A weekly show that helps you stay up to date on the latest and greatest in the front-end world.
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Are you bad at CSS? Well... we all are. The Bad at CSS podcast is hosted by Adam Argyle and David East. It's not meant to be anything special or formal. Grab a beer or your favorite beverage and give us a listen (or a watch) to discuss all the difficulties and intricacies of CSS. Sometimes there might even be an awesome guest.
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An informal podcast where two software engineers cover a range of topics in software. Sometimes we’ll bring on guests! Come learn with us!
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Developer Experience is a podcast brought to you by Algolia. We chat with guests who build products for developers about their developer experience strategy, what it means for them and why it’s important.
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A podcast inspired by 3factor.app architecture proposal and is about all things #GraphQL, #serverless and modern software architectures
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Building a career as a Software Engineer is hard. Whether you're trying to break into the industry, fighting with imposter syndrome, or just trying to take the next big step in your career, you'll benefit from hearing how successful engineers have triumphed and failed in their careers. Learn more: www.devpath.fm
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News: ChatGPT Moves to Remix, TypeScript 5.6, and Meta-framework HonoX Debuts
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Big news this week when it’s announced that OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, has moved ChatGPT from using Next.js to using Remix. While both metaframeworks rely on React under the hood, Remix seems a bit less opinionated about how teams might want to structure their projects to best suit their unique use cases and needs. TypeScript has also rele…
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We need better design tools. Mattias Ott tells us why.
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Web design tools are great but they still fall short of all the incredible intrinsic based features of CSS. While there are features like auto-layout in Figma, they still fall so short of all the content driven features of The Web. Why is it that we still try to paint pretty pictures in a design tool and act like the web works that way? We can't co…
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News: Updates for Vue, RedwoodJS, shadcn, and TC39’s Proposal Stages
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Kicking off the discussion is the release of Vue 3.5. Although it’s not a major release, Vue 3.5 packs some great new features and optimizations like: reactivity system improvements (up to 56% less memory usage for apps than before), reactive prop destructuring stabilization (it’s simpler to declare props with default values), and SSR improvements …
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News: JavaScript Edition! Build Tools, Date Handling APIs, and SSR Benchmark Wars
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We’ve got a good show for you today! It’s chock full of new build tools, better date handling in JavaScript, and SSR benchmarks to prove which framework is truly the fastest. The rust-ification of JavaScript build tools continues, as next generation build tool Rspack hits v1 and claims it’s ready for primetime. Rspack boasts (almost) complete compa…
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Eric Meyer and Estelle Weyl wrote 1000+ pages of CSS... we had questions
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CSS: The Definitive Guide is exactly 1126 pages, written by Eric Meyer and Estelle Weyl. As they both said, "We read the CSS spec so you didn't have to." We ask them a ton of CSS questions and they gave us a ton of CSS answers.By David East
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News: Sentry’s Fair Source Licensing & What’s Next for React Native
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On this week’s episode, a new software licensing term has emerged in the development world: Fair Source Software (FSS). The error and exception tracking software company Sentry added some legal protections to their Codecov product last year (they are a business trying to earn money, after all), which technically meant it was no longer open source. …
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News: AI-Edition: OpenAI’s Structured Outputs, EU AI Legislation, and Chrome CSS Usage Stats
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AI is the main topic of conversation for this week’s episode. Between continued advancements in the technology and governments trying to put safeguards in place to prevent a Terminator-style future, there’s plenty going on. OpenAI has introduced a new feature of its API called “structured outputs,” which essentially lets developers pass in a valid …
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14 CSS talks covered in 1 hour — CSS Day recap
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Apologies for the audio only upload. There were issues with getting the video feed published but check out YouTube for the video. CSS Day put on 14 different talks about some pretty interesting topics in CSS. It ended up being almost 12 hours of amazing CSS content and we’re going to give you an overview of each talk in just an hour. We’re going to…
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News: Node Gets TS Support, Tauri v2, and New JS Acronym e18e
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This week’s episode kicks off with an announcement that Node 22.6 has experimental TypeScript support! What you might not realize unless you read the fine print though, is that this isn’t the sort of TS support you might assume. Instead, the feature strips type annotations from .ts files, allowing them to run without transforming TS-specific syntax…
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News: Google Backs Off Blocking Cookies, New CSS Features, and Vercel’s Feature Flags SDK
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Google is making headline news once again as it reverses course on a decision to block third-party cookies in its Chrome browser. After years of testing, planning, and delays, Google scrapped a plan to turn off third-party cookie tracking by default like Safari and Firefox already do. In other news, the annual CSS Working Group meeting wrapped up r…
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News: State of React and Stack Overflow Developer Surveys
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Web development survey results season is upon us, so this week’s episode covers two of the newly released survey results: the State of React survey 2023 and Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2024. Just over 13,000 developers filled out the State of React survey, and the results were quite interesting. React devs are fans of component libraries like M…
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News: Astro Announces Server Islands and Partners with Netlify
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Popular web framework Astro is making lots of headlines this week, between new experimental feature Server Islands, and achieving “official deployment partner” status with Netlify, it’s been a whirlwind. But in addition to Astro’s big news, Expo, arguably the most popular framework for building React Native apps, has been endorsed by the React Nati…
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News: AI Model Runner ONNX and JS Framework Maker Vinxi w/Returning Guest Jason Lengstorf
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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)
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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