We talk about stuff like:

• How did he discover Arch + Hyprland in the first place?
• What even is Arch, what even is Hyprland, and how the fuck do you make the mouse show up in Linux?
• Should you really be afraid of trying to maintain your own Linux installation?
• What are the main differences in workflow using Omarchy vs. something like macOS?
• What are the best options on Linux for the type of software where macOS has historically shined, like creative tools?
• What are the best hardware options for developers wanting to run Omarchy?

Forgive the worse-than-usual audio quality, we recorded this last minute and spur of the moment with unfamiliar tools!

• Putting yourself in the shoes of the person reviewing your application
• Crafting a high quality application tailored to a specific position
• Standing out in a more traditional hiring process by doing something a little extra
• Showcasing very specific examples of your work instead of asking the person reviewing your application to go hunting for it
• Having good questions for the person interviewing you
• Sharing your ideas and what you think the company should be focused on
• Creating a job for yourself that doesn’t even exist
• Proving that you can take ownership of projects and ship them by yourself
• Showing off skills you have that aren’t directly related to the job

Links:

• Ben on Twitter
• Tuple
• Tailwind Labs job postings

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• Test-Driven Laravel, a massive video course on designing robust Laravel applications with TDD. Learn how to build a real-world application from scratch without writing a single line of untested code.
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• Hotwire
• HEY

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• Test-Driven Laravel, a massive video course on designing robust Laravel applications with TDD. Learn how to build a real-world application from scratch without writing a single line of untested code.
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• Advanced Vue Component Design, a course on designing simpler, more flexible Vue components that are both more powerful and easier to maintain.
• Test-Driven Laravel, a massive video course on designing robust Laravel applications with TDD. Learn how to build a real-world application from scratch without writing a single line of untested code.
• Refactoring to Collections, a book and video course that teaches you how to apply functional programming principles to break down ugly, complex code into simple transformations — free of loops, complex conditionals, and temporary variables.

• Changes to Gumroad's PayPal support
• Radical icons
• Jack's hand-drawn avatars
• W3C's CMS Selection Report

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• Refactoring UI, a book and video series I put together with Steve Schoger on designing beautiful user interfaces, without relying on a designer.
• Advanced Vue Component Design, a course on designing simpler, more flexible Vue components that are both more powerful and easier to maintain.
• Test-Driven Laravel, a massive video course on designing robust Laravel applications with TDD. Learn how to build a real-world application from scratch without writing a single line of untested code.
• Refactoring to Collections, a book and video course that teaches you how to apply functional programming principles to break down ugly, complex code into simple transformations — free of loops, complex conditionals, and temporary variables.

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• Refactoring UI, a book and video series I put together with Steve Schoger on designing beautiful user interfaces, without relying on a designer.
• Advanced Vue Component Design, a course on designing simpler, more flexible Vue components that are both more powerful and easier to maintain.
• Test-Driven Laravel, a massive video course on designing robust Laravel applications with TDD. Learn how to build a real-world application from scratch without writing a single line of untested code.
• Refactoring to Collections, a book and video course that teaches you how to apply functional programming principles to break down ugly, complex code into simple transformations — free of loops, complex conditionals, and temporary variables.

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• Refactoring UI, a book and video series I put together with Steve Schoger on designing beautiful user interfaces, without relying on a designer.
• Advanced Vue Component Design, a course on designing simpler, more flexible Vue components that are both more powerful and easier to maintain.
• Test-Driven Laravel, a massive video course on designing robust Laravel applications with TDD. Learn how to build a real-world application from scratch without writing a single line of untested code.
• Refactoring to Collections, a book and video course that teaches you how to apply functional programming principles to break down ugly, complex code into simple transformations — free of loops, complex conditionals, and temporary variables.

• Statamic 3.0
• Tailwind CSS v1.7.0
• @90sWWE on Twitter

• Why Gary decided to write Execute Program as a full-stack TypeScript application instead of using a Ruby or Python backend like he may have traditionally
• Do you actually have to write less tests if you have a good type system?
• What does a good type system give you that tests can't give you?
• Using io-ts to type check incoming data
• How to think about structuring your code to best take advantage of the benefits your type system gives you and minimize the need to write tests
• Pushing conditional logic to the core of your system to reduce the number of tests you need to write at the edges
• The correlation between type errors and behavioral bugs, and how a type system can help you catch mistakes you don't think to test for
• Do type errors signal that you're missing a test?
• Structural vs. nominal type systems, and the benefits of structural type systems like used by TypeScript and Go
• Best practices for type-checking within a function in a structural type system like TypeScript
• The power of supporting literal types like true or "active" in addition to traditional types

Links:

• Destroy All Software
• Execute Program
• TypeScript
• "Are tests necessary in TypeScript?"
• io-ts
• TypeScript course on Execute Program
• Gary's tweet about unions with literal types

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• Test-Driven Laravel, a massive video course on designing robust Laravel applications with TDD. Learn how to build a real-world application from scratch without writing a single line of untested code.
• Refactoring to Collections, a book and video course that teaches you how to apply functional programming principles to break down ugly, complex code into simple transformations — free of loops, complex conditionals, and temporary variables.

• What is Svelte and how is it different than other JS frameworks in the space?
• What special behavior does the Svelte compiler layer on top of vanilla JS syntax and why?
• Why the lack of render functions in Svelte isn't a real problem in practice
• What are you giving up when you choose to build your application with something like Rails instead of JavaScript?
• Why should we be trying to write our applications in a single language, and why should it be JS?
• What's wrong with striving to write an application entirely in a language like Ruby instead of entirely in JS?
• Why HEY doesn't really make a good argument against the modern web
• Thoughts on bundle sizes, code-splitting, and why aggressive code-splitting is still better than frequent round trips to a server-rendered app
• How Svelte and Sapper handle SSR
• Why page transitions are the killer argument for building SPAs if we want to be able to compete with native experiences
• Should we be thinking about JavaScript applications as native applications in terms of offline-support and eventual consistency, or should we keep thinking of them as webpages that depend on the network?

Links:

• Svelte
• Sapper
• "Second-guessing the modern web"
• "In defense of the modern web"

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• Test-Driven Laravel, a massive video course on designing robust Laravel applications with TDD. Learn how to build a real-world application from scratch without writing a single line of untested code.
• Refactoring to Collections, a book and video course that teaches you how to apply functional programming principles to break down ugly, complex code into simple transformations — free of loops, complex conditionals, and temporary variables.

• How do you decide what role to hire for?
• Why it's so important to figure out exactly what your biggest struggle is before hiring
• How to decide what the most important thing to focus on is when it feels like there's too much to do
• Why it's important to consider the impact of hiring for a specific role on your own happiness vs. just the company's bottom line
• Coming to terms with the fact that you can't do everything, and why it's important to focus on something instead of spreading yourself thin across everything
• Mistakes people make when they start managing a team for the first time

Links:

• Jason's blog, one of the greatest treasure troves of startup advice on the internet
• Designing the Ideal Bootstrapped Business, one of Jason's MicroConf talks

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• Tailwind UI, a collection of professionally designed, fully responsive HTML components built with Tailwind CSS.
• Refactoring UI, a book and video series I put together with Steve Schoger on designing beautiful user interfaces, without relying on a designer.
• Advanced Vue Component Design, a course on designing simpler, more flexible Vue components that are both more powerful and easier to maintain.
• Test-Driven Laravel, a massive video course on designing robust Laravel applications with TDD. Learn how to build a real-world application from scratch without writing a single line of untested code.
• Refactoring to Collections, a book and video course that teaches you how to apply functional programming principles to break down ugly, complex code into simple transformations — free of loops, complex conditionals, and temporary variables.

• How did Basecamp evolve from being a team/client communication tool to focusing on keeping your whole company organized, and is it really even that different?
• How exactly should we set up Basecamp on day one to support a small 3-5 person remote software team? What tools should we use and which ones should we ignore for now?
• Finding the balance between being organized enough and splitting things up too much
• How big should projects be? Is "HEY v1" a project, or is a project something more like "HEY File Attachments"?
• What tools do you normally enable for regular projects, and how do you use them?
• How are you normally using chat at the individual project level?
• Why todo lists should be created by the individuals doing the work, and not the people assigning the work
• How should we use the company HQ project? What are some less obvious ideas we can apply there that can make a big difference?
• Using a "what we're working on" project to keep everyone on the team in the loop and feeling connected
• Using "heartbeats" to summarize the work a team has been doing over a period of time for the rest of the company
• Advice on bringing on new employees and how to assign them their first project
• When you're such a writing-driven company, how do you make sure decisions get written down when they are made in real-time instead of naturally occurring within Basecamp?

Screenshots:

• Example of a "what did I work on?" check-in
• Example of a heartbeat
• Example of the "What Works" project
• Example of an announcement in the HQ project
• Example of a conversation on a todo

Links:

• Basecamp
• Shape Up, Basecamp's recent book on how they work
• Going Remote: Basecamp Walkthrough, a livestream where Jason and DHH go over their real Basecamp account

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• Tailwind UI, a collection of professionally designed, fully responsive HTML components built with Tailwind CSS
• Refactoring UI, a book and video series I put together with Steve Schoger on designing beautiful user interfaces, without relying on a designer.
• Advanced Vue Component Design, a course on designing simpler, more flexible Vue components that are both more powerful and easier to maintain.
• Test-Driven Laravel, a massive video course on designing robust Laravel applications with TDD. Learn how to build a real-world application from scratch without writing a single line of untested code.
• Refactoring to Collections, a book and video course that teaches you how to apply functional programming principles to break down ugly, complex code into simple transformations — free of loops, complex conditionals, and temporary variables.

