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What you need to know about Wasp with Martin Šošić
Ben interviews Martin Šošić about Wasp, an open-source, declarative DSL for devs that he built with his twin brother, Matija. Learn more about how Wasp works and why it has been getting attention on Product Hunt and Hacker News. Links https://wasp-lang.dev/ (https://wasp-lang.dev/) https://twitter.com/wasplang (https://twitter.com/wasplang) https://discord.gg/rzdnErX (https://discord.gg/rzdnErX) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26091956 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26091956) https://www.producthunt.com/posts/wasp-lang-alpha (https://www.producthunt.com/posts/wasp-lang-alpha) Contact us https://podrocket.logrocket.com/contact-us (https://podrocket.logrocket.com/contact-us) @LogRocket (https://twitter.com/LogRocket) brian@logrocket.com What does LogRocket do? LogRocket combines frontend monitoring, product analytics, and session replay to help software teams deliver the ideal product experience. Try LogRocket for free today (https://logrocket.com/signup/?pdr). Special Guest: Martin Šošić.
spACE jam
Brian interviews Adewale Abati, also known as Ace, a frontend engineer and developer advocate at Flutterwave (https://flutterwave.com/us/). Ace is known for sharing his developer experiences through social media, technical writing, public speaking, and his YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPDBP981aAzZj11jYRta8mw). He also maintains Made in Nigeria (https://www.madeinnigeria.dev/) -- a curation of awesome open source tools and projects built by Nigerian developers. Links https://www.acekyd.com (https://www.acekyd.com) http://youtube.com/acekyd (http://youtube.com/acekyd) https://twitter.com/ace_kyd (https://twitter.com/ace_kyd) https://flutterwave.com (https://flutterwave.com) https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/09/african-payments-company-flutterwave-raises-170m-now-valued-at-over-1b (https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/09/african-payments-company-flutterwave-raises-170m-now-valued-at-over-1b) https://chakra-ui.com (https://chakra-ui.com) https://tenseijs.com (https://tenseijs.com) https://twitter.com/codebeast (https://twitter.com/codebeast) http://c0depanda.com (http://c0depanda.com) https://twitter.com/moyheen (https://twitter.com/moyheen) https://twitter.com/unicodeveloper (https://twitter.com/unicodeveloper) https://www.madeinnigeria.dev (https://www.madeinnigeria.dev) https://github.com/acekyd/made-in-nigeria (https://github.com/acekyd/made-in-nigeria) Contact us https://podrocket.logrocket.com/contact-us (https://podrocket.logrocket.com/contact-us) @LogRocket (https://twitter.com/LogRocket) brian@logrocket.com What does LogRocket do? LogRocket combines frontend monitoring, product analytics, and session replay to help software teams deliver the ideal product experience. Try LogRocket for free today (https://logrocket.com/signup/?pdr). Special Guest: Adewale Abati.
Typesense with Jason Bosco
Ben interviews Jason Bosco, cofounder of Typesense, an open source search engine that’s optimized for both performance and ease of use. They talk about how Typesense compares to Algolia and Elasticsearch, how to get started using Typesense, and how you can get involved. Links https://typesense.org/ (https://typesense.org/) https://github.com/typesense (https://github.com/typesense) https://twitter.com/jasonbosco (https://twitter.com/jasonbosco) https://twitter.com/Typesense (https://twitter.com/Typesense) https://medium.com/@ethannam/understanding-the-levenshtein-distance-equation-for-beginners-c4285a5604f0 (https://medium.com/@ethannam/understanding-the-levenshtein-distance-equation-for-beginners-c4285a5604f0) https://medium.com/basecs/trying-to-understand-tries-3ec6bede0014 (https://medium.com/basecs/trying-to-understand-tries-3ec6bede0014) http://thesecretlivesofdata.com/raft/ (http://thesecretlivesofdata.com/raft/) https://typesense.org/typesense-vs-algolia-vs-elasticsearch-vs-meilisearch (https://typesense.org/typesense-vs-algolia-vs-elasticsearch-vs-meilisearch) Contact us https://podrocket.logrocket.com/contact-us (https://podrocket.logrocket.com/contact-us) @LogRocket (https://twitter.com/LogRocket) brian@logrocket.com What does LogRocket do? LogRocket combines frontend monitoring, product analytics, and session replay to help software teams deliver the ideal product experience. Try LogRocket for free today (https://logrocket.com/signup/?pdr). Special Guest: Jason Bosco.
