41 episodes
The Function Call Austin Gil
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The Function Call is a show about friends, and it’s also a show about programming. We get together and talk about tech, what we're working on, and the little things, like what we had for dinner last night. Come hang out, have a laugh, and maybe learn something new. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thefncall/support
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41 - A deep dive into file uploads
In this episode, we talked about a deep-dive series Austin has been working on, all about file uploads. We looked at file uploads in HTML and JS. Then moved into the backend with Node.js. We discussed `multipart/form-data`, "Chunks", "Buffers", and "Streams". After that, we discussed where to store files like Object Storage and S3. And briefly discussed deliver and security with a CDN.
Links:
Austin's "File Uploads for the Web" series
HTML form element
HTML file input
Fetch API
Streams
Buffer
formidable
Austin's blog series all about file uploads
Object Storage
Akamai CDN
Austin's "6 Steps to Improve HTML Images For Users & Developers" blog post
Akamai Image & Video Manager
General recommendations and accolades to unrelated products/services:
Austin - Stick-on credit card holder for phones & Magnetic phone mount for car vents
Grant - Bike fitting - do it so you arent in pain
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40 - Looking back at 2022 and forward to 2023
It's been a minute since our last episode so we had to spend some time catching up on things. We looked back at 2022 and spent some time sharing our hopes for 2023. It was a nice chat to get back in the swing of things heading into the year.
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39 - Edge solutions, HTML can access user's camera, & Grant has a power trip
In this episode Austin shares some cool things he's learned about recently. Edge compute can fix performance bugs in Apache, and the HTML capture attribute is a handy way to open up the user's camera. Grant goes into his new role where he gets to control TypeScript and ESLint rules at his organization; the ultimate power trip.
Links:
Fixing Obscure Bugs: Apache, GZip, ETags, & Edge Compute
TIL: You Can Access A User’s Camera with Just HTML
JS Party - Smile! HTML can access your camera
TypeScript expect error
Love:
Grant - Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Austin - Too Good To Go
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38 - Reminiscing on Remix
In this episode, Austin shares about his recent experience with Remix.run, a full-stack JavaScript web framework. We discuss what it is, what it's not, some things we like, some things we don't, and how you can think about it. TLDR: It's pretty cool. In fact, it even got Austin to write React.
It was a very serious chat (sorry, no bloopers).
Appreciations:
Grant - Taking time off
Austin - Watermelons & Stranger Things
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37 - Hold the mustard. This episode is moslty catch-up.
In this episode, Grant and Austin do some catch up on what’s been going on since the last call. Grant’s goes into all sorts of interesting stuff including Static Site Generation, working on design systems, migration from enterpriseGitHub to GitHub cloud, managing several different code bases with monorepos. Austin is mostly just happy to hear Grant talk about his day and shares some fun changes sing Akamai acquired Linode.
Shoutouts:
Austin - Owning your own domain name
Grant - Having your own email. Star Trek: Picard
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36 - Chatting about AgnosticUI with Rob Levin
In this episode Grant and Austin are visited by special guest and creator of AgnosticUI, Rob Levin. Rob shares the story behind AgnosticUI, how it got started, why the world needs it, and some interesting bits into how it all works. We also discuss some more general topics around design systems, CSS, open source, accessibility and more. He is a great guy with a very interesting project, and we think you should check it out.
Links:
AgnosticUI - https://www.agnosticui.com/
Blog - https://developtodesign.com/
A11y Dialog - https://a11y-dialog.ne
Rob’s Illustration Work - https://roblevin.myportfolio.com/work
Shout outs:
Rob - Vuetensils, Traversy Media's CSS Grid Layout Crash Course
Grant - Feit Electric smart power strip (also their whole line of other smart bulbs are great)
Austin - Raised by Wolves Season 2
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Customer Reviews
Austin knows his ‘ish
I found this podcast after being quite impressed with Austin’s Vuetensils UI library. It has a lot of useful tidbits and I like how irreverent Grant is juxtaposed with Austin’s personality. There’s another guy who pops in AJ I think lol.
Pontificating obnoxiously at times I forgive them since the balance it out with some proper self deprecation as well. Coming off with just a wee bit more humility (at times) would be nice but I won’t remove 5 stars as a result.
In seriousness, if you’re a FE dev that enjoys talking to someone who cares about A11y, often tells you about a web standard on the horizon you hadn’t heard of, etc., you will like this. I’ve been cherry picking episodes in chronological order and I think they get better and better.
Would be nice if Austin invested in a better signal path to equal Grant (who’s audio is very clear and has a very close proximity). Hasn’t been a problem listening in quarantine but would be on a Bart train.
Hopefully the guys don’t mind the 5 star review with some feedback on what might make the show even better. Otherwise, great stuff guys—keep it up!