• What is Vite and what makes it different than existing tools like Webpack?
• How do ES Modules actually work in the browser and what are the limitations?
• Will we ever be able to use ES Modules in production for large complex projects?
• How does Vite work under the hood, and how does it support non-JS files like Vue files, or CSS files?
• How hot module replacement is implemented under the hood in Vite
• Optimizing modules with many dependencies to keep the development experience fast
• What is VitePress and how does it compare to VuePress?
• Bundling sites for production with Vite
• What's the roadmap for Vite 1.0?

Links:

• Vite
• VitePress
• Rollup

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• Tailwind UI, a collection of professionally designed, fully responsive HTML components built with Tailwind CSS
• Refactoring UI, a book and video series I put together with Steve Schoger on designing beautiful user interfaces, without relying on a designer.
• Advanced Vue Component Design, a course on designing simpler, more flexible Vue components that are both more powerful and easier to maintain.
• Test-Driven Laravel, a massive video course on designing robust Laravel applications with TDD. Learn how to build a real-world application from scratch without writing a single line of untested code.
• Refactoring to Collections, a book and video course that teaches you how to apply functional programming principles to break down ugly, complex code into simple transformations — free of loops, complex conditionals, and temporary variables.

• Does DynamoDB only make sense for things like your cache, or is it a good choice for a primary data store?
• An overview of the terminology used in DynamoDB and how the terminology compares to a relational database
• How primary keys work in DynamoDB
• What data types are available in DynamoDB
• How DynamoDB is a schemaless database
• Why it's important to understand your access patterns in advance with DynamoDB, unlike in a relational database
• Understanding why and how you usually have multiple record types in a single DynamoDB table
• What "index overloading" is in DynamoDB
• Understanding partition keys and sort keys
• How to structure your data in DynamoDB to make it possible to query related data, and how those queries work
• How secondary indexes work, allowing you to access the same data in different ways
• How to accommodate access patterns you didn't know about before you designed your schema
• When to flatten relationships vs. nest them
• Should you use DynamoDB if you aren't "web-scale"?
• How local development works with DynamoDB

Links:

• DynamoDB Homepage
• Alex's blog, loaded with great DynamoDB content
• The DynamoDB Book, Alex's recent book
• DynamoDB Guide

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• Test-Driven Laravel, a massive video course on designing robust Laravel applications with TDD. Learn how to build a real-world application from scratch without writing a single line of untested code.
• Refactoring to Collections, a book and video course that teaches you how to apply functional programming principles to break down ugly, complex code into simple transformations — free of loops, complex conditionals, and temporary variables.

• What does it mean for Redwood to be a JAMStack framework?
• What does the React layer look like? What’s new, and what’s leveraging existing community tools?
• Why Redwood ships with it’s own routing layer
• What “cells” are in Redwood, and how they aim to provide a declarative abstraction on top of data fetching
• How Redwood tries to provide clear decoupling behind the front-end and back-end, even though it is providing a full-stack solution
• What “services” are in Redwood
• Using Prisma 2 to fetch data from your database in your services
• What database solutions exist today that work well with Redwood in a serverless environment?

Links:

• Redwood.js homepage
• PredictCovid.com, a Redwood app in production
• Example blog application built with Redwood
• Prisma

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• Test-Driven Laravel, a massive video course on designing robust Laravel applications with TDD. Learn how to build a real-world application from scratch without writing a single line of untested code.
• Refactoring to Collections, a book and video course that teaches you how to apply functional programming principles to break down ugly, complex code into simple transformations — free of loops, complex conditionals, and temporary variables.

• An overview of the new getStaticProps, getStaticPaths, and getServerSideProps APIs
• How Next.js helps you serve static pages from an edge CDN automatically, without affecting the actual authoring experience
• Using getStaticPaths to statically pregenerate dynamic routes
• How the fallback feature of getStaticPaths works and lets you statically render pages on-demand to avoid long build times
• How the upcoming incremental static generation feature will work in Next.js
• Deploying Next.js to a platform other than Zeit, and how you retain all of Next’s benefits automatically
• How getServerSideProps is different from getInitialProps
• Why getServerSideProps actually improves performance, even though it introduces another hop
• How getServerSideProps results in smaller bundle sizes vs. getInitialProps
• Using getServerSideProps to safely talk directly to a database, skipping the need for an API
• Why Zeit as a company has started to favor client-side data fetching with SWR over getInitialProps/getServerSideProps, and how they are combining that with statically pregenerated “shells” for incredibly fast feeling experiences
• What’s coming next in future releases

Links:

• Next.js
• Next.js 9.3 Announcement
• Incremental Static Generation RFC
• Next.js Code Elimination Demo
• SWR, ZEIT's data fetching library

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• Advanced Vue Component Design, a course on designing simpler, more flexible Vue components that are both more powerful and easier to maintain.
• Test-Driven Laravel, a massive video course on designing robust Laravel applications with TDD. Learn how to build a real-world application from scratch without writing a single line of untested code.
• Refactoring to Collections, a book and video course that teaches you how to apply functional programming principles to break down ugly, complex code into simple transformations — free of loops, complex conditionals, and temporary variables.

• What do people actually mean when they say "I used to use Rails, but now I use React"?
• Why back-end development is still a crucial part of building any web application
• What third-party services people are using to try and replace custom back-end code
• Would you default to building a Rails back-end for a React side project, or is your instinct to try and use third-party services only?
• How far do you think front-end-first frameworks like Next.js are going to get their hands dirty in the back-end?
• Are new developers missing out by starting with React and not realizing how important tools like Rails and Laravel are for building complete production-ready applications?
• Are relational databases legacy tech or are they underappreciated?

Links:

• Ruby on Rails
• React
• AWS Amplify
• Firebase
• Hasura
• GraphQL: The Documentary
• OneGraph
• Next.js

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• Tailwind UI, a collection of professionally designed, fully responsive HTML components built with Tailwind CSS
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• Advanced Vue Component Design, a course on designing simpler, more flexible Vue components that are both more powerful and easier to maintain.
• Test-Driven Laravel, a massive video course on designing robust Laravel applications with TDD. Learn how to build a real-world application from scratch without writing a single line of untested code.
• Refactoring to Collections, a book and video course that teaches you how to apply functional programming principles to break down ugly, complex code into simple transformations — free of loops, complex conditionals, and temporary variables.

• What Tailwind UI is and why we decided to build it
• How odd numbers can wreak havoc on a user interface, and how to avoid them
• Crafting the perfect form control
• Unexpected benefits of working with CSS Grid
• Abusing single column grids just to use gap, and why we desperately need gap support in Flexbox

Links:

• Tailwind UI

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• Tailwind UI, a collection of professionally designed, fully responsive HTML components built with Tailwind CSS
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• Advanced Vue Component Design, a course on designing simpler, more flexible Vue components that are both more powerful and easier to maintain.
• Test-Driven Laravel, a massive video course on designing robust Laravel applications with TDD. Learn how to build a real-world application from scratch without writing a single line of untested code.
• Refactoring to Collections, a book and video course that teaches you how to apply functional programming principles to break down ugly, complex code into simple transformations — free of loops, complex conditionals, and temporary variables.

• What problems you run into when baking white space into components, and why your components should never contain any surrounding white space at all
• Layout challenges you run into due to the way the browser includes line-height in the size of text elements
• The trick Mark's team uses to remove surrounding white space from text elements, without removing the space between wrapping lines
• Using a "stack" component to specify the space between sibling elements
• Issues with naively just using margin on one side of an element to space elements
• The upcoming "gap" property in CSS and how it proves layout components are a good idea
• Using a "content block" component for horizontal spacing/sizing at the page level
• Tricks for maintaining vertical rhythm despite 1px borders trying to ruin it all for you
• Why tools like React are so important for being able to implement designs in a way that matches how designers think

Links:

• "Rethinking Design Best Practices", Mark's talk at ReactiveConf 2019
• Braid, the design system Mark works on
• Playroom

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• Test-Driven Laravel, a massive video course on designing robust Laravel applications with TDD. Learn how to build a real-world application from scratch without writing a single line of untested code.
• Refactoring to Collections, a book and video course that teaches you how to apply functional programming principles to break down ugly, complex code into simple transformations — free of loops, complex conditionals, and temporary variables.

• What is Mirage and how does it work?
• What makes Mirage better than a dummy JSON server you run on another port?
• What makes Mirage better than running your actual API locally?
• Using Mirage for actual development, and not just for your test suite
• How Mirage's internal ORM works, and how it can help you mirror your API's behavior more quickly
• Managing the risks of maintaining a complex stub of your real API with Mirage and keeping them in sync
• What's next for Mirage

Links

• Mirage.js
• Mirage.js on GitHub

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• Refactoring UI, a book and video series I put together with Steve Schoger on designing beautiful user interfaces, without relying on a designer.
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• Test-Driven Laravel, a massive video course on designing robust Laravel applications with TDD. Learn how to build a real-world application from scratch without writing a single line of untested code.
• Refactoring to Collections, a book and video course that teaches you how to apply functional programming principles to break down ugly, complex code into simple transformations — free of loops, complex conditionals, and temporary variables.

