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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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00:02:18

Use a password manager

3 Minutes with Kent ·

2021/03/01

Hey friends So today I just want to talk about password managers really quick So like, this is gonna be pretty short but I just wanted to beg you for all that is good in the world. Please use a password manager. I use one password. I've been using it for a few years and I love it. I can't even imagine my life without this. Especially with my wife and I who we share a lot of logins for like our insurance and stuff like that, like I just can't even imagine having to manage that between the two of

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00:02:56

Sudoku and methodical debugging

3 Minutes with Kent ·

2021/02/27

Yesterday I taught my son Sudoku because he told me that he enjoys math games which was you know, exciting for me to hear and so he yeah, we we just had some sudoku puzzles that I'd printed and laying around and so my wife was working on one and and I was working on one and we were just talking about how we solved Sudoku puzzles and I just mentioned that I pretty much just go with very methodically and I was I was explaining a very methodical process for solving these puzzles and maybe it's not

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00:02:50

List out different things that appear to do the same...

3 Minutes with Kent ·

2021/02/25

Hey friends so I'm rendering a blog post today and I learned to something that, I thought you might find interesting. I'm not specifically the thing that I learned but just the thing that I learned about when you're trying to teach something. Anyway, so the if you're entering something new you're getting into a new space and and there are a lot of things that seem similar to you and you're like, I don't know what to use this or that or whatever and they just seem like they satisfied same use

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00:02:58

Remote working tips

3 Minutes with Kent ·

2021/02/24

Hey friends. So in the three minutes podcast channel on the KCD Community on Discord, I got a question from Sandrina about any tips for switching from working in the office to working remotely. And I made that switch several years ago. I when I was working at Alianza, I worked from home a couple days out of the week sometimes and and then when I worked at PayPal part of the the deal was I didn't want to move to California and so,They said okay we can have you work remotely I was joining a team that

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00:02:06

Writing Excuses: Smart Promotion

3 Minutes with Kent ·

2021/02/23

https://writingexcuses.com/2021/02/21/16-8-smart-promotion/ Hey friends. So some of you may not know this but I am a hobbyist novel writer and I listen every week to a 15-minute podcast. Well, it actually they end up talking for like 25 minutes normally but they call it the 15 minutes long because you're in a hurry and we're not that smart but the episode for this last Sunday was episode 8 of season 16 and it's titled Smart Promotion and they're talking about promoting yourself as an author but I

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00:02:54

Reverse DNS in real life

3 Minutes with Kent ·

2021/02/22

Hey there friends. So this is another one of those computer science topics in the real world. So the other day I was picking up my son from school and they have this the very efficient system for picking up kids because it and they don't have school bus or anything. So everybody's picking up their kids at the same time. And so they have to be efficient. And so you put this number on your car and like windshield so that they know and then they look it up in their phone and and send a message to let

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00:02:52

Introducing KCD Community Meetups

3 Minutes with Kent ·

2021/02/20

https://kcd.im/meetups Hey friends, sorry that I didn't get one of these recorded yesterday was just busy I guess but today I want to tell you about this new thing that I worked on this last few days called Meetups so you probably know what a meetup is or like what we typically think of where people meet up and and talk about a specific subject but I was intrigued by the app clubhouse that's been hyping up recently and the just the idea of getting people together to talk about things audibly and,I

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00:02:57

Checkout MDN to replace boredom with learning.

3 Minutes with Kent ·

2021/02/19

https://mdn.io Hey there so today I wrote my blog post and in the process of doing that I realized that I was doing something kind of weird. So, I have this project that's the KCD discord bot and the bot is responsible for a whole bunch of things that happen on my discord and it's awesome. You'll meet the bot the it's the first thing that you experience when you join the discord because you can't join the discord without answering the bots questions. So I was making some changes to it and I in

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00:02:50

Introducing MDX-Bundler

3 Minutes with Kent ·

2021/02/17

Hey there friends. I'm just out doing some shopping and I thought I'd record today so right now I just want to talk about MDX Bundler. This is a open source library that I just created. Yeah a couple days ago and it's pretty cool. Basically a lot of packages and things that you have for compiling MDX. Oh actually if you have never heard of MDX, it's like marked down except it allows you to import react components and render those and what's awesome about that does it means that you.Get all the

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00:02:58

Stick with your worthy goals

3 Minutes with Kent ·

2021/02/17

Hey there friends. So today I want to talk with you about Typescript. So my friend Tanner Lindsley was tweeting about how it's kind of frustrating. He's been into typescript for the last few months doing some open source stuff and and if you've never written like a generic abstraction in TypeScript like a library or something then you may not know that Apple type script is way way easier than library type script. Making something.Eric and and can handle all sorts of different use cases and stuff in

