Best Frontend First Podcasts (2025)

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Ep. #43: Mobile First in 2025: Why Are We Still Getting It Wrong? 29:15

5d ago29:15

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Ricard today complains about sites not being mobile-first and Chucho drops a history lesson. What is mobile first? Why are we still talking about this? How can we deliver better experiences? Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://x.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricardBy Chucho Castañeda & Ricard Torres

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#503: The PyArrow Revolution 1:08:36

1d ago1:08:36

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Pandas is at a the core of virtually all data science done in Python, that is virtually all data science. Since it's beginning, Pandas has been based upon numpy. But changes are afoot to update those internals and you can now optionally use PyArrow. PyArrow comes with a ton of benefits including it's columnar format which makes answering analytical…

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Ep. #42: Accessibility in 2025, tips to be ready 32:20

5d ago32:20

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We discuss the European Accessibility Act (EAA) that might affect your website, how to check, and deal with common issues. How hard is it to follow the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 Level AA? We give you an insight and share our experience. What's your experience with accessibility? Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://x.com/honu…

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Complete Website Layout Masterclass in Under 10 Minutes 9:26

5d ago9:26

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In this episode, I dive deep into the crucial role of layouts in web design. From the psychology behind why clear and purposeful layouts matter, to practical tips on setting up columns and grids in tools like Showit and Figma. Discover how understanding and using layout variations can enhance user experience, keep your designs engaging, and ultimat…

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#502: Django Ledger: Accounting with Python 1:03:38

8d ago1:03:38

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Do you or your company need accounting software? Well, there are plenty of SaaS products out there that you can give your data to. but maybe you also really like Django and would rather have a foundation to build your own accounting system exactly as you need for your company or your product. On this episode, we're diving into Django Ledger, create…

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14 Proven Methods to Get High Paying Web Design Clients 30:46

12d ago30:46

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Over the past 10 years, I've experimented with TONS of strategies to get high-ticket web design clients, and I've compiled the 14 best methods that have consistently worked for me. Whether you're just starting out or looking to grow your business, these strategies are designed to attract $5,000 to $10,000 clients on autopilot. Resources Mentioned: …

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#501: Marimo - Reactive Notebooks for Python 1:00:35

15d ago1:00:35

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Have you ever spent an afternoon wrestling with a Jupyter notebook, hoping that you ran the cells in just the right order, only to realize your outputs were completely out of sync? Today's guest has a fresh take on solving that exact problem. Akshay Agrawal is here to introduce Marimo, a reactive Python notebook that ensures your code and outputs a…

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#500: Django Simple Deploy and other DevOps Things 57:34

19d ago57:34

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We're sitting down with Eric Matthes, the educator, author, and developer behind Django Simple Deploy. If you've ever struggled with taking that final step of getting your Django app onto a live server (without spending days wrestling with DevOps complexities), then give Django Simple Deploy a look. Eric shares how Django Simple Deploy automates aw…

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How I Built a Web Design Business While Working a 9 to 5 11:56

19d ago11:56

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In this episode, I share the exact steps I took to start a successful web design business while juggling a full-time job and the responsibilities of being a single dad. Learn about crucial strategies such as creating a time budget, systematizing tasks, and cutting out unnecessary steps to make the most of your limited time. Whether you're strugglin…

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Know EXACTLY What to Charge for a Website (Stop Losing $$) 12:36

27d ago12:36

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You shouldn't be guessing to know exactly what to charge for your next website project. There's actually a really simple process that I walk you through in this episode. Watch Next: 📄 My Complete Web Design Project Process: https://youtu.be/T5JglDcd54A 📈 38 Resources of Web Design Inspiration https://youtu.be/llYWhiB6LMU 💻 Over a Decade of Web Desi…

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#499: BeeWare and the State of Python on Mobile 1:07:47

29d ago1:07:47

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This episode is all about Beeware, the project that working towards true native apps built on Python, especially for iOS and Android. Russell's been at this for more than a decade, and the progress is now hitting critical mass. We'll talk about the Toga GUI toolkit, building and shipping your apps with Briefcase, the newly official support for iOS …

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From Beginner to Pro - How to Level Up in Web Design FAST 7:15

1M ago7:15

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There are 4 simple but very powerful things you can do to level up your web design skills fast. No, you don't need a degree. No you don't need to buy an expensive course. BUT, you do need some grit and a little bit of guidance. Watch Next: 📈 38 Resources of Web Design Inspiration https://youtu.be/llYWhiB6LMU 💻 Over a Decade of Web Design Knowledge …

