Take a break, grab a cup of coffee and join us to discuss what's new in frontend development and, why not, outside of it? Jesus 'Chucho' Castañeda is a Senior Frontend Software Engineer and Ricard Torres is a Principal Frontend Software Engineer, both at Cognizant Netcentric. We bring your most needed monthly break. Tune in!
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Podcast by Art, Culture, and Technology program at MIT. This podcast is the result of the Morning Conversation series held in the Fall 2020 Choreographing the City class, offered by the Art, Culture and Technology Program at MIT in partnership with Theatrum Mundi and Professor Richard Sennett. The course was taught by Professor Gediminas Urbonas, and the MIT Center for Art, Science, and Technology's visiting artist, choreographer Dr. Adesola Akinleye. Dr. Akinleye’s residency looks at emergi ...
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Studio Confessions is the brainchild of Luis Martin / The Art Engineer. The artist uses the podcast to share his firsthand experiences of being an emerging artist and sharing a POC’s POV. With over twenty years experience as an artist, curator and museum educator, Martín leverages his curiosity, ambition and pop psych wit to deliver biweekly conversations and monologues you’ll want to listen in on.
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Ep. #35: Patterns, anti-patterns and dark patterns
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We explain the differences, share examples and give you plenty resources to get you started. Chucho can't stress enough that you should read these at least once! patterns.dev Gang Of Four GOF Design Patterns Design Patterns deceptive.design Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard…
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Ep. #34: Development conferences. Worth it?
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We talk about web development conferences, going in-person or attending online. Are they worth it? What's the benefit? Couldn't you just watch a recording? What's the most interesting conference you've ever attended? If you haven't yet, any conferences you'd like to go to? Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres htt…
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Ep. #33: How to write quality and maintainable code?
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We chat what is code quality, what are code smells, tips and tricks to make your code readable and maintainable. What are your tips? Code quality metrics: https://www.sealights.io/code-quality/code-quality-metrics-is-your-code-any-good/ Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard…
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We discuss different ways to do knowledge sharing in your team or company. The challenges we've faced and what has worked for us. Find out about our Netcentric Academy https://www.netcentric.biz/jobs Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard…
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Ep. #31: How we started 2 frontend podcasts
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Did you know we have both this and a different internal FE podcast? The internal podcast started first and gave us the idea to start one on YouTube. Tune in to know how it all began and what we learned along the way. Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard…
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What is Accessibility? What's your experience with Web Accessibility? What does it mean a website is accessible? Keyboard navigation? Labels? These and more in today's episode. https://accessibility.day/ https://www.w3.org/WAI/ https://dynomapper.com/blog/27-accessibility-testing/273-wcag-the-web-content-accessibility-guidelines-explained Follow us…
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What's your take on Web Components? What are the best use cases? Should you use them for regular AEM projects? What's the best thing about Web Components? Check out a performance comparison of different frameworks and techniques to create Web Components: https://webcomponents.dev/blog/all-the-ways-to-make-a-web-component/ Follow us: - Chucho Castañ…
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SPA? MPA? Are these still relevant in 2024? When would you use an SPA vs a regular MPA? Have you heard about the new View Transitions API? Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricardBy Chucho Castañeda & Ricard Torres
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FE Manager, FE Lead... there are many names for what we think might be the same thing. We discuss what a FE Lead is accountable for. What to expect from a FE Lead? Types of leaderships. Join the conversation and tell us what's the your ideal type of FE Lead. Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.soc…
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Ep. #26: How much UX should a FE developer know?
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We discuss UI, UX, design and the role of the frontend developer. Reading recommendations Links https://www.nngroup.com/articles/ https://www.nngroup.com/articles/usability-101-introduction-to-usability/ Books by Donald Norman The design of Everyday Things Emotional Design Books by Jakob Nielsen Usability Engineering Designing Web Usability Eyetrac…
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Today we're joined by Dragan Filipovic, Senior Front-end Software Engineer at Cognizant Netcentric. We talk how he spearheaded the initiative to open source our FE Build. A Frontend build system that can be used in both AEM and non-AEM projects. Try it out here: https://github.com/Netcentric/fe-build Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.co…
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Ep. #24: Content management, decisions or options?
