The Remix Podcast

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Deploy Distributed Apps/Data - Divya Sasidharan Mar 09, 2022

Divya Sasidharan is a Software Engineer at Fly.io which gives you the ability to deploy your apps and databases wherever your users are in the world. In this episode, Kent gushes over Fly as a fantastic service for his rebuilt website and Divya explains what makes Fly especially well suited for full-stack apps. In the end, Divya gives the challenge to you to use your own product so you can make informed product decisions and suggestions.

Track your Web Vitals - Erick Tamayo Feb 14, 2022

Erick Tamayo is a software engineer at Shopify working on Metronome.sh (@metronome_sh): a Remix-specific tool for measuring web vitals of your users as they use your application. In this episode, Kent and Erick chat about how Erick discovered Remix, how Remix simplifies the mental model of building web applications and how Metronome and Web Vitals can give you actionable information to help you improve the entire user experience of your app (not just the load time).

- Kent's Metronome Page
- Link Prefetching FAQ

Implement Optimistic UI - Tiger Abrodi Jan 12, 2022

Tiger Abrodi is a software engineer who is passionate about developing software. He was committed to Next.js but when he was shown what you can do with Remix he switched and will never look back. He's excited about building real-time experiences with Remix and loves eliminating loading experiences in favor of instant interactions.

Learn the Web - Martin Bavio Jan 11, 2022

Martin Bavio is a frontend developer who's been working in the web since 2005 and he's stayed on top of the modern trends all the while. This has given him a unique perspective on the reasons "best practices" have evolved over time and Martin sees Remix as the next step in that evolution. With a focus on web fundamentals Remix successfully takes advantage of what makes the web so great and also delivers on the app-like experience users expect from web-based applications.

Martin also runs the Moulton Newsletter which is a weekly newsletter about Remix with links to articles as well as exclusive tips and tricks about the web platform.

Martin tells a story about when his "On Rails" blog post got "slashdotted" 😅

(The tweet from Ryan Martin mentioned)

Deploy Your App and Data on the Edge - Greg Brimble Jan 11, 2022

Greg Brimble is a Software Engineer at Cloudflare working on Cloudflare Pages. In this episode Greg and Kent talk about how you can deploy your app and data to "the edge" (and what that even means). It's amazing what you can do when you're not so worried about your app taking seconds to finish loading for users. Kent and Greg even talk about how you can leverage WASM on Cloudflare Pages to handle some advanced use cases at the edge. Oh, and all of this for pennies of cost.

Use the URL - Sergio Xalambrí Jan 10, 2022

Sergio Xalambrí has been using the web for over 8 years and he's been loving using Remix for the last year. He has an active blog where he writes about how he uses Remix to solve his web problems and he's active on twitter, GitHub and the Remix discord. In this episode, he and Kent talk about how Remix solves problems in ways that other frameworks do not (especially nested routing) and how using the URL can really help improve the user experience of your web app.

Migrate to Remix - Girish Venkatesan Jan 07, 2022

In this episode, Girish Venkatesan talks about how he heard of Remix and what moment captured his interest. With Remix officially released, Girish has convinced the business folks at his company that it would be worth their while to migrate their "Create React App" over to Remix for the user experience and developer experience improvements they would see. Kent and Girish discuss why Next.js wasn't enough of an improvement to justify a migration and why a migration to Remix was obvious.

Make "Publish" Mean Something - Simeon Griggs Jan 04, 2022

Simeon Griggs is a solutions engineer at Sanity.io and he cares deeply about the experience of creating content on the web. In this episode we talk about how Remix is bringing back meaning to the Publish button so you can instantly see the changes you've made.

Check out Your Network Tab - Michael Carter Jan 04, 2022

In this episode, Kent and Michael talk about how Remix has been able to take advantage of the infrastructure of the modern age that enables the delivery of stellar user experiences and developer experience.

twitter.com/kiliman
github.com/kiliman
kiliman.dev

Bring Back Progressive Enhancement - Jenna Smith Dec 30, 2021

Jenna Smith (twitter.com/jjenzz) is a UX developer living and working remotely in London, UK. She works for Modulz on a project called Radix. In this episode, Jenna talks about how progressive enhancement has been an important aspect to web development for her entire 20 years as a software developer and how Remix brings it back in a powerful way.

- Jenna's Event handler Tweet
- CSS Play - A great resource for finding neat ways of doing things we usually thing we need JS for
- Library Upgrade Guide: <style> (most CSS-in-JS libs)

Listen to your users - Shaundai Person Dec 23, 2021

Shaundai Person (twitter.com/shaundai) is a Senior Software Engineer at Netflix. In this episode we talk about how she transitioned into tech and how her previous experience in sales in tech has given her a unique perspective on the importance of listening to your users to make sure you're building what they want. We also talk about Shaundai's first impressions of Remix and how Remix enables you to say "Yes" when your users ask for things.

tsforjs.com

Introducing The Remix Podcast Dec 16, 2021

In this quick episode we get to know the motivations behind why Remix was created. Ryan and Michael talk about the problems that led to the current solutions and how that problem space has shifted to enable Remix to deliver amazing user experiences. Then Kent encourages you to subscribe to the new podcast so you can continue to be inspired in ways to improve the user experience of your own web creations.

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