Hey there friends. So yesterday I was just a fanboying I guess aboutPrisma. If you haven't heard of Prisma, it is a Oh what does that? It'sORN, I can't remember what what the word for that is but it interfacesbetween you and a backend databa

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Jun 8th, 2021 2m 55s

https://github.com/johnlindquist/kit/discussions/310https://www.scriptkit.com/Hello friends. So this morning, I finished something that I was working ona little bit yesterday. It's a script kit script to call Cloud Nary uploadwhich allows m

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Jun 7th, 2021 2m 59s

Hello friends, so I wanted to talk today about whether or not you shouldmake a custom hook for everything. So a few days ago, maybe last week therewas this thing going around where people were recommending that you neverever use the react bu

performance.mark and performance.measure for improved DevTools profiling

Jun 4th, 2021 2m 56s

https://stackoverflow.com/a/46780568/971592Hello there friends. Sorry, it's been a little bit of a break but I wasworking on something and I wanted to measure how fast it was but yeah andso I'm gonna use the Chrome DevTools profiling perform

Make your DB schema as restrictive as possible for easier migrations

Jun 2nd, 2021 2m 23s

Hello there friends. Welcome to June I am thinking about Postgres andPrisma and that sort of thing a lot lately because I'm working on mywebsite and doing that sort of thing and one tip that I have for you if youever do database sort of thin

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May 29th, 2021 2m 57s

https://kentcdodds.com/blog/fix-the-slow-render-before-you-fix-the-re-renderhttps://kentcdodds.com/blog/colocationhttps://epicreact.dev/improve-the-performance-of-your-react-formsHello there friends. So today somebody shared a lightbri with

Keep related utilities in a single file

May 28th, 2021 2m 52s

Hello there friends, so I was thinking this morning about utilities and youknow these little utility functions that we write and we put it in like autils modular or something and sometimes when we're running these we wantto split things out

if statements and "We'll cross that bridge when we come to it"

May 27th, 2021 2m 57s

Good morning or afternoon or evening friends, I wanted to talk today abouta saying that my wife has I think when my kids grow up they're gonnaremember my mom always used to say this and and so what she says is we'llcross that bridge when we

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May 26th, 2021 2m 56s

Hello there friends So this morning I was just thinking about this littletip that I share with you. It's pretty quick. In my global git ignore,which is located in my home directory dot get ignore underscore global. Ihave a couple of things i

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May 25th, 2021 2m 58s

Hello friends so I mostly recording this one so that I can hopefully notforget it because I was working with doctor yesterday and I don't work withDocker a lot but I'm kind of thinking about in the next version of EpicReact. I want to take t

The nuance of promotion, incentives, ulterior motives, and the benefit of the doubt

May 24th, 2021 2m 58s

Hello there friends, so I've just been thinking about incentives andcompanies and and the yeah, like what what motivates people to havedifferent opinions and stuff like that. And I want to use myself as anexample here because I think it's a

Smart watches, smart rings, and Progressive Web Apps

May 21st, 2021 2m 58s

Hey there friends. Have you heard of progressive enhancement or progressiveweb apps? Well, I thought of a real world thing that kind of resembles whatthis actually means and what it doesn't. So, you know how like there's allthese memes of li

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May 20th, 2021 2m 47s

https://kcd.im/trophyhttps://kentcdodds.com/blog/eliminate-an-entire-category-of-bugs-with-a-few-simple-toolsTypeScript is tests. Tests are type script. So type script is just a way togive yourself more confidence. Sure, it helps you in your

TypeScript: Why I prefer `Array` over `Type[]`

May 19th, 2021 2m 45s

Good morning or afternoon or whatever it is for you friends, it's morningfor me. I wanted to talk about how I type a raise in TypeScript, so thereare two ways that I'm aware of that you can type an array and of course Iguess there are a coup

Don't bundle and minify your published npm packages

May 19th, 2021 2m 56s

https://twitter.com/kentcdodds/status/1394420201542668289?s=20So the other day I tweeted about how I really want people to stop minifyingand bundling what they send to NPM. And just to clarify I it's fine if youwant to minify and bundle as o

Sharing server/client validation logic with @remix_run

May 17th, 2021 2m 55s

Hey friends, so I'm working on this little remix app and just somethingabout remix that I just this so cool the fact that your server and clientside code run is written in the same file if in case you didn't know thatthat's that's what you d

Tests the tests by making them fail

May 16th, 2021 2m 33s

https://kentcdodds.com/blog/make-your-test-failHello there friends. I'm just driving now. I was thinking about a blog postthat I wrote a while ago. I think it was called break your tests orsomething like that, but the idea is that it's just

Cypress Driven Development for recording audio

May 14th, 2021 2m 40s

Friends I'm out and about today so we might hear some like music in thebackground and stuff but yeah today I wanted to talk about cypress drivendevelopment. I was working on something that I'm working on for the newwebsite where you can subm

The KCD Discord Bot "Thanks" command

May 13th, 2021 2m 47s

Hello friends So today a friend of mine on the KCD Discord is named Rupert.I'm not sure. I'm pretty sure that's how you say their name. But I createdtheir very first poll request for open source. I wasn't aware it's thefirst poll request but

How to prepare for meetings that convince people

May 12th, 2021 2m 57s

So let's say that you want to convince your coworkers to try a new tech orsomething like a new library or whatever and you think it's a really goodidea but people aren't convinced. So what typically happens is you want toprepare a couple of

I use markdown and VSCode for slides

May 11th, 2021 2m 57s

https://staltz.com/your-ide-as-a-presentation-tool.htmlHello friends you may have noticed that sometimes I use my editor as myslides in lots of the talks that I've given over the last few years andthat was originally inspired by André Stault

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May 10th, 2021 2m 56s

https://epicreact.dev/the-latest-ref-pattern-in-reactHey your friends. So I get this question of fair amount and so I thoughtI'd try to answer it and podcast form and the question is why don't why isit not a good idea to set a ref during you

Don't bring an old problem's solution to a new tool that eliminates that problem

May 8th, 2021 2m 58s

Hey friends I had an interesting thought this morning. So a lot of peoplewhen they start using a new technology like when next was released or whenyou know a new version of Reactor or or any React library or whatever theyoften will say, okay

Avoid Context Switching: Use ScriptKit.com

May 6th, 2021 2m 56s

https://www.scriptkit.com/https://kentcdodds.com/blog/automationHey friends So you know how sometimes you do things so many times thatyou're like you know what I'm just gonna write a script for this and we'llrun it and whatever and so I don

Notes Driven Development

May 5th, 2021 2m 47s

https://youtube.com/c/RyanFlorenceHey friends So I was watching a live stream from Ryan Florence last nightwhile I was putting my kids to bed They were falling asleep and I was inthe room to make sure that they didn't go all whacko and stuff