3 Minutes with Kent

3 Minutes with Kent episodes:

• 06.10.2021

  Prisma is amazing

  Hey there friends. So yesterday I was just a fanboying I guess about Prisma. If you haven't heard of Prisma, it is a Oh what does that? It's ORN, I can't remember what what the word for that is but it interfaces between...

  
• 06.08.2021

  Using ScriptKit to easily upload images to @cloudinary

  https://github.com/johnlindquist/kit/discussions/310 https://www.scriptkit.com/ Hello friends. So this morning, I finished something that I was working on a little bit yesterday. It's a script kit script to call Cloud Nary upload which allows me to very easily upload images to my cloud nary account. It uses the...

  
• 06.07.2021

  Avoid Hasty Abstractions: Hooks edition

  Hello friends, so I wanted to talk today about whether or not you should make a custom hook for everything. So a few days ago, maybe last week there was this thing going around where people were recommending that you never ever use...

  
• 06.04.2021

  performance.mark and performance.measure for improved DevTools profiling

  https://stackoverflow.com/a/46780568/971592 Hello there friends. Sorry, it's been a little bit of a break but I was working on something and I wanted to measure how fast it was but yeah and so I'm gonna use the Chrome DevTools profiling performance tab to profile it....

  
• 06.02.2021

  Make your DB schema as restrictive as possible for easier migrations

  Hello there friends. Welcome to June I am thinking about Postgres and Prisma and that sort of thing a lot lately because I'm working on my website and doing that sort of thing and one tip that I have for you if...

  
• 05.29.2021

  Fixating on fixing rerenders

  https://kentcdodds.com/blog/fix-the-slow-render-before-you-fix-the-re-render https://kentcdodds.com/blog/colocation https://epicreact.dev/improve-the-performance-of-your-react-forms Hello there friends. So today somebody shared a lightbri with me and I assumed that it was just a library to help you track rerenders. But it turns out it's like a state management library and that helps you avoid rerenders but my...

  
• 05.28.2021

  Keep related utilities in a single file

  Hello there friends, so I was thinking this morning about utilities and you know these little utility functions that we write and we put it in like a utils modular or something and sometimes when we're running these we want to split things...

  
• 05.27.2021

  if statements and "We'll cross that bridge when we come to it"

  Good morning or afternoon or evening friends, I wanted to talk today about a saying that my wife has I think when my kids grow up they're gonna remember my mom always used to say this and and so what she says...

  
• 05.26.2021

  Global gitignore and .ignored files/folders

  Hello there friends So this morning I was just thinking about this little tip that I share with you. It's pretty quick. In my global git ignore, which is located in my home directory dot get ignore underscore global. I have a couple...

  
• 05.25.2021

  docker volume prune

  Hello friends so I mostly recording this one so that I can hopefully not forget it because I was working with doctor yesterday and I don't work with Docker a lot but I'm kind of thinking about in the next version of...

  
• 05.24.2021

  The nuance of promotion, incentives, ulterior motives, and the benefit of the doubt

  Hello there friends, so I've just been thinking about incentives and companies and and the yeah, like what what motivates people to have different opinions and stuff like that. And I want to use myself as an example here because I think it's...

  
• 05.21.2021

  Smart watches, smart rings, and Progressive Web Apps

  Hey there friends. Have you heard of progressive enhancement or progressive web apps? Well, I thought of a real world thing that kind of resembles what this actually means and what it doesn't. So, you know how like there's all these memes of...

  
• 05.20.2021

  TypeScript is testing

  https://kcd.im/trophy https://kentcdodds.com/blog/eliminate-an-entire-category-of-bugs-with-a-few-simple-tools TypeScript is tests. Tests are type script. So type script is just a way to give yourself more confidence. Sure, it helps you in your workflow, it makes you a faster as you're developing because you have autocomplete and stuff like that. And...

  
• 05.19.2021

  TypeScript: Why I prefer `Array<Type>` over `Type[]`

  Good morning or afternoon or whatever it is for you friends, it's morning for me. I wanted to talk about how I type a raise in TypeScript, so there are two ways that I'm aware of that you can type an array...

  
• 05.19.2021

  Don't bundle and minify your published npm packages

  https://twitter.com/kentcdodds/status/1394420201542668289?s=20 So the other day I tweeted about how I really want people to stop minifying and bundling what they send to NPM. And just to clarify I it's fine if you want to minify and bundle as one of the things you...

