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Ten Years of Frontend

#561 May 3, 2026 free

In this episode, we look at where we were years ago and the journey where we have landed today. Over the past 10 years, much has changed with our approach to client interactions and in the episode we explore my favorite and current approach.

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Skeleton Frames

#490 Jan 5, 2025 free

In this episode, we look at implementing a temporary loader for turbo frame tags to give a visual of data that is loading.

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Turbo 8

#436 Jan 7, 2024 free

With Turbo 8 comes a lot of new features and in this episode, we'll explore an upgrading a blog post with comments to add in the new functionality.

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Transcribing with Artificial Intelligence

#395 Apr 2, 2023 free

In this episode, we look at creating an audio transcription service which allows files uploaded from Active Storage to be transcribed with Artificial Intelligence. However, there are a lot of considerations around the approach from both a performance and thread safety perspectives.

rails artificial intelligence turbo background processing

Custom Turbo Stream Actions

#382 Jan 1, 2023 free

With the release of Turbo 7.2, we gained the ability to create custom actions in Turbo. This allows us to trigger functions on the client side that would have been difficult or cumbersome to do in the past. In this episode, we look at setting up custom actions and how to use them.

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Hotwire Introduction

#369 Oct 2, 2022 free

Hotwire is an alternative approach to building modern web applications without using much JavaScript by sending HTML instead of JSON over the wire. With Rails 7, we get Hotwire added in by default. In this episode, we look at some of the features with Hotwire and how to use them.

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Hotwire Modals

#335 Feb 6, 2022 free

In this episode, we look at creating an unobtrusive and efficient way to launch Bootstrap modals using Turbo and Stimulus.

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Dabbling with Turbo

#326 Dec 5, 2021 free

In this episode, we explore some of the new features with Turbo and interactions that we can do with little or no javascript.

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Hotwire Turbo Replacing Rails UJS

#307 Aug 1, 2021 free

In this episode, we look at some common functionality that we got with Rails UJS and what it looks like to reimplement these with Hotwire's Turbo and StimulusJS.

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Turbo Native for iOS

#286 Mar 7, 2021 free

In this episode, we look at modifying our Rails application and building a hybrid native application for iOS using Hotwire.

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