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Frontend Coffee Break - Podcast
Chucho Castañeda & Ricard Torres
51 episodes
2 weeks ago
Take a break, grab a cup of coffee and join us to discuss what's new in frontend development and, why not, outside of it? Jesus 'Chucho' Castañeda and Ricard Torres are both Principal Frontend Software Engineer at Cognizant Netcentric. They bring your most needed monthly break. Tune in!
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Take a break, grab a cup of coffee and join us to discuss what's new in frontend development and, why not, outside of it? Jesus 'Chucho' Castañeda and Ricard Torres are both Principal Frontend Software Engineer at Cognizant Netcentric. They bring your most needed monthly break. Tune in!
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Episodes (20/51)
Frontend Coffee Break - Podcast
Ep. #51: The State of the Framework in 2025

The State of JS survey is open. We discuss React, Svelte, Vue, vanilla JS... We have opinions about it and we want to hear yours too.

Follow us:
- Chucho Castañeda https://x.com/honupo
- Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@dev 

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3 weeks ago
28 minutes

Frontend Coffee Break - Podcast
Ep. #50: How to deal with impossible deadlines

We've all been there, you're thrown into a very tight project schedule that might be impossible to deliver. What can we do in these situations?


Follow us:
- Chucho Castañeda https://x.com/honupo
- Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard

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2 months ago
31 minutes

Frontend Coffee Break - Podcast
Ep. #49: FE is complex, can we make it simpler?

Frontend has gone from FTP to the frameworks war, to complicated pipelines with hundreds of node modules. Why did we do this? Is it getting better? Should we do something about it?


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- Chucho Castañeda https://x.com/honupo
- Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard

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3 months ago
27 minutes

Frontend Coffee Break - Podcast
Ep. #48: FE Journey Through the Remote Work Revolution

Chucho and Ricard discuss how remote work has changed, where are they more productive now and invite you to share your take. What's your best work setup?


Follow us:
- Chucho Castañeda https://x.com/honupo
- Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard

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3 months ago
31 minutes

Frontend Coffee Break - Podcast
Ep. #47: What motivates FE Developers?

We talk what lights a fire under us, what motivates us to continue working FE. Is it the stack? A new shiny framework? UI? UX? Have a listen and let us know what motivates you to code.

Follow us:
- Chucho Castañeda https://x.com/honupo
- Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard

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4 months ago
30 minutes

Frontend Coffee Break - Podcast
Ep. #46: Are Frontend Developers going away?

We discuss how AI is making FE developers obsolete (maybe!). Are we going to disappear? What can we do to ensure we continue to exist? How to embrace AI to be more productive?

Follow us:
- Chucho Castañeda https://x.com/honupo
- Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard

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5 months ago
29 minutes

Frontend Coffee Break - Podcast
Ep. #45: Storybook, Web Components and Figma Tokens

This is an angular-free podcast but we do talk web components. Chucho and Ricard discuss Storybook, what to consider when thinking about using it. Are Figma tokens the future? Sources of truth are nice but are they worth it?

What's your experience with these tools?

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- Chucho Castañeda https://x.com/honupo
- Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard

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5 months ago
26 minutes

Frontend Coffee Break - Podcast
Ep. #44: Technical Interviews in the age of AI

We discuss how AI has changed the way we do interviews. Remote only, plus access to AI chats has forced the industry to work differently. How should we conduct interviews? What should we ask? What should we look for in candidates?

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- Chucho Castañeda https://x.com/honupo
- Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard

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6 months ago
36 minutes

Frontend Coffee Break - Podcast
Ep. #43: Mobile First in 2025: Why Are We Still Getting It Wrong?

Ricard today complains about sites not being mobile-first and Chucho drops a history lesson. What is mobile first? Why are we still talking about this? How can we deliver better experiences?


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- Chucho Castañeda https://x.com/honupo
- Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard

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6 months ago
29 minutes

Frontend Coffee Break - Podcast
Ep. #42: Accessibility in 2025, tips to be ready

We discuss the European Accessibility Act (EAA) that might affect your website, how to check, and deal with common issues. How hard is it to follow the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 Level AA? We give you an insight and share our experience.