  
• 05.17.2021

  Sharing server/client validation logic with @remix_run

  Hey friends, so I'm working on this little remix app and just something about remix that I just this so cool the fact that your server and client side code run is written in the same file if in case you didn't...

  
• 05.16.2021

  Tests the tests by making them fail

  https://kentcdodds.com/blog/make-your-test-fail Hello there friends. I'm just driving now. I was thinking about a blog post that I wrote a while ago. I think it was called break your tests or something like that, but the idea is that it's just really easy to...

  
• 05.14.2021

  Cypress Driven Development for recording audio

  Friends I'm out and about today so we might hear some like music in the background and stuff but yeah today I wanted to talk about cypress driven development. I was working on something that I'm working on for the new website where...

  
• 05.13.2021

  The KCD Discord Bot "Thanks" command

  Hello friends So today a friend of mine on the KCD Discord is named Rupert. I'm not sure. I'm pretty sure that's how you say their name. But I created their very first poll request for open source. I wasn't aware it's...

  
• 05.12.2021

  How to prepare for meetings that convince people

  So let's say that you want to convince your coworkers to try a new tech or something like a new library or whatever and you think it's a really good idea but people aren't convinced. So what typically happens is you want...

  
• 05.11.2021

  I use markdown and VSCode for slides

  https://staltz.com/your-ide-as-a-presentation-tool.html Hello friends you may have noticed that sometimes I use my editor as my slides in lots of the talks that I've given over the last few years and that was originally inspired by André Staultz who has the a blog post...

  
• 05.10.2021

  Don't set your ref in your component body

  https://epicreact.dev/the-latest-ref-pattern-in-react Hey your friends. So I get this question of fair amount and so I thought I'd try to answer it and podcast form and the question is why don't why is it not a good idea to set a ref during your...

  
• 05.08.2021

  Don't bring an old problem's solution to a new tool that eliminates that problem

  Hey friends I had an interesting thought this morning. So a lot of people when they start using a new technology like when next was released or when you know a new version of Reactor or or any React library or whatever...

  
• 05.06.2021

  Avoid Context Switching: Use ScriptKit.com

  https://www.scriptkit.com/ https://kentcdodds.com/blog/automation Hey friends So you know how sometimes you do things so many times that you're like you know what I'm just gonna write a script for this and we'll run it and whatever and so I don't have to do this over...

  
• 05.05.2021

  Notes Driven Development

  https://youtube.com/c/RyanFlorence Hey friends So I was watching a live stream from Ryan Florence last night while I was putting my kids to bed They were falling asleep and I was in the room to make sure that they didn't go all whacko and...

  
• 05.04.2021

  Don't Solve Problems, Eliminate Them

  https://twitter.com/kentcdodds/status/1388561641382420480?s=20 Hey friends So a few days ago I tweeted something about like don't solve problems you should eliminate to problems before you try to solve the problem. Something like that. And I've been thinking about this quite a bit recently and probably going...

  
• 05.03.2021

  Write that blog post

  https://kentcdodds.com/blog/solidifying-what-you-learn Hello friends So recently somebody asked on the KCD discord whether they should bother writing a blog post because the topic had already been covered a thousand times by other people who may have more experience in whatever. And I shared with them...

  
• 05.01.2021

  How fast touch typing helps programmers

  https://www.typingtest.com/test.html?minutes=1&textfile=mediumText.txt&mode=sent&result_url=/result.html&bt=0 Hello friends. So this morning in my discord we had a little bit of a conversation about touch typing. One of my friends there asked if they should get into Vim and they were thinking that Vim you can move a little faster...

  
• 04.29.2021

  Watch the Remix Beta Release live stream today

  Live stream link: https://youtu.be/4dOAFJUOi-s Hey friends. So today is an important day for a friend of mine. Our friends of mine Michael Jackson and Ryan Florence are releasing the beta 1.0 release of remix. And if you've been watching my Twitter or just...

  
• 04.28.2021

  I encourage you to get into (burnout free) open source

  Hey friends so I wanted to talk a little bit about open source. I have been doing open source for almost as long as I've been doing software development. And it has been just an enormous benefit to me. I I can't...

  
• 04.27.2021

  Why I love Magic ✨ Login Links

  Hey friends So I am working on a rewrite of my website can see downs.com and one thing that I'm adding is user accounts so you can set up an account and I'm not going to tell you why you might want...

  
• 04.26.2021

  Use Super Simple Starts to learn new things

  Hey friends So some of you may be familiar with my super simple start series of blog posts. I've got like six or seven of those and basically the idea is let's strip down everything else outside of the thing that we're trying...

