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The Call Kent Podcast — 229 episodes

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1

FSL-1.1-ALv2 Permitted Purpose for Kody

2

Exploring Interests at 15

3

Exposing internal styles from design system

4

What to learn

5

Bridging the Gap to Community Influence as a Senior Engineer

6

Call Kent Podcast Updates

7

From AI Automation to Full-Stack Engineering

8

Conference Workshop Advice

9

Getting a Developer Job in the AI chaos

10

Significance of '===' in typescript applications

11

In which situations would you recommend using RSC with React Router?

12

Web Framework Choice

13

Suggestion on Career Advice

14

Request for oAuth implementation

15

How far can nested UI loaders go for UIs with list of components

16

What should I learn next?

17

Does MCP make sense confined to a single app to rethink UX?

18

Stuck in Stack Switching: How Do You Commit to One?

19

Building and Maintaining a Software Blog

20

Securing Routes in React Router Framework

21

Adding Auth to MCPs

22

Running audio in background while still offline

23

What do you think about mutation testing applied to components?

24

When is a Promise not good enough, and I need a Web Worker?

25

How Useful is LiteFS in 2025?

26

What are your thoughts about Qwik and hydration?

27

Dependent driven motivation and embracing AI

28

Does the testing trophy need updating for 2025?

29

Balancing Conventions and Flexibility in Large Codebases

30

I'm a React dev... What now?

31

How to keep Type-Safety when defering data from a Remix loader

32

Good open source projects implementing frontend testing strategy

33

Should I learn GraphQL or just stick with REST?

34

React Components vs Progressive Enhancement

35

Test Cleanup: in the test or in afterEach

36

How many hours do you spend coding?

37

Remix Vite: Debugging Production issues

38

Inspired by Your Work

39

When to add a CSP (Content Security Policy)

40

Do generated types from OpenAPI spec change testing?

41

Prevent revalidation of remix loaders after mutation

42

Design the React component library

43

SEO Optimization and Hosting

44

Progress bar for mutations in Remix

45

Mocking in the full stack metaframework Era

46

How do you create advanced content for developers

47

A Button Per form or One Form with Multiple Buttons

48

Toasts in Remix

49

Unpaid internships and indentured servitude

50

It's fine to re-render

51

Data Structures and Algorithms

52

Remix Flat Routes vs Remix v2 Router

53

Generating CSS with Remix Resource Routes

54

Using Downshift with Conform to manage an input

55

Jake Lazaroff’s article on Web Components

56

Code Organization in Full Stack Apps

57

Client Hints and profiling

58

Building and Testing an MDX-based Blog

59

EpicWeb.dev is now available!

60

What is full stack for EpicWeb.dev?

61

Improving as a software engineer

62

Why didn't you break root.tsx into smaller components?

63

Am I stuck in tutorial heck?

64

Scaling Epic-Stack in a single region

65

React Lazy initializers Call Order

66

How do you approach major project updates

67

Organizing your first workshop

68

Conform sets novalidate & validation attributes?

69

My skill stuck at current job, should I quit?

70

How do you host your videos?

71

How are you still productive!?

72

Best practice for using localStorage in React

73

Remix Full-Stack Components (vs Server Components)

74

A 10 year old itch to make a switch (QA to dev)

75

Should I go to college or not?

76

Resources to learn senior development skills

77

Passing state across components in RemixJS

78

How To Deal with Hiring Developers?

79

Why do you use the Express adapter for your app?

80

Minimum skills for a Frontend dev job?

81

userEvent.setup vs not including it in unit tests

82

Are AI tools (Copilot) bad for the learning curve?

83

Becoming one of the best React developer

84

Is Epic Stack beneficial for new developers?

85

How to approach imposter syndrome

86

Error Handling in Remix

87

How do you plan E2E test flows?

88

When/why should I choose SSR over CSR?

89

Side income

90

How Remix fits 6 different web apps

91

Is it really all about who knows you?

92

Tech to use for a video streaming site

93

Should we transition from Jest to Vitest

94

What's the bundle analysis story in Remix?

95

How to set titles in CatchBoundary's in Remix?

96

v2 Routing Convention

97

Seeking for solution and advice to progress

98

What is your latest thinking on render props?

99

Inline Styles vs CSS File Styles

100

Looking for the best talk idea

101

Tips on making the most of your short breaks

102

Advice for a company afraid of using Node

103

How are redux thunks implementation details?

104

What makes a good react js developer?

105

AWS Job Opportunity

106

Playwright support

107

Tips for creating a npm package (stack-supporting)

108

How close should a hook be to its usage?

