

Full Stack Radio
Adam Wathan
A podcast for developers interested in building great software products. Every episode, Adam Wathan is joined by a guest to talk about everything from product design and user experience to unit testing and system administration.
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Aug 21, 2025 • 1h 16min
153: DHH – Omarchy and Designing Your Own OS on Arch Linux
David Heinemeier Hansen, the creator of Ruby on Rails and CTO at 37signals, discusses his innovative Linux distribution called Omarchy. He shares how he stumbled upon Arch Linux and the unique advantages it offers. Listeners will learn the essentials of setting up a personal Linux system and why development on Arch can be a game changer. DHH also explores software alternatives for creative tasks, emphasizing the freedom of open-source tools, while hilariously detailing the challenges of hardware compatibility along the way.

Jan 28, 2021 • 48min
152: Ben Orenstein - How to Stand Out When Applying for a Job at a Small Company
Topics:Putting yourself in the shoes of the person reviewing your applicationCrafting a high quality application tailored to a specific positionStanding out in a more traditional hiring process by doing something a little extraShowcasing very specific examples of your work instead of asking the person reviewing your application to go hunting for itHaving good questions for the person interviewing youSharing your ideas and what you think the company should be focused onCreating a job for yourself that doesn’t even existProving that you can take ownership of projects and ship them by yourselfShowing off skills you have that aren’t directly related to the jobLinks:Ben on TwitterTupleTailwind Labs job postingsSupporting the show:I decided to stop taking sponsors for the show because I think advertisements are annoying and no one wants to listen to them.If you do want to support the show, the best way to do it is to purchase one of my products: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.

Dec 28, 2020 • 1h 14min
151: DHH – Building HEY with Hotwire
Links:HotwireHEYSupporting the show:I decided to stop taking sponsors for the show because I think advertisements are annoying and no one wants to listen to them.If you do want to support the show, the best way to do it is to purchase one of my products: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.

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Oct 21, 2020 • 59min
150: Secret Screencasting Tips & Behind the Scenes of Tailwind CSS 2.0
Supporting the show:I decided to stop taking sponsors for the show because I think advertisements are annoying and no one wants to listen to them.If you do want to support the show, the best way to do it is to check out our products:Tailwind UI, a collection of professionally designed, fully responsive HTML components built with Tailwind CSS.Statamic 3, Jack's full-featured flat-file CMS, designed for developers and clients alike.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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Oct 7, 2020 • 57min
149: Choosing a Payment Processor, Radical Icons & W3C Hype
Links:Changes to Gumroad's PayPal supportRadical iconsJack's hand-drawn avatarsW3C's CMS Selection ReportSupporting the show:I decided to stop taking sponsors for the show because I think advertisements are annoying and no one wants to listen to them.If you do want to support the show, the best way to do it is to check out our products:Tailwind UI, a collection of professionally designed, fully responsive HTML components built with Tailwind CSS.Statamic 3, Jack's full-featured flat-file CMS, designed for developers and clients alike.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.

Sep 29, 2020 • 60min
148: Accessible Focus Styles, Tailwind Labs on YouTube, and Secret Projects
Supporting the show:I decided to stop taking sponsors for the show because I think advertisements are annoying and no one wants to listen to them.If you do want to support the show, the best way to do it is to check out our products:Tailwind UI, a collection of professionally designed, fully responsive HTML components built with Tailwind CSS.Statamic 3, Jack's full-featured flat-file CMS, designed for developers and clients alike.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.

Sep 23, 2020 • 1h 20min
147: Surviving GitHub Issues, the Statamic 3 Launch Aftermath, Tailwind 1.8, and Headless UI
Supporting the show:I decided to stop taking sponsors for the show because I think advertisements are annoying and no one wants to listen to them.If you do want to support the show, the best way to do it is to check out our products:Tailwind UI, a collection of professionally designed, fully responsive HTML components built with Tailwind CSS.Statamic 3, Jack's full-featured flat-file CMS, designed for developers and clients alike.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.

Sep 4, 2020 • 1h 21min
146: Launching Statamic 3, GitHub Sponsors, Tailwind CSS v1.7, and Preparing for Laracon
Adam and Jack talk about how the Statamic 3 launch went, and adding GitHub Sponsor tiers to the Statamic GitHub organization and what to give people in exchange for sponsoring. They also talk about the new Tailwind CSS v1.7 release, and the new features like gradient support. Finally, they work through some ideas Adam is preparing for his Laracon talk on “Building component libraries with Tailwind CSS”.

Aug 20, 2020 • 1h 16min
145: Statamic 3.0 and Tailwind CSS 2.0
LinksStatamic 3.0Tailwind CSS v1.7.0@90sWWE on Twitter

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Aug 5, 2020 • 1h 25min
144: Gary Bernhardt - TypeScript and Testing
Topics include: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 traditionallyDo 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 dataHow to think about structuring your code to best take advantage of the benefits your type system gives you and minimize the need to write testsPushing conditional logic to the core of your system to reduce the number of tests you need to write at the edgesThe correlation between type errors and behavioral bugs, and how a type system can help you catch mistakes you don't think to test forDo 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 GoBest practices for type-checking within a function in a structural type system like TypeScriptThe power of supporting literal types like true or "active" in addition to traditional typesLinks:Destroy All SoftwareExecute ProgramTypeScript"Are tests necessary in TypeScript?"io-tsTypeScript course on Execute ProgramGary's tweet about unions with literal typesSupporting the show:I decided to stop taking sponsors for the show because I think advertisements are annoying and no one wants to listen to them.If you do want to support the show, the best way to do it is to purchase one of my products: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.


