Kate Trahan

Vest with Evyatar Alush

February 15th, 2022  |  Season 2  |  42 mins 41 secs

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

Evyatar Alush, Frontend Engineer at Facebook, joins us to talk about Vest, a declarative validations framework he created that is inspired by unit testing libraries. How do you have a declarative validation library that also is inspired by testing frameworks like Jest and Mocha? Find out in this episode.

Supabase: Part 2 with Jon Meyers

February 11th, 2022  |  Season 2  |  36 mins 15 secs

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

It's our 100th episode of PodRocket! Jon Meyers, Developer Advocate at Supabase joins us to talk about the open-source alternative to Firebase, updates since we talked to Supabase CEO, Paul Copplestone, what to look for in 2022, and more.

Benthos and blobfish with Ash Jeffs

February 9th, 2022  |  Season 2  |  41 mins 55 secs

open source, software engineering, tech, technology, web development

We talk to Ash Jeffs about Benthos, a declarative data streaming service with a unique mascot and documentation that is both informative and entertaining. In this episode, we discuss stream processing, burnout, and the blobfish.

Modern React with Paige Niedringhaus

February 8th, 2022  |  Season 2  |  50 mins

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

Paige Niedringhaus, Staff Software Engineer at Blues Wireless and author of the Modernizing React Apps course, joins us to talk about keeping your React application up to date, challenges React developers are experiencing, VS Code extensions that you should try, career changes, and more.

Building technical, open-source, and inclusive communities with Hannah Neil

February 4th, 2022  |  Season 2  |  36 mins 20 secs

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

We talk to Hannah Neil, Senior OSS Community Manager at NGINX and former Technical Community Manager at Postman, about creating a career in community management for API-focused products, the difference between community stewardship and community management, and inclusion in technical communities.

Marko with Dylan Piercey

February 1st, 2022  |  Season 2  |  43 mins 50 secs

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

There are a lot of reactive frontend frameworks out there, but Marko is built with an MPA architecture in mind. In this episode, we talk to Dylan Piercey, Platform Engineer at eBay and core team member of Marko, about the features of Marko, how it works, and how Marko is trying to both optimize multi-page applications and give the developer experience of a single-page application.

Getting started with Golang with Johnny Boursiquot

January 21st, 2022  |  Season 2  |  41 mins 30 secs

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

Johnny Boursiquot hosts the Go Time podcast, runs Go Meetups, and is super involved in the Go community. Today he joins us to talk about how to get started with Go, how Go compares to Rust, and his current role as a Platform Observability Engineer at Heroku.

Web3 101 with Noah Hein

January 19th, 2022  |  Season 2  |  40 mins 44 secs

blockchain, frontend development, frontend web development, software engineering, tech, technology, web development, web3

Curious about Web3 but not sure where to start? Noah Hein joins us to share some blockchain and Web3 fundamentals.

Framer Motion and Motion One with Matt Perry

January 18th, 2022  |  Season 2  |  40 mins 3 secs

animations, frontend development, frontend web development, react, software engineering, tech, technology, ui, web development

Framer Motion is a production-ready motion library for React and Motion One is a new animation library, built on the Web Animations API for the smallest file size and the fastest performance. We speak to Matt Perry about Framer Motion, Motion One, animations, and open source.

Community is the future with Rosie Sherry

January 11th, 2022  |  Season 2  |  42 mins 50 secs

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

Rosie Sherry, Community Lead at Orbit, is an expert at community building. Rosie joins us to talk about how she created and grew the Ministry of Testing community, the future of communities, and much more.

Alpine.js with Caleb Porzio (Repeat)

December 31st, 2021  |  Season 1  |  30 mins 38 secs

alpinejs, frontend development, frontend web development, javascript, laravel, software engineering, tech, technology, web development

Originally published on March 2nd, 2021

We are taking some time off from production. We will be back with new episodes on January 4th.

We talk to Caleb Porzio about Alpine.js and what to expect in 2021. We also get into some of Caleb’s other creations like Laravel Livewire and makevscodeawesome.com.

Continuing education with Eve Porcello (Repeat)

December 24th, 2021  |  Season 1  |  40 mins 32 secs

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

Originally published on June 1st, 2021

We are taking some time off from production. We will be back with new episodes on January 4th.

In this episode, we talk to Eve Porcello about her experience teaching web development. We also talk about Moon Highway, a training and curriculum development company she runs with her husband, Alex Banks.

Vue and Vite with Evan You

December 7th, 2021  |  Season 1  |  48 mins 9 secs

frontend development, frontend web development, javascript, software engineering, tech, technology, vite, vue, web development

Evan You joins us on PodRocket to talk about Vue and Vite. What motivated the shift to Vue 3? What is Vite? Do you think Vite will replace Nuxt's webpack default at some point? If you had to start over what would be the biggest rework you would do? Evan answers all of these questions in this episode. Listen now.

Philosophical CSS discussions with Adam Argyle

December 3rd, 2021  |  Season 1  |  38 mins 4 secs

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

Adam Argyle, Chrome CSS Developer Advocate at Google and co-host of the CSS podcast, joins us to talk about CSS, design, edge case wrangling, and more.

Work-life balance with Jason Lengstorf

November 30th, 2021  |  Season 1  |  41 mins 28 secs

developer experience, developer relations, devrel, frontend development, frontend web development, marketing, software engineering, tech, technology, web development

Jason Lengstorf joins us to talk about his role as VP of Developer Experience at Netlify, building corporate communities, live streams, and how to avoid burnout. Listen now.

RocketJam: A PodRocket/FSJam Mashup

October 22nd, 2021  |  Season 1  |  1 hr 2 mins

developer experience, devrel, frontend development, frontend engineering, software engineering, web development

This is a PodRocket/FSJam Mashup. Members from both PodRocket and FSJam talk about some of their favorite episodes, how the podcasts got started, what it's like creating a podcast in the web dev space, what trends they have seen, and more.