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Adam's friend on the frontend, John Long joins the show to explore his usage of AI, design tools and the stack he prefers. We talk Next.js vs Rails, maintaining open source, building websites with Framer, their mutual love for Figma, and more.

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1:47:30
Publishing date
2025-03-14 21:30
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https://changelog.com/friends/84
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Adam’s friend on the frontend, John Long joins the show to explore his usage of AI, design tools and the stack he prefers. We talk Next.js vs Rails, maintaining open source, building websites with Framer, their mutual love for Figma, and more.

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Deeplinks to Chapters

0 Let's talk!
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1192 Let's talk Zest
255
1435 Tools of a designer/frontender
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1794 Sponsor: Augment Code
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1983 Coming off a Framer high
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219 Start the show!
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2323 Having a Frontend background
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2937 Using AI in design processes
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340 Consuming generated content
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3451 What tools are in your stack?
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38 Sponsor: Retool
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4154 Sponsor: Temporal
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4296 Figma is awesome
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4667 Generated.photos
255
4795 Createing logos with ChatGPT
255
5039 Iconic.app from Orman Clark
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5225 The state of Zest Icons
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564 Ai is similar in quality and mistakes
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5643 Heroicons!
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5778 1.5 vs 2 pixel lines
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5938 Devs working with Design
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6054 Figma School
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6224 Wrapping up
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6347 That's all friends!
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658 What does John do?
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765 Rails has changed so much
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850 Next.js lover?
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985 Rails 3 release date
255