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320: Remember The Fun: 2021 Recap
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Steph and Chris recap their favorite things of 2019 and 2020 and share their 2021 list. Happy Holidays, y'all!
Steph:
- Feature flags and calm deploys
- Creating observable systems
- Debugging
- Working in seasons
- Don't forget the fun
“The longer I’m in the software game, the more I want things to be calm” - Steph
Chris:
- Pushing logic back to the server
- Svelte
- Remote work (but maybe hybrid!)
- Vim
- Joining a startup as CTO
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Transcript:
STEPH: Are we taking off the next few weeks?
CHRIS: According to Steph's schedule I think we are.
STEPH: You know, that's Steph and her schedules.
Hello and welcome to another episode of The Bike Shed, a weekly podcast from your friends at thoughtbot about developing great software. I'm Steph Viccari.
CHRIS: And I'm Chris Toomey.
STEPH: And together, we're here to share a bit of what we've learned along the way. Hey, Chris, what's new in your world?
CHRIS: Well, this will be our last episode for 2021. So that's new collectively in all of our worlds, I think, which is exciting. We'll be taking off the next few weeks for the holidays. But as has become tradition, I think it is time for you and I to review some top 10 lists from last year or two top 5 lists, and then maybe you share some new favorite things. How does that sound?
STEPH: Yeah, I'm excited. I love that we take this time to reflect about what we enjoyed about the past year and share our top things. It's like Oprah's list. You know Oprah has her list of favorite things, and we have our list of favorite things.
CHRIS: It is almost exactly like Oprah.
STEPH: It feels a bit blasphemous to compare our list to Oprah's list but here we are. [laughs]
CHRIS: I tried to give the hyperbolic sarcasm there to be like, and let us be respectful of...but yes.
STEPH: Good. You got it. [laughs] So to prep for sharing our new list of favorite things, do you want to start by going through the list of favorite things from last year?
CHRIS: Sure. And just as a reminder, if anyone does want to listen to the episode and hear a bit more detail about our thinking on these, we covered this in Episode 274. But for me, the 5 items that I covered last year were Tailwind CSS. So the utility-first CSS framework which I continue to love and use on every project that I possibly can.
Remote work, that was a relatively new and novel thing for me at that point. Similarly, I have continued on with that and if anything, leaned into it all the more.
Next up is Svelte. Svelte is a JavaScript framework that I have grown to love even more over the past year. Spoiler alert, that may show up later in the episode.
Next up, we had Postgres, PostgreSQL, the database engine that is wonderful, and I had spent a lot of time with last year. Frankly, I haven't spent as much time with it this year but it’s still something that's near and dear to my heart.
And the last was Inertia.js, a framework that although it's got js in the name, it's both server-side and client-side and binds it together and gives a wonderful experience. I believe I've talked enou