The One About Teaching Yourself Programming
In this episode, we teach you how to be a programmer in 24 hours! ...Psych. We cover "Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years" by Peter Norvig, an article calling out "fast learning" marketing and pa...
18 Nov 202256min
The One About The Use Hook RFC
We dive deep into the "use" hook RFC , a proposal by the React team to give first-class support for promises in React. Evan mouth codes (poorly), Joe definitely doesn't talk about bloom filters again...
11 Nov 202257min
The One About the Wrong Abstraction
What did we talk about In this episode, we’re talking about “The Wrong Abstraction" by Sandi Metz. We go against years of programming best practices and propose copy-pasting code….sometimes. Along the...
4 Nov 202248min
The One About Being Glue
In this episode, we cover Tanya Reilly's powerful talk - "Being Glue". Deep down, we all (hopefully) know there's a lot more to a successful software project than code. There are planning meetings, de...
28 Okt 202252min
The One About The 10X Programmer Myth
This week we read The 10X Programmer Myth by Justin Etheredge. Point Hogs and Rocket Turtles, Code Fountains and Obsessors, this article is a menagerie of developer archetypes. Evan examines whether P...
21 Okt 202246min
The One About Testing Anti-patterns
This week we get into one of our favorite topics: Testing! We read Software Testing Anti-patterns from the Codepipes blog and see how much we agree. We also mention the talk Please Don't Mock Me (mock...
14 Okt 20221h 5min
The One About Years of Experience
In this episode, we do some serious science stuff! Well not exactly. We read an article called "Does Experience Matter" where Abi Noda breaks down a new scientific study on what makes an effective pro...
7 Okt 20221h 4min
The One About Preact Signals
This week we read Introducing Signals from the folks at Preact. We discuss whether or not the world needs another state management library when it already has a million libraries such as recoil, zusta...
30 Sep 202259min
