Docs are often critically important to the success / failure of a project, but what happens behind the curtain? In this episode, we have special guest Jacklyn Carroll to talk about her work on the Netlify docs team and her experience with the world of docs.🔌 PlugsWrite the Docshttps://www.writethedocs.org/Rachael’s talkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaBLXKGs9cQJessica Parson’s talkhttps://www.writethedocs.org/videos/portland/2019/lessons-learned-in-a-year-of-docs-driven-development-jessica-parsons/👥 PanelistsJacklyn CarrollCassidy WilliamsBrittney PostmaBen Hong

Welcome to Remotely Interesting brought to you by Netlify. Tools in the site-generation and framework space are evolving fast. And Astro is an example of one such tool which is doing wonderful things. Shortly before the release of its v2.0, we spoke with Ben Holmes from the Astro team to learn more about what’s coming, and to fan-rant about his whiteboard skills, apparently.🔌 PlugsAstro 2.0 DetailsObsidiantheJam.dev👥 PanelistsPeople who were remotely interesting:Ben HolmesBen HongPhil HawksworthSalma Alam-NaylorAs always, we hope you find it remotely interesting.

Welcome to Remotely Interesting brought to you by Netlify. The Jamstack definition is a lot different than it was when it first released, so let’s talk about where the Jamstack is today and how people can get involved with special guest Domitrius Clark!🔌 PlugsOfficial Jamstack SiteJamstack GlossaryJamstack Discord👥 PanelistsPeople who were remotely interesting:Ben HongBrittney PostmaCassidy WilliamsDomitrius ClarkPhil HawksworthAs always, we hope you find it remotely interesting.

Welcome to Remotely Interesting brought to you by Netlify. There’s been a lot of buzz about “serverless” and what it is, but what does it mean to “think in serverless?” After all, it’s one thing to know what serverless means, but it’s another to be able to integrate it into strategic thinking. And in this episode, we have a special guest, Ivan Zarea, to help us with that serverless mindset.🔌 PlugsNetlify Serverless Functions DocsUp and Running with Serverless Functions (Free Course)👥 PanelistsPeople who were remotely interesting:Ben HongBrittney PostmaCassidy WilliamsIvan ZareaSalma Alam-NaylorAs always, we hope you find it remotely interesting.

Welcome to Remotely Interesting brought to you by Netlify.Let’s face it. Open source is a big world and it can be intimidating to navigate. In this episode, we’ll talk about our experience with and what it’s like to contribute to it.🔌 PlugsOpenHatchhttps://gramps.js.org/Nadia Eghbal - Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source SoftwareCriminal HTML “Hacking” EventBrian Douglas (Open Sauced)Ambassador Program - Auth0HacktoberfestTwilio Champion - https://www.twilio.com/championsSetting good expectations — https://www.jason.af/setting-expectations/Why Reproductions are Required - https://antfu.me/posts/why-reproductions-are-requiredLearn With Jason (like and subscribe!) — https://www.learnwithjason.devPhil’s voiceover work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUlAMMborUIPeanut Butter & Mayo Sandwich Tweet Thread👥 PanelistsPeople who were remotely interesting:Tara Z. ManicsicBrittney PostmaJason LengstorfPrince WilsonPhil HawksworthBen HongAs always, we hope you find it remotely interesting.

Welcome to Remotely Interesting brought to you by Netlify. Let’s face it. As developers, there are SO many tools for us to choose from! 😵‍💫 It’s not wonder why many of us develop decision fatigue and paralysis as the industry continues to grow and expand. In this episode, we talk about how we navigate the complex ecosystem and some of our favorite tools for being productive.🔌 PlugsDevsForUkraineInstall Linux on Windows with WSLaxe DevToolsCenteredTodoistNotiontodometerObsidianTrelloIndieHackers/r/SomeoneBuildThisThe Acronyms of Rendering on the WebDependabot👥 PanelistsPeople who were remotely interesting:Ben HongBrittney PostmaCassidy WilliamsSalma Alam-NaylorTara Z. ManicsicAs always, we hope you find it remotely interesting.

