You know what really grinds Chris' gears? (Spoiler Alert: It's Single-Page Applications.)
Steph needs some consulting help. So much to do, so little time.
Sarah Drasner tweet about shared element transitions (https://twitter.com/sarah_edo/status/1431282994581413893)
Article about Page Transitions API (https://developer.chrome.com/blog/shared-element-transitions-for-spas/)
Svelte Crossfade layout demo (https://svelte.dev/repl/a7af336f906c4caab3936972754e4d6f?version=3.23.2)
Svelte Crossfade tutorial page (https://svelte.dev/tutorial/deferred-transitions) (Note - click "Show Me" on the bottom left)
Transcript:
CHRIS: I have restarted my recording, and we are now recording. And we are off on the golden roads. Isn't software fun?
STEPH: Podcast battle. Here we go!
Hello and welcome to another episode of The Bike Shed, a weekly podcast from your friends at thoughtbot about developing great software. I'm Steph Viccari.
CHRIS: And I'm Chris Toomey.
STEPH: And together, we're here to share a bit of what we've learned along the way. Hey, Chris, happy Friday. How's your week been?
CHRIS: Happy Friday to you as well. My week's been good with the exception of right before we started this recording, I had one of those experiences. You know the thing where software is bad and software is just terrible overall? I had one of those. And very briefly to describe it, I started recording, but I could hear some feedback in my headphones. So I was like, oh no, is that feedback going to show up on the final recording? Which I really hope it doesn't. Spoiler alert - listener, if I sound off, sorry about that. But so I stopped recording and then I went to go listen to the file, and I have our audio software configured to record directly to the desktop. And it does that normally quite well. But for some reason, the file wasn't there. But I remember this recently because I ran into it another time.
For some reason, this is Finder failing me. So the thing that shows me the files in a graphical format, at least on my operating system. Although I think it also messes up in the terminal maybe. That feels like it shouldn't be true, but maybe it is. Anyway, I had to kill all Finder from the terminal to aggressively restart that process. And then suddenly, Finder was like, oh yeah, there's totally files there, absolutely. They were there the whole time. Why do you even ask?
And I know that state management is a hard problem, I am aware. I have felt this pain. I have been the person who has introduced some bugs related to it, but that's not where I want to experience it. Finder is one of those applications that I want to just implicitly trust, never question whether or not it's just sneakily telling me that there are files that are not there or vice versa. So anyway, software.
STEPH: I'm worried for your OS. I feel like there's a theme lately [chuckles] in the struggles of your computer.
CHRIS: On a related note, I had to turn off transparency in my terminal because it was making my computer get very hot. [chuckles]
STEPH: Oh no, you're not a hacker any more.
CHRIS: I'm not. [chuckles] I just have a weird screen that's just dark. And jellybeans is my color scheme, so there's that going on. That's in Vim specifically. Pure is my prompt. That's a lovely little prompt. But lots of Day-Glo colors on just a black background, not the cool hacker transparency. I have lost some street cred.
STEPH: What is your prompt? What did you say it is?
CHRIS: Pure.
STEPH: Pure, I don't know that one.
CHRIS: It is by Sindre Sorhus; I think is his name. That's his Twitter handle, GitHub name. He is a prolific open-source creator in the Node world, particularly. But he created this...I think it's a Bash and a Zsh prompt. It might be for others as well. It's got a bunch of features. It's pretty fast. It's minimal. It got me to stop messing around with my prompt, which was mostly what I was going for. And it has a nice benefit that occasionally now I'll be pairing with someone, and I'