Best Jason Lengstorf Podcasts (2024)

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News: AI Model Runner ONNX and JS Framework Maker Vinxi w/Returning Guest Jason Lengstorf 54:59

1h ago54:59

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Friend of the podcast (and previous guest host), Jason Lengstorf, joins Jack and Paige today to talk about the latest happenings in the web dev world - and wax poetic at the end about favorite restaurants and fine dining. First up, is AI model runner ONNX, which Jack’s been digging into recently. ONNX offers many pre-trained models which can run lo…

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Topic: Favorite Tech Gear We Use (and Recommend) 51:54

5d ago51:54

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The hosts switch up the regular news format this week in favor of another favorite developer topic: tech gear. All the extras that make web development that little bit nicer. If you were stranded on a desert island (that only had power and Internet), what tech gear would you bring that you just can’t live without? Aside from MacBook Pros for all th…

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News: Coding Reality TV, AI Companies Crawl Excluded Content, and Apple Violates More EU Laws 47:59

12d ago47:59

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In a rare turn of events, it was a slightly quieter week in terms of actual web development news, so the hosts round up some technology-adjacent news and drama to share. Jack kicks off the show recounting his experience of being one of four developers in a reality show-type scenario that his friend Jason Lengstorf (host of the YouTube show “Learn w…

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News: State of JS 2023 Survey Results, React Drama Updates, and Adobe Sued by FTC 47:01

19d ago47:01

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Although we’re already halfway through 2024, this week the State of JavaScript survey for 2023 dropped, and the hosts weighed in and discussed the results they found most interesting. This year the survey provided a lot more write in options instead of predefined lists, which made extrapolating clear answers in many cases more difficult than it oth…

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You might be wasting your time. Time wasters disguised as time savers. 1:01:59

22d ago1:01:59

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There are so many things we spend time on thinking they’ll save us more in the long run but really, do they? Today on Bad at CSS we’re going to dive into a list of things we think are Time Wasters disguised as Time Savers. 0:00 - Is the juice worth the squeeze? 0:50 - Tests 6:07 - CI/CD* 13:37 - Build systems 16:02 - Rewrites 22:42 - Note taking ap…

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News: GH Copilot Workspace Review, the Latest in Web UI, and React Suspense Drama 56:40

26d ago56:40

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Today’s episode covers a slew of hot topics making headlines in the web development and general technology world. TJ kicks off the show with his firsthand experience of GitHub Copilot Workspace (available to users by invite only). He tested Copilot Workspace with a relatively simple issue in one of his repos, and while the plan Copilot came up with…

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Interview: ADHD and Web Development with Chris Ferdinandi 54:14

1M ago54:14

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Vanilla JS author Chris Ferdinandi joins the podcast this week to talk about how having ADHD has affected his career in web development. Chris shares his own diagnosis of ADHD as a child, then proceeds to discuss how it can be both a positive and a negative depending on the situation and how different individuals can have ADHD to varying degrees. H…

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News: New SSG Framework VitePress, Component Libraries Based on shadcn/ui, and Angular 18 Drops 35:57

1M ago35:57

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This is a rapid fire episode of news topics today because (as always) there’s plenty going on in the front-end development world. Evan You, the creator of the popular Vue.js framework and Vite build tool, is back with a new static site generator named VitePress. VitePress allows users to build fast, content-centric websites with Markdown, a fully c…

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Single keyframe tricks are magic 52:01

1M ago52:01

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What can you do with a single CSS keyframe? A metric ton. 0:00 - 50% keyframes are magic 0:49 - Animation is easier than you think 2:17 - Why at 50%? 6:51 - Trick 1 Shake 12:00 - Trick 2 Pulse 23:25 - Trick 3 Glitch 27:55 - Trick 4 Flip 32:45 - Trick 5 Fill 41:20 - Trick 6 Sheen 44:25 - Trick 7 Emphasize 46:50 - Trick 8 Censor 48:35 - Trick 900 Ton…

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Next.js 15, Google Search Rolls Out AI to All, and SolidStart 1.0 Debuts 43:04

2M ago43:04

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Conference season is in full swing this week Vercel showed off the new goods they’ve got for developers to get excited about. During Vercel Ship, the Next.js 15 RC (release candidate) was officially announced. Next.js 15 includes benefits like: support for React 19 and the React Compiler (Experimental), plus hydration error improvements. It also of…

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Container Queries: Everything you need to know 45:43

2M ago45:43

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Container Queries are one of those CSS features everyone is so hyped about and with good reason. They give us a modern way to build and scope responsive components based on the size of the parent element rather than the browser view port. But, I’m not gonna lie. There’s a lot to this new feature.By David East

