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Vue, Vuex, Auth, and State Management

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BLM, White Privilege, Accountability, Guilt, Responsibilities, and Helping

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From Manager/Dev to Non-coding Manager

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Big Ideas Getting Planned, Part 2

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Big Ideas Getting Planned, Part 1

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Difficult Choices and Hard Conversations

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Growing Up and Losing the Fun Parts of App Development

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Improving Visual Communication for Remote Management

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Security Concerns Keep Coming

10

Proposed Project Approach and the Wonders of Sous Vide Cooking

11

Viable or crap? Discussing Blockchain, VR, Autonomous Cars, and Drone Delivery

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Modern Content Management Options

13

A Deeper Dive into Building Power Apps

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Automation vs Programming

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Headless CMS + Static Site Generators

16

Twilio Segments, Pricing, and Proxy

17

Switching to Services

18

Power Apps for the People

19

Is Accessibility a Worthwhile Focus?

20

A Front-End Dev That Can't Build a Website?

21

How Should a CTO Use Their Time?

22

Clean Code is Covered in Caca

23

Organizational Train Wrecks explained by College Football Dumpster Fires

24

Using a Framework Before Mastering the Language

25

Should Startups Avoid Hiring a CTO?

26

Developers, Ageing, Naps, and What Are We Talking About, Again?

27

Authentication: Buy it or Build it?

28

Breaking down bootcamps

29

Getting going with Go!

30

2x CTOs talk about 10x developers

31

Post-mortem on Randy's Job Search

32

Using Cypress for Integration Testing

33

Ditching Wordpress vs Free-time Driven Development

34

Microsoft Bounces Back: Monopolies, Ballmer Years, and Open Source

35

From Hands-on Dev to CTO: Jess Szmajda, CTO of Axios

36

Trying to find a product-market fit

37

Stages of the CTO Lifecycle

38

Testing with Node and JavaScript (Finally!)

39

Benefits of Continuous Integration

40

Managed Hosting Rocks! WPEngine, Pantheon, and Heroku

41

Business Metrics and the Lack of Context

42

Typescript Pain. Is there any Gain?

43

Writing a Job Description for a Non-specific Job

44

Document Datastores and Many-to-Many Relationships

45

Customer Perspectives and Managing Expectations

46

Building an App (and Learning) with Vue.js

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Hiring Good Consultants

48

Just Doing It Yourself Because of Liam Neeson

49

CTO, CIO, CDO, WTH?

50

Switching Frameworks to Vue.js with David Rogers

51

When a Third-Party Service Fails

52

Learning JavaScript and Accessibility with Megan Schemmel

53

Pushing Your Team and Self to the Limits

54

Products are Fun, Promotion is Not, and Preventing Perfectionism

55

Setting Goals for your Team

56

Discussing Firebase Authentication

57

Brainstorming the Tech, Managed meetup

58

Follow-up with Mark on Flutter, TotallyStrong.me, and Family

59

Kubernetes Exploits, Bernie Madoff, and Minimal Skepticism

60

Viability of a Watch App Concept

61

Review of the State of JS Survey

62

Crossover Episode - The World vs React (Nuff Said)

63

React-ions and Corrections to Last Week

64

Is React the Popular Kid in School?

65

Should We Open Source This Code?

66

Chipping Away at Project Blockers

67

Adventures in Interviewing

68

Debugging Azure with Ego Driven Development

69

Thinking About Smart Homes

70

Build vs Buy and Disrupting Processes

71

To Test or Not to Test?

72

Handling Critical Feature Updates

73

What to Use for Mobile Development?

74

Elon Musk and Leading Your Team to Burnout

75

Debating (Angrily) the Responsibility of Cross-platform Support

76

Grab Bag - GraphQL vs REST, Websockets, Uber Fusion, Redux Sux, and Firestore Search

77

Betting on Vue JS with Gregg Pollack

78

Returning to Game Development with Renee Lahoff

79

When People Don't Listen to You

80

Benefits of Coding While Streaming with Jesse Weigel

81

When Everything's Going Wrong

82

Moms Can: Code with Bekah Hawrot Weigel

83

Stakeholder Types and Working With Them

84

Callbacks! and Promises! and Awaits! Oh My!

85

Episode 25 - Thinking About Dependencies

86

This Old App 12: Relational vs Document DBs

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Relational vs Document DBs

88

Thinking About Dependencies

89

This Old App 10: Appraising Alexa (and other voice interfaces)

90

Project Chasms - Part 3, Prototype Feedback and The Bug

91

Learning as a Cultural Component with Griffin Caprio

92

Appraising Alexa (and other voice interfaces)

93

GDPR Pain and Projects Outside Your Expertise

94

Finding Firebase

95

Compassionate Coding with April Wensel

96

Project Chasms - Part 2, Debugging and Brainstorming

97

Meetings, Schmeetings

98

Project Chasms - Part 1, Getting Started

99

Why do we podcast (and other projects)?

100

Social Media Side-Effects