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Show Notes

00:08 Welcome
01:20 Weather updates
02:21 How often have you gotten together in real life?
Jamstack Conf
Reactathon
05:33 What are people using to bookmark sites?
Arc Browser
09:03 When not to use Static Site Generation (SSG), and when to use Server-side Rendering (SSR)?
Svelte Kit
13:53 How do you do correct error handling to catch everything?
Sentry.io
21:13 Sponsor: Sentry
22:50 Is there any benefit to using getters and setters in classes set them over plain methods?
27:47 Will there ever be a js framework that can SSR on a non-JS backend?
Render
pnpm
32:40 Have either of you thought about learning and teaching Python or Django?
34:56 What is your opinion on purchasing "Domain Privacy" with each domain?
37:49 Sponsor: Sanity
38:44 Domain privacy continued
39:22 How you deploy monorepo packages?
Tanstack
Vite
43:48 As a member of a non margin group should I avoid applying for jobs when they say they welcome applicants who are of a marginalized group to support diversity?
46:12 When would you, if ever, choose good-old React over something like Next JS?
53:24 Sponsor: Freshbooks
54:16 Is it preferred to import via absolute reference or relative reference?
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