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React Conf Highlights, Vercel Raises Another $250m, and Astro Adds Actions 47:03

2M ago47:03

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We’ve got an exciting episode with our co-host Jack Herrington fresh from his trip to React Conf where the React core team and close collaborators unveiled all the cool things they’ve been working on, including the much anticipated React Compiler and some exciting new features for React Native Expo. React Compiler is a new Babel-enabled plugin that…

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News: const v. let & Effect 3.0 w/Special Guest Jason Lengstorf 53:44

2M ago53:44

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On this episode of Front-End Fire we welcomed special guest Jason Lengstorf to chat about the news with us. We opened with a follow-up discussion of the let versus const debate from last week. Jack made a video (see below for link), and we had a bit of fun talking about the controversy. After that we introduced Effect, a library that dubs itself th…

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Web Components with Jacob Kastensmidt 40:41

2M ago40:41

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Today we're joined by Jacob Kastensmidt, who introduces us to Web Components, Lit, and how these fit into the larger frontend ecosystem. Show notes: Lit website - lit.dev Lit discord - https://discord.com/invite/buildwithlit Lit labs SSR - https://lit.dev/docs/ssr/overview/ Shoelace - https://shoelace.style/ --- Send in a voice message: https://pod…

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React 19, TypeScript 5.5, and GitHub Copilot Workspace Wants to Code For You 36:28

2M ago36:28

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This week we’re all about beta releases and technical previews of AI that will make us even more productive coders. Since the release of React 18, just over 2 years ago, the React team’s been hard at work, and at the end of April, React 19 beta dropped on npm. This new version brings Server Components and Server Actions out from behind the canary c…

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Node 22, Hydrogen gets Remix(ed), and Vercel Backs Away from the Edge 36:36

3M ago36:36

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There’s rarely a dull moment in the web development world and this week is no exception to that rule. The episode kicks off with an update on Shopify’s meta framework Hydrogen, which is now built on top of the open source framework, Remix, which Shopify acquired back in October of 2022. Hydrogen now has full Vite support and integration with the Vi…

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News: Figma’s Code Connect, Next.js 14.2, and New APIs in Chrome 124 37:17

3M ago37:17

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The episode starts off with news about Figma’s new Code Connect feature. Code Connect is the bridge between a design system’s component code and Figma, so when viewing components in Figma’s Dev Mode, they’ll have the same real world code that the design system relies on, and Code Connect can also map properties from code to Figma, enabling dynamic …

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News: Smaller images via Jpegli, Val Town Raises $5.5M, and Declarative Routing in Next.js 30:04

3M ago30:04

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The group dives into the week’s news right away, starting off with a new open source project from Google called Jpegli. Jpepgli is a new JPEG coding library, which claims to compress images up to 35% smaller while also being able to deliver JPEGs in even higher quality than what is currently available today. The GitHub repo the article links to sti…

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News: Signals in JS, RSCs in Storybook 8, and Bun Hits Windows in v1.1 42:05

3M ago42:05

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Signals have been around in the JavaScript world as early as 2010 when Knockout.js first introduced them, but the past few years they’ve been picking up steam among JS frameworks as a way to effectively manage application state so that developers can focus on the business logic parts of their apps. Now there’s a proposal to make Signals part of the…

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Wangular, RedwoodJS on the RSC Bandwagon, Modern CSS 42:16

3M ago42:16

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It turns out we had a lot of news to cover in this week’s episode. We kicked it off discussing how RedwoodJS is the latest framework to support React Server Components, and has some pretty nice illustrated docs to help devs get started. Then, there was a rapid fire of interesting topics including a great new article about modern CSS from Mr. CSS Tr…

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News: Google’s New Web Vitals, AnalogJS Reaches 1.0, and is CSS-from-JS a Thing? 37:29

4M ago37:29

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CSS-in-JS has been around for years now, but have you tried JS-from-CSS? This week we talk about the new alternative trend sweeping through the web development community: writing only CSS to create a fully styled and typed React component. Two early frontrunners in this race are MistCSS and Stylin, and we’ll keep an eye out for if this new twist on…

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News: Astro Adds Databases, Pigment CSS, and Speedometer 3.0 Browser Testing 35:24

4M ago35:24

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In this episode, we explore the latest in web development with Astro unveiling Astro DB, a fully managed, blazing fast SQL-based database that is “ridiculously easy to use.” Next, you may not know the name, but Speedometer just released version 3.0, which further solidifies its status as the browser benchmark for web app responsiveness. Next up is …

