PodRocket - A web development podcast from LogRocket

Founder Friday: Ustin Zarubin of Batch

August 27th, 2021  |  Season 1  |  28 mins 56 secs

business, software engineering, startup, tech, web development

It's Founder Friday on PodRocket where we highlight founders of startups in the dev tools space. In this episode, we talk with Ustin Zarubin, CEO and cofounder of Batch, a platform of SaaS tooling for event driven systems.

Epic React, quality content, and office hours with Kent C. Dodds

August 24th, 2021  |  Season 1  |  51 mins 6 secs

frontend development, frontend web development, react, reactjs, software engineering, tech, technology, web development

We sat down with Kent C. Dodds to talk about his mission to improve the world with quality software. Kent has content on Egghead.io and Frontend Masters he also created Testing JavaScript and Epic React. In this episode, we talk about what it's like to teach software development, and, one of our favorite topics of discussion, creating quality content. Listen wherever you get your podcasts and be sure to check out the video recording on our YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efw1wQ9VUZU.

Writing audio apps in JavaScript with Nick Thompson

August 20th, 2021  |  Season 1  |  33 mins 38 secs

frontend web development, software engineering, tech, technology, web development

NOTE: In this episode, Nick takes us through a demo of Elementary. You can check out the video for this recording on our YouTube channel.

We interview Nick Thompson, creator of Elementary Audio, a JavaScript runtime based on Node.js for writing native audio applications, as well as a library and framework for composing audio signal processes.

RxJS with Ben Lesh

August 17th, 2021  |  Season 1  |  40 mins 15 secs

frontend development, frontend web development, rxjs, software engineering, tech, technology, web development

In this episode, we sit down with Ben Lesh, RxJS Project Lead. We wanted to know more about observables, use cases, and common pitfalls when using RxJS. Learn more in this episode.

Envelop, GraphQL, and The Guild with Uri Goldshtein

August 10th, 2021  |  Season 1  |  48 mins 55 secs

frontend development, frontend web development, graphql, software engineering, tech, technology, web development

In this episode, we talk to the founder of The Guild, Uri Goldshtein. We discuss Envelop (a new GraphQL plugin system) as well as other projects The Guild is working on.

Expo: Part 2 with Brent Vatne

August 6th, 2021  |  Season 1  |  34 mins 22 secs

expo, mobile development, react native, software engineering, tech, technology

Ben interviews Brent Vatne, Engineering Manager at Expo, to talk about Expo SDK 42, React Native, and we also have a special announcement about LogRocket!

Professional YouTubing with Jessica Chan

August 3rd, 2021  |  Season 1  |  44 mins 23 secs

frontend development, frontend web development, marketing, software engineering, tech, technology, web development

Jessica Chan joins us for a second interview to talk about her decision to focus on YouTubing full time. Jessica shares the importance of YouTube thumbnails, the future of YouTube tutorials, and more.

Rust with Luca Palmieri

July 30th, 2021  |  Season 1  |  28 mins 10 secs

backend development, rust, software engineering, tech, web development

In the episode, Ben and Kaelan interview Luca Palmieri, author of Zero To Production In Rust. They talk about the Rust ecosystem, Rust frameworks, and telemetry for Rust APIs.

vanilla-extract with Mark Dalgleish

July 27th, 2021  |  Season 1  |  30 mins 58 secs

css, frontend development, frontend web development, javascript, software engineering, tech, technology, web development

In this episode, Ben interviews Mark Dalgleish about CSS Modules and vanilla-extract, which is basically “CSS Modules-in-TypeScript” but with scoped CSS variables. Listen to this episode to learn more about vanilla-extract and how to use it in your next project.

Remotion with Jonny Burger

July 20th, 2021  |  Season 1  |  24 mins 47 secs

frontend development, frontend web development, javascript, react, reactjs, software engineering, tech, technology, web development

Remotion gives you the tools for video creation, but the rules of React stay the same. Ben interviews Jonny Burger, creator of Remotion, to talk about how developers can create videos programmatically using React.