How to Find More Time to Code

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Kenden: I want to spend more time coding and learning but i have an 18 month year old that doesn't seem to sleep. My daughter's three now and even now there are like times when just her not sleeping can like totally ruin my entire day let aloneYeah you know who knows what you haven't having young kids at any age in this time period it's going to be hard to be doing extra grind time stuff. Try to focus on the small wins because when you are exhausted it's really hard to find motivation for doing something that can likely and probably will make you extremely frustrated.

In this potluck episode, Scott and Wes talk home electicity, and then answer your questions about native web components, JS class mixins, JavaScript for marketers, managing application secrets, and more!

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00:10 Welcome
01:09 Sponsor: Sentry
02:18 Electrical house update
Klien Wirestrippers
07:45 Custom Syntax podcast browser
Custom Syntax browser
09:29 When using browser native web components (i.e. extends HTMLElement), should the whole application be wrapped in a component tree similar to how React apps do it?
Deno
Using Web Components with Next or any SSR Framework
16:12 Should I avoid JS/TS class mixins?
21:07 Is it acceptable to have any string value as a value for a CSS custom property?
26:48 Should agencies consider building marketing sites with JS frameworks or is Wordpress still the best option here?
33:56 What are the main things to think about when laying the foundations for an app or project that will hopefully grow into something big?
41:24 Will Javascript skills give me an edge over other local digital marketers?
WordPress
Ghost
46:00 What tool, if any, do you use for publishing packages?
50:19 Do you have any suggestions on how I can find time to code more?
Bit
54:17 how do you both manage your application secrets (API keys, database credentials etc) when deploying to Digital Ocean or Linode?
58:52 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××