The Call Kent Podcast

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Why do you take short breaks when coding? Nov 09, 2022

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When you do your live streams, you take breaks regularly. Why do you do that? What's the science behind it? And what do you do during those breaks to make them as effective as possible?

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Why do you take short breaks when coding?

Is addEventListener OK again? Nov 04, 2022

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addEventListener is usually frowned upon as an anti-pattern in the React world. Will this still be the case with Remix? What about in the framework-agnostic future of Remix?

Is addEventListener OK again?

Frontend to Fullstack Nov 03, 2022

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What learning path do you recommend for a frontend dev learning to become full stack?

Remix

Frontend to Fullstack

Test Data: To BeforeAll or to BeforeEach Oct 18, 2022

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Starting a new testing project, and I'm wondering if it's a bad practice to set up all the necessary seed data in a beforeAll to run the test suite then or if isolation is critical so that work should be done in a beforeEach. We have an application that requires a decent amount of data to get up and run, so we're trying to figure out what might be the best practices.

Avoid Nesting when you're Testing

Test Data: To BeforeAll or to BeforeEach

organizing course code Oct 11, 2022

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what ways have you organized code for your courses? what are the trade offs and what is you preferred approach today?

organizing course code

How to do feature flags with Remix? Oct 10, 2022

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How do you recommend to implement feature flags with Remix? Do you recommend a third patry library? Do you recommend query params?

How to do feature flags with Remix?

Own Code vs Library Sep 29, 2022

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If there is a specific library that has a functionality you need, would you prefer to rewrite yourself or use the library?

Own Code vs Library

Would you recommend to use Playwright or Cypress? Sep 28, 2022

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Why did you decide to migrate your tests from Cypress to Playwright? Are there any particular advantages? Would you recommend starting using playwright from now on?

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Would you recommend to use Playwright or Cypress?

How to Shamelessly Self-Promote? Sep 16, 2022

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self-promotion is a really difficult task to do either in public like on social media platforms or when you are among your co-workers and bosses and you wanted to talk about something you achieved but afraid that you will look like a bragger.

How to Shamelessly Self-Promote?

Why are you programming in VScode? Sep 14, 2022

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There are a lot of IDEs and text editors. Why did you choose VScode? Why not more complex solutions like Webstorm?

Why are you programming in VScode?