109

What's your opinion on atomic design?

110

How to handle file uploads in Remix?

111

Tailwind class overriding

112

How do you deal with partial types?

113

The "remix" testing methodology

114

How to handle action matching no intent?

115

Latest practical CSS techniques (use Tailwind)

116

Middleware is an antipattern

117

How to test semantic HTML tables?

118

Appreciation

119

Testing Code in service files and NGXS Store files

120

Is using md5 as key an anti-pattern in react?

121

Why do you take short breaks when coding?

122

Is addEventListener OK again?

123

Frontend to Fullstack

124

Test Data: To BeforeAll or to BeforeEach

125

organizing course code

126

How to do feature flags with Remix?

127

Own Code vs Library

128

Would you recommend to use Playwright or Cypress?

129

How to Shamelessly Self-Promote?

130

Why are you programming in VScode?

131

Remix: ways around window undefined

132

Testing a graphical component

133

Will there be a KCD Trilogy? (Yes)

134

How do you automate KCD?

135

Question about testing a reusable component

136

Full Stack Developers... Why?

137

Mantine's callback with Remix's ActionFunction

138

How do you convince your team to use E2E?

139

Migration from React/Rails hybrid to Remix

140

Do you have any thoughts on Playwright?

141

Using cookie/privacy policies on personal websites

142

Leveling up your career while putting family first

143

Live loading data with remix

144

Using VPN during software development

145

Why is there so much hate regarding React lately?

146

Decomposing remix component

147

Jump from mid level to senior react developer

148

React app doesn't work on IE11

149

Using userEvent vs fireEvent

150

useMemo vs React.Memo when it comes to JSX

151

How to build a committed following

152

Learning Frontend Architecture

153

Querying the data in nested routes

154

Nivo charts issue

155

i18n and Remix

156

Tests for accessible error messages

157

Asserting props.onClick in react-testing-library

158

CatchBoundary on empty datasets

159

Remix Anti-patterns

160

Why Framer Motion for Animations

161

Lack of experience when problem solving

162

How to identify which button submits a form

163

Thinking process when reviewing code

164

Do you read the React source code?

165

Isolate FE and BE apps vs Remix Full Stack

166

Using Remix with a custom backend (Nestjs)

167

Feedback speed in TDD

168

Understand what's effect and what is derived state

169

Order of Courses to Take

170

State bloating vs api call (again and again)

171

Separation of rendering vs logics custom hooks

172

Imposter Syndrome and Working at FAANG

173

In a Startup only testing in the backend?

174

Using GraphQL queries in Remix loader functions

175

Servers + Databases + Remix

176

I love your website! ITS BEAUTIFUL.

177

How can I incentivize users to not share accounts?

178

Could the useState be used without the setter?

179

Best way to reset a form

180

How to decide among advanced react patterns?

181

Handling difficult co-workers and/or leadership

182

Use React frameworks (Remix) for SPAs

183

Isolating tests

184

Versioning and dependency management for libraries

185

Full stack framework vs front-end with saas

186

Learning Gaps & Cluelessness as a Developer

187

Alfred and/or ScriptKit?

188

Why React JS?

189

Bailing out of re-rendering in useState

190

Remix Styling w/CSS in JS

191

Learning web development the right way

192

Testing a Drag and Drop Experience

193

Protected route and redirect after payment

194

Making changes on a new team

195

Building an Open Source Website

196

Question about testing alongside RTL

197

Create web components in React

198

Magic links require timely email delivery

199

Some advice for developers about the design

200

Pricing low-demand workshops

201

Why XState?

202

Forms in React

203

How small should components be

204

Using Fly.io Replays

205

Why is forwardRef required to limit re-renders?

206

Traditional logins vs. passwordless magic links

207

How to plan curriculum

208

Why Remix over other React frameworks?

209

What did paypal-scripts do?

210

What are your thoughts on Svelte?

211

Where did those diagrams come from?

212

Filling CS concept holes as a non-CS major?

213

How to buy for EpicReact in "installments"

214

Best approach for building headless components

215

Cypress Component Testing Library vs Jest

216

How does Remix manage many CSS files in a page?

217

Mirage JS over MSW?

218

Work Life Balance

219

How much of seniority is about code skills?

220

Firm skills

221

How to style?

222

SSG Hype

223

Managing Burnout

224

Make It Stick: Interleave Curves

225

What is the best way to go through EpicReact?

226

How do you find new technology

227

Difference in methods emanating from screen and render

228

Dealing with "act" warning on react testing

229

Reusing components between different projects