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JS Party: JavaScript, CSS, Web Development

Carmen Huidobro joins Amy, KBall & Nick on the show to talk about her work, the importance of writing docs, and her upcoming conference talk at React Summit US!

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Featuring:

• Carmen Huidobro – Website, GitHub, X
• Nick Nisi – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
• Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Amy Dutton – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• Divio
• Docs for Developers
• Intuitive Tooling
• Martin Fowler - if it hurts, do it often
• Declutter your JavaScript & TypeScript projects | Knip
• React Summit
• F*cking Block Syntax
• Bad Website Club
• The Annoying Site

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Chapter

1. It's party time, y'all (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Fly.io (00:00:39)

https://fly.io/

3. A hoy hoy! (00:03:24)

4. Welcoming Carmen (00:04:13)

5. Developer titles (00:05:41)

6. Documentation (00:08:03)

7. Carmen's talk (00:16:00)

8. Knip (00:23:26)

9. Vim (00:24:19)

10. LLMs for tools (00:26:54)

11. Sponsor: Jam.dev (00:32:54)

https://jam.dev

12. Ollama (00:34:26)

13. How to use these tools (00:41:57)

14. Dependencies (00:52:00)

15. Codemods (00:57:38)

16. Sustainability (00:59:52)

17. Time to grow up (01:01:31)

18. Getting in touch (01:04:50)

19. Closing time (01:11:15)

20. Next up on the pod (01:13:01)