Svelte Radio

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View Transitions in SvelteKit and beyond with Geoff Rich Nov 22, 2023

Show notes

Today we chat with Geoff Rich about View Transitions. We explore what you can do with them, how to use them and much more. Can it be used with SvelteKit? Yes! Dive in and get all the tips!

Recorded on September 27st.

Description

Unpopular Opinions

Kevin: Limitations are good!
Brittney: -
Geoff: ARIA attributes
- NVDA

Picks

Wolfensvelte 3D and the Svelte Language Server in the Browser with Jason Bradnick Oct 17, 2023

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We have chat with Svelte Hackathon winner Jason Bradnick (snuffy) about what it took to build his Wolfenstein clone in Svelte using only HTML, CSS and JS! No canvas used! He also talks about the work he's done on bringing the svelte language tools to SvelteLab. That means bringing the language server to the web!

Recorded on September 21st.

NotesSvelte Summit is happening on November 11th! Go submit a CFP!

Who is Jason?
- GitHub
- Twitter / X
Svelte Language Tools Web
- svelte-vscode-web
Wolfensvelte-3D
- Play in the browser
Nanothreads

Unpopular Opinions

Brittney: node_modules 🤬
Antony: It's ok to like different things, but agree on a standard
Jason: Please use CommonJS but don't work with me

Picks

Kevin: Sea of Stars
Brittney: Wool (Silo series)
Antony: Batteries are great!
- Technology Connections
Jason: Lenovo ThinkPads, good deal!

We are back! Svelte 5, Transitions, What's New?! Sep 29, 2023

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We're back after a long summer vacation! We talk about what's new in Svelte, View Transitions and we give you an update on what we all have been doing!

We talk about the very very sad news that Ivan Hofer has passed away.

Unfortunately we had some pretty major recording issues this time and had to record over two days, sorry about that!

Recorded on September 14th.

Notes

Svelte Summit is happening on November 11th! Go submit a CFP!
Latent Space
AI Engineer Conference
What's new in Svelte and Kit?
- View Transition support via onNavigate
- Svelte 5 teases from the community.
  - Runes are now out
  - Preview
Ivan Hofer passed away.
- Creator of typesafe-i18n
- If you can read German you can read an article here.
- Svelte Summit Talk
- Obituary Site
  - Add languages
Showcases:
- Sveltroid
- Animotion

Unpopular Opinions

Kevin: You don’t need a lot of equipment to start creating content
Brittney: Jamstack is alive?
Swyx: Bun is beating Deno
Antony: WeWork 😭
- Babies are hard!
- EightSleep: https://www.eightsleep.com/se/

Picks

Brittney: Silo
Swyx: Foundation
Antony: Eat Magnesium!

SvelteLab - a Svelte REPL for SvelteKit with Antonio and Paolo Jun 22, 2023

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Sponsor
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Recorded: June 15th

Description

In this episode we talk with Antonio and Paolo, winners of the Svelte Hackathon! They built a REPL that not only works for Svelte, but also for SvelteKit.

Music
Intro music by Braden Wiggins a.k.a. Fractal (braden@fractal-hq.com)

Discussion topics

Antonio
Paolo
SvelteLab
Tech
- WebContainer API
- XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2347/
svelte-add
svelte-check
Docs
PocketBase

Unpopular Opinions

Brittney: Native HTML tables are awful (brittney)
Antonio: There are too many micro blogging sites
Antony: Notion
Paolo:
- We should not force “sv” into all the names
- PWA:s are actually ok!

Picks

Brittney: Diablo 4
Kevin: Global Warming is great (wtf?!)
Paolo: Bluey
Antonio: Zelda
Antony: Light Weight E-scooter
- Megawheels S1

A primer on AI for developers with Swyx from Latent Space May 11, 2023

Show notes

NOTE: RECORDED May the 4th be with you.

Description

This episode is special in the sense that it's not so much about Svelte in particular but for developers in general. If you haven't gone down the AI rabbit hole yet this episode is for you. Swyx gives us a crash course in what it is and how you can use it as a web developer. Enjoy!

Music
Intro music by Braden Wiggins a.k.a. Fractal (braden@fractal-hq.com)

Discussion topics

Latent Space
Image Generation:
- Midjourney
Weights and Biases
https://github.com/karpathy/nn-zero-to-hero
Whisper
UL2
JasperAI
Midjourney
levelsio - https://twitter.com/levelsio
11labs
swyx github ainotes
https://replit.com
platform.openai.com
Tools for Web Developers
- Copilot
- Codeium
- Wolverine
Codium: Test Generation
ChatGPT Plugins
- https://github.com/Jeadie/awesome-chatgpt-plugins
Autonomy of Atonomy: https://www.latent.space/p/agents
AutoGPT
BabyGPT
Anthropic
Elicit

Picks

Kevin:
Swyx:
- Menu Bar App for ChatGPT “ChatGPT Mac”
- The Batch
Brittney:
- Night Agent

Svelte Summit Hypisode May 04, 2023

Show notes

NOTE: RECORDED April 28th.

Description

We talk about the upcoming Svelte Summit conference and what we can expect from it! Talks, hackathon winners and other things!