• What is Alpine and what does it replace?
• How does Alpine compare to Vue?
• How does Alpine compare to Stimulus?
• “Why not just use vanilla JavaScript you dummy?”
• How Alpine works internally
• Patterns for extracting reusable behaviours with Alpine
• The Alpine roadmap

Sponsors:

• Tuple, try the best pair programming app out there for free for two weeks

Links:

• Alpine.js on GitHub
• The template tag
• The with statement
• Proxy objects

• Why "fixed time, variable scope" is so important for actually getting things done
• Integrating development and design into a single process instead of design first, develop later
• What it means to "shape" work before deciding to work on it
• What it means to "bet" on a project, and why Basecamp would rather trash a project than extend the deadline by an extra week
• Taking deadlines seriously, and how it empowers teams to make their own decisions about scope to avoid having to trash the project
• An example of a project at Basecamp that failed to ship, and working through what they did wrong that led to that outcome
• De-risking projects by getting input from technical experts on the team before committing to actually doing the work
• What exactly is the deliverable a design/development team receives from leadership at the start of a project that they are expected to be able to succeed with?
• The difference between macro planning and micro planning on a project
• How Basecamp avoids iterating on solutions within a cycle without turning projects into fixed time, fixed scope
• Why designers at Basecamp start by actually building the very rough "Times New Roman" version of a UI with HTML and CSS before spending time on high fidelity visual design decisions
• Applying "Shape Up" on client projects

Sponsors:

• Tuple, try the best pair programming app out there for free for two weeks

Links:

• Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that Matters, Ryan's recent book about how they work at Basecamp

• What exactly is a finite state machine?
• Why trying to keep track of a component's status using boolean flags is leads to bugs and complex code
• Why it makes so much more sense to keep track of a component's state using some sort of label
• How simple it can actually be to implement UI component logic with a state machine and why you shouldn't think of it as complex or over-engineering
• How you can think of using state machines in UI programming to be like an inversion of the typical approach you may have taken in the past, where actions become scoped to certain states instead of actions needing to inspect the current state
• What events might look like in your state machine and where you're actually sending them from and to
• Advice for naming your events
• What it means to "transition" between states
• How using a state machine makes it easy to provide slightly different behavior for the same action based on the current state
• The benefits of visualizing your state machines
• Using the XState library to build state machines in JavaScript

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Links:

• "No, disabling a button is not app logic.", David's recent article on state machines
• XState Docs

• What were the first feature/change ideas that got the wheels turning for Vue 3
• How Vue's underlying VNode data structure is changing and how that affects users who work directly with render functions
• How the h function works in Vue 3 and how it helps you write code that's more composable
• How many breaking changes are just removing deprecations vs. hard breaks and how a compatibility build is going to ease the upgrade process
• The new template compiler and how it will drastically increase performance
• What were the goals of the class-based component API and why was it cancelled?
• The new composition API and how it will help you write more reusable logic without the downsides of mixins or scoped slots
• A deep-dive into reactive vs. refs in the composition API
• How the composition API compares to hooks in React
• How provide/inject is being improved for Vue 3

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Links:

• Vue 3 source code on GitHub
• Vue RFCs
• Vue 3 Composition API

• Why Heroku introduced BEM to try and solve their CSS issues and why it didn't work
• How custom tooling and Ember's component system alleviated any maintainability concerns about littering the HTML with presentational classes
• Why Heroku still uses some component classes like "btn" and "input" even though they could encapsulate those in an Ember component
• Why simply introducing any sort of rigid CSS architecture wasn't enough and why switching to a utility CSS approach specifically was critical to making UI development at Heroku more maintainable
• How with a non-utility CSS approach, every new feature always seemed to require writing new CSS, no matter how many "reusable" components existed in the system
• Why the team at Heroku still loves working with this approach, even 3.5 years after introducing it
• How a utility-based approach has worked just as well for Heroku's marketing properties as it has for their application UI
• Pylon, Alasdair's experimental CSS library that provides declarative layout primitives in the form of custom HTML elements

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Links:

• purple3, Heroku's utility CSS library for their product UIs
• shibori3, Heroku's utility CSS library for their marketing properties
• Pylon, Alasdair's declarative CSS layout library

• What Inertia.js is and what problem it solves
• Why Inertia is more like a protocol than a framework
• How navigation works in Inertia
• How form submissions work in Inertia
• How Inertia automatically updates your assets for visitors when you update your code
• Handling flash messages and validation errors work
• Building applications with persistent layouts
• Showing placeholder screens with Inertia while data is loading

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Links:

• Inertia.js
• Inertia.js on GitHub
• Ping CRM, the canonical Inertia.js demo application
• Placeholder components in Inertia.js
• Sponsor Jonathan's work on Inertia on GitHub

• How do you keep data synchronized between two different clients when all of the data is stored locally instead of in the cloud?
• Understanding conflict-free replicated data types and how they help when building distributed applications
• Diving deep into how messages are replayed across clients when network access becomes available to achieve consistent state
• Using a Merkle tree to efficiently compare the message store from two clients to know which messages need to be synchronized
• Considerations you need to make when structuring your data to enable eventual consistency
• What it might look like to move an app like Actual to an offline-first web app where you can't use things like SQLite

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Links:

• Actual
• Electron
• Conflict-free replicated data type (CRDT)
• Hybrid logical clock
• Merkle tree

• Brainstorming ideas vs. paying attention to your own problems
• Why it's smart to start with a product that might never make a million dollars a year
• Should you avoid markets with competition?
• Why it's a good idea to build something for fewer people
• Strategies for figuring out how many people have the problem you're trying to solve
• Why you should start marketing before you start building
• When should you start charging money for your product?
• Why getting 1,000 customers is extremely hard and how that affects your pricing
• Why you don't need an audience to build a software product

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Links:

• Rob's website
• Startups for the Rest of Us, Rob's podcast
• Drip, the last software business Rob built
• TinySeed, Rob's startup accelerator for bootstrappers
• MicroConf, the conference Rob organizes
• "The Stairstep Approach to Bootstrapping"
• "Why You Should Start Marketing the Day You Start Coding"
• "Traction" by Gabriel Weinberg
• "SaaS Marketing Essentials" by Ryan Battles
• "Start Small, Stay Small", Rob's book

• Creating pixel-perfect mockups in advance vs. designing and implementing in tandem
• Working with existing JS libraries for interactive UI features vs. hand-rolling a custom implementation from scratch
• How design systems play into the design process at Netlify, and how mockups aren't meant to implemented pixel-for-pixel
• What tools Netlify uses to design new features and manage the design process
• What technologies Netlify uses to keep their UI consistent
• Using modern CSS features like CSS grid

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Links:

• Netlify Analytics
• Highcharts
• Abstract
• Sketch
• PostCSS
• postcss-nested
• postcss-each

• Building website templates vs. a UI kit
• Should the product be positioned as a UI library or an educational resource?
• One-time purchase pricing vs. subscription pricing vs. some combination of the two
• Why marketing features can sometimes be better than marketing benefits
• "Dribbble but with code"

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Links:

• Tailwind CSS
• Tweet previewing the Tailwind component directory
• Article on Sketch pricing model
• MegaMaker Club
• Thermostat, the NPS survey software Ian is working on

• Walking through how a single screen in the app is rendered in step-by-step detail
• How they separate container components and presentational components to make things easier to reason about
• How the Redux store is organized
• How they handle caching data on the client and deciding when to bust the cache
• How the API is designed
• Why they are sticking with REST instead of Graphql
• How they handle authentication in their app

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Links:

• Netlify
• React
• React Router
• "Presentational and Container Components" by Dan Abramov
• Netlify's Storybook
• Immutable
• Immer
• redux-funk
• Netlify Analytics
• JAMstack Conf

• The risks and technical challenges of building client-side API integrations and why Benedikt decided to focus on a server-side integration for launch
• Building Userlist with Ember instead of trendier tools like React
• How the Ember app authenticates with the Rails API
• Strategies for keeping email deliverability high for Userlist's customers
• How Benedikt built Userlist's complex segmentation engine by creating a custom AST structure and compiling it to SQL
• How the automation and email scheduling system works

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Links:

• Userlist.io
• Slow and Steady, Benedikt's podcast
• Prosemirror
• Ember
• Ruby on Rails
• Sidekiq
• Sparkpost

• What is serverless?
• What AWS services Vapor manages and how they are billed
• Using a single RDS instance with multiple databases
• Understanding cold boots with Lambda and how to minimize the effect they have on your application's performance
• Performance on Vapor
• How queues work with Vapor
• Tuning your queue concurrency based on your database connection limit
• Strategies for preventing your web instances and queue instances from competing for resources
• How scheduled tasks work with Vapor
• How file uploads work with Vapor
• Limitations when running code on Lambda and strategies for working around them

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Links:

