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Description

Puru Vijay joins us. You probably know him from his work on macOS web that made the rounds a while back. He's got a bunch of cool Svelte projects that you'll enjoy hearing more about in this one!

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

Discussion topics

macos Web
Svelte Summit talk - How to migrate React libraries to Svelte
Confetti
Neodrag
Neosvelte (Upcoming, planned), example
The virtual dom is not pure overhead
- https://twitter.com/manucorporat/status/1635309067634876416
- https://svelte.dev/blog/virtual-dom-is-pure-overhead
Dev Vlog with Rich
This week in Svelte
Zero-effort type safety

Unpopular Opinions

Cyclists who cycle in the road when good quality cycle lanes are available, are dickheads. (is this unpopular??)
Storybook is still not there…for me (slots, argTypes)
Puru: More like an unpopular sinful thought: Using React components in Svelte

Picks

Kevin:
- Chained Echoes: https://www.chainedechoes.com
- Liason
- Shrinking
Puru: Attack on Titan season 4 part 3 episode 1 - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2560140/
Brittney: Don’t watch Willow

Spirit in Secular Music, Squid Game and Demonic Possession