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Catching up after Svelte Summit Nov 17, 2022

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Description
We're finally getting back into it again. This week Brittney and Kev catch up on the latest since Svelte Summit. Enjoy!

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

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Election Graphs using Svelte and SvelteKit
Creative Coding (around 18 minutes it gets trippy!)by Alexander Esselink
Jammies - Ecosystem Innovation Award
Steven Sanderson, creator of Knockout.js shows us SvelteKit during his NDC talk
SvelteKit Milestone 97%!

Unpopular Opinions

Brittney: Twitter is going to die, Mastodon is where it is at
Kev: Twitter is NOT going to die

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Kev: Kagi Search
Brittney: Jamstack Conf

Let's talk routing with Rich Harris Aug 19, 2022

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Some new routing changes have made its way to SvelteKit. Controversial? A bit. We sit down with Rich Harris to talk about the why the how of it all.

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This week's episode is sponsored by... Svelte Summit! Get your tickets for the upcoming in-person event in Stockholm before it's too late!

Description
Some new routing changes have made its way to SvelteKit. Controversial? A bit. We sit down with Rich Harris to talk about the why the how of it all.

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

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The Discussion that started it all
- Next.js Layout RFC
Migration Guide

Unpopular Opinions

Kev: Safari is the best browser 😎
Swyx: All apps can make more use of URL State management
- Form Issue
Brittney: Firefox is the best browser
Rich: Firefox is not the best browser

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Rich Harris:
Swyx:
Brittney: Sirens Luncheon at Svelte Summit & Svelte Sirens August Talk with Josefine Schaefer from Storyblok
Rich: Climbing / Bouldering / Toproping

SvelteKit is changing fast! Aug 10, 2022

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This week we talk about a number changes that have been made to SvelteKit lately. (No! Not the big routing changes, those will be talked about next episode!) And Brittney is our second Master of Ceremony for Svelte Summit!

Sponsor
This week's episode is sponsored by... Svelte Summit! Get your tickets for the upcoming in-person event in Stockholm before it's too late!

Description
This week we talk about a number changes that have been made to SvelteKit lately. (No! Not the big routing changes, those will be talked about next episode!)

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

Notes

Bubble Popping Game
Svelte Documentary for those who missed it
Rich Harris Commit Messages
- https://twitter.com/The_Only_Tails/status/1549854642032492549
- https://twitter.com/joyofcodedev/status/1549861807422164992
SvelteKit Changes
Dummdidumm is hired by Vercel to work on Svelte
Beginner SvelteKit by Vercel
Carbon Components by IBM
fluent-svelte by Tropix126
Community and Meetups
Storyblok with SvelteKit Josefine Schaefer - https://sveltesirens.dev/upcoming August 17, 1:30 EDT
Last month - Testing in Svelte with Jess
Highlights and libraries
- Phoenix + Svelte https://nathancahill.com/phoenix-svelte
- Svelte + SVG Bohr Atoms demo https://twitter.com/jrib_/status/1551605545563353088?s=12&t=DlX39H0u_x3fAyyZHJL0Ow
- React Hooks in Svelte - josh nuss https://twitter.com/danawoodman/status/1551582422780854272?s=12&t=DlX39H0u_x3fAyyZHJL0Ow
- Svelte + Remix demo https://twitter.com/crim_codes/status/1542684471195045889?s=12&t=DlX39H0u_x3fAyyZHJL0Ow
- Remix-routers https://github.com/brophdawg11/remix-routers
- Form in Svelte - https://github.com/sveltejs/kit/issues/3533#issuecomment-1197791727
- Threejs + Svelte https://twitter.com/a_warnes/status/1543412625157021698?s=12&t=DlX39H0u_x3fAyyZHJL0Ow
- Bruno Simon: https://bruno-simon.com
- Svelte Cascading Context store https://twitter.com/hamiltonulmer/status/1541548191010590720?s=12&t=DlX39H0u_x3fAyyZHJL0Ow
- Stolinski - Bookit https://twitter.com/stolinski/status/1551044830456729600?s=12&t=DlX39H0u_x3fAyyZHJL0Ow
- vitebook https://vitebook.dev/introduction/what-is-vitebook.html
- Svelte command palette https://twitter.com/rohitpotato/status/1546388264915173378?s=12&t=DlX39H0u_x3fAyyZHJL0Ow

Unpopular Opinions

Kev: SQLite is enough for most things! Use PocketBase ❤️: https://pocketbase.io
swyx: Client-Server is not “Full Stack” anymore
Brittney: Twitter spaces is the worst platform that is actually popular

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Kev: Orion Browser
swyx: Really Bad Chess
Brittney: Learn Build Teach - Wins of the Week

The Svelte Documentary is out! Jul 11, 2022

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This week's episode is sponsored by... Svelte Summit! Get your tickets for the upcoming in-person event in Stockholm before it's too late! We already have some confirmed speakers: Rich Harris, 🐧 Pngwn and Amelia Wattenberger!

