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Colby Fayock joins the show to talk about his developer background, experience as a Content Creator, and his role as a Developer Advocate at Cloudinary.

daily.dev is where developers grow together. It provides a community-based feed of the best developer news, helping you stay up-to-date. daily.dev aggregates hundreds of sources every few minutes and creates a personal feed for you according to your interests, whether it’s web dev, data science, or Elixir. Anything you might be interested in, it has the content for you.

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Creating a developer blog is crucial in creating an online presence for yourself. It’s proof of work for your future employer. Hashnode makes it easy to start a blog in seconds on your custom domain for free. It’s fully optimized for developers and supports writing in Markdown, rich embeds, publishing from GitHub repository, syntax highlighting, and edge caching with Next.js blogs deployed on Vercel. On top of these, Hashnode is free from paywall, ads, and sign-up prompts.

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• 00:00:00 - Intro
• 00:00:58 - Colby's Intro and Background
• 00:03:01 - Colby Background and Content Creation
• 00:06:16 - Wordpress Development and Why It's Still Relevant
• 00:09:23 - Favorite Wordpress Hosts
• 00:11:50 - Security Concerns with Wordpress as a Headless CMS
• 00:12:57 - Headless eCommerce
• 00:16:26 - Thought Leadership and Being an "Influencer"
• 00:18:05 - Creating Accessible Content
• 00:21:48 - How We Plan Content
• 00:22:35 - Updating Outdated Content
• 00:25:45 - Colby's Role as Developer Advocate at Cloudinary
• 00:28:17 - Cloudinary Features
• 00:32:24 - Cloudinary and Wordpress Integration
• 00:39:50 - Colby's Astro Brand Explained
• 00:40:57 - Community Shoutouts
• 00:41:42 - Colby Rant on Moving Past Your Initial Barrier to Entry

In this episode, Amy talks through the details of Dev Operations and setting up a CI/CD (Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment) pipeline on a recent project, using RedwoodJS, Husky, Postgres, Render, and GitHub Integrations.

ZEAL is a computer software agency that delivers “the world’s most zealous” and custom solutions. The company plans and develops web and mobile applications that consistently help clients draw in customers, foster engagement, scale technologies, and ensure delivery.

ZEAL believes that a business is “only as strong as” its team and cares about culture, values, a transparent process, leveling up, giving back, and providing excellent equipment. The company has staffers distributed throughout the United States, and as it continues to grow, ZEAL looks for collaborative, object-oriented, and organized individuals to apply for open roles.

For more information visit codingzeal.com

Vercel combines the best developer experience with an obsessive focus on end-user performance. Their platform enables frontend teams to do their best work. It is the best place to deploy any frontend app. Start by deploying with zero configuration to their global edge network. Scale dynamically to millions of pages without breaking a sweat.

For more information, visit Vercel.com

DatoCMS is a complete and performant headless CMS built to offer the best developer experience and user-friendliness in the market. It features a rich, CDN-powered GraphQL API (with realtime updates!), a super-flexible way to handle dynamic layouts and structured content, and best-in-class image/video support, with progressive/LQIP image loading out-of-the-box."

For more information, visit datocms.com

• 00:00 Introduction
• 03:40 Amy's Rant On Work Life Balance
• 06:56 What is DevOps?
• 08:11 James Alternative Definition of DevOps
• 10:37 DevOps Workflows of the Past
• 13:00 CI/CD Pipelines + Vercel
• 14:17 Sponsor: Vercel
• 15:24 Amy's Experience with Redwood.js
• 16:35 Readme.so
• 17:12 Project Environments and Setup With Docker
• 21:32 Project Setup - Github Projects, Github Actions, Kent C. Dodds Testing Trophy, etc.
• 30:47 Hosting With Render
• 35:01 Database Best Practices with Shipping Code
• 36:43 Sponsor: DatoCMS
• 37:37 Deploy Previews with Render Based on Github PRs
• 44:01 Deploy Redwood.js on Render (Documentation)
• 45:11 Sponsor: ZEAL
• 45:57 Heroku Github Integration Issues
• 49:39 Grab Bag Questions Section
• 50:08 Picks and Plugs
• 52:52 James's Plug - Top 5 Struggles of a Developer Advocate
• 53:44 Create a SvelteKit Blog With Markdown Files
  • MDsvex
• 57:03 Amy's Plug - Hashnode
• 57:44 Amy's Pick - Matthew McConaughey's book, Greenlights

