In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Tom Pretson-Werner about his work on RedwoodJS, the importance of documentation, and the new Redwood Startup Fund.

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Show Notes

• 00:34 Welcome
• 01:36 Guest introduction
• Tom Preston-Werner on Twitter

Kai’s Power Tools

04:23 Math is weird

07:21 User interface design

08:53 Sponsor: AIOSEO

10:24 What is RedwoodJS?

RedwoodJS

Chatterbug

15:31 Is JavaScript the stack you should be using these days?

18:40 Freedom vs decisions in software

Where Good Ideas Come From

23:10 RedwoodJS docs and video strategy

RedwoodJS Docs

Readme Driven Development

29:13 The tech behind RedwoodJS

Apollo

Storybook

36:20 Sponsor: Shipshape (Whiskey, Web and Whatnot)

36:58 Redwood Startup Fund

The Redwood Startup Fund

42:28 Supper club questions

VS Code

Netlify

Hacker News

RedwoodJS on Discord

RedwoodJS Discourse

RedwoodJS on Twitter

Shameless Plugs

• Scott: LevelUp Tutorials

Wes: Wes Bos Tutorials

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