Logbot (Mar 14 2025 at 22:28): Logbot (Mar 14 2025 at 22:28):Adam's friend on the frontend, John Long joins the show to explore his usage of AI, design tools and the stack he prefers. We talk Next.js vs Rails, maintaining open source, building websites with Framer, their mutual love for Figma, and more. :link: https://changelog.am/84
| Ch | Start | Title | Runs |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | 00:00 | Let's talk! | 00:38 |
| 02 | 00:38 | Sponsor: Retool | 03:01 |
| 03 | 03:39 | Start the show! | 02:02 |
| 04 | 05:40 | Consuming generated content | 03:43 |
| 05 | 09:24 | Ai is similar in quality and mistakes | 01:34 |
| 06 | 10:58 | What does John do? | 01:48 |
| 07 | 12:45 | Rails has changed so much | 01:25 |
| 08 | 14:10 | Next.js lover? | 02:14 |
| 09 | 16:25 | Rails 3 release date | 03:28 |
| 10 | 19:52 | Let's talk Zest | 04:02 |
| 11 | 23:55 | Tools of a designer/frontender | 06:00 |
| 12 | 29:54 | Sponsor: Augment Code | 03:09 |
| 13 | 33:03 | Coming off a Framer high | 05:40 |
| 14 | 38:43 | Having a Frontend background | 10:14 |
| 15 | 48:57 | Using AI in design processes | 08:34 |
| 16 | 57:31 | What tools are in your stack? | 11:43 |
| 17 | 1:09:14 | Sponsor: Temporal | 02:21 |
| 18 | 1:11:36 | Figma is awesome | 06:11 |
| 19 | 1:17:47 | Generated.photos | 02:09 |
| 20 | 1:19:55 | Createing logos with ChatGPT | 04:03 |
| 21 | 1:23:59 | Iconic.app from Orman Clark | 03:07 |
| 22 | 1:27:05 | The state of Zest Icons | 06:58 |
| 23 | 1:34:03 | Heroicons! | 02:15 |
| 24 | 1:36:18 | 1.5 vs 2 pixel lines | 02:40 |
| 25 | 1:38:58 | Devs working with Design | 01:56 |
| 26 | 1:40:54 | Figma School | 02:49 |
| 27 | 1:43:44 | Wrapping up | 02:04 |
| 28 | 1:45:47 | That's all friends! | 01:42 |
Matt Johnson (Mar 15 2025 at 21:35):I was listening to this for about 10 minutes and then went to the episode web page to check the show notes and links then mentally tripped recognizing John's profile photo and took me back a little over 20 years when I met John while we were working in similar circles, which I think is when he was using Rails :grinning:.
Loved the talk and reminiscing about some of the historical web development and how things have changed having lived through various parts of those days myself.
It was fun exploring all the various tools from the discussion even though I touch the tools less frequently now.
Adam Stacoviak (Mar 15 2025 at 22:00):So cool you know John!
John Johnson (Mar 17 2025 at 11:26):As a Backend Developer transitioning to FullStack, I found this episode insightful. I have been wondering how to get started with Figma, and towards the end of the podcast, John mentioned that Figma has a good resource on their website. Very well, "there I shall go", thanks.
Andrew O'Brien (Mar 18 2025 at 17:43):Cool to hear what John's up to. I met him back around 2006-08 when I was moving my first job over Radiant (from an extremely hacky PHP3 homegrown code base that I wouldn't even call a CMS).
I took a train down to a Hackathon he (I think) hosted down in Cary (or one of those other NC tech towns). Loved Radiant. It was well designed, had a powerful tagging language, and was easy to extend. No idea if the company is still using it (and a little afraid to ask). But we went from a workflow where researchers would do data entry in FileMaker and then would have to double write everything in Word + InDesign for print and HTML for web down to a single flow and I was pretty proud of that (and grateful for what Radiant did to get me there).
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