In this episode, James shares all the juicy details about Developer Relations / Developer Advocacy / Technical Evangelism and all the things that happen behind the scenes.

ZEAL is a computer software agency that delivers “the world’s most zealous” and custom solutions. The company plans and develops web and mobile applications that consistently help clients draw in customers, foster engagement, scale technologies, and ensure delivery.

ZEAL believes that a business is “only as strong as” its team and cares about culture, values, a transparent process, leveling up, giving back, and providing excellent equipment. The company has staffers distributed throughout the United States, and as it continues to grow, ZEAL looks for collaborative, object-oriented, and organized individuals to apply for open roles.

For more information visit codingzeal.com

Vercel combines the best developer experience with an obsessive focus on end-user performance. Their platform enables frontend teams to do their best work. It is the best place to deploy any frontend app. Start by deploying with zero configuration to their global edge network. Scale dynamically to millions of pages without breaking a sweat.

For more information, visit Vercel.com

DatoCMS is a complete and performant headless CMS built to offer the best developer experience and user-friendliness in the market. It features a rich, CDN-powered GraphQL API (with realtime updates!), a super-flexible way to handle dynamic layouts and structured content, and best-in-class image/video support, with progressive/LQIP image loading out-of-the-box."

For more information, visit datocms.com

• 0:00 Introduction
• 2:50 "Not" Parenting Rant
• 3:56 Spending Time with Remix
• 5:14 Remix vs Next.js
• 7:09 Remix vs Next.js Article
• 9:01 How James Got His First Developer Advocacy Role
• 12:10 Sponsor: Vercel
• 13:18 Working at Microsoft as a Technical Evangelist
• 18:17 Why Content Creation is Important
• 19:54 Difference Between Technical Evangelism and Developer Advocacy
• 22:05 Tech Is More Than Just Software Development
• 23:00 Sponsor: DatoCMS
• 23:54 Moving to New York City
• 24:50 The Impact of Student Hackathons
• 27:22 James Meets Tom Holland
• 31:04 Learn Build Teach
• 31:28 Speaking in Public
• 34:20 Sponsor: ZEAL
• 35:05 Technical Experience at FedEx
• 40:10 Transitioning Back to Developer Advocacy
• 42:23 Downside of Developer Advocacy
• 47:34 Grab Bag Questions
• 47:46 What are two challenges faced by developer advocates?
• 42:10 What has been the hardest challenge when building a community and how did you address it? What do you like the most and the least about Developer Advocacy?
• 55:44 What advice would you give to become a Developer Advocate?
• 56:36 How much time do you spend building stuff versus marketing versus documentation?
• 58:14 Picks and Plugs
• 52:24 James's Pick: Ryobi Battery Powered Weed-Eater
• 1:00:10 James's Pick: James Q Quick on YouTube 
• 01:00:21 Amy's Pick - Book: Story Worthy
• 01:01:15 Amy's Plug: SelfTeach.me on Twitch

Our featured guest for this episode is Nadar Dabit. He explains blockchain, decentralization, Web3, its future, volatility, and how you might get started in this space.

daily.dev is where developers grow together. It provides a community-based feed of the best developer news, helping you stay up-to-date. daily.dev aggregates hundreds of sources every few minutes and creates a personal feed for you according to your interests, whether it’s web dev, data science, or Elixir. Anything you might be interested in, it has the content for you.