  
• 04.22.2021

  Trust the process

  Hey folks, so today I want to talk about trust the process which I just barely looked up and apparently it's a slogan used by fans of the NBA's Philadelphia 76ers and now it's just everybody uses this and I use this...

  
• 04.21.2021

  Mock logs in tests

  Hey folks So I have had a couple of in situations when I was writing some tests where I had some code that would give me some sort of warning maybe it's using the invariant module or I'm just doing a console.air...

  
• 04.19.2021

  How to use TypeScript errors to guide your callbacks

  Your friends it's a beautiful day it's Monday and I wanted to share just something that I discovered while I was working on something just kind of an interesting workflow that I've come to start to use and that is if you are...

  
• 04.15.2021

  Neural nets podcast recommendation

  https://youtu.be/gzq5AFCH5jk Hey, you're folks. So today I listened to a podcast interview. It's about 50 minutes on. And it is on a podcast called Tesla daily. I which is a kind of interesting daily podcast about tests huh? But normally it's it's like...

  
• 04.13.2021

  When to use TypeScript's `never` type

  https://twitter.com/kentcdodds/status/1381453907730128900?s=20 Hey friends So last night I tweeted this TypeScript question. When have you used never in a production codebase links to examples welcome? And I failed to mute the conversation and so I ended up waking up the next morning with tons of...

  
• 04.11.2021

  Make the world better by doing this one simple thing

  Clickbait? Yes. Hey folks today, we're gonna go with the untraditional not tech related really podcast so I got my first dose of the modern of vaccine yesterday. I strongly advise that you do the same if you are able all of the...

  
• 04.08.2021

  Should every site be an installable PWA?

  Hey there friends, so I have a question somebody's asking on the KCD office hours channel in discord and I decided this is something that I can answer in the three minutes with Kent alright podcast, so the question is what are my...

  
• 04.06.2021

  Why I no longer use newspaper code structure

  Hey there friends. So a while ago, I wrote well actually several years ago. I wrote a blog post called a newspaper code structure where I described the way that I like to structure my code to basically make it. I don't...

  
• 04.06.2021

  How do I add tests to existing code

  So the last question in this email has to do with how do you know why where to start testing because you're adding testing to an existing project and so most of your tests are actually writing tests for code that exists...

  
• 04.02.2021

  Writing "Testable" React Components

  Hey friends this is another answer to that lengthy email from Poeter I'm not sure how to say that but properly sorry but the question is how do you write code that can be easily tested and they go at length to...

  
• 03.31.2021

  How to know when you're done testing something

  Hey your friends So I am going to for the next couple days answer some questions that I got in an email from somebody. I don't know how to pronounce this name. It looks like pejor or push actor. I'm not sure they're...

  
• 03.30.2021

  Rendering react elements with ifs, ternaries, switches, or object properties

  Hey there friends. So today I'm going to answer a question from Lean or Leon I'm not sure how to say your name sorry but this is asked in the react hooks channel of the discord the KCD discord under the Epic...

  
• 03.27.2021

  Write the code first, then make the abstraction

  CORRECTION: I came up with the concept of "AHA Programming" but I did not come up with the acronym. AHA (pronounced "Aha!" like you just made a discovery) is an acronym I got from (https://twitter.com/cherthedev/status/1112819136147742720) Cher Scarlett (https://twitter.com/cherthedev) which stands...

  
• 03.25.2021

  The future is on the edge

  Hey friends the future is the edge We've got the now-fight edge thing CloudFlare workers things we want to be able to deploy our code and have it run as close to the user as possible. Before it's always just been static files...

  
• 03.23.2021

  Universal remotes: So many use cases it's useless

  What is up friends so this is another one in the real world programming analogies segment I guess so actually a long time ago. I wrote this down as something I could do for a blog post but you know TV remotes...

  
• 03.22.2021

  Create git-ignored playground files in your project

  So one thing that I do, you know, how you like you do something just you've done it forever and then when you show it to somebody they're like blown away like, oh man, what a good idea, whatever nobody is said...

  
• 03.19.2021

  The Diversity of your team is a feature

  Hey friends, so I am at ski resort in Utah right now and they have this kind of a funny story that in the bathroom they have the urinals covered up like every other one covered up for social distancing and a...

  
• 03.18.2021

  Avoid the sunk costs fallacy

  Hey friends, so I was just working on something for the last hour or so and I got to a point where I decided, you know what this I probably shouldn't be doing this like it was an optimization basically. I wanted...