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When creating web components for content editors, do you give them all the options? or take decisions that will work best for development and maintenance? We discuss headless vs server-side rendering as well. Ricard loves JSON files. Chucho? Maybe not. Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@r…
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What is the Impostor Syndrome? How to fight it? Why is it more common than we think in Frontend development? We discuss this and offer some tips that have worked for us! Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricardBy Chucho Castañeda & Ricard Torres
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We talk about GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, phind, and Bard. We share how we use it for coding. How about you? Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricardBy Chucho Castañeda & Ricard Torres
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Ep. #21: How to find time for career development?
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How can you find time for your career development? ⏱️ Here’s our take on it: In the latest episode of the hit Frontend Coffee Break podcast, we discuss the strategies that frontend leads and managers employ to make room for growth amidst their daily responsibilities. Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://r…
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Ep. #20: Is Mobile First still a thing in 2023?
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Is the mobile-first mindset still relevant in the world of development? 🧐 Here’s the deal: Today we discuss the best practices and approaches for developing websites and apps for mobile devices. Chucho mentions Ricard's library for Two Way Data Binding, here it is: https://github.com/quicoto/two-way-data-binding Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https:…
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Ep. #19: Should you be constantly challenged?
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What benefits frontend developers the most: working on long-term projects, or switching every six months? 🤝 We discuss the FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) on new technologies in the changing world of frontend development. Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard…
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Looking for a better way to optimize and improve your project’s web performance? 🚀 We’ve got you covered: Today Chucho and Ricard are joined by Ines Akrap, Senior Web Performance Engineer, for insights into Core Web Vitals in 2023. Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard Additional reso…
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Ep. #17: How to work with images on the web in 2023
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Are you a web developer or designer passionate about creating visually stunning, high-performance websites? 🤩 We review the optimal ways how to upload images in 2023. Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard Additional resources: - https://web.dev/learn/images - https://squoosh.app…
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Ep. #16: Reacting to Rich Harris' video on frameworks and the web
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Today we react! It's not necessary but it would give you more context if you watched first Rich Harris' video before listening to the episode. If not, that's ok too, we'll try to give you as much context as possible. Rich Harris' video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXCipjbcQfM Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Tor…
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Ep. #15: Is progressive enhancement worth it?
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There is one question on the minds of web developers and tech enthusiasts everywhere: How 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘭𝘺 relevant is progressive enhancement and graceful degradation in 2023? In the latest episode of the Frontend Coffee Break podcast, we spill the tea on whether these approaches are still worth it, as well as the best techniques to get the most out of them …
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Ep. #14: FE Web Performance: the good stuff
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We talk about what we look for on a website when it comes to web performance. What are the basic things we first check? What tools do we use? FE developers even if not web performance experts need to be able to identify issues and how to solve them. At Cognizant Netcentric we've written some articles about web performance, have a look: https://www.…
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Time to get real: Should you 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 document your code? We’re breaking it down in the latest episode of the Frontend Coffee Break podcast. Our resident experts, Jesús and Ricard, weigh in on whether you should document your code, how often this should be done, and why every developer should use JSDoc on a daily basis. What's your take on this topic…
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Take a moment to consider your current JavaScript debugging process. Thankfully, we're dropping some hot tips to make things run smoothly. In the latest episode of the hit Frontend Coffee Break podcast, Ricard and Chucho delve into the most effective ways to debug JavaScript in 2023, which’ll save every developer loads of time and frustration. What…
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Ep. #11: What is a skill map and why you should have one
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How do you know what to learn next? What's the required skills to move to the next level of your career? Do the skills in job offers reflect what you do on your day to day? Today we discuss that and how we've implemented for FE at Cognizant Netcentric. Here some roadmaps to get inspired: https://frontendmasters.com/guides/learning-roadmap/ https://…
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Ep. #10: Unit Testing, love it or hate it?
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Ricard loves unit testing! Chucho will challenge it, is it worth it? A waste of time? Who's going to win today's fight? Do you write unit tests in your projects? Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricardBy Chucho Castañeda & Ricard Torres
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We've been interviewing for a very long time, now that we only do remote interviews we share our tips, do's, best stories and some horrors too. Share with us what was your best interview, or any tips you can give the rest of the listeners. Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard…
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We love to build side projects, to learn something new, have fun, or just solve a problem. Today we discuss what these are and some tips, as well as ideas. Question for you: do you usually do side projects? Share the latest you've done! Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard…
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Ep. #7: Public speaking, knowledge sharing and why you should try it!
