🚦 TRANSMISSION #2: broadcasting the latest from Meteor Forums

[joshowens]

@thewheel

It’s important to speak to our concerns, but there should also be some attention paid to topics that will strike a (positive!) chord on HN, Medium, and the like.

I think that is called Crater Podcast

[AndreasGalster]

Yea, his mic is not perfect but seriously, it’s not terrible. It’s definitely not difficult to understand him.
Though I’m sure it’ll help not so fluent speaking people understand him better.

For the 60+ minute thing. I have no problem with a 60+ min podcast, as long as you indicate where the new topic starts with markers so I can jump to a new topic should I get bored.

[benstr]

Thanks everyone! @sashko want to pick your 2 topics then I will tally up and pick the next 2?

[dinos]

Really loved the first pod cast. Finally some content which is more relaxed with long term perspectives.

Since there was a request for feedback, just two minor points:

• Would just be great if @sashko could record the voice uncompressed, i.e.in parallel via memo on iPhone & send per mail to Ben, to put together before upload. The compressed skype audio is quite hard to understand at some point… especially when it’s American English, listened by foreigners
• Not sure if it’s a slang thing for the western part of the US, but you guys say the word like every few words which can be quite distracting while trying to focus on the audio

I actually found it pleasant that you two where for once more losely chatting instead of sticking and rumbling down the agenda. A great personal touch

[sashko]

Hey guys just got back from a short vacation (although couldn’t stay off the forums the whole time, should fix that next time!).

@benstr I think I’m going to pick the topics about Reactive GraphQL and Meteor open source/pull requests. Hope those are exciting for you guys!

And of course I’ll dig up a much better microphone

[benstr]

Howdy all the awesome peeps who follow this thread. @sashko and I will be recording the show later today… here are the topics we will be covering. I only picked 3 because I feel the Reactive GraphQL topic has some potential for a great convo. If you all want to see a 4th topic just reply!

• Reactive GraphQL
• How open source is Meteor?
• Why webpack did not make it into 1.3

[dinos]

Yes: Meteor Load-Times (Developer Experience)

• How high is that on the prio list and what efforts are done to get close to Webpacks dev experience?

(There is a thread; I’ll dig it up)

[benstr]

We can cover that on the third topic… if you have another forum post, it would be great for added context on the subject.

[dinos]

Here you go. A plain search in the forums for “load times”, “build times”, “developer experience” would bring up much more but below the most recent one.

Without to Spam, the reason why I chipped it in: I had a long discussion with a start up today if they would drop webpack and re-join meteor with 1.3 to simplify their stack. Than the discussion turned into a “does it make sense instead to rather drop meteor completely because the developer experience (rebuild times) is still terrible”. Two points of discussion for you two

• What is the effort to compete on webpacks / hot module replacement / live reload developer experience? How far is it on the agenda?
• Since a substantial overhaul of the build system is quite a task: Is there any motivation (along meteors repo-split up into npm packages) to have meteor particularly serve other build tools (such as webpack) to make it easier to tune ones dev experience? Currently, having meteor and wepack work together is quite a hack (233 Replies).

Help us test build times in Meteor 1.3

7 seconds is still very long compared to something like webpack where it's 2-3 seconds. I really hope 1.3 brings some serious improvements because my builds clock at 15-20 seconds and I still have to wait for the page to reload after that.

[benstr]

2 hours later … we recorded all 3 topics we tried

[slava]

Can’t wait for it! Hope post production doesn’t take too long

[benstr]

Audio of Episode 2.1 is out: Reactive GraphQL will make MeteorJS relevant to every Web Developer

Thanks for the patience everyone. Hoping to get the next 2 parts out quickly.

[sashko]

Coming at you with the video!

You know, if you like our faces and @benstr’s cool laptop stickers.

Thanks again to Ben for hosting and producing the show!

I recommend watching/listening at 1.5x speed

[elewis33]

Any chance that there will be some noob topics on this podcast?

[sashko]

We’re covering the most intense and exciting topics from these forums, so it will probably be about community concerns or the general direction of Meteor. Hopefully some of those topics are accessible to “noobs” as well!

Is there anything in particular you would be interested in hearing about?

[jlevy]

Great job, guys! I am really loving this podcast! @benstr you seem worried about keeping the length down. For me that’s not an issue. I’d prefer as much depth on a topic as I can possibly get. I think this podcast already does depth well, but the more the better from my perspective.

Only one complaint: It’s practically a crime that the robo voice woman at the end of the podcast doesn’t say “transmission complete” or “end of transmission”

[benstr]

@jlevy

“transmission complete” or “end of transmission”

WOW! What a “no-brainer”! TY

[benstr]

Show 2.2 is out, Is Meteor Really “Open-Source”

#3 Is Meteor Really "Open-Source" | Transmission

[tomRedox]

Wahoo! Now I can stop spamming refresh on PocketCast…

[sashko]

And here’s the video!