Digging through Jerod Santo’s tool box

JS Party: JavaScript, CSS, Web Development

KBall interviews Jerod about the tools he uses in development, podcasting & business. We start with text editors & terminal tools, move to podcast recording & editing tools, discuss the open source podcasting platform Jerod built in Elixir, then finish with tools to run a small business & our approaches to genAI. Oh, and you don’t want to miss Jerod’s Big Confession!

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Featuring:

• Kevin Ball – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• Nick’s tool box
• Zed Editor
• tmux
• Smug
• thechangelog/changelog.com
• Elixir
• Phoenix
• Atuin
• Riverside
• Adobe Audition
• Transistor
• Harvest
• Freshbooks
• Gusto
• Ollama
• Enchanted
• Cursor

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1. It's party time, y'all (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Jam.dev (00:00:39)

https://jam.dev

3. Helloooo party people (00:02:52)

4. Learning Vim (00:04:29)

5. Textmate -> Sublime -> Zed (00:06:03)

6. Feeling out Zed (00:07:07)

7. Zed plugins (00:08:02)

8. Zed AI (00:09:04)

9. Terminal, tmux, smug (00:09:57)

10. Elixir for web dev (00:15:04)

11. Ruby for scripting (00:16:20)

12. Atuin for the W (00:17:26)

https://github.com/atuinsh/atuin

13. Podcasting tools (00:21:01)

14. A brief Kaizen session (00:25:56)

15. Build or buy (00:29:49)

16. Sponsor: Notion (00:30:36)

http://notion.com/changelog

17. Business tools (00:32:38)

18. Indie podcast apps (00:36:46)

19. Don't miss this meme! (00:39:54)

20. Jerod's Big Confession (00:40:55)

21. JavaScript sprinkles (00:43:29)

22. AI code gen tools (00:46:44)

23. Cursor talk (00:49:09)

https://www.cursor.com/

24. Greatest dev boost ever? (00:54:28)

25. If the shoe fits... (00:56:33)

26. Next up on the pod (00:57:50)

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