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**The Call Kent Podcast**

The Call Kent podcast is a regular podcast where you call in with a question and Kent answers. Call in with your questions right from your web browser with any device at https://kentcdodds.com/call

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Improving as a software engineer Sep 22, 2023

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Foundational knowledge needed to build complex systems in software

Improving as a software engineer

Why didn't you break root.tsx into smaller components? Sep 21, 2023

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root.tsx is over 300 lines. Is there a reason for keeping all the functions in one file? Why don't you split each function in separate a file and import it?

When to break up a component into multiple components

Why didn't you break root.tsx into smaller components?

Am I stuck in tutorial heck? Sep 12, 2023

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Recently I quit my job as frontend development instructor and I'm aiming to get a job as frontend developer. Before I apply for job openings I'm planning to go through several courses, create complex projects for my portfolio and only then apply for the job.

My friends are saying I'm overcomplicating the process and I may get into the flow after I got the work. But as I'm aiming at middle level positions, I want to prepare as much time, as much my budget allows. So I can negotiate salary well with employers and will be more valuable worker.

What are your thoughts on this?

Am I stuck in tutorial heck?

Scaling Epic-Stack in a single region Sep 11, 2023

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Hi Kent, my name is Tim,

I have a few questions regarding scaling the Epic Stack within a single region.

With the assumption that we are having huge amount of users in one region, my question is would you recommend switching to other database technologies or would you have multiple SQLite replicas in the same region, with each of them being connected to remix apps in a 1-1 manner

My second question is, assuming that we have the epic stack setup, what would you do if one remix server can't just keep up anymore with the load. Would you introduce caching or any types of application or additional threads to distribute and keep up with the work load

Thank you

Scaling Epic-Stack in a single region

React Lazy initializers Call Order Aug 31, 2023

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I am seeing Lazy initializers are not calling first, but in the diagram it motioned it calls first

React Lazy initializers Call Order

How do you approach major project updates Aug 29, 2023

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I would love to hear your thoughts on approaching major project refactors. We all have been in that situation where you want to use the newest things available, but the codebase is really old. Do you create a new project? Do you try to update component by component? Is there a "don't go that route"?

How do you approach major project updates

Organizing your first workshop Aug 25, 2023

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I was approached recently to give a full-day workshop at a conference I'm excited about. But... how hard is it to organize a curriculum? What questions should I ask the organizers ahead-of-time before saying yes?

How I Teach

Organizing your first workshop

Conform sets novalidate & validation attributes? Aug 24, 2023

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Hey, Kent! I'm trying out @conform-to/react, specifically the useForm hook. I noticed that it sets novalidate: true on the form even if JavaScript is disabled. I'm wondering: Why does it add validation attributes to the inputs then if they're not being used for validation anyway, regardless of whether JavaScript is enabled or not?

Conform sets novalidate & validation attributes?

My skill stuck at current job, should I quit? Aug 23, 2023

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I have been in current team for couple years, and feel my skills are kind of stuck because I have spent too much time fighting with the team refusing to get better. I have learned only from myself, but not much from the others, and can't really fix everything by myself.

Business and Engineering alignment

My time has been spent inefficiently to be honest in the past few years because lots of the time I was staring at smelly and nonsense codes, trying to improve but never get the resource or momentum from the team. I start feeling left behind in terms of the skills the market really needs, and job is not secured considering the layoff happening at recent time.

I'd like to know if you have similar experience, how you handle this, or is it just the time I should leave to seek for better opportunity I can grow? Thanks!

My skill stuck at current job, should I quit?

How do you host your videos? Aug 10, 2023

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Hi Kent!

I was wondering, how do you host your videos?

Such as: https://www.epicweb.dev/tips/quickly-determine-whether-a-module-is-bundled

It looks like they're custom hosted, so I was wondering how you do that.

The Epic Stack shows how you save images, and it would be interesting to learn how you host videos, too.

Thank you and best regards, Jan

How do you host your videos?