It really depends on the day. I work at an agency and also do some freelance / personal project stuff on the side. It's pretty fast and loose and depends on the day, especially the pre/post-work stuff. Wake up & make coffee (~4:30am depending on what personal / freelance stuff i need to really focus on) Head in to work (~45 minutes one way) and listen to some sort of tech / business podcast Take out my notebook that i bring with me everywhere and write down / refresh myself on what I need to get done based on what's been assigned to me in Asana Do actual work for ~5-6 hours a day Slack off on twitter, slack, and here when I need to take a bit of a mental break Drive home and listen to more podcasts Freelance stuff / personal projects for a few more hours when I get home depending on what is all going on.

Thanks again both of you for your awesome work and for some great resources!

That clarifies a lot and definitely gives me, and anyone else, a good starting point. I'm going to just jump off and mess around with functions and auth this weekend if I can find enough time! Thanks so much for the info and all of the information and insights from podcasts like Views on Vue!

Thanks for doing this AMA and for everything you all do at Netlify! I love the service! When it comes to setting up a JAMStack site, what is the best way to handle authentication with services that require API keys or some form of authentication? We obviously don't want them just hanging out in the front end willy nilly, and I've heard of having a possible serverless function or service that handles all API related calls, but I could see that possibly being abused. I've found it hard to find a good answer for this, which could totally be improper wording.

Thank you very much for taking the time to write out such an awesome answer! I will definitely take a look into these and soak up everything that I can. You are awesome and thank you again!

Glad you enjoyed it, especially for it being a very impromptu thing! Any feedback would be super helpful as this is Ben & I's first go. Game wise, I'm all over the place. I mainly play MMO's, 12 years of World of Warcraft and more recently FF:XIV, first person shooters, and third person battle royale type games. Fortnite, Apex, Overwatch. Dauntless, a "kill big monsters with giant weapons and powers" type game, has caught my attention as of late as well. If the gameplay is good, and the story is top notch, i'm normally down for playing it. Do you game as well?

I've used all three (including Linux here) for my main development machine over the past few years. For Node, you can use any of them and it's completely fine. Windows has gotten so much better with WSL (Windows Subsystem Linux), and WSL2 coming soon which is going to make it 10x easier, allowing you to have a bash command line right in Windows. The Node team has also made sure that the "get up and running" experience is as smooth as possible on all platforms. Having recently been given a Mac for my newest job, the experience overall has been really smooth, but there are a few things like window management that I'd rather have Windows for. Linux is great, but if you don't want to have to deal with a lot of setup, getting certain pieces of software to work, possible driver mis-matches, etc. then I wouldn't really go for it unless it's something you're interested in taking on. TLDR: Pick whatever you have the most access to, what's within your budget, and what you enjoy working on.

React has a giant company, Facebook, behind it and they do a lot of marketing / evangelizing on it. Vue.js as been a lot better about this recently and it's showing. A lot more companies are starting to utilize Vue, whether it's one small part of their application or the entire thing. It's all preference at the end of the day.

That entire process is relatively simple given the amount of tools you listed! I also really like the design of your Jekyll template, so if it's alright I might use that or tweak it a little for my own site. Appreciate the insight and a quick starter guide to a serverless, and free, blog

I've left a single = in an if statement in production for upwards of 3 months and nobody noticed any weird behaviors with the system. Of course, when trying to debug an issue related to it I looked EVERYWHERE ELSE except for the if statement itself. Between that and spelling, my personal debugging checklist continues to grow.