Rocket Surgery: Different flavors of frontend
Should all frontend developers know CSS and HTML like the back of their hand? What about React, Angular, Vue, and webpack? Where does the list end? In this episode, Kaelan and Brian talk about the nature of frontend and what that means for the future of the profession. Links https://css-tricks.com/the-great-divide/ (https://css-tricks.com/the-great-divide/) https://bradfrost.com/blog/post/front-of-the-front-end-and-back-of-the-front-end-web-development/ (https://bradfrost.com/blog/post/front-of-the-front-end-and-back-of-the-front-end-web-development/) Contact us https://podrocket.logrocket.com/contact-us (https://podrocket.logrocket.com/contact-us) @LogRocket (https://twitter.com/LogRocket) brian@logrocket.com What does LogRocket do? LogRocket combines frontend monitoring, product analytics, and session replay to help software teams deliver the ideal product experience. Try LogRocket for free today (https://logrocket.com/signup/?pdr). Special Guest: Kaelan Cooter .
Founder Friday: David Thor of Architect.io
In this Founder Friday episode, Ben interviews David Thor, founder and CEO of Architect (http://architect.io/), the world’s first DevOps-as-a-Service platform. They talk about the DevOps landscape, how Architect improves developer productivity, and how it helps teams adopt best practices. Links https://www.architect.io (https://www.architect.io/) https://twitter.com/davidcthor (https://twitter.com/davidcthor) https://www.hashicorp.com (https://www.hashicorp.com/) https://www.heroku.com (https://www.heroku.com/) https://pypi.org/project/pip (https://pypi.org/project/pip/) https://www.ory.sh (https://www.ory.sh/) Contact us https://podrocket.logrocket.com/contact-us (https://podrocket.logrocket.com/contact-us) @LogRocket (https://twitter.com/LogRocket) brian@logrocket.com What does LogRocket do? LogRocket combines frontend monitoring, product analytics, and session replay to help software teams deliver the ideal product experience. Try LogRocket for free today (https://logrocket.com/signup/?pdr). Special Guest: David Thor.
Expo with Charlie Cheever
Ben interviews Charlie Cheever, CEO and cofounder of Expo. They talk about the difficulties of building a cross-platform app and what Expo is doing to make that easier for developers. They also get into the state of React Native and more. Links https://expo.io (https://expo.io) https://twitter.com/ccheever (https://twitter.com/ccheever) https://expo.io/eas (https://expo.io/eas) https://expo.io/tools (https://expo.io/tools) https://expo.io/client (https://expo.io/client) https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/react-native-at-airbnb-f95aa460be1c (https://medium.com/airbnb-engineering/react-native-at-airbnb-f95aa460be1c) Contact us https://podrocket.logrocket.com/contact-us (https://podrocket.logrocket.com/contact-us) @LogRocket (https://twitter.com/LogRocket) brian@logrocket.com What does LogRocket do? LogRocket combines frontend monitoring, product analytics, and session replay to help software teams deliver the ideal product experience. Try LogRocket for free today (https://logrocket.com/signup/?pdr). Special Guest: Charlie Cheever.
