I talk to DHH about Omarchy, the carefully curated distribution of Arch Linux he's been refining for the last few months.

We talk about stuff like:

• How did he discover Arch + Hyprland in the first place?
• What even is Arch, what even is Hyprland, and how the fuck do you make the mouse show up in Linux?
• Should you really be afraid of trying to maintain your own Linux installation?
• What are the main differences in workflow using Omarchy vs. something like macOS?
• What are the best options on Linux for the type of software where macOS has historically shined, like creative tools?
• What are the best hardware options for developers wanting to run Omarchy?

Forgive the worse-than-usual audio quality, we recorded this last minute and spur of the moment with unfamiliar tools!

Topics:

• Putting yourself in the shoes of the person reviewing your application
• Crafting a high quality application tailored to a specific position
• Standing out in a more traditional hiring process by doing something a little extra
• Showcasing very specific examples of your work instead of asking the person reviewing your application to go hunting for it
• Having good questions for the person interviewing you
• Sharing your ideas and what you think the company should be focused on
• Creating a job for yourself that doesn’t even exist
• Proving that you can take ownership of projects and ship them by yourself
• Showing off skills you have that aren’t directly related to the job

Links:

• Ben on Twitter
• Tuple
• Tailwind Labs job postings

Supporting the show:
I decided to stop taking sponsors for the show because I think advertisements are annoying and no one wants to listen to them.

If you do want to support the show, the best way to do it is to purchase one of my products:

• Tailwind UI, a collection of professionally designed, fully responsive HTML components built with Tailwind CSS.
• Refactoring UI, a book and video series I put together with Steve Schoger on designing beautiful user interfaces, without relying on a designer.
• Advanced Vue Component Design, a course on designing simpler, more flexible Vue components that are both more powerful and easier to maintain.
• Test-Driven Laravel, a massive video course on designing robust Laravel applications with TDD. Learn how to build a real-world application from scratch without writing a single line of untested code.
• Refactoring to Collections, a book and video course that teaches you how to apply functional programming principles to break down ugly, complex code into simple transformations — free of loops, complex conditionals, and temporary variables.

Links:

• Hotwire
• HEY

Supporting the show:
I decided to stop taking sponsors for the show because I think advertisements are annoying and no one wants to listen to them.

If you do want to support the show, the best way to do it is to purchase one of my products:

• Tailwind UI, a collection of professionally designed, fully responsive HTML components built with Tailwind CSS.
• Refactoring UI, a book and video series I put together with Steve Schoger on designing beautiful user interfaces, without relying on a designer.
• Advanced Vue Component Design, a course on designing simpler, more flexible Vue components that are both more powerful and easier to maintain.
• Test-Driven Laravel, a massive video course on designing robust Laravel applications with TDD. Learn how to build a real-world application from scratch without writing a single line of untested code.
• Refactoring to Collections, a book and video course that teaches you how to apply functional programming principles to break down ugly, complex code into simple transformations — free of loops, complex conditionals, and temporary variables.

Supporting the show:

I decided to stop taking sponsors for the show because I think advertisements are annoying and no one wants to listen to them.

If you do want to support the show, the best way to do it is to check out our products:

• Tailwind UI, a collection of professionally designed, fully responsive HTML components built with Tailwind CSS.
• Statamic 3, Jack's full-featured flat-file CMS, designed for developers and clients alike.
• Refactoring UI, a book and video series I put together with Steve Schoger on designing beautiful user interfaces, without relying on a designer.
• Advanced Vue Component Design, a course on designing simpler, more flexible Vue components that are both more powerful and easier to maintain.
• Test-Driven Laravel, a massive video course on designing robust Laravel applications with TDD. Learn how to build a real-world application from scratch without writing a single line of untested code.
• Refactoring to Collections, a book and video course that teaches you how to apply functional programming principles to break down ugly, complex code into simple transformations — free of loops, complex conditionals, and temporary variables.

Links:

• Changes to Gumroad's PayPal support
• Radical icons
• Jack's hand-drawn avatars
• W3C's CMS Selection Report

Supporting the show:

I decided to stop taking sponsors for the show because I think advertisements are annoying and no one wants to listen to them.

If you do want to support the show, the best way to do it is to check out our products:

• Tailwind UI, a collection of professionally designed, fully responsive HTML components built with Tailwind CSS.
• Statamic 3, Jack's full-featured flat-file CMS, designed for developers and clients alike.
• Refactoring UI, a book and video series I put together with Steve Schoger on designing beautiful user interfaces, without relying on a designer.
• Advanced Vue Component Design, a course on designing simpler, more flexible Vue components that are both more powerful and easier to maintain.
• Test-Driven Laravel, a massive video course on designing robust Laravel applications with TDD. Learn how to build a real-world application from scratch without writing a single line of untested code.
• Refactoring to Collections, a book and video course that teaches you how to apply functional programming principles to break down ugly, complex code into simple transformations — free of loops, complex conditionals, and temporary variables.

Supporting the show:

I decided to stop taking sponsors for the show because I think advertisements are annoying and no one wants to listen to them.