Check out daily.dev

Creating a developer blog is crucial in creating an online presence for yourself. It’s proof of work for your future employer. Hashnode makes it easy to start a blog in seconds on your custom domain for free. It’s fully optimized for developers and supports writing in Markdown, rich embeds, publishing from GitHub repository, syntax highlighting, and edge caching with Next.js blogs deployed on Vercel. On top of these, Hashnode is free from paywall, ads, and sign-up prompts.

Hashnode is a community of developers, engineers, and people in tech. Your article gets instant readership from their growing community.

Check out Hashnode, and join the community.

• 0:00 Introduction
• 0:31 Nader Dabit Intro and Working in Dev Rel
• 4:19 What is web3 and why the shift to web3?
• 10:12 Sponsor: Hashnode
• 10:58 GraphQL in Web3
• 12:23 What Does Decentralized Mean?
• 16:33 The Business Model of Web3
• 18:20 What is the Blockchain
• 25:46 Sponsor: Daily.dev
• 26:47 Volatility in Web3
• 29:07 The Difficulty of Finding Developers in the Web3 Space
• 30:04 Nader's Thoughts on the Future
• 34:04 How Web3 Affects Content Creators
• 35:14 Wrap Up

In this episode, Amy shares her experience with working with Storybook, the pros and cons, and how it's changed her developer workflow.

ZEAL is a computer software agency that delivers “the world’s most zealous” and custom solutions. The company plans and develops web and mobile applications that consistently help clients draw in customers, foster engagement, scale technologies, and ensure delivery.

ZEAL believes that a business is “only as strong as” its team and cares about culture, values, a transparent process, leveling up, giving back, and providing excellent equipment. The company has staffers distributed throughout the United States, and as it continues to grow, ZEAL looks for collaborative, object-oriented, and organized individuals to apply for open roles.

For more information visit codingzeal.com

Vercel combines the best developer experience with an obsessive focus on end-user performance. Their platform enables frontend teams to do their best work. It is the best place to deploy any frontend app. Start by deploying with zero configuration to their global edge network. Scale dynamically to millions of pages without breaking a sweat.

For more information, visit Vercel.com

DatoCMS is a complete and performant headless CMS built to offer the best developer experience and user-friendliness in the market. It features a rich, CDN-powered GraphQL API (with realtime updates!), a super-flexible way to handle dynamic layouts and structured content, and best-in-class image/video support, with progressive/LQIP image loading out-of-the-box."

For more information, visit datocms.com

• 0:00 Introduction
  • Episode 32 - Getting Started with TypeScript
• 7:17 Quick Rant: Wired Headphones
• 8:49 Design Systems
  • Episode 46 - Everything You Ever Wanted to know about Design Systems
  • Bootstrap
  • Zurb Foundation
• 10:36 Supports Multiple Libraries and Frameworks
• 12:28 Sponsor: ZEAL
• 13:13 How do you enter all the information into Storybook?
  • Frontend Masters: Design Systems with React & Storybook - Emma Bostian
• 18:24 Storybook in the Wild: Building out Frontend Components for Backend Developers
  • Episode 54 - Why RedwoodJS is the App Framework for Startups with David Price Redwood.js with David Price
• 22:17 Comparing Storybook to Testing
• 25:31 Sponsor: Vercel
• 26:39 Breaking Down a Component
• 29:29 Add-Ons with Storybook
• 31:28 Storybook and Figma Integration
• 31:46 Sponsor: DatoCMS
• 32:40 Do you use Storybook at work?
• 33:39 Do you think Redwood is an option that you'll use more of going forward? Or, do you think Storybook is something that you implement outside of Redwood in some of your existing setups?
• 35:05 Is Redwood something teams should be looking at for new projects?
• 36:32 Grab Bag Questions
• 39:16 Picks and Plugs
• 39:26 James's Pick: Spike Ball
• 41:07 James's Plug: TikTok
• 42:25 Amy's Pick: PARA Method
• 43:42 Amy's Plug: Everything Svelte

In this episode, James shares common mistakes people make with their API Keys and explains the appropriate way to handle them.

