
In this episode Austin shares some cool things he's learned about recently. Edge compute can fix performance bugs in Apache, and the HTML capture attribute is a handy way to open up the user's camera. Grant goes into his new role where he gets to control TypeScript and ESLint rules at his organization; the ultimate power trip.
Links:
Fixing Obscure Bugs: Apache, GZip, ETags, & Edge Compute
TIL: You Can Access A User’s Camera with Just HTML
JS Party - Smile! HTML can access your camera
TypeScript expect error
Love:
Grant - Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Austin - Too Good To Go
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Sep 29, 2022
57 min

In this episode, Austin shares about his recent experience with Remix.run, a full-stack JavaScript web framework. We discuss what it is, what it's not, some things we like, some things we don't, and how you can think about it. TLDR: It's pretty cool. In fact, it even got Austin to write React.
It was a very serious chat (sorry, no bloopers).
Appreciations:
Grant - Taking time off
Austin - Watermelons & Stranger Things
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Aug 18, 2022
1 hr 3 min

In this episode, Grant and Austin do some catch up on what’s been going on since the last call. Grant’s goes into all sorts of interesting stuff including Static Site Generation, working on design systems, migration from enterpriseGitHub to GitHub cloud, managing several different code bases with monorepos. Austin is mostly just happy to hear Grant talk about his day and shares some fun changes sing Akamai acquired Linode.
Shoutouts:
Austin - Owning your own domain name
Grant - Having your own email. Star Trek: Picard
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Jul 4, 2022
1 hr

In this episode Grant and Austin are visited by special guest and creator of AgnosticUI, Rob Levin. Rob shares the story behind AgnosticUI, how it got started, why the world needs it, and some interesting bits into how it all works. We also discuss some more general topics around design systems, CSS, open source, accessibility and more. He is a great guy with a very interesting project, and we think you should check it out.
Links:
AgnosticUI - https://www.agnosticui.com/
Blog - https://developtodesign.com/
A11y Dialog - https://a11y-dialog.ne
Rob’s Illustration Work - https://roblevin.myportfolio.com/work
Shout outs:
Rob - Vuetensils, Traversy Media's CSS Grid Layout Crash Course
Grant - Feit Electric smart power strip (also their whole line of other smart bulbs are great)
Austin - Raised by Wolves Season 2
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Apr 5, 2022
1 hr 8 min

In this episode Austin gets into it with Grant about working with agencies, and some of the pitfalls related. After a bit of venting we actual come around to some interesting content related to Gatsby, React, and working with TypeScript.
We cover:
Merging className between parent and child components
Using PropType vs TypeScript
Which types to use for SVGs (JSX.Element, ReactNode, ReactElement)
Inheriting type definitions for wrapper components
Links:
The React.ReactNode type is a black hole
Shout Outs:
Austin - Rescue.org donation & Elden Ring
Grant - Cryo-cuff
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Mar 10, 2022
1 hr 2 min

Grant wanted to share some things he wish he knew as a beginner that would have made his career easier. His tips boil down to:
Communication
Research
Problem solving
Language specifics dont matter
Learn to read code
Get good at being wrong
Shout outs:
Austin & Grant: freeCodeCamp.org
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Feb 18, 2022
52 min

Do you like progress? Well too bad because we’re using 90s technology until otherwise required!
In the episode, Austin schools Grant on why building forms to work with and without JavaScript matters, how you can do it, and some tips and tricks if you want to do it yourself. It’s one of those technical deep dive episodes that we like to mix in here and there and we get into native behavior vs JS, accessibility, UX, and more. We hope you enjoy.
Outline:
Why it matters
Default behavior
Validation
Validity API
Different types of inputs
Accessibility
UX improvement
Backend
Detecting native vs fetch requests
Links:
Why your website should work without Javascript.
JavaScript isn’t always available and it’s not the user’s fault
Shout outs:
Grant - Cloud/Lambda/Serverless functions.
Austin - Costco
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Jan 31, 2022
1 hr 4 min

Isn't it obvious? We did the same thing everyone else is doing this time of year. We talked about recaps and highlights of 2021, and then some predictions and resolutions for 2022. Spoiler alert! 2022 is going to be a good year :D
Shou touts
Austin: Volunteering
Grant: theproscloset.com
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Jan 12, 2022
1 hr 3 min

Ever wondered what sort of equipment Austin and Grant have for their office setup? No? Well, we’re going to tell you anyway. We covered desks, chairs, monitor arms, peripherals, audio/video stuff, and more. It’s just as boring as it sounds, but we hope you enjoy it nonetheless. Hey, they can’t all be bangers.
Links:
Ikea standing desk
HisoHu Electric Standing Desk
Standing desk converter
Autonomouse ErgoChair Pro
Ultrawide monitor
WALI Dual Monitor Arm
Master Mouse 3
Alice Keyboard
Kinesis Freestyle2 keyboard
Shure SM-7B Micorphone
Samson Q2U Microphone
Blue snowball iCE Microphone
Dan Clark Audio Aeon2 closed
Cloud Lifter
Radial Workhorse
Radial Mic PreAmp
Drawmer DS101 noise gate
DBX 560a compressor/limiter
Sony RX100 camera
Shout Outs:
Grant - Commit Equipment, dope af MTB jerseys with POCKETS
Astin - Gorilla Ladders
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Dec 17, 2021
50 min

Austin’s been working a lot with build tooling lately. In this episode, he takes Grant on a bit of a journey into the world of build tools and ASTs, or Abstract Syntax Trees. We talk Webpack, Rollup, Vite, Babel, and Acorn JS.
Links:
astexplorer.net
AST on WikiPedia
Acorn JS
Lingua franca
Babel Plugin Handbook
Webpack
Sli.dev
Shout Outs:
Austin - Tucker and Dale vs. Evil & Great British Bake Off
Grant - Egghead.io
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Dec 2, 2021
53 min
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