TALK SHOW
Holiday Special
Come join Ray (and special guests) for the last stream of the year. We'll talk shop, code, this and that, and see what happens.
Upcoming Talk Shows
We host a number of talk shows and live coding shows. Our current lineup includes DevRel(ish), a show where we talk about developer relations and interview prominent folks in DevRel, and 2 Full 2 Stack, a live coding show the dives deep into how to build full stack web applications.
There are no upcoming talk shows scheduled. Check back soon!
Previous Talk Shows
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Nick's Surprise Holiday Code Project
Get ready to unwrap a surprise gift of code as Nick hosts a festive live-coding extravaganza! Nick will be crafting something fun and unexpected right before your eyes—what could it be? Tune in to watch the holiday magic unfold.
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Let's Build a Blog Like it's 1990 - Part 2
Ray will continue to explore how to build sites with Eleventy by building a simple blog.
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Building Web Apps with SolidStart
Nick continues exploring SolidJS, a highly performant reactive framework, and SolidStart, a full-stack meta-framework for SolidJS.
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Let's Build a Blog Like it's 1990
Ray explores his favorite tool for building web sites, Eleventy, and he'll show hot to use it by building a simple blog.
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Getting Started with SolidStart
Nick will explore SolidJS, a highly performant reactive framework, and SolidStart, a full-stack meta-framework for SolidJS.
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Even Moar JavaScript Charting!
Following up on his most recent stream, Raymond will explore another JavaScript charting library and compare it with the previous examples.
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Charting with JavaScript
In this session, Raymond will look at the current state of charting with JavaScript. He'll try to recreate the same charts in multiple different solutions and see which works best.
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Connecting DevRel to Revenue
Erin and Brian are joined by Achintya Gupta, co-founder of Reo.dev, to discuss the endless debate about how to (and should we) connect DevRel activities to revenue growth.
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Exploring SolidJS
Nick Taylor explores SolidJS, which aims to offer a simple and predictable development experience.
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Parks and Recreation - Using Leaflet and the NPS
In this followup to his last session, Raymond will explore using the National Parks Services API along with Leaflet to build an interactive guide of American parks.
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Map It! (Maps on the Web)
In this session, Raymond will talk about maps on the web, specifically Leaflet, a JavaScript library for creating interactive maps.
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Developer-first Startups with Dana Oshiro
Erin and Brian are joined by Dana Oshiro, a partner with Heavybit which is the leading investor in developer-first startups including Snyk, CircleCI, PagerDuty and more.
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Hacking Arduino Hardware as a Noob Pt. 2
Raymond continues exploring Arduino, continuing the development of an integration that uses the display of the device tied to builds of a web site.
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Building a Browser Extension
Browser extensions can be incredibly powerful tools that you can build with web technologies. Join Nick as he live codes a browser extension using CRXJS.
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Hacking Arduino Hardware as a Noob
In this session, Raymond, who is still incredibly new to working with Arduino, will show off what he's learned so far and build an integration that uses the display of the device tied to builds of a web site.
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Mobile Apps with React Native and Ignite Pt. 2
Join Nick Taylor as he continues his live coding adventure creating a fun, cross-platform mobile app using React Native built upon the Ignite boilerplate.
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Using the DevRel Force with Raymond Camden
Erin and Brian are joined by Raymond Camden, Senior Developer Evangelist for Adobe, about his long, storied history in DevRel and his unabashed love of everything Star Wars.
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A Place for Your Stuff (Data Storage in the Browser) Pt. 2
In this session, Raymond will continue working with IndexedDB, a browser API for working with data storage on the client, and continues to show how to use the API to persist data on the browser.
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A Place for Your Stuff (Data Storage in the Browser)
In this session, Raymond will introduce folks to IndexedDB, a browser API for working with data storage on the client. It's totally easy to use and not complex at all, and no one ever calls it IndexDB. Honest.
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Mobile Apps with React Native and Ignite
Join Nick Taylor on a live coding adventure as he whips up a fun, cross-platform mobile app using React Native built upon the Ignite boilerplate.
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Let's Freakin' Finish This PWA Already!
In this session, Raymond promises to finally finish the PWA conversion job and hopefully cover a bit about offline storage techniques as well.
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PWA++ (Building a Progressive Web App)
In this session, Ray will continue building the PWA from the last episode, digging into some of the core PWA capabilities of offline support and more.
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Setting the TanStack Table
TanStack Table is a UI for building interactive datagrids and tables that works across frameworks such as React, Vue, Solid & Svelte. In this episode, Nick takes TanStack Table for a spin.
