Are you looking at all the layoffs and uncertainty going on and wondering if your company is the next to cut back? Or, maybe you're a freelancer or entrepreneur who is trying to figure out how to deliver more value to gain or retain customers? Mani Vaya joins Charles Max Wood to discuss the one thing that both of them use to more than double their productivity on a daily basis. Mani has read 1,000's of productivity books over the last several years and has formulated a methodology for getting more done, but found that he lacked the discipline to follow through on his plans. The he found the one thing that kept him on track and made him so productive that he is now getting all of his work done and was able to live the life he wants. Chuck also weighs in on how Mani's technique has worked for him and allows him to spend more time with his wife and kids, run a podcast network, and a nearly full time contract. Join the episode to learn how Chuck and Mani get into a regular flow state with their work and consistently deliver at work.

Steve and special returning guest host Erik Hanchett sit down with John Leider of VuetifyJS to talk about the recent 3.0 release of Vuetify. They discuss the conversion from Vue 2 to Vue 3, the people behind Vuetify, and some of the ways Vue 3 makes things easier in Vuetify.

Today, Steve talks with Lane Wagner, creator of boot.dev, and online programming school. After getting distracted by the fact that Lane's first name reminds Steve of "Better Off Dead", they discuss how the concept of functional programming is or isn't actually used in the composition API in Vue 3, along with the awesomeness of Vite and Lane's experience in upgrading from Vue 2 to Vue 3.

When writing a Vue application, debugging is a very effective tool for figuring out the cause of a problem. Steve talks with Cecelia Martinez about her recent talk at Vue Conf about all of the various tools that are available to help debug javascript applications and some Vue-specific options.

David Neal is a web developer who started to learn to draw as a way to liven up his conference talks. Along the way, his drawing skills and reach have grown, and he uses those skills in multiple avenues. David talks about his history in tech and drawing, how he learned, and how it has become an effective rule for him. He and Steve discuss their love of dad jokes and David's love of bacon, and how he lost weight eating nothing but bacon.

Along with returning guest host Luke Diebold, Steve talks with Laravel framework creator Taylor Otwell, They cover the history of Laravel, the Laravel ecosystem, how and why Taylor chose to integrate it with Vue, how Laravel and Vue are now used and distributed as part of Jetstream and InertiaJS, and even how Laravel got its name. Along the way, they cover topics such as Narnia, Star Trek, and end with great dad jokes.

In this episode, Steve sits down with Silvan Mühlemann and talks about his history with Vue. They cover a couple blog posts of Silvan's where he uses Vue to generate various PDF types, and then talk about his development history and how he and his company got into Vue. They with Silvan's picks of some great AI tools, and of course, Steve's fantastic dad jokes.

Today we talk with Denise Gürsoy, a full stack developer from the Netherlands, currently working as a GO developer. We discuss his Medium article about implementing alternate methods of calling APIs in Vue.js.

Steve sits down with Vue developer Shashikant S. Wagh to talk about his Vue Sortable Table. They discuss the various config options and the main selling point that allows the user to re-order items in the table via drag and drop. Shashikant makes a very old-school book pick, and as always, Steve has his great dad jokes.

Today we talk with Fred Schott, the co-creator of Astro. Being involved with open source web development for a decade, and working on several teams at Google, including Chrome and Polymer, he is now one of the biggest promoters of Astro. We talk about how Astro, as a static site generator, helps to solve the over-use of javascript on the client side.

Valeri Karpov, maintainer of the popular Mongoose library for Nodejs, visits the show again to talk about a new Vue 3 feature of provide/inject and how it's much better than props, how he uses Vue templates inside Node, tests template output with the cheerio library, and then how he uses plain js, html, and css files for email templates. As always, they end with picks, including a discussion of the The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings books, and movies, and as always, Steve tops it off with his amazing dad jokes.

Today we talk with the director of engineering, Jeremy Tomlinson, and communication specialist, Rich Kurtzman, from Fathym. Described as an “innovation acceleration engine,” we discuss how Fathym provides the building tools which allow jr. and sr. engineers alike contribute to development. The platform allows use of your own code, low code, or leveraging Fathym’s no code build tools.

In today’s episode, we talk with special guest Sanchitha SR about her article titled How to Communicate between Components in Vue.js. We cover the five ways that we can send data from one component to another:

Today Steve talks with Val Karpov, the lead maintainer of Mongoose, the most used database framework on NPM. Val gives a brief history of Promises and Async/Await, talks about how they work. We learn the reasoning behind the new functionality, and how it works in VUE. Be sure to check out Vals book and his blog articles on The Code Barbarian and Mastering JS.

Steve talks with Milad Dehghan, a Vue developer for Trengo in The Netherlands, to talk about his blog post on creating a VueJS component library. They start with the basic definitions of component libraries (aka design systems) and atomic design principles and then dive into the specifics of how he does it in VueJS