"Single flight mutations can literally cut your app’s response time in HALF!"
"Web performance should come first—everything else is secondary."
Topics Covered in This Episode:
Software Engineer @getsmartdata Content Creator Core team, @solid_js Organizer, @momentumdevcon
⏱️ 0:00 – Volunteering at Conferences: The Ultimate Cheat Code
⏱️ 1:03 – Meet Your Hosts & Guest: Danny, Leon, & Dev
⏱️ 2:01 – The Tweet That Started It All: The Importance of Nuance in Dev Discussions
⏱️ 2:17 – Why Should You Use Solid JS? A Core Maintainer’s Perspective
⏱️ 4:04 – React’s Mental Model vs. Solid’s Fine-Grained Reactivity
⏱️ 6:18 – Why Solid JS Isn’t Mainstream (Yet) & Its Developer-First Approach
⏱️ 8:09 – Performance-First Development: The Ryan Carniato Philosophy
⏱️ 8:55 – Single Flight Mutations: How They Double Your Performance
⏱️ 10:16 – Web Frameworks are Like a D&D Party: Why We Need Different Approaches
⏱️ 11:38 – Why Top Devs Are Excited About Signals
⏱️ 12:04 – Explaining Signals: The Future of State Management
⏱️ 17:48 – The Angular Signals Effect: How It Revitalized Angular’s Reputation
⏱️ 20:17 – The Story of Commit Your Code Conference: Running a Dev Conference on a Budget
⏱️ 24:26 – The Reality of Sponsorships: Why Companies Struggle to Define ROI
⏱️ 28:42 – Organizing a Developer Conference: Lessons from the Field
⏱️ 32:07 – Should You Feel Bad for Using ChatGPT to Learn Code?
⏱️ 42:45 – The Best Way to Learn Advanced Concepts in Programming
⏱️ 46:37 – How to Stay on the Cutting Edge: Reading, Coding, & Experimentation
⏱️ 49:09 – Wrap-Up: Final Thoughts & Podcast Outro