Web Dev Weekly

Notes

Brad and Richard recap their first year of podcasting. They review the top five episodes, share a bit about the numbers, and talk about future plans.

Web Dev Weekly will be going on a break in December 2021 to recharge for 2022!

Links

https://svelte.dev/ (Svelte)

https://svelte-cubed.vercel.app/ (Svelte Cubed)

https://www.pocketcasts.com/ (Pocket Casts)

https://castro.fm/ (Castro)

https://webdevweekly.netlify.app/ (New Web Dev Weekly Website) (under construction)

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Notes

Richard shares how his early adoption of technology and his college professor father raised him to be a successful programmer at an early age. He then goes on to share his varied career path to his current job at a FAANG company.

Links

https://www.amazon.com/Even-More-Excellent-Reference-Guide-dp-0072561785/dp/0072561785 (Timothy Gottleber | Even More Excellent HTML)

https://www.ti.com/ (Texas Instruments)

https://www.fidelity.com/ (Fidelity)

https://www.facebook.com/ (Facebook)

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Notes

Brian Morrison joins Richard and Brad to talk about his Destiny 2 item manager app, GuardianForge. He introduces them to Destiny 2, shares the motivation behind building the project, and describes the tech stack that powers the app.

Links

https://brianmorrison.me/ (Brian Morrison)

https://twitter.com/brianmmdev (Brian Morrison | Twitter)

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLx9EihBDfoJMncRWSZZoXg (Brian Morrison | YouTube)

https://guardianforge.net/ (GuardianForge)

https://twitter.com/guardianforge (GuardianForge | Twitter)

https://www.bungie.net/7/en/Destiny/Buy (Destiny 2)

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClbllR4Tx-lhYJyrpu1sA4A (Aztecross)

https://www.youtube.com/user/CreepyCastle (Castle)

https://bungie-net.github.io/ (Bungie API)

https://destinyitemmanager.com/en/ (Destiny Item Manager)

https://dadroit.com/ (Dadroit JSON Viewer)

Gatsby

https://aws.amazon.com/ (Amazon Web Services)

https://twitter.com/destinyinsights (Destiny Insights)

https://learnbuildteach.com/ (Learn Build Teach)

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Notes

Brad shares his story on how he was introduced to technology through gaming, gravitated towards coding in college, and taught himself web development to get him to where he is today.

Links

https://www.utexas.edu/ (The University of Texas at Austin)

https://www.delltechnologies.com/en-us/index.htm (Dell Technologies)

https://www.adobe.com/ (Adobe)

https://www.atlassian.com/ (Atlassian)

https://www.youtube.com/c/TraversyMedia (Brad Traversy)

https://www.youtube.com/c/LevelUpTuts (Level Up Tutorials)

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCW5YeuERMmlnqo4oq8vwUpg (The Net Ninja)

https://www.youtube.com/c/WesBos (Wes Bos)

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Notes

Richard shares what he's been learning about Web3 as he and Brad discuss what Web3 really is. The current buzz around NFTs and the coin of the week just scratches the surface. It turns out, Web3 is more than pennies and pixel art!

Links

https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/web2-vs-web3/ (Web2 vs Web3)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockchain (Blockchain)

https://ethereum.org/en/ (Ethereum)

https://bitcoin.org/en/ (Bitcoin)

https://solana.com/ (Solana)

https://metamask.io/ (MetaMask)

https://www.coinbase.com/learn/crypto-basics/what-are-nfts (NFT)

https://soliditylang.org/ (Solidity)

https://www.rust-lang.org/ (Rust)

https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/learn-solidity-blockchain-and-smart-contracts-in-a-free/ (freeCodeCamp | Solidity Course)

https://buildspace.so/ (buildspace)

https://github.com/ChainSafe/web3.js (web3.js)

https://ethers.org/ (ethers.js)

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Notes

Brad shares his onboarding experience at Atlassian with Richard. While onboarding can be tough, especially remotely, they share tips to get the most out of your first few weeks, and lament previous bad new hire experiences.

Links

https://www.atlassian.com/ (Atlassian)

https://trello.com/ (Trello)

https://slack.com/ (Slack)

https://workspace.google.com/ (Google Workspace)

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Notes

James Perkins joins Brad and Richard to share everything about Roll Your Tweet, his brand new SaaS product. He goes into the origin story of the product, shares his tech stack, and covers his costs and profits since launch. If you're an aspiring entrepreneur you don't want to miss this one!

Links

https://twitter.com/james_r_perkins (James Perkins | Twitter)

https://www.twitch.tv/jamesperkins (James Perkins | Twitch)

https://www.youtube.com/c/LearntocodewithJames (James Perkins | YouTube)

https://www.rollyourtweet.com/ (Roll Your Tweet)

https://tina.io/ (Tina)

https://nextjs.org/ (Next.js)

https://vercel.com/ (Vercel)

https://chakra-ui.com/ (Chakra UI)

https://stripe.com/ (Stripe)

https://auth0.com/ (Auth0)

https://fauna.com/ (Fauna)

https://sematext.com/ (Sematext)

https://crisp.chat/en/ (Crisp)

https://plausible.io/ (Plausible)

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Notes

Brad and Richard talk about their wildly different approaches to testing, and compare it to making PBandJ sandwiches. Yum. They explain the testing triangle and suggest technologies to use to implement each layer of the triangle.

Links

https://kentcdodds.com/blog/the-testing-trophy-and-testing-classifications (Kent C Dodds | Testing Trophy)

https://testingjavascript.com/ (Kent C Dodds | Testing JavaScript)

https://testing-library.com/ (Testing Library)

https://www.chromatic.com/ (Chromatic)

https://storybook.js.org/ (Storybook)

https://jestjs.io/ (Jest)

http://www.csszengarden.com/ (CSS Zen Garden)

https://www.cypress.io/ (Cypress)

https://pptr.dev/ (Puppeteer)

https://bradgarropy.com/blog/web-scraping-with-puppeteer (Brad Garropy | Web Scraping With Puppeteer)

https://www.typescriptlang.org/ (TypeScript)

https://www.jason.af/yak-shaving (Jason Lengstorf | Yak Shaving)

https://github.com/bradgarropy/plop-generator-react-component (Brad Garropy | plop-generator-react-component)

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Notes

On this week's episode, Brad and Richard discuss Hacktoberfest. It's a spooky time of year for maintainers, but a treat for contributors.

Links

https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com/ (HacktoberFest)

https://github.com/features/codespaces (GitHub Codespaces)

https://github.blog/2021-08-11-githubs-engineering-team-moved-codespaces/ (GitHub’s Engineering Team has moved to Codespaces)

https://www.gitpod.io/ (Gitpod)

https://hacktoberfest-projects.vercel.app/ (Usman Sabuwala | Hacktoberfest Projects)

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Notes

Brad and Richard talk about how to effectively separate work hours from personal time to stay happy and productive in all aspects of life.

Links

https://www.amazon.com/Deep-Work-Focused-Success-Distracted/dp/1455586692 (Cal Newport | Deep Work)

https://webdevweekly.captivate.fm/episode/008 (The Future of Remote Work | How Will It Work?)

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