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https://codingcat.dev/podcasts/1-8-design-for-developers/ Questions   I noticed you studied Industrial design. How did you find your way to UX or Interaction design? From the team to the community, are there patterns you see in  Opinions on education paths...bootcamps vs. institutions vs. workshops.master’s programs Do you need formal education around UX/UI? What advice would you give to others coming out of school and how to get started into the design side of a web development practice? Resources, tools? If someone not going to school wants to get started, how do you get in the door first? Networking - reaching out to people you admire  Soft Skills (importance of consulting and speaking skills)  Where does your community hang out? Especially after 2020? Meeting community where they platform Why do people thrive in communities? What communities exist or are accessible? Clubhouse Meet ups (local and online) AIGA, IxDA Community events (Code for Good / Givecamp, Global Service Design Jam, Courses / Co-Learning) / Ladies of UX /  What should a designer learn today? Attitude & aptitude  - curiosity & willingness to learn Mentor / find leaders to learn from  Online, self-driven learning (courses, youtube, google) Tools Sketch Figma Miro Adobe Products (Illustrator (SVG), Photoshop) Designers often work together and collaborate, how did this change in 2020? At work? Miro, drawing messy, white board type work. A developer can do the work, but often they need to be led down the path. Do you see this as a designers role, or more of an architect's role? Are mobile designers different from web designers? (platform agnostic?) Multi-modal Physical Design, Interactive Points, how do you manage expectations. What is hardest about being a designer? What is hard about getting started.  (Constraint, confidence & expression), non-stop pitching How can you be creative, but still need to work within a framework? Constraints are helpful  Design systems  What Physical devices are you using? iPad / Wacom Tablet Old school - Sticky notes / Whiteboard / sketchbook  Where can designers get started on the side, for freelance work Dribbble Pinterest Fiverr Instagram 99designs Awwwards  Purrfect Picks Christy Picks Books - Essentialism,  Deep Work Podcast: Peter Merholtz & JessieJames Garret - Finding our way Zoe Picks Design Better - Invision Podcast Headspace Meditation App - Series, Focus Music Elizabeth Picks Squads  https://basecamp.com/shapeup Brittney Postma Wireframe Podcast by Adobe Sackboy Alex Patterson https://config.figma.com/

https://codingcat.dev/podcasts/1-7-socialbee-with-ovi-negrean-and-vlad-hosu Ovi Negrean and Vlad Hosu Links https://socialbee.io/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/ovidiunegrean/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/vladhosu/ https://twitter.com/SocialBeeHQ https://www.facebook.com/socialbee.io/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/socialbee.io/ https://www.instagram.com/socialbeeteam/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGu5RruK-fvI-w3xsA9DYGg Who is Ovi? Co-Founder and Chief Executive Bee Who is Vlad? Co-Founder and Chief Technical Bee What is SocialBee? Social Media Management Tools, Training, and Teams. How did SocialBee get started? https://socialbee.io/about-us/ What kind of technology stack is SocialBee built on? Blog: Preact and Wordpress Application: AngularJS 1.5.7 Did you intend on becoming a SAAS in the beginning when you started? Do you have any API’s that you can integrate into SocialBee so that we could push our content to you instead of relying on RSS feeds? There appears to be a lot that happens on the backend of SocialBee. Are you hosted on AWS, GCP or Azure? Is your scheduling platform completely custom? Do you rely on cron jobs for most of the posting functionality per user? Is it difficult relying on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and now Instagram APIs? Purrfect Picks Ovi Negrean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billions_(TV_series) Vlad Hosu Place Link Here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crown_(TV_series) Alex Patterson https://socialbee.io/concierge/ https://saassummit.user.com/speakers/ovi-negrean/

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/