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Frontend Coffee Break - Podcast

Chucho Castañeda & Ricard Torresfrontendcoffeebreak.transistor.fm
Take a break, grab a cup of coffee and join us to discuss what's new in frontend development and, why not, outside of it? Jesus 'Chucho' Castañeda is a Senior Frontend Software Engineer and Ricard Torres is a Principal Frontend Software Engineer, both at Cognizant Netcentric. We bring your most needed monthly break. Tune in!
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Episodes

Ep. #47: What motivates FE Developers?

We talk what lights a fire under us, what motivates us to continue working FE. Is it the stack? A new shiny framework? UI? UX? Have a listen and let us know what motivates you to code. Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://x.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard

Jul 16, 202531 minEp. 47

Ep. #46: Are Frontend Developers going away?

We discuss how AI is making FE developers obsolete (maybe!). Are we going to disappear? What can we do to ensure we continue to exist? How to embrace AI to be more productive? Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://x.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard

Jun 11, 202530 minEp. 46

Ep. #45: Storybook, Web Components and Figma Tokens

This is an angular-free podcast but we do talk web components. Chucho and Ricard discuss Storybook, what to consider when thinking about using it. Are Figma tokens the future? Sources of truth are nice but are they worth it? What's your experience with these tools? Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://x.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard

Jun 10, 202527 minEp. 45

Ep. #44: Technical Interviews in the age of AI

We discuss how AI has changed the way we do interviews. Remote only, plus access to AI chats has forced the industry to work differently. How should we conduct interviews? What should we ask? What should we look for in candidates? Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://x.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard

May 07, 202536 minEp. 44

Ep. #43: Mobile First in 2025: Why Are We Still Getting It Wrong?

Ricard today complains about sites not being mobile-first and Chucho drops a history lesson. What is mobile first? Why are we still talking about this? How can we deliver better experiences? Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://x.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard

Apr 24, 202529 minEp. 43

Ep. #42: Accessibility in 2025, tips to be ready

We discuss the European Accessibility Act (EAA) that might affect your website, how to check, and deal with common issues. How hard is it to follow the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 Level AA? We give you an insight and share our experience. What's your experience with accessibility? Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://x.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard...

Apr 24, 202532 minEp. 42

Ep. #41: How we manage stress in the FE world

We chat about things that can be stressful as a FE developer, we suggest things that work for us on how to deal and mitigate it (for you and you team). Share your tips and tricks with us! Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://x.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard

Jan 28, 202534 minEp. 41

Ep. #40: CSS in 2024 was fun

We share what we loved most about the 2024 CSS Wrapped as well as other CSS changes we've witnessed over the years that changed our way of working (yes, we will talk about border-radius). What where CSS changes that blew your mind? https://chrome.dev/css-wrapped-2024/ Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://x.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard...

Jan 21, 202534 minEp. 40

Ep. #39: Best practices, standards and guidelines

We discuss how we work with guidelines, standards and best practices at Cognizant Netcentric. Including our very own ESLint and Stylelint open source configurations. Do you follow any guidelines when coding FE? Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://x.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard.torres

Jan 20, 202529 minEp. 39

Ep. #38: Morals, ethics and being eco-friendly as a FE Developer

We discuss the moral of working for certain industries, how can we be more green (spoiler: it's web performance) as developers, as well as open source. Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard

Dec 05, 202431 minEp. 38

Ep. #37: Lessons learned as FE Developers

Chucho and Ricard have been coding for more than 18 years. These old time developers will share some of their hard learned lessons on being a developer and/or a FE Lead. Share your sips of wisdom with us. Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard

Nov 25, 202431 minEp. 37

Ep. #36: How to keep up to date with FE?

Why is it important to be on the loop for the latest and greatest FE technologies out there? The latest JavaScript framework? What's possible with the latest CSS? Performance and SEO... There's just so much. We share our tips and tricks to stay fresh and relevant. Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard

Oct 25, 202433 minEp. 36

Ep. #35: Patterns, anti-patterns and dark patterns

We explain the differences, share examples and give you plenty resources to get you started. Chucho can't stress enough that you should read these at least once! patterns.dev Gang Of Four GOF Design Patterns Design Patterns deceptive.design Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard...

Oct 08, 202437 minEp. 35

Ep. #34: Development conferences. Worth it?

We talk about web development conferences, going in-person or attending online. Are they worth it? What's the benefit? Couldn't you just watch a recording? What's the most interesting conference you've ever attended? If you haven't yet, any conferences you'd like to go to? Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard

Sep 30, 202430 minEp. 34

Ep. #33: How to write quality and maintainable code?

We chat what is code quality, what are code smells, tips and tricks to make your code readable and maintainable. What are your tips? Code quality metrics: https://www.sealights.io/code-quality/code-quality-metrics-is-your-code-any-good/ Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard...

