Episodes

  • Building LLM agents in JS

    Building LLM agents in JS
    Jul 18 2024
    KBall and returning guest Tejas Kumar dive into the topic of building LLM agents using JavaScript. What they are, how they can be useful (including how Tejas used home-built agents to double his podcasting productivity) & how to get started building and running your own agents, even all on your own device with local models.
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    59 mins
  • The Ember take on recent hot topics

    The Ember take on recent hot topics
    Jul 11 2024
    KBall takes another dive into recent hot topics around reactivity and build systems, this time with three members of the Ember core team. They also talk about some of the reasons why the Ember community has been so long lived, how thinking about upgradeability leads to universality, and how features first built specifically for frameworks make their way into the language specification or universal libraries.
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    1 hr and 23 mins
  • A standard library for JavaScript

    A standard library for JavaScript
    Jul 4 2024
    Philipp Burckhardt, Athan Reines & the team behind stdlib.io believe in a future in which the web is a preferred environment for numerical computation. They've been working toward building that future for over a decade. Thanks to listener, Brian Zelip, Jerod sits down with Philipp to learn all about this excellent effort: where it's been & where it's headed.
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    51 mins
  • React Native the Expo way

    React Native the Expo way
    Jun 27 2024
    Jerod sits down with React Native aficionado, Simon Grimm, to catch up on everyone's favorite native app platform & learn about Expo, which Simon thinks is *the* way forward for devs building with React Native.
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    58 mins
  • Polypane-demonium

    Polypane-demonium
    Jun 20 2024
    Polypane purveyor Kilian Valkhof joins Nick & Jerod to tell us all about his efforts building a web browser just for web development. We cover it all: from the business concerns, to the technical details, to his _excellent_ choice not to use TypeScript! We even sneak in a feature request that already made its way into this excellent dev tool for ambitious web developers.
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    1 hr and 29 mins
  • Should web development need a build step?

    Should web development need a build step?
    Jun 6 2024
    We’re back with another spicy YepNope debate! This time, Nick & regular guest Eric Clemmons are arguing that web development should need a build step, while KBall & special guest Amy Dutton argue that we really shouldn't. Of course, the stance each panelist is taking is assigned ahead of time. Is that how they really feel? Tune in to find out!
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    1 hr and 7 mins
  • 11ty goes fully independent

    11ty goes fully independent
    May 30 2024
    11ty creator Zach Leatherman is taking the open source site generator fully independent in 2024 and he's back on the pod to tell us why, how & what we all can do to help.
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    1 hr and 15 mins
  • Big Gulps, huh?

    Big Gulps, huh?
    May 23 2024
    Jerod & KBall discuss what's new in the world of web development: the State of HTML survey results, Node 22, React Compiler, React 19 Beta, vlt.sh & the Gulp (!) Developer Survey.
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    58 mins