• Laravel Vapor
• Intro to Laravel Vapor, Taylor's talk at Laracon

• How modernizing a Flash app drove Ryan to start building SPAs
• How products are really just user interfaces to the end user, and why that means it makes sense to make the UI the core of your codebase
• Why the backend will continue to be commoditized and application developers will be spending more and more of their time in the UI
• What makes something a web app instead of a website, and why almost everything is actually an app
• Why application developers still need to write server-side code right now and what areas have the biggest room for innovation and improvement

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Links:

• EmberMap, Ryan's tutorial site
• Mirage.js
• Client-side SQL
• GraphQL
• Hasura GraphQL Engine, an automatic GraphQL API over Postgres
• Conversation on ugprading API requests
• Interview with Michelle Bu of Stripe

• Can you have more than one "h1" on page?
• How important is heading order?
• Why not everything that looks like a heading should necessarily be a heading
• Why you may want to include invisible headings in some situations
• What the document outline is and how your use of headings impacts it
• How to make your heading levels dynamic to make your components more flexible
• What a "sectioning context" is
• Can you have multiple "article" elements on one page?
• What even is an "article" anyways?
• How to use elements like "section" and "aside" properly
• Should navigation items be in lists?
• Why Aaron can't remember the last time he used a "span"

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Links:

• Aaron's personal website
• HTML5 Element Flowchart from html5 Doctor

• What CSS-in-JS even is
• What Emotion does differently than other CSS-in-JS libraries
• How to actually use Emotion to style your projects
• How the JSX pragma works and what it's for
• How Emotion works under the hood
• Performance
• Adding global styles to your project
• Style re-use and composition in Emotion
• Using Emotion with server-side rendering

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Links:

• Emotion
• Glam
• Glamor
• Glamorous
• Styled Components
• JSX pragma
• CSSStyleSheet.insertRule()
• Global styles in Emotion
• Server-side rendering in Emotion

• How pattern matching works in Elixir and why it's more powerful than method overloading in other languages
• How Elixir's pipe operator makes the transition from OO to functional programming more natural
• Why you don't need to be intimidated by unfamiliar features like GenServers to use Elixir for web app development
• Noticeable differences between working with Rails and Phoenix and what it was like to transition
• How the Phoenix ORM makes n+1 queries impossible
• Why background tasks are a lot easier in Elixir than in an ecosystem like PHP
• What other tools and technology power the Changelog platform
• How the Changelog Phoenix app is deployed

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Links:

• Building rapid UI with utility-first CSS, Adam's episode of JS Party
• Elixir
• Phoenix
• Chris McCord on The Changelog
• The Changelog source code
• Confident Ruby
• "Why we chose Turbolinks"
• Programming Phoenix book
• Elixir Forum
• Our Slack

• How Gatsby is more than just a static site generator
• How you create pages with Gatsby and how it's more powerful than traditional static site generators
• The benefits of having a unified data access layer for all of your content
• How to build dynamic applications with Gatsby
• Why Gatsby is actually faster than static HTML
• How Gatsby makes performance best practices easy
• Gatsby themes and why they are more exciting than traditional CMS themes

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Links:

• Gatsby
• GraphQL
• gatsby-image
• Reach Router
• The PRPL Pattern
• Jason on Twitch

• How Vue focuses on making things easy at the cost of a more complex API, while React focuses on keeping things simple at the cost of a steeper learning curve
• How to translate Vue's computed properties to React using the useMemo hook
• How to translate Vue's watchers to React using the useEffect hook
• How to translate Vue's v-model to React using value props and event listeners
• How to translate Vue's events to React using callback props
• How to translate Vue's slots to React by passing JSX as a normal prop
• How to handle transitions in React with libraries like Pose

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Links:

• Why I prefer React over Vue, from Sebastian's blog
• React docs
• Introducing Hooks at React Conf
• Hooks docs
• Vue Template Explorer
• Pose, animation library for React and Vue
• Overreacted.io, Dan Abramov's React blog

• Why you need more than just a product, and what Justin brings to the table in his partnership with Jon
• How having an audience helped him get his first customers, even in a crowded market
• Why you should use every advantage you have to get people in the door, even though the only thing that will make customers stay is a great product with great service
• "People like us do things like this" vs "scratching your own itch"
• How their affiliate program has been working surprisingly well for them, and how affiliate programs compare to traditional advertising
• What Justin's day looks like working on Transistor as the marketing focused side of the partnership
• How Justin and Jon are paying themselves, inspired by Profit First

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Links:

• Transistor, Justin's podcast hosting business
• Build your SaaS, Justin's podcast on building Transistor with Jon
• The Good News Podcast, Cards Against Humanity's podcast hosted on Transistor
• The Transistor blog
• Transistor's revenue metrics
• Rewardful, the affiliate SaaS Justin uses
• Profit First

• How Now is trying to bring the CDN experience to your server-side code
• How the constraints of serverless can nudge you to build more robust solutions
• How to talk to a database in a stateless serverless environment
• Best practices for deploying serverless code when you have a centralized data store
• Why routing should be handled at the Now configuration level instead of in application code
• How Now functions are different from microservices, and how you share code between them
• How Now bundles your project using builders
• Creating a monolithic project with Now that uses different programming languages for each endpoint
• How the upcoming "now dev" feature will enable you to simulate a serverless environment locally
• A behind-the-scenes look at the Now dashboard, how it's built, and the third-party services that power it

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• DigitalOcean, get your free $50 credit at do.co/fullstack
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Links:

• ZEIT
• Next.js
• Now.sh
• Now builders on GitHub
• Now Monorepo example
• Wordpress running on Now on now
• Third-party services for serverless projects: 
  • Cosmos DB
  • ScaleGrid
  • Compose
  • DynamoDB
  • Firebase
  • Amazon Aurora
  • Auth0

• How Jeffrey has written CSS historically, and what drew him to a utility-first approach
• Incrementally replacing Bulma with Tailwind
• The importance of solidifying your Tailwind configuration before beginning to implement a design
• The new Tailwind color system
• Why choosing a color palette in advance is much better than using preprocessor functions like darken() or lighten()
• How duplicating your markup is often a better solution than trying to write incredibly crafty responsive CSS
• How Tailwind helps with performance by letting you keep your CSS cached
• How to use CSS variables to create multiple themes for the same Tailwind site

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• Rollbar, sign up at https://rollbar.com/fullstackradio and install Rollbar in your app to receive a $100 gift card for Open Collective
• ImageCon, Cloudinary's upcoming conference for any developer who works with rich media. Get 15% off using the code FULLSTACKRADIO15.

Links:

• Laracasts
• Tailwind CSS
• Group Hover in Tailwind
• Mobile Twitter, responsive app without media queries
• Theming Tailwind demo on GitHub
• Easy Tailwind Themes Using CSS Variables, free lesson on Laracasts
• Laravel, Vue and SPAs, Laracasts series on building an SPA with Tailwind CSS
• LaraCats.com 😸

• Pain points you run into when you are working in a JS based UI instead of a server-rendered UI
• What Livewire is and where the inspiration came from
• How Livewire lets you build interactive user interfaces with server-side code
• The challenges of stateful long-running processes in PHP and using stateless AJAX requests as an alternative
• Walking through a worked example of using Livewire to build an interactive dropdown
• What's next for Livewire

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Links:

• Full Stack Radio T-Shirt + Sticker Pack Pre-orders
• Caleb's blog, loaded with great Livewire content
• No Plans to Merge, Caleb's podcast
• Sharing Data in a Laravel/Vue Application on the Zaengle blog
• Embrace the Backend, Caleb's talk at Laracon 2018
• Phoenix LiveView unveiling at ElixirConf 2018
• morphdom
• Sign up for Livewire updates

Topics include:

• Semantic versioning and why there hasn't been a v1.0 release already
• How v1.0 will be encouraging people to leverage the default design system
• Breaking changes and what the upgrade story will be like
• What's coming after Tailwind CSS v1.0

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Links:

• Full Stack Radio T-Shirt + Sticker Pack Pre-orders
• Tailwind CSS
• Adam's Work Journal, where writes about his progress on v1.0
• The v1.0 To-Do List
• PR explaining the new config format

• Why the UI fidelity threshold for building an SPA feels so low
• How forcing yourself to prepare data for Vue helps avoid putting too much logic into your templates
• Why it's still worth building your app as a traditional server-based web app, even if you are using Vue for your entire UI
• Performance and complexity benefits of being able to prepare data for the view in a controller instead of having to build an API
• Strategies for dealing with things like accessing routes, checking authorization rules, and other things you'd normally do in a Blade template
• Switching from a template-inheritance mindset to a component mindset

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Links:

• Laravel
• Vue.js
• Server-side apps with client-side rendering, from Jonathan's blog
• Example project
• Ziggy, package for accessing your Laravel routes on the client

• Building an API without writing any controller code
• Thinking of your API like a database as much as possible
• Modeling everything on the server as a resource, including things like S3 upload signatures
• Using tools like Firebase to avoid writing an API entirely

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Links:

• EmberMap, Sam's Ember.js training site
• JSON:API, the API spec Sam uses to build his SPA backends
• JSONAPI::Resources, the Rails gem for declaratively building a JSON:API compliant API
• Firebase
• Vuex
• Apollo GraphQL

