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Faris Aziz joins PodRocket to unpack the front-end "dark arts" behind building resilient dashboards under API rate limits and bloated payloads. He walks through front-end caching strategies, why a backend for frontend pattern using Next.js API routes as a proxy solved a 13-second load time, and how TanStack Query resilience patterns hold up differently at fintech scale versus Smallpdf's tens of millions of users. They also dig into defining a retryable error to avoid runaway infrastructure costs.

Links

Website: https://www.faziz-dev.com/

Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/farisaziz.com

Github: https://github.com/farisaziz12

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/farisaziz12

X: https://x.com/farisaziz12

Resources

Caching, Payloads, and Other Dark Arts: Optimizing UX in Suboptimal Conditions: https://www.faziz-dev.com/talks/caching-payloads-and-other-dark-arts-optimizing-ux-in-suboptimal-conditions

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Aurora Sharf joins PodRocket once again to discuss Async React, the pattern behind React 19's transitions, useOptimistic, and Suspense. She explains why "in-between states" are a UX problem, not just a DX one, how Next.js's cache components and App Router fix years of caching confusion, and why perceived performance (INP) matters as much as cumulative layout shift. Plus: the action props pattern, Meta's new Astrix library, and what's still missing before Async React goes mainstream.

Links

Website: https://aurorascharff.no/about

Github: https://github.com/aurorascharff

X: https://x.com/aurorascharff

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aurora-scharff-a86b88188/?isSelfProfile=false

Resources

Talk: https://www.youtube.com/@UnlearnDev

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Rich Harris joins the podcast to discuss his talk, fine-grained everything, exploring fine-grained reactivity, frontend performance, and the real costs of React Server Components and RSC payloads. Rich explains how Svelte and SvelteKit approach co-located data fetching, remote functions, and RPC to reduce server-side rendering costs, improve developer experience, and avoid unnecessary performance overhead on mobile networks. The conversation dives into async rendering, parallel async data fetching, type safety with schema validation, and why async-first frameworks may define the future of JavaScript frameworks and web performance.

Links

X: https://x.com/Rich_Harris

Github: https://github.com/rich-harris

Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/rich-harris.dev

Resources

Modern front-end frameworks like Svelte are astonishingly fast at rendering, thanks to techniques such as signal-based fine-grained reactivity. But there's more to performance than updating the screen at 60 frames per second. In this talk, we'll learn about new approaches that help you build fast, reliable, data-efficient apps.

Slides: https://fine-grained-everything.vercel.app/1-1

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Special Guest: Rich Harris.

Carson Gross, computer science professor at Montana State and creator of htmx, joins the show to cut through the noise around AI and programming. He explains why the jump from high-level languages to LLMs is fundamentally different from past transitions, why junior developers who skip writing code risk being at the mercy of a stochastic system, and why systems architecture and managing code complexity are the skills that will matter most. A grounded, rational take on the future of software development jobs.

Resources

Yes,and...: https://htmx.org/essays/yes-and/

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Chapters

00:00 Introduction — Carson Gross and the "Yes, And…" Blog Post

01:45 Why Carson Felt Compelled to Write About AI and Coding

03:30 The Assembly-to-High-Level Analogy — and Why It Falls Apart

06:00 Juniors Must Write Code to Be Able to Read Code

08:15 The Sorcerer's Apprentice Trap

10:30 Could AI Actually Increase Demand for Programmers?

12:45 Why "SaaS Is Dead" Is Shortsighted

15:00 Systems Architecture as the High-Value Skill Going Forward

17:30 Essential vs Accidental Complexity — The No Silver Bullet Framework

20:00 How LLMs Break the Natural Feedback Loop of Bad Code

23:00 Will AI Change How We Think About Testing?

26:30 Abstraction, Paradigms, and Human-Readable Code

29:00 How Much Has AI Actually Boosted Carson's Own Productivity?

32:00 The Mental Health Cost of the AI Hype Cycle

35:30 Final Thoughts — Give Yourself (and Others) a Break
Special Guest: Carson Gross.

Jack Herrington joins PodRocket to show why TanStack AI might be the last AI SDK you reach for. He breaks down code mode, a single-shot TypeScript execution that wipes out the round-trip tax of traditional LLM tool calling, plus the AGUI standard that frees your backend from vendor lock-in. We also discuss type-safe tool calls, self healing code mode skills, built in AI dev tools, and incoming Claude Code and MCP harness support.

Links

Jack's website: https://jackherrington.com/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6vRUjYqDuoUsYsku86Lrsw

Twitter: https://x.com/jherr

GitHub: https://github.com/jherr

Resources

TanStack AI: https://tanstack.com/ai/latest

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