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3 Minutes with Kent

👋 Hi there! I"m Kent C. Dodds (https://twitter.com/kentcdodds). This is a (week)daily podcast where I give 3 minute thoughts about web development. You can subscribe on iTunes here: http://kcd.im/3-mins-itunes and on RSS here: http://kcd.im/3-mins-rss

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00:02:57

I use markdown and VSCode for slides

3 Minutes with Kent ·

2021/05/11

https://staltz.com/your-ide-as-a-presentation-tool.html Hello friends you may have noticed that sometimes I use my editor as my slides in lots of the talks that I've given over the last few years and that was originally inspired by André Staultz who has the a blog post on his website called your IDE as a presentation tool where he kind of explains why he has done that and it's a good blog post you can take a look at that and even gives tips on how to do this effectively and stuff. But I would just

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00:02:56

Don't set your ref in your component body

3 Minutes with Kent ·

2021/05/10

https://epicreact.dev/the-latest-ref-pattern-in-react Hey your friends. So I get this question of fair amount and so I thought I'd try to answer it and podcast form and the question is why don't why is it not a good idea to set a ref during your render function? So there are exceptions to this and understanding the reasoning will help you understand what those exceptions are. But basically, if you read my blog post on the Epic React dot dev slash articles, there's a blog post about the latest ref

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00:02:58

Don't bring an old problem's solution to a new tool...

3 Minutes with Kent ·

2021/05/08

Hey friends I had an interesting thought this morning. So a lot of people when they start using a new technology like when next was released or when you know a new version of Reactor or or any React library or whatever they often will say, okay, how do you I use this with an existing technology that I already enjoy like, so how do I use next with glamorous? That was an early thing. I remember or how do I use? Next with Jest or you know, whatever whatever it is. I would encourage you to when you're

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00:02:56

Avoid Context Switching: Use ScriptKit.com

3 Minutes with Kent ·

2021/05/06

https://www.scriptkit.com/ https://kentcdodds.com/blog/automation Hey friends So you know how sometimes you do things so many times that you're like you know what I'm just gonna write a script for this and we'll run it and whatever and so I don't have to do this over and over again. And like some of those things can be pretty extensive, like there's a lot of stuff that you end up doing like you gotta open up this webpage and then you gotta click on that and then you gotta go do this, whatever. And

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00:02:47

Notes Driven Development

3 Minutes with Kent ·

2021/05/05

https://youtube.com/c/RyanFlorence Hey friends So I was watching a live stream from Ryan Florence last night while I was putting my kids to bed They were falling asleep and I was in the room to make sure that they didn't go all whacko and stuff while they're trying to fall asleep. And so I was just watching Ryan codeps some stuff. You should check it out. Actually Ryan has gotten some really good live streams recently, especially if you're interested in remix and stuff. And and actually sometimes

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00:02:55

Don't Solve Problems, Eliminate Them

3 Minutes with Kent ·

2021/05/04

https://twitter.com/kentcdodds/status/1388561641382420480?s=20 Hey friends So a few days ago I tweeted something about like don't solve problems you should eliminate to problems before you try to solve the problem. Something like that. And I've been thinking about this quite a bit recently and probably going to write a blog post maybe even make a talk and for this concept. But I just wanted to share with you all while I'm thinking about it and and there there are lots of examples of where

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00:02:57

Write that blog post

3 Minutes with Kent ·

2021/05/03

https://kentcdodds.com/blog/solidifying-what-you-learn Hello friends So recently somebody asked on the KCD discord whether they should bother writing a blog post because the topic had already been covered a thousand times by other people who may have more experience in whatever. And I shared with them a blog post that I wrote quite a while back called solidifying your understanding or something like that. And in it I mentioned a an interesting phenomena that I'm sure you've noticed sometimes you

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00:02:55

How fast touch typing helps programmers

3 Minutes with Kent ·

2021/05/01

https://www.typingtest.com/test.html?minutes=1&textfile=mediumText.txt&mode=sent&result_url=/result.html&bt=0 Hello friends. So this morning in my discord we had a little bit of a conversation about touch typing. One of my friends there asked if they should get into Vim and they were thinking that Vim you can move a little faster and well I think that's that can be true. I think there's a little bit of an illusion to moving quickly just because you're using a special text editor or editor or a VIM

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00:02:42

Watch the Remix Beta Release live stream today

3 Minutes with Kent ·

2021/04/29

Live stream link: https://youtu.be/4dOAFJUOi-s Hey friends. So today is an important day for a friend of mine. Our friends of mine Michael Jackson and Ryan Florence are releasing the beta 1.0 release of remix. And if you've been watching my Twitter or just kind of me in general, I've been really excited about remix. I've been reading writing can't seedance.com to remix and it's just been a total joy. I am super excited about the potential that remakes has and really excited about the approach that

