The Adventures of Running a Svelte Meetup

Show Notes

Sponsor
This weeks episode is sponsored by... Svelte Summit! Get your tickets for the upcoming in-person event in Stockholm before it's too late! We already have some confirmed speakers: Rich Harris, 🐧 Pngwn and Amelia Wattenberger!

Description
This week we chat about what it takes to host a Svelte meetup! Interested in running one? Just go for it!

Music
Intro music by Braden Wiggins a.k.a. Fractal ([e-mail])

Notes

• Svelte Society Stockholm
• Svelte London
• Svelte Society NYC
• Svelte Summit
• Meetup
• Luma
• List of Meetups on the Svelte Society website (a bit out of date)
• Code of Conduct
• Minor Tips:
  • Avoid pizza, get something healthy!
  • Set the expectations to three talks: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced
  • Make it fun, sometimes a hackathon is all that you need. People like to talk and get to know each other!

Unpopular Opinions

• Shawn: Pure SSG died in 2022
• Antony: JSX is NOT JavaScript.
• Kevin: Bitcoin Proof-of-Work is actually good for the environment. Part 1, Part 2, Twitter thread

Picks

• Kevin: CastoPod 
  • Overcast
  • PocketCasts
  • Don't use Spotify.
• Shawn: HOMEBREW_NO_AUTO_UPDATE=1

Creators & Guests

Host

antony 

Dad / @SvelteJS maintainer / @SvelteSociety co-founder / Svelte Radio host. Born at 341.57 ppm CO2.

Host

Brittney

DS Eng @Provihq 🧜https://t.co/U8JoqVO4Sm 😺https://t.co/5FKTbGIW8d 👩‍🏫 https://t.co/wGvIldEAIe

Host

Kevin A. K.

Co-founder of Svelte Society 🌎 Organizer of Svelte Summit 🏔 Host of Svelte Radio 📻

What is Svelte Radio?

Things about Svelte. Sometimes weekly, sometimes not.