Vercel combines the best developer experience with an obsessive focus on end-user performance. Their platform enables frontend teams to do their best work. It is the best place to deploy any frontend app. Start by deploying with zero configuration to their global edge network. Scale dynamically to millions of pages without breaking a sweat.

For more information, visit Vercel.com

ZEAL is a computer software agency that delivers “the world’s most zealous” and custom solutions. The company plans and develops web and mobile applications that consistently help clients draw in customers, foster engagement, scale technologies, and ensure delivery.

ZEAL believes that a business is “only as strong as” its team and cares about culture, values, a transparent process, leveling up, giving back, and providing excellent equipment. The company has staffers distributed throughout the United States, and as it continues to grow, ZEAL looks for collaborative, object-oriented, and organized individuals to apply for open roles.

For more information visit softwareresidency.com/careers

DatoCMS is a complete and performant headless CMS built to offer the best developer experience and user-friendliness in the market. It features a rich, CDN-powered GraphQL API (with realtime updates!), a super-flexible way to handle dynamic layouts and structured content, and best-in-class image/video support, with progressive/LQIP image loading out-of-the-box."

For more information, visit datocms.com

• 0:00 Introduction
  • YouTube Video RE: Mistakes People Make with API Keys
• 6:42 API Keys
• 7:37 Where do API Keys come from?
• 8:57 Mistakes People Make with API Keys
• 9:10 Mistake #1: Hard Coding the API Key Value
• 11:45 Sponsor: Vercel
• 12:53 Mistake #2: Adding an API Key to the .env file, but still exposing the key
• 16:20 Mistake #3: Committing Your Key to Source Control
• 17:59 What should you do about a leaked API key?
• 19:38 Using .gitignore
• 21:20 The Best Way to Handle Secrets
• 22:57 Serverless Functions
  • Episode 57 - Authentication and Authorization and other Buzz Words
• 29:55 Sponsor: ZEAL
• 30:41 Where would you put a Bearer Token?
• 31:40 Server Side Rendering
• 33:49 Public API Keys
• 37:20 Sponsor: DatoCMS
• 38:13 Grab Bag Questions
• 38:24 What's the best way to share environmental variables across different machines?
• 38:35 What are the pros and cons of system environmental variables vs a KMS (Key Management System)?
• 40:34 Picks and Plugs
• 40:44 James's Pick: Sketcher's Tennis Shoes from Costco
• 44:54 James's Plug: YouTube Video - 10 Things JavaScript Developers Have Stopped Doing
• 45:26 Amy's Picks: James Clear 3-2-1 Newsletter
  • Atomic Habits, by James Clear
• 46:14 Amy's Pick: Keystone.js on Level Up Tutorials

In this episode, the tables are turned and you get a different perspective. Sunjay Armstead, is a UI/UX Designer and Developer at ZEAL. Here, he interviews Amy and asks her about leading a team and being a female in the tech industry.

daily.dev is where developers grow together. It provides a community-based feed of the best developer news, helping you stay up-to-date. daily.dev aggregates hundreds of sources every few minutes and creates a personal feed for you according to your interests, whether it’s web dev, data science, or Elixir. Anything you might be interested in, it has the content for you.

Check out daily.dev

Creating a developer blog is crucial in creating an online presence for yourself. It’s proof of work for your future employer. Hashnode makes it easy to start a blog in seconds on your custom domain for free. It’s fully optimized for developers and supports writing in Markdown, rich embeds, publishing from GitHub repository, syntax highlighting, and edge caching with Next.js blogs deployed on Vercel. On top of these, Hashnode is free from paywall, ads, and sign-up prompts.

Hashnode is a community of developers, engineers, and people in tech. Your article gets instant readership from their growing community.

