Curious Coders Chronicles

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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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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Do you want to go live with us and discuss some hotness, or do you have any other questions?

We are curious about it! Just shoot us a message on Twitter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠@bouwe⁠⁠⁠⁠ or ⁠⁠⁠⁠@RichStoneIO⁠⁠⁠⁠ (or wherever else you find us)

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

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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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.

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.

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:

Rich has his first ever conference talk coming up at the RailsConf 2023 in Atlanta.

He's sharing with Bouwe his methods of preparation and both are talking about how to make your next presentation awesome!

There is also a YouTube video recording of the spontaneous whiteboard session at the end:

TypeScript can be confusing, especially for beginners. In this episode, we won't really dive into the language and syntax, but rather take a step back and answer questions like: What does (and doesn't) TypeScript do for you? What are the benefits for using it, for you, the users of your app, and your career? After listening to this episode you are (even more) ready for the deep dive into the wizardry of TypeScript.

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Last time we spoke about the why and what of developer marketing and a bit of how via networking, blogging, and more.

This time, in the second part of the Developer Content Marketing trilogy, we touched on why you would distribute your content and how as well as where create it at all.

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Why and what of developer marketing, as well as a bit of how via networking, blogging, and more. Next time, we go broader and deeper into the How.

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Discussion around the different approaches to handle errors in JavaScript, React, Ruby, and Rails.

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There's a lot to talk about, but are you ready to create content and do the actual big thing?

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We'll explore different remote setups for different situations. 

Different tools are good for different ways of working, like casual sync, pair programming, or knowledge sharing. 

Tools include VSCode, IntelliJ, Zoom, CodePen, and more with some practical tests to see how to use them in different situations.

This is also a preparation for one of our next curious coder's session which will be coding heavier.

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Job markets from 1999 to 2023 and career considerations 🤔

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Trends, superstitions, and prophecies.

Here a LinkedIn-viral Ruby on Rails post about trends:

https://richstone.io/ruby-and-rails-going-from-2022-to-2023/

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An introduction to what Hotwire is, how the new Rails import maps work, and how Ruby on Rails tries to get rid of JavaScript dependencies as the default.

Rich learns from Bouwe about a technology that he has heard of but has no idea what it is or what to eat it with: Elm?

More awesome beginner stuff on Elm with your first baby steps here: https://bouwe.io/elm-baby-steps (also check the follow up posts 🚀)

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