It's that time of year—each host reaches into Santa's sack of topics to see who's been naughty and who's been nice. Ben returns from visiting his employer's manufacturing headquarters in Georgia with some philosophical musings. Carol is on a mission to slash CI/CD build times. Adam has cautiously optimistic news about passkeys finally working (sometimes). And Tim reflects on a TLDR article suggesting that the management skills you've built—knowing what to build and what not to build—might be exactly what AI-era coding demands.

Plus: December blues, mushroom tea for focus, and jQuery as peak imperative JavaScript.

Links mentioned:

Owning A Lucid Has Been Super Disappointing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WiQAOmESH0

Driving Xiaomi's Electric Car: Are we Cooked?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb6H7trzMfI

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With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media.

Full show notes and transcript here: https://workingcode.dev/episodes/242-all-i-want-for-christmas-is-faster-builds/

Working Code

Adam Tuttle, Ben Nadel, Carol Hamilton, Tim Cunningham

242: All I Want for Christmas Is Faster Builds

DEC 11, 202567 MIN
Working Code

242: All I Want for Christmas Is Faster Builds

DEC 11, 202567 MIN

Description

It's that time of year—each host reaches into Santa's sack of topics to see who's been naughty and who's been nice. Ben returns from visiting his employer's manufacturing headquarters in Georgia with some philosophical musings. Carol is on a mission to slash CI/CD build times. Adam has cautiously optimistic news about passkeys finally working (sometimes). And Tim reflects on a TLDR article suggesting that the management skills you've built—knowing what to build and what not to build—might be exactly what AI-era coding demands.

Plus: December blues, mushroom tea for focus, and jQuery as peak imperative JavaScript.

Links mentioned:


Follow the show and be sure to join the discussion on Discord! Our website is workingcode.dev and we're @workingcode.dev on Bluesky. New episodes drop weekly on Wednesday.

And, if you're feeling the lovesupport us on Patreon.

With audio editing and engineering by ZCross Media.

Full show notes and transcript here.