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DevRel, DevOps and Java with Melissa McKay
Erin and Brian are joined by Melissa McKay, head of developer relations at jFrog about developer relations, engineering and the Java community.
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Let's Make a Progressive Web App (PWA)
In this session, Ray will cover what PWA is at a high level, what capabilities it offers, and build a simple example of one using a basic one page web page as an example.
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Adding an API to Your Web App (Part 2)
In this session, Ray continues building an application that consumes data from an API, making it easily accessible to your client-side JavaScript code.
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Going Angular with Analog
Nick explores building a web app with Angular using the Analog full stack JavaScript meta framework that supports hybrid SSG/SSR outputs.
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Broadening Access to Opportunities with Jay Miller
Erin and Brian are joined by Jay Miller, developer advocate at Aiven, to discuss their work towards advancing the careers of individuals historically excluded from developer roles and opportunities.
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Adding an API to Your Web App
In this session, Ray walks through the steps needed to take an old XML based interface and make it easily accessible to your client-side JavaScript code.
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Playing Games with Alpine.js
In this session, Ray introduces you (quickly) to Alpine.js, an incredibly light weight simple JavaScript framework that's quick to pick up.
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Even More Astro
Nick continues his explorations of the Astro full stack JavaScript framework, digging into some of the more advanced features and capabilities.
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Evangelism vs Advocacy with Colin Loretz
Erin and Brian are joined by Colin Loretz, developer advocate at Discord, to discuss the differences between evangelism and advocacy as a developer relations professional.
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Shall we play a game?
In this session, Ray will talk about the high level basics of building a web-based, text game. He'll talk about the easy parts, the hard parts, and why he has started way more games than he's actually finished.
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A Developer's Essential Tools and Stack
Raymond Camden shares the essential tools and tech stack powering his development. Join us to explore the key elements that drive his coding workflow.
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Blasting Off with Astro
Join Nick for some live coding as he explore how to build web apps using the increasingly popular Astro full stack JavaScript framework.
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Developer Events with Jon Gottfried
Erin and Brian are joined by Jon Gottfried, co-founder of Major League Hacking and former devrel, about developer events and how to run successful hackathons.
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Exploring Deno's Fresh Framework
Join Nick for some live coding as he digs into the Fresh full-stack, edge-rendering JavaScript framework for Deno.
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Full Stack DevRel with Nnenna Ndukwe
Erin and Brian are joined by Nnenna Ndukwe about her work with Girl Develop It and Black Girls Code about how we can improve representation in DevRel and software in general. - devrel - community
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Even More Bleeding Edge Next.js
Join Nick as he live codes his exploration into some of the features that were recently released in Next.js 14.
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Fostering Developer Communities with Jake Ward
Erin and Brian are joined by Jake Ward, CEO of Data Protocol, to talk about best practices in developer relations for creating thriving developer communities. - devrel - community
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Bleeding Edge Next.js
Join Nick as he digs into trying some of the features just announced the day before at Next.js Conf to see what's new in Next.
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Content Creation and Data Science with Megan Lieu
Erin and Brian are joined by Megan Lieu, a data advocate at Deepnote, who'll discuss how she approaches content creation and what is it like to move from finance to data science to DevRel. - devrel - data science
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Taking It To The Edge
Nick Taylor will explore how to get started building, deploying and using serverless and edge functions.
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Flavors of DevRel with Kevin Whinnery
Erin and Brian are joined by Kevin Whinnery of Deno who'll chat about the six different flavors of developer relations.
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DevOps and DevRel with Matt Stratton
Erin and Brian are joined by Matt Stratton, director of DevRel at Aiven, podcaster and global organizer of the DevOps Days conferences.
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WTF: What the Form?
Nick Taylor will show all the aspects of form development and the form APIs that can make building forms less painful.
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Full Stack Debugging
Nick Taylor explores debugging fundamentals and tips and tricks for full stack web application developers.
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From IC to Management in DevRel with Tessa Kriesel
Erin and Brian are joined by Tessa Kriesel, Head of Platform Developer Relations at Snap, to discuss moving from an individual contributor (IC) to management in developer relations and hwat makes a successful DevRel team.
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DevRel and Community with Brittany Walker
Erin and Brian are joined by Brittany Walker, Senior Developer Advocate for Contentful and local tech community organizer.
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Trends in Developer Relations with Mary Thengvall
Erin and Brian are joined by Mary Thengvall, author of The Business Value of Developer Relations and editor of DevRel Weekly, to talk about trends in DevRel.
