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The Function Call episodes

December 17, 202131 - 99 Problems But A Desk Aint One (Office setups)
Ever wondered what sort of equipment Austin and Grant have for their office setup? No? Well, we’re going to tell you anyway. We covered desks, chairs, monitor arms, peripherals, audio/video stuff, and more. It’s just as boring as it sounds, but we hope you enjoy it nonetheless. Hey, they can’t all be bangers.
Links:
Ikea standing desk

HisoHu Electric Standing Desk

Standing desk converter

Autonomouse ErgoChair Pro

Ultrawide monitor

WALI Dual Monitor Arm

Master Mouse 3

Alice Keyboard

Kinesis Freestyle2 keyboard

Shure SM-7B Micorphone

Samson Q2U Microphone

Blue snowball iCE Microphone

Dan Clark Audio Aeon2 closed

Cloud Lifter

Radial Workhorse

Radial Mic PreAmp

Drawmer DS101 noise gate

DBX 560a compressor/limiter

Sony RX100 camera
Shout Outs:
Grant - Commit Equipment, dope af MTB jerseys with POCKETS

Astin - Gorilla Ladders
51 min
December 02, 202130 - Getting Abstract with Abstract Syntax Trees
Austin’s been working a lot with build tooling lately. In this episode, he takes Grant on a bit of a journey into the world of build tools and ASTs, or Abstract Syntax Trees. We talk Webpack, Rollup, Vite, Babel, and Acorn JS.
Links:
astexplorer.net

AST on WikiPedia

Acorn JS

Lingua franca

Babel Plugin Handbook

Webpack

Sli.dev
Shout Outs:
Austin - Tucker and Dale vs. Evil & Great British Bake Off

Grant - Egghead.io
54 min
November 27, 202129 - Burnout, Islands Architecture, Rollup, and More
In this episode, Grant and Austin do some eggnog math before chatting about burnout, ES Modules, building plugins for different build tools, interesting thoughts around island architecture and Astro. We went all over the place. Hope you enjoy the journey.
Links:
Lazy loading JS by visibility

Astro.build

Coding escape room
Shout outs:
Grant - Jason Lengstorf on Egghead

Austin - Better Uptime
54 min
October 13, 202128 - Grant Called This One A "Garbage Can Episode"
In this episode, Grant and Austin sit down to chat about the latest tech news that's on their minds. We covered a whole slew of things such as:
Trying to make magic with TS

Cloudflare taking swings at AWS

Dark mode vs light mode

Browser extensions (scary)

VSCode extensions (also scary)

NPM postinstall scripts (extremely scary)
Shoutouts:
Austin:Cloudflare

Grant: bike fitting
50 min
September 21, 202127 - Managing Shared Dependencies Across Projects
In this episode, Grant and Austin discuss some of the trials and tribulations of maintaining the same dependencies across multiple projects. Some topics we cover are Package Registry (NPM/GitHub Packages), Monorepos, Framework-specific tooling, Learna, and Git Submodules.
Links:
NPM

GitHub Packages
Gatsby themes

Learna

Architect by Begin.com

Netlify functions

Webpack Module federation

Git Submodules
Shoutouts:
Austin - The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Grant - Tape measures
49 min
September 02, 202126 - Developing a Senior Engineering Mindset with Amal Hussein
In this episode we had the pleasure of speaking with Amal Hussein about the sorts of things developers can do to level up later in their careers. The game changes as we progress, and she is a fantastic player. We discuss books to read, what to focus on, why Twitter followers means nothing, and everything wrong with Silicon Valley.
Links:
GitLab Career Development
1 hr 13 min
August 27, 202125 - The Data Fetching Landscape
In this episode, we’re getting the band back together to talk about HTTP requests. We cover a little bit about what they are, go into the options we have for making HTTP requests with JavaScript, and explore some libraries that make life easier on us.
Links:
XMLHttpRequest

Fetch

Stale While Revalidate
https://web.dev/stale-while-revalidate/

jQuery

Axios

Node-fetch

cross-fetch

isomorphic-fetch

Got

SWR

GraphQL
Apollo

Relay

React-graphql

Shoutouts:
Grant - Tow hitches

AJ - Professional Movers

Austin - Sarah Scribbles
57 min
August 12, 202124 - The Drawbacks of Experience
Experience makes you a stronger developer, except when it doesnt. Many in the dev community accept the idea that a lack of experience could be a liability on a project, however in a similar way someone with experience can have mental blocks as a result of that experience. We discuss in this episode how experience can influence decisions in a negative way.
Links:
Jira is a truncation of Gojira
Shoutouts:
Austin - “How a Burner Identity Protects Your Inbox, Phone, and Credit Cards” + Sudo

Grant - Modeselektor - Extended
51 min
July 30, 2021Ep 23 - Catching Up on New Things
In this episode, Grant and Austin catch up on some cool new things around web development. Specifically, Vite and Vitedge, a new full-stack framework for "Edge-side rendering". Sparked by that coolness, we explore other rendering patterns such as strict server-side, client-side, static sites (build time), lambda functions, and more. Finally, we end with a silly discussion of frameworks vs libraries.
Links:
Vitedge
Shoutouts:
Austin - Seek by iNaturalist

Grant - shotgun child seat
57 min
July 23, 2021Ep 22 - Let’s Talk About the Environment (Variables)
In this episode, Grant and Austin talk all about environment variables. We cover the difference between private and public variables, how to keep them secure, keeping them in sync across teams, and where to store your precious precious variables. They may be keys, secrets, or just configuration strings, but hopefully this chat sheds some light on the subject for you.
Reference `dotnev` from Jest config:
// jest.config.js
module.exports = {
setupFiles: ['dotenv/config'],
};
Reference `dotenv` from NPM script:
"jest": "node -r dotenv/config ./node_modules/.bin/jest",
"knex": "node -r dotenv/config ./node_modules/knex/bin/cli.js",
Links:
dotenv

Vue-cli

Create react app

Doppler

Hashicorp Vault

GitHub Actions secrets

Netlify build variables
Shoutouts:
Austin: Strava and OMG, SVG Favicons FTW!

Grant: Also Strava
1 hr

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