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Full Stack Radio

Adam Wathan 153 episodes Latest Aug 21, 2025

A podcast for developers interested in building great software products. Every episode, Adam Wathan is joined by a guest to talk about everything from product design and user experience to unit testing and system administration.

Episodes

153: DHH – Omarchy and Designing Your Own OS on Arch Linux Aug 21, 2025 4585 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 m
152: Ben Orenstein - How to Stand Out When Applying for a Job at a Small Company Jan 28, 2021 2863 Topics:Putting yourself in the shoes of the person reviewing your applicationCrafting a high quality application tailored to a specific positionStanding out in a more traditional hiring process by doing something a little extraShowcasing very specific examples of your work instead of asking the person reviewing your application to go hunting for itHaving good questions for the person inte
151: DHH – Building HEY with Hotwire Dec 28, 2020 4440 Links:HotwireHEYSupporting 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
150: Secret Screencasting Tips & Behind the Scenes of Tailwind CSS 2.0 Oct 21, 2020 3552 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,
149: Choosing a Payment Processor, Radical Icons & W3C Hype Oct 7, 2020 3398 Links:Changes to Gumroad's PayPal supportRadical iconsJack's hand-drawn avatarsW3C's CMS Selection ReportSupporting 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,
148: Accessible Focus Styles, Tailwind Labs on YouTube, and Secret Projects Sep 29, 2020 3586 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,
147: Surviving GitHub Issues, the Statamic 3 Launch Aftermath, Tailwind 1.8, and Headless UI Sep 23, 2020 4785 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,
146: Launching Statamic 3, GitHub Sponsors, Tailwind CSS v1.7, and Preparing for Laracon Sep 4, 2020 4854 Adam and Jack talk about how the Statamic 3 launch went, and adding GitHub Sponsor tiers to the Statamic GitHub organization and what to give people in exchange for sponsoring. They also talk about the new Tailwind CSS v1.7 release, and the new features like gradient support. Finally, they work through some ideas Adam is preparing for his Laracon talk on “Building component libraries with
145: Statamic 3.0 and Tailwind CSS 2.0 Aug 20, 2020 4550 LinksStatamic 3.0Tailwind CSS v1.7.0@90sWWE on Twitter
144: Gary Bernhardt - TypeScript and Testing Aug 5, 2020 5098 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 traditionallyDo 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 dataHow to think about structuring your code to best
143: Rich Harris - Svelte and Defending the Modern Web Jul 22, 2020 4531 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 practiceWhat are you giving up when you choose to build your application with something like Rails instead of JavaScript?Why should we be tryin
142: Jason Cohen - Learning to Hire and Manage a Team Jul 1, 2020 3316 Topics include:How do you decide what role to hire for?Why it's so important to figure out exactly what your biggest struggle is before hiringHow to decide what the most important thing to focus on is when it feels like there's too much to doWhy it's important to consider the impact of hiring for a specific role on your own happiness vs. just the company's bottom lineComing to terms with

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