Campfire Code

Campfire Code

Nolan and Graham talk about software engineering

Episodes 15
Avg. Duration 1h 6m
Activity Sporadic
Since Nov 2022
Latest Episode Jun 2025

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Schedule
Every 2 Months
Format
Episodic
Hosting
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Nolan and Graham talk about software engineering.

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Recent Episodes

14. Svelte, CMS Approaches, Browser-use, and Founder Mode

Jun 17, 2025 1h 28m

It’s a hot summer day, and this episode brings the spice. This time, we ditch the virtual-DOM and dive into the merits of HTML template languages like Svelte. Plus, we explore our approach to CMS…

13. AI Coding with Cursor, Create React App Sunset, All Things Pointing

Mar 23, 2025 1h 23m

Wow it's been awhile! Nolan and I are back recording in person, this time talking AI coding with Cursor, the sun-setting of Create React App, and the problems with pointing in product workflows. This…

12. React Conf 2024

Jun 03, 2024 1h 19m

Nolan and I are recording together in the same room for the first time, exciting stuff! In this episode we cover all of the recent happenings at React Conf 2024, including some exciting notes about…

11. Tree Sitter, DOOM, and DORA (not the explorer)

Nov 17, 2023 1h

Leading with a little chat about Doom Emacs and some gripes, we follow into a couple of long discussions about Tree Sitter and DORA. Tree Sitter is a fancy new way of providing syntax highlighting to…

10. Static Site Generators, Doom Emacs, Rust for Webdev

Oct 03, 2023 1h 4m

We may or may not have been derailed by some recent brewery news and turned the intro of this podcast into the beveragecast, but hey! There's no shortage of good topics here. Graham talks about his…

9. Rust Native Extensions, Solargraph, and Ergo Keyboards

Aug 19, 2023 1h 5m

After reminiscing about Bower, Graham talks about getting up to speed on an ergonomic keyboard and the challenges of laptop life. Nolan transitions the conversation to developer experience, talking…

8. Deno & The State of Programming

Jun 28, 2023 58m

We open with a chat about Deno, the JavaScript runtime that seems to just keep getting better. Then we dive into a few different developer surveys and take a broad survey of the developer ecosystem…

7. Security breaches, AI images, PICO-8, and Common Lisp

May 21, 2023 1h 9m

Nolan explains his "mad scientist idea" to improve the SEO of a content-driven website by jumping on the AI bandwagon, followed up by talking about the recent(-ish) CircleCI data breach and its…

6. Vite, Rubyfmt, and ACH

Apr 25, 2023 1h 6m

Tired of slow Ruby formatters, the crew stumbles on rubyfmt and discusses some recent momentum that the project has gained. Graham talks about his experience using Vite in production, comparing it to…

5. C, the Joys of Simple Tech, to Eject or Not to Eject?

Apr 11, 2023 57m

Graham gets into C thanks to recent forays in Rust and his attempts to grok memory management, seguing into a discussion about the joys of simple tech. After learning about Tailwind CSS Nolan asks…

4. Refactoring to React Hooks and Github Copilot

Mar 09, 2023 47m

Nolan discusses his experience refactoring MobX to simple React Hooks in an older codebase and his experience testing out Github Copilot. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this…

3. Remix, Static Site Generators, and Vim in your Browser

Feb 19, 2023 1h 3m

Graham talks about Remix, the React meta-framework built by the React Router team and why he thinks it's a great value proposition. Nolan dives into his experience building a static site generator…

Over-designing vs. Under-designing, Emacs (Episode 002)

Jan 15, 2023 1h 12m

The last episode discussing Practical Object Oriented Programming with Ruby, Nolan and I discuss the classic OOP topic: over-designing vs. under-designing. What's the future cost of doing nothing…

TRUE, Concurrent Ruby, and Sourcemaps (Episode 001)

Nov 30, 2022 54m

Campfire code is a podcast where Graham Marlow and Nolan Sedley talk about programming. In this episode, Nolan walks us through some sourcemap woes with esbuild and Safari, Graham discusses…

Pilot (Episode 000)

Nov 15, 2022 23m

Campfire code is a podcast where Graham Marlow and Nolan Sedley talk about programming. In this pilot episode, we introduce ourselves and begin setting the stage for our first discussions about…

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How many episodes does Campfire Code have?

Campfire Code has published 15 episodes since November 2022, covering topics in Education, Technology.

Is Campfire Code still active?

Campfire Code is currently sporadic with new episodes every 2 months. Average episode length is 1h 6m.

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