Ryan Hefner
Bio
Having fun, building stuff. Currently building: https://www.transmits.ioAppears in 23 Episodes
022 — Just Getting Starter’d
Wow, it’s been over a month since my last episode. That’s not due to me being too lazy, if anything just the opposite. I have been thrashing around on projects, but I ...
021 — Reserving Fuel
How do you apply and reserve your fuel for the things you are working? That’s what I am wrestling with today. Typically, I reserve these early morning sessions for my ...
020 — Keeping Momentum
A quick, long one about trying to maintain momentum as challenges and inconsistencies present themselves.To follow along, you can find me at ryanhefner.com, follow me ...
019 — Announcing, Jam Sessions: Public Edition
Since today is International Podcast Day, I figured it was only fitting to try to get an episode out today. Thankfully I have something very topical to announce today ...
018 — Building Spiral Staircases
During my run this morning I was thinking about all the different projects I have up in the air, and how some of those can help to provide a foundation, or utility, to...
017 — Flow like water
Giving into the flow. I feel like I have been getting frustrated with myself for not fully focusing on a single project. After all, that's the only way to build a succ...
016 — No, FOMO. Just, LOSE.
With all the conferences happening over the past couple of months, it has really got me thinking about the lack of socializing I have had since moving down to Atlanta....
015 — Fixed It!
I did it! I was able to fix LinkCards and stabilize the service. And, to my surprise, it actually looked like some of the traffic was actually legitimate open graph im...
014 — Jam Sessions: Private Edition on ripple.fm
I just wanted to give a quick update on a new, private podcast that I am starting on ripple.fm. The show is called Jam Session: Private Edition, and it’s going to be a...
013 — Maintenance Modes
Trying to keep the spirits high in this otherwise kind of low week, littered with some Summer sickness and a lot of client work. As much as I had hoped to work some mo...
012 — Transmits Is Getting a Pod
As I have been working on building Transmits, I started reading Rob Walling’s (@robwalling) book, Start Small, Stay Small. I was originally reading his latest book, Th...
011 — Transmits Goes Mobile
After recording the last episode via Transmits, I mentioned that I needed to test recording on playback on mobile, specifically Mobile Safari (since I am an iPhone use...
010 — Recording from Transmits
A milestone has been reached! This is the first episode to be recorded in Transmits!! Obviously, these are early days (the official second recording made in the app wa...
009 — Introducing, Transmits
I have finally settled on the project that I will be documenting on this podcast. I would like to introduce you to, Transmits. transmits.io is domain I have been sitti...
008 — A Focus on Interest
Just a quick one on a mindset that I have been trying to apply to the things that I have been working on, or committing to, in 2024. The concept revolves around two re...
007 — Context is King
Reflecting on Laravel vs. React debate that went down a few weeks back, got me thinking about Context. Context switching. The context that influences the decisions we ...
006 — Embracing the Thrash
The struggle is real-ish. In this episode I get into the tension I have been feeling as I am in my -1 to 0 phase, trying to figure out which project/product I want to ...
005 — Pressing Publish
In this episode I reflect on officially hitting publish on this podcast. The steps that lead up to the release, along with all the excitement and anxiety that builds u...
004 — Building allplay.fm
In this episode I dig into why I decided to build a custom site for this podcast vs. using one of the templated sites that TransistorFM offers. Part of it is based on ...
003 — No Edits
tl;dr I am not going to be editing these episodes, so please bare with me.Although, if you want me to reflect on it a bit more, there’s a reason for making the active ...
002 — Style and Error
CSS and component libraries, where to begin?Over the years I have used a bunch of different flavors including, css-modules, styled-components, CSS + Sass and a few oth...