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#498: Algorithms for high performance terminal apps 1:08:16

1M ago1:08:16

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In this episode, we welcome back Will McGugan, the creator of the wildly popular Rich library and founder of Textualize. We'll dive into Will's latest article on "Algorithms for High Performance Terminal Apps" and explore how he's quietly revolutionizing what's possible in the terminal, from smooth animations and dynamic widgets to full-on TUI (or …

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#497: Outlier Detection with Python 55:22

1M ago55:22

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Have you ever wondered why certain data points stand out so dramatically? They might hold the key to everything from fraud detection to groundbreaking discoveries. This week on Talk Python to Me, we dive into the world of outlier detection with Python with Brett Kennedy. You'll learn how outliers can signal errors, highlight novel insights, or even…

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38 Web Design Resources to Build Award Winning Websites [2025] 25:08

1M ago25:08

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If you want to make sites that no one else is making, you have to look places no one else is looking. Check out these 38 resources to do just that. Watch Next: 📈 Build a Web Design Business in 2025 https://youtu.be/m6HC_o4Cvko 💻 Over a Decade of Web Design Knowledge in 7 Minutes https://youtu.be/1NTKwpAVcHg 📄 My Complete Web Design Project Process:…

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#496: Scaf: Complete blueprint for new Python Kubernetes projects 1:19:34

2M ago1:19:34

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Today we explore the wild world of Python deployment with my friend, Calvin Hendryx-Parker from Six Feet Up. We’ll tackle some of the biggest challenges in taking a Python app from “it works on my machine” to production, covering inconsistent environments, conflicting dependencies, and sneaky security pitfalls. Along the way, Calvin shares how cont…

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Starting a Web Design Business in 2025 9:59

2M ago9:59

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This is my step-by-step process to starting a web design business in 2025. Things look a lot different from when they did just 5 years ago. Here's a practical roadmap to start a web design business in 2025. 💻 Check out my free Web Designer Starter Kit course and get your web design journey started on the right foot! https://selfmadewebdesigner.com …

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How to Land Your First Three Web Design Clients 7:23

2M ago7:23

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I'll share a step-by-step strategy that helped me secure my first three web design clients without needing a portfolio, website, or cold calling. The key approach is leveraging personal connections through my 'First 100 Framework.' I'll explain how to list potential contacts, what to say during outreach, handle different types of responses, and tip…

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Career Change at 36: From Worship Pastor to Web Designer 9:08

2M ago9:08

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I get personal on this one and share my story. It was a struggle to leave full time ministry but looking back I think it was the right decision. Check out the episodes web page! https://selfmadewebdesigner.com/how-to-make-a-career-change-in-your-30s-my-personal-story/ 📄 My Complete Web Design Project Process: https://youtu.be/T5JglDcd54A 🏁 If I Sta…

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#495: OSMnx: Python and OpenStreetMap 1:01:55

2M ago1:01:55

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On this episode, I'm joined by Dr. Geoff Boeing, an assistant professor at the University of Southern California whose research spans urban planning, spatial analysis, and data science. We explore why OpenStreetMap is such a powerful source of global map data—and how Geoff's Python library, OSMnx, makes that data easier to download, model, and visu…

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#494: Update on Flet: Python + Flutter UIs 1:00:23

2M ago1:00:23

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As Python developers, we're incredibly lucky to have over half a million packages that we can use to build our applications with over at PyPI. However, when it comes to choosing a UI framework, the options get narrowed down very quickly. Intersect those choices with the ones that work on mobile, and you have a very short list. Flutter is a UI frame…

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Web Design Process for High Ticket Clients 12:47

2M ago12:47

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If you're building websites for clients without a clear, repeatable process, it's only a matter of time before things go south in a bad way. Here's my exact process for high ticket web design clients. Resources Mentioned: 📄 Free Project Process Template: https://selfmadewebdesigner.com/trello-template 🙋🏼‍♂️ Free Client Questionnaire https://selfmad…

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10 Years of Web Design Experience in Just 7 Minutes! 7:28

2M ago7:28

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In just 7 minutes, I'll share over 10 years of web design expertise, focusing on three core principles: layout, color, and typography. I'll explain the importance of visual hierarchy over the outdated F-pattern, show you the 60-30-10 rule for picking color palettes, and highlight the significance of readability in typography. I'll also provide insi…

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#493: Quarto: Open-source technical publishing 1:05:01

3M ago1:05:01

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In this episode, I'm joined by JJ Allaire, founder and executive chairman at Posit, and Carlos Scheidegger, a software engineer at Posit, to explore Quarto, an open-source tool revolutionizing technical publishing. We discuss how Quarto empowers users to seamlessly transform Jupyter notebooks into polished reports, dashboards, e-books, websites, an…