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We give you our take on why we think knowledge sharing is important and some of the ways we do it at Cognizant Netcentric. What's your experience with public speaking? Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricardBy Chucho Castañeda & Ricard Torres
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Ep. #6: Which CSS should you learn in 2023?
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CSS has come so far, we share what we used to do, what we do in JS and what can we do in CSS. What are you most looking for in CSS for 2023? Is there any change that has surprised you this year? Learn more: https://smolcss.dev/ https://www.udemy.com/course/css-grid-mastering/ https://flexboxfroggy.com/ https://cssgridgarden.com/ Follow us: - Chucho…
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When starting a website do you always think about the JavaScript framework first? Can we reduce the amount of JavaScript? Server Side Rendering is still the best approach? Learn more: - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Progressive_Enhancement - https://qwik.builder.io Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricar…
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Do you use TypeScript? Should you? When is it a good approach? Large projects, small projects... Join in on the discussion. Learn more: - https://www.typescriptlang.org/ - https://github.com/tc39/proposal-type-annotations - https://github.com/features/copilot Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.so…
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In this episode, we share our perspectives on the must-have knowledge, understanding of frameworks and the kinds skills Frontend Developers need to have today. Learn more: - https://frontendmasters.com/guides/learning-roadmap/ - https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS - https://www.amazon.es/Secrets-JavaScript-Ninja-John-Resig/dp /193398869X Fol…
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Ep. #2: How to create desktop apps using Frontend stack
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Our topic for today is desktop apps, specifically applications created using Frontend technologies (HTML, JS, and CSS), which are specifically designed for desktop use. Is it your first time coding a desktop application? Then tune in and listen to how they create desktop apps using Frontend stack and get your insights. Learn more: https://www.elect…
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In a world of vlogs, is blogging something from the last decade? We dare to say blogging is still a trending topic! In this episode of Frontend Coffee Break, Chucho and Ricard discuss the basics, the latest technology stack, and the benefits of blogging. Tune in and listen to their personal and professional blogging experiences! Do you have a blog?…
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Join me as I take my summer break and leave you with a summer prompt: Look around, does your current environment give you wings? Does the quality of the life you live, live up to the American dream we have bought into? Come along, I am back in one of the places that give me wings and flight. This is an invitation and a calling for adventure and abo…
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Listen in as artist Courtney Alexander talks about “Dust II Onyx”, a tarot deck she created that celebrates the Black experience through the lens and tradition of this universal divination tool. The artist talks about her multi layered approach to creating art that inspires her to go big as a large person who is often expected to play small. We tal…
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Ben Sander & Brini Maxwell: The art of the Pioneer
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Join this fascinating conversation with the pioneer lifestyle-performer, artist and academic Ben Sander aka Brini Maxwell. Ben talks about his drag persona and hosting a subtly groundbreaking television show in the 90’s. and how he is now developing her into high art. We also talk about his collaborations with his mother and how working with his me…
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Join me in this remarkable conversation with Artist Yasmín Hernández. Listen in as this artist gracefully articulates a core Latinx experience often felt but unspoken. Throughout our talk Yasmin offers a vocabulary to address her personal truths that resonate beyond her own personal journey into broader cultural and historic narrative. The artist a…
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Let’s go to Patagonia and meet “Chucho” the enigmatic Argentinean collage artist. Listen in to how his work was influenced by a six month visit to New York and Miami. He talks about being a self-taught artist, parenthood and how he is experimenting with collage in other mediums. This is your roundtrip ticket to a conversation in Latinx! Vamos a la …
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Collaboration: An Invitation to the Sandbox
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Are you ready to play in the sandbox? Listen in as I share about a fantastic collaboration I was part of with The Other Art Fair and Bombay Sapphire. Art is just half the story when it comes to creative and professional collabs. You have to have the right mind set, be flexible like clay and know people who are smarter then you! I give the insight a…
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Join in on my conversation with this multifaceted art and business power house. Meet Ekaterina Popova, or just Kat as she is known to her friends! The artist talks about her origin story of coming to the United States from humble beginning in Russia and what her younger self would think of her today. Listen in as Kat shares how her drive to create …
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Meet actor, writer and producer Nathan Tylutki, all eight of him! Listen in as he talks about his upcoming series “Gemin8”, a series that explores the complexities of being a gemini and what personality shows up for any given moment to negotiate what happens in life. Nathan shares his creative process through lockdown and how his work has turned a …
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