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Good/Clear Communication Is The Key To Success
Writing code and solving problems is fun. Writing emails, blog posts, podcasts, screencasts is NOT FUN (most of the time). I repeat: NOT. It takes serious effort and discipline. That is why it's worthwhile. In this episode I talk about my journey from programming to…
I Finally Feel Great About Livewire
Hello friends. I am back with another episode after a little break. Ah, episode 31 I finally feel great about Livewire. It is very true. Uh, so tomorrow I'm going on virtual stage at Laracon online to release live where 1.0 and demo sort of the state of Livewire, how I am…
AlpineJS | Project-L | Building Trello With Livewire (My Revelation)
Hey friends, lots of new things are going on in my life and I don't have time to tell you about all of them, so I'm just going to pick one. You know what, I'll preview all of them and then I'll tell you specifically about one Alpine is popping off. Um, I think it's hilarious how…
Project X
Hey there. So let's talk about project X. Maybe you've heard of it, maybe you haven't. So I had mentioned that that last big problem and its solution came out of a conversation with my buddy Mitch Mitch Jameson. He's the best layer of El programmer. You've never heard of. Um,…
The BIG Update
Hey friends, it has been a tiny bit. Uh, I'll have, you know that I actually did record a bunch of episodes, but. I wouldn't publish them right away and then I would delete them when I went back to record another one because I don't know, that's just kind of how I am. If I don't…
Current Roadmap
All right. So I started recording another episode and basically ended up just talking about where Livewire is headed and thought, well, why don't I name this properly? So calling this current roadmap, I cut the episode off early and I'm just going to rerecord it. So the. A…
Choose Invisibility
Hello again. Uh, this is a serial episode, so I'm recording this one second after I just recorded the last one. So the last episode, we talked about these hard validation problems, and hopefully I illustrated to you some of the issues that really STEM from a difference that I…
Hard Validation Problems
Okay. I'm standing here at my desk feeling pretty good for two reasons. The first reason is I solved a pretty hard validation problem in live wire. The second reason is, uh, it's, there's a giant blanket of snow outside and it's been snowing all day yesterday and all night…
Wrapping Your Arms Around A Big Tree
So this is a little, um, analogy, metaphor. I dunno. A little thought experiment, analogy thing that I thought of recently, and it just reminded me when I was recording that, that last episode called a lovely refactor. Um, so wrapping your arms around a big tree. Okay. So like I…
A Lovely Refactor
Okay. I am recording this podcast right after a while. I'm kinda in the midst of a really, really fun refactor. One of those refactors that's just been building for awhile. Something I've been thinking about in the back of my mind. No, I've known that the architecture is wrong,…
My Biggest Struggle As A Web Developer
Sorry for the clickbait title. This might not be what you think, but it's the truth. My biggest struggle as a web developer is the toll it takes on my body is my neck. So let's, let's open that up. Um, this is for real though. So, uh, it's something that I don't know. I probably…
How I Cured My Fear Of Public Speaking
Alright. So like I said in the last episode, I am cured of the fear of public speaking or so I think I'll say that I have one experience that is the last talk I gave at full psyche. You were, it wasn't the normal rinse repeat that I talked about last episode where it's like you…
My History With The Fear Of Public Speaking
Okay. So this episode we're going to talk about my wrestling with the fear of public speaking for my whole life. And in the next episode, we're gonna talk about how I cured it. So I'll say that, uh, I just gave a talk at full-stack at UW. I just literally got back off the plane…
The Value Of A Reputation
So funny thing at one point I was actually going to charge for Livewire. That's funny to hear me say that right now, but you've not even that long before larrikin. I mean way before larrikin, but even right before Larrick on I was like really running the numbers and thinking,…
Using Vue With Livewire
Using view with Livewire. So this is the part of the show where Larry comes out and sings a silly song. This is the part of the show my lyric on talk where I you know this for me was like a show-stopping moment. Like, you know, I was demoing some pretty cool stuff with Livewire…
Why I Believe In Livewire
All right, so you're probably expecting my answer to this why I believe in Live Wire to be kind of like the last episode pretty soft broad vague inspirational. I don't know but. It's actually not it's pretty concrete. I believe in Live Wire because of one moment three years ago.…
What Livewire Is All About
So before I talk about what Live Wire is all about I think it's worth noting that I don't control Live Wire Live Wire controls me. So I want Live Wire to become what it's going to become sounds kind of crazy and weird. But but really I try not to have too strict of a vision for…
Be Patient With Abstractions
Okay, so I'm writing a test a JavaScript test in Livewire and I am about to use a testing utility that I've created. So I have this utils dot J's file inside my testing folder for JavaScript and it's where I have all of my testing helpers and they're all in charge of the same…
Submit Pull Requests
So today I want to talk about pull requests pull requests. Yeah. So on GitHub, there's issues. Every repository has issues. It's a little tab. You can submit bugs and stuff feature requests, whatever and then there's the pull request Tab and there's a little notification next to…
Change Your Environment (On Silencing Twitter)
So yesterday I'm standing on my porch waiting for a ride and I pull out my phone and I start scrolling through Twitter and I read something that this isn't necessarily anything out of the ordinary, but I read a tweet from a friend who let's just say did something good like.…
Open The Black Box (The Solution To My DOM Diffing Woes)
So last time we chatted well two times ago talked about my dom diffing woes. Why dom diffing matters in Livewire why it's not perfect why it's super frustrating. Well, I have good news. We're through the woods a little bit and I feel a lot better about where where I'm at with…
SFP: The Single File Principle
Okay today. I want to talk about a new principal object oriented principle. I just made up called SFP the single file principle and this is also sort of my way of communicating something without saying SRP single responsibility principle which tends to get people with their…
My DOM Diffing Woes
Okay. So this episode is going to be the one where I actually talk to you about what I came here to talk to you about. Hopefully listen to episode 9 about how Dom different works. So I'm at a fork in the road. I'm getting all these issues not a ton. You know, it's not like…
How DOM Diffing/Patching Works
Hey there today. I want to talk about Dom diffing so and my dom different woes first. What what is dumb diffing? So Live Wire is a front-end framework. What am I even saying? It's not even useful knowledge. You know, it's a front-end framework. Let's jump in so view JS when you…























