The BaseCode Podcast: Recent Episodes
JMac & Jess
The BaseCode Podcast is a collection of mini-series discussions between Jason McCreary and Jess Archer on practices for writing less complex, more readable code, testing, and building products.
Show Notes
- Laravel Origins Documentary
- Flood at Jess' house
- Settlers of Catan
- Bardcore + (Spotify playlist)
- Development Stages
- Laravel 9.x Shift
- Shift in the Laravel Docs
- Shift Workbench
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- Frequency illusion
- Pagani Zonda
- Tweet using the term nonda
- Shift's Laravel 9.x repository
- GitHub comparison tool
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- Laravel 9.x Shift
- Laravel Upgrade Guide
- Shifty Bits Newsletter #82
- Class based routes in Laravel
- Episode 2: Dead Code of The BaseCode Podcast
- Configuring the code style applied by Shift
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- Example Pull Request for Laravel 9.x Compatibility
- Can I upgrade Laravel
- Laravel 9.x Shift
- Programming by wishful thinking
- Arrange, Act, Assert
- Snapshot Testing
- Test Fixtures
- Tweet about InteractsWithProject trait
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- Pull Request for default model orderBy
- Episode 14: The 5 Test Doubles
- Tailwind Shifts
- CI Generator
- Pest Converter
- Sharpening the saw
- Sharp knives
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- Trailer: Laravel Documentary
- Laravel Origins Premier
- Grinding to $1,000,000 in revenue
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- Marvel Cinematic Universe
- Laravel by the Numbers
- Shift Workbench
- Electron: Auto Update
- Electron: Publish
- Electron: Code Signing
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- Arduino auto clicker by Jess
- Laravel dragon sticker from Yaz
- Shift Workbench
- Dark mode for Invoker by Di
- Tweet about treehouse coding by Adrian Nürnberger
- Modes in Vim
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- 7-Eleven Convenient Stores
- PR #38025: Display exception for failed status assertions by Taylor Otwell
- PR #38046: Display exception for failed validation assertions by Jess
- Streamlining Laravel by JMac
- Setting from URL in HTTP tests
- Tweet about pricing by JMac
- Value Propositions That Work
- Human Shifts
- Tweet about discounted launch prices by Sebastian Schlein
- Shift Workbench
- Shifty Plans
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- Laravel 9 Release
- Abstract Syntax Tree
- Rector
- Nikic PHP Parser
- Shift Blueprint
- Getting Git
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- Desktop Apps with Electron by Marcel Pociot
- Electron Builder
- Vue Electron Builder
- Alpine.js
- Vue.js
- Fable of the boiling frog
- IPC in Electron
- Shift Workbench
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- Shift Workbench Desktop app alpha release
- Tweet about 90% is halfway done
- Practicing YAGNI by JMac
- Sunk Cost Fallacy
- Shift Workbench
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- Burpril Challenge by Caneco
- Code Refactoring on Wikipedia
- Refactoring by Martin Fowler
- Decomposition on Wikipedia
- Decomposition vs Abstraction
- Episode 9: Rule of Three
- Refactor Fridays Live Streams on YouTube
- Atomic Commits
- Key points of Working Effectively with Legacy Code
- Episode 6: Naming
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- Speak UP! Why We Should Use Big Words With Little Kids
- Twins (1988)
- Marc - Converting Bootstrap CSS project to Tailwind
- Tailwind Converter Shift
- Devin - Laravel security hardening
- Enlightn: Boost your Laravel App's Performance & Security
- spatie/backup package
- Dyrynda - Time Travel
- Laravel Time Traveling
- Testing with Carbon
- Back to the Future (1985)
- Avengers: Endgame (2019)
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- Lighting for YouTube Videos
- Question from João Santos
- Tailwind Shifts
- Episode 14 - The 5 Test Doubles
- Laravel Facades
- Mocking fluent interfaces with Mockery
- Test Fixtures
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- West Sixth Brewing Amber Ale
- Tailwind Shifts
- Tweet from Marcus Poehls
- Tailwind Configuration
- Acorn JavaScript parser
- Yii's CJSON class
- JSON5
- jsonc
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- Extreme Programming
- Pair Programming
- Jess's git aliases
- JMac's dotfiles
- Laravel shell aliases (including nah and mfs)
- Pull Request for db:seed
- Whipper Snipper
- Adam Wathan's Tailwind live-streams
- Building a service container from scratch (Jess's live-coding talk)
- Red-Green-Refactor calculator TDD example
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- Geek Dad Jokes with Izzy
- Timeboxing
- Pomodoro Technique
- What is Bullet Journaling?
- Jess' side project
- Laravel Spark
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- Laravel 8 Release Notes
- Vimconf 2020
- Can I upgrade Laravel yet?
- Automated Laravel 8 compatibility PR
- Handling exceptions in Laravel 8
- Tidy up your tests with class based model factories
- Laravel 8 model factory class
- Mapping models with morphMap
- Namespace Models Shift
- Queuing closures
- Job retry exponential backoffs
Show Notes
- Laracon 2020
- BaseLaravel
- The Magic of Laravel Macros
- Macroable classes
- Episode 9: Rule of Three
- Events
- Weak Class
- Eloquent: API Resources
- Spatie Style Guide
- Dyrynda Style Guide
- Episode 1: Formatting
- Gates and Policies
- Laravel Jetstream
- Expressive Eloquent Collections by Tim McDonald
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- Laravel Shift
- laravel/laravel version diff
- BaseLaravel
- @stack Blade Directive
- Portals in Vue 3
- @includeWhen Blade Directive
- @each Blade Directive
- @once Blade Directive
- Tweet: @if versus modern Blade directives comparison
- View Components
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- The Laravel developer's guide to Vue SPAs by Jess Archer
- Methods Are Affordances, Not Abilities
- What is the difference between declarative and imperative programming?