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If I Had to Start Web Design Over in 2025...I'd Do This 13:50

3M ago13:50

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Will AI take over web design? Should I learn to code? Is there too much competition for me to have a chance? I answer all those questions as I lay out 5 things I'd do differently if I was starting over with web design in 2025. You get all the juicy details of the mistakes I made along the way and the importance of adapting to changes in the industr…

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I Burned Out & Quit Everything. Here's My Recovery Story 16:36

3M ago16:36

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Episode Web Page Web Designer Starter Kit Course Here are some links to the equipment I use for my podcast and videos. These are affiliate links. Clicking on these will help me keep the channel and podcast running Camera - Panasonic Lumix G7 https://selfmadewebdesigner.com/camera Lens - Samyang 12mm F2 https://selfmadewebdesigner.com/lens Audio Int…

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#492: Great Tables 1:04:21

3M ago1:04:21

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Join me as I chat with Rich Iannone and Michael Chow from Posit where we explore the transformative power of data tables with the Great Tables library. We'll cover practical applications of Great Tables, showcasing how thoughtful design and advanced formatting can elevate your data presentations. And you'll learn about innovative features like nano…

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Ep. #41: How we manage stress in the FE world 33:53

3M ago33:53

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We chat about things that can be stressful as a FE developer, we suggest things that work for us on how to deal and mitigate it (for you and you team). Share your tips and tricks with us! Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://x.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricardBy Chucho Castañeda & Ricard Torres

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Ep. #40: CSS in 2024 was fun 33:39

3M ago33:39

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We share what we loved most about the 2024 CSS Wrapped as well as other CSS changes we've witnessed over the years that changed our way of working (yes, we will talk about border-radius). What where CSS changes that blew your mind? https://chrome.dev/css-wrapped-2024/ Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://x.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard…

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Ep. #39: Best practices, standards and guidelines 29:25

3M ago29:25

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We discuss how we work with guidelines, standards and best practices at Cognizant Netcentric. Including our very own ESLint and Stylelint open source configurations. Do you follow any guidelines when coding FE? Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://x.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard.torres…

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#491: DuckDB and Python: Ducks and Snakes living together 1:02:03

4M ago1:02:03

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Join me for an insightful conversation with Alex Monahan, who works on documentation, tutorials, and training at DuckDB Labs. We explore why DuckDB is gaining momentum among Python and data enthusiasts, from its in-process database design to its blazingly fast, columnar architecture. We also dive into indexing strategies, concurrency considerations…

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#490: Django Ninja 1:04:32

4M ago1:04:32

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If you're a Django developer, I'm sure you've heard so many people raving about FastAPI and Pydantic. But you really love Django and don't want to switch. Then you might want to give Django Ninja a serious look. Django Ninja is highly inspired by FastAPI, but is also deeply integrated into Django itself. We have Vitaliy Kucheryaviy the creator of D…

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#489: Anaconda Toolbox for Excel and more with Peter Wang 1:09:09

4M ago1:09:09

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Peter Wang has been pushing Python forward since the early days of its data science roots. We're lucky to have him back on the show. We're going to talk about the Anaconda Toolbox for Excel as well as many other trends and topics that are hot in the Python space right now. I'm sure you'll enjoy listening to the two of us exchanging our takes on the…

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Creating a background gradient from an image 48:39

5M ago48:39

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Ryan talks to Sam about reproducing iOS's new image background treatment for his Open Graph Preview tool, opengraph.ing. They talk about different approaches for generating gradients from images, including finding the vibrant color of an image, luminosity-weighted averages, k-means clustering, and more. Timestamps: 0:00 - Intro 3:07 - Apple's new O…

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#488: Multimodal data with LanceDB 58:19

5M ago58:19

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LanceDB is a developer-friendly, open source database for AI. It's used by well-known companies such as Midjourney and Character.ai. We have Chang She, the CEO and cofounder of LanceDB on to give us a look at the concept of multi-modal data and how you can use LanceDB in your own Python apps. Episode sponsors Sentry Error Monitoring, Code TALKPYTHO…

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Ep. #38: Morals, ethics and being eco-friendly as a FE Developer 30:56

5M ago30:56

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We discuss the moral of working for certain industries, how can we be more green (spoiler: it's web performance) as developers, as well as open source. Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricardBy Chucho Castañeda & Ricard Torres

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#487: Building Rust Extensions for Python 1:02:24