Description
In this episode we talk about the recently released Svelte documentary. We thought it was pretty good... but we're biased, we were all in it 😂

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

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Unpopular Opinions

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Kevin: Flip cocktail - https://stevethebartender.com.au/brandy-flip-cocktail-recipe/
Swyx: https://www.swyx.io/running-docker-without-docker-desktop/
Brittney:

All About the Sirens Jun 27, 2022

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Description
In this episode we sit down for a chat with the Svelte Sirens! Recorded back in April, apologies for the late drop!

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

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Foodpopular and Unpopular Opinions and Picks

Antony: Dominos Pizza is not pizza. It's a round bread product. Patty N Bun is good
Shawn: Mosburger
Kevin: Roman style pizza is better than neopolitan style pizza
Brittney: Storybook errors are not good!
Willow: Svelte Knobby
Gen: Jabes Pizza in Soho (London)
Steph: Whattaburger is gross

Stores Galore May 24, 2022

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Description
In this episode we talk about stores! Custom ones, regular ones, cool ones! ALL THE STORES! We also rant a bit about the current state of build tools.

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

Notes

Svelte Cake
Shawn's complaint about build tools
Svelte Stores
Kev's list of custom stores
- "Regular" Stores
  - Notification Toast Store Thing
  - LocalStorage Store
    - Jacob Babich's NPM Package
- "Store factory" Stores
  - Toggle Store
  - Fetch Store
  - Periodic Fetch Store
    - Don't want to hand-roll? Check out svelte-query
Brittney's list
- Tackle Async Behaviour with Svelte Stores talk from Svelte Summit
- Persisting a Svelte Store with Local Storage from an older Summit
Shawn's everything store
xstate-svelte
- Li Hau's video on the topic
svelte-fsm

Unpopular Opinions

Antony: Startups need tests
Kevin: SvelteKit without Endpoints is no fun! 😭

Picks

Shawn: Blood in the markets, might wanna buy stocks.
Brittney:
- Slicing up your Svelte Site with Prismic
- The story behind the (unofficial) Svelte newsletter
Antony: Muskmobile

The other Rich! Geoff! May 10, 2022

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Geoff Rich is a recent addition to the Svelte maintainer org. He joins us to talk about his role and what he'd like to work on going forward. Oh, and there's some Svelte Summit in here as well!

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

Notes

Geoff works at Alaska Air
Svelte Summit Spring 2022
- Mentioned talks
- Meetball session was a lot of fun!
- Svelte Summit Fall 2022 website is being released... a couple of days ago! Tickets here.

Unpopular Opinions

Geoff: Web Components are actually pretty cool!
Brittney: Jamstack is cool.
Antony: Wordpress should be used for blogging and nothing else.
Kevin: Project Gutenberg is 🔥

Picks

Kevin: Concerts are so much fun!
- The Wombats
- Boomer Seats™️ 🪑 in the back are great
Brittney: House cleaners & Developer Experience at Netlify Blog Post
Geoff: Video game music as coding music. Kirby and the Forgotten Land!
Antony: Red Light Therapy Device for Hay Fever

The Adventures of Running a Svelte Meetup May 04, 2022

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This weeks episode is sponsored by... Svelte Summit! Get your tickets for the upcoming in-person event in Stockholm before it's too late! We already have some confirmed speakers: Rich Harris, 🐧 Pngwn and Amelia Wattenberger!

Description
This week we chat about what it takes to host a Svelte meetup! Interested in running one? Just go for it!

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

Notes

Svelte Society Stockholm
Svelte London
Svelte Society NYC
Svelte Summit
Meetup
Luma
List of Meetups on the Svelte Society website (a bit out of date)
Code of Conduct
Minor Tips:
- Avoid pizza, get something healthy!
- Set the expectations to three talks: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced
- Make it fun, sometimes a hackathon is all that you need. People like to talk and get to know each other!

Unpopular Opinions

Shawn: Pure SSG died in 2022
Antony: JSX is NOT JavaScript.
Kevin: Bitcoin Proof-of-Work is actually good for the environment. Part 1, Part 2, Twitter thread

Picks

Kevin: CastoPod
- Overcast
- PocketCasts
- Don't use Spotify.
Shawn: HOMEBREW_NO_AUTO_UPDATE=1

Rich Harris on Hydration and the future of SvelteKit Apr 26, 2022

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This week's episode is sponsored by ExtraStatic. ExtraStatic is a hosting service for Svekyll blogs. Svekyll blogs combine the simple conventions of Jekyll with the incredible power of Svelte. Check it out at ExtraStatic.com.

Description
Rich Harris joins us for discussion on Svelte, SvelteKit, Hydration and a lot of other fun stuff. Enjoy!

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

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