- Organizing your models from BaseLaravel
- tlint - linter by Tighten
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- BaseLaravel: a field guide for streamlining Laravel applications
- Tweet: Publishing an ebook
- The Proximity Rule
- Accessing the Request
- Memoization or function cache
- Fat Model, Skinny Controllers
- Automated streamlining with the Laravel Fixer
- Form Requests for more than validation
- Laravel's Form Request
In this episode, JMac and Jess discuss some traditional object oriented programming practices which may or may not have a place within Laravel.
Show Notes
- Tweet: Making a table to make tables
- LumberJMac on Instagram
- Tweet: The Otwell Table
- Laravel's Service Container
- Facade Class References
- Episode 14 - The 5 Test Doubles
- The bindings and singletons Properties
- ValidatesWhenResolvedTrait
- The prepareForValidation method
Show Notes
- Laracon Online 2020
- It's a problem when it's a problem
- BaseLaravel
- Tweet on boring code from Evan You
- Laravel Up & Running by Matt Stauffer
- Laravel: From Apprentice to Artisan by Taylor Otwell
- Crafting maintainable Laravel applications at Laracon AU
- "Broken Windows Theory" from Dead Code
- "Painting the back of the cabinet" from The Ethos of Laravel
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- Getting Real by Basecamp
- BaseCode Field Guide by JMac
- The $61,392 Book Launch by Adam Wathan
- The €963 Book Launch by Christoph Rumpel
- The Mom Test by Rob Fitzpatrick
- Jobs to be done
- Authority by Nathan Barry
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- Laracon cancelled
- Postmortem: Shift Database Outage
- Tinkerwell
- Laravel Linter
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- Laravel Vapor by JMac
- Queues in Laravel
- Is reinventing the wheel bad?
- Tweet about Serverless Laravel by Jack Ellis
- Idempotence
- Abstract Syntax Tree
- PHP Parser
- Language Server Protocol
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- Tweet about JMac's Engagement
- Why your team should not be upgrading your Laravel applications by JMac
- Blueprint
- Bullet Journalling
- Microsoft's 4-day workweek
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- Tweet about JMac's Chili
- Monorepositories on Wikipedia
- GitLab Workflow
- Building Laravel Shift on Full Stack Radio
- Production-ready database queues
- Laravel Forge
- Laravel Vapor
- Laravel Cashier
- Laravel Spark
- Laravel Socialite
- Digital Ocean
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- Tailwind Converter Shift
- Gifty Duck
- Shift
- A review of 2019 and goals for 2020 by JMac
- Why I leave a job by JMac
- Being a solopreneur has risks by Justin Jackson
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- Tips for PHPUnit Tests by Tim MacDonald
- Sublime PHPUnit by Adam Wathan
- Effective Code Review Checklist
- Getting Started with Continuous Integration
- Jess and JMac on Twitter
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- 10 Tips for Crafting Maintainable Laravel Applications
- Outside-In Testing
- Developer Ergonomics
- Tweet about Spell Checking Tests
- Testing validation in Laravel
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- Test Doubles by Martin Fowler
- Tweet about Mockery Trait
- Tweet about Test Double Priority
- Push it to the boundary by J.B. Rainsberger
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- Laravel Snippet by Taylor Otwell
- Building Blueprint Live Streams
- Laracon AU
- Introduction to TDD
- Confident Laravel
In this episode, JMac and Jess discuss the different types of tests, when to use them, and ultimately what matters most is writing tests.
Show Notes
- Laracon AU
- Confident Laravel
- Laravel Shift Automated Test Generator
- Extreme Programming
- The Pragmatic Programmer
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- Laravel Test Generator Shift by JMac
- Implementation Patterns by Kent Beck
- PHP: a factal of bad design
- Symmetry in Practice by JMac
- Jess and JMac on Twitter
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- Start testing your Laravel applications by JMac
- The Wrong Abstraction by Sandi Metz
- Rule of Three by Bob Nadler
- Shape Up by Ryan Singer
- Tiny Decisions and Emergent Design on Full Stack Radio
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- The Billion Dollar Mistake by Tony Hoare
- Laravel HTTP Test Assertions by JMac
- Empty Values in PHP
- Introduce Null Object
- Trilean Values
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- Removing Comments by Jason McCreary
- "90% of code comments" meme
- The Proximity Rule by Jason McCreary
- Notes on Programming in C by Rob Pike ("Comments" section)
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- Clean Code by Uncle Bob
- Two Hard Things quote by Phil Karlton
- The Vim Learning Curve is a Myth by Ben Orenstein
- String padding in Objective-C
- Clarity over brevity in variable and method names by DHH
- Send questions to JMac or Jess
Show Notes
- The BaseCode Podcast
- My Favourite Smells by Chris Wheeler
- Scalar Types in PHP
- Integer.times in Ruby
- Carbon
- ValueObject by Martin Fowler
- Range Object by Martin Fowler
- 5 Benefits of Immutable Objects
- Enum Object in PHP
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- Shifty Plans
- Guard statement in Swift
- Cyclomatic Complexity
- Map, Filter, Reduce in JavaScript
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- Outside-in testing
- The Pragmatic Programmer
- Broken Windows Theory
- Are you a Boy Scout?
- git add -p
- Switch statements in Go
- Refactoring UI Videos
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- Tailwind Color Picker by Jess
- Seven Ineffective Coding Habits of Many Programmers by Kevlin Henney (Visual Honesty @ 22:10)
- All the little things by Sandi Metz (Squint Test @ 5:10)
Show Notes
- Jason McCreary
- Jess Archer
- BaseCode Field Guide
- WTFs per minute
- Implementation Patterns by Kent Beck