If you do want to support the show, the best way to do it is to check out our products:

• Tailwind UI, a collection of professionally designed, fully responsive HTML components built with Tailwind CSS.
• Statamic 3, Jack's full-featured flat-file CMS, designed for developers and clients alike.
• Refactoring UI, a book and video series I put together with Steve Schoger on designing beautiful user interfaces, without relying on a designer.
• Advanced Vue Component Design, a course on designing simpler, more flexible Vue components that are both more powerful and easier to maintain.
• Test-Driven Laravel, a massive video course on designing robust Laravel applications with TDD. Learn how to build a real-world application from scratch without writing a single line of untested code.
• Refactoring to Collections, a book and video course that teaches you how to apply functional programming principles to break down ugly, complex code into simple transformations — free of loops, complex conditionals, and temporary variables.

Supporting the show:

I decided to stop taking sponsors for the show because I think advertisements are annoying and no one wants to listen to them.

If you do want to support the show, the best way to do it is to check out our products:

• Tailwind UI, a collection of professionally designed, fully responsive HTML components built with Tailwind CSS.
• Statamic 3, Jack's full-featured flat-file CMS, designed for developers and clients alike.
• Refactoring UI, a book and video series I put together with Steve Schoger on designing beautiful user interfaces, without relying on a designer.
• Advanced Vue Component Design, a course on designing simpler, more flexible Vue components that are both more powerful and easier to maintain.
• Test-Driven Laravel, a massive video course on designing robust Laravel applications with TDD. Learn how to build a real-world application from scratch without writing a single line of untested code.
• Refactoring to Collections, a book and video course that teaches you how to apply functional programming principles to break down ugly, complex code into simple transformations — free of loops, complex conditionals, and temporary variables.

Links

• Statamic 3.0
• Tailwind CSS v1.7.0
• @90sWWE on Twitter

Topics include:

• Why Gary decided to write Execute Program as a full-stack TypeScript application instead of using a Ruby or Python backend like he may have traditionally
• Do you actually have to write less tests if you have a good type system?
• What does a good type system give you that tests can't give you?
• Using io-ts to type check incoming data
• How to think about structuring your code to best take advantage of the benefits your type system gives you and minimize the need to write tests
• Pushing conditional logic to the core of your system to reduce the number of tests you need to write at the edges
• The correlation between type errors and behavioral bugs, and how a type system can help you catch mistakes you don't think to test for
• Do type errors signal that you're missing a test?
• Structural vs. nominal type systems, and the benefits of structural type systems like used by TypeScript and Go
• Best practices for type-checking within a function in a structural type system like TypeScript
• The power of supporting literal types like true or "active" in addition to traditional types

Links:

• Destroy All Software
• Execute Program
• TypeScript
• "Are tests necessary in TypeScript?"
• io-ts
• TypeScript course on Execute Program
• Gary's tweet about unions with literal types

Supporting the show:
I decided to stop taking sponsors for the show because I think advertisements are annoying and no one wants to listen to them.

If you do want to support the show, the best way to do it is to purchase one of my products:

• Tailwind UI, a collection of professionally designed, fully responsive HTML components built with Tailwind CSS.
• Refactoring UI, a book and video series I put together with Steve Schoger on designing beautiful user interfaces, without relying on a designer.
• Advanced Vue Component Design, a course on designing simpler, more flexible Vue components that are both more powerful and easier to maintain.
• Test-Driven Laravel, a massive video course on designing robust Laravel applications with TDD. Learn how to build a real-world application from scratch without writing a single line of untested code.
• Refactoring to Collections, a book and video course that teaches you how to apply functional programming principles to break down ugly, complex code into simple transformations — free of loops, complex conditionals, and temporary variables.

Topics include:

• What is Svelte and how is it different than other JS frameworks in the space?
• What special behavior does the Svelte compiler layer on top of vanilla JS syntax and why?
• Why the lack of render functions in Svelte isn't a real problem in practice
• What are you giving up when you choose to build your application with something like Rails instead of JavaScript?
• Why should we be trying to write our applications in a single language, and why should it be JS?
• What's wrong with striving to write an application entirely in a language like Ruby instead of entirely in JS?
• Why HEY doesn't really make a good argument against the modern web
• Thoughts on bundle sizes, code-splitting, and why aggressive code-splitting is still better than frequent round trips to a server-rendered app
• How Svelte and Sapper handle SSR
• Why page transitions are the killer argument for building SPAs if we want to be able to compete with native experiences
• Should we be thinking about JavaScript applications as native applications in terms of offline-support and eventual consistency, or should we keep thinking of them as webpages that depend on the network?

Links:

• Svelte
• Sapper
• "Second-guessing the modern web"
• "In defense of the modern web"

Supporting the show:

I decided to stop taking sponsors for the show because I think advertisements are annoying and no one wants to listen to them.

If you do want to support the show, the best way to do it is to purchase one of my products:

• Tailwind UI, a collection of professionally designed, fully responsive HTML components built with Tailwind CSS.
• Refactoring UI, a book and video series I put together with Steve Schoger on designing beautiful user interfaces, without relying on a designer.
• Advanced Vue Component Design, a course on designing simpler, more flexible Vue components that are both more powerful and easier to maintain.
• Test-Driven Laravel, a massive video course on designing robust Laravel applications with TDD. Learn how to build a real-world application from scratch without writing a single line of untested code.
• Refactoring to Collections, a book and video course that teaches you how to apply functional programming principles to break down ugly, complex code into simple transformations — free of loops, complex conditionals, and temporary variables.