goober with Cristian Bote
Ben interviews Cristian Bote, creator of goober (a less than 1KB CSS-in-JS solution). Cristian is also a member of the Preact core team. Unsurprisingly, they talk about Preact, goober, and WMR (a tiny all-in-one development tool for modern web apps). Links https://twitter.com/cristianbote_ (https://twitter.com/cristianbote_) https://cristianbote.com (https://cristianbote.com) https://github.com/cristianbote/goober (https://github.com/cristianbote/goober) https://goober.js.org (https://goober.js.org) https://goober.rocks (https://goober.rocks) https://styled-components.com (https://styled-components.com) https://emotion.sh/docs/introduction (https://emotion.sh/docs/introduction) https://github.com/preactjs/preact (https://github.com/preactjs/preact) https://preactjs.com (https://preactjs.com) https://twitter.com/preactjs (https://twitter.com/preactjs) https://github.com/preactjs/wmr (https://github.com/preactjs/wmr) Contact us https://podrocket.logrocket.com/contact-us @LogRocket (https://twitter.com/LogRocket) brian@logrocket.com What does LogRocket do? LogRocket combines frontend monitoring, product analytics, and session replay to help software teams deliver the ideal product experience. Try LogRocket for free today (https://logrocket.com/signup/?pdr). Special Guest: Cristian Bote.
Shawn Swyx Wang: swyxtape vol. 1
Ben and Brian talk to Shawn Wang, better known as Swyx, about infinite building, his experience as a Reddit moderator, blogging platforms, scaling developer relations, and more. Links https://twitter.com/swyx (https://twitter.com/swyx) https://www.swyx.io (https://www.swyx.io) https://www.swyx.io/clubhouse-hate (https://www.swyx.io/clubhouse-hate) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking,Fastand_Slow (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking,_Fast_and_Slow) https://www.reddit.com/r/reactjs (https://www.reddit.com/r/reactjs) https://testautomationu.applitools.com (https://testautomationu.applitools.com) https://explorers.netlify.com (https://explorers.netlify.com) https://odyssey.apollographql.com (https://odyssey.apollographql.com) https://www.youtube.com/user/lucidchart (https://www.youtube.com/user/lucidchart) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCELSb-IYi_d5rYFOxWeOz5g (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCELSb-IYi_d5rYFOxWeOz5g) https://medium.com/@david.gilbertson (https://medium.com/@david.gilbertson) https://www.swyx.io/js-third-age (https://www.swyx.io/js-third-age) Contact us https://podrocket.logrocket.com/contact-us (https://podrocket.logrocket.com/contact-us) @LogRocket (https://twitter.com/LogRocket) brian@logrocket.com What does LogRocket do? LogRocket combines frontend monitoring, product analytics, and session replay to help software teams deliver the ideal product experience. Try LogRocket for free today (https://logrocket.com/signup/?pdr). Special Guest: Shawn Swyx Wang.
Alpine.js with Caleb Porzio
Ben and Kate talk to Caleb Porzio about Alpine.js and what to expect in 2021. They also get into some of Caleb’s other creations like Laravel Livewire and makevscodeawesome.com (http://makevscodeawesome.com/). Links https://calebporzio.com (https://calebporzio.com) https://twitter.com/calebporzio (https://twitter.com/calebporzio) https://github.com/alpinejs/alpine (https://github.com/alpinejs/alpine) https://twitter.com/Alpine_JS (https://twitter.com/Alpine_JS) https://twitter.com/youyuxi/status/1262075462651609088 (https://twitter.com/youyuxi/status/1262075462651609088) https://github.com/livewire/livewire (https://github.com/livewire/livewire) https://makevscodeawesome.com (https://makevscodeawesome.com) Contact us https://podrocket.logrocket.com/contact-us (https://podrocket.logrocket.com/contact-us) @LogRocket (https://twitter.com/LogRocket) brian@logrocket.com What does LogRocket do? LogRocket combines frontend monitoring, product analytics, and session replay to help software teams deliver the ideal product experience. Try LogRocket for free today (https://logrocket.com/signup/?pdr). Special Guest: Caleb Porzio.
