Curious Coders Chronicles: Recent Episodes
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The Curious Coders Chronicles recount the magical happenings in the wondrous world of programming.
Bouwe, an Arch-Frontend-Mage, sparkles out beautiful React and JavaScript views, while the underground Backend-Necromancer Rich is conjuring Ruby and Rails with their little hob-goblins Hotwire with StimulusJS.
With other friendly bards, they extol a variety of computer science topics and tech topics, like functional programming, code architecture, legacy code, refactoring, clean code, test-driven development (TDD), pair programming, and much more.
Please join their melody and enjoy!
Bouwe.IO and RichStone.IO identified common focus blocks and creation obstacles and devised a set of solutions to get yourself unlocked. If that doesn't help you, it should at least give you some tools to get started and experiment with something new.
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Social media is not always fun but as developers it's also a learning tool and a way to socialize. You can keep focused on Twitter too, even if it seems like the SM world (and sometimes your brain) is imploding.
Coderily yours,
bouwe.io
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Join us in the latest episode of Curious Coders Chronicles as hosts Rich and Bouwe delve into the symbiotic relationship between knowledge management and content creation. Explore how these two crucial elements interlace to drive innovation and streamline processes. Discover the power of efficient knowledge transfer, ensuring insights endure even when team members move on. Tune in for insights on optimizing your workflow through the art of syncing minds.
Do you want to go live with us and discuss some hotness, or do you have any other questions? We are curious about it! Just shoot us a message on Twitter: @bouwe or @RichStoneIO
More good stuff about JavaScript, Ruby, Rails, test-driven development, Elm, React, career, developer content creation, developer marketing, and everything else in the tech industry from your hosts:
- richstone.io
- bouwe.io
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You might not need a backend yet when you want just to ship a frontend and vice versa. We are talking about ideas and tools to do just that. Enjoy!
Do you want to go live with us and discuss some hotness, or do you have any other questions?
We are curious about it! Just shoot us a message on Twitter: @bouwe or @RichStoneIO (or wherever else you find us)
More good stuff about JavaScript, Ruby, Rails, test-driven development, Elm, React, career, developer content creation, developer marketing, and everything else in the tech industry from your hosts:
- richstone.io
- bouwe.io
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Vitor Oliveira knows his stuff because he creates software for about 20 years and is currently the co-founder of Napice - a career growth portal. In this conversation, Vitor interviews Rich about common pitfalls for early career devs, the good, the bad, and the ugly parts of Ruby on Rails, as well as engineering practices in general. Enjoy!
Do you want to go live with us and discuss some hotness, or do you have any other questions? We are curious about it! Just shoot us a message on Twitter: @bouwe or @RichStoneIO More good stuff about JavaScript, Ruby, Rails, test-driven development, Elm, React, career, developer content creation, developer marketing, and everything else in the tech industry from your hosts:
richstone.io bouwe.io
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In this episode, Bouwe and Rich discuss and give some guidelines on how to make testing more useful and (who knows!) more fun.
As a developer, writing tests is a necessity. It automates the confidence that our code (or our app) works now, and will keep on working. And if you use TDD, it can even guide you in structuring code well. However, despite these benefits, many developers consider testing to be a necessary evil, sometimes not even useful, and definitely not fun. So let's talk about how we can make testing more useful and even perhaps fun, by deciding WHAT and HOW to test.
Recources:
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Book: Kent Beck - TDD by Example
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Kent C. Dodds' https://kentcdodds.com/blog/testing-implementation-details blog post
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More good stuff about JavaScript, Ruby, Rails, test-driven development, Elm, React, career, developer content creation, developer marketing, and everything else in the tech industry from your hosts:
- richstone.io
- bouwe.io
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Bouwe and Rich discuss the intricacies of giving a presentation that you feel confident about based on Rich's recent talk at the RailsConf 2023, where he kept cool despite technical issues and tiny mess-ups. Listen for profound presentation tips and a follow-up discussion about doing things you usually don't do.
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More good stuff about JavaScript, Ruby, Rails, test-driven development, Elm, React, career, developer content creation, developer marketing, and everything else in the tech industry from your hosts:
- richstone.io
- bouwe.io
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As a developer, what is it like to have a kid that's interested in learning programming? And how is their journey different from ours? And which role does AI play in this?
Meet Flutter Virtuoso Stephan Veenstra, with whom we talk about code, kids, and the joys and challenges of raising (and being) a future programmer.