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Open Source and Advocacy with Rizel Scarlett
Erin and Brian are joined by Rizel Scarlett, a developer advocate at GitHub, who'll discuss her path into devrel and working as an advocate for open source communities.
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What The Federated Content? with Bryan Robinson
The modern website has become an art of composition. It's a rarity that a website will only pull content from a single source these days. Sean and Bryan discuss the challenges and solutions to composable content.
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Building an Open-Source Company with Eldad Fux
It's no small feat to grow a startup from concept to a successful company. Sean and Eldad discuss what it takes to build an open-source company.
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What It Takes to Lead DevRel Teams with Cassidy Williams
Erin and Brian are joined by Cassidy Williams who'll discuss her path into developer relations, including leading it at multiple companies.
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Building Effective Developer Communities with Bekah Hawrot Weigel
Building developer communities is hard. You don't just have to get someone's attention — you also have to give them a reason to stay. In this episode, Sean and Bekah explore what it takes to build and find effective developer communities.
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The Best JavaScript Framework with Salma Alam-Naylor
You're ready to build your next project for the web, but how do you go about choosing the right JavaScript framework? Sean and Salma work together to answer that question.
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Introducing DevRel(ish) - a show about Developer Relations
Join Erin Makail Staples and Brian Rinaldi as they introduce a new show all about careers in Developer Relations (aka DevRel) and DevRel adjacent roles.
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Why Web Performance Matters with Henri Helvetica
Keeping a website performing at its best means hitting a moving target. Why and how we do this is what Sean and Henri explore.
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Practical Testing for the Modern Website with Mark Noonan
Mark Noonan joins to talk front-end testing web applications and what tools can help developers test efficiently.
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Framework Agnostic Web Components with Evan Sheehan
Sean will work with Evan Sheehan to try to understand why didn't web components catch on right away? Why are they back _now?_ Are they here to stay? And how can you get started working with them today?
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Effective Developer Documentation with Ember Stevens
Writing documentation for developers means answering a number of questions: How do we organize the content? How should navigation reflect that organization? How do we render code snippets? What application and format do we use for writing? How do we maintain docs over time? Ember Stevens joins to discuss.
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CSS is for Everyone! with Stephanie Eckles
Sean C. Davis interviews Stephanie Eckles, front-end focused software engineer at Microsoft, publishing a video series for beginner developers, authoring ModernCSS.dev, creator of Style Stage, providing Eleventy resources on 11ty.Rocks, and mom of two girls.
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The Perfect Content-Editing Environment for Developers with Knut Melvær
In this episode, Sean C. Davis interviews Knut Melvær, who leads developer relations at Sanity.io, about Jamstack, headless CMSs, future of Markdown and more.
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Interview with Brian Rinaldi
In the final episode for season 1, Sean C. Davis and Brian Rinaldi chat about 5 years of CFE.dev, developer community and, perhaps, some Jamstack.
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Interview with Peter Cooper
In this episode, Sean C. Davis interviews Peter Cooper, founder of Cooper Press which publishes hugely popular developer newsletters such as JavaScript Weekly, Ruby Weekly and FrontEnd Focus.
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Interview with Gift Egwuenu
In this episode, Sean C. Davis interviews Gift Egwuenu, developer advocate at Cloudflare, about serverless, Jamstack and web development.
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Interview with Benjy Weinberger
In this episode, Sean C. Davis interviews Benjy Weinberger, creator of the open source Pants build system for Python, Java, Scala, Go, and Shell and founder of Toolchain Labs.
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Interview with Suze Shardlow
In this episode, Sean C. Davis interviews Suze Shardlow, the developer community manager at Redis.
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Interview with Kelly More
In this episode, Sean C. Davis interviews Kelly More, a developer advocate focused on artificial intelligence and data science.
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Interview with Eduardo Bouças
In this episode, Sean C. Davis interviews Eduardo Bouças, a Senior Staff Engineer at Netlify who worked on the recently released edge functions feature on Netlify and maintains a number of open source projects.
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Interview with PJ Hagerty
In this episode, Sean C. Davis interviews PJ Hagerty who founded a company delivering developer and community relations as a service and is a board member of an organization focused on mental health in the tech community.
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Interview with Jen Looper
In this episode, Sean C. Davis interviews Jen Looper who helps lead education advocacy at Microsoft and founded the FrontEnd Foxes non-profit that runs coding boot camps for women.
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Interview with Raymond Camden
In the debut episode of the Code Sandwich Hour talk show, Sean C. Davis interviews Raymond Camden, developer evangelist at Adobe and author of the The Jamstack Book.