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The Frontside Podcast116: Styled Components and Functional CSS with Kris Van HoutenSpecial Guest:
Kris Van Houten: @krivaten | krivaten.com
In this episode, we are joined by Kris Van Houten to chat about Functional CSS and Styled Components: pros and cons, the problems that they are trying to solve, and how to choose between one or the other.
This show was produced by Mandy Moore, aka @therubyrep of DevReps, LLC.
Transcript:
DAVID: Hello, everyone. Welcome to Episode 116 of The Frontside Podcast. I'm David Keathley, a software developer here at Frontside and I'll be your host for today's episode. Joining me as...
2018-12-2032 min
The Frontside Podcast075: Babel with Robert JacksonRobert Jackson: @rwjblue | rwjblue.com
Show Notes:
01:00 - Build Tooling in JavaScript
02:19 - Ember and Babel
07:14 - Deciding on Features
11:46 - Class
13:29 - Workflow
14:39 - Payload Size
15:24 - Config Targets
17:18 - Source Maps
25:05 - Ember Decorators, Objects and ES6 Classes
36:07 - What’s next and when can we get it?!
Resources:
Babel.js
esperanto
Ember CLI Targets 🎯
Enabling Ergonomics 🚐 and Performance
EmberCamp London
One Helpful Way to Think About JavaScript Decorators
Transcript:
CHARLES: Hello, everybody and welcome to The Frontside Podcast, Episode 75. My name is Charles Lowell, a developer here at The Fron...
2017-07-0642 min
The Frontside Podcast064: Empathy in Sales with Ginger WhalenGinger Whalen: @gingerwhalen
Show Notes:
01:28 - Everyone Does Sales
02:11 - Sales is an Exchange: Understanding and Solving Others’ Problems
05:58 - “Personas”; Empathy vs Sympathy
11:47 - Empathy Requires Introspection
15:12 - Persona Example
20:33 - Making Incremental Improvements
23:15 - Challenges in the UI Business Space
29:25 - TL;DR on the Business Development Process
Resources:
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Transcript:
CHARLES: Hello everybody and welcome to The Frontside Podcast, Episode 64. My name is Charles Lowell. I'm a developer here at The Frontside. I'm here with Jeffrey Cherewaty. Hello, Jeffery.
JEFFREY: Hey, t...
2017-03-3030 min
The Frontside Podcast063: Growing New Developers with Saron YitbarekSaron Yitbarek: @saronyitbarek | CodeNewbie | Codeland Conference
Show Notes:
00:32 - Codeland Conference and The Conference Experience
08:06 - Impostor Syndrome
15:32 - The CodeNewbie Community and Growing Junior Developers
20:06 - Dev Job Red Flags and Should-be Basic Requirements
Resources:
Codeland Volunteer Form
The CodeNewbie Podcast Episode 60: Impostor Syndrome with Alicia Liu
Alicia Liu: Overcoming Impostor Syndrome: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Coding
Alicia Liu: Impostor Syndrome Is Not Just a Confidence Problem: The dangers of becoming a buzz word
CodeNewbie TwitterChat
Transcript:
JEFFREY: Hello everyone. This is Episode 63 of The...
2017-03-2327 min
The Frontside Podcast062: UI for U and IShow Notes:
00:56 - What does UI mean? UI = User Interface
02:26 - Software Interfacing with Software vs Human Beings
03:57 - At what point does UI stop?
05:55 - Responsive and Stateful UI
10:10 - Tooling: Past, Present, and Future
16:00 - Planting Business in UI Engineering
19:26 - How The Frontside Brands Itself; JavaScript Portability
Resources:
Linguistic Intelligence
Transcript:
CHARLES: Hello everybody and welcome to The Frontside Podcast, Episode 62. My name is Charles Lowell. I'm a developer here at The Frontside and I'm here today with Jeffrey Cherewaty and Robert De Luca, also developers here at...
2017-03-1631 min
The Frontside Podcast059: Build Useless StuffShow Notes:
01:11 - Doing Dumb Stuff aka “Throwaway Projects”
06:06 - Combatting Burnout
10:01 - Dumb Projects That Pay You Back
17:00 - Brainstorming and Abstraction
25:19 - chillestmonkey.com
20:19 - “The Iron Triangle”: Creativity, Accomplishment, and Learning
Resources:
React Native and Chill: A tale of stupid made fast by Charles Lowell
Transcript:
CHARLES: Hello, everybody and welcome to The Frontside Podcast, Episode 59. We're getting up there, 59. That's like, I don't know, it's not a milestone but it's something.
ROBERT: It's like one away from 60.
CHARLES: Yeah, it is. It’s past middl...
2017-02-2340 min
The Frontside Podcast056: Ember vs. Elm: The Showdown with Philip PootsPhilip Poots @pootsbook | GitHub
Show Notes:
00:53 - What is Elm?
03:45 - The Essence of User Interface
07:59 - “Messages”
08:31 - Scalability
14:04 - Error Handling
18:47 - The Business Case
22:35 - Where is Elm on the curve of scalability?
28:36 - Learning From Elm
32:32 - “Whole Meal Solutions”
Resources:
Philip Poots: Elmber @ Wicked Good Ember 2016
Cycle.js
Functional Reactive Programming
Evan Czaplicki
Test-driven Development (TDD)
NoRedInk
The Elm Mailing List
Try Elm
Elm Guide
elmtutorial.org
Elm For Beginners by James Moore
Transcript:
CHARLES: Hello, everybody. Welcome to The Frontside Podcast Episode 56. I am Charles Lowell...
2017-02-0339 min
The Frontside Podcast053: Glimmer 2 with Godfrey ChanGodfrey Chan
@chancancode | GitHub | Tilde Inc.
Show Notes:
02:27 - What is Glimmer 2?
11:24 - Key Changes for Glimmer 2
12:54 - How do these libraries (i.e. handlebars.js; htmlbars) work together?
18:02 - Maintaining Compatibility
24:38 - Components
27:55 - Looking Forward to Non-Performance-Related Features
34:43 - Animations and Visualizations
39:09 - Glimmer 2 For an End User
41:33 - Stand-alone Glimmer?
46:12 - What are the performance gains on mobile? How does it better position Ember for mobile devs?
49:23 - Bubble Tea
50:37 - Contributing to Glimmer 2
Resources:
Godfrey Chan: Hijacking Hacker News with Ember.js @ EmberConf 2015
Announcing The Glimmer 2 Alpha
Isemberfastyet
The...
2017-01-1353 min