Smart watches, smart rings, and Progressive Web Apps - a podcast by Kent C. Dodds

Hey there friends. Have you heard of progressive enhancement or progressive
web apps? Well, I thought of a real world thing that kind of resembles whatthis actually means and what it doesn't. So, you know how like there's all
these memes of like I got a smart thermostat and now it's broken because my
internet went down or something like that and so now I'm like steaming hot
like why did I do this and and we have the same sort of thing with my watchand so I have a smartwatch.
It's a,Nice one. It's a fossil I guess. And then I also have an aura ring
and both of them are useful in their own different ways. But when my watchbreaks or if it runs out of battery, which is more often, it doesn't break
very like ever. But when it runs out of battery, I'm no longer able to even
tell the time.So, it's like totally a break. It's useless as just like a break on my
wrist. That is not great. But when my ring runs out of battery,That's also
not great but it's still functions as a ring. And so in this context
progressive enhancement would be like my ring will always function as aring but it progressively enhances in that when it has battery it also
functions as a way of taking my my pulse and different things like that.Whereas with the watch if it doesn't have power, it doesn't do anything.
It's it's not serving its purpose at all unless I suppose if you just like
appearing like you have a watch but it's basically.Other than that. And so
when we're talking about progressive enhancement or progressive web apps,
we're talking about taking advantage of the tools and capabilities of the
web and all the modern and cool stuff but not exclusively not at theexclude exclusion of functionality for browsers that don't support those
modern features.And so we progressively become a even more capable web app when those
features are available. And so in my contacts with the,Watch in the ringthat the extra feature that's available is power. And with the watch it
doesn't progressively enhance, it just doesn't work at all without that
extra feature of power.Whereas with my ring it functions as a ring just fine whether or not it has
power and then if it does then improgressively enhances to do a lot ofother cool things. But anyway, that's kind of what I think about
progressive enhancement progressive web apps. It's kind of an interesting
thought.And yeah, shout out to remix particular for taking this.So seriously. I
hope that's helpful to you have a wonderful day.

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