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00:02:54

Lines of code !== Complexity

3 Minutes with Kent ·

2021/02/15

https://twitter.com/DavidKPiano/status/1361353521648590853?s=19 What up folks Happy President's Day for those in the US I wanted to talk about this tweet that I saw from David K. Piano that's his Twitter handle his last name is Korshid and the tweet is can we stop with the myth that more code means more complexity? Sometimes less code means more edge casings ignored which means willfully and dangerously ignoring complexity not reducing it. And he gives some a sample of some simple code that just

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00:02:56

Code comments: tell me "why," not "what"

3 Minutes with Kent ·

2021/02/13

Code comments, they're important you need to have them but what you say in the code comment is important so I worked at a place where we were starting to transition to ES6 and you know from using var to constant lead and you know all the new cool features, you know, JavaScript and gotten a lot of new and interesting things in a long time and so we're all starting to use these new things and I saw a lot of comments from some of my coworkers about like basically describing what the syntax. Was doing

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00:02:56

Keep an eye on Remix

3 Minutes with Kent ·

2021/02/13

Hey friends I've just been thinking a lot about remix recently, so if you haven't heard of remix this that's what I want to tell you about just to try and convince you to go give it a serious look so remakes is a react framework that is both server side and client side it's a lot of people compare it to next but it's pretty fundamentally different from the way that next operates it is file system based routing though, there is a imperative API that you can use to declare routes

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00:02:27

Different Problems, Different Solutions

3 Minutes with Kent ·

2021/02/11

Hey folks I know it's a little bit noisy I'm in my car with the fans on because it's cold I just wanted to mention something that I thought was going to interesting. I was just thinking about how sometimes we argue about taking it technological choices, like what framework we use whatever and I thought of a kind of a real world situation that is kind of like this and let's say that you're talking to somebody and they're talking about how much they love their truck and and it's just the best and they

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00:02:59

Don't build the solution before you understand the...

3 Minutes with Kent ·

2021/02/11

What is up my friends all right, so today I wanted to talk about investing the time at the right and appropriate time so I actually talked with my friend Jacob about this and yo-yo Jacob if you're listening and just in general we're talking about you have this really big plan for a big and exciting thing and you want to like create a business out of it or you want to build a whole new application or something like that and so you have these really giant plans what I want to tell you is try to. Avoid

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00:02:58

Testing with Text and Internationalization

3 Minutes with Kent ·

2021/02/09

Hey folks a common question that I get about testing and especially since react testing library or testing library in general you query the DOM by giving it the text that you're looking for so you say hey I want to get a button and it's accessible name is submit. And so the comment question that I get is well that must not work for internationalized websites that's probably just for like little toy apps or internal apps or whatever where you don't have any internationalization going on, no different

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00:02:31

Is it okay to make a function async if it doesn't...

3 Minutes with Kent ·

2021/02/09

Hey friends so I got a question on discord from somebody who asked effectively is it okay to put async away on a function that doesn't need it and you can get useless rules that will prevent this. I think I have the enabled because I don't typically want to do this but there are situations sometimes where you want to start with an API that isn't asynchronous now but you're pretty confident that it's going to be asynchronous in the future and it's just easier. To plan with that asynchrony from the

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00:02:53

Where my money comes from: my transparency page

3 Minutes with Kent ·

2021/02/06

Hey there friend so today I want to talk to you about my transparency page. So I just added a new page to my website can't see Dodds.com slash transparency and I created this website or this page after I was thinking about something over the last few days about actually started with clubhouse. So actually, you know, what even before Covas I've always really been concerned about the incentives of companies. And how messed up incentives can give us companies that will pollute the planet and sell

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00:02:15

Rarely forEach, normally for..of

3 Minutes with Kent ·

2021/02/06

Hey friends. So today I wanted to talk about looping over a raise and stuff like that. And pretty much I'm mostly want to talk about for loops. Early on in my software developer career that's pretty much exclusively how I looked over things and I learned about filter and map and reduced and all of those things and for each and all that and I went full in on that stuff. More recently, I've been getting into using four of loops for stuff. And I find that to work out really nicely.To the point where I

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00:02:57

When client-side routing is worse than server-side...

3 Minutes with Kent ·

2021/02/04

Hey there friend so today I wanted to talk about something that I've been thinking about a little bit and it is client side routing. So Ryan Florence actually tweeted about this. I think like a year ago or something and and I talked about it recently on a podcast that I was on I think Dev mode FM or something. But yeah his tweet was basically like I kind of feel like client side routing is a mistake and we're better off with like actually going to get the document on it, you know, full-page refresh

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