Welcome

Next.js gives you the best developer experience with all the features you need for production. Does it live up to the hype? Ian and Chris take a deep dive into the developer experience and see.

Embracing “standard” Markdown, HackMD lets you collaborate using everyone’s favourite plan text format. How does it compare to the bigger, shinier competition? I take a look.

Metrics and managing and understanding them is an essential part of any modern complex application. As with any active and busy technical ecosystem, there is a proliferation of competing open source monitoring standards. A handful emerges as the most popular solutions. Slowly, the community creates a standard that most projects follow in some way.

MetaHuman provides a way to create your own digital human representations in an intuitive and easy-to-learn environment. Watch me freak myself out as I create myself, live on camera 🤯

I’ve been quiet for a while, here’s why. I’m relaunching the show soon and here’s what I have planned.

Serenade lets you write code with your voice. You heard that right. Is it faster than typing? Is it annoying? I take a err, speak?

Companies that are built upon or are building software typically want to move fast and not break things. But how can growing teams allow developers to keep building new features and fixing bugs without operations teams slowing them down with complex and arduous processes?

Sonic Pi is a code-based music creation and performance tool. Learn to code creatively by composing or performing music in an incredible range of styles from Classical & Jazz to Grime & EDM.

There are a lot of screen recorders available, so what does Screenity offer over all of the others? I take a look.

Rockset promises The real-time indexing database for modern data applications. How does it compare to the competition? I speak with Venkat Venkataramani to find out.

Easily connect data from REST, GraphQL, databases, or any backend, StepZen promises simplicity and interoperability. But how will it stand up to our rigorous developer experience testing?

Episode 16 - Winter Wonderland (Pt 1) was streamed live on our Twitch channel at Twitch.tv/crittestdummies on April 25th. Check us out most Sundays at 6 PM CET for new episodes! You can find this adventure and more by Kian Bergstrom on DMs Guild at https://bit.ly/2TkcKHu He can also be found at @FalseFlorimell on Twitter. Character art made by Lance @20sapodcast on Twitter. Game audio by SoundTale. Thank you to James for letting us use their work, our players Chris, Luke, Patrick and Shane, and our DM Peter!

Many of us in software development know of, and have used HashiCorp projects. How do they stay innovative in a rapidly changing ecosystem? I speak with Ray (Consul) and Chang (Nomad) to find out more.

Apple’s new DocC documentation compiler converts Markdown-based text into rich documentation for Swift applications. How does it compare to other language-specific tools? I take a look.

Episode 15 - White Dragon Mountain (Pt 1) was streamed live on our Twitch channel at Twitch.tv/crittestdummies on April 4th. Check us out most Sundays at 6 PM CET for new episodes! You can find this adventure and more by Bruno71 at DMsGuild.com Character art made by Lance @20sapodcast on Twitter. Game audio by Tabletop Audio. Thank you as well to our players Chris, Luke, Patrick and Shane, and our DM Peter!