CodingCat.dev Podcast

https://codingcat.dev/podcasts/1-6-jamstack-handbook-with-colby-fayock/ Colby Fayock Links https://twitter.com/colbyfayock https://www.youtube.com/colbyfayock https://www.twitch.tv/colbyfayock https://github.com/colbyfayock https://dribbble.com/colbyfayock https://www.instagram.com/colbyfayock/ https://www.colbyfayock.com/ Who is Colby Fayock? Colby helps others learn by doing through articles, videos, and courses about Javascript, React, and the static web. He is a Lead UX & Front End Engineer passionate about tackling challenges that can help save people’s lives and make the world a better place. What is Jamstack? Ask Colby some leading questions ;) What is the Jamstack? What makes the Jamstack so great? What are some of the challenges? How can you build a Jamstack site or app? What isn't the Jamstack great at? E-Commerce in the Jamstack Is it WordPress vs the Jamstack? (poke the fire!) Additional Mentioned Links https://auth0.com/ Purrfect Picks Colby Fayock Next.js WordPress Starter - Headless WordPress into a static Next.js app Applitools Eyes GitHub Action - Work in progress, the company I work at Alex Patterson https://www.disneyplus.com/series/wandavision/4SrN28ZjDLwH - WandaVision https://fauna.com/ - Fauna Database Brittney Postma Colbyashi Maru Use Shopping Cart - Nick DeJesus @dayhaysoos

https://codingcat.dev/podcasts/1-5-mdx-with-chris-biscardi/ Chris Biscardi Links https://twitter.com/chrisbiscardi http://www.christopherbiscardi.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopherbiscardi/ github.com/ChristopherBiscardi http://stackoverflow.com/users/740600/chris-biscardi Who is Chris Biscardi? Chris teaches people how to write Rust, work with Serverlesss, and take advantage of the Jamstack. He is an independent consultant with two major products (Toast and Sector) whose talks can be viewed at a variety of conferences such as qcon, gophercon, and more. Chris runs the Party Corgi Network, a community of practice and is an MDX maintainer. I consult in two main areas: * Building teams around specific initiatives (such as building a Design System team). * Applying modern and emerging technologies (GraphQL, CSS-in-JS, K8s/Containerization, JAMStack/GatsbyJS, React) using mainly Golang and JavaScript. What is MDX? https://mdxjs.com/ Markdown for the component era MDX is an authorable format that lets you seamlessly write JSX in your Markdown documents. You can import components, such as interactive charts or alerts, and embed them within your content. This makes writing long-form content with components a blast 🚀. Ask Chris some leading questions ;) Why would you use regular markdown? What makes MDX so powerful? If you have HTML tags in md do they need to be converted to JSX? How do you get compilation at Build Time, if a component is used? How does MDX perform at scale? Digital Garden’s with MDX, what framework would you recommend to get started with one right now? So, you’ve created a new ESM first framework built on Preact called Toast. Is MDX built into it out of the box? https://www.toast.dev/ CodingCat.dev related We are currently using @mdx-js/runtime directly to convert our blog posts from MDX over to output. Is this bad, should we use something like https://github.com/hashicorp/next-mdx-remote instead? Purrfect Picks Chris Biscardi https://bevyengine.org/ https://github.com/swc-project/swc https://github.com/salsa-rs/salsa Alex Patterson https://circle.so/ https://spline.design/ https://www.2021.ng-conf.org/ Brittney Postma Build a Toast Site with MDX and Tailwind - Learn with Jason Party Corgi Network https://partycorgi.com/

https://codingcat.dev/podcasts/1-4-next-js-10-with-guillermo-rauch/ Talking with Guillermo Rauch about Next.js 10 and Vercel. Including plans for 2021.