Welcome to Remotely Interesting brought to you by Netlify. In our first official Debate and Switch episode, Phil, Tara, and Ben are debating (and then switching) on the topic of Monopolizing Technology: Is it good? Is it bad? You’ll have to listen to find out which it is!🔌 PlugsOpenJS FoundationMonopoly for iOS👥 PanelistsPeople who were remotely interesting:Tara Z. ManicsicPhil HawksworthBen HongAs always, we hope you find it remotely interesting.

Welcome to Remotely Interesting brought to you by Netlify. If you are thinking about making the transition from an engineering role to a management role, then this episode is for you. In this session, we'll explore what our experience has been, and things to watch out for if you choose to make the switch!🔌 Plugshttp://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/dynlangs/People/madleina.htmhttps://adamgrant.net/book/think-again/https://www.radicalcandor.com/https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40745.Mindset👥 PanelistsPeople who were remotely interesting:Ben HongBrittney PostmaCassidy WilliamsMadleina ScheideggerPhil HawksworthTara Z. ManicsicAs always, we hope you find it remotely interesting.

Welcome to Remotely Interesting brought to you by Netlify. In this episode, we talk about change management and driving forward critical-but-often-undervalued work with special guest Thuy Doan (pronounced Twee and Doan rhymes with “cone”! 🍦) from Prodigy Education. A company that aims to help every child in the world love learning. Their main products are currently a Math MMO for elementary school students and online tutoring.🔌 PlugThe Change EquationWCAG 2.0 and 2.1 in Plain English by Dreams Fulfilled Through Music and Monday Loves You👥 PanelistsPeople who were remotely interesting:Thuy DoanCassidy WilliamsJason LengstorfTara Z. ManicsicAs always, we hope you find it remotely interesting.

Welcome to Remotely Interesting brought to you by Netlify. In this episode we talk about our thoughts on the good, bad, and ugly of a workplace environment. You’ll learn about some of our distractions, uncomfortable chairs, Jason’s shaking standing desk, and much more.👥 PanelistsPeople who were remotely interesting:Prince WilsonJason LengstorfCharlie GerardPhil HawksworthTara Z. Manicsic🔌 Plughttps://www.hermanmiller.com/products/seating/office-chairs/embody-chairs/https://www.hermanmiller.com/products/seating/office-chairs/mirra-2-chairs/https://www.fully.com/chairs/hag-capisco-ultrasound-chair.htmlhttps://www.shure.com/en-US/products/microphones/sm7bhttps://www.shure.com/en-US/products/microphones/mv7https://www.amazon.com/ASUS-MB168B-1366x768-Portable-Monitor/dp/B00FE690DIhttps://www.thenosleeppodcast.com/NoSleep Podcast https://www.thenosleeppodcast.comAs always, we hope you find it remotely interesting.

Welcome to Remotely Interesting brought to you by Netlify! Since the toolchain around web development has become a lot more complex over the years, the path for getting started has felt more convoluted. However, is this really the case? Join us as we talk about what is considered “minimum viable web dev knowledge.”🔌 Plug/r/SuperbowlNeopetsNetlify FormsJamstack Templates👥 PanelistsPeople who were remotely interesting:Cassidy WilliamsPhil HawksworthTara Z. ManicsicSalma Alam-NaylorAs always, we hope you find it remotely interesting!

Welcome to Remotely Interesting brought to you by Netlify. In this episode, we talk about the results of the Jamstack Survey and what we learned from it.🔌 PlugsJamstack Community Survey 2021The State of JSThe State of the OctoverseAlex Russell👥 PanelistsPeople who were remotely interesting:Lauris VossPhil HawksworthTara Z. Manicsic🔖 Chapters00:55 - Topic and guest introduction04:18 - What were your goals with the survey?09:26 - Do you plan for a coordinated survey effort?10:30 - Are there any surprises in the data? 18:07 - Do you see moments when everyone starts using a new thing reflected - in the data?22:23 - Frameworks tend to have a long half life26:26 - If developers like it, that's the thing that will win30:38 - Is there a developer experience survey?32:41 - Is there data that doesn't meet the cut for the survey results?34:17 - Tidbits and Thought ThingsAs always, we hope you find it remotely interesting.

