231: Fun and Useful - a podcast by thoughtbot

On this week's episode, Steph shares more of her Ember adventures, specifically sharing some of her work with the Mirage API mocking and prototyping library, and her search for factories and more ergonomic data in tests.

Chris shares some struggles he's had recently with automation and tooling around deployment and releasing packages, and they discuss the inherent trade-offs that we have to consider when automating anything.

Lastly they touch on Twitter's alt text accessibility features, and answer a listener question about using React without having an API, and instead just using it as a more dynamic view layer.

• Mirage.js


• RSpec instance doubles


• Semantic release


• Heroku Review Apps


• Netlify pull request builds


• Twitter alt text accessibility


• Basecamp 3 for iOS: Hybrid Architecture


• Inertia.js


• Vue.js

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