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Styling better custom inputs with Dave Rupert 1:02:56

4M ago1:02:56

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Dave Rupert knows his inputs and we got a lot to learn. Dave's great blog - https://daverupert.com/ Dave on Twitter - https://twitter.com/davatron5000By David East

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News: Vercel’s New AI SDK 3.0, Tailwind CSS Goes Open Source, and Safari 17.4 34:03

4M ago34:03

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Today we discuss Vercel’s latest offering: AI SDK 3.0, which streams React components from LLMs to deliver richer user experiences than text-only chatbots. Then we dive into the world of modern styling as Tailwind CSS drops its latest gem - version 4.0, now open source for community exploration. And then finally we talk about the latest improvement…

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2024 CSS Resolutions 53:21

4M ago53:21

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CSS is Hard. Each and every year. So what are the things that we should improve on in 2024?By David East

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News: npm Has Competition, Parcel Adds Macros, and BrowserStack Gets Sued 34:26

4M ago34:26

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We discuss JSR, the new package registry from Deno, and whether it can compete with npm. Next, we talk about Parcel’s new support for macros, which is a handy way to embed build-time logic into your code. After that we some get into some BrowserStack legal drama, and wrap up with some BREAKING NEWS about Apple, PWAs, and the EU. Drama! News: Paige …

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News: Hono v4 Enters the Meta Framework Arena, Storybook 8 Supports RSCs, and Apple Shuts Off PWAs in the EU 34:58

5M ago34:58

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News: Paige - Hono v4 takes aim at full-stack frameworks Jack - Storybook 8 TJ - An update on Apple breaking PWAs in the EU Bonus News: Google cut a deal with Reddit for AI training data Node.js unveils its new mascot Rocket Turtle What Makes Us Happy this Week: Paige - Learning watercolor painting and The Fourth Wing novel Jack - Drive to Survive …

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Interview: The Boring JavaScript Stack with Kelvin Omereshone 33:55

5M ago33:55

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Special Guest(s): Kelvin Omereshone, lead maintainer of Sails.js and creator of The Boring JavaScript Stack Main Topic: The Boring JavaScript Stack Relevant Links: The Boring Stack repo The Boring Stack docs Kelvin on Twitter Kelvin on YouTube Kelvin’s website Sailsconf keynote announcing The Boring Stack Why the name Who is Boring for? Sails.js Sa…

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News: Powering Up Monorepos with Nx’s Project Crystal, Astro’s Simple Stack Streaming, and Apple’s EU App-ocalypse 36:23

5M ago36:23

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News: Paige - Nx Project Crystal Jack - Simple Stack Streaming TJ - Apple breaking PWAs in the EU Bonus News: Mozilla downsizes as it refocuses on Firefox and AI What Makes Us Happy this Week: Paige - Mr. & Mrs. Smith TV series Jack - The Murderbot Diaries book series TJ - Casey Neistat’s video on the Apple Vision Pro Join Us: Thanks as always to o…

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News: Amazon’s JS Runtime LLRT, Vite 5.1, and Interop 2024 Browser Initiatives 31:12

5M ago31:12

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News: Paige - Vite 5.1 Jack - LLRT and Million Lint TJ - Interop 2024 & wpt.fyi Bonus News: React Native visionOS for the Apple Vision Pro jQuery 4 beta What Makes Us Happy this Week: Paige - A Court of Mist and Fury book (sequel to A Court of Thorns and Roses) Jack - A Libertarian Walks into a Bear book TJ - Only Murders in the Building Join Us: T…

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Interview: The Two Reacts with Rachel Nabors, Evan Bacon, and Matt Carroll 51:22

5M ago51:22

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Special Guest(s): Rachel Nabors, formerly of React at Meta known for their work on reactnative.dev and react.dev Evan Bacon, Engineering Manager at Expo Matt Carroll, Developer Advocate React at Meta Relevant Links: The Two Reacts blog post by Dan Abramov Rachel Nabors on Twitter, @rachelnabors Evan Bacon on Twitter, @Baconbrix Matt Carroll on Twit…

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News: Apple’s Browser Drama in the EU, Voice Powered Copilot Chat, and Zed Goes Open Source 41:28

5M ago41:28

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News: Paige - Code editor Zed goes open source Jack - “Hey Code” in VS Code TJ - Apple changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the EU Mozilla says Apple’s new browser rules are ‘as painful as possible’ for Firefox Bonus News: Open Props What Makes Us Happy this Week: Paige - Kindle Paperwhite Jack - Oura smart ring TJ - One Piece on Netflix Jo…