Welcome to Remotely Interesting brought to you by Netlify.Most of us have heard things like CDN and caching when it comes to optimizing what we deliver to our end users when building sites and apps, but recently there’s been a trending terminology that’s crept up: “The Edge.”🔌 PlugsSalma’s YouTube Clip on Edge NetworkNetlify Edge Functions Docs👥 PanelistsPeople who were remotely interesting:Phil HawksworthJason LengstorfCassidy WilliamsSalma Alam-NaylorBen HongAs always, we hope you find it remotely interesting.

Welcome to Remotely Interesting brought to you by Netlify.Whenever someone buys a domain, we all know that that side projects always gets prioritized and shipped to production in record time right? As if! 😅 If you're anything like us, you've bought plenty of domains where the intent is there and sadly it never manifests to anything more than another line item in your domain registrar. Well, in this episode, we talk about those unused domains as well as an initiative we kicked off earlier this year to help us build something from our dusty domains.People who were remotely interesting:Ekene Eze (Kenny)Cassidy WilliamsTara Z. ManicsicBen HongJason LengstorfPlugs mentioned in the show:Lynn Fisher’s Twitterhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abilene_paradoxhttp://cassidoo.github.io/ErmergershScript/https://www.burgers.dev/https://hawk.dance/https://bbdotqchicken.com/As always, we hope you find it remotely interesting!

Welcome to Remotely Interesting brought to you by Netlify.You have values (maybe) and the company you work for has values. Do they align and is that important? We're joined by the only guest to ever come back to our show, Thuy Doan, to get the tiniest sample size of opinions on the matter and learn from each others experiences.People who were remotely interesting:Thuy DoanCassidy WilliamsCharlie GerardJason LengstorfPhil HawksworthTara Z. ManicsicAs always, we hope you find it remotely interesting.🔌 Plugshttps://www.jason.af/be-kindhttps://www.radicalcandor.com/the-book/

Welcome to Remotely Interesting brought to you by Netlify.People who were remotely interesting:Cassidy WilliamsJason LengstorfEkene Eze (Kenny)Tara Z. ManicsicZahid MahmoodAs always, we hope you find it remotely interesting.

Welcome to Remotely Interesting brought to you by Netlify. To day we have the pleasure or meeting up with Evan Weaver, CTO of Fauna to hear about his Jamstack journey.People who were remotely interesting:Cassidy WilliamsPhil HawksworthTara Z. ManicsicAnd special guest: Evan Weaver, Fauna CTOWho is he?Co-founder, CTO (former CEO) of FaunaThe Jamstack Journey~2017 Global transactional database tech based on Twitter experienceserverless before there even was 'serverless'in 2016 people wanted servers not APIs~2018 found early adopters building GraphQL interfaces for Fauna in the Jamstackpivot to developer-led db as a service& the rest is historyBeing OK with the Weirdhim & co-founder (Chief Architect) Matt Freels ex-Twitter anarchist hippiesTwitter: home of the weirdoff the shelf solutions like Cassandra & MongoDB wouldn't work for what they neededconsidering the journey of other small teams and how to help them"fundamentally motivated by anger and rage" fave quote of the show & why Fauna came around to helpMoore's Law punWhere to Focus Firstthere are only so many large companies w specialized dbsfor the rest of us they wanted to make off-the-shelf dbs that would grow with companyLAMP era analogy & steak dinners & web 1.0data replication and inability to modernize100s of millions of dollars a year on OracleCHCHCHCHChangesfrom the developer outprovisioning microservices and GraphQLthe permission chain of architectural change"you don't know what the future is going to be you just know you need to iterate"Phil Wants to Talk to About Trustthe bigger the company the harder it is for them to trust third partieshttps://fauna.com/trustis the foundation stable & securemaking distributed strictly serializableCalvin algorithmgiving people more information & transparencyregion groupsDelegating Databases & Legacy Struggleknowing just enough to be dangeroussome Phil punsno one migrates their databaseyou can port if you want to...but maybe don'tdecoupled architectures besides the Jamstackmixing and matchingTidBits & ThoughtThings™️What is something old that you have that getting rid of isn't easy?sad ragsmore Pheels about Phil philtting and philing shirtsnot getting rid of old things...on purposecomputer treasures, we want that dataummmmbilical cords & Beautician and the BeastGet started w Fauna for free! & join the slack community :)As always, we hope you find it remotely interesting.