Check out Hashnode, and join the community.

• 0:00 Introduction
• 2:05 What can beginners do to prepare to work on a design / dev team?
• 5:05 Contributing to Open Source
  • Brian Douglas
• 9:58 Sponsor: Hashnode
• 10:43 What have you learned to so far about leading a team? Challenges, frustrations, highlights?
• 13:36 What ways have you seen your team help you get better?
• 17:33 How do you know what's genuine, constructive critique vs unfounded opinion?
• 19:38 Are there other ways that you can make a design objective?
• 21:11 Sponsor: Daily.dev
• 22:12 What ways has the industry improved and what things still need attention?
• 25:28 What are some of the things that your bosses and coworkers have done right that has been inclusive and that helps you feel part of the team?
• 27:46 What do you do to attend to the different areas of your life?

In this episode, James explains how to apply to speak at conferences, how to properly prepare for a speaking engagement, and how to get started.

Vercel combines the best developer experience with an obsessive focus on end-user performance. Their platform enables frontend teams to do their best work. It is the best place to deploy any frontend app. Start by deploying with zero configuration to their global edge network. Scale dynamically to millions of pages without breaking a sweat.

For more information, visit Vercel.com

ZEAL is a computer software agency that delivers “the world’s most zealous” and custom solutions. The company plans and develops web and mobile applications that consistently help clients draw in customers, foster engagement, scale technologies, and ensure delivery.

ZEAL believes that a business is “only as strong as” its team and cares about culture, values, a transparent process, leveling up, giving back, and providing excellent equipment. The company has staffers distributed throughout the United States, and as it continues to grow, ZEAL looks for collaborative, object-oriented, and organized individuals to apply for open roles.

For more information visit softwareresidency.com/careers

DatoCMS is a complete and performant headless CMS built to offer the best developer experience and user-friendliness in the market. It features a rich, CDN-powered GraphQL API (with realtime updates!), a super-flexible way to handle dynamic layouts and structured content, and best-in-class image/video support, with progressive/LQIP image loading out-of-the-box."

For more information, visit datocms.com

• 0:00 Introduction
• 5:06 Why speak at conferences?
• 9:12 Sponsor: Vercel
• 10:19 How would you recommend getting started?
• 15:41 How do you Apply to Speak at a Conference?
• 25:56 Sponsor: DatoCMS
• 27:03 Prepping
  • Nancy Duarte Slideology
  • Nancy Duarte - Resonate
  • Nancy Duarte
• 34:47 Tip: Ask for Feedback
• 35:28 Tip: Make It Interactive
• 38:39 Tip: Don't sell a Product
• 40:00 Tip: Present your Niche at an "Unrelated Conference"
• 41:07 Tip: Confidently say "I'm a Content Creator."
• 42:12 Tip: Create Other Content out of your Conference Talk
• 42:44 Tip: Network as much as Possible
• 47:32 Sponsor: ZEAL
• 48:18 What Other Benefits are there from Speaking?
• 51:04 Grab Bag Questions
• 51:13 Question #1: What was your path to speaking at your first conference? How did you know you were ready? How do you go about picking a topic? What lessons have you learned?
• 54:24 Question #2: What about your defining your audience makes speaking at Tech Conferences challenging?
• 55:59 Question #3: What do you consider when preparing for a CFP and how do you make your proposal stand out from all the other ones? How do you overcome anxiety before speaking? Would it be OK to have a script or a cheat sheet ready?
• 58:17 Question #4: What would you do as a conference attendee and speaker like to see more or less of?
• 1:00:00 Picks and Plugs
• 1:00:32 Amy's Pick: HyperVolt Massage Gun
• 1:02:52 Amy's Plug: Learn Build Teach Discord
• 1:03:12 James's Pick: Dog Training Clicker
• 1:05:19 James's Plug: James on YouTube

In this episode our guest, Brad Garropy explains his setup for increasing the developer experience and making his developer experience better. He's created several tools along the pipeline.

daily.dev is where developers grow together. It provides a community-based feed of the best developer news, helping you stay up-to-date. daily.dev aggregates hundreds of sources every few minutes and creates a personal feed for you according to your interests, whether it’s web dev, data science, or Elixir. Anything you might be interested in, it has the content for you.

