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153: DHH – Omarchy and Designing Your Own OS on Arch Linux Aug 21, 2025

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I talk to DHH about Omarchy, the carefully curated distribution of Arch Linux he's been refining for the last few months.

We talk about stuff like:

How did he discover Arch + Hyprland in the first place?
What even is Arch, what even is Hyprland, and how the fuck do you make the mouse show up in Linux?
Should you really be afraid of trying to maintain your own Linux installation?
What are the main differences in workflow using Omarchy vs. something like macOS?
What are the best options on Linux for the type of software where macOS has historically shined, like creative tools?
What are the best hardware options for developers wanting to run Omarchy?

Forgive the worse-than-usual audio quality, we recorded this last minute and spur of the moment with unfamiliar tools!

152: Ben Orenstein - How to Stand Out When Applying for a Job at a Small Company Jan 28, 2021

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Topics:

Putting yourself in the shoes of the person reviewing your application
Crafting a high quality application tailored to a specific position
Standing out in a more traditional hiring process by doing something a little extra
Showcasing very specific examples of your work instead of asking the person reviewing your application to go hunting for it
Having good questions for the person interviewing you
Sharing your ideas and what you think the company should be focused on
Creating a job for yourself that doesn’t even exist
Proving that you can take ownership of projects and ship them by yourself
Showing off skills you have that aren’t directly related to the job

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Supporting the show:
I decided to stop taking sponsors for the show because I think advertisements are annoying and no one wants to listen to them.

If you do want to support the show, the best way to do it is to purchase one of my products:

Tailwind UI, a collection of professionally designed, fully responsive HTML components built with Tailwind CSS.
Refactoring UI, a book and video series I put together with Steve Schoger on designing beautiful user interfaces, without relying on a designer.
Advanced Vue Component Design, a course on designing simpler, more flexible Vue components that are both more powerful and easier to maintain.
Test-Driven Laravel, a massive video course on designing robust Laravel applications with TDD. Learn how to build a real-world application from scratch without writing a single line of untested code.
Refactoring to Collections, a book and video course that teaches you how to apply functional programming principles to break down ugly, complex code into simple transformations — free of loops, complex conditionals, and temporary variables.

151: DHH – Building HEY with Hotwire Dec 28, 2020

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Supporting the show:
I decided to stop taking sponsors for the show because I think advertisements are annoying and no one wants to listen to them.

If you do want to support the show, the best way to do it is to purchase one of my products:

Tailwind UI, a collection of professionally designed, fully responsive HTML components built with Tailwind CSS.
Refactoring UI, a book and video series I put together with Steve Schoger on designing beautiful user interfaces, without relying on a designer.
Advanced Vue Component Design, a course on designing simpler, more flexible Vue components that are both more powerful and easier to maintain.
Test-Driven Laravel, a massive video course on designing robust Laravel applications with TDD. Learn how to build a real-world application from scratch without writing a single line of untested code.
Refactoring to Collections, a book and video course that teaches you how to apply functional programming principles to break down ugly, complex code into simple transformations — free of loops, complex conditionals, and temporary variables.

150: Secret Screencasting Tips & Behind the Scenes of Tailwind CSS 2.0 Oct 21, 2020

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Supporting the show:

I decided to stop taking sponsors for the show because I think advertisements are annoying and no one wants to listen to them.

If you do want to support the show, the best way to do it is to check out our products:

Tailwind UI, a collection of professionally designed, fully responsive HTML components built with Tailwind CSS.
Statamic 3, Jack's full-featured flat-file CMS, designed for developers and clients alike.
Refactoring UI, a book and video series I put together with Steve Schoger on designing beautiful user interfaces, without relying on a designer.
Advanced Vue Component Design, a course on designing simpler, more flexible Vue components that are both more powerful and easier to maintain.
Test-Driven Laravel, a massive video course on designing robust Laravel applications with TDD. Learn how to build a real-world application from scratch without writing a single line of untested code.
Refactoring to Collections, a book and video course that teaches you how to apply functional programming principles to break down ugly, complex code into simple transformations — free of loops, complex conditionals, and temporary variables.

149: Choosing a Payment Processor, Radical Icons & W3C Hype Oct 07, 2020

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Links:

Supporting the show:

I decided to stop taking sponsors for the show because I think advertisements are annoying and no one wants to listen to them.

If you do want to support the show, the best way to do it is to check out our products:

Tailwind UI, a collection of professionally designed, fully responsive HTML components built with Tailwind CSS.
Statamic 3, Jack's full-featured flat-file CMS, designed for developers and clients alike.
Refactoring UI, a book and video series I put together with Steve Schoger on designing beautiful user interfaces, without relying on a designer.
Advanced Vue Component Design, a course on designing simpler, more flexible Vue components that are both more powerful and easier to maintain.
Test-Driven Laravel, a massive video course on designing robust Laravel applications with TDD. Learn how to build a real-world application from scratch without writing a single line of untested code.
Refactoring to Collections, a book and video course that teaches you how to apply functional programming principles to break down ugly, complex code into simple transformations — free of loops, complex conditionals, and temporary variables.