Founder Friday: Tomas Reimers and Greg Foster of Screenplay
In the second installment of our Founder Friday series, Ben talks with Screenplay cofounders, Tomas Reimers and Greg Foster. They discuss the technical details behind Screenplay, what it’s like trying to get funding during a pandemic, and the Screenplay roadmap. Links https://screenplay.dev (https://screenplay.dev) https://screenplay.dev/docs/quick-start (https://screenplay.dev/docs/quick-start) https://twitter.com/gregmfoster (https://twitter.com/gregmfoster) https://twitter.com/tomasreimers (https://twitter.com/tomasreimers) Contact us https://podrocket.logrocket.com/contact-us @LogRocket (https://twitter.com/LogRocket) brian@logrocket.com What does LogRocket do? LogRocket combines frontend monitoring, product analytics, and session replay to help software teams deliver the ideal product experience. Try LogRocket for free today (https://logrocket.com/signup/?pdr). Special Guests: Greg Foster and Tomas Reimers.
Feathers with David Luecke
Ben and Kate talk to David Luecke, creator of Feathers, a framework for real-time applications and REST APIs. They talk about where Feathers fits in the fullstack framework space, pros and cons of building a modular framework, and what it has been like to maintain a project that needs to keep up with React. Links https://feathersjs.com/ (https://feathersjs.com/) https://github.com/feathersjs/feathers (https://github.com/feathersjs/feathers) https://github.com/daffl (https://github.com/daffl) https://twitter.com/feathersjs (https://twitter.com/feathersjs) https://github.com/feathersjs-ecosystem (https://github.com/feathersjs-ecosystem) https://github.com/humaans/figbird (https://github.com/humaans/figbird) https://docs.feathersjs.com/guides (https://docs.feathersjs.com/guides) Contact us https://podrocket.logrocket.com/contact-us (https://podrocket.logrocket.com/contact-us) @LogRocket (https://twitter.com/LogRocket) brian@logrocket.com What does LogRocket do? LogRocket combines frontend monitoring, product analytics, and session replay to help software teams deliver the ideal product experience. Try LogRocket for free today (https://logrocket.com/signup/?pdr). Special Guest: David Luecke.
RedwoodJS with David Price
Today, Ben and Kate interview David Price, a core member of RedwoodJS and developer-in-residence at Preston-Werner Ventures. They talk about what it means to be fullstack JAMstack, how RedwoodJS gives you your time back, and what it takes to create a highly collaborative open-source community. Links https://redwoodjs.com/ (https://redwoodjs.com/) https://twitter.com/mojombo (https://twitter.com/mojombo) https://twitter.com/appfactory (https://twitter.com/appfactory) https://www.prisma.io/docs/ (https://www.prisma.io/docs/) https://redwoodjs.com/tutorial2 (https://redwoodjs.com/tutorial2) https://community.redwoodjs.com/ (https://community.redwoodjs.com/) https://discord.gg/redwoodjs (https://discord.gg/redwoodjs) https://redwoodjs.com/docs/contributing (https://redwoodjs.com/docs/contributing) https://redwoodjs.com/roadmap (https://redwoodjs.com/roadmap) https://thedavidprice.com/ (https://thedavidprice.com/) https://redwoodjs.com/stickers (https://redwoodjs.com/stickers) Contact us https://podrocket.logrocket.com/contact-us (https://podrocket.logrocket.com/contact-us) @LogRocket (https://twitter.com/LogRocket) brian@logrocket.com What does LogRocket do? LogRocket combines frontend monitoring, product analytics, and session replay to help software teams deliver the ideal product experience. Try LogRocket for free today (https://logrocket.com/signup/?pdr). Special Guest: David Price .
