That's my JAMstack

That's my JAMstack is organised around a question rather than a news cycle. In episode after episode, host Brian Robinson asks guests what their jam in the Jamstack is, and the setup is reworded from one cold open to the next: the ever important question, the best of all questions, the simple one, the not-so-tricky one, the best since sliced bread. Once the interview starts, guests usually get a gentler warm-up about what they do for work and what they do for fun. The answers come out as career stories as much as tool lists. Facundo Giuliani, a developer relations engineer at Storyblok, started working as a developer at 18 while still studying at college. On static site generators, he is openly delighted that a starter boilerplate can have a site running after a few console commands, and the talk moves to shipping something simple and adding to it. Anthony Campolo, a full-stack web developer and RedwoodJS advocate, calls himself a bootcamp student who came to programming from another area of life. His conversation gets practical fast. Asked how an app's own database squares with Jamstack ideals, he brings in Prisma, a query builder he describes as a little like an ORM but lower level. The 'REMIX!' label marks returning guests. Tamas Piros, a developer experience engineer at Cloudinary and founder and educator at Jamstack.training, comes back to talk about islands architecture and Astro. He likes the direction but hedges honestly, allowing that a year from now they could look back and find they were wrong, and he wonders whether Astro can serve e-commerce or social apps and not just blogs. Salma Alam-Naylor, introduced as the winner of the Jamstack Community Creator Award from Jamstack Conf 2021, helps developers through Twitch streams, a YouTube channel and a blog. A note at the top of her episode says it was recorded before she joined Netlify. That conversation celebrates front-end developers being freed from backend work, and imagines a child one day putting a site live with nothing more than an HTML page and a JavaScript file. Two guests bring in the business side. Miguel Arias, co-founder of a form service, explains how the importance of speed and performance kept coming up until his team scrapped roughly three years of work and rebuilt, this time knowing who the product was for. Denis Kostrzewa, CEO and co-founder of a Jamstack-first agency, no longer codes websites at all. His days go to scoping projects, proposing solutions, handling internal accounting and hiring developers. A newcomer could start with Piros for a framework debate that looks ahead, or with Arias for a frank founder story. Robinson stays cheerful and fond of puns throughout, and the send-off barely changes: keep doing amazing things on the web, and keep things jammy.