldn't design your entire UI up front
How evolutionary design applies to both code and interface design
Why you should always finish a feature before starting the next one
Applying this approach to Ben's current project Tuple

Sponsors:

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Links:

The Art of Product, Ben's podcast
Tuple, Ben's current project
"You Should Take a Codecation"
Trailmix.life, Ben's first codecation SaaS
Briefs.fm, Ben's second codecation SaaS
Nomadlist, by Pieter Levels
Airline List
Basecamp 6 week cycles
"How we structure our work and teams at Basecamp"
"What six weeks of work looks like" (at Basecamp)
"Making Sense of MVP", by Henrik Kniberg

100: Sébastien Chopin - Building Universal Vue.js Apps with Nuxt.js Oct 24, 2018

Show notes

Topics include:

The history behind Nuxt.js
How Nuxt.js uses special Page components and file-based routing instead of using a traditional router
Creating dynamic page-based routes without a custom server
How the asyncData lifecycle hook works
How server-side rendering works in Nuxt.js
How Nuxt.js uses intelligent code-splitting to improve performance
How to use the fetch method to dispatch Vuex actions
Using the head method to populate head elements on a page
How layouts and middleware work
Options for generating, serving, and deploying Nuxt applications
When and why would someone use Vue CLI instead of Nuxt?

Sponsors:

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99: Tim Neutkens - Building React Apps with Next.js Oct 10, 2018

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Topics include:

How Next.js is different than using create-react-app
How page-based routing works in Next.js vs. a traditional router
The mechanics behind how components are server-side rendered and picked up by React on the client
What it really means to server-render a React app and how it's different from a traditional server-rendered web app
How to use "getInitialProps" to tell Next.js how to render a page on the server
How dynamic routing works using page-based routing
What's new in Next.js 7.0

Sponsors:

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98: Ryan Chenkie - Securing Single Page Applications Sep 26, 2018

Show notes

Topics include:

What JSON Web Tokens are and how to use them to authenticate users
Strategies for invalidating stateless API tokens
Using cookie and session authentication
Using authentication-as-a-service solutions like Auth0
Proxying requests to your API to simplify CORS issues
Protecting against XSS attacks

Sponsors:

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Links:

JSON Web Tokens
Securing Angular Applications, Ryan's book
Security Headers scanning tool
"I’m harvesting credit card numbers and passwords from your site. Here’s how."
https://auth0.com/
"CORS is bad for performance" Twitter thread

97: Ryan Florence - Building Accessible UI Components Sep 12, 2018

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Topics include:

How modern JS frameworks have made the web less accessible
How Reach UI is making it easier for people to build accessible components without sacrificing customizability
The importance of using the correct markup
How focus trapping works
Adding keyboard navigation to components in a way that makes sense for screenreader users
The challenges of building an accessibility-focused UI library

Sponsors:

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96: James Clear - Designing Your Environment to Shape Your Behavior Aug 29, 2018

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Topics include:

Why goals aren't useful on their own
The four rules that guide human behavior
Using environment design to encourage the habits you want to adopt
Building habits of avoidance
Why being productive is really about decision making

Sponsors:

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Links:

JamesClear.com
Pre-order Atomic Habits, James' upcoming book
James' Newsletter

95: Frank de Jonge - Implementing Event Sourcing Aug 15, 2018

Show notes

Topics include:

How to fetch and reconstitute an aggregate from its events
Using generators to make it easy to transform event streams
What it looks like to apply an event to an aggregate
How to create events and what they look like
Implementing a message repository for fetching events from storage
How to raise events from inside your aggregates
How to persist aggregates at the end of a request
What it looks like to insert new events into storage
Dispatching events to consumers to produce side effects
Using event consumers to create and update projections

Sponsors:

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Links:

Full Stack Radio #85
EventSauce, Frank's event sourcing library

94: Ben Orenstein - The Art of Pairing Aug 01, 2018

Show notes

Topics include:

The benefits of pairing with someone more experienced than you
The benefits of pairing with someone less experienced than you
How pairing helps you build things faster
Why pairing often removes the need for code review
How to get started with pairing if you've never done it before

Sponsors:

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Netlify, incredibly powerful static site hosting for free

Links:

Tuple, the remote pairing tool Ben is building
Tuple's Pair Programming Guide
The Art of Product, Ben's podcast with Derrick Reimer
Ben's blog
Pair programming on Wikipedia
"Extreme Programming Explained" by Kent Beck
"How to Improve as a Programmer"
Llewellyn’s strong-style pairing
The Pomodoro Technique
Vehikl podcast episode on pairing

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