The other Rich! Geoff!

Sponsor
This week's episode is sponsored by... Svelte Summit! Get your tickets for the upcoming in-person event in Stockholm before it's too late! We already have some confirmed speakers: Rich Harris, 🐧 Pngwn and Amelia Wattenberger!

Description
Geoff Rich is a recent addition to the Svelte maintainer org. He joins us to talk about his role and what he'd like to work on going forward. Oh, and there's some Svelte Summit in here as well!

Music
Intro music by Braden Wiggins a.k.a. Fractal (braden@fractal-hq.com)

Notes

• Geoff works at Alaska Air
  • Auro Design System
  • Geoff's Blog
  • Geoff's a11y blog post, Svelte Summit Fall 2021 talk
  • The Search Bar on the SvelteKit Documentation Page
  • prefers-reduced-motion
• Svelte Summit Spring 2022
  • Mentioned talks
    • Monogram's journey building an enterprise-grade app with SvelteKit
    • Bert's The Highs and Lows of Migrating a Massive Ecommerce Website To Svelte and Sveltekit
    • 🐧 pngwn's Svelte In Motion
    • Scott's Tackle Complex Async Behavior One Step at a Time With Svelte Stores
  • Meetball session was a lot of fun!
  • Svelte Summit Fall 2022 website is being released... a couple of days ago! Tickets here.

Unpopular Opinions

• Geoff: Web Components are actually pretty cool!
• Brittney: Jamstack is cool.
• Antony: Wordpress should be used for blogging and nothing else.
• Kevin: Project Gutenberg is 🔥

Picks

• Kevin: Concerts are so much fun!
  • The Wombats 
  • Boomer Seats™️ 🪑 in the back are great
• Brittney: House cleaners & Developer Experience at Netlify Blog Post
• Geoff: Video game music as coding music. Kirby and the Forgotten Land!
• Antony: Red Light Therapy Device for Hay Fever

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