What's your experience with accessibility?


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- Chucho Castañeda https://x.com/honupo
- Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard

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6 months ago
32 minutes

Frontend Coffee Break - Podcast
Ep. #41: How we manage stress in the FE world

We chat about things that can be stressful as a FE developer, we suggest things that work for us on how to deal and mitigate it (for you and you team).

Share your tips and tricks with us!

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- Chucho Castañeda https://x.com/honupo
- Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard

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9 months ago
33 minutes

Frontend Coffee Break - Podcast
Ep. #40: CSS in 2024 was fun

We share what we loved most about the 2024 CSS Wrapped as well as other CSS changes we've witnessed over the years that changed our way of working (yes, we will talk about border-radius).

What where CSS changes that blew your mind?
https://chrome.dev/css-wrapped-2024/

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- Chucho Castañeda https://x.com/honupo
- Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard

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10 months ago
33 minutes

Frontend Coffee Break - Podcast
Ep. #39: Best practices, standards and guidelines

We discuss how we work with guidelines, standards and best practices at Cognizant Netcentric. Including our very own ESLint and Stylelint open source configurations.

Do you follow any guidelines when coding FE?

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- Chucho Castañeda https://x.com/honupo
- Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard.torres

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10 months ago
29 minutes

Frontend Coffee Break - Podcast
Ep. #38: Morals, ethics and being eco-friendly as a FE Developer

We discuss the moral of working for certain industries, how can we be more green (spoiler: it's web performance) as developers, as well as open source.

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- Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo
- Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard

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11 months ago
30 minutes

Frontend Coffee Break - Podcast
Ep. #37: Lessons learned as FE Developers

Chucho and Ricard have been coding for more than 18 years. These old time developers will share some of their hard learned lessons on being a developer and/or a FE Lead.

Share your sips of wisdom with us.

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- Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo
- Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard

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11 months ago
31 minutes

Frontend Coffee Break - Podcast
Ep. #36: How to keep up to date with FE?

Why is it important to be on the loop for the latest and greatest FE technologies out there? The latest JavaScript framework? What's possible with the latest CSS? Performance and SEO... There's just so much. We share our tips and tricks to stay fresh and relevant.

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- Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo
- Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard

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1 year ago
32 minutes

Frontend Coffee Break - Podcast
Ep. #35: Patterns, anti-patterns and dark patterns

We explain the differences, share examples and give you plenty resources to get you started. Chucho can't stress enough that you should read these at least once!

  • patterns.dev
  • Gang Of Four GOF Design Patterns Design Patterns
  • deceptive.design

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- Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo
- Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard

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1 year ago
36 minutes

Frontend Coffee Break - Podcast
Ep. #34: Development conferences. Worth it?

We talk about web development conferences, going in-person or attending online. Are they worth it? What's the benefit? Couldn't you just watch a recording?

What's the most interesting conference you've ever attended? If you haven't yet, any conferences you'd like to go to?

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- Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo
- Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard

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1 year ago
30 minutes

Frontend Coffee Break - Podcast
Ep. #33: How to write quality and maintainable code?

We chat what is code quality, what are code smells, tips and tricks to make your code readable and maintainable.

What are your tips?
Code quality metrics: https://www.sealights.io/code-quality/code-quality-metrics-is-your-code-any-good/

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- Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo
- Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard

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1 year ago
34 minutes

Frontend Coffee Break - Podcast
Ep. #32: Knowledge Sharing in your Team

We discuss different ways to do knowledge sharing in your team or company. The challenges we've faced and what has worked for us.
Find out about our Netcentric Academy https://www.netcentric.biz/jobs

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- Chucho Castañeda https://twitter.com/honupo
- Ricard Torres https://ricard.social/@ricard

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1 year ago
32 minutes

Frontend Coffee Break - Podcast
Take a break, grab a cup of coffee and join us to discuss what's new in frontend development and, why not, outside of it? Jesus 'Chucho' Castañeda and Ricard Torres are both Principal Frontend Software Engineer at Cognizant Netcentric. They bring your most needed monthly break. Tune in!