Supabase with Paul Copplestone
Today Ben and Kate talk with Paul Copplestone, CEO and cofounder of Supabase, the open source firebase alternative. They discuss how Supabase works, whats in store for 2021, why open source matters, and the role HackerNews played in Supabase’s launch. Links https://supabase.io (https://supabase.io) https://github.com/supabase (https://github.com/supabase/supabase) https://twitter.com/kiwicopple (https://twitter.com/kiwicopple) https://postgrest.org (https://postgrest.org) https://news.ycombinator.com (https://news.ycombinator.com/news) https://twitter.com/supabase_io (https://twitter.com/supabase_io) https://twitter.com/rauchg (https://twitter.com/rauchg/status/1331021818681978881) Contact us https://podrocket.logrocket.com/contact-us (https://podrocket.logrocket.com/contact-us) @LogRocket (https://twitter.com/LogRocket) brian@logrocket.com What does LogRocket do? LogRocket combines frontend monitoring, product analytics, and session replay to help software teams deliver the ideal product experience. Try LogRocket for free today (https://logrocket.com/signup/?pdr). Special Guest: Paul Copplestone.
Prisma with Nikolas Burk
Today Ben and Kate sit down with Nikolas Burk, Prisma’s Head of Developer Success. They talk about how Prisma helps developers build better web apps, how it works with TypeScript, the Prisma roadmap, and, of course, building an open-source community. Links https://www.prisma.io/ (https://www.prisma.io/) https://www.prisma.io/docs/guides (https://www.prisma.io/docs/guides) https://www.prisma.io/docs/concepts/overview/prisma-in-your-stack/is-prisma-an-orm (https://www.prisma.io/docs/concepts/overview/prisma-in-your-stack/is-prisma-an-orm) https://www.prisma.io/docs/concepts/more/comparisons/prisma-and-typeorm (https://www.prisma.io/docs/concepts/more/comparisons/prisma-and-typeorm) https://www.prisma.io/docs/concepts/components/prisma-client (https://www.prisma.io/docs/concepts/components/prisma-client) https://www.prisma.io/docs/concepts/components/prisma-migrate (https://www.prisma.io/docs/concepts/components/prisma-migrate) https://github.com/prisma/prisma (https://github.com/prisma/prisma) https://github.com/prisma/prisma/discussions (https://github.com/prisma/prisma/discussions) https://twitter.com/prisma (https://twitter.com/prisma) https://www.prisma.io/community (https://www.prisma.io/community) https://reactjs.org/blog/2020/12/21/data-fetching-with-react-server-components.html (https://reactjs.org/blog/2020/12/21/data-fetching-with-react-server-components.html) https://amplication.com/ (https://amplication.com/) Contact us https://podrocket.logrocket.com/contact-us (https://podrocket.logrocket.com/contact-us) @LogRocket (https://twitter.com/LogRocket) brian@logrocket.com What does LogRocket do? LogRocket combines frontend monitoring, product analytics, and session replay to help software teams deliver the ideal product experience. Try LogRocket for free today (https://logrocket.com/signup/?pdr). Special Guest: Nikolas Burk.
Founder Friday: Chris Mather of Elements
This is our first-ever Founder Friday episode where we feature founders of startups and devtool projects. Today, Ben talks with Chris Mather, founder of Elements, a new fullstack JavaScript framework. Ben talks to Chris about how he created Elements, his journey from CTO to founder, the process of getting funding for the project, and how you can get started with Elements today. Links https://elements.dev/ (https://elements.dev/) https://github.com/elementscode/application (https://github.com/elementscode/application) https://elements.dev/install (https://elements.dev/install) https://elements.dev/learn (https://elements.dev/learn) https://github.com/elementscode (https://github.com/elementscode) https://people.elements.dev (https://people.elements.dev) Contact us https://podrocket.logrocket.com/contact-us (https://podrocket.logrocket.com/contact-us) @LogRocket (https://twitter.com/LogRocket) brian@logrocket.com What does LogRocket do? LogRocket combines frontend monitoring, product analytics, and session replay to help software teams deliver the ideal product experience. Try LogRocket for free today (https://logrocket.com/signup/?pdr). Special Guest: Chris Mather.