733: Treadmills, Bass Guitars, and Testing Web Components
We're talking treadmill and musical gear, software maintenance, dependency management, technical debt, testing web components, and CSS-Tricks hot drama.
Time Jump Links
- 00:01:28 Treadmill talk
- 00:04:15 How important is this meeting really?
- 00:06:01 Chris Goes Warby
- 00:07:43 Moving is healthy, turns out
- 00:12:05 Playing standup bass
- 00:16:13 Dave goes band
- 00:20:28 The challenge of how much an upgrade is worth
- 00:26:01 Do we learn from our mistakes and bugs?
- 00:32:01 Working with zero dependancies on production
- 00:34:43 #HotDrama: CSSTricks Edition
- 00:45:14 Do junior developers who use AI know how any of it works?
- 00:49:32 How do you test web components?
Links
- Underdesk Treadmill – Chris Coyier
- Sarah Drasner's Site
- Maggie Appleton
- Acoustic Bass Guitars - 4 string & 6 string | Taylor Guitars
- CSS-Tricks - Learning for front-end designers and developers
- Learn JavaScript, React, and TypeScript to Node.js, Fullstack, and Backend | Master.dev
- @web/test-runner - npm
- Node.js Test Runner
- Fast and reliable end-to-end testing for modern web apps | Playwright
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