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Frontend Coffee Break - Podcast

Chucho Castañeda & Ricard Torres

Take a break, grab a cup of coffee and join us to discuss what"s new in frontend development and, why not, outside of it? Jesus "Chucho" Castañeda and Ricard Torres are both Principal Frontend Software Engineer at Cognizant Netcentric. They bring your most needed monthly break. Tune in!

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28:43

Ep. #51: The State of the Framework in 2025

Frontend Coffee Break - Podcast ·

2025/10/22

The State of JS survey is open. We discuss React, Svelte, Vue, vanilla JS... We have opinions about it and we want to hear yours too.Follow us:- Chucho Castañeda https://x.com/honupo- Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@dev

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31:48

Ep. #50: How to deal with impossible deadlines

Frontend Coffee Break - Podcast ·

2025/09/16

We've all been there, you're thrown into a very tight project schedule that might be impossible to deliver. What can we do in these situations?Follow us:- Chucho Castañeda https://x.com/honupo- Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard

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27:31

Ep. #49: FE is complex, can we make it simpler?

Frontend Coffee Break - Podcast ·

2025/07/31

Frontend has gone from FTP to the frameworks war, to complicated pipelines with hundreds of node modules. Why did we do this? Is it getting better? Should we do something about it?Follow us:- Chucho Castañeda https://x.com/honupo- Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard

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31:23

Ep. #48: FE Journey Through the Remote Work Revolution

Frontend Coffee Break - Podcast ·

2025/07/31

Chucho and Ricard discuss how remote work has changed, where are they more productive now and invite you to share your take. What's your best work setup?Follow us:- Chucho Castañeda https://x.com/honupo- Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard

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30:30

Ep. #47: What motivates FE Developers?

Frontend Coffee Break - Podcast ·

2025/07/16

We talk what lights a fire under us, what motivates us to continue working FE. Is it the stack? A new shiny framework? UI? UX? Have a listen and let us know what motivates you to code.Follow us:- Chucho Castañeda https://x.com/honupo- Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard

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29:41

Ep. #46: Are Frontend Developers going away?

Frontend Coffee Break - Podcast ·

2025/06/11

We discuss how AI is making FE developers obsolete (maybe!). Are we going to disappear? What can we do to ensure we continue to exist? How to embrace AI to be more productive?Follow us:- Chucho Castañeda https://x.com/honupo- Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard

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26:38

Ep. #45: Storybook, Web Components and Figma Tokens

Frontend Coffee Break - Podcast ·

2025/06/10

This is an angular-free podcast but we do talk web components. Chucho and Ricard discuss Storybook, what to consider when thinking about using it. Are Figma tokens the future? Sources of truth are nice but are they worth it?What's your experience with these tools?Follow us:- Chucho Castañeda https://x.com/honupo- Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard

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36:28

Ep. #44: Technical Interviews in the age of AI

Frontend Coffee Break - Podcast ·

2025/05/07

We discuss how AI has changed the way we do interviews. Remote only, plus access to AI chats has forced the industry to work differently. How should we conduct interviews? What should we ask? What should we look for in candidates?Follow us:- Chucho Castañeda https://x.com/honupo- Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard

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29:15

Ep. #43: Mobile First in 2025: Why Are We Still...

Frontend Coffee Break - Podcast ·

2025/04/24

Ricard today complains about sites not being mobile-first and Chucho drops a history lesson. What is mobile first? Why are we still talking about this? How can we deliver better experiences?Follow us:- Chucho Castañeda https://x.com/honupo- Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard

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32:20

Ep. #42: Accessibility in 2025, tips to be ready

Frontend Coffee Break - Podcast ·

2025/04/24

We discuss the European Accessibility Act (EAA) that might affect your website, how to check, and deal with common issues. How hard is it to follow the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 Level AA? We give you an insight and share our experience.What's your experience with accessibility?Follow us:- Chucho Castañeda https://x.com/honupo- Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard

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33:53

Ep. #41: How we manage stress in the FE world

Frontend Coffee Break - Podcast ·

2025/01/28

We chat about things that can be stressful as a FE developer, we suggest things that work for us on how to deal and mitigate it (for you and you team).Share your tips and tricks with us!Follow us:- Chucho Castañeda https://x.com/honupo- Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard

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33:39

Ep. #40: CSS in 2024 was fun

Frontend Coffee Break - Podcast ·

2025/01/21

We share what we loved most about the 2024 CSS Wrapped as well as other CSS changes we've witnessed over the years that changed our way of working (yes, we will talk about border-radius).What where CSS changes that blew your mind?https://chrome.dev/css-wrapped-2024/Follow us:- Chucho Castañeda https://x.com/honupo- Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard

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29:25

Ep. #39: Best practices, standards and guidelines

Frontend Coffee Break - Podcast ·

2025/01/20

We discuss how we work with guidelines, standards and best practices at Cognizant Netcentric. Including our very own ESLint and Stylelint open source configurations.Do you follow any guidelines when coding FE?Follow us:- Chucho Castañeda https://x.com/honupo- Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard.torres

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30:56

Ep. #38: Morals, ethics and being eco-friendly as a...

Frontend Coffee Break - Podcast ·

2024/12/05

We discuss the moral of working for certain industries, how can we be more green (spoiler: it's web performance) as developers, as well as open source.Follow us:- Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo- Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard

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31:01

Ep. #37: Lessons learned as FE Developers

Frontend Coffee Break - Podcast ·

2024/11/25

Chucho and Ricard have been coding for more than 18 years. These old time developers will share some of their hard learned lessons on being a developer and/or a FE Lead.Share your sips of wisdom with us.Follow us:- Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo- Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard

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32:35

Ep. #36: How to keep up to date with FE?

Frontend Coffee Break - Podcast ·

2024/10/25

Why is it important to be on the loop for the latest and greatest FE technologies out there? The latest JavaScript framework? What's possible with the latest CSS? Performance and SEO... There's just so much. We share our tips and tricks to stay fresh and relevant.Follow us:- Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo- Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard

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36:47

Ep. #35: Patterns, anti-patterns and dark patterns

Frontend Coffee Break - Podcast ·

2024/10/08

We explain the differences, share examples and give you plenty resources to get you started. Chucho can't stress enough that you should read these at least once!patterns.devGang Of Four GOF Design Patterns Design Patternsdeceptive.designFollow us:- Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo- Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard

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Ep. #34: Development conferences. Worth it?

Frontend Coffee Break - Podcast ·

2024/09/30

We talk about web development conferences, going in-person or attending online. Are they worth it? What's the benefit? Couldn't you just watch a recording?What's the most interesting conference you've ever attended? If you haven't yet, any conferences you'd like to go to?Follow us:- Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo- Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard

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34:00

Ep. #33: How to write quality and maintainable code?

Frontend Coffee Break - Podcast ·

2024/07/02

We chat what is code quality, what are code smells, tips and tricks to make your code readable and maintainable.What are your tips?Code quality metrics: https://www.sealights.io/code-quality/code-quality-metrics-is-your-code-any-good/Follow us:- Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo- Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard

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32:54

Ep. #32: Knowledge Sharing in your Team

Frontend Coffee Break - Podcast ·

2024/06/18

We discuss different ways to do knowledge sharing in your team or company. The challenges we've faced and what has worked for us.Find out about our Netcentric Academy https://www.netcentric.biz/jobsFollow us:- Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo- Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard

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