Jason Lengstorf built up an audience on YouTube by doing unscripted live coding and sharing his mistakes with his community. He credits his background as a musician and frontman of an emo band for helping him get comfortable with looking foolish in front of people. 
As the host of Learn With Jason, he believes there is no right or wrong answer when it comes to choosing a web development tool, as long as the decision is based on the team’s experience and the situation that the tool will enhance. Jason shares his experience and lessons learned at IBM where they allowed teams to use any tool they wanted. This resulted in different parts of the platform being built with different frameworks and the need to standardize. 
In this episode, Jason talks to Chuck and Robbie about the importance of choosing the right web development tool for the job, the adoption possibilities for Astro, and what the future holds for open-source developers.

Key Takeaways

[00:33] - Introduction to Jason Lengstorf, Host of Learn With Jason.

[05:03] - A whiskey review: Heaven Hill Bottled-in-Bond.

[15:06] - Jason’s opinion on Tailwind and how to choose the correct web tool.

[22:16] - What makes Astro powerful?

[29:16] - Funding open-source projects.

[44:19] - How Jason feels about Redwood JS.

[47:44] - Incorporating TypeScript in personal projects.

[50:17] - Jason’s interests in pajama pants and burgers.


Quotes
[15:34] - “You should use whatever you can convince your whole team to use. A lot of the discussion about which tool is right or wrong is sort of missing the forest for the trees.” ~ Jason Lengstorf
[16:46] - “If you have a group of people who have an expertise or a lack of expertise, then the tools you choose should be polyfilling for where they’re at and allowing them to use their strengths.” ~ Jason Lengstorf
[20:53] - “The only way that you can really use a tool wrong is if you’re dragging people kicking and screaming against their will into using a tool. You’re just setting yourself up for failure.” ~ Jason Lengstorf

Links

Jason Lengstorf Twitter

Jason Lengstorf LinkedIn

Learn with Jason

Learn with Jason YouTube

ErgoDox EZ

Heaven Hill Bottled-in-Bond

Buffalo Trace Distillery 

Ezra Brooks Bourbon

Evan Williams Bourbon

Pappy Van Winkle

Febreze

Bacardi 151

Tailwind CSS

JavaScript

React JS

BEM

Netlify

IBM Cloud

Backbone JS

Angular

Vue

jQuery

Astro

Gatsby JS

Svelte

Next JS

Internet Explorer

Facebook

Vercel

Remix

Preact JS

Qwik

Jason Miller

Andrew Clark

Zach Leatherman

Eleventy 

Ryan Carniato

Kyle Matthews

Render 

Fly

Hydrogen

Rich Harris

Oracle

Tom Preston-Werner

Shopify

Cloudflare

Solid JS

Lululemon

Red Hat

NPM

Microsoft

Google

Homebrew

Open Collective

Planned Parenthood

Redwood JS

Rails

Tanner Linsley

TanStack

The Burger Show

Hot Ones

Nuxt JS

Parks and Recreation

Amboy

Chat GPT


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Chuck Carpenter

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