Whiskey Web and Whatnot: Web Development, Neat

Prioritizing the Team Over the Tool with Jason Lengstorf


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Jason Lengstorf built up an audience on YouTube by doing unscripted live coding and sharing his mistakes with his community. He credits his background as a musician and frontman of an emo band for helping him get comfortable with looking foolish in front of people.

As the host of Learn With Jason, he believes there is no right or wrong answer when it comes to choosing a web development tool, as long as the decision is based on the team’s experience and the situation that the tool will enhance. Jason shares his experience and lessons learned at IBM where they allowed teams to use any tool they wanted. This resulted in different parts of the platform being built with different frameworks and the need to standardize.

In this episode, Jason talks to Chuck and Robbie about the importance of choosing the right web development tool for the job, the adoption possibilities for Astro, and what the future holds for open-source developers.

Key Takeaways

  • [00:33] - Introduction to Jason Lengstorf, Host of Learn With Jason.
  • [05:03] - A whiskey review: Heaven Hill Bottled-in-Bond.
  • [15:06] - Jason’s opinion on Tailwind and how to choose the correct web tool.
  • [22:16] - What makes Astro powerful?
  • [29:16] - Funding open-source projects.
  • [44:19] - How Jason feels about Redwood JS.
  • [47:44] - Incorporating TypeScript in personal projects.
  • [50:17] - Jason’s interests in pajama pants and burgers.
  • Quotes

    [15:34] - “You should use whatever you can convince your whole team to use. A lot of the discussion about which tool is right or wrong is sort of missing the forest for the trees.” ~ Jason Lengstorf

    [16:46] - “If you have a group of people who have an expertise or a lack of expertise, then the tools you choose should be polyfilling for where they’re at and allowing them to use their strengths.” ~ Jason Lengstorf

    [20:53] - “The only way that you can really use a tool wrong is if you’re dragging people kicking and screaming against their will into using a tool. You’re just setting yourself up for failure.” ~ Jason Lengstorf

    Links

    • Jason Lengstorf Twitter
    • Jason Lengstorf LinkedIn
    • Learn with Jason
    • Learn with Jason YouTube
    • ErgoDox EZ
    • Heaven Hill Bottled-in-Bond
    • Buffalo Trace Distillery
    • Ezra Brooks Bourbon
    • Evan Williams Bourbon
    • Pappy Van Winkle
    • Febreze
    • Bacardi 151
    • Tailwind CSS
    • JavaScript
    • React JS
    • BEM
    • Netlify
    • IBM Cloud
    • Backbone JS
    • Angular
    • Vue
    • jQuery
    • Astro
    • Gatsby JS
    • Svelte
    • Next JS
    • Internet Explorer
    • Facebook
    • Vercel
    • Remix
    • Preact JS
    • Qwik
    • Jason Miller
    • Andrew Clark
    • Zach Leatherman
    • Eleventy
    • Ryan Carniato
    • Kyle Matthews
    • Render
    • Fly
    • Hydrogen
    • Rich Harris
    • Oracle
    • Tom Preston-Werner
    • Shopify
    • Cloudflare
    • Solid JS
    • Lululemon
    • Red Hat
    • NPM
    • Microsoft
    • Google
    • Homebrew
    • Open Collective
    • Planned Parenthood
    • Redwood JS
    • Rails
    • Tanner Linsley
    • TanStack
    • The Burger Show
    • Hot Ones
    • Nuxt JS
    • Parks and Recreation
    • Amboy
    • Chat GPT
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      • Chuck Carpenter
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