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Interview: Million.js v3 Debuts with Aiden Bai and Tobiloba Adedeji 18:48

5M ago18:48

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Million.js: https://million.dev Discord: http://million.dev/chat Aiden Bai: Website: https://aidenybai.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/aidenybai Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aidenbai/ Tobiloba Adedeji: Website: https://www.biodrop.io/tobySolutions Twitter: https://twitter.com/toby_solutions Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tobiloba-…

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News: Exploring Next-Gen Web Components, New Code Hike Highlighter, and the Arrival of Apple Vision 39:43

6M ago39:43

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News: Paige - New Web Components features from the W3C Jack - Code Hike TJ - Apple Vision Pro and Apple Vision Pro drama Bonus News: Bun Shell - experimental shell scripting in JS What Makes Us Happy this Week: Paige - ColorIt Mandalas coloring book Jack - Brothers Sun TV series TJ - Lugeing! Join Us: Thanks as always to our sponsor, the Blue Colla…

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Rescript 11.0 Takes on TypeScript, RSCs Explained with Donuts, and OpenAI’s GPT Store Debut 36:22

6M ago36:22

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News: Paige - ReScript 11.0 - a TS competitor Jack - Donut components Matteo Frana: React, where are you going? Cassidy Williams: Kind of annoyed at React TJ - OpenAI launches a GPT Store & Netlify’s example What Makes Us Happy this Week: Paige - Fargo TV series and JustThe Recipe.com Jack - The Marvels movie TJ - Paprika app Join Us: Thanks as alw…

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Exploring the Superglue Framework, Svelte 5’s Arrival, and the OpenAI’s NY Times Legal Battle 33:03

6M ago33:03

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News: Paige - Superglue - Rails with React & Redux framework Jack - Svelte 5 preview TJ - NY Times is Suing OpenAI Bonus news: Knip What Makes Us Happy this Week: Paige - A Court of Thorns and Roses book Jack - What If…? season 2 TJ - CES Join Us: Thanks as always to our sponsor, the Blue Collar Coder channel on YouTube. You can join us in our Disc…

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Tanstack Router 1.0, Catalyst UI from the Makers of Tailwind, and date-fns Hits v3 24:57

6M ago24:57

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News: Paige - TanStack Router 1.0 Jack - Catalyst UI Kit TJ - date-fns v3 What Makes Us Happy this Week: Paige - Money Heist: Berlin Jack - Personalized art and wine experience TJ - Fourth Wing book Join Us: Thanks as always to our sponsor, the Blue Collar Coder channel on YouTube. You can join us in our Discord channel, reach out to us via email o…

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End of Year Wrap Up and Predictions for Web Dev in 2024 23:59

7M ago23:59

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News: The Adobe Figma merger fell apart Predictions: Paige - More native JS APIs Jack - A return to simpler JS frameworks TJ - AI in the whole code base What Makes Us Happy this Week: Paige - The Morning Show TV series Jack - Twinkly Christmas Lights TJ - Coffee advent calendar from Brew Company Join Us: Thanks as always to our sponsor, the Blue Co…

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New React Framework Waku Unveiled, Agile 2 in Action, and Big Updates in Safari 17.2 38:25

7M ago38:25

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News: Paige - Waku - new minimal React framework designed for RSCs Jack - Agile 2 TJ - Safari 17.2 Bonus News: Peach Fuzz is the 2024 color of the year Envy HTTP tracing Cody AI code assistant What Makes Us Happy this Week: Paige - Twinkly Christmas lights and Slow Horses TV series Jack - The Artful Dodger TV series TJ - Wheel of Time TV series Joi…

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XState’s Back with v5, Facebook Open Sources StyleX, and Cron Jobs Come to Deno 41:40

7M ago41:40

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News: Paige - XState v5 debuts the “actor model” Jack - StyleX TJ - Deno Cron Bonus News: VS Code floating editor windows What Makes Us Happy this Week: Paige - General good health Jack - CO2 detector TJ - Twinkly Christmas Lights Join Us: Outro: Thanks as always to our sponsor, the Blue Collar Coder channel on YouTube. You can join us in our Disco…

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Vercel’s AI building UIs, Nested CSS without Sass, and the Annual State of JS Survey is Live 29:46

7M ago29:46

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News: Paige - CSS nesting is supported by all major browsers Jack - Streaming components from server actions using the Vercel AI SDK library TJ - State of JavaScript 2023 survey Bonus News: The OpenAI debacle (aka Sam Altman’s ousting on Friday and rehiring by Microsoft on Sunday then reinstating at OpenAI by Tuesday) Update on the Prettier & Rust …

