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Aug 21, 2019 • 1h 37min

APIs are about Policy

Topics include: 1:37 – APIs are about Policy, by Steven Wittens 5:47 – Part 1: RESTless API 49:16 – Part 2: Regressive Web Apps 1:08:19 – Part 3: GraftQL Links: APIs are about Policy, by Steven Wittens
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Aug 7, 2019 • 1h 19min

Object references considered helpful

Topics include: 0:00 – Unique keys for lists in React and Ember 8:40 – Why Handlebars feels safe 9:34 – Solving a stale state React hooks bug, and how Ember avoids this via object references 24:29 – ESPN's website and self-imposed technical constraints 28:10 – React in Codesandbox 36:53 – Tradeoffs between "magic" in a framework vs. learning how to wire things up yourself - especially in a fast-moving ecosystem like JavaScript 50:35 – Hooks vs. components, and clarity in boundaries 53:29 – Pairing with Tuple experience Listener questions: 55:43 – How can you limit FastBoot from turning user-specific bugs into bugs that take down your entire production app? (@davewasmer) 1:10:47 – What's the future of web components? (selbyk) Sponsors: TrueCoach, check out their engineering culture and hiring pages Links: Sam's tweet on list keys in React Codesandbox StaticKit.com Tuple, an app for remote pairing Stencil.js APIs are about policy
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Jul 31, 2019 • 1h 34min

You gotta feel the pain

Topics include: 5:26 – Bringing Mirage to a wider JavaScript audience 17:14 – Setting up tests in Gatsby, and why wiring up boilerplate code is not always bad 28:56 – React's children API, MDX, and template imports in Ember 39:17 – How extracting things in React feels compared to extracting things in Ember 42:30 – React's children, and constraints vs. flexibility 1:05:52 – API design, and letting someone feel the pain rather than telling them they can't do something 1:23:16 - Dynamic vs. static children Sponsors: TrueCoach, check out their engineering culture and hiring pages Links: Mirage.js Tom Dale's tweet on web components
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Jul 18, 2019 • 1h 9min

The burden of high-level APIs

Topics include: 2:45 – Using Gatsby to build miragejs.com 12:05 – Tradeoffs between low-level and high-level APIs 30:21 – Writing Gatsby data providers, and using GraphQL to query Gatsby's content mesh 41:33 – GraphQL vs. REST is wrong 44:16 – API design 58:45 – What's the best architecture for building modern UIs on the web? Sponsors: TrueCoach, check out their engineering culture and hiring pages Links: Mirage.js Gatsby GraphQL
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Jul 11, 2019 • 55min

Are staging environments an anti-pattern?

Topics include: 1:35 – The benefit of no staging environments 10:14 – Using FastBoot without a runtime dependency, and pre-rendered SPAs 17:30 – Sponsor: TrueCoach is hiring! 23:02 – UI feedback, and Designing Fluid Interfaces by Apple 39:24 – Working with custom fonts, and typography lessons learned Sponsors: TrueCoach, check out their engineering culture and hiring pages Links: Percy Visual Regression Testing Launch Darkly Designing Fluid Interfaces, from Apple, WWDC 2018 The Inter typeface Refactoring UI
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Jun 26, 2019 • 1h 1min

When libraries go unmaintained

Topics include: 2:44 – What to do if your app depends on an unmaintained addon 26:15 – The workflow of designers who are also coders 32:31 – Why the status quo of web tooling is insufficient for multi-app workflows 41:46 – Side effects in React and Ember, and how Hooks help authors avoid making API mistakes Links: Ember CLI Deprecation Workflow Adopted Ember Addons Matthew Beale's tweet on improving library APIs
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Jun 19, 2019 • 52min

Microscopic Frontends

Topics include: 0:00 – Playing with React JS Using React after working with Ember for 5 years React's onboarding experience Why early success matters for OSS adoption 15:44 – Micro Frontends Comparison with service-oriented architecture Our experience using micro frontends at TED The tradeoffs that matter most to us 47:56 – Call for conversation: Ember-turned-React dev Links: Micro Frontends, by Cam Jackson
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Jun 5, 2019 • 56min

Open source isn't free

Topics include: 3:50 – Opinions on DHH's 2019 RailsConf keynote about sustainable open source 23:28 – Keeping tests dumb, dynamic tests, and TDD workflow tradeoffs 36:31 – Octane is not ready, and our conservative approach to adopting new tech 47:50 – Tailwind 1.0 53:23 – New series: Ember Animated Links: DHH's 2019 RailsConf keynote Crash Log podcast Robert Jackson's #EmberJS2019 blog post EmberMap's new series on Ember Animated series
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May 29, 2019 • 1h 6min

Katie Gengler on the tech and processes that power the Ember community

Topics include: 2:26 - Ember's 2019 Call for Blog Posts, and a retro on last year's call 7:50 - Why Katie's looking forward to Embroider, Ember Data, and updates to the Router 10:52 - What the process is for "finishing" Octane 14:37 - Katie's experience on the Steering Committee 18:02 - The infrastructure behind Ember Try and Ember Observer 34:18 - Common anti-patterns in apps, like deeply nested components 39:18 - Katie's preference for acceptance tests over unit tests in UI development 42:50 - Katie's stack of choice for a brand new app 44:58 - A look into Ember Observer's Code Search feature 58:06 - How much test coverage there is across Ember's OSS Addons Links: Katie on Twitter Code All Day, Katie's consultancy Ember's 2019 Roadmap: Call for Blog Posts Ember Observer Ember Observer's Code Search by Michelle Santarsiero google/codesearch
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May 22, 2019 • 49min

Stateless development environments

Topics include: 4:25 – Causes of burnout other than overwork 9:02 – Finalizing Mirage 1.0 10:42 – Keeping your development environment stateless 21:00 - Unified APIs for backend and frontend data queries 42:28 – Tailwind 1.0 Links: Copy Paste Repeat Ep. 18 Twitter conversation between Trek and Sam on shared UI models Sam on Twitter Ryan on Twitter

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