5M ago1:02:24

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There has been a lot of changes in the low-level Python space these days. The biggest has to be how many projects have rewritten core performance-intensive sections in Rust. Or even the wholesale adoption of Rust for newer projects such as uv and ruff. On this episode, we dive into the tools and workflow needed to build these portions of Python app…

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Ep. #37: Lessons learned as FE Developers 31:01

5M ago31:01

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Chucho and Ricard have been coding for more than 18 years. These old time developers will share some of their hard learned lessons on being a developer and/or a FE Lead. Share your sips of wisdom with us. Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard…

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#486: CSnakes: Embed Python code in .NET 1:02:45

5M ago1:02:45

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If you are a .NET developer or work in a place that has some of those folks, wouldn't it be great to fully leverage the entirety of PyPI with it's almost 600,000 packages inside your .NET code? But how would you do this? Previous efforts have let you write Python syntax but using the full libraries (especially the C-based ones) has been out of reac…

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#485: Secure coding for Python with SheHacksPurple 1:09:28

6M ago1:09:28

1:09:28

What do developers need to know about AppSec and building secure software? We have Tanya Janca (AKA SheHacksPurple) on the show to tell us all about it. We talk about what developers should expect from threat modeling events as well as concrete tips for security your apps and services. Episode sponsors Posit Bluehost Talk Python Courses Links from …

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Exploring useActionState 59:57

6M ago59:57

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Sam and Ryan talk about React 19's useActionState hook. They discuss how adding async functions to a plain React app introduces lots of in-between states that developers must grapple with, and how useActionState allows React to collapse and eliminate these states, bringing the simplicity of React's sync mental model to our async code. Timestamps: 0…

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#484: From React to a Django+HTMX based stack 57:44

6M ago57:44

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Have you heard about HTMX? We've discussed it a time or two on this show. We're back with another episode on HTMX, this time with a real-world success story and lessons learned. We have Sheena O'Connell on to tell us how she moved from a React-Django app to pure Django with HTMX. Episode sponsors Posit Bluehost Talk Python Courses Links from the sh…

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Cloudflare Tunnel | React Compiler | refs during render 42:46

6M ago42:46

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Sam and Ryan talk about using Cloudflare Tunnel for local development, the new React Compiler beta release, and why reading or writing refs during render violates the rules of React. Timestamps: 0:00 - Intro 1:42 - Cloudflare Tunnel 7:06 - React Compiler 14:21 - Reading or writing refs during render Links: Cloudflare Tunnel React Compiler Beta rele…

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#483: Reflex Framework: Frontend, Backend, Pure Python 1:03:05

6M ago1:03:05

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Let's say you want to create a web app and you know Python really well. Your first thought might be Flask or Django or even FastAPI? All good choices but there is a lot to get a full web app into production. The framework we'll talk about today, Reflex, allows you to just write Python code and it turns it into a full web app running FastAPI, NextJS…

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Ep. #36: How to keep up to date with FE? 32:35

6M ago32:35

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Why is it important to be on the loop for the latest and greatest FE technologies out there? The latest JavaScript framework? What's possible with the latest CSS? Performance and SEO... There's just so much. We share our tips and tricks to stay fresh and relevant. Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://rica…

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useAnimatedText | Events vs. State Changes | Catalyst 1:08:19

6M ago1:08:19

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Sam and Ryan talk about building a useAnimatedText hook that can animate streaming text. They also discuss how React code that uses state changes to approximate events can be simplified, and the benefits of having escape hatches when building UI with Catalyst. Timestamps: 0:00 - Intro 1:22 - Catalyst and escape hatches 16:03 - Building a useAnimate…

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#482: Pre-commit Hooks for Python Devs 1:10:20

6M ago1:10:20

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See the full show notes for this episode on the website at talkpython.fm/482By Michael Kennedy (@mkennedy)

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#481: Python Opinions and Zeitgeist with Hynek 1:03:00

6M ago1:03:00

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See the full show notes for this episode on the website at talkpython.fm/481By Michael Kennedy (@mkennedy)

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Can you self-host Next.js? 58:03

7M ago58:03

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Sam and Ryan talk about how frameworks and infrastructure evolve with each other, using Next.js as a representative example. They discuss how hosting providers like Heroku have always imposed certain constraints on apps, what features those constraints enable hosting providers to support, how burdensome those constraints are across different framew…

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#480: Ahoy, Narwhals are bridging the data science APIs 59:15

7M ago59:15

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See the full show notes for this episode on the website at talkpython.fm/480By Michael Kennedy (@mkennedy)

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