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What CSS is Jason Lengstorf bad at? 1:04:11

8M ago1:04:11

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We promise that after this episode you'll never forget the three parameters of the clamp() function ever again.By David East

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Copilot comes to github.com, Blazing-er Faster Next.js, and a Bounty for Code Formatter Prettier 40:00

8M ago40:00

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News: Paige - GitHub’s bringing Copilot Chat to github.com Jack - Next.js Partial Prerendering feature TJ - The $20k bounty for Prettier to be written in Rust What Makes Us Happy this Week: Paige - Blue Eye Samurai on Netflix Jack - Hiking TJ - iPhone 15 usb c power port Join Us: Blue Collar Coder on YouTube Blue Collar Coder on Discord Reach out v…

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The Angular Renaissance with Jessica Janiuk 56:55

8M ago56:55

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News: Paige - Shots.so a full featured device mockup tool Jack - Astro 3.5 release TJ - The :has selector has landed in Firefox. CSS nesting is now widely supported. Jessica - Angular 17 debut Special Guest: Jessica Janiuk Senior Software Engineer at Google Jessica’s website Jessica’s personal GitHub | Jessica’s Google Github Jessica’s LinkedIn Jes…

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Web Dev Breakdown: Remix joins the Vite Train, Docusaurus 3.0, and an Update on Vercel's AI Code Generator v0 40:24

8M ago40:24

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News: Paige - Remix announces support for Vite Jack - Docusaurus 3.0 TJ - v0 update Bonus news: Angular event - https://twitter.com/angular/status/1719025621425369267 Stack Overflow is adopting Svelte to enhance their UI - https://stackoverflow.blog/2023/10/31/why-stack-overflow-is-embracing-svelte/ What Makes Us Happy this Week: Paige - F1 Racing …

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The Latest in Web Frameworks: Next.js v14, Angular’s new Analog.js, Plus Updates on the React Compiler React Forget 34:56

9M ago34:56

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News: Paige - Next.js 14 just dropped Jack - React Forget TJ - Analog.js and this talk Bonus - https://developer.chrome.com/en/blog/hr-in-select/ What Makes Us Happy this Week: Paige - Archer TV series Jack - Kinesis Freestyle2 keyboard TJ - GitHub Copilot (again) Join Us: Blue Collar Coder on YouTube Blue Collar Coder on Discord Reach out via emai…

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CodeSandbox's Dev Container Magic & TanStack Query V5 Unveiled 26:47

9M ago26:47

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News: Paige - TanStack Query hits v5 TJ - Dev Container Support in CodeSandbox What Makes Us Happy this Week: Paige - ILeftMyStuff.com TJ - YouTube TV multiview Join Us: Blue Collar Coder on YouTube Blue Collar Coder on Discord Reach out via email Tweet at us on X @front_end_fireBy TJ VanToll, Paige Niedringhaus, Jack Herrington

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Accelerate Your Web Dev with React Aria Components, Optimized Barrel File Imports, and ActivityPub Support in Wordpress 31:08

9M ago31:08

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News: Paige - The React Aria team released a new library of unstyled components Jack - Barrel Files TJ - WordPress now offers official support for ActivityPub Bonus news: Node.js 20 has killed dotenv What Makes Us Happy this Week: Paige - Royal Therapy Memory Foam Pillow Jack - Godly Design Website TJ - Caraway Non-Stick Ceramic Baking Sheet Join U…

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The Future of SolidJS with Ryan Carniato 56:33

9M ago56:33

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News: Paige - Web components library Lit 3.0 is about to be released TJ - Photoshop is now on the web Ryan - The future for SolidJS Special Guest: Ryan Carniato the creator of SolidJS. Ryan’s X profile @RyanCarniato Ryan’s YouTube channel SolidJS site SolidJS on Discord What Makes Us Happy this Week: Paige - Libby app and All Creatures Great and Sm…

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ChatGPT for JS Devs, HTML Elements Beyond Divs, and Parallel CI Tasks Made Easy with NX 29:53

10M ago29:53

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News: Paige - ChatGPT.js - we knew it was only a matter of time… Jack - Latest Nx updates TJ - What the State of HTML Survey taught me about HTML What Makes Us Happy this Week: Paige - Dune, the novel Jack - Eggrolls TJ - Anker USB Outlet and the Lions winning streak Join Us: Blue Collar Coder on YouTube Blue Collar Coder on Discord Reach out via e…

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