Purrfect.dev on CodingCat.dev AWS Amplify Admin UI (Alex Intro) Welcome back Purrfect Peeps! Today we are going to talk with René Brandel about AWS Amplify Admin UI. The Amplify Admin UI is a visual interface for frontend web and mobile developers to develop app backends and manage app content outside the AWS Management Console. Teams can use the Admin UI to create and manage enterprise-ready, scalable, and secure cloud backends for their apps. René Brandel René is a Senior Product Manager with Amazon Web Services (AWS). He is currently on the AWS Amplify project. Links René Huangtian Brandel - Senior Product Manager - Technical - Amazon Web Services (AWS) AWS Amplify Admin UI The blog: New AWS Amplify Admin UI Helps You Develop App Backends, No Cloud Experience Required | Amazon Web Services The actual UI: Admin UI basics - Introduction - Amplify Docs **Content May Contain Affiliate Links René’s Background Amplify and René What got you started with Amplify? Helping frontend developers Personally, always inspired on how to write less code for more What would you recommend for a person to get started with Amplify? If you're a frontend web or mobile developer on AWS, then Amplify is the best way to get started Helps developers add cloud-based features to frontend apps Scale out their application as their users grow Focus on the experience instead of worrying about infrastructure setup Amplify Admin UI What's the Amplify Admin UI? Is this something new? Do you need an AWS account to get started? What's so special about the new visual data modeler? GSI’s are always difficult, does this help? (In relation to the data modeler) What are some other major features you can have with the Admin UI? (we can talk about auth) Access outside the AWS Management Console This is amazing but could we talk a little bit about how it works? Is it running on Java somehow, like Firebase emulator? Non-technical users - how do they use it? How does this new Amplify Admin UI work with existing customers? How do they turn it on? CLI users Purrfect Picks (These are fun picks for the week) René Re:invent Sessions: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/mobile/the-aws-reinvent-2020-guide-to-front-end-web-and-mobile/ Alex https://www.twitch.tv/videos/824360476 - Feature Launch on Twitch

Kinsta (Alex Intro) Brian Li, Website Content Manager at Kinsta® Kinsta is a managed WordPress hosting provider that helps take care of all your needs regarding your website. We run our services on cutting-edge technology and take support seriously. Guest Details Brian Li Links brianli.com linkedin.com/in/bwhli **Content May Contain Affiliate Links Why CodingCatDev Switched Hosting Providers https://codingcat.dev/kinsta-saved-codingcatdevs-lms-dream-after-3-others-failed/ General Questions What is the difference between shared hosting, VPS, or dedicated hosting? Why did Kinsta decide to use the shared container approach? https://kinsta.com/blog/google-cloud-hosting/#4-improved-performance?kaid=XIIHFPADWOKE Is this mainly for security, or speed or reliability? Is pricing the biggest deciding factor for moving to GCP? Is this savings passed to the customer? Let's say that GCP gets even cheaper will my bill go down? Performance With CodingCatDev we have LearnDash LMS as well as Buddy Boss, both of these use heavy transactional data, would it be possible to use something faster for the database? What is MariaDB https://mariadb.org/? Why Kinsta? What is the real difference between Kinsta and someone else? Purrfect Picks Brian https://workers.cloudflare.com/sites Alex Kinsta’s Blog is a wealth of information! https://www.apple.com/mac-pro/

Today we are going to talk with Lee Briggs from Pulumi. Pulumi allows you to create modern Infrastructure as Code, using any cloud using familiar programming languages and tools. The BEST part is that Pulumi is 100% open source. Guest Details Lee Briggs Links https://www.linkedin.com/in/briggsl/ General Questions What is Infrastructure as Code (IaC)? Why would you want to adopt IaC? Who made changes to the code Ticket that was linked Collaboration Documentation Does IaC document your infrastructure? Does IaC allow for solid Dev Ops? Pulumi What is Pulumi? What makes Pulumi different than Serverless Framework - https://www.pulumi.com/docs/intro/vs/serverless/ Cloud Formation - https://www.pulumi.com/docs/intro/vs/cloud_templates/ Terraform - https://www.pulumi.com/docs/intro/vs/terraform/ Arm Will IaC take longer? Should it be used for an MVP? How large of a team would you have before using IaC? Is it worth the time to set up if it is just something quick. Is Pulumi good for single code shops that know only a single language? Speed to market is easier. No need to learn markup language How big is the learning curve of IaC? Serverless is YAML Pulumi support “ecosystems” NodeJS Go .Net Purrfect Picks Lee Great examples https://github.com/pulumi/examples https://www.pulumi.com/resources/introduction-to-pulumi?utm_source=codingcat Queen’s Gambit Alex FUN Stuff https://reinvent.awsevents.com/