• Why you should think of SPAs as desktop apps instead of web apps
• Strategies for pushing complexity out of your backend and on to the client
• Building optimistic UIs
• Best practices for storing and retrieving data
• Why you should design your SPAs with an "offline-first" mindset

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Links:

• EmberMap, Sam's Ember.js training site
• Cruddy by Design, Adam's talk on modeling with resources
• Progressive Enhacement is Dead, Long Live Progressive Enhancement, a talk from Tom Dale that talks about building offline-first web applications
• Ember Data
• JSON:API
• Ember-Orbit

• What exercises you should focus on and why
• How to develop a system that will force you to make progress
• The importance of keeping a training journal
• Why full-body workouts are better than training a specific muscle group each day
• The importance of mobility for both training and your work life
• Why building strength is so important as you age
• Why you shouldn't trust trainers trying to sell complex exercise programs
• Why you probably shouldn't be running for exercise
• What equipment you need to get started

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Links:

• Starting Strength by Mark Rippetoe
• 5/3/1 by Jim Wendler
• Deskbound by Kelly Starrett
• Atomic Habits by James Clear
• Strong app for iOS
• "Why You Should Not Be Running" by Mark Rippetoe
• The MobilityWOD BattleStar
• Rogue Fitness
• Adam's last powerlifting competition on YouTube
• Habits for Hackers, Ben's latest course

• Issues you run into when you do too much work in code instead of in the database
• Why memory usage is just as important as query count
• How being smarter with your database usage can let you avoid hard problems like cache invalidation
• Denormalizing computable data to make it queryable
• Using "where not exists" strategically to improve query performance
• Why the solution to n+1 problems isn't always as simple as eager-loading
• How subqueries work and how you can use them to avoid memory problems when eager-loading

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Links:

• Refactoring UI
• "Dynamic relationships in Laravel using subqueries" on Jonathan's blog
• Source code for Jonathan's Laracon Online talk
• The benefits of NOT EXISTS on StackOverflow
• Advanced Eloquent, Jonathan's Laravel package

• What's your process for getting started on a new design?
• How do you make your designs feel original?
• How do you choose fonts for a new project?
• How do you make complex tables look good, and how do you make them work on mobile?
• What's the best way to style multiple secondary actions on a page?

Refactoring UI topics include:

• Structuring the book to make it easy to read in a short amount of time
• An overview of the sections and chapters in the book
• What's covered in the screencasts
• How the included color palettes are designed and why they are more useful than the color palettes you're used to generating online
• What the font recommendation guide includes and how it's organized
• Details about the included icon set
• What's inside the component gallery, and how it's meant to be used
• The release date! 🎉

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Links:

• Refactoring UI
• 🔥 Design Tips
• Fonts In Use
• "Getting Real" by Basecamp, our inspiration for structuring the book
• Refactoring UI on YouTube
• Preview of the Refactoring UI icon set
• Preview of the Refactoring UI color palettes
• Preview of the Refactoring UI component gallery

• Why "success" shouldn't mean the same thing to everyone
• How to stay small without doing all the work you don't want to do yourself
• Why it's important to define what "enough" is for your business instead of always feeling the need to do better than you did last year
• Questions to ask yourself to figure out what "success" would be for you
• How knowing your "enough" can help you build better products for the people you want to serve
• Why you should ignore the people who don't like what you're doing and double down on the people who love it

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Links:

• Paul's website
• Company of One, Paul's upcoming book
• "Enough already", from Paul's blog
• "1,000 True Fans", by Kevin Kelly
• "Find your rat people", from Paul's blog
• "Sean D'Souza doesn't want to grow his company!"

• Why deadlines are critical
• Using manual processes to avoid building features entirely
• How launching a stripped down version of your idea can help you build the right thing
• Recognizing when you don't need to solve a problem yet
• Why you shouldn't design your entire UI up front
• How evolutionary design applies to both code and interface design
• Why you should always finish a feature before starting the next one
• Applying this approach to Ben's current project Tuple

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• Rollbar, sign up at https://rollbar.com/fullstackradio and install Rollbar in your app to receive a $100 gift card for Open Collective
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Links:

• The Art of Product, Ben's podcast
• Tuple, Ben's current project
• "You Should Take a Codecation"
• Trailmix.life, Ben's first codecation SaaS
• Briefs.fm, Ben's second codecation SaaS
• Nomadlist, by Pieter Levels
• Airline List
• Basecamp 6 week cycles
• "How we structure our work and teams at Basecamp"
• "What six weeks of work looks like" (at Basecamp)
• "Making Sense of MVP", by Henrik Kniberg

• The history behind Nuxt.js
• How Nuxt.js uses special Page components and file-based routing instead of using a traditional router
• Creating dynamic page-based routes without a custom server
• How the asyncData lifecycle hook works
• How server-side rendering works in Nuxt.js
• How Nuxt.js uses intelligent code-splitting to improve performance
• How to use the fetch method to dispatch Vuex actions
• Using the head method to populate head elements on a page
• How layouts and middleware work
• Options for generating, serving, and deploying Nuxt applications
• When and why would someone use Vue CLI instead of Nuxt?

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Links:

• VueConf TO Discount
• Nuxt.js Documentation
• Vuepress
• Vue CLI 3

• How Next.js is different than using create-react-app
• How page-based routing works in Next.js vs. a traditional router
• The mechanics behind how components are server-side rendered and picked up by React on the client
• What it really means to server-render a React app and how it's different from a traditional server-rendered web app
• How to use "getInitialProps" to tell Next.js how to render a page on the server
• How dynamic routing works using page-based routing
• What's new in Next.js 7.0

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Links:

• VueConf TO Discount
• Next.js Documentation
• Learn Next.js, official guide
• Next.js Blog
• Next.js Examples on GitHub

• What JSON Web Tokens are and how to use them to authenticate users
• Strategies for invalidating stateless API tokens
• Using cookie and session authentication
• Using authentication-as-a-service solutions like Auth0
• Proxying requests to your API to simplify CORS issues
• Protecting against XSS attacks

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• Cloudinary, sign up and get 300,000 images/videos, 10GB of storage and 20GB of monthly bandwidth for free
• Rollbar, sign up at https://rollbar.com/fullstackradio to try their Bootstrap Plan free for 90 days

Links:

• JSON Web Tokens
• Securing Angular Applications, Ryan's book
• Security Headers scanning tool
• "I’m harvesting credit card numbers and passwords from your site. Here’s how."
• https://auth0.com/
• "CORS is bad for performance" Twitter thread

• How modern JS frameworks have made the web less accessible
• How Reach UI is making it easier for people to build accessible components without sacrificing customizability
• The importance of using the correct markup
• How focus trapping works
• Adding keyboard navigation to components in a way that makes sense for screenreader users
• The challenges of building an accessibility-focused UI library

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• Rollbar, sign up at https://rollbar.com/fullstackradio to try their Bootstrap Plan free for 90 days
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Links:

• Reach UI
• React Native for Web
• WAI-ARIA Authoring Practices
• VoiceOver
• NVDA
• Hiding elements visually but not from screenreaders
• Ryan's Advanced React Workshop Tour
• Ryan's Online React Courses

• Why goals aren't useful on their own
• The four rules that guide human behavior
• Using environment design to encourage the habits you want to adopt
• Building habits of avoidance
• Why being productive is really about decision making

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• Cloudinary, sign up and get 300,000 images/videos, 10GB of storage and 20GB of monthly bandwidth for free
• Netlify, incredibly powerful static site hosting for free

Links:

• JamesClear.com
• Pre-order Atomic Habits, James' upcoming book
• James' Newsletter

• How to fetch and reconstitute an aggregate from its events
• Using generators to make it easy to transform event streams
• What it looks like to apply an event to an aggregate
• How to create events and what they look like
• Implementing a message repository for fetching events from storage
• How to raise events from inside your aggregates
• How to persist aggregates at the end of a request
• What it looks like to insert new events into storage
• Dispatching events to consumers to produce side effects
• Using event consumers to create and update projections

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• Netlify, incredibly powerful static site hosting for free
• Cloudinary, sign up and get 300,000 images/videos, 10GB of storage and 20GB of monthly bandwidth for free

Links:

• Full Stack Radio #85
• EventSauce, Frank's event sourcing library

• The benefits of pairing with someone more experienced than you
• The benefits of pairing with someone less experienced than you
• How pairing helps you build things faster
• Why pairing often removes the need for code review
• How to get started with pairing if you've never done it before

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Links:

• Tuple, the remote pairing tool Ben is building
• Tuple's Pair Programming Guide
• The Art of Product, Ben's podcast with Derrick Reimer
• Ben's blog
• Pair programming on Wikipedia
• "Extreme Programming Explained" by Kent Beck
• "How to Improve as a Programmer"
• Llewellyn’s strong-style pairing
• The Pomodoro Technique
• Vehikl podcast episode on pairing

• Why you should choose a market before getting too attached to the type of product you want to create
• Why it can make sense to create products in different categories if they are for the same people
• Why a CSS framework and a TDD course have more in common than it sounds
• Why you might be happier having a job than running a business if you want to spend your time doing a specific type of work
• What you should be doing instead of racking your brain for app ideas