Connect with Stephan at FlutterGameDev
Do you want to go live with us and discuss some hotness, or do you have any other questions? We are curious about it! Just shoot us a message on Twitter: @bouwe or @RichStoneIO
More good stuff about JavaScript, Ruby, Rails, test-driven development, Elm, React, career, developer content creation, developer marketing, and everything else in the tech industry from your hosts:
- richstone.io
- bouwe.io
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What are headless CMS, why are they useful, and where are some sharp edges? Same with developer relations, have you ever wondered if you are an 🥑?
Meet the energy cube Alvin Bryan from Contentful who talked with us about Headless CMS and developer content creation.
Connect with Alvin at alvin.codes
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More good stuff about JavaScript, Ruby, Rails, test-driven development, Elm, React, career, developer content creation, developer marketing, and everything else in the tech industry from your hosts:
- richstone.io
- bouwe.io
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The pragmatic programmer book says that the author creates a state machine every other week. So this week, the curious coders create a bananas state machine in our mind's visual eye with a new guest on the show:
The great and mighty pianist, React rockstar, and a Brit in Scotland: Nick Worral
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- richstone.io
- bouwe.io
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Rich has his first ever conference talk coming up at the RailsConf 2023 in Atlanta.
He's sharing with Bouwe his methods of preparation and both are talking about how to make your next presentation awesome!
There is also a YouTube video recording of the spontaneous whiteboard session at the end:
https://youtu.be/njT0uYOCY9g
Wanna go live with us and discuss some hotness? We are curious about it! Just shoot us a message on Twitter: @bouwe or @RichStoneIO
More good stuff about Ruby, Rails, Test-driven development, Elm, React, Career, Content Creation, developer marketing, and everything else in the tech industry from your hosts:
- richstone.io
- bouwe.io
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Test-driven development can be an awesome way to guide your coding process.
Today, Borja is getting his TDD certificate from wannabe mastermind Rich, so we are talking about the basics:
- what is TDD?
- how does it work?
- when to do it and when not...
- bananas......
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More good stuff about Ruby, Rails, Test-driven development, Elm, React, Career, Content Creation, developer marketing, and everything else in the tech industry from your hosts:
- richstone.io
- bouwe.io
- @BorjaGVO
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TypeScript can be confusing, especially for beginners. In this episode, we won't really dive into the language and syntax, but rather take a step back and answer questions like: What does (and doesn't) TypeScript do for you? What are the benefits for using it, for you, the users of your app, and your career? After listening to this episode you are (even more) ready for the deep dive into the wizardry of TypeScript.
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- richstone.io
- bouwe.io
- @BorjaGVO
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API and OAuth Authentication on Rails with @BorjaGVO.
Adding authentication can be a bit of a blocker because it's barely part of the framework. And once we get into offering a public API, it becomes a whole other story where you have yet again a multiplied amount of possibilities than just Devise and Co.
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- richstone.io
- bouwe.io
- @BorjaGVO
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Last time we spoke about the why and what of developer marketing and a bit of how via networking, blogging, and more.
This time, in the second part of the Developer Content Marketing trilogy, we touched on why you would distribute your content and how as well as where create it at all.
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Why and what of developer marketing, as well as a bit of how via networking, blogging, and more. Next time, we go broader and deeper into the How.
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There's a practical part that's probably already on YouTube.
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Discussion around the different approaches to handle errors in JavaScript, React, Ruby, and Rails.
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There's a lot to talk about, but are you ready to create content and do the actual big thing?
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There's a practical part that's probably already on YouTube.
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We'll explore different remote setups for different situations.
Different tools are good for different ways of working, like casual sync, pair programming, or knowledge sharing.
Tools include VSCode, IntelliJ, Zoom, CodePen, and more with some practical tests to see how to use them in different situations.
This is also a preparation for one of our next curious coder's session which will be coding heavier.
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There's a practical part that's probably already on YouTube.
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- bouwe.io
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Job markets from 1999 to 2023 and career considerations 🤔
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Trends, superstitions, and prophecies.
Here a LinkedIn-viral Ruby on Rails post about trends:
https://richstone.io/ruby-and-rails-going-from-2022-to-2023/
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An introduction to what Hotwire is, how the new Rails import maps work, and how Ruby on Rails tries to get rid of JavaScript dependencies as the default.
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- https://bouwe.io
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Rich learns from Bouwe about a technology that he has heard of but has no idea what it is or what to eat it with: Elm?
More awesome beginner stuff on Elm with your first baby steps here: https://bouwe.io/elm-baby-steps (also check the follow up posts 🚀)
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- https://bouwe.io
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The very first Curious Coders webcast...
How did it come to that? Who are the originators Bouwe and Rich? What's their "developer origin story"? What do they have in mind for the Curious Coders Community?
And what will they code in this first intro session!?
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