Music
Intro music by Braden Wiggins a.k.a. Fractal (braden@fractal-hq.com)

Discussion topics

Unpopular Opinions

Antony: The GitHub SDK is not good
Brittney: Bluesky is not the next Twitter or the better Twitter, it will push more poeple to Mastodon
Shawn: Edge Browser
- Arc Browser
- Kevs Tip: Orion Browser

Picks

Brittney: The Diplomat
Kev: PartyKit
Shawn: Marvel Snap
Antony: Succession

SvelteKit-superforms with Andreas Söderlund Apr 28, 2023

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NOTE: RECORDED April 19th.

Description

Forms in SvelteKit are already top notch. But Superforms make them even better. We talk to Andreas Söderlund, the creator of the library. Enjoy!

Music
Intro music by Braden Wiggins a.k.a. Fractal (braden@fractal-hq.com)

Discussion topics

Haxe: https://haxe.org
Form Actions: https://kit.svelte.dev/docs/form-actions
sveltekit-superforms: https://github.com/ciscoheat/sveltekit-superforms
- Documentation: https://superforms.vercel.app
- Zod: https://github.com/colinhacks/zod
- Timers: https://superforms.vercel.app/concepts/timers
- Response Time Discussion: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/response-times-3-important-limits/
- Multiple Forms: https://superforms.vercel.app/concepts/multiple-forms

Unpopular Opinions

Brittney: Don’t use libraries that don’t have first class support for esm or Vite.
Antony: AI is not going to steal our jobs
Andreas: NPM and package managers should be more restrictive with what they allow on their registries.

Picks

Kev: Sauna
Antony: These USB-C Cable - https://amzn.to/3ophxql
Andreas: DCI - https://blog.encodeart.dev/dci-tutorial-for-typescript-part-1

Svelte in Research at Dartmouth with Wasita and Eshin Apr 20, 2023

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NOTE: RECORDED April 13th.

Description

This week we sit down with Wasita and Eshin at the Cosanlab at Darthmouth to talk about how they use Svelte in their research as well as the intersection between research and web development and the possibilities that it opens up.

Music
Intro music by Braden Wiggins a.k.a. Fractal (braden@fractal-hq.com)

Discussion topics

Guests:
- Wasita:
  - Twitter
  - Website
- Eshin:
  - Twitter
  - Website
Computational Social Affective Neuroscience Laboratory
https://github.com/wasita/svelte-vid-sync-chat-app -> The "Netflix party" experiment we mentioned, written with Svelte, socket.io, firebase
https://github.com/cosanlab/trust-game -> Interactive 2-player trust game experiment written in Svelte and client-synchronization powered by Firebase
https://github.com/ejolly/create-svelte-experiment -> A starter Svelte SPA template for experiments powered by Firebase
https://maxfarrens.github.io/continuous-rater-book/Intro.html -> An interface for collecting continuous time-series emotion ratings from people watching videos
https://github.com/ejolly/thought_tagger -> An interface for segmenting audio-files of people's memories. Built on top of the BBC's peaks.js.
https://eshinjolly.com/svelteturk/#/ -> The "missing GUI" for Amazon's Mechanical Turk labor market. An electron desktop app that helps manage data collection and administration.

Unpopular Opinions

Brittney: Click bait twitter
Antony: Helium

Picks

Kev: Cold Plunges
Antony: Same
Eshin: Raised by Wolves
Wasita: Beef
Brittney: Shadow and Bone (TV Show)

Svelte at AppWrite with Alex Patterson Apr 13, 2023

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NOTE: RECORDED March 28th.

Description

Alex Patterson joins us to chat about... you guessed it! Svelte at AppWrite. And Svelte in general. We chat a bit of AI as well, ChatGPT, Google Bard. All that fun new stuff!

Music
Intro music by Braden Wiggins a.k.a. Fractal (braden@fractal-hq.com)

Discussion topics

Who is Alex?
- Twitter
- Website
- How did you get into programming?
  - Dreamweaver
  - ABAP in SAP
- Svelte
  - Pink
  - AppWrite Console
- Codingcat.dev
- AppWrite
Thoughts on Svelte
- Reactive statements
ChatGPT
- Google Bard
BlackCatUI
{…$$restProps}
Sveld
JSDoc

Unpopular Opinions

Alex: TailwindCSS is awesome!
Antony: DX is king - if your DX sucks you slowly and reluctantly build things and don’t experiment due to effort
- Imba
- Scrimba

Picks

Kev: YouTube Shorts on Svelte Society
Alex: https://www.blackcatui.com/
- Heated Deskpad
Antony: packageManager - volta - issue with global packages node version - only-allow-pnpm (doesn’t work)
- Volta
- packageManager - https://nodejs.org/dist/latest-v16.x/docs/api/packages.html#packagemanager
- only-allow-pnpm - https://pnpm.io/only-allow-pnpm

Where can folks find you on the interwebs?

@codercatdev

appwrite discord server

Coding Cat Dev find all the podcasts

Eric Brehault and Nuclia Apr 06, 2023

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NOTE: RECORDED March 22nd.

Description

Eric from Nuclia joins us to talk about Svelte... and the history of the web! If you're a new web developer this one is a treasure trove of knowledge. We also talk about Nuclia and what they're doing. A lot of fun!

Music
Intro music by Braden Wiggins a.k.a. Fractal (braden@fractal-hq.com)

Discussion topics