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• Netlify, incredibly powerful static site hosting for free
• Cloudinary, sign up and get 300,000 images/videos, 10GB of storage and 20GB of monthly bandwidth for free

Links:

• "Anything You Want" by Derek Sivers
• Adam's tweet storm after re-reading "Anything You Want"
• Justin's talk on product validation at MicroConf 2018
• Justin's website
• Justin's Marketing for Developers course
• Build your SaaS, Justin's podcast about building Transistor.fm

• Why Derrick chose to build Level as an SPA
• Choosing Elm over React or Vue
• How Elm is sort of like a language and framework combined
• Moving to Phoenix from Rails
• Why getting abstractions right feels easier in a functional language
• How "contexts" help you organize your Phoenix code
• The benefits of GraphQL over REST
• What it looks like to implement GraphQL on the server
• Avoiding n+1 queries with GraphQL

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• Rollbar, sign up at https://rollbar.com/fullstackradio to try their Bootstrap Plan free for 90 days
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Links:

• Level
• Level live-coding screencasts on YouTube
• Elm, the functional programming language Derrick is using on the frontend
• An Introduction to Elm, the official tutorial
• The Elm Architecture
• Elixir, the functional programming language Derrick is using on the backend
• Phoenix, the Elixir framework
• Contexts in Phoenix
• GraphQL
• Absinthe, GraphQL implementation for Elixir

• Cloudinary, sign up and get 300,000 images/videos, 10GB of storage and 20GB of monthly bandwidth for free
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Links:

• Level
• The War on Developer Productivity, the Level manifesto
• Level live-coding screencasts on YouTube
• Ghost, open-source publishing platform
• Discourse, open-source discussion platform
• "After 5 years and $3M, here's everything we've learned from building Ghost",

• What even is JSX, really?
• Why JSX is not a templating a language
• How render functions work
• Advantages of JSX over templates
• How to translate template features like v-if to JSX
• How event listeners work with JSX
• JSX gotchas to watch out for

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Links:

• Introducing JSX from the React documentation
• Render Functions & JSX in the Vue.js documentation
• Vue.js Template Explorer, see how Vue compiles templates to render functions
• babel-plugin-transform-vue-jsx on GitHub
• Vue Templates in JSX, article by Sebastian De Deyne
• Prettier code formatter
• Hyperscript
• Why React uses "className" instead of "class"
• Writing Vue.js Render Functions in JSX from Alligator.io

• Why has Ember stuck around when other frameworks from the same era haven't?
• What do you get when you choose Ember that you don't get with other frameworks?
• How does Ember's UI layer compare to React/Vue?
• What choices does Ember make differently than frameworks like React and Vue?
• How does Ember do state management?
• Why Ember is a great choice if you value stability

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• Rollbar, sign up at https://rollbar.com/fullstackradio to try their Bootstrap Plan free for 90 days
• Codeship, check out how they performed in Forrester's latest Continuous Integration Tools report

Links:

• EmberMap, Sam's Ember.js training site
• Ember.js Documentation
• ember-cli-tailwind, Tailwind CSS add-on for Ember
• Handlebars, Ember's templating language
• "Should we use controllers?", on how controllers fit into Ember when also using components
• Ember Data
• Ember's release cycle
• embercasts, Ember.js training for beginners

• What is Vuex and where did it come from?
• The benefits of centralizing all of your application's state into one place
• What sort of state belongs in Vuex and what state should stay local to a component
• What all the Vuex terminology means, like actions, mutations, getters, etc.
• How you initially populate a Vuex store
• Strategies for organizing all of the state in a store
• Common mistakes people make with Vuex
• Dealing with forms when using Vuex

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• Rollbar, sign up at https://rollbar.com/fullstackradio to try their Bootstrap Plan free for 90 days
• Codeship, check out how they performed in Forrester's latest Continuous Integration Tools report

Links:

• Advanced Vue Component Design, Adam's upcoming course
• Vuex Documentation
• The Elm Architecture
• Intro to Vuex on CSS Tricks by Sarah Drasner

• Why global state is better than an event bus
• Why and how to avoid using this.$parent
• Custom events vs. callback props
• When to use watchers and when you don't need to
• Why you should prefer computed properties over methods
• Inline templates vs. scoped slots
• Using components to share code instead of mixins or directives

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• Rollbar, sign up at https://rollbar.com/fullstackradio to try their Bootstrap Plan free for 90 days
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Links:

• Advanced Vue Component Design, Adam's upcoming course
• Chris on GitHub
• Chris on Patreon
• "7 Secret Patterns Vue Consultants Don't Want You To Know", Chris' recent presentation
• "Methods, Computed, and Watchers in Vue.js" by Sarah Drasner
• PortalVue, library for rendering elements outside of their parent component
• vue-enterprise-boilerplate

• Wrapping non-Vue libraries as Vue components to maintain a consistent paradigm
• Using Popper.js with Vue to build dropdowns and tooltips
• Using portals to build better modal components
• Patterns for making it easier to reuse components throughout an application
• Which Tailwind CSS component classes Jonathan chose to extract (and which ones he didn't)
• How Jonathan chose to customize his Tailwind configuration for his project
• Using Tailwind's advanced screen options to better accommodate a sidebar layout
• How Jonathan is using Purgecss to reduce his CSS from 110,000 lines of code 1.7mb in development to 8.8kb in production

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• Codeship, check out how they performed in Forrester's latest Continuous Integration Tools report
• Rollbar, sign up at https://rollbar.com/fullstackradio to try their Bootstrap Plan free for 90 days

Links:

• Advanced Vue Component Design, Adam's upcoming course
• "Building a Sortable Component with Vue.js", replay from Adam's recent live stream
• Vue.js
• Tailwind CSS
• Turbolinks
• Popper.js positioning library
• Pikaday date picker library
• Vue.nextTick()
• PortalVue, library for rendering elements outside of their parent component
• Portals in React
• Purgecss

• What does "event sourcing" even mean?
• What do terms like "aggregate" and "projection" mean in the context of event sourcing?
• What are the benefits of modeling something with event sourcing vs. a traditional state-based approach?
• How events are usually stored
• Why and how you might build multiple projections from a single event stream
• How events in event sourcing differ from the sort of events you might already be using in your projects
• A walkthrough of what the actual code would look like to model a "publish blog post" feature using event sourcing

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• Rollbar, sign up at https://rollbar.com/fullstackradio to try their Bootstrap Plan free for 90 days
• Codeship, check out how they performed in Forrester's latest Continuous Integration Tools report

Links:

• Advanced Vue Component Design, Adam's upcoming course
• Frank's Blog
• EventSauce, Frank's new PHP event sourcing library
• Event Store event sourcing database
• "Event Sourcing" introduction by Martin Fowler
• "Event Sourcing" talk by Greg Young at GOTO 2014

• Challenges with testing Vue components prior to vue-test-utils
• How vue-test-utils works and what it looks like to test a component
• Choosing a test runner
• Common mistakes people make when testing their components
• Mocking and stubbing external dependencies
• Combining unit testing with snapshot testing

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• Codeship, check out how they performed in Forrester's latest Continuous Integration Tools report
• Rollbar, sign up at https://rollbar.com/fullstackradio to try their Bootstrap Plan free for 90 days

Links:

• vue-test-utils on GitHub
• vue-test-utils Documentation
• "Testing Vue.js Applications", Edd's book
• Enzyme testing utility for React
• jsdom
• Jest, Edd's recommended test runner
• mocha-webpack
• Mocking in Jest
• Snapshot testing in Jest
• Async Vue components

• What JavaScript looked like at Basecamp before Stimulus
• Why Basecamp chose to create a new framework instead of using React, Angular, or Vue
• How Basecamp uses server-rendered partials instead client-side templates
• Why David decided to start "On Writing Software Well"
• Evaluating patterns in practice and choosing between conflicting approaches
• Using concerns/mixins to organize classes with many features
• Applying resourceful routing to singular resources

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• Rollbar, sign up at https://rollbar.com/fullstackradio to try their Bootstrap Plan free for 90 days
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Links:

• Stimulus Homepage
• Stimulus on GitHub
• David's blog post introducing Stimulus
• Turbolinks
• Webpacker
• "Server-generated JavaScript Responses (SJR)" (2013)
• respond_to, returning multiple formats from the same Rails controller
• "On Writing Software Well" 
  • 1: Removing the need for code comments
  • 2: Using callbacks to manage auxiliary complexity
  • 3: Using globals when the price is right
  • 4: Not every model is backed by a database
  • 5: Testing without test damage or excessive isolation
• Basecamp's "Getting Real" YouTube channel

• Using animation to make interfaces easier to use
• The difference between animations and transitions
• When to use CSS animations vs. JavaScript animations
• Which CSS properties are safe to animate
• How to use techniques like FLIP to make sure your animations are performant
• Recommended libraries for building complex animations
• Strategies for keeping animation code maintainable

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• Codeship, check out how they performed in Forrester's latest Continuous Integration Tools report
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Links:

• Sarah's Personal Website
• Sarah on CodePen
• "SVG Animations", Sarah's book
• "Functional Animation", Sarah's talk on using animation to create spatial awareness and make interfaces easier to use
• GreenSock animation library
• "Animation in Design Systems", Sarah's article at 24 ways
• "FLIP Your Animations", using the FLIP technique to make animations more performant
• Transitions in Vue.js
• "Animating Vue", Sarahs' talk from VueConf 2017
• Web Animation Workshops with Sarah and Val Head