Jul 02, 202434 minEp. 33

Ep. #32: Knowledge Sharing in your Team

We discuss different ways to do knowledge sharing in your team or company. The challenges we've faced and what has worked for us. Find out about our Netcentric Academy https://www.netcentric.biz/jobs Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard

Jun 18, 202433 minEp. 32

Ep. #31: How we started 2 frontend podcasts

Did you know we have both this and a different internal FE podcast? The internal podcast started first and gave us the idea to start one on YouTube. Tune in to know how it all began and what we learned along the way. Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard

Jun 10, 202435 minEp. 31

Ep. #30: Accessibility Month

What is Accessibility? What's your experience with Web Accessibility? What does it mean a website is accessible? Keyboard navigation? Labels? These and more in today's episode. https://accessibility.day/ https://www.w3.org/WAI/ https://dynomapper.com/blog/27-accessibility-testing/273-wcag-the-web-content-accessibility-guidelines-explained Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard...

May 28, 202430 minEp. 30

Ep. #29: Should you use Web Components?

What's your take on Web Components? What are the best use cases? Should you use them for regular AEM projects? What's the best thing about Web Components? Check out a performance comparison of different frameworks and techniques to create Web Components: https://webcomponents.dev/blog/all-the-ways-to-make-a-web-component/ Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard...

May 28, 202429 minEp. 29

Ep. #28: Chucho loves Single Page Apps

SPA? MPA? Are these still relevant in 2024? When would you use an SPA vs a regular MPA? Have you heard about the new View Transitions API? Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard

Mar 08, 202429 minEp. 28

Ep. #27: What is a FE Lead?

FE Manager, FE Lead... there are many names for what we think might be the same thing. We discuss what a FE Lead is accountable for. What to expect from a FE Lead? Types of leaderships. Join the conversation and tell us what's the your ideal type of FE Lead. Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard

Mar 08, 202433 minEp. 27

Ep. #26: How much UX should a FE developer know?

We discuss UI, UX, design and the role of the frontend developer. Reading recommendations Links https://www.nngroup.com/articles/ https://www.nngroup.com/articles/usability-101-introduction-to-usability/ Books by Donald Norman The design of Everyday Things Emotional Design Books by Jakob Nielsen Usability Engineering Designing Web Usability Eyetracking Web Usability Books by Steve Krug Don't make me think Rocket Surgery Made Easy Books by Robin Williams ( not the actor or singer ) The Non-Design...

Feb 02, 202433 minEp. 26

Ep. #25: Open sourcing our FE Build

Today we're joined by Dragan Filipovic, Senior Front-end Software Engineer at Cognizant Netcentric. We talk how he spearheaded the initiative to open source our FE Build. A Frontend build system that can be used in both AEM and non-AEM projects. Try it out here: https://github.com/Netcentric/fe-build Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard...

Jan 26, 202432 minEp. 25

Ep. #24: Content management, decisions or options?

When creating web components for content editors, do you give them all the options? or take decisions that will work best for development and maintenance? We discuss headless vs server-side rendering as well. Ricard loves JSON files. Chucho? Maybe not. Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard...

Jan 09, 202424 minEp. 24

Ep. #23: Impostor Syndrome in Frontend

What is the Impostor Syndrome? How to fight it? Why is it more common than we think in Frontend development? We discuss this and offer some tips that have worked for us! Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard...

Dec 08, 202331 minEp. 23

Ep. #22: AI tools in our every day work

We talk about GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, phind, and Bard. We share how we use it for coding. How about you? Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard

Oct 25, 202332 minEp. 22

Ep. #21: How to find time for career development?

How can you find time for your career development? ⏱️ Here’s our take on it: In the latest episode of the hit Frontend Coffee Break podcast, we discuss the strategies that frontend leads and managers employ to make room for growth amidst their daily responsibilities. Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard

Oct 11, 202331 minEp. 21

Ep. #20: Is Mobile First still a thing in 2023?

Is the mobile-first mindset still relevant in the world of development? 🧐 Here’s the deal: Today we discuss the best practices and approaches for developing websites and apps for mobile devices. Chucho mentions Ricard's library for Two Way Data Binding, here it is: https://github.com/quicoto/two-way-data-binding Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard...

Aug 18, 202330 minEp. 20

Ep. #19: Should you be constantly challenged?

What benefits frontend developers the most: working on long-term projects, or switching every six months? 🤝 We discuss the FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) on new technologies in the changing world of frontend development. Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard

Aug 09, 202329 minEp. 19

Ep. #18: Core Web Vitals in 2023

Looking for a better way to optimize and improve your project’s web performance? 🚀 We’ve got you covered: Today Chucho and Ricard are joined by Ines Akrap, Senior Web Performance Engineer, for insights into Core Web Vitals in 2023. Follow us: - Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo - Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard Additional resources: 🔗 https://github.com/Netcentric/progux...

Jul 28, 202331 minEp. 18
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