Welcome to Remotely Interesting brought to you by Netlify.People who were remotely interesting:Cassidy WilliamsJason LengstorfPhil HawksworthTara Z. ManicsicSHOW NOTES:Who's got a favorite database?EveryoneStructured vs. Unstructured Dataour first database experiences (lots of MySQL)learning about databasesJason thinks his brain gets bigger when he learns thingsMicrosoft Excel does everythingMongoDB & mongoose the GraphQLIt is SQL or SQLShadow and Bone (putting this here for Phil)How do you use DBs in a Jamstack architecture?having to do DBs for "real" sitesabdicating responsibilities to the experts at a Database as a Servicesharding and gigglingfrom limited options & complicated setups to lots of new optionsFaunaDBHasuraSupabasePlanetScale, etc.decoupling the frontend from the backendvia API endpoints & serverless functions, we're standardizing communicationDX & How we choose DBsGraphQL user interface (GraphiQL)on the basis of the API, writing queries, accelerating dev workflowhow much do we need to know about the DBsPhil is wise, you're welcome, Philthe dev's comfort levelWho needs the top-tier?you probs aren't going to hit Twitter-scaleby the time you outgrow the service, you'll prob. have the money to go biggerdbs aren't that incredibly differentask the company what your next step should be if you hit a limitkicking tires/free tiers are so valuableWhat features do we look for?- a clear, understandable API- an easy onramp to getting started/getting data- what am I building & what are the cost implications (rate limits, etc.)- even really brilliant, smart people like Jason mess up, a story about loops- having a playground like GraphiQL- a discussion of GraphQL hesitancy- Cassidy's professional conclusion, "ehhh"- Jason talks about dependsCassidy exhibits her humor mastery and it shines like the sun! 🌤a resource! https://serverless.css-tricks.com/another resource: https://graphql.org/learn/ a fantastic Phil Supabase resource: https://ntl.fyi/3BsJheTTidBits & ThoughtThings™️What is the worst form of storage you own?As always, we hope you find it remotely interesting.TRANSCRIPT:

Welcome to Remotely Interesting brought to you by Netlify.People who were remotely interesting:Cassidy WilliamsJason LengstorfEkene Eze (Kenny)Phil HawksworthTara Z. ManicsicMarisa MorbyShow notes: Tuckman's stages of group development: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuckman's_stages_of_group_development form, storm, norm, performCollaborative deploy previews and conduits to tooling: https://www.netlify.com/products/deploy-previews/As always, we hope you find it remotely interesting.

Welcome to Remotely Interesting brought to you by Netlify.People who were remotely interesting:Jason LengstorfEkene Eze (Kenny)& Special GuestsEmily con HoffmannMarisa MorbySHOW NOTES:What is research & how is it done?connect & learn from usersthere aren't many beakers in tech research, thanks, Jasonresearch has been democratized a lot thanks to tools like Zoomused to be done on-siteWhat is the motivation for research?used from conception thru seeing if your idea worksa lot of assumptions without backingstart w something you know but then you get out of your depthsYou are not your userescaping being self-referential experiences and workflows are differentthere will always be someone who approaches another wayWhen do you bring in research?across the company, not in just one spot, not at the end of the linebefore you know what you need to buildResearch Interviews aka "business therapist"how to ask questionsthis is not a test"ask an open-ended question and just leave it open and people will fill in the gap"*the Oprah moment*From abstract to concretefunction research lead to new presentation which lead to higher adoptionMulti-Team Management, cross-functional teamwork...makes the dream workiterative usability testing to make it make sensespending money, breaking things, pain & legacy code OR research save yourself the heartache get the feedback from not meanies/angriesWhat skillz do you need?#1 be highly empatheticcurious, analytic, compelling story-tellerno design or STEM degree necessaryunderstand and care about peopleMaking research a part of Netlifybuilding relationships throughout the companymaking sure the trust is there via constant communicationlearn how to do your ownJust Enough Research by Erika HallJoin us in the research! https://www.netlify.com/research-program/TidBits & ThoughtThings™️If you had to move to a different field of research, what would it be and why?As always, we hope you find it remotely interesting.TRANSCRIPT: