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A Solid primer on Signals Apr 25, 2024

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Ryan Carniato joins Amal & Nick to discuss Solid with a major focus on Signals, which are the cornerstone of reactivity in Solid.

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Amal Hussein – GitHub, X
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The boring JavaScript stack Apr 18, 2024

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Kelvin Omereshone is here to get you excited about boring, reliable tech. He believes a combination of Sails, Inertia, Tailwind & your frontend rendering library of choice are a great combo for building web apps. Tune in to find out why.

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Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

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Off to see the Wiz Apr 11, 2024

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How does Google build Search? What about YouTube and Google Drive? We rely on Chrome’s Lighthouse scores when optimizing our websites, but what does Google prioritize? Recently the Angular and Wiz teams announced their intention to responsibly merge their internal frontend framework, Wiz, with Angular to bring some of Wiz’s best ideas to Angular. We’re chatting with Minko from Angular and Jatin from the Wiz team to learn about how Wiz has been used in Google historically, what it’s good at, and why it’s worth bringing some of its ideas to Angular.

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Minko Gechev – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Jatin Ramanathan – LinkedIn, X
Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Jessica Sachs – Website, GitHub, X

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13% of the time, Devin works every time Mar 28, 2024

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Jerod, KBall & Nick discuss the latest news: Devin, Astro DB, The JavaScript Registry, Tailwind 4 & Angular merging with Wiz. Oh, and a surprise mini-game of HeadLIES!

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Advocating for the future of the open web Mar 14, 2024

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Alex & James Moore, founding members of the Open Web Advocacy (OWA), join Amal to talk about the critical work the OWA has been doing to ensure users have browser choice and that web apps can be first-class citizens on mobile devices. We learn about how an ad-hoc group of software engineers worked with regulators, legislators & policymakers to help drive some of the most impactful legislation curbing anti-competitive behaviors on the web for tech giants such as Apple, Google & Microsoft via the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA).

Tune in for this deeply important & timely discussion as we also unpack recent events with Apple and their DMA (un)compliance, and how the OWA helped successfully organize thousands of web developers from around the world to hold ground for a free & open web.

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PowerSync – Build local-first web apps — Give users instantly reactive UX with an in-browser database that keeps itself in sync with any backend Postgres. No need to wait for network requests, code complicated caching logic or to maintain in-memory state. Set up is easy, removal too. Try on a generous free plan.
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Amal Hussein – GitHub, X

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Getting a pulse on your Core Web Vitals 🩺 Mar 07, 2024

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This week, Amal and Nick are joined by Rick Viscomi and Annie Sullivan from the Chrome team to dive into Core Web Vitals, a set of performance metrics geared towards helping developers surface web page quality signals that are key to delivering great user experiences.

We deconstruct the different vitals and learn how they are helpful, as well as introduce the newest vital to hit the scene, Interaction to Next Paint (INP). Join us for a fun and nerdtastic discussion as we dive into the humbling universe of web performance!

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Take a look, it's in a book Feb 29, 2024

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Nick delves into the intricacies of technical book writing with authors Adrienne Braganza Tacke and Dylan Hildenbrand. We talk about the process of working with a publisher, coming up with an outline, actually writing the book, and everything that comes after the book is finished.

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Adrienne’s books
- Looks Good to Me: Constructive Code Reviews
- Coding for Kids: Python: Learn to Code with 50 Awesome Games and Activities
Dylan’s book
- SvelteKit Up and Running

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Who's that girl? It's Jess! Feb 22, 2024

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Apple kills EU web apps, Amazon launches a JS runtime optimized for serverless workloads & we play a game of 20 (15) questions to welcome Jessica Sachs to the party!

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Amal Hussein – GitHub, X
Christopher Hiller – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
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Angular moves fast without breaking things Feb 15, 2024

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KBall & Amal dive deep with the “Dazzle of Zebras” (possible future band name), Angular team members Jessica Janiuk & Mark “Techson” Thompson. Along with an absolute riot of puns, they cover topics such as Angular’s new deferrable views feature, how the Angular core team handles change, and lessons learned from the AngularJS-Angular 2 debacle that allow Angular to now move fast without breaking things.

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PowerSync – Don’t build your own sync layer! PowerSync enables an offline-first architecture to make your application real-time and reactive. PowerSync is framework agnostic with open source client SDKs and plugs into your existing database, backend, and application to give you an offline-first/local-first architecture without having to build your own sync layer.
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React Server Components 🧐 Feb 08, 2024

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The week Amal & guest co-host Eric Clemmons talk to Dan Abramov all about React Server Components. We learn about why they were created, what problems they solve & how they work to improve application performance. We also dive into the rollout and current support status, the origin story, the community response & walk through the 10+ years of React history which have forever shifted the world of web development.

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Amal Hussein – GitHub, X
Eric Clemmons – GitHub, X

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