Jane Manchun Wong Tweeted about it: https://twitter.com/wongmjane/status/1135701324589256704Apple Support Article: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208050Apple is changing the default shell as of macOS Catlina from Bash 3.2 to ZSH due to GPL

Episode 166 - CSS Grid Generator

May 29th, 2019 3m 12s

Announcement Tweet: https://twitter.com/sarah_edo/status/1133369255104094208?s=11CSS Grid Generator by Sarah Drasner: https://cssgrid-generator.netlify.com/A small tool for working with CSS Grid. You can designate rows, columns, gaps, and uni

Episode 165 - WordPress 5.2 Security Feature

May 15th, 2019 10m 23s

WordPress 5.2, which is available now, comes with some great and much needed security features.Cryptographically-signed updatesStarting with WordPress 5.2, the WordPress team will digitally sign its update packages with the Ed25519 public-key

Episode 164 - Top 6 Tips To Get Ready to Upgrade to Rails 6

May 1st, 2019 6m 3s

Ensure as much test coverage as possibleUpdate gems & Rails versions (this ties into the next step)Update your Ruby version to 2.5.0 or laterFix All Deprecation WarningsSetup error tracking (Rollbar, etc)Use railsdiff.org to help you upgr

Episode 163 - Rails 6 Beta Features

Apr 12th, 2019 14m 59s

April 30: Final release. Ship and celebrate the release of Rails 6.0 at RailsConf 2019!Rails 6.0 will require Ruby 2.5+Action MailboxAction Mailbox allows you to route incoming emails to controller-like mailboxes.ActiveStorage is required.

Episode 162 - Welcome Back Coder Catchup

Mar 27th, 2019 12m 10s

Breaking the silence on the long hiatus of Coder Catchup, what has happened, what has changed and what will be happening.

Episode 161 - Whats New In NPM 6

Apr 27th, 2018 9m 19s

NPM, the node package manager, has a new release, version 6 which brings along a small list of improvements and new features with a big bang for your buck.Release article: https://medium.com/npm-inc/announcing-npm-6-5d0b1799a905Upgrade with n

Episode 160 - Stripe Just Solved Most of Your Billing Problems

Apr 16th, 2018 24m 42s

https://stripe.com/billingTitled: Billing and subscriptions for fast-growing businessesDescription: The most ambitious companies design billing around customer experience. Stripe Billing is a new set of tools to build and scale your recurring

Episode 159 - React 16.3

Apr 9th, 2018 6m 32s

Release Notes: https://reactjs.org/blog/2018/03/29/react-v-16-3.htmlChangelog: https://github.com/facebook/react/releases/tag/v16.3.0Context API!No more props drilling! (Passing props through various components) Thanks to createContext funct

Episode 158 - Top 5 Migration Tips After Upgrading to Rails 5.2

Apr 2nd, 2018 8m 45s

Rails 5.2.0 RC2 Notes - http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2018/3/20/Rails-5-2-RC2/Rails 5.2.0 Release Notes - http://edgeguides.rubyonrails.org/5_2_release_notes.htmlActive StorageWith the new Active Storage framework in Rails 5.2, we’ve solved

Episode 157 - Top 5 Tips To Get Ready to Upgrade to Rails 5.2

Mar 26th, 2018 5m 47s

My Top 5 Tips to Get Ready for Upgrading to Rails 5.2.Ensure as much test coverage as possibleUpgrade to the latest 5.1.x release (step through each major release if you are on earlier versions such as 5.0.x or 4.x)Fix All Deprecation Warni

Episode 156 - Prepare Your Website for the Webpocalypse

Mar 19th, 2018 10m 28s

Major browsers will be starting to mark your website as insecure in the very near future.How to prepare and make sure your website is not marked as insecure.Google Security Blog: https://security.googleblog.com/2018/02/a-secure-web-is-here-to

Episode 155 - Speed Up Your Node CI Builds By Up to 10x With One Command

Mar 12th, 2018 4m 43s

NPM 5.7.0 Release Changelog - https://github.com/npm/npm/releases/tag/v5.7.0NPM CIThe new npm ci command installs from your lock-file ONLY. If your package.json and your lock-file are out of sync then it will report an error.It works by thro

Episode 154 - Webpack Released with What!?

Mar 5th, 2018 12m 22s

Blog post by Sean Larkin: https://medium.com/webpack/webpack-4-released-today-6cdb994702d4What’s New?Much faster, a bit of a give in, but, it is up to 98% faster! Huge!Zero config (crazy amounts of boilerplate be gone)Sensible defaults wit

Episode 153 - Chrome and Firefox Just Broke Your Development Environment

Feb 26th, 2018 3m 23s

Both Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox now force all .dev gTLD to use HTTPS which may break your local development setup if you do not use HTTPS.Mattias Geniar has a great article on this at https://ma.ttias.be/chrome-force-dev-domains-https-v

Episode 152 - Laravel 5.6 and Laravel Spark 6

Feb 19th, 2018 22m 18s

Laravel 5.6 Release Notes - https://laravel.com/docs/5.6/releasesLaravel 5.6 News - https://laravel-news.com/laravel-5-6Laravel Spark - https://spark.laravel.com/LaravelLogging Improvements, Single Server Task Scheduling, Dynamic Rate Limit

Episode 151 - Digital Ocean Just Got Better

Feb 12th, 2018 9m 58s

https://blog.digitalocean.com/new-droplet-plansWe have some exciting news about Droplet plans. Today we are upgrading CPUs, memory, and SSD storage across our Droplet classes and introducing a few new plans. These new plans provide flexible an

150 Episodes of Coder Catchup (audio from video)

Feb 5th, 2018 13m 34s

Celebrating 150 episodes of the Coder Catchup podcast, talking about the experience, what is to come and more.Note: This is the audio taken from the video posted on YouTube at https://youtube.com/codercatchup

Episode 149 - Bracket Pair Colorizer - VS Code Plugin for Matching Bracket Colours

Jan 29th, 2018 4m 22s

This extension allows matching brackets to be identified with colours. The user can define which characters to match, and which colours to use.https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=CoenraadS.bracket-pair-colorizerSoftwareDropbo

Episode 148 - Bootstrap 4 Finally Released!

Jan 24th, 2018 9m 36s

Site: http://getbootstrap.com/Blog Post: http://blog.getbootstrap.com/2018/01/18/bootstrap-4/Quote:It’s literally taken us years to do it, but Bootstrap 4 has finally arrived! Words cannot begin to describe the elation the entire team and I

Episode 147 - Ruby 2.5.0 Released

Jan 17th, 2018 6m 28s

Ruby 2.5.0 is the first stable release of the Ruby 2.5 series. It introduces many new features and performance improvements.https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2017/12/25/ruby-2-5-0-released/Also available on Heroku https://devcenter.heroku.com

Episode 146 - Let your editor colours shine with Rainglow

Jan 8th, 2018 3m 53s

A collection of over 250 themes for a variety of different editors and software.All themes are originals created by Dayle Rees.https://rainglow.io/VS version (320+ color themes for Visual Studio.) - https://github.com/rainglow/vsSoftwareDr