Check out daily.dev

Creating a developer blog is crucial in creating an online presence for yourself. It’s proof of work for your future employer. Hashnode makes it easy to start a blog in seconds on your custom domain for free. It’s fully optimized for developers and supports writing in Markdown, rich embeds, publishing from GitHub repository, syntax highlighting, and edge caching with Next.js blogs deployed on Vercel. On top of these, Hashnode is free from paywall, ads, and sign-up prompts.

Hashnode is a community of developers, engineers, and people in tech. Your article gets instant readership from their growing community.

Check out Hashnode, and join the community.

• 0:00 Introduction
• 4:08 Rants
• 5:39 Introducing Brad Garropy
• 7:39 Developer Tooling
• 8:50 Dot Files Repo
  • Wes Bos's Dot Files
  • Brad Garropy's Dot Files
• 12:38 VS Code Snippets
  • Brad's VS Code Snippets
• 15:19 NPM Packages
  • Brad's NPM Packages
  • http
  • Labman
• 26:08 Sponsor: Daily.dev
• 30:18 YouTube Shorts
• 32:53 Sponsor: Hashnode
• 33:39 Code Generation and Generating All Kinds of Things
  • Plop
• 37:57 GitHub Repository Templates
• 43:55 Picks and Plugs
• 44:04 Brad's Picks: Oculus Quest 2
• 46:51 Brad's Pick: Yellowstone
• 47:26 Brad's Pick: Halo
• 49:01 Brad's Plugs: Brad Garropy on YouTube
• 49:39 Amy's Pick: Body Glide
• 51:09 Amy's Plug: Everything Svelte

This episode features Allan Villa. He transitioned into tech by teaching himself how to code in seven months and then landed his first job in tech.

Vercel combines the best developer experience with an obsessive focus on end-user performance. Their platform enables frontend teams to do their best work. It is the best place to deploy any frontend app. Start by deploying with zero configuration to their global edge network. Scale dynamically to millions of pages without breaking a sweat.

For more information, visit Vercel.com

ZEAL is a computer software agency that delivers “the world’s most zealous” and custom solutions. The company plans and develops web and mobile applications that consistently help clients draw in customers, foster engagement, scale technologies, and ensure delivery.

ZEAL believes that a business is “only as strong as” its team and cares about culture, values, a transparent process, leveling up, giving back, and providing excellent equipment. The company has staffers distributed throughout the United States, and as it continues to grow, ZEAL looks for collaborative, object-oriented, and organized individuals to apply for open roles.

For more information visit softwareresidency.com/careers

DatoCMS is a complete and performant headless CMS built to offer the best developer experience and user-friendliness in the market. It features a rich, CDN-powered GraphQL API (with realtime updates!), a super-flexible way to handle dynamic layouts and structured content, and best-in-class image/video support, with progressive/LQIP image loading out-of-the-box."

For more information, visit datocms.com

• 0:00 Introduction
• 1:05 Introducing Allan Vila
• 6:20 What curriculum did you use to learn?
• 8:06 100 Devs
  • #100Devs
  • Show Your Work
• 13:10 Sponsor: Vercel
• 14:18 Where did you get started when you were trying to learn?
• 18:23 Preferred Method of Styling
  • CSS Tricks - Specifics on Specificity
• 24:53 Sponsor: ZEAL
• 25:38 Working on Personal Projects
• 30:37 Leveraging Code
• 34:59 Sponsor: DatoCMS
• 35:52 Blogging
  • A Hired Imposter's Secrets
• 42:11 Dropping Bars
• 45:17 Pineapple Pizza