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NOTE: RECORDED March 28th.

Description

Alex Patterson joins us to chat about... you guessed it! Svelte at AppWrite. And Svelte in general. We chat a bit of AI as well, ChatGPT, Google Bard. All that fun new stuff!

Music
Intro music by Braden Wiggins a.k.a. Fractal (braden@fractal-hq.com)

Discussion topics

• Who is Alex?
  • Twitter
  • Website
  • How did you get into programming?
    • Dreamweaver
    • ABAP in SAP
  • Svelte
    • Pink
    • AppWrite Console
  • Codingcat.dev
  • AppWrite
• Thoughts on Svelte
  • Reactive statements
• ChatGPT
  • Google Bard
• BlackCatUI
• {…$$restProps}
• Sveld
• JSDoc

Unpopular Opinions

• Alex: TailwindCSS is awesome!
• Antony: DX is king - if your DX sucks you slowly and reluctantly build things and don’t experiment due to effort
  • Imba
  • Scrimba

Picks

• Kev: YouTube Shorts on Svelte Society
• Alex: https://www.blackcatui.com/
  • Heated Deskpad
• Antony: packageManager - volta - issue with global packages node version - only-allow-pnpm (doesn’t work)
  • Volta
  • packageManager - https://nodejs.org/dist/latest-v16.x/docs/api/packages.html#packagemanager
  • only-allow-pnpm - https://pnpm.io/only-allow-pnpm

Where can folks find you on the interwebs?

@codercatdev

appwrite discord server

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