In this episode our guest, Brad Garropy explains his setup for increasing the developer experience and making his developer experience better. He's created several tools along the pipeline.

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Show Notes

0:00 Introduction
4:08 Rants
5:39 Introducing Brad Garropy
7:39 Developer Tooling
8:50 Dot Files Repo
- Wes Bos's Dot Files
- Brad Garropy's Dot Files
12:38 VS Code Snippets
- Brad's VS Code Snippets
15:19 NPM Packages
26:08 Sponsor: Daily.dev
30:18 YouTube Shorts
32:53 Sponsor: Hashnode
33:39 Code Generation and Generating All Kinds of Things
- Plop
37:57 GitHub Repository Templates
43:55 Picks and Plugs
44:04 Brad's Picks: Oculus Quest 2
46:51 Brad's Pick: Yellowstone
47:26 Brad's Pick: Halo
49:01 Brad's Plugs: Brad Garropy on YouTube
49:39 Amy's Pick: Body Glide
51:09 Amy's Plug: Everything Svelte

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