The Curious Coders Chronicles recount the magical happenings in the wondrous world of programming. Bouwe, an Arch-Frontend-Mage, sparkles out beautiful React and JavaScript views, while the underground Backend-Necromancer Rich is conjuring Ruby and Rails with their little hob-goblins Hotwire with StimulusJS. With other friendly bards, they extol a variety of computer science topics and tech topics, like functional programming, code architecture, legacy code, test-driven development (TDD), pair programming, and much more. A lot of the episodes have a practical YouTube part to dive deeper ;)
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February 4, 20241 hr 1 min
Solutions to your focus and creation blocks
Bouwe.IO and RichStone.IO identified common focus blocks and creation obstacles and devised a set of solutions to get yourself unlocked. If that doesn't help you, it should at least give you some tools to get started and experiment with something new.
October 30, 202354 min
The sorrows of young social media developer consumers
Social media is not always fun but as developers it's also a learning tool and a way to socialize. You can keep focused on Twitter too, even if it seems like the SM world (and sometimes your brain) is imploding.
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August 31, 202345 min
Syncing Minds: Unveiling the Nexus of Knowledge Management and Creative Content
Join us in the latest episode of Curious Coders Chronicles as hosts Rich and Bouwe delve into the symbiotic relationship between knowledge management and content creation. Explore how these two crucial elements interlace to drive innovation and streamline processes. Discover the power of efficient knowledge transfer, ensuring insights endure even when team members move on. Tune in for insights on optimizing your workflow through the art of syncing minds.
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More good stuff about JavaScript, Ruby, Rails, test-driven development, Elm, React, career, developer content creation, developer marketing, and everything else in the tech industry from your hosts:
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July 25, 20231 hr 1 min
Things that matter to just ship your side projects
You might not need a backend yet when you want just to ship a frontend and vice versa. We are talking about ideas and tools to do just that. Enjoy!
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More good stuff about JavaScript, Ruby, Rails, test-driven development, Elm, React, career, developer content creation, developer marketing, and everything else in the tech industry from your hosts:
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July 8, 202358 min
Engineering and Rails gotchas for early career devs with Vitor Oliviera
Vitor Oliveira knows his stuff because he creates software for about 20 years and is currently the co-founder of Napice - a career growth portal. In this conversation, Vitor interviews Rich about common pitfalls for early career devs, the good, the bad, and the ugly parts of Ruby on Rails, as well as engineering practices in general. Enjoy!
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More good stuff about JavaScript, Ruby, Rails, test-driven development, Elm, React, career, developer content creation, developer marketing, and everything else in the tech industry from your hosts:
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May 23, 20231 hr 7 min
How to make testing more useful and fun
In this episode, Bouwe and Rich discuss and give some guidelines on how to make testing more useful and (who knows!) more fun.
As a developer, writing tests is a necessity. It automates the confidence that our code (or our app) works now, and will keep on working. And if you use TDD, it can even guide you in structuring code well. However, despite these benefits, many developers consider testing to be a necessary evil, sometimes not even useful, and definitely not fun. So let's talk about how we can make testing more useful and even perhaps fun, by deciding WHAT and HOW to test.
Recources:
- Book: Kent Beck - TDD by Example
- Kent C. Dodds' https://kentcdodds.com/blog/testing-implementation-details blog post
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May 7, 20231 hr 34 min
The 4 Key Elements of Giving Confident Presentations
Bouwe and Rich discuss the intricacies of giving a presentation that you feel confident about based on Rich's recent talk at the RailsConf 2023, where he kept cool despite technical issues and tiny mess-ups. Listen for profound presentation tips and a follow-up discussion about doing things you usually don't do.
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More good stuff about JavaScript, Ruby, Rails, test-driven development, Elm, React, career, developer content creation, developer marketing, and everything else in the tech industry from your hosts:
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April 25, 202355 min
Curious Kids Coders with Stephan Veenstra
As a developer, what is it like to have a kid that's interested in learning programming? And how is their journey different from ours? And which role does AI play in this?
Meet Flutter Virtuoso Stephan Veenstra, with whom we talk about code, kids, and the joys and challenges of raising (and being) a future programmer.
Connect with Stephan at FlutterGameDev
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More good stuff about JavaScript, Ruby, Rails, test-driven development, Elm, React, career, developer content creation, developer marketing, and everything else in the tech industry from your hosts:
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April 12, 202355 min
Headless content and DevRel with Alvin Bryan
What are headless CMS, why are they useful, and where are some sharp edges? Same with developer relations, have you ever wondered if you are an 🥑?
Meet the energy cube Alvin Bryan from Contentful who talked with us about Headless CMS and developer content creation.
Connect with Alvin at alvin.codes
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More good stuff about JavaScript, Ruby, Rails, test-driven development, Elm, React, career, developer content creation, developer marketing, and everything else in the tech industry from your hosts:
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April 3, 202337 min
Nick Worrall's banana state machine with Ruby and JavaScript
The pragmatic programmer book says that the author creates a state machine every other week. So this week, the curious coders create a bananas state machine in our mind's visual eye with a new guest on the show:
The great and mighty pianist, React rockstar, and a Brit in Scotland: Nick Worral
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