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00:02:53

I encourage you to get into (burnout free) open source

3 Minutes with Kent ·

2021/04/28

Hey friends so I wanted to talk a little bit about open source. I have been doing open source for almost as long as I've been doing software development. And it has been just an enormous benefit to me. I I can't tell you how how much I've learned and how much of what I know I learned through open source and so I strongly advise people to get into open source for various reasons. In particular, like it makes you a better software developer, you write higher quality software, you can reuse the

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00:02:58

Why I love Magic ✨ Login Links

3 Minutes with Kent ·

2021/04/27

Hey friends So I am working on a rewrite of my website can see downs.com and one thing that I'm adding is user accounts so you can set up an account and I'm not going to tell you why you might want to do that. I have a little bit of a surprise. But the reason that I mentioned this is because I'm using Firebase authentication and I started out with the username and password regular old username password sort of thing that you're used to. And it worked pretty well. I had a password reset. I had forgot

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00:02:22

Use Super Simple Starts to learn new things

3 Minutes with Kent ·

2021/04/26

Hey friends So some of you may be familiar with my super simple start series of blog posts. I've got like six or seven of those and basically the idea is let's strip down everything else outside of the thing that we're trying to focus on and just bring in the abstractions or tools that are 100% necessary for whatever whatever it is we're learning and that means if we're talking about CSS variables or custom properties, that means we're not bringing in Webpack or any of that nonsense, it's all just

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00:02:51

Trust the process

3 Minutes with Kent ·

2021/04/22

Hey folks, so today I want to talk about trust the process which I just barely looked up and apparently it's a slogan used by fans of the NBA's Philadelphia 76ers and now it's just everybody uses this and I use this and one of the things I think that I mentioned on three minutes with Kent months ago, when I started this new year one of my or my kind of goal or theme for the year was planning and the way that I executed that theme was I have a notebook and a pen that I keep in my pocket. And at the

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00:02:57

Mock logs in tests

3 Minutes with Kent ·

2021/04/21

Hey folks So I have had a couple of in situations when I was writing some tests where I had some code that would give me some sort of warning maybe it's using the invariant module or I'm just doing a console.air or consultant more or something like that. Or maybe I'm rendering a React component that will throw an error or something like that and I want to write a test to make sure that that error is thrown or whatever. So in in these sorts of scenarios, you're going to get console.errors getting

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00:02:53

How to use TypeScript errors to guide your callbacks

3 Minutes with Kent ·

2021/04/19

Your friends it's a beautiful day it's Monday and I wanted to share just something that I discovered while I was working on something just kind of an interesting workflow that I've come to start to use and that is if you are trying to use something and you don't know what type it requires rather than and assuming that it's written in touch script or at least has type definitions so like say you're passing a function to an API and some sort of callback, for example, maybe you're on an input in a j in

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00:02:13

Neural nets podcast recommendation

3 Minutes with Kent ·

2021/04/15

https://youtu.be/gzq5AFCH5jk Hey, you're folks. So today I listened to a podcast interview. It's about 50 minutes on. And it is on a podcast called Tesla daily. I which is a kind of interesting daily podcast about tests huh? But normally it's it's like a 15 minute long thing, but this one was 50 minutes and it was an interview with this fellow by the name of well, it's not showing the full name here. James Duma and yeah, I,Don't I've never heard of this person before but they are really great at

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00:02:58

When to use TypeScript's `never` type

3 Minutes with Kent ·

2021/04/13

https://twitter.com/kentcdodds/status/1381453907730128900?s=20 Hey friends So last night I tweeted this TypeScript question. When have you used never in a production codebase links to examples welcome? And I failed to mute the conversation and so I ended up waking up the next morning with tons of notifications, which was great. So many people were happy to share and I just wanted to share with you a couple or the like basic themes of the different examples that people shared. So the first is

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00:02:11

Make the world better by doing this one simple thing

3 Minutes with Kent ·

2021/04/11

Clickbait? Yes. Hey folks today, we're gonna go with the untraditional not tech related really podcast so I got my first dose of the modern of vaccine yesterday. I strongly advise that you do the same if you are able all of the data points to this being safe despite it how fast it was produced and everything so I if if you're not if you don't get the vaccine but you're able to then you're putting other people at more and greater risk unnecessarily so just please get the,Team let's get our lives back

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00:02:55

Should every site be an installable PWA?

3 Minutes with Kent ·

2021/04/08

Hey there friends, so I have a question somebody's asking on the KCD office hours channel in discord and I decided this is something that I can answer in the three minutes with Kent alright podcast, so the question is what are my thoughts on PWAs nowadays should all websites be PWAs are there const making your site's PWAs so in general or to be clear a PWA stands for progressive web application and normally when we're talking about this we're talking about something that can be like installed. You

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00:02:55

Why I no longer use newspaper code structure

3 Minutes with Kent ·

2021/04/06

Hey there friends. So a while ago, I wrote well actually several years ago. I wrote a blog post called a newspaper code structure where I described the way that I like to structure my code to basically make it. I don't know easier for me to parse as I come into a new file and the idea is that anytime I have some sort of block of code that returns some value or whether that be a function or a module where your exporting values and stuff. I always,Like to do the the thing that it returns or the

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