AWS Amplify Guest Details Nader Dabit Senior Developer Advocate at Amazon Web Services Web and mobile developer specializing in cross-platform & cloud-enabled application development. Links https://www.linkedin.com/in/naderdabit/ https://twitter.com/dabit3 https://dev.to/dabit3/ Questions What is AWS Amplify? Do you see more people using AppSync vs. API Management? We have had a hard time differentiating DynamoDB Scan/Query from what actually gets filtered through AppSync, any perspectives on how to avoid common issues with this? Is there a way to debug using `amplify mock function` in VSCode with 4.18.0?? Do you recommend using Cloudfront to serve S3 images for your Amplify hosted site? Future I know the video plugin is coming along, are there any other cool features coming out for Amplify that people should know about? Purrfect Picks Nader https://www.amazon.com/Flash-Boys-Wall-Street-Revolt/dp/0393351599 https://www.amazon.com/Autobiography-Malcolm-Told-Alex-Haley/dp/0345350685 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCv75sKQFFIenWHrprnrR9aA Alex Amplify Video Tutorial for VOD https://github.com/awslabs/unicornflix

Becoming a Tutorial Expert Guest Details Jeff Delaney Creator of https://fireship.io/ , https://angularfirebase.com/ , https://www.youtube.com/c/angularfirebase Jeff currently has 275k subscribers on YouTube and growing. He is also a Google Developer Expert in both Angular and Firebase. Links https://jeffdelaney.me/ https://www.kaggle.com/jeffd23 https://github.com/codediodeio https://twitter.com/Jeffdelaney23 Questions First talk to me about this Kaggle thing, what is it? Did you get started on tutorials because of https://codediode.io/ ? What made you start angular firebase, which eventually became fireship? Did you ever think you would be able to make a career out of making Tutorials? I have been a lifetime Pro Member on your channel and have never regretted it for a minute, it has helped push me as a dev expert and taught me countless things I didn’t know. What do you think it is that makes your tutorials so easy to digest? At this point what do you think you like doing more Creating code Creating vids I am trying to find out how to become a GDE in 2020, I know you have a whole video on what it took to find that path. https://youtu.be/IDZyZMYn3H0 What do you think is the biggest part of becoming a GDE: Tutorials Public Speaking Meetups Future Do you think Flutter will continue to grow as fast as it has? Do you think Angular 9 (Ivy) is a game changer? Random Thoughts I noticed that we are both PADI certified, we need to plan a trip! Purrfect Picks Alex Jeff’s 100 seconds of Code https://youtu.be/DC471a9qrU4 Jeff ML powered background removal app https://remove.bg

Cloudinary Guest Details Tessa Mero Developer Advocate at Cloudinary Get to know Tessa So you went to school in Washington correct? It seems like you have always been involved with helping people around technology whether teaching or evangelizing for an organization, what started that for you? You travel a lot, is it mostly for fun or the job? Cloudinary Questions How did you get started at Cloudinary? What is it like being a developer advocate for Cloudinary? How big is the staff that keeps the SDKs up to date? You recently took over the MDE (Media Developer Experts) program, was this a big shift for you? I feel like Cloudinary is very unique in the industry, do you know of any direct competitors? ImageKit... Random We met at Refactor.Tech and you took me to my first Korean BBQ, it seems like you have been ordering that stuff your whole life. So what is your favorite Korean BBQ dish? Purrfect Picks Tessa https://www.stackbit.com/ Alex https://www.sanity.io/plugins/sanity-plugin-asset-source-cloudinary`

Scully.io Guest Details Aaron Frost - Web Architect, ng-conf Oganizer, Google Dev Expert, Podcaster, and Ice-fisherman-extraordinaire. https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaronfrost/ Who is Aaron Frost? Tell us a little bit about yourself? Do you really like Tacos as much as I have heard? I have to know what led you to start one of the largest Angular conferences ever? Scully.io https://github.com/scullyio/scully/blob/master/README.md https://github.com/scullyio/scully/blob/master/docs/getting-started.md So did Mulder come up with this name? Where you watching XFiles when trying to come up with a name? Will Angular 9 / Ivy be supported? Will it work with Angular Elements? Can I still have lazy Loaded Routes / Auth Guards? Will I run into weird “window” items like I have in Gatsby? Static Site Generator What is a SSG? How does it differ from a SSR? Why has it taken the Angular community so long to have a SSG? Will Scully.io be able to compete with Gatsby and Vuepress? Random Question Do Aliens Exist? Purrfect Picks Aaron https://www.lastpodcastontheleft.com/ Alex P. https://www.ng-conf.org/ https://www.stackbit.com/