Whiskey Web and Whatnot: Web Development, Neat

Emerging Tech, a Resource Renaissance, and Embracing Ember with Preston Sego


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A few years into Preston Sego's coding career, a colleague working on increasing interactivity on the company's interface chose Ember for the endeavor. Years later, when Preston began developing his own project, he took his colleague's advice and began testing the waters with Ember as well. 

In 2019, Preston noticed interesting work brewing within Ember. Realizing Ember was adaptable to modern tools, Preston decided to dive back in and start building out a chat app to test the framework. That same year, Preston spoke at EmberConf and eventually landed a job at CrowdStrike where the framework of choice was Ember.

In this episode, Preston talks with Chuck and Robbie about comparing Ember to React without angering either side, why he values Ember resources and has worked to create various libraries, what emerging tech Preston's thrilled to be working on, and what tech Preston's violently against. 

Key Takeaways

  • [01:13] - The origin of Preston's alias. 
  • [03:13] - A whiskey review - Malahat Rye.
  • [10:14] - How Preston got into Ember.
  • [20:09] - The exciting tech projects Preston's working on.
  • [26:21] - What Preston is looking forward to that's coming out soon.
  • [29:13] - What tech Preston is violently against. 
  • [31:17] - A corn-themed whatnot. 
  • [35:04] - Why Preston loves pinochle and boring cereal. 
  • [43:09] - A deep dive on Starcraft. 
  • [47:54] - What retro games Chuck is playing. 
  • Quotes

    [15:04] - "I really like clinical comparisons between things because if you have any emotion whatsoever in a comparison article, you're going to upset one of the sides and you don't wanna do that." ~ Preston Sego [https://twitter.com/nullvoxpopuli]

    [23:10] - "I think the most obvious and beneficial use case [of resources] is for data loading. Just because loading anything Async is a pain." ~ Preston Sego [https://twitter.com/nullvoxpopuli]

    [26:50] - "The rfc is first-class component templates and it solves the biggest complaint that new hires have at my work where people are just like, 'I don't know how to find this thing, how do you find it?'" ~ Preston Sego [https://twitter.com/nullvoxpopuli]

    Links

    • Preston Sego [https://www.linkedin.com/in/lprestonsegoiii/]
    • Preston on Twitter [https://twitter.com/nullvoxpopuli]
    • Malahat Spirits Co. Handcrafted 100% Rye [https://www.malahatspirits.com/rye-whiskey]
    • FineCask [https://finecask.com]
    • Sagamore Spirit [https://sagamorespirit.com]
    • Jack Daniels [https://www.jackdaniels.com/en-us]
    • React [https://reactjs.org]
    • Glimmer [https://glimmerjs.com]
    • Ember [https://emberjs.com]
    • EmberConf [https://2022.emberconf.com]
    • EmberConf 2022 - Keynote Part 1 by Yehuda Katz [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgpnkR-oKec]
    • Rails [https://rubyonrails.org]
    • Slack  [http://www.slack.com]
    • Angular [https://angular.io]
    • Twitter [http://www.twitter.com]
    • TypeScript  [https://www.typescriptlang.org]
    • CrowdStrike [https://www.crowdstrike.com]
    • EmberConf 2019 - Comparing Patterns in React and Ember by Preston Sego [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1IkKWYszzk]
    • Hooks [https://reactjs.org/docs/hooks-intro.html]
    • Starbeam [https://github.com/wycats/starbeam/]
    • SolidJS [https://www.solidjs.com]
    • Vue.js [https://vuejs.org]
    • Remix [https://remix.run]
    • Svelte [https://svelte.dev]
    • See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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