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08/12/2024

#066 - CSS Is The Hardest Programming Language

In today’s episode, we bring Adam Argyle, a CSS Dev Rel at Google, content creator, co-host at CSS Podcast, Bad At CSS Podcast and host of GUI Challenges. He’s also the creator of a bunch of tools and utilities for the front-end. We’re going to touch on a lot of hot topics, regarding the difficulty and power of CSS, how programmers most of the time underestimate and dismiss it as something trivial when in reality it’s one of the hardest things to master in the programming world. We also go over AI, the barriers between designers and developers and a bunch of other topics. Learn back-end development - https://www.boot.dev Listen on your favorite podcast player: https://www.backendbanter.fm Adam's Website: https://nerdy.dev/ Adam's X/Twitter: https://x.com/argyleink Adam on Chrome For Developers: https://chromeextensionsdocs.appspot.com/authors/argyle/ The CSS Podcast: https://thecsspodcast.libsyn.com/ Bad at CSS Podcast: https://badatcss.com/ Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 00:51 CSS Wizard has entered the chat 02:37 HTML and CSS are not programming languages 07:44 There's a case for complex things using CSS 10:28 CSS is declarative by nature 17:58 Writing CSS is a pain 20:43 AI isn't a threat to CSS 21:19 Breaking barriers between designers and developers 26:33 Getting to an entry-level competency on the backend is a bit more difficult when compared to the frontend 31:37 Adam's backstory 33:40 Knowing everything 34:56 The majority of the complexity lives on the frontend a lot of the times 38:48 South Park Reality 39:49 BFF vs BOF (Backend for frontend vs Backend of the Frontend) 47:03 CSS is typed in the browser 51:28 Take on why are there so many mormons and ex-mormons in the webdev and tech influencer scene? 54:08 Where to find Adam
10/02/2023

#021 - TypeScript vs Elixir: An FP Showdown with Theo Browne

Theo Browne is a notorious tech YouTuber and streamer, CEO of Ping.gg, TypeScript advocate and creator of the t3 stack. In this episode Theo sheds some light on his background in Elixir, a functional programming language that runs on the Erlang VM, and why he made the switch to TypeScript while working at Twitch.
01/15/2024

#036 - BadCop's Bash Breakdown

Lane chats with BadCop-- a senior Bash engineer, Twitch streamer and the mastermind behind their online presence. From the origins of 'BadCop' to the recent emergence of 'BashCop,' they explore scripting languages, focusing on Bash, shells, terminals and more. Follow the conversation in this enlightening episode, unraveling the intricacies of online identity and the technical landscape of Unix shells! Learn back-end development - https://boot.devListen on your favorite podcast player: https://www.backendbanter.com BadCop Twitter: twitter.com/badcop_BadCop Twitch: twitch.tv/badcop_
12/05/2023

#030 - The Future of Backend JavaScript with a Node.js Maintainer: Matteo Collina

Matteo Collina is a member of the Node.js technical steering committee and has one of the most impressive developer resumes we've ever seen. His 500 NPM modules have over 17 billion downloads. Today, he sits down with Lane to discuss Node, the future of backend web development, and Platformatic, his new startup. Learn back-end development - https://boot.devListen on your favorite podcast player: https://www.backendbanter.com Matteo's Twitter: https://twitter.com/matteocollina
05/29/2023

#003 Architecting a Backend that Serves Millions with Adam Elmore

Lane chats with Adam Elmore, cofounder of StatMuse about how he builds scalable B2C backend infrastructure on AWS. They discuss the pros and cons of some of the new serverless stuff Adam works with, and how that plays into legacy code bases. Learn backend development - https://boot.devPodcast Homepage: https://backendbanter.fm Adam's links: https://adam.dev
09/19/2023

Backend Banter | Official Trailer

The near-cinematic trailer for the backend banter podcast. Featuring The Primeagen, Melkey, TJ Devries, Miriah Peterson, Bill Kennedy, and Brian Morrison from PlanetScale. Hope you like the pod!
06/12/2023

#005 - Scaling Databases Every Which Way with Glauber Costa

Lane chats with Glauber Costa, a founder of Turso DB, maintainer of the Linux kernel, and ex-Scylla DB developer. If you're curious how databases scale up to trillions of records, or how they scale out to geographic edge platforms, this conversation is for you. Learn back-end development - https://boot.dev Glauber on Twitter: https://twitter.com/glcstTurso DB: https://turso.tech/ Leave a review and subscribe in your podcast player if you enjoyed the episode!
06/05/2023

#004 - PHD turned Backend Developer with Simon B

Lane chats with Simon B, a PHD in electrical engineering from the UK who has founded startups, worked as a CTO, and publishes educational coding content under the alias "All the Code"! They talk about Simon's experience breaking into the software development industry. Learn back-end development - https://boot.devListen to the podcast: https://backendbanter.fm Find Simon: https://allthecode.co/podcast
10/16/2023

#023 - Has Web Development Regressed? A Conversation with Wes Bos

Has web development gone full circle? Should we really just be writing PHP monoliths? Maybe all go back to WordPress? Wes and Lane break down how web development has changed over the years, and where its heading next. Wes Twitter: https://twitter.com/wesbosWes Insta: https://www.instagram.com/wesbos/Wes YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@WesBosWes site: https://wesbos.com/Wes Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wesbos/
07/03/2023

#008 - Accelerating Your Coding Career with Charles Max Wood

Lane and Charles talk about how you can get ahead in your coding career, and move up more quickly from junior to senior developer. Charles is the founder of topenddevs.com and hosts myriad tech podcasts, and has spoken prolifically about how to level up your career as a developer. Charles on Twitter: https://twitter.com/cmaxwTopenddevs: https://topenddevs.com/

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#066 - CSS Is The Hardest Programming Language

#021 - TypeScript vs Elixir: An FP Showdown with Theo Browne

#036 - BadCop's Bash Breakdown

#030 - The Future of Backend JavaScript with a Node.js Maintainer: Matteo Collina

#003 Architecting a Backend that Serves Millions with Adam Elmore

Backend Banter | Official Trailer

#005 - Scaling Databases Every Which Way with Glauber Costa

#004 - PHD turned Backend Developer with Simon B

#023 - Has Web Development Regressed? A Conversation with Wes Bos

#008 - Accelerating Your Coding Career with Charles Max Wood

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