React Podcast

88: Adam Wathan on Making Your Own Money, Refactoring UI, and tailwindcss

Episode Summary

Adam Wathan tells us what it takes to make your own money. He’s a prolific author, podcaster, educator, open source creator, and true fullstack developer. He shares a look into what it took to make Refactoring UI and Tailwind CSS smash hits.

Episode Notes

Adam Wathan tells us what it takes to make your own money.

He’s a prolific author, podcaster, educator, open source creator, and true fullstack developer.
He shares a look into what it took to make Refactoring UI and Tailwind CSS smash hits.

Featuring

• Adam Wathan — Twitter, Website, Github, egghead
• chantastic — Twitter, Website, GitHub, egghead

Links

• tailwindcss — A utility-first CSS framework for rapidly building custom designs
• [tailwindui] (https://tailwindui.com/) — Beautiful UI components, crafted by the creators of Tailwind CSS
• Refactoring UI — Design awesome UIs by yourself using specific tactics explained from a developer’s point-of-view
• tailwindui launch tweet
• Utility-First — description on tailwindcss.com
• Vue.js — The Progressive JavaScript Framework
• Laravel — The PHP Framework for Web Artisans
• Resistance — articles by author Steven Pressfield
• Justin Jackson on people like Adam Wathan
• Test Driven Laravel — A course by Adam Wathan
• Reaper — A complete digital audio production application
• Steve Schoger
• [Refactoring to Collections](https://adamwathan.me/refactoring-to-collections](https://adamwathan.me/refactoring-to-collections/) — Adam’s first book
• Nathan Berry
• ConvertKit
• Full Stack Radio episodes mentioned
  • 5: Ryan Singer - Jobs-to-be-Done and Product Design
  • 16: Kent Beck — Tiny Decisions and Emergent Design
  • 32: DHH - Building Basecamp 3 like a Porsche 911
  • 131: Ryan Singer - How Basecamp Builds Software
  • 112: Guillermo Rauch - Building Serverless Applications with Now
  • 126: James Long
  • 136: Michael Chan - React Is Not a Rails Competitor — IT ME!

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