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On July 22-26, 2019, the Vehikl team will be attending the largest LaraconUS to date! With over 900 attendees showing up to the Playstation Theatre in Times Square, NYC, it will surely be an incredible experience!

Join us as we speak with returning guest, Adam Frank! We’ll discuss upcoming talks, things to do in and around NYC, and what we’re looking forward to at this year’s conference.

We’ll be in the main lobby of the theatre at our booth! We’ll have t-shirts to give away as well as other swag items, so make sure to stop by before they’re gone!

Links and Resources:

• LaraconUS website: laracon.us/
• LaraconUS Twitter: twitter.com/LaraconUS
• Laravel website: laravel.com/
• NYC PHP Meetup: www.meetup.com/new-york-php/events/262484765/
• Vehikl Twitter: twitter.com/vehikl
• Adam Frank's Twitter: twitter.com/frankyfraaank

Contributions:

• Guest: Adam Frank
• Hosts: Dan Soppelsa and Margaret Tavares
• Music and show art: Adam Frank
• Audio Editing: Nick Down
• Recording Facilities: Vehikl (Waterloo)

Special thanks for the help and support from the entire Vehikl team. Check out Vehikl online: vehikl.com.

In this episode, Adam talks to Ryan Toronto about his journey from being a full stack Rails developer to focusing on single page applications, and why application developers should be betting on UI-focused frameworks like Ember, React, and Vue.

Topics include:

• How modernizing a Flash app drove Ryan to start building SPAs
• How products are really just user interfaces to the end user, and why that means it makes sense to make the UI the core of your codebase
• Why the backend will continue to be commoditized and application developers will be spending more and more of their time in the UI
• What makes something a web app instead of a website, and why almost everything is actually an app
• Why application developers still need to write server-side code right now and what areas have the biggest room for innovation and improvement

Sponsors:

• Cloudinary, sign up and get 300,000 images/videos, 10GB of storage and 20GB of monthly bandwidth for free
• DigitalOcean, get your free $50 credit at do.co/fullstack

Links:

• EmberMap, Ryan's tutorial site
• Mirage.js
• Client-side SQL
• GraphQL
• Hasura GraphQL Engine, an automatic GraphQL API over Postgres
• Conversation on ugprading API requests
• Interview with Michelle Bu of Stripe

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This week's episode is a discussion between myself and two of my colleagues and friends Lily and Amena. I reached out to both of them to get their perspective on how you can continue to grow and evolve in your career and other areas of your life, while also believing you are enough just how you are right now. We touch on things like being allowed to change if that's what you really want, getting comfortable with having different seasons to your life and how self-confidence can give you the space to imagine what else you might want to explore or try. We also dig into hustle culture, mom culture and even mom-hustle culture, and the importance of defining your own version of what success looks like in all areas of your life. My own personal takeaways from this conversation were the importance of letting your life have seasons, you can do anything you want but you can't do everything at the same time. I also personally took away how painful it can be to be motivated by the feeling that you're not good enough as you are right now, instead of being motivated by curiousity and excitement. You can tell both Lily and Amena have put a lot of work into reflecting on what's worked and what hasn't for them and I'm so grateful they both agreed to share their insightful perspectives in this episode. I would really love to hear what you think of this episode and if you'd like to see more discussions like this so please take a few minutes to leave a review or send a message on Twitter @wayswework.

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In this episode, Adam talks to Aaron Gustafson about authoring semantic HTML in the context of web applications, where choosing the right element can be a lot more complicated than it seems.

Topics include:

• Can you have more than one "h1" on page?
• How important is heading order?
• Why not everything that looks like a heading should necessarily be a heading
• Why you may want to include invisible headings in some situations
• What the document outline is and how your use of headings impacts it
• How to make your heading levels dynamic to make your components more flexible
• What a "sectioning context" is
• Can you have multiple "article" elements on one page?
• What even is an "article" anyways?
• How to use elements like "section" and "aside" properly
• Should navigation items be in lists?
• Why Aaron can't remember the last time he used a "span"

Sponsors:

• DigitalOcean, get your free $50 credit at do.co/fullstack
• Cloudinary, sign up and get 300,000 images/videos, 10GB of storage and 20GB of monthly bandwidth for free

Links:

• Aaron's personal website
• HTML5 Element Flowchart from html5 Doctor

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How did politics get so damn polarised? Jay Van Bavel joins Igor and Charles to discuss political polarisation, the partisan brain, the inexorable rise of superheroes in dark times, the misperceptions of polarisation levels, and how to reach out to other tribes. Igor highlights the partisanship-transcending benefits of a Watchmen-style alien invasion, Jay proposes the judicious use of ‘off-ramps’ when engaging with loved-ones from across the political divide, and Charles learns that even the abstract purity of Mathematics is not immune from the tentacles of partisanship when guns are involved. Welcome to Episode 18.

Special Guest: Jay Van Bavel.

Links:

• Social Perception and Evaluation Lab
• The dangers of the partisan brain | Jay Van Bavel | TEDxSkoll - YouTube
• The Partisan Brain: An Identity-Based Model of Political Belief - ScienceDirect
• Emotion shapes the diffusion of moralized content in social networks - Brady, Wills, Jost, Tucker and Van Bavel (2016)
• An Ideological Asymmetry in the Diffusion of Moralized Content on Social Media Among Political Leaders - Brady, Wills, Burkart, Jost, Van Bavel (2018)
• How to go viral: stick to your morals but add a hint of emotion | WIRED UK
• What Brexit can teach us about the psychology of fear - Vox
• Letters to Young Scientists | Science | AAAS

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In this episode, Adam talks to Mitchell Hamilton about writing your styles directly in your JavaScript components using the CSS-in-JS library Emotion.

Topics include:

• What CSS-in-JS even is
• What Emotion does differently than other CSS-in-JS libraries
• How to actually use Emotion to style your projects
• How the JSX pragma works and what it's for
• How Emotion works under the hood
• Performance
• Adding global styles to your project
• Style re-use and composition in Emotion
• Using Emotion with server-side rendering

Sponsors:

• Cloudinary, sign up and get 300,000 images/videos, 10GB of storage and 20GB of monthly bandwidth for free
• DigitalOcean, get your free $50 credit at do.co/fullstack

Links:

• Emotion
• Glam
• Glamor
• Glamorous
• Styled Components
• JSX pragma
• CSSStyleSheet.insertRule()
• Global styles in Emotion
• Server-side rendering in Emotion

This week my guest is Jannell Lo, she’s a chef at J&P Grocery in Kitchener, Ontario, a private catering chef on the side and runs the food blog MyBFisGF.com - which she describes as gluten free cooking inspired by asian classics and Canadan comfort food. She’s lived and worked in many places around the world and shares how her eight years in the culinary industry helped her discover the parts of working in food she was most passionate about and led her to where she is now. We talk about how she balances serving food she knows will sell with bringing her own creations and new flavours to the community. She shares her own experience working in the intensity of the food industry, dealing with extreme stress and eventually discovering how to bring balance to her work. It was fun to have the opportunity to do an interview in person and get to know someone in my community better. And with that, we’ll get into it.

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