148: Accessible Focus Styles, Tailwind Labs on YouTube, and Secret Projects Sep 29, 2020

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Supporting the show:

I decided to stop taking sponsors for the show because I think advertisements are annoying and no one wants to listen to them.

If you do want to support the show, the best way to do it is to check out our products:

Tailwind UI, a collection of professionally designed, fully responsive HTML components built with Tailwind CSS.
Statamic 3, Jack's full-featured flat-file CMS, designed for developers and clients alike.
Refactoring UI, a book and video series I put together with Steve Schoger on designing beautiful user interfaces, without relying on a designer.
Advanced Vue Component Design, a course on designing simpler, more flexible Vue components that are both more powerful and easier to maintain.
Test-Driven Laravel, a massive video course on designing robust Laravel applications with TDD. Learn how to build a real-world application from scratch without writing a single line of untested code.
Refactoring to Collections, a book and video course that teaches you how to apply functional programming principles to break down ugly, complex code into simple transformations — free of loops, complex conditionals, and temporary variables.

147: Surviving GitHub Issues, the Statamic 3 Launch Aftermath, Tailwind 1.8, and Headless UI Sep 23, 2020

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Supporting the show:

I decided to stop taking sponsors for the show because I think advertisements are annoying and no one wants to listen to them.

If you do want to support the show, the best way to do it is to check out our products:

Tailwind UI, a collection of professionally designed, fully responsive HTML components built with Tailwind CSS.
Statamic 3, Jack's full-featured flat-file CMS, designed for developers and clients alike.
Refactoring UI, a book and video series I put together with Steve Schoger on designing beautiful user interfaces, without relying on a designer.
Advanced Vue Component Design, a course on designing simpler, more flexible Vue components that are both more powerful and easier to maintain.
Test-Driven Laravel, a massive video course on designing robust Laravel applications with TDD. Learn how to build a real-world application from scratch without writing a single line of untested code.
Refactoring to Collections, a book and video course that teaches you how to apply functional programming principles to break down ugly, complex code into simple transformations — free of loops, complex conditionals, and temporary variables.

146: Launching Statamic 3, GitHub Sponsors, Tailwind CSS v1.7, and Preparing for Laracon Sep 04, 2020

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Adam and Jack talk about how the Statamic 3 launch went, and adding GitHub Sponsor tiers to the Statamic GitHub organization and what to give people in exchange for sponsoring. They also talk about the new Tailwind CSS v1.7 release, and the new features like gradient support. Finally, they work through some ideas Adam is preparing for his Laracon talk on “Building component libraries with Tailwind CSS”.

145: Statamic 3.0 and Tailwind CSS 2.0 Aug 20, 2020

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144: Gary Bernhardt - TypeScript and Testing Aug 05, 2020

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Topics include:

Why Gary decided to write Execute Program as a full-stack TypeScript application instead of using a Ruby or Python backend like he may have traditionally
Do you actually have to write less tests if you have a good type system?
What does a good type system give you that tests can't give you?
Using io-ts to type check incoming data
How to think about structuring your code to best take advantage of the benefits your type system gives you and minimize the need to write tests
Pushing conditional logic to the core of your system to reduce the number of tests you need to write at the edges
The correlation between type errors and behavioral bugs, and how a type system can help you catch mistakes you don't think to test for
Do type errors signal that you're missing a test?
Structural vs. nominal type systems, and the benefits of structural type systems like used by TypeScript and Go
Best practices for type-checking within a function in a structural type system like TypeScript
The power of supporting literal types like true or "active" in addition to traditional types

Links:

Supporting the show:
I decided to stop taking sponsors for the show because I think advertisements are annoying and no one wants to listen to them.

If you do want to support the show, the best way to do it is to purchase one of my products:

Tailwind UI, a collection of professionally designed, fully responsive HTML components built with Tailwind CSS.
Refactoring UI, a book and video series I put together with Steve Schoger on designing beautiful user interfaces, without relying on a designer.
Advanced Vue Component Design, a course on designing simpler, more flexible Vue components that are both more powerful and easier to maintain.
Test-Driven Laravel, a massive video course on designing robust Laravel applications with TDD. Learn how to build a real-world application from scratch without writing a single line of untested code.
Refactoring to Collections, a book and video course that teaches you how to apply functional programming principles to break down ugly, complex code into simple transformations — free of loops, complex conditionals, and temporary variables.

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