• What is a "higher order component"?
• How do you replicate the render prop pattern from React with Vue?
• Using scoped slots to build components with no UI
• Using render functions without using JSX
• How Vue's built-in components like `` work under the hood

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• Codeship, check out how they performed in Forrester's latest Continuous Integration Tools report
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Links:

• Vue.js Homepage
• The Vue Point, the official Vue.js blog on Medium
• Higher-Order Components, from the React documentation
• "Use a Render Prop!" by Michael Jackson, an introduction to render prop components in React
• Scoped Slots documentation
• Render Functions documentation
• "Writing Abstract Components with Vue.js", tutorial on writing a render function component with Vue
• Fetch Component Demo, based on the component Evan describes in the podcast

• What makes an application "multitenant" really?
• Choosing between a shared database or multi-database setup
• Approaches for identifying the current tenant
• Performance considerations
• How multitenancy impacts how you integrate with external services

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• Codeship, check out how they performed in Forrester's latest Continuous Integration Tools report
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Links:

• "Building Multitenant Applications", video of Tom's talk from Laracon US 2017
• Slides from Tom's multitenancy talk
• "Online migrations at scale" on the Stripe engineering blog
• "Migrating replication lag and reducing read load with freno" on the GitHub engineering blog

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• Rollbar, sign up at https://rollbar.com/fullstackradio to try their Bootstrap Plan free for 90 days
• Codeship, check out how they performed in Forrester's latest Continuous Integration Tools report

Links:

• downshift on GitHub
• "Introducing downshift for React" from Kent's blog
• "Use a Render Prop!" post by Michael Jackson
• "Compound Components" talk by Ryan Florence
• match-sorter, Kent's best-match sorting library
• Awesome React Render Props
• react-toggled, Kent's toggle component library
• Kent's newsletter
• "Learn React Fundamentals and Advanced Patterns", blog post introducing Kent's React courses

• Rollbar, sign up at https://rollbar.com/fullstackradio to try their Bootstrap Plan free for 90 days
• Codeship, check out how they performed in Forrester's latest Continuous Integration Tools report

Links:

• Refactoring Rails, Ben's refactoring course
• The 30 Day Code Quality Challenge, Ben's free 30-day code quality course
• Refactoring from Good to Great, Ben's popular refactoring talk
• Decompose Conditional, an example of "make the implicit explicit"
• Introduce Parameter Object
• Replace Conditional with Polymorphism
• Chasing Perfect, Adam's talk about refactoring with polymorphism
• Introduce Null Object
• Replace Method with Method Object
• "Why Ruby Class Methods Resist Refactoring" from the Code Climate blog
• Collection Pipeline, Martin Fowler's article on replacing loops with array transformations
• Curing the Common Loop, Adam's talk on refactoring loops and conditionals
• Refactoring to Collections, Adam's book and video series
• Boundaries, Gary Bernhardt's talk about OO, functional programming, and immutability

• Why Tailwind doesn't include buttons or forms
• Is Tailwind for front-end developers or back-end developers?
• Best practices around extracting component classes
• Using Tailwind with existing CSS or on top of other frameworks
• Optimizing Tailwind's generated file size
• New features planned for upcoming Tailwind releases

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• Rollbar, sign up at https://rollbar.com/fullstackradio to try their Bootstrap Plan free for 90 days
• Codeship, check out how they performed in Forrester's latest Continuous Integration Tools report

Links:

• Tailwind CSS Homepage
• Tailwind CSS GitHub repository
• Tailwind CSS discussion forum
• @tailwindcss on Twitter
• Built with Tailwind, a curated list of cool stuff built with Tailwind
• Tailwind Expo, more cool stuff built with Tailwind
• Tailwind CSS lessons on Egghead.io, by Simon Vrachliotis
• purgecss, amazing tool for removing unused CSS from your codebase
• Using PurgeCSS to remove unused Tailwind CSS classes, by Andrew Del Prete
• Jason Beggs' personal site, built with Tailwind and optimized with PurgeCSS
• Building a Login Page with Tailwind CSS, tutorial by Mustafa Ehsan
• Introducing Tailwind CSS on Scotch.io by Ezeugwu Paschal

• Rollbar, sign up at https://rollbar.com/fullstackradio to try their Bootstrap Plan free for 90 days
• Codeship, check out how they performed in Forrester's latest Continuous Integration Tools report

Links:

• Tailwind CSS Homepage
• Tailwind CSS GitHub repository
• Tailwind CSS discussion forum
• @tailwindcss on Twitter
• "CSS Utility Classes and Separation of Concerns", Adam's post on moving from "semantic" CSS to utility-first
• "Rebuilding Laravel.io with Tailwind CSS", a video walkthrough of implementing a design with Tailwind

• Rollbar, sign up at https://rollbar.com/fullstackradio to try their Bootstrap Plan free for 90 days

Links:

• Diana's personal website
• Primer, GitHub's design system
• Primer modules on GitHub
• "Introducing Design Systems into Chaos", Diana's recent talk on her work on design systems at GitHub
• Percy, a visual regression testing tool
• Primer CSS on Twitter
• GitHub Design on Twitter

• How to pick great fonts
• Choosing a color scheme for your project
• Designing in greyscale
• Recreating existing interfaces from scratch
• Recommended design tools
• What you should design first on a new page
• Strategies for making things look professional without graphic design skills

Sponsors:

• Rollbar, sign up at https://rollbar.com/fullstackradio to try their Bootstrap Plan free for 90 days

Links:

• Steve's Blog
• Little UI Details, a collection of Steve's hot design tips
• Google Fonts, prefiltered
• "12 Google Fonts You Can't Go Wrong With", by Steve
• System Font Stack courtesy of CSS-Tricks
• Inter UI font family (formerly "Interface")
• WhatFont Chrome Extension
• Fonts In Use
• Dribbble color picker
• "Color in UI Design" by Erik Kennedy (great resource on HSL)
• Sketch, design tool for macOS
• Figma, cross-platform design tool
• "Building a professional design tool for the web", on how Figma is written in C++ and compiled to asm.js
• "Epicenter Design" by 37signals
• Doodle, example of a small UI
• Example login page, from Shippo
• Refactoring UI "Redesigning Laravel.io" case study
• Zondicons, Steve's free SVG icon set
• Hero Patterns, Steve's free SVG background pattern gallery
• Pushsilver, example of Hero Patterns in use
• Heroicons, Steve's premium marketing icon kit

• Why you shouldn't start with SaaS
• How to find ideas from client projects
• What to do before you make a landing page
• Why your first product doesn't have to be the one that makes you rich
• Using open source to build an audience

Sponsors:

• Rollbar, sign up at https://rollbar.com/fullstackradio to try their Bootstrap Plan free for 90 days
• Codeship

Links:

• Getting Real by 37signals (now Basecamp)
• Startups for the Rest of Us podcast
• Storemapper, interview with Tyler Tringas for IndieHackers
• Pippin's Plugins
• The Stairstep Approach to Bootstrapping by Rob Walling
• The Freedom Ladder by Justin Jackson
• "The $61,392 Book Launch That Let Me Quit My Job", story of how Adam released his first product and went independent
• Marketing for Developers, Justin's book and course
• Refactoring UI landing page
• Justin's Laracon 2017 Talk

• How their approaches have changed over time
• Feature tests vs. unit tests, when to use each
• Testing code that interacts with external services
• Using fakes instead of mocks
• Contract tests
• Testing view data vs. rendered HTML

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• Rollbar, sign up at https://rollbar.com/fullstackradio to try their Bootstrap Plan free for 90 days
• Codeship

Links:

• Test-Driven Laravel, Adam's testing course
• Laravel Horizon test suite
• Laravel Fakes documentation
• "Don't Mock What You Don't Own", Adam's screencast on testing wrappers for external services
• "Writing Your Own Test Doubles", Adam's blog post on using fakes instead of mocks
• "Preventing API Drift with Contract Tests", Adam's screencast on using traits to create contract tests between fake and real implementations

• What is PostCSS, really?
• PostCSS vs. other preprocessors like Less and Sass
• Examples of things PostCSS can do
• How to use PostCSS to add your own features to CSS
• How to disguise custom features as valid CSS so PostCSS will parse it
• Porting Tailwind CSS from Less to PostCSS and why it's been awesome

Sponsors:

• Rollbar, sign up at https://rollbar.com/fullstackradio to try their Bootstrap Plan free for 90 days
• Codeship

Links:

• Tailwind CSS, Adam's upcoming CSS framework
• CSS Utility Classes and "Separation of Concerts", blog post explaining the motivation behind Tailwind
• PostCSS.org
• cssnext
• "Create Your Own Plugin", PostCSS tutorial at tuts+
• PostCSS API documentation

• General project structure
• Dealing with initial load flicker
• Sharing routes between Vue and your server
• Handling authorization rules on the client
• Comparing strategies for getting data into your Vue components
• Best practices for sharing state between sibling components
• Signs you should extract a child component
• Using Vue to wrap up third-party libraries

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• Rollbar, sign up at https://rollbar.com/fullstackradio to try their Bootstrap Plan free for 90 days
• Codeship

Links:

• Vue.js
• All Vue.js lessons on Laracasts
• Ziggy, package for sharing routes between Laravel and Vue
• Promise.takeAtLeast, helper Adam uses to slow down fast AJAX calls
• Custom Events in Vue
• Vuex, state management library for Vue
• Turbolinks
• Simple State Management, from the Vue documentation

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• Rollbar, sign up at https://rollbar.com/fullstackradio to try their Bootstrap Plan free for 90 days
• Codeship

Links:

• Turbolinks
• Turbolinks iOS adapter
• Turbolinks Android adapter
• Turbolinks 5: I Can't Believe It's Not Native!, presentation by Sam Stephenson
• Hybrid Sweet Spot: Native navigation, web content, article on how Basecamp builds mobile apps by DHH
• Ionic, Angular based mobile framework
• Turbolinks lessons at Laracasts

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• Rollbar, sign up at https://rollbar.com/fullstackradio to try their Bootstrap Plan free for 90 days
• Codeship

Links:

• BEM, the Block Element Modifier CSS methodology
• About HTML semantics and front-end architecture, a blog post by Nicolas Gallagher that heavily inspired the way Adam writes CSS
• Implementing Designs with Utility-Focused CSS, a recorded live stream where you can watch Adam implement a design using his work-in-progress CSS framework
• Beard, David Hemphill's utility framework
• Tachyons, a popular utility framework
• fractures utility framework
• turrettcss utility framework

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• Hired, sign up at https://www.hired.com/fullstackradio to double your signing bonus to $2000 if you get a job through Hired
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Links:

• PushSilver, David's invoicing app
• David's fight video
• PushSilver discount, just for Full Stack Radio listeners
• Interviews with Laura Roeder, the founder of MeetEdgar
• KiteTail, Adam's checkout platform
• Building KiteTail #6, newsletter update with lots of UI design details
• BidSketch, proposal software tool with the "see a sample" email capture call-to-action

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• Rollbar, sign up at https://rollbar.com/fullstackradio to try their Bootstrap Plan free for 90 days
• Hired, sign up at https://www.hired.com/fullstackradio to double your signing bonus to $2000 if you get a job through Hired

Links:

• PushSilver Infinite pre-launch page
• "How to Double Your Trial-to-Paid Conversion Rate with Onboarding", Rob Walling's talk at SaaSFest 2016
• Zttp on GitHub
• Lumen, the Laravel microframework
• The Lumen server behind Zttp's test suite
• "Test-Driving Webhook Failures", the live stream where Adam and David worked through the HTTP testing approach that inspired the Zttp test suite
• Craft and Commerce, the ConvertKit conference Adam is attending this month
• "Building KiteTail"

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• Hired, sign up at https://www.hired.com/fullstackradio to double your signing bonus to $2000 if you get a job through Hired
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Links:

• PushSilver, David's invoicing app
• KiteTail, Adam's checkout platform
• "Designing the Ideal Bootstrapped Business" by Jason Cohen
• Sketch's non-subscription annual pricing model
• Zttp, the underground fight club style HTTP library
• Steve Schoger, Adam's KiteTail co-founder
• Zondicons SVG icon library by Steve
• Zondicons Blade package to easily embed inline SVG icons in Laravel applications
• Hero Patterns, free repeating SVG background patterns by Steve
• Heroicons SVG marketing icon library by Steve
• Building KiteTail, details about KiteTail live streams, newsletter, etc.
• Previous KiteTail live streams on Adam's YouTube channel

• Thermostat.io and NPS surveys
• Charging more vs. charging less
• Finding a niche for PushSilver and how to appeal to that niche
• One-time purchase lifetime plans for SaaS
• Percentage-based vs. tiered pricing

Sponsors:

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Links:

• Thermostat.io, Ian's new NPS survey tool
• PushSilver, David's invoicing app
• KiteTail, Adam's checkout platform
• Jesse Mecham on Founder Chats, talking about selling YNAB on the Steam store
• Net Promoter Score

• Dogfooding Cron Dog in PushSilver
• Dealing with complex validation
• Why we hate auto-saving UIs
• Validation issues when supporting "draft" models
• Expanding the scope of KiteTail
• Different ways to handle client-side image preview
• Building a Cron Dog SDK

Sponsors:

• Rollbar, sign up at https://rollbar.com/fullstackradio to try their Bootstrap Plan free for 90 days
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Links:

• MicroConf
• Crondog, David's scheduled webhook app
• PushSilver, David's invoicing app
• KiteTail, Adam's checkout platform
• ConvertKit, the app Adam uses for email that helped inspire the new direction for KiteTail
• "The $61,392 Book Launch That Let Me Quit My Job", Adam's blog post about his first book launch

Sponsors:

• Rollbar, sign up at https://rollbar.com/fullstackradio to try their Bootstrap Plan free for 90 days
• Hired, sign up at https://www.hired.com/fullstackradio to double your signing bonus to $2000 if you get a job through Hired

Links:

• Crondog, David's new recurring task app
• KiteTail, Adam's new checkout app
• How GitHub secures webhooks
• HMAC on Wikipedia
• Laravel Spark, the boilerplate Laravel skeleton David's using
• MicroConf Start Edition

Adam introduces KiteTail, an app that lets you create webhook-driven hosted checkout pages; something he wishes he'd had when he launched his course.

From here on out, Full Stack Radio will follow David and Adam's journey building these new products; discussing interesting technical, design, and business challenges they face along the way.

Sponsors:

• Rollbar, sign up at https://rollbar.com/fullstackradio to try their Bootstrap Plan free for 90 days
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Links:

• Crondog, David's new recurring task app
• KiteTail, Adam's new checkout app
• PushSilver, David's existing invoicing app
• DonorGive, an app David worked on that motivated him to build CronDog
• Laravel Spark, the boilerplate Laravel skeleton David's using
• "What's KiteTail?", Adam's blog post introducing KiteTail
• Test-Driven Laravel, Adam's course app that inspired him to build KiteTail
• MicroConf Start Edition

• Rollbar, sign up at https://rollbar.com/fullstackradio to try their Bootstrap Plan free for 90 days
• Hired, sign up at https://www.hired.com/fullstackradio to double your signing bonus to $2000 if you get a job through Hired

Links:

• Michelle on Twitter
• Stripe Elements
• Stripe's Engineering Blog
• Stripe Checkout
• Stripe Radar
• Building Stripe's API, by Amber Feng
• Move Fast, Don't Break Your API, by Amber Feng

• Rollbar, sign up at https://rollbar.com/fullstackradio to try their Bootstrap Plan free for 90 days
• Hired, sign up at https://www.hired.com/fullstackradio to double your signing bonus to $2000 if you get a job through Hired

Links:

• Form Requests in Laravel
• After Validation hooks in Laravel
• "Stripe CVC and ZIP checks can be bypassed" forum post
• Custom Rule Objects, enhancement Adam is working on
• HTML5 Form Validation

Learn more about Test-Driven Laravel Early Access

Sponsors:

• Rollbar, sign up at https://rollbar.com/fullstackradio to try their Bootstrap Plan free for 90 days
• Hired, sign up at https://www.hired.com/fullstackradio to double your signing bonus to $2000 if you get a job through Hired

Links:

• Test-Driven Laravel, Adam's TDD course
• Noel's blog
• Rails 4 Test Prescriptions, Noel's book on testing
• Take My Money, Noel's book on payment handling
• Noel's screencast on floating point precision
• RubyMoney gem
• ngrok
• vcr gem

• Rollbar, sign up at https://rollbar.com/fullstackradio to try their Bootstrap Plan free for 90 days
• Hired, sign up at https://www.hired.com/fullstackradio to double your signing bonus to $2000 if you get a job through Hired

Links:

• Drip
• Scaling SaaS, Derrick's blog

The Drip stack:

• Ruby on Rails
• AWS
• PostgreSQL
• Sidekiq
• SendGrid
• Redis

• Rollbar, sign up at https://rollbar.com/fullstackradio to try their Bootstrap Plan free for 90 days
• Hired, sign up at https://www.hired.com/fullstackradio to double your signing bonus to $2000 if you get a job through Hired

Links:

• Test-Driven Laravel Early Access, Adam's new TDD course
• wesbos.com, Wes' blog and personal website
• JavaScript 30, Wes' new free course
• The Getting Things Done methodology
• Things
• Todoist
• Alfred
• TextExpander
• Send and Archive in Gmail
• Behind the Scenes of Wes' course platform
• Wes Bos on YouTube

• Rollbar, sign up at https://rollbar.com/fullstackradio to try their Bootstrap Plan free for 90 days
• Hired, sign up at https://www.hired.com/fullstackradio to double your signing bonus to $2000 if you get a job through Hired

Links:

• Test-Driven Laravel Early Access, Adam's TDD course
• UserScape, Ian's business
• HelpSpot, UserScape's help desk product
• Shady Tactics in our Midst from Ian's blog
• Shady Tactics, Round 2
• Securing the Five-Figure Sale, Ian's new free eBook on landing enterprise sales
